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  1. Re:Nonsense on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 1

    My parents took us camping in Florida for two weeks when I was about 12. Some of the most memorable times of my life (and not just because of the Star Wars toys). The mosquitos were a bitch but other than that, good times....

  2. Re:Surprise on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 1

    Or uninstall Windows.

  3. Samsung on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 1

    As I learned from my Galaxy S and then from reading other peoples issues with other Samsung issues, Samsung will release a buggy product (not necessarily a sin in itself) but will then stonewall, refuse to admit that the problem exists, promise solutions "soon", fail to deliver solutions that solve the problem and then just ignore the issue until it goes away.

    I will never buy a Samsung product again that hasn't been out for a while. And then I will read to find out what bugs and issues there are with the product to decide whether I can live with them on the expectation that they will *never* be fixed.

    Mind you, Motorola doesn't seem much better. The last OS update borked Swype (It Now Capitalized Every Word Like This In Web Input Forms) and there's not hint of anyone actually working to fix the problem.

  4. Re:Date problems on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I haven't had a problem with dates and times since 805551212

  5. Re:Cheap over touchscreen on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    I know I'm not a representative sample but I recently retired my EEEPC netbook to replace it with a Samsung Chromebook. Between a web browser and an SSH client, I'm pretty well covered for anything.

  6. Re:large teams on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 1

    Unless they're in a sci-fi TV series.

  7. Re:Oracle will do just fine on Oracle Sues Companies It Says Provide Solaris OS Support In Illegal Manner · · Score: 1

    There on the stair

  8. Re:Real value vs. representation on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Except in the time between you selling the gold and buying the bread, the government has printed a few billion more dollars.

  9. Re:Big Companies Oppressing America on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer competition. But the companies have to realize there's a trade-off for the access they're granted. If they won't supply this guy's neighbor with service, perhaps they should lose the right to run their wires across his land, no?

  10. Plan B on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    Animated placemats.

  11. Re:My rating... on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    Yes, like allowing multiple companies to produce soup has led to a plethora of soup stores throughout the land...

    No, that would be silly, of course. There are services that exist that server to allow purveyors of different brands of soup to concentrate their selections in one location along with many other goods.

    It seems that the problems you see from deregulation are actually just another layer of problems caused by too much regulation.

  12. Re:Big Companies Oppressing America on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    How about the council tells them that if they don't open up more ports, they'll give access to the infrastructure to someone else?

  13. Re:My rating... on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    Government is responsible to the public (voters) and has all the guns. Corps are responsible to their shareholders and don't.

  14. Re:US Post Office on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 3, Funny

    and prefunding retirement benefits for workers, some of whom aren't even born yet.

    This is probably fair. The government has already spent the money they'll be earning.

  15. Re:ATM on PIN-Cracking Robot To Be Showed Off At Defcon · · Score: 1

    ATMs I've used recently only take the card long enough to scan it and return it immediately.

  16. Re:Dogs are no dummies on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 1

    You are missing the word "consciously" in there somewhere.

  17. Re:floodgates? on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    That, in and of itself, is not a good thing.

  18. Re:How is this different from a carving? on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    Personally, I tend to lean towards allowing the freedom to reinterpret and reinvent. So I don't have a big problem with what Disney did there in and of itself. However, with that said, Disney has been very aggressive in going after copyright and trademark infringements, making them quite hypocritical. Also, as copyright and trademarks now stand, Disney is unable to acknowledge the influence of the earlier work since that could place them in a difficult legal position.

  19. Re:How is this different from a carving? on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 2

    At the point you decide you want to rip off someone else's movie but don't want to pay for it.

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

  20. Re:Low-cost, accurate CNC machines? on Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos · · Score: 1

    Usually stepper motors are used. These *can* lose track of their position but it is typically not an issue. It would mean that something had jammed or bound.

  21. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    What is the cutoff, just out of interest. Presumably if you had a bacon sandwich when you were 5, at some point you can re-qualify as a vegetarian.

  22. Re:Texas teachers on Texas School District Drops Embattled RFID Student IDs; Opts For Cameras · · Score: 2

    My recollection is that most teachers are interchangeable until you get to a certain level. As long as you can read the answers from the back of the book, you're golden. The exception is the sports teachers for whom the qualification is the desire to vicariously live out your failed dreams through your more talented students while finding some way to keep the rest out of your hair.

  23. Puke on Texas School District Drops Embattled RFID Student IDs; Opts For Cameras · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or vomit for the more sensitive souls.

  24. Re:In Your Dreams on Google Is Bringing Chrome Remote Desktop App To Android · · Score: 1

    It comes with SSH built in but and I use that a lot. The app is nice for having the shell in a window and not in a browser tab though (ctrl-w is surprisingly useful sometimes)

  25. Re:No Good on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 2

    If you believe that about Republicans (or Democrats if you're from the other side), you will be creating your own incorrect conclusions.