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  1. Re:AntiTrust concerns? on Vista SP1 Is Even Less Compatible · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not if the functionality being used by said software was insecure or bugged to begin with.

    Now, if the AV companies legitimately do NOT have enough time before SP1 is pushed to the public, then I could see getting up in arms.

    Otherwise, isnt this just common sense? Fix whats insecure and broken, advise the third parties of the changes, then release after a suitable dev delay?

  2. Re:AntiTrust concerns? on Vista SP1 Is Even Less Compatible · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seeing that SP1 is not even released to public on the windows update stage yet, is it not entirely probable that the companies in question will have patches by the time its the version-de-jour?

    I see how there can be an issue, but where is the issue YET?

  3. Re:Geniuses on Ulysses Spacecraft on its Last Legs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I wouldn't even try to compare lunar rovers to planetary rovers, as an environment of extremely predictable temperature, no weather or atmosphere, is definitely a lot easier to work with than even slight amounts of atmosphere and weather (as shown by the martian dust storms, and say, trying to get through venus' cloud layer).

  4. Re:Obligatory on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, and theres an even easier reversal issue for typists.

  5. Like the tobacco industry... on Should Addictive Tech Come With a Health Warning? · · Score: 1

    Anything that has value can be psychologically 'habit' forming. Do people honestly expect to be able to claim "No one warned me that I can become hopelessly dependant on this product!" and be recompensed for their "trouble?".

    Jesus christ, never make a successful product again...anyone...ever.

    Check please, i'm out of the universe.

  6. Re:The hot gamer girl on The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    That, or you just fit a slightly more amusing definition of Outlier.

  7. Re:Dear RIAA on Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act · · Score: 1

    Deal.

    Take my rights. Please.

  8. Re:It would blow on Laser Light Re-creates 'Black Holes' in the Lab · · Score: 1

    Or Unruh radiation.

    Course this whole article is a study in "Physics is like sex, sure it has practical applications but thats not why we do it!" =D

  9. Gattaca on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh great, so now theres no reason for Vincent to go there. Stop ruining fiction, reality!

  10. Re:The Gospel According To Bill... on Microsoft Pushes Copyright Education Curriculum · · Score: 1

    This is entirely the problems. Given that theres a simpsons for everything:

    "When I grow up I want to go to Bovine University!".

  11. Re:SSL on DOE Shines $21M on Advanced Lighting Research · · Score: 1

    So, how many computer scientists does it take to change a light bulb again?

  12. Re:There's a reason... on Samsung Sued Over "Defective" Blu-ray Player · · Score: 1

    I think what he means is more that you are making use of instances of them, even if all you're getting out of it is the http stream.

    When I ssh into a machine and start using it I consider myself to be running programs, since I am the one causing the instances of them.

    I'd hate to try this:
    "Why did you 'rm -rf /'?"

    "I didn't! The server was doing it!"

  13. Re:Another Slashdot "Tempest in Teapot" MS-FUD on TechNet Users Revolt Over Vista SP1 Unavailability · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This definitely seems like molehill territory if SP1R2 is the same as the SP1 RTM. The developers themselves do seem to have one legitimate greivance amongst the whole thing: If they received the details at exactly the same time as the populace, what value does their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions truely have in the long run?

    I'm not saying NONE i'm just saying less than they expected.

    Not that big a deal though, cancel your technet or msdn if this really sets your face on fire.

  14. Re:Balanced view. on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Reading your post triggered a little tangent in my head.

    Is it just me, or does the entire Scientology construct simply seem like a really really expensive, poorly written sci-fi based MMO that is ridiculously expensive to unlock new content and with which you are directed within instead of interacting with?

    Explains why actors are into it, they can afford the next expansion.

  15. Re:Uhm on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    Copying? Improving is more the bent I'm guessing. It is a lot easier to take an existing design and go "what in the hell were they thinking?" than to sit around a table coming up with everything from scratch.

  16. Re:It's America's fault on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    For once, we're one of the few NOT trying to do this.

    Goooo canada tourism =D

  17. Re:The USA wants a LOT more from the EU on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    And Canadian convention center owners wring their hands in anticipation.

    Kudos to the US and the EU for making us one of the best places to hold a convention in the modern world!

  18. Re:How about.. on DARPA Advances AI Program For Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1

    I believe the preferred paraphrase would be "You cannot replace real stupidity with artificial intelligence."

  19. Re:Wow, that's quite a title. on Microsoft Trolling for New Acquisitions · · Score: 1

    Well, the original definition wasn't quite so negative.

    Dyarr.

  20. Re:Yes, memory is the problem on A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance · · Score: 1

    My point wasn't that the willful non-compliance is the only issue, simply that i believe it makes up a much larger chunk of the total number of incidents due to non-compliance than the legitimate issues with memory.

  21. Re:And How Does The Pillbox Know... on A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance · · Score: 1

    You're damn right they can force you, just not physically.

    Non-compliance with a condition is grounds for exclusion of coverage with most insurances. You can not take the pills all you like, but if it jibbers you up you're paying the bills.

    I'd say thats a bit of motivation, although a problem is sleazier insurances will avoid mentioning this fact when people mention "oh my doctor has me on this, but I don't take it".

  22. Re:Memory is not the problem. on A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance · · Score: 1

    Son of a...comment writing by parts between cases all afternoon makes for my original post.

    My apologies to the grammarstapo.

  23. Memory is not the problem. on A Smart Pillbox To Improve Medication Compliance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with this is not an issue of people needing to be reminded of the doses they've taken, or should take. The biggest issue I see is WILLFUL non-compliance with a doctors advice. Now granted, doctors are only human as well so they can make mistakes but the number of people I hear tell me that "oh well i have a pill for this, but i do not take it" because they think they know more than the doctor (which sadly is SOMETIMES the case when one looks at it in a 'knows more about this situation' issue).

    This mentality is a lot more prevalent than I would have thought prior to working in travel medical insurances. The number of people who would get angry because we had to count them as treating a condition because they had a specific prescription on their history but they refused to take it was staggering. Somehow, it then becomes our fault that they have an exclusion because they were not complying with the prescribed treatment.

    To get Dickens on it: Given that non-compliance is generating these costs, i'm guessing its also generating casualties, which means the tendancy will eventually be minimized across the gene pool.

    Wish that helped my generations health costs though.

    Protips: If you disagree with your doctor, that is what second, third, ..., n(st|th|rd) opinions are for. Self diagnosis is about as reliable as the Mitch Hedburg round-about aids test if you have no background in biochem.

  24. Re:How ironic on Science Debate 2008 · · Score: 1

    Nah, they're just counting einsteins isolated neocortex that Jeff Hawkins has plugged in to futuramish head jar somewhere to design his neural models.

    Scientists just arent the same without the lobes.

  25. Re:Let's think about this for a second... on Energy From Raindrops · · Score: 1

    Why not both? Wouldnt a horizontal sheet have only a short list of vectors from which wind would cause no turbulence, so most winds would?