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Maybe they're still trying to do that, but I'll never know; because some worthless X-10 popup weenie is being blocked by my hosts file.

I haven't seen an X-10 popup in 8 years. Not because I'm blocking them, I'm pretty sure X-10 stopped using them long ago.
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Or you could just put the screenshots in a .zip file or something...

And that would be handier and easier how exactly? How do the screenshots become individual files without pasting them into something first, such as Paint? That method sucks if you have several to collect.

Open Word. Flip to what you need to snap. Hit Alt-PrintScreen. Flip to Word. Paste. Repeat as necessary. Save. You're not going to beat that with Paint, saving each individual shot into a specially prepared folder somewhere, then zipping that up. Work smarter not harder. What I really don't understand is how that classifies someone as an idiot.

Every time I've opened a word doc with embedded pictures the doc file version is invariably incompatible with the wordpad version I'm using and the pictures are un-viewable.
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Consider it this way: your hourly rate is X. The person you are supporting has an hourly rate of Y. Y is greater than X, or else they would never pay you.

That's not necessarily true. Someone who makes $10/hour probably can't find someone to fix their car for $9/hour, that doesn't mean they can't get their car fixed. Tech support is no different.
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Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.
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It was completely safe by any objective evaluation, and the officer made it clear it was going to be pointless to try to contest it in court, as it was his word against mine.

Always contest it if you can spare the time, at least in my state where the 2 points you get on your license are going to cost you ~$1200 over 6 years. And appeal if you lose as many times as you can. I've had good luck contesting tickets, almost always win, never got a speeding ticket but in your case you definitely had a good chance.
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I do like the "advised speed" that's attached to signs signaling curves ahead. That actually provides useful information about the road rather than info about the revenue generation and/or paranoia of the local residents.

Yeah, only problem with those is thanks to those unnecessarily conservative speed limits some people ignore limit drops. There is a highway near here where the speed limit drops from 65 to 50 around a gentle looking curve. Thing is the curve is not as gentle as it looks at 65. After several accidents, 2 rolled 18 wheelers and a rolled fuel tanker the 50 MPH sign now has flashing yellow lights. In this location 50 really means 50.

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Sure, but read/write is more complicated than read only.
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300 GB disk drive - I spent $90.

256 GB solid state - $7,426 to $9,125 online

Ouch.

This is why Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS cartridges never grew larger than 0.3 gigabytes, and why for the Cube and Wii they abandoned the solid state cartridge in favor of discs.

Nintendo cartridges were ROM chips. I don't think they have much relation to SSDs.
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It's easier to go to google which most ppl have as their homepage and type in 'yahoo' (5 characters) than 'www.yahoo.com' (13 characters).

It is? First, lose the www., it's not needed. Second, considering page load times, I believe it would be faster to type yahoo.com into the address bar and press enter than to search google for yahoo, wait for the page to load, scan the page for the appropriate link, then click on it. Especially considering most people I know who search instead of using the address bar have trouble scanning the results and finding the right one. Far to often these people click on ads and then buy stuff that they can get for free.
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How do you know this planet isn't teaming with life?
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biologists and big oil sure make for strange bedfellows
 
Really? I would think that they (deep sea drillers and deep sea biologists) have learned quite a bit from each other over the years.
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Should have gone with trial by judge.
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So you really are Batman?
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ordinary citizens managed an amazing 49 percent on the 33 questions
 
I just took the test (90.91) and the cumulative average it gives now is 77.8 percent.
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I'd like something like that. My bank said if someone gets access to my account I'm screwed. All I have protecting me is having to answer 1 of 3 questions. Mother's maiden name, etc.
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It's a bit worrying that they're ruling on language which some of them don't understand.

Like the Constitution? The 1st Amendment? The Commerce Clause?
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At $1000 I'm not sure who this is targeted at.
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I thought it wasn't possible to tell antimatter from matter from afar?
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What do you think the common weapons are in Iraq? AK-47s, Light Machine Guns, homemade bombs, the occasional RPG? Besides RPGs all are available to civilians in the USA.
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Start with supporting 2nd Ammendment.

Do you really think that you and your BB-gun can scare Uncle Sam? If the government wanted you dead they could launch a missile from a submarine, or an airplane, well out of range of any weapon you might legally own, and turn you into ground long-pig. The second amendment is essentially toothless.

Your right ordinary people with their BB guns are no match for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam had no problem dealing with the Iraqis, Afghanis, and Vietcong. Oh wait...
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There's four borders in this country. Pick one and head out.

