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  1. Re:Easier to DIY... on Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users · · Score: 1

    MMMV: My converts include two people who were sick of Vista.
    They liked Ubuntu with the Compiz and AWN.
    Most people just want their computer to work. As long as their computer works, they're happy period.

  2. Re:Unambitous version number on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    Na, your mom is always paying to go down on my mom... no advertising necessary.

  3. Re:Be Skeptical on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    A) They do remove people I know people who sent a polite message via the contact us to be removed.

    It's social networking in the sense that, hey I met my friend and this new person Katie. Let me see if she's on my friend's contact list; she is... okay let me send her a message.

    At the end of the day, it's brought me in more than 40K worth of revenue so I can't complain. YMMV.

  4. Re:Possibly worse than that on New Startup Hopes to Push Open Source Pharmaceuticals · · Score: 1

    Those companies are called generic pharmaceutical companies. They'll bring law suits if there isn't prior art.

  5. Re:Oh, please. on New Startup Hopes to Push Open Source Pharmaceuticals · · Score: 1

    Don't forget biologics (using proteins instead of small molecules: read UCSF/Genentech) and siRNA.

  6. Re:That's great... on Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America" · · Score: 1

    7. My native language is not English but I am fluent in it and one or more other languages
    Can you give me a use case where someone isn't fluent in their native language?
    I totally understand forgetting some words here and there, when I returned to the USA, I forgot the English word for bedsheets.

  7. Re:Be Skeptical on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    I've been on linked in for the past 5 years.
    That's 1/3 of the internet's popular age.
    I'd guess that hotmail would disappear before linked in.

    Join my Linked In Network.

  8. Shameless Plug (Join My Linked In Network) on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    You can join my linked in network. I'm currently a few contacts away from 7000 members.
    Alex Birch

  9. Re:Marketing statistics = bs on Is Flash Really On 99% of Net Devices? · · Score: 1

    I think that should be
    Marketing Statistics == bs
    Otherwise you just replaced the Marketing statistics with BS!

  10. Re:Unambitous version number on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    Wait Vista is Windows 6?
    Windows Mobile is 6?
    The most common version of IE is 6?

    This reminds me of the sign of something...

  11. Re:She's expressing an opinion, that's not allowed on Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat · · Score: 1

    Her opinion reminds me of Cheney's statement that the there are new jobs like the many people who make a living off of selling things on eBay.
    It is all too apparent that Christine doesn't have a clue what is happening.

  12. Re:Disappointing on Restauranteurs Say Yelp Uses Extortion To Ply Ad Sales · · Score: 1

    Can you find any of your negative posts that have disappeared?
    Any of your friends?
    None of mine have been removed.
    It would be nice to try to do this with some semblance of logic/sampling.

  13. Re:What else can you do? on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    Brian,
    I speaks bad english. Butts, I gonna gets your job and they's gonna pays me 3 dollares a hour!
    Enjoy workin' at the McDonalds.
    Dr. Patel.

  14. Re:Yeah really on TrapCall Service To Bypass Caller ID Blocking · · Score: 1

    Ben Franklin noticed this difference with his quip:
    "Tim was so learned, that he could name a Horse in nine Languages. So ignorant, that he bought a Cow to ride on."

    Hopefully we can acknowledge there are different types of smart. So we're disagreeing on the type of smart.

  15. Re:Been there done that. on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 1

    Why not have some consequences?
    1) They AND their supervisors have to attend the class together;
    2) They have to pay x dollars for jeopardizing the confidential business data;
    ...
    ...
    Other than getting paid and not having to work while texting their friends at a class.

  16. Re:Nah, dumb idea.... on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps now that Obama has closed Gitmo down for terrorists, we could use that space for people who repeatedly respond to spam.
    Or we could just send them to Cuba where they will not do us any harm.

  17. Re:Why not linux wins then? on If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins · · Score: 1

    Have you tried doing it on Linux?

    Ubuntu with Avant-Window-Navigator has copied it fairly well. My brother who isn't a programmer loves his eye candy, and how easy it is add a wireless connection.

  18. Re:Ubuntu annoyances? on Ubuntu Kung Fu · · Score: 1

    sudo su
    works for me

  19. Re:Silly gun nut on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 1

    er I need to brush up on my geography.

  20. Re:Silly gun nut on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 1

    -> The nation was routinely being invaded by confederate soldiers.
    In case you missed your history class, it was the North which invaded the South (to suppress the rebellion), not vice versa.
    Funny I thought Gettysburg was in Pennsylvania. Need to brush up on my

  21. Re:If you ever lived in a foreign country on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    The unfortunate fact is that the news media is a business. Americans want to see Fluffy and American Media wants viewership.

  22. Re:Lower-wattage bulbs on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!

    but if you do 90 instead of 65 you save 155 seconds over 8 miles. That's enough to post a random story about your 60 lines of python to slashdot and have cmdrtaco approve it.

    Do the math...

  23. Re:Immortality is scary on Scientists Identify a Potentially Universal Mechanism of Aging · · Score: 1

    Medicaid is about to go bankrupt due to skyrocketing health care costs.
    The procedures do go down in cost. However people want newer procedures, equipment that's newer (not necessarily better.) Newer drugs, instead of older generic drugs. Modern medicine is all about fixing instead of preventing. That's why health care costs are rising.

  24. Re:My eyes, they burn! on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    No kidding. The original looks like it was taken with a cellphone camera.

    This wasn't a cellphone! The DoD has perfected a camera that merges someone's inner and outer beauty.

  25. Re:Four Key on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1

    All four blades are different.
    Please see this post.