Comment firstscope-telescope (Score 1) 187
http://www.celestron.com/browse-shop/astronomy/telescopes/firstscope-telescope
Comment This happened to my wife (Score 5, Interesting) 632
We had a $186.00 deducted from our tax refund this year for social security. Having never collected social security we called the SSA and was informed that the social securities benefits my wife received as a teen following the death of her father were overpaid as she had a part-time job at a pharmacy and they had deducted the amount. Mind you my wife is 53 years old now.
Comment Brain Hax (Score 3, Interesting) 136
Therapy based upon this has been available for years. No need for a physiological explanation: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ804035.pdf
Comment Not a good idea (Score 1) 119
History is dominated with stories of more advanced civilizations destroying less advanced civilizations.
Comment In to the dome (Score 1) 924
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout
Comment No news (Score 2) 385
This has been tried for years even in the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateral_cingulotomy The only scientifically validated results are for treatment of depression.
Comment Cooler (Score 1) 165
I live in Texas and worked in a prison where I could not bring my cell phone. I sealed it in a plastic bag and put it in an ice chest.
Comment Re:Not 60 C or 140 F (Score 0) 165
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_highest_recorded_temperature_in_Texas
Comment The crack flashers moved to JB a long time ago (Score 0) 75
Cyanogenmod used to be the shiz, now with the growth in the number of developers the Android world moved to Jelly Bean three months ago leaving CM in the dust.
Comment Throw it in a drawer (Score 1) 434
I have underwear that old!
Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184
An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."
Comment Speakeasy.net (Score 1) 147
Who hasn't heard of speakeasy.net?
Comment Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong (Score 1) 572
That's probability not statistics.
Submission + - Windows 7 Distribution FAIL (computerworld.com)
srwood writes: Microsoft has confirmed a problem that hundreds of users have reported with downloading Windows 7, according to its support forum. The company is currently investigating the reports, but has not yet come up with a solution.
Comment Re:But how damage-resistant is it? (Score 0) 119
I accidently ran my USB drive through a washer/dryer cycle. Still works to this day.
