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I was never saying this. But should we wait until they are? Do the same mistake as with Microsoft? It's a much dirtier and harder job to disrupt a monopoly than trying to stop one from happening. As has been proven with the Microsoft OEM history, for example. It's not because Microsoft is doing a mighty intelligent work at upholding that monopoly. They don't even have to. The customers are doing it for them. Just like the ad market will once Google grows big enough there. Google will be able to give the advertisers the best deals thanks to their economy in the market and that's that.

However there's nothing, not even Google, who can stop a better competitor from taking on Google. Google got big because they indexed more of the web than many other search engines and gave better or more appropriate results when someone searched for something. A competitor can come along and outgoogle Google by indexing more and returning even better results. I switched from Alta Vista and Yahoo! to Google because it worked for me. Now I use 3 SEs other than Google. Though Ask.com bought it I still type Teoma into the address bar. I also use Mooter a lot. And for some specific searches I use About.com. Well, I still use Alta Vista too.

Your connection of declining intelligence to liberals is nothing more than a fanciful leap of logic.

I* am not saying that "Liberals" cause stupidity.

I am saying, however, that their disinterest in "technological" issues [vis-a-vis their obsession with "social" issues], as evidenced by their performance in our current Congress, does reflect the underlying stupidity of their constituencies.

[Parenthetically: Were you aware that Obama wants to defund NASA's next generation of launch vehicles so as to be able to throw even more booty at his constituents in the National "Education" Association?]

*On the other hand, in his original work on the subject, Charles Murray did take the point of view that "Liberal" social policies have a dysgenic effect: If our government taxes the lives & behaviors of smart, industrious people, and subsidizes the lives & behaviors of lazy, stupid people, then we shouldn't be surprised when smart, industrious people come to have more and more difficulty in finding the time & financial resources necessary to make & raise babies, and that neither should we be surprised if lazy, stupid people are more than happy to move in and occupy that nature-abhorred vacuum.

[Again, parenthetically: Did you know that the bottom 50% of Americans pay no income taxes whatsoever? Or that the top 1% of Americans pay more income tax than the bottom 90%? Or that the average low-skilled citizen costs the government more than $19,500 per year every year of his life?]

Now I agree with Murray that the financial aspects of government social policy can impart some inertia in the general direction of fertility rates [be those rates dysgenic or eugenic], but I don't think for a second that the fiscal burden of "Liberalism" is the primary culprit here: There is something far more evil at work in the Death of the Civilized World, and "Liberalism" is merely a very poor, rather dim shadow of that Evil.

A shadow of A Shadow, if you will.

Parent should be modded up. Fluorescent flicker is a well known migraine trigger.

Bag phones are still made, and are in digital. link here : http://cellphones.about.com/od/motorola/a/prmot_m800m.htm

Motorola m800

The company wants investors. In my opinion, the investors page is written in a curious way, giving the impression that some of the companies listed may not actually be investors, but associated as suppliers, or not associated at all.

Slashdot has a long history of running articles about risky or even fraudulent companies that want investments, in my opinion. I think Slashdot editors should be required to run conflict-of-interest disclaimers, to give legal assurance they were not paid to run an article.

The easiest way to make money is to steal it from investors who don't really have the capacity to understand technology. That's what happened in the year 2000 market crash. That "crash" was largely theft, and pre-planned theft, in my opinion. Others share my opinion: Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors, an excellent book.

Here is an questionable statement from the article referenced by Slashdot:

"Unlike HD DVDs, which use blue lasers to record and read data off a reflective surface on top of a polymer substrate, Mempile's TeraDisc drives use more powerful red-laser technology to write and read."

Since red light is of a longer wavelength, it has a lower resolution. The power is not relevant. All systems use the power that is necessary to make them work.

Here is another quote that seems ignorant and crazy, or deliberately dishonest, to me:

"Over the next 10 years, both studio and consumer HD products will multiply by 10 times the current resolution."

That statement tries to invent a situation in which the "new technology" would actually be needed for other than making backups. However, even the present NTSC resolution is enough for most TV watching. It seems doubtful that displays with more resolution than HD DVD will become common.

