User: xylo36

Re:Vaccine is coming

On: US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia

I listened to an interview with Tom Frieden, head of the CDC, and he indicated a vaccine won't be available for a year in the best case scenario.

Re:Can someone please explain ...

On: Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile

I was under the assumption that the gas tax also helped reduce negative externalities such as air and ground pollution.

Re:Can someone please explain ...

On: Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile

Because why should I be taxed for driving on privately maintained roads?

Apparently Qualcomm is Evil

On: Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb

"Dark Helmet: So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Try Gentoo

On: What To Do With an Old G5 Tower?

I recently installed Gentoo on my old G5 and wrote a walk-through. Ultimately, it seems most practical to leave OS X on it, and compile Linux software for OS X as needed.

Re:so what

On: 'Best' Fake Blog of 2006 Awarded

I think you are giving people too much credit. Most people are conditioned to think of blogs as a personal opinion. It is not part of their thought process to assume that a blog might be an advertisement. If an average person sees a personal testimony ranting and raving about a product in some sort of banner ad, he probably wouldn't give it a second thought. But when seeing it in a medium that usually has little or no direct advertising, he will see it differently. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with this advertising tactic, but I like the exposure it is getting with the fake awards. Hopefully it will help people think a little bit out side of their normal thought process.

I wish

On: Intel's Guerrilla Marketing, Second Life Mashup

that "mashup" could have been included a few more times. Then I would truly have a good idea of what technologies are being used.