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  1. Re:tags are correct on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    You used to much jargon!

    *snigger*

  2. Re:Psychiatric consultation! on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    Far more efficient to simply leave the spam and let it sit with everything else. Ideally spam is deleted as it arrives, but some get missed ...

  3. Re:Psychiatric consultation! on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the jokes LAUGH AT YOU!

  4. Re:Psychiatric consultation! on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    "... you could always set up a client to download the messages, and then delete them off Google servers ..."

    Or just not use GMail.

  5. Re:Psychiatric consultation! on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    Read the post properly. He said he does NOT have ownership of his emails. This doesn't mean he's not responsible for the mundane details, but to quote the poster, "It also would be against my employer's policies to store HIPAA-regulated email offsite". So GMail is totally absolutely out of the question.

  6. Re:Psychiatric consultation! on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    Imbecile. Outside of the USA, the majority of email addresses end in a country-specific suffix.

  7. Re:IMAP on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, Entourage gave me numerous problems, and the 'solutions' presented by Apple themselves were of no use whatever. This on a brand new machine, fully updated, with a genuine copy of Office, also fully updated.

    So when I had a break-in a few weeks ago and my mac disappeared, my emotions could be summarized by "meh".

  8. Re:WD40 on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    True, but if you do it quickly the plastic won't have time to dissolve. Have used acetone plenty of times, and swear by it.

  9. Re:Isn't the Kill Switch the actual threat? on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    "We were right about the Y2K bug, fixed it, and when Y2K rolled around, there was no problem because of our proactive efforts!"

    When I lived in London, I always carried elephant repellent around with me. Worked a charm, never saw an elephant in my whole time there!

  10. Re:A new low on 3 Prototypes From HP, In Outline · · Score: 2, Funny

    Absolutely. But the ideal of aneurotic fusion isn't quite with us yet. What I want to know is, why isn't anyone investing heavily in IEC fusion?!

  11. Re:Wait till the religion fanatics hear this. on Follow Up On Solar Neutrinos and Radioactive Decay · · Score: 1

    Bzzt, wrong. If there is even a miniscule variation, this changes *everything*. Like our conception of the laws of physics.

  12. Re:Lower Sperm Counts! on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Hardware support is still weak on Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10 · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for a mod point - mod parent up!!

  14. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Protons are approximately 1/1840th heavier than Neutrons. In Hydrogen fusion, (simplistically speaking) protons are converted into neutrons, and the left over 1/1840th of their mass is converted into energy. Boom.

  15. iPope 2.0 on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Says it all ...

  16. Re:You don't need it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Fail. The OP stated SSD as *CACHE* for a standard magnetic spinny thing.

  17. Re:We live in the future. on Wake Forest Researchers Swap Skin Grafts For Cell Spraying · · Score: 1

    Ok, sure, 90's and even early noughties. But seriously second-hand organs can't be a growth market for more than a handful of years,

  18. Re:We live in the future. on Wake Forest Researchers Swap Skin Grafts For Cell Spraying · · Score: 1

    Niven's dystopian landscape in this case should not be mistaken for a genuine prediction. I enjoyed the book, but honestly Niven's intention in this case was surely no more than to create an entertaining story!

  19. Re:Terrible idea, of course, which is why we don't on Tsunami Warning From Space? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd still need enormously powerful lasers, and sufficient power generation on the ground. We're talking about space-based weapon class power here, and honestly politicians would be far more excited about the offensive capabilities of such a system than 'merely' saving civilian lives.

    A slightly more realistic approach would be to use massive space-based tinted mirrors to reflect sunlight toward the ground. You'd still need truly enormous mirrors for this to work at all -- $$$$$$$. It's not gonna fly.

  20. Re:Terrible idea, of course, which is why we don't on Tsunami Warning From Space? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Correct.

    This idea will never fly. Ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking.

  21. Re:Help in TFA? on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    That will happen if you don't have Javascript turned on. The site looks great if you use a browser released after the year 2000.

  22. Re:Dark stuff? on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is clear from your inane ramblings that you always en-sock your RIGHT foot first.

    I, on the other hand, always en-sock my LEFT foot first. Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to deduce that it's my right socks that always go missing ...

  23. Re:Implications for dark matter estimates? on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 1

    By definition, if there is any observable interaction whatsoever with 'our universe', then the cause of that interaction is also in our universe. Other universes, if they exist, cannot interact with ours. End of story.

  24. Re:I'd do it the slow but secure way. on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 1

    Do *NOT* compress or otherwise manipulate the data before sending. This is mesozoic-era hardware - avoid writing to the disk if at all possible. You don't do archaeology with bulldozer.

  25. Re:I'd do it the slow but secure way. on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 1

    I had a 20MB IDE drive, dating from 1989.

    The drive was in a machine most people will never have heard of, a Commodore 286 machine (PC-III). It was pretty good actually, for its time, with 256-colour VGA (and Commodore branded 14" VGA monitor), 20MB drive, 1MB RAM, and a 3.5" FDD.