Also, HD displays are far more expensive. Would people actually want to pay more again, for resolution that is so great they cannot see it unless they are very close to the display? I think not.

Link here

http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/chevy_nova.htm

They don't (and can't, sound hardware is generally PCI and driving PCI devices pretty much requires running in kernel mode), they just cripple them presumablly in the hope that they won't crash when the OS isn't asking them to do anything beyond simple stereo output.

No, they do: http://compreviews.about.com/od/multimedia/a/VistaAudio.htm

Printer rendering drivers on the other hand were forced to be in user mode.

As were sound drivers.

Sadly you are right on this point, increasing bloat seems to be almost universal in the software development world.

What you call bloat others call features. I like the new searching built into Vista; it works much better than XP. I also liked some of the features of KDE when I was using it as my desktop. They take more resources because they weren't as functional or present at all.

Sometimes, it seems, there are no new ideas. As others have said, what we have here is a glorified sail. Nothing wrong with that, but as fossil fuels become more expensive, we'll find more and more "old tech" make a comeback.

The biggest deal in alternative energy right now is the windmill, which have been used for what, 1,200 years? Now we have a (gasp!) sailing ship! Pretty soon we'll go back to using the electric car which was very popular in the early days of the automobile.

No, basic technologies are not new - what's new are refinements. For example, Linux is a re-implementation of a 35 year old Operating System having the chief innovation of a license change. I'm not knocking the quality that Linus has put into the Linux kernel, but Linux is written to be POSIX compliant, so while drivers are nice, Linux is basically no different than any other UNIX but for the license difference.

Innovation can come from some incredibly low-tech, unlikely places. For example, this guy has won numerous awards for sticking a pot inside a pot and filling the middle with wet sand - managing to solve a serious problem in Africa for low-cost refrigeration.

I guess what it comes down to is this: Technology is valuable when it works, not when it's complex. There's lots of very, very, very simple technology that nonetheless works very, very, very well.

He's neither informative or interesting since his arguments only consist of shouting and words like holy crap,lol,...

Informative or interesting would be a timeline for each invention.

internet : http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm
computer : http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
car : http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
lightbulb : http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting_2.htm
telephone : http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

Strictly speaking that gives him a 2 out of 5 (internet+telephone) and
actually confirming the original statement

Now watch how people will start coloring the facts to fit their agenda...

He's neither informative or interesting since his arguments only consist of shouting and words like holy crap,lol,...

Informative or interesting would be a timeline for each invention.

internet : http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm
computer : http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
car : http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
lightbulb : http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting_2.htm
telephone : http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

Strictly speaking that gives him a 2 out of 5 (internet+telephone) and
actually confirming the original statement

Now watch how people will start coloring the facts to fit their agenda...

He's neither informative or interesting since his arguments only consist of shouting and words like holy crap,lol,...

Informative or interesting would be a timeline for each invention.

internet : http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm
computer : http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
car : http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
lightbulb : http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting_2.htm
telephone : http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

Strictly speaking that gives him a 2 out of 5 (internet+telephone) and
actually confirming the original statement

Now watch how people will start coloring the facts to fit their agenda...

He's neither informative or interesting since his arguments only consist of shouting and words like holy crap,lol,...

Informative or interesting would be a timeline for each invention.

internet : http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm
computer : http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
car : http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
lightbulb : http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting_2.htm
telephone : http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

Strictly speaking that gives him a 2 out of 5 (internet+telephone) and
actually confirming the original statement

Now watch how people will start coloring the facts to fit their agenda...

He's neither informative or interesting since his arguments only consist of shouting and words like holy crap,lol,...

Informative or interesting would be a timeline for each invention.

internet : http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm
computer : http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
car : http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm
lightbulb : http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting_2.htm
telephone : http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

Strictly speaking that gives him a 2 out of 5 (internet+telephone) and
actually confirming the original statement

Now watch how people will start coloring the facts to fit their agenda...

You clearly know nothing about military life, or how the government operates. MC are an important part of getting information out to both the public and internally.

