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  1. Re:1990s? on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    unless you have ancient hardware, installing win7 is not a big deal. ofc, I know that you have no interest in hearing that.

  2. Re:WTF? on Genre Wars — the Downside of the RPG Takeover · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's our own fault. We thought we could steal and steal and steal and it wouldn't matter. Now we know that it did matter.

    My apologies if you didn't steal as much as I did. (an amusing aside, I am good at the job I currently have because of what I learned about computers whilst stealing)

  3. Re:Cue apple fanbois in 3 2 1 on Newton's Apple Story Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Red and yellow speckled skin on an apple is saying "come here monkey...this tastes good".

    red delicious my ass.

  4. Re:Silent protest on Pedro Matias Sets New Texting Record At Mobile World Cup · · Score: 1

    wish I had some mod points for you

  5. Re:Dedicated devices do it better. on Bringing Free Television To Phones In America · · Score: 1

    Point taken.

    I'm not arguing the emergency thing...but in a non-emergency I can listen to a preposterous number of NPR stations from around the country.

  6. Re:Dedicated devices do it better. on Bringing Free Television To Phones In America · · Score: 1

    Shocked? Really? People that aren't stuck in certain work environments still listen to FM radio? Now I am shocked!

  7. Re:Stop! on Toshiba Intros Trilingual Translation App For Cellphones · · Score: 1

    "What did he say?" "I dunno - here - give him this iPhone - it has a translation app" "Nah - it's bust - no network signal in this area, something about the local cell provider not supporting network heavy phones in this area - If only it was a Toshiba"

    how dare a company, a giant player in the industry, and not a person want us all to have wireless broadband.

  8. Re:Pondering the luck of others on Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching · · Score: 1

    I saw something interesting about that. They used mirrors to make it seem to the person that the missing limb was actually there...in some cases it helped those symptoms.

    The (oversimplified) idea was that once your brain sees yourself with the missing limb apparently there and alright...it stops thinking that there is something wrong. I can't remember where I saw this.

  9. Re:Exercise while you work. on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    First, keep up the good work.

    Then, do some research on fruit juice. Water is best, ofc, but if weight loss is your goal you might be better off drinking something else (there are a bunch of low cal 'energy water' products that are actually not that bad) than you would fruit juice. Fruit juice isn't much better for you than sodas.

  10. Re:Dumbing down the text... on Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack · · Score: 1

    maybe a little off topic, but spot on.

  11. Re:Surprised? on Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that your pharmacist already does.

    I have to work with doctors sometimes...from my experience they would probably refuse to use it if they had it.

  12. Re:I have an iDea on Using the iPhone As a Pointing Device For the Real World · · Score: 1

    this got a good laugh from me.....I doubt it's even as high as 17th on my iphone. Although it would be above peggle, I drunkenly bought that on steam one night.

    Anyone know if they make an ignition interlock like device that can prevent me from buying games on steam that I'll never play when I'm too drunk to know better?

  13. Re:What would Steve Jobs say? on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 1

    God made man....but he used the monkey to do it!

    great song.

  14. Re:Now ... on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's been ages since you went down the mexican foods isle at your local mega-mart. They've always had the coke from Mexico...made with sugar.

  15. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is necessarily true...so I googled it.

    http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1880145,00.html

    from that article:

    2. On the So-Called "Dilution Effect": Today's vegetables might be larger, but if you think that means they contain more nutrients, you'd be wrong. Davis writes that jumbo-sized produce contains more "dry matter" than anything else, which dilutes mineral concentrations. In other words, when it comes to growing food, less is more. Scientific papers have cited one of the first reports of this effect, a 1981 study by W.M. Jarrell and R.B. Beverly in Advances in Agronomy, more than 180 times since its publication, "suggesting that the effect is widely regarded as common knowledge."

  16. Re:Best pirate repellent of all on Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents · · Score: 1

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6712/is_3_210/ai_n28831382/

    No idea regarding veracity, but this article says a phalanx will set you back from $6.5 to $10 million. This is assuming that the US/UK gov't would sell them to anyone....which ain't happening.

    Picture a house with one of these posted on each corner of the roof....with one word each of GET OFF MY LAWN painted on them. Only cost you $40 million...plus whatever pockets you'd have to grease to be allowed to buy them.

  17. Re:If muskets worked before... on Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents · · Score: 1

    That big fat fucker that is on every single history/military channel show regarding guns said in a show that he would need a week to properly train a soldier on how to use and care for an M16.

    I still agree with the point in general...but give them AK's.

    regarding your sig....I soooo hope you saw the episode where Denny shoots the mugger.

  18. Re:How the liquor biz really works on Designing DNA Circuits To Brew Tastier Beer · · Score: 1

    I look forward to another ally in attempting to talk sense to beer geeks. I feel I should tell you now...I do not think we can win.

  19. Re:Backwards on Designing DNA Circuits To Brew Tastier Beer · · Score: 1

    boo...check the time of posting whoever modded this redundant.

  20. Re:How the liquor biz really works on Designing DNA Circuits To Brew Tastier Beer · · Score: 1

    It's all just flavored ethanol. Deal with it.

    Not Bourbon. Mmmmmmmmmmm Bourbon. I miss you buddy.

  21. Re:I've got your denial right here. on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always heard that as PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer).

  22. Re:They ought to provide training for Linux on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody would even bother to mention a competitor who is sub par.

    probably not...(he didn't mention Linux in TFA either.)

    Plenty of reasons to hate MS if someone wants to, but their stance of 'we aren't spending our money training you how to use someone else's software' isn't a very good one.

  23. Re:RTFS?? on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 1

    boo

  24. Re:RTFS?? on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 1, Troll

    What the Dixie Chicks experienced came from clear channel communications, by proxy for the Bush administration. Big difference.

    fixed that for ya.

    I heard the sentiment you are stating there a lot when this happened...and it's complete horseshit IMO.

    My mother and my sister are huge Dixie Chicks fans...and did not care that they said that. I don't know anyone that did. And before you perpetuate a stereotype by saying 'how most Dixie Chicks fans are'...my mother and sister would probably fit into your view of what a DC fan is.

  25. Re:One can dream on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $388 Million In Patent Case · · Score: 1

    you guys need to search for better XP torrents. :)