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  1. Re: Minority Report and other Sci-Fi on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have you ever heard of Orson Wells? A little film about a newspaper publisher that some consider the greatest movie ever made?

    To clarify: Orson Wells made a little film about a newspaper publisher that some consider the greatest movie ever made. The film is "Citizen Kane". Wells directed, helped write, and acted in the film.

  2. Re:Sprawl DOES makes you fatter on Does Sprawl Make Us Fat? · · Score: 1

    It is a stereotype. The stereotype is that gay men have purses, and straight men have SUVs.

  3. Re:Sprawl DOES makes you fatter on Does Sprawl Make Us Fat? · · Score: 1
    Trouble is...if you're rather portly, you're not gonna get laid much, at least not by chicks that you'd 'want' to get laid by

    Well... you have to pay for a membership to a health club. So paying to get exercise is a reasonable thing to do.

  4. Re:Let's not make this a "craze" for marketing's s on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1

    Probiotic spinach and scallions! They're fat free too!!

  5. Re:I hate to break it to you all, but... on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1
    Oh, and unless you're at a super-fancy-expensive restaurant where they make *everything* the moment you order it, don't eat the hollandaise sauce. Raw egg yolks lying around = bad stuff.

    I make and eat hollandaise sauce all the time, 'cause I love it, and I've never had any ill effects from eating it. I even eat it after it has been left-over.

  6. Re:The inevietable obligatory question. on YouTube Blocked in Brazil · · Score: 1

    Sex under water isn't that great -- the water washes away natural lubrication. Perhaps they stopped to go somewhere else and continue... Or maybe the guy is a Slashdot regular and it only took him three minutes.

  7. Re:In other words: Oxfam just got own3d! on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 1
    If this seems unrealistic, just go to a Starbucks and order black coffee or straight espresso. The looks the employees and other customers give you are priceless.

    I occasionally get coffee at Starbucks. I don't get any unusual looks from the employees or customers. Of course they have more than one choice for coffee, so I don't order "black coffee", I generally get the "coffee of the day" "traditional" offering. I think the other blend they sell is the "light note", which is usually a breakfast blend or something lighter. They also have decaf if that is what you want.

  8. Re:In other words: Oxfam just got own3d! on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    Do you really know where your money went? Do you buy directly from the farmers?

  9. Re:Well... on Giant Ice Shelf Snaps · · Score: 1
    The correct question is: "How much faster is the ice breaking off now than then?"

    Is that the correct question? How about "Are ice shelves breaking off faster, slower, or at the same rate now as they were then?" Your question seems to show a bias toward the belief that ice shelves are breaking off faster now.

    And if you can decisively answer that question, then the next question might be "What is the cause of this change, if there is one, in rate?"

  10. Re:This isn't a film for geeks. on WarGames Sequel Now Filming · · Score: 1

    Swordfish had the redeeming scene with Halle Berry topless.

  11. Re:If this keeps up... on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1
    Actually, the coffee cost $1.77 until they went with this rounding scheme, so we raised the price to $1.82 so everyone would think they were getting a deal when it is rounded down to $1.80...

    And besides that, I use cash to buy my coffee, but my debit card for my lunch, so it costs me $5.23 + $1.80 a day...

  12. Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects? on Bad Web Sites Can Cause "Mouse Rage" · · Score: 1

    I like that the site is in multiple languages, including "American", but not English....

  13. Re:The really scary part of this ruling.... on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    Don't I automatically own the copyright to anything I write? If that is so, then would having a link to any web-page that you didn't write yourself be an infringement? Are links generated by search engines now illegal in Australia?

  14. Re:If this keeps up... on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1
    I was (am) under the impression that it is illegal to destroy any kind of U.S. money, coin or currency, not to mention generally stupid. Although being able to double my investment by getting pennies and melting them is an incentive to do that. Pennies once were made of copper, and are now just copper clad, I wouldn't think that the metal in them is worth more than a penny.

    Actually, I think we should just get rid of pennies altogether. When businesses start putting little dishes of coins on the counter for you to take one if you need it or leave the ones you get in change, then it is time to do away with those coins.

  15. Re:Ridiculous, just ridiculous on Is Internet Addiction a Medical Condition? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Got a B on your report card and not an A? Clean. Car won't start? Clean. Overcooked dinner? Clean.

    Is there any chance that I can get my children to be addicted in this way?

  16. Is it or isn't it? on Is Internet Addiction a Medical Condition? · · Score: 1

    If I get fired for it, then yes,it is a disease and I'll sue. Until then though, it isn't a disease any more than doing any normal activity that you enjoy.

  17. Re:Already been done in a better form on DIY Service Pack For Windows 2000/XP/2003 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been using Autopatcher for quite some time now, and I'm quite happy with it. It also has some extra utilities that it will install if you select them, and the ability to make various UI tweaks. I find it is a nice way to install everything on a new PC. I download the latest version, write it to a CD and take it to the new PC. The new PC never has to be connected to the internet to get the latest MS updates.

  18. Re:INNACURATE! This is Hype! on NASA Finds Evidence of Recent Flowing Water on Mars · · Score: 1
    When was the last time you saw shiny, reflective sand or dust? (Ok, sand can be a little shiny, but I don't think it would have as much contrast against the plain old martian ground)

    NASA isn't claming that the "shiny" stuff in the newer pictures is water, or any kind of liquid, but that it is sediment, possibly carried by a liquid flow.

    I am very skeptical about this being water, or even liquid carbon dioxide. In the past whenever they have found evidence of water, a short time later it is refuted. It looks to me like the differences in the pictures could simply be from differing lighting conditions, the light being at an angle the reflects and lights up better in the later picture. I assume there are more than the two pictures shown in this article, are there?

  19. Re:Well that sucks. on Easy Throw-Away Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    You need to have a confirmation system set up, and not allow users access until they reply to, or click on a link in, an email sent to their address. Maybe that is what you're now doing -- how are you handling it?

  20. Re:But wait ... on Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose · · Score: 1
    Verses the combined military might of Russia, China, France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy to name a few. Bring your head out of the clouds! In a conventional military engagement with the rest of the world the US would literally be slaughtered.

    I believe the operative word here is "conventional".

  21. Mod swillden up !! on RFID Passport Security "Poorly Conceived" · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points so I could mod swillden's post (#16788115) up. He has informatively covered all the points.

  22. Re:Why no counter requests? on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Insightful
    1) copy of hard drives of all spammers computers

    It seems to me that you should have the originals seized to prevent tampering with, or deletion of, the evidence.

  23. Re:Uhhh... on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Informative
    but unless he had read them pretty recently, they're not going to be in a cache

    I happen to set my browsers caches to a RAM disk, and I wipe my paging file at every shutdown. So I would have had to have read those emails very recently.

  24. Re:Simply ignore it on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    According to Spike Lee it is "Mo' Better". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100168/

  25. Re:Hah! on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1
    Manatees inhabit the shallow, marshy coastal areas and rivers of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (T. manatus, West Indian manatee), the Amazon basin (T. inunguis, Amazonian manatee), and West Africa (T. senegalensis, African manatee).
    There are Manatees in the USA on the Gulf (southern) coast, that Gulf being the Gulf of Mexico. According to http://www.ventureco-worldwide.com/manatee_project 1.htm there are approximately 2,600 manatees in the USA.