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  1. Re:Cancer cured! on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    Still I can cite many cases where the medical, primarily Universities and Pharma companies have done some seriously dark deals in the back board rooms just to set back any advances using patents to protect cash flow.

    The cite them; do you understand that there is a difference between actually citing something, and saying you can cite something? Because I have convincing proof here that I've been to the moon and back. In fact, I posting this right now from the moon

    So, in fact, you have not returned apparently. I should say that renders any proof of your lunar visitation invalid.

  2. Re:For bling people on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    Dunno. I have a neighbor I recently migrated to Linux from Windows XP that has some pretty major vision issues, and she is pretty happy so far.

  3. Re: No, they don't work on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Forget that. I will EAT them. With lots of HFC-laden barbecue sauce.

  4. Re:"Bold Move Or Grave Error?" on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 2

    So, when I was moving my parents to the new Comcast gateway and self-registration failed. Had it not been for having a cell phone near by, I would have not been able to register the new gateway, and, without that, no VoIP service.

  5. Re:Doesn't Digsby do something like this? on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 1

    Actually, you could opt out of it.

  6. Re:OMG! LOL! on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    No. Add more "!1"'s and finish with OMGWTFBBQ. Activate mode 6.

  7. Re:Well thank $DEITY on Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company · · Score: 1

    The problem is, the rich people that move that money out of the savings accounts of others don't rotate it into the economy so much as back into their savings accounts.

  8. Re:BSOD as a replacement feature? on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 1

    Let me see here... 2 years old... 4 years old... and 7 years old. Yup. Timely information that one. I am sure NOTHING has gotten better in Linux in that time.

  9. Re:The interface F*CKING SUCKS: no news here on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    I jacked around and found it. So THAT'S what they were talking about... I just figured like most GMail web interface changes, it would have just showed up, or I would see a notification or something. Cheers!

  10. Re:who cares? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    And I hate SMS since I am completely unable to use SMS slang in any way, shape, or form. That makes composing them on a phone a serious pain. As for the few people I know that insist on SMS, I use email/SMS gateways.

  11. Re:who cares? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I use email a lot for communication with other people because it is asynchronous. I need to tell you something, but I am not sure where you are? Email. You will get it when you are available.

  12. Re:The interface F*CKING SUCKS: no news here on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    You know, the few times I hit the Gmail web interface (primarily for old mail searching), I haven't seen said tabs. What am I missing out here?

  13. Re:I can confirm problems using external apps an I on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Ummmmm, no. I post to several mailing lists using both Geary and Inky with IMAP and I see my posts.

  14. Re:Search is Google's answer to everything. on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Copying people has always been Microsoft's forte, even if they tend to do it poorly and late after the fact. Their days of innovation are mostly over, IMO.

  15. Re:meh... MS advert... on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Microsoft is famous for offering easy, open API access to their products.

  16. Re:Other good paid email providers? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    LinkedIn? Really?

  17. Re:What? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Or with Geary on Linux and Inky on Windows. All lovely all the way around.

  18. Re:Pretty common support forums policies on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 1

    punish the vendor so that the vendor hurts.

    pain is a GREAT motivator.

    its a valid way to 'fix' a problem. if that's what it takes to get apple to improve their quality, so be it.

    I can't help but think this isn't a good thing for the cellular providers. Possibly makes you wonder.

  19. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Not so much. If it disappears in the mail? Or if the casino says it disappeared in the mail? And we are talking LOTS of cash here.

  20. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Doesn't help when they start tracking the money...

  21. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact no one much likes us right now because we are a sneaky little two-faced rat that can't keep our noses out of anyone's business, friend or foe, and not even have the courtesy to let the friendly parties know in advance.

  22. Re:Time to shut down the WTO on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    The Senate votes to modify or repeal it, and the President signs off. Same with any time the US does anything with a treaty.

    Difficulty: Being a part of the WTO has, on balance, been extremely beneficial to the US, even accounting for this ruling. Seriously - the US has been a party to more winning cases in front of the WTO than any other country, by far. Should we just poop all over every other industry in order to maintain some sort of neo-Puritan approach to gambling?

    Well, as I see it, the problem with offshore gambling is more offshore gambling proceeds, offshore gambling accounting, and offshore gambling taxes, which means Congress can neither get their grubby little paws into it, nor can they get a VIP comp when they junket on an investigatory evaluation. (Because offshore gambling is more server farms than glitzy showgirls and free cocktails.)

  23. Re:To answer part of your question on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    That used to happen in Quake all the time -- to gain an advantage, people would pound competitors' machines to slow their "ping" as it was the equivalent to making their reaction times drunk.

    And IRC in the old channel war days.

  24. Re:What evidence do you have that you're being DoS on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    Or Smoothwall. Easy setup, easy interface. Although, please note that first you will need that PC to have TWO network cards, not just the usual builtin one (although one card and builtin should work).

  25. Re:What evidence do you have that you're being DoS on Ask Slashdot: Mitigating DoS Attacks On Home Network? · · Score: 1

    I see you have a combo DSL modem/router. I prefer separate modem from router, but it should work. That does not mean that it has not been hacked.

    Same here, but it is not always an option. (It wasn't in my case, at least. I even had a unused DSL model lying around.)