Mass Communication Specialist (MC) are Public Affairs and Visual Information experts. They present the Navy story to audiences in the Navy and to the rest of the world through a variety of media. MCs write and produce print and broadcast journalism news and feature stories for military and civilian newspapers, magazines, television and radio broadcast stations. They record still and video photography of military operations, exercises, and other Navy events. They serve overseas, on ships, and at stateside commands as photographers, public affairs specialists, newspaper and magazine staff, and TV and radio station staff and talent. MCs also create graphic designs in support of the public affairs mission, create and manage official websites, and perform high-speed, high-volume graphic reproduction.

The duties performed by MCs include:

* Prepare and write news and feature articles for publication * Photograph events for publication and historic documentation * Operate and maintain a variety of state-of-the-art still and video cameras * Operate computer-based graphics software and desktop publishing systems * Create original visual information displays and graphics * Multi-media design and production * Design and manage public and secure websites * Layout and design military newspapers and magazines * Manage radio and television stations * Operate video and electronic imaging equipment * Operate digital electronic reproduction equipment * Edit video news, features, and documentation * Shoot still photographs and video for accident or incident investigations * Conduct interviews * Market stories * Perform as a Public Affairs Officer

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjob1/a/mc.htm

Since when is it wrong for a military or government organization to have staff work on public relations? Which is pretty much what propaganda is anyway (the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person).

Unless, of course, it's a leftie making fun of a conservative, in which case anything goes, no matter how nasty it is. To some people, the truth must always take second-place to their political agenda

not a leftie, but I find this man to be a budding transexual.

From this link:

1. Congress proposes amendments. As is the case with the flag burning amendment, both houses of Congress approve by two-thirds votes a resolution calling for the amendment. The resolution does not require the president's signature. To become effective, the proposed amendment must then be "ratified" or approved by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. Congress typically places a time limit of seven years for ratification by the states.

2. The states propose amendments. The legislatures of two-thirds of the states vote to call for a convention at which constitutional amendments can be proposed. Amendments proposed by the convention would again require ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.

They wrote Altair BASIC using computer time they didn't pay for and cribbed from public domain sources to do it. As for QDOS, it was a CP/M clone and although there are rumors of an out of court settlement with DRI many years later, there's no evidence Microsoft paid Kildall anything at the time.

Everyone here (esp you) already knows this - so stop trolling!

Who is the real star of this picture?

they are just resending old ones, so it isnt as expensive.

http://pcworld.about.com/news/Dec202002id108082.htm

I don't understand why he has to use so much energy.

Buying green power is great and all, but he sure isn't reducing his footprint. Why not cut the use a little and invest the savings into the green power company he gets his energy from?

I also thought the followup at the end of the article 'A Tale of Two Houses' was kind of funny/ironic.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_tale_two_houses.htm

Hmmm one wonders what religion you're defending ... clearly you're not a muslim ... I noticed a distinct lack of threats in your post ...

http://atheism.about.com/b/2005/05/09/creationist-thugs-in-turkey-allied-with-american-creationists.htm

(that's physical attacks and murders they're talking about, just in case you were wondering)

Is it fun ? Attacking reasonable people irrationally ?

You haven't looked, either. Guilty until proven innocent, eh? Anyway, 30 seconds on Google turns up this link. Make of that what you will.

Brett, as the author of the parent, I am asking a hypothetical question, and pointing out an obvious (to me at least) potential misuse. I attributed Lauren, and included a link to his content. The readers here can see for themselves that Rogers is inserting content into the stream not provided by Google. I am sure more possible abuses exist that we have not considered. For example's sake, would you like a spammer hijacking your content injection server? How about someone operating a botnet forcing your users to download postcard.exe?

As an ISP, you may have valuable insight into this process. However to call my post inaccurate and inflammatory is plain wrong. As a writer, you know to attribute sources. I did so. The reader has the opportunity and ability to see the source materials referenced. There is nothing inaccurate or inflammatory here. As far as the catagory goes, I didn't see a "Rogers-inserts-friendly-service-message" entry in the pull-down. Sometimes we just have to make a choice.

On a personal note, I find that ISPs believing they have the right to alter my web experience disturbing. While the TOS from the ISP may say otherwise, I feel that a social contract and obligation exists on the part of the ISP to provide good service and do no harm to end users. I feel that content/context injection violates this contract.

