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  1. Re:Google Apps on Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected · · Score: 1

    I still think that whether Exchange is adopted or not is kind of a moot point, since a smart company/users will probably set up an email client for IMAP or POP3 on Gmail. Heck, even though I made the switch a long time ago I'd probably be using Outlook if I didn't enjoy Thunderbird so much.

  2. Re:Firefox could still be correct... on Phishing Education Test Blocked For Phishing · · Score: 1

    Well, clearly you aren't the technical user the site says to use to verify that no data has been submitted.

  3. Re:Its common knowledge on Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you figure that? My latest calculations placed it at 70% [Note: Error +/- 10%].

  4. Re:ummm on Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death · · Score: 1

    I would RTFA, but I'm afraid doing so might reduce my lifespan.

  5. Re:I'll bite on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point: of course the iPad would be fine for multiplayer games across the network. It is a computer, after all, and how many people on Slashdot do you think would be unaware of computerized board games?

    I was responding to the idea of using iPhones as essentially game controllers around a central iPad. Which seems like a pretty limited-market idea.

  6. I'll bite on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.'

    I'm imagining a large amount of wasted money for people who don't have at least one of the components...and if everyone has to be present anyway, why not just use a regulate board? Costs to develop the thing would be pointless as well.

    Just seems like a bad example...

  7. Re:A New York professor on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess the editors saw that the name is Dr. Seeman and decided to spare us the flood of Anonymous Cowards.

  8. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    You could probably eliminate portions of points 1,2, and 5 by simply wrapping the thing in airtight plastic during use and/or just giving the thing to the patient after use. The latter would probably make sense if the particular practice did this less than 180 times in the same period as the specialty board is built to last, and would probably make it cheaper for the patient, too. Plus they get a balance board.

    And no, giving the board to the patient would not present an additional problem, or at least no more so than the boots and oral syringes doctors give out to patients already.

  9. Re:Soda does taste best from a fountain. on Fecal Bacteria Found On Almost Half Of Soda Fountains · · Score: 1

    It's too bad, because convenience store fountain soda is usually cheaper and available in larger quantities.

    And there's part of the reason.

  10. Re:Fuck you America ... on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Thank you!

  11. Re:A bit early to celebrate Windows 7? on Harry McCracken Rounds Up the Year In Tech · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Just finished setting up a new Windows 7-operating computer for a friend of mine and was pleasantly surprised at its operation after spending much time with Vista on my work machine.

  12. Re:a game that tells the truth about religion on Religion in Video Games · · Score: 1

    I blame the pro-Christian slant used to counter the "godless heathen Soviets" in the U.S. during the Cold War for furthering the misconception, not necessarily because the schools are "terrified to teach anything related to politics", as you say. State distortions and mistruths take a while to dissipate, especially when they propagate across generations.

  13. Note about the link on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    Unless things have changed, the NYTimes links are not actually behind a "paywall", just behind a login (which is free as far as I remember).

    In other words, feel "free" to RTFA.

  14. Re:smokescreen on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    and i'm not sure of US law in this manner, but is it legal to deny someone a job opportunity based on an alleged crime for which they were completely pardoned?

    Probably not, but that won't be the claim the potential employer makes. They'll simply say that the person is not what they're looking for; no law against that.

  15. Re:If women are so smart . . . on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

    Maybe I'm in the minority, especially for a "Southern Man", but I'm a lot happier and more "stimulated" (read that how you'd like) with a girl I can actually talk with rather than one that's painful to talk with.

  16. Re:What about the yeast? on Tactical Nuclear Penguin, the World's Strongest Beer · · Score: 1

    Which makes me question the quality of the beer. And if they just add it in, what's to stop me from taking a bottle of lab-grade ethanol, putting a drop of beer in it, and claiming the record for the world's strongest beer?

  17. Re:History Lesson? on Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you look like you might've done that.

  18. Re:sarcasm and/or facetiousness ?!?!? on Man Speaks Only Klingon To Child For Three Years · · Score: 1

    How is this any different than a family speaking only Spanish to their child while living in the U.S.? And what would be wrong with that?

  19. Re:100-mph tape on Pilot Fixes Plane With Duct Tape After Grizzly Attack · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a trip I once took on an AirTran plane. As I sat in the terminal awaiting boarding, I had the privilege of watching frustrated mechanics tinker with the nose of the plane and then simply patch the whole thing over with several rolls of duct tape. And then I boarded the plane and flew 500 miles to Minnesota.

  20. Re:Code Name Runner-up on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    No, no.

    Kolonic Kookaburra

    FTFY

  21. !eulas on Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others · · Score: 4, Funny

    For a second I read that as "EULAs To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others"...oh, the irony.

  22. Re:Hello, I'm from the MPAA and I'm here to help y on Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly you haven't seen most of the scenes...

  23. Re:MacOS 9 on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the original poster for OS9 was not talking about MacOS 9.

    Is that why he put "MacOS 9" in the title?

  24. Re:toposhaba on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    That would be great for me...my odometer hasn't worked in years!

  25. Re:Community college, anyone? on All-You-Can-Eat College For $99-a-Month · · Score: 1

    Can't really relate either. I didn't take the maximum number of credits but worked a part-time job and did research...which left the evenings for all of the coursework.