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  1. Re:'Skilled gadget owners' on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Wow, how long did it take to drink 50 gallons of cool aid?

    He's talking about those little black blobs of epoxy (not particularly thermally conductive) meant to keep you from even seeing what's under it or being able to replace it.

    As for the rest, if they want thermal conduction, they should apply regular heat sink grease and then put the back on with screws.

  2. Re: Unibody? on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    They make USB ethernet devices.

  3. Re: Good example on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    How am I supposed to chop onions with a thick phone?

  4. Re: Good example on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Actually, my phone has a replaceable battery with no screws, just a tiny slot in the edge of the case where you can pop the battery door open with a fingernail of a jeweler's screwdriver.

  5. Re:Unibody? on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 2

    You've never heard of having brake rotors turned? You've never heard of 3rd party brake rotors? There's nothing about any of those parts that precludes a 3rd party making replacements.

  6. Re: Unibody? on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 2

    When's the last time you seen a consumer level PC with a discrete ethernet card or sound card?

    About 5 minutes ago. The built-in ethernet failed so I stuck a card in it.

  7. Re:Unibody? on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, to reach apple level, the manufacturers would have to do away with the openable hood as well. If it needs an oil change, throw it away and buy a new one.

  8. Re:"it stopped using..." on Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed · · Score: 2

    It rises to it if it's a concerted effort to write down license plates everywhere and correlate the data such that any vehicle can be retroactively tracked.

    Try that with police cars or government limos and see if trouble doesn't find you.

  9. Re:"it stopped using..." on Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it is stalking. Seeing someone in a public place is fine. Seeing them occasionally is OK. Making sure you see them every time in many places without their consent is stalking.

  10. Two cars in every garage on John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    And a gram up every backside!

  11. Re:Makes as much sense as any patent. on Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products · · Score: 1

    Many of those new products are not patented. Nobody is trying to stop you from reselling your Popeil Pocket Fisherman at a garage sale.

  12. Re:People just do not get it... on Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products · · Score: 2

    It's amazing how willing the capitalist cheerleaders are to see a condition where corporations replace the communist state as owner of everything and the people own nothing even if they pay for it..

  13. Re:What a load of nonsense on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 2

    Sure, but that is a distinctly different argument than "There is no difference, I'm not listening, La La La La":.

    However, another article made thinge more clear, both vials included shavings from the inside of a barrel.

  14. Re:What a load of nonsense on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 1

    My objection was the dismissal of the taste difference. This is an opportunity to learn something about the aging process of whisky. Apparently there is something going on here that might be good to know. If we reject all observation that doesn't match what we already believe we know, we never learn.

  15. Re:Any possibility that sunscreen causes cancer? on Miami Installs Free Public Sunscreen Dispensers In Fight Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    It's not as dramatic as it seems. Reductions in infant mortality account for most of the change in the average.

  16. Re:What a load of nonsense on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 1

    AC above apparently thinks they are no different. I don't know if he/she/it would expect toilet aging to make a difference or not.

  17. Re:What a load of nonsense on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 1

    A vial in free-fall changes nothing.

    So AC says they're no different. Title says:

    Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different"

    That wasn't so hard to figure out, now was it?

  18. Re:What a load of nonsense on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Over here everybody, a new /. record. AC here didn't even read the TITLE of TFS.

  19. Re: Oh, they're a big company, on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google "Get Office Notifications" and you'll see that plenty of people ARE getting those notifications. Perhaps you have a different edition or missed an update.

  20. Re:There's more to it than developing the drugs. on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 1

    Two separate thoughts in two separate paragraphs. Where's the confusion?

  21. Re:Lessig is hard to listen to on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 2

    He can't trigger a re-election by resigning. There is a well defined succession of power that will be followed.

    However, he does offer a variety of potential VPs and is leaving it up to his supporters to tell him which one to choose. So pick your President from that list or suggest a write in.

  22. Re:There's more to it than developing the drugs. on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:There's more to it than developing the drugs. on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 2

    No, it should have been offered at an affordable price.

    It's funny how they magically find a way to do that when the drug is at all optional.

  24. Re:There's more to it than developing the drugs. on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 2

    OH, you're a KOOK! You should have said so and saved me the trouble of replying.

  25. Re:Actually no on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 1

    A real question, what's so damned expensive about giving people a drug and seeing if they get better or not? Particularly after phase I where you have already determined that it is more or less safe for human consumption.