ISPs in general make stupid assumptions regarding end users. For example, many ISPs cast a blind eye to Linux users, and force us to boot into a Windows partition to get past the first tier support person. Of course everyone on the Internet uses IE, and has Word installed. If an ISP doesn't understand its customers, how can it make intelligent choices regarding traffic management?

If your reason for liking this method is to contact your customers, why are you bothering? You have many options from terminating service to forcing them to a page of your choice. Even a META refresh or a 301 redirect appears to me to be more ethical than injecting traffic on to a 3rd party website.

'Happy New Year' worm fizzles out

What is a 301 Server Redirect?

Meta Refresh Tag

Brett, as the author of the parent, I am asking a hypothetical question, and pointing out an obvious (to me at least) potential misuse. I attributed Lauren, and included a link to his content. The readers here can see for themselves that Rogers is inserting content into the stream not provided by Google. I am sure more possible abuses exist that we have not considered. For example's sake, would you like a spammer hijacking your content injection server? How about someone operating a botnet forcing your users to download postcard.exe?

As an ISP, you may have valuable insight into this process. However to call my post inaccurate and inflammatory is plain wrong. As a writer, you know to attribute sources. I did so. The reader has the opportunity and ability to see the source materials referenced. There is nothing inaccurate or inflammatory here. As far as the catagory goes, I didn't see a "Rogers-inserts-friendly-service-message" entry in the pull-down. Sometimes we just have to make a choice.

On a personal note, I find that ISPs believing they have the right to alter my web experience disturbing. While the TOS from the ISP may say otherwise, I feel that a social contract and obligation exists on the part of the ISP to provide good service and do no harm to end users. I feel that content/context injection violates this contract.

ISPs in general make stupid assumptions regarding end users. For example, many ISPs cast a blind eye to Linux users, and force us to boot into a Windows partition to get past the first tier support person. Of course everyone on the Internet uses IE, and has Word installed. If an ISP doesn't understand its customers, how can it make intelligent choices regarding traffic management?

If your reason for liking this method is to contact your customers, why are you bothering? You have many options from terminating service to forcing them to a page of your choice. Even a META refresh or a 301 redirect appears to me to be more ethical than injecting traffic on to a 3rd party website.

'Happy New Year' worm fizzles out

What is a 301 Server Redirect?

Meta Refresh Tag

Well, it cant be worse than the inaccuricies of human eyewitness testimony.

If it affects mean wave height, it will affect the self-cleaning mechanisms of tide pools and the edges of estuaries. That in turn will affect the levels of micronutrients these critical marginal ecosystems feed to the larger ocean ecosystems just off their shores.

Us lay people really don't know what goes on with this. The last book that gave the body politic any insight into these processes was The Sea Around Us, published in 1951 by Rachel Carson, a marine biologist. Fifty-six years later, it is still in print, and worth reading.

But when the same author published The Silent Spring in 1962, she simultaneously launched the ecology movement and destroyed her career as a popular science writer (she was tarred with hot, broad brushes from Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and the entire "better living through chemistry"— "DDT in your mama's breast milk is a Good Thing" industry). Serious students of marine biology, ecology, and related disciplines are told of the hell she was put through, that continued until her death from cancer when she was 57 years old. The message given to everyone who has trained in this field is don't say anything in public that could disturb the giants of industry, because they can and will crush you. The books that you would expect to have been published as follow-ons to Carson's works— books by marine biologists and other experts to make their findings available to lay persons within a global context— have not been written.

It's clear that some of you never do your own laundry:

This material is self-sizing (which explains all of the future-worlds where everyone wears the same thing).....the bigger you get (stretching the cloth), the more it expands (so that it fits).

From About:

Definition: Sizing is used to make ironing garments [easier]. Sizing is also designed to create shape and dirt resistance. Sizing and Fabric Finishes come in a spray form.

The U.S. Postal Service is self-sufficient (not subsidized):

http://www.nalc.org/postal/perform/selfsufficient.html
http://usgovinfo.about.com/blpostalservice.htm

Until it's launched, of course. Unless it will also trail a very, very long grounding wire...
From: What is NASA's Anvil Rule for Thunderstorms?

