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  1. And Outlook web access? on Microsoft Adds Chrome Support For Office Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Great! So when can I expect outlook web access to look decent in anything but IE? Doesn't really matter much, because my IT department just recently switched to 2007...

  2. Re:Now that everyone is talking about it... on Kindle Allowing Chinese Unfettered Access To Web · · Score: 1
  3. Barred for 20 years? on Twitter To Establish Information Security Program · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shouldn't they be permanently barred from misleading their customers?

  4. Re:yeah. its much better to be p0wned on Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario · · Score: 1

    I somewhat agree with you. I think the idea of making everyone buy health insurance is ludicrous. That is the "Let them eat cake!" attitude to fixing things.
    The problem is not that there aren't enough people buying health insurance, it is that it is too expensive to afford.
    To fix that we need to fix the way we practice medicine and the way health insurance companies operate.
    Quite frankly, I have no beef with Medicare. I'm not old enough to participate, so i have no first hand experience, but it sounds like there is less red tape, corruption, and profiteering than most health insurance companies.
    I would love to see a single-payer system set up that actually worked. I'd even be willing to settle for a public health insurance option, so long as it is not tied to employment.
    However, I agree that none of the options on the table currently are very appealing and the thought of government mandating people purchase health insurance coverage is ridiculous and does not solve the true problem.

  5. Re:yeah. its much better to be p0wned on Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, then single-payer health insurance will come as a tax.
    That is how they will force everyone (who works) to pay into it.
    They won't force you to USE medicare. You can always choose to go to a private hospital (as you can in Canada).

  6. Re:yeah. its much better to be p0wned on Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh really? I have medicare taken out of my check every month.

  7. Lord Adonis? on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said in the immediate future only a small proportion of airline passengers would be selected for scanning."

    Well I'm sure Lord Adonis has no problem showing off his perfect greco-roman body, but what about the rest of us?

  8. Blinky Screen on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    I had the blinky screen issue with X failing to load. I think it had to do with DKMS not building the nividia module for the new driver. I was forced to wipe / and reinstall. An annoyance for sure, but no data lost as /home is on a separate partition.

  9. Re:a magnetic monopole is like a one-sided coin: on "Overwhelming" Evidence For Magnetic Monopoles · · Score: 1

    I suppose you have never heard of a Mobius coin.

  10. Re:First you need a semantic context on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    One more thing....

    Avogadro's number isn't some fundamental constant. It is just like a dozen. It just so happens that we chose a dozen to be 12 (or 13 or 11 depending on where you live).

    It is 6.022E23 g-mol^-1 and 2.73E26 lb-mol^-1

  11. Re:First you need a semantic context on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    yeah, well there are a lot of strange features in american engineering. So it's all based off of carbon. 12 g of carbon is a g-mole. 12 kg of carbon is a kg-mol (or kilomole). 12 lbs of carbon is a lb-mol. it might have something to do with the fact that the exact value of Avogadro's number wasn't known until the early 20th century. By that time, i think lb-mol was already established. Perrin (a french guy) figured out that a g-mol is 6.022E23. I think he chose to use grams because he was French.

  12. Re:First you need a semantic context on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    Not to an american chemical engineer. I frequently see things in lb-moles. The OP is a bit misleading. A lb-mole of NaCl is 58.44 lbs. A g-mole is 58.44 g. A kg-mole is 58.44 kg. The mole always needs to have a unit of mass in front of it, or it is useless. It is by convention that by "mole," we mean "g-mole."

  13. I'll do it for $3. on "The Dog Ate My Homework" Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Send it to me, I'll do it for cheaper.

  14. Re:Uh Oh. on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    unless you believe that slavery, definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on who's a member of the official state religion, definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on which genitalia you were born with, and an admonition to subjugate, enslave, or otherwise wipe out anyone who doesn't believe in the state-sponsored religion can actually be a "religion of peace."

    So I guess by this standard no western religion is a "religion of peace"

  15. Re:not this again... on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 1

    The value of pi is six (for sufficiently low values of six).

  16. Re:Whose deficit is it, anyway? on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    This is interesting point since the average Canadian only paid 11.18% in income taxes in 2002 http://www.taxtips.ca/statistics.htm, while the average American paid 13.5% the same year http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/02in01tr.xls.

    Of course this doesn't account for all the other forms of taxation, but still Americans pay a higher income taxes but still have yearly budget deficits.

    It's hard to keep our (American) current political situation out of it, but which is more important affordable healthcare for all or seemingly cheaper oil prices and the occupation of foreign nations?

  17. Re:How "scaled up" is this? on Photonic Laser Thruster Promises Earth to Mars in a Week · · Score: 5, Funny

    It only says it can get the spacecraft to Mars in a week. It does claim to be able to stop once it gets there.

  18. Repulsive Van der Waals known for a long time on British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect · · Score: 1

    Maybe this article is discussing a new way of creating a repulsive Casimir force, but a closely related force, known as the Van der Waals force is repulsive for certain combinations of materials. For instance, polystyrene next to a gold surface in water has a repulsive Van der Waals force(See Visser).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force

    Visser, J. "On Hamaker constants: A comparison between Hamaker constants and Lifshitz-van der Waals constants" Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 3(4), 331-361

  19. Re:Radon? on Astronomer Offers Theory Into 400-Year-Old Lunar Mystery · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but radon is a decay product of uranium, which is much longer lived. I don't know if there is a lot of uranium on the moon, but I know the earth produces a lot of radon.

    It tends to collect in basements and give people cancer.

  20. Re:It's the roast that matters the most on What is Your Favorite Way to Make Coffee? · · Score: 1

    Roast is over rated... Production method is where it's at.

    As long as it comes out of a cat's back end, it's good.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSS YD8159120070516