According to this map there are eight.
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$29 million doesn't buy much these days.
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And if it costs £10/hr to listen to a conversation, that amounts to about 40 hours of conversation per person per year (assuming no foreign calls). Not bad, but what about the terrorist plans that someone doesn't mention until the 41st hour?

£10/hr to listen to a conversation? Why I bet they could outsource that to Pakistan for £4/hr!
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Perhaps instead of spying on UK citizens, the government should have spent a few quid keeping a closer eye on the respectable financial institutions whose irresponsible behaviour has caused the sort of damage to the economy that terrorists can only dream about...

Maybe it was the terrorists!?
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Thats almost 200 pounds for every man woman and child in the UK.
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and the argument about saving yourself from a rogue government seems completely lost now. You can't. They have bigger guns. Oh, and nukes. Which is crazy - right?

Big guns don't mean much in a guerrilla war. See: Iraq, Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan (vs the Russians). If we can't easily subdue the Iraqis how do you expect us to subdue our own brothers?
 
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Actually in all seriousness, cars kill more people every year than most things. If we spent all the time and money spent fear mongering on guard rails we would assuredly save more lives.
 
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Exactly, Colt Made Men Equal.
 
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You can with a car, too. In fact, especially if you don't know how. Let's ban cars!

Or maybe we could require anyone who wants to operate a car to pass some kind of test and medical exam first. Regulate drivers, with something like a driving license, or something ?

You're right, the government is licensing ordinary citizens to wield deadly weapons with the potential for mass destruction. This must be stopped at all costs. Think of the children.
 
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Via their press release:

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/25147.wss

Via is in on this too?
 
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I know its getting harder and harder, especially considering these things are only a handful of atoms across, but why can't they ever skip a generation? Why work on three generations of chips simultaneously? Why not just skip one?

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Citizens of New York who prefer not to carry an identifying RFID chip can still get an old-style license.
 
See, calm down, nothing to see here. Move along.
 
/sarcasm
 
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Wouldn't the ISPs have to be in on this? And there are always still proxies...
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Really? How much does a nuke cost these days?
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"Go to one of the old Soviet Republics, and they'll fix you up with a couple for about the price of a BMW!"

Really? How much does a nuke cost these days?
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Don't they have Linux in jail?
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If you win couldn't you just provide a single T-1 line worth of broadband to an entire state and call it "free wireless broadband"
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It's not per mission. "We currently assess the per-mission risk as about one in 75 of having a fatal accident." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7590449.stm

Historically speaking there has been 2 crews lost in 123 launches (121 success) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle Thats about one out of 60.

So the risk doesn't seem to have changed. If anything they are saying it is less risky.
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Not that we shouldn't try and make space travel safer, but the idea that loss of life is completely unacceptable I find very strange when we have no problem sending people who may or may not understand the risks into a myriad of dangerous situations where the loss of someones life is all but guaranteed. War, crab fishing, oil drilling, car driving, and on and on.
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He wasn't saying that that loss of life is completely unacceptable--he was saying that the risks involved in continuing the shuttle program from 2010 to 2015 are unacceptably high. Would you take your car on the freeway if you knew there was a one in twelve chance that you wouldn't arrive at your destination alive? Only if you were already in a life-or-death situation, such as needing to get to an emergency room in a hurry. Would you take a job as an Alaskan crabber if you knew that there was a one in twelve chance that you would be killed before the end of the season? Only if you were really desperate and the pay were extremely high. Managing risk isn't about saying, "any negative outcome is unacceptable," it's about saying, "the expected benefits do [or do not] justify the risks involved."

Not that we shouldn't try and make space travel safer, but the idea that loss of life is completely unacceptable I find very strange when we have no problem sending people who may or may not understand the risks into a myriad of dangerous situations where the loss of someones life is all but guaranteed. War, crab fishing, oil drilling, car driving, and on and on.
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Or Citibank.

As long as it not AOL or Paypal what is there to worry about?
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Really? Who offers something like that?
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You're thinking like what you are - a slashdot reader. Meaning, a single greasy male living in someone's basement.

Try a household with two parents and four teenage daughters like my sister's. A single HD movie worth of data in a day would mean that at least two people are at sleepovers.

Have any of these people your referring to ever downloaded a movie?
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Or why not trash mining? I bet that would commercially viable right now.
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Better maybe, but there are more black men in prison than in college.
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Uh, why do movies have ratings?

So "NC-17" movies can be rendered financially untenable and getting an "R" rating involves dealing with a secretive private committee of short sighted inconsistent morons who answer to no one all because of the threat of congress unconstitutionally taking regulation of movies into it's own hands?
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Yes, I think 9 out of 10 times you have a revolution the rebel leaders become the new tyrants unfortunately. Doesn't say much for mankind does it?
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