The Shuttle can CAUSE more Lightning: When the space shuttle goes high into the atmosphere, the long plume from the exhaust gives a pathway through which lightning can flow. In addition, the plume will reduce the electrical field necessary to trigger natural lightning.

You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?--The Joker

Sigh. Given that Meucci actually used his invention on a daily basis to speak with his wife, and demonstrated it in public six years before Bell got his patent, I think that's pretty much the dumbest fucking claim I've seen on Slashdot in years - and you're up against some stiff competition.

I respect your opinion and you raise important points. Thank you for your reply, this type of discussion can be stirring to the emotions. But this specific scenario under discussion is about employees of "NASA's JPL" and it is no way the typical employer-employee rights argument (in my opinion).
I have do very different opinions about employment privacy rights in other places of employment that do not involve real Nation Security concerns. I believe that JPL is NOT one of these 'other places'.

When I say "Your rights to privacy CANNOT be more important than National Security." I wrote it IN THE CONTEXT of the discussion of NASA's JPL employees protesting their now mandatory (and soon to be routine) background clearance evaluations. This is not meant to be a free standing globally universal statement. It is about WORKING AT THE 'JPL'.

These employees have access to buildings containing National Security Secrets and Technologies (even if they do not have actual clearances for them specifically they WORK THERE and are in the building).
This is NOT a political discussion, nor does it have anything to do with President Bush. (although several threads have tried to make it political)

This is about scientists with access to advanced and export-restricted missile technologies being miffed because they must reveal standard invasive personal information background questions and the requirements to submit very personal data for the clearance battery of psychological assessment tests.

For the record, I HAVE worked for the US Postal Service, and I have been in the US Military. I can say that what "psychometric tests" I have taken do suck and are not fun (and are probably not anywhere as in-depth as what JPL is likely to have).

I believe JPL employees will lose their arguments for their privacy 'rights' because they work for the government and they work with stuff that our enemies would pay top dollar for. This is NOT about being homosexual, or about race, or about gender, or smoking pot in college, or having sexual preferences that are not the average, whatever... Truthfully, I do not believe that those particular items matter to clearance that much nor would they likely cause you to lose your job (unless they are illegal), but what DOES MATTER is the failure to disclose the information to the security reviewers. The WILLINGNESS to be deceptive about the disclosure of these personal bits of information IS THE POINT. These procedures are likely aimed to ferret out possible foreign agents and any Americans and/or Legal Foreign Nationals who work for JPL and might fit the well-known profiles of those who engage in espionage (or are statistically likely to engage in it).
Look into basic guidelines of getting clearances: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/l/blsecmenu.htm http://www.army.com/articles/june_clearance_guidelines.html

I would note that any protest you staged that is considered to do harm to the public interest can be stopped. This is why we forbid hate speech; it generates a toxic environment. Similarly, with airwaves, the reasoning is that because there is a limited number, and everyone has access to them and regularly utilizes it, we should be aware of how what we put there affects them. In the interest of children, for instance, we forbid certain categories of behavior being portrayed during certain periods of the day.

The problem with this approach is that someone has to decide what constitutes hate speech. Right now, certain classes (race, religion) are protected while others (sexual orientation) are not. Since the ability to criticize the government is vital to democracy, we can't trust the government with the power to make any such distinctions. The harm to democracy that arises from outlawing ANY speech far outweighs whatever harm that speech could cause by being heard.

You can argue all you want about the categories, but it's pretty accepted that environments that affect everyone should have some publicly motivated controls on them. The regulator of those controls, ultimately, is the government. And thank goodness! Because we have no inherent protection from corporations or even just other individuals otherwise.

The only difference between the government and corporations is that government gets to use force. So what you're saying is that the only part of society that's allowed to take away your freedom or inflict bodily harm on you should also be allowed to decide what you can say and hear? Wouldn't you rather have the freedom to change channels and watch what you want?

We've seen the government's approach to regulating "indecent" speech: it's secretive, capricious, and retaliatory. Indecency is used as a pretext to target those whose speech the government doesn't agree with -- such as Howard Stern, whose employer the FCC fined half a million dollars for content that was less explicit than Oprah's. There are no written rules for what you can and can't say. The closest thing to a standard that exists is a George Carlin routine.

You really think this is better than allowing consenting adults to make decisions for themselves? This is the world you want to live in?

Well, 2014 may be a bit premature, but the declining birth rate is definitely going to affect higher ed. There is a buyer's market looming.

Sounds very similar to my laptop (Sharp Actius MM10, only link I could find is this review). It's super small, super light, good Linux support, and totally awesome for doing non CPU-intensive applications (like programming). It has the the same key layout with fn-left for home, which I've come to miss on almost every other keyboard I've ever used. I've also been spoiled with long battery life since I got the nine hour for this guy. Considering my current machine was last produced in 2003, it sounds like the sony may be a very reasonable machine to upgrade to.

That said, have you run into any downsides with it? Keep in mind I'm used to most of the limitations of a tiny laptop.

a direct object

check out 'byssinosis'. Most people wouldn't think yarn is a health danger, but it is to textile workers. http://lungdiseases.about.com/od/byssinosis/a/byssinosis.htm

He's got a massive ego, so people dismiss him as a bad loser. But his accusations of cheating aren't without merit.

My respect for him has gone up quite a bit because of this incident. I wonder if I would have the courage to stand up to police and arbitrary imprisonment, knowing what Russian jails must be like these days.

I hear lots of griping about the state of the world on /. and elsewhere, but I wonder if any of us would have the courage to put our beliefs into action like he has.

I read Venture Vehicles and immediately thought of these:
http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/7/0/C/hank_dean_scooter.jpg

Not that I wouldn't want to own one.

MAD magazine's Bush vs. Jesus ad.

Well, for one thing, if you use unusual fonts or special symbols, you can never be 100% sure that the reader on the other end will see them properly.

This is not true. The PDF format was designed specifically to prevent this kind of problem. When generating a PDF file, you can package up any non-standard fonts with it, allowing all readers to see your document exactly as you intended.

PDF should include an option for graphically rendering fonts which the user doesn't have installed.

It already does! It's called font embedding.

and that non-European cultures were just as advanced even if they didn't use gunpowder or some of the other things the Europeans had.


Don't give the Europeans credit for Gunpowder. Poor choice for the example.

http://inventors.about.com/od/chineseinventors/a/gunpowder.htm

that statement actually closer to 21% so irritated me with its fallaciousness I had to reply. the question should have been "Do you keep up with the latest budget shell game of how we can hide spending for the military-industrial complex?" You have only to glance at who ran this poll to realize their obvious conflicts of interest. In fact, 21% is absurdly low, as is 33%. It is actually 64% of net discretionary funding now. Wake the _uck up, sheeple

This is a nice find! i found a good review for it here. http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/laptopdesksstands/gr/lapdawg.htm Would make a nice Xmas gift for a few friends. coolguy

You can knock one out of $4 piece of 2'x4' 3/8" hardboard from the Depot with a jigsaw in less than 10 minutes. I like a general "arc" shape, so that the sides of the desk curve in under my forarms for comfortable typing better than a square tv-tray style, and find it easier to move around if you add 1"x4" slots to each side for your fingers to lock into.

If you're made of money and want to get fancy, you could add some rubberized drawer liner too keep your beer from ending up in your keyboard, and I'd probably superglue on a few rubber feet from something I neglected to add them to since the hardboard lays pretty flat in you're not adding a pad to the bottom...and who needs a pad for a 4lb laptop?

Of course, it could also be that you're using the wrong chair?

To verify this:

First, the rumours passed around from urban legends.

Now his SAT scores from CNN were 566 verbal and 640 math.

And from here we have a setup of pre-1974 SAT scores against IQ.

His score of 1206 combined sets him up with an IQ of about 130.

Now, from the IQ we can look at a distrubution of IQ versus percentage of people with such an IQ to see where a 130 IQ puts you, and it's in the top 2.5% of people.

Bush has been a terrible president and will probably be the first president to preside over 2 recessions but he isn't stupid.