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  1. Re:Simple option? on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The one you get on-line?

  2. Re:Try the real one on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep, God's recipe there actually calls for human shit as an ingredient for that bread.

    No... what it calls for is to use it as fuel for baking over... not as an ingredient (baking with vs. mixing with). A quick googling turns up this informational page which tells you how to make your own briquettes.

  3. Re:"Kind of deserved it"??! on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 1

    (not sure if CorporalKlinger is female or just wears women's clothes)

    This should answer that question - http://fupaper.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/klinger2.jpg

  4. Re:Wait, what? on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 1

    ...then someone planning a crime could shrewdly stockpile tap water from a city with a distinct signature that isn't where the crime will take place...

    Or he could shave his head.

  5. Re:Why so discriminating? on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    When I beget my girlfriend...

    Your daughter is your girlfriend? To quote The Princess Bride... "Why do you keep using that word? I don't think it means what you think it means."

    beget: tr.v.1. To father; sire. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

  6. Re:The first planned spam... on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    ...the idea of printing off your morning paper may have made sense in the science fiction of the 1950's, but HP is crazy if they think people actually want to print out content that they are going to read once and recycle.

    I know people that still print out all of their email to read and to store in manila folders if it's something they (think they) will need for a while. If they only need to read it and then get rid of it, then they'll still print it... and then, as you indicate nobody would do, they throw it into the shredder or the recycle can.

    These same people would love to have something available to automatically print out the news they want for them every morning so they wouldn't have to go out on the porch and get the newspaper... or heaven forbid, read it on a computer screen.

  7. Re:And just before the new iPhone ships too on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 1

    $10/GB over the 2 GB... which is cheaper than the current $.05 (5 cents)/MB overage fee... which is about $50/GB.

  8. Re:That's Half the Problem. on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 1

    Good thing we have the government and other "unbiased" people to tell us who the experts are that can filter out all the "bad" stuff for us.

  9. Re:Not reliable? on Feds Question Big Media's Piracy Claims · · Score: 1

    Ooops... that was my post. Not sure when or how I got logged out.

  10. Re:Not reliable? on Feds Question Big Media's Piracy Claims · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity... from where do you get that particular claim? i.e. "Citation needed". Just wondering.

  11. Re:The comparison to the Apple II era again... on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 1

    It's just plain stupid to not give customers the ability to view that content.

    Then I guess the web sites who make ad or subscription revenue from people viewing their site better get with it and convert their content to HTML5 (like several large sites have already done) if they want the revenue from those particular eyeballs.

  12. Re:Firefox already had problems on Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    I'm also running 10.4 and the latest Firefox... but I'm not feeling the pain... even chatting in Facebook. I'm on an Intel Mac Mini, though... so maybe it's a G4 thing.

  13. Re:Good decision. on Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Official" upgrade cost (for this OS that came with my new computer just over 2 years ago) may be around $100... but if I upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5... then I have to buy a new version of Adobe Creative Suite. That makes the "unofficial" upgrade cost somewhere around $1,900... 300% of the cost of a new Mac Mini.

  14. "Creatives Types" on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because someone is "free-thinking" and creative in making art, graphics design, music and so on... doesn't mean they are programmers or anyone who would want to hack their computer. Their computer, and Macs specifically, make it easy for them to be creative in their area of focus without having to worry about which dll conflicts with which other one... whether the right glibc is compiled for their favorite software tool... etc. It's nice because it doesn't require one to "be creative" with the computer just to "be creative" in the area one actually _wants_ to be creative with. At the same time, OS X has made it possible to be "more creative" with the computer if you want too.

  15. Re:Love:Hate ratios in "I love/hate [telco]" searc on Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints · · Score: 1

    As noted (by all the comments below), there are many reasons why google search results aren't a useful metric (except for measuring how many pages such-and-such is mentioned on). It's mostly just for entertainment. If you're the kind of person to make a major investment decisions (like a cell bill at $60+ * 24 months) based solely on something like these comparative google searches... you're gonna end up with all kinds of headaches. If you took my above post as being "full of useful information" or even close... Hah! :D

  16. Love:Hate ratios in "I love/hate [telco]" searches on Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Love:Hate

    T-Mobile:
    49,800:145,000 (1:2.9)
    25.6% love
    74.4% hate

    Verizon:
    259,000:469,000 (1:1.8)
    35.6% love
    64.4% hate

    AT&T:
    103,000:447,000 (1:4.3)
    18.7% love
    81.3% hate

    Sprint:
    45,500:287,000 (1:6.3)
    13.7% love
    86.3% hate

    Most Loved: Verizon
    Most Hated: Sprint

  17. Re:WTF on The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because it's not really about the pizza so much as the quest for a mathematical proof of who gets more depending on how the pizza is sliced.

  18. Re:For the most part. on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    There's not much reason to need decimals for withdrawals, which are in x dollar bills... but deposits, on the other hand, often need to be made in amounts that are not round dollars. Most paychecks, for example, are never an even dollar amount. So the ATM does need to know what a decimal is... even if it doesn't need to use it for every transaction.

  19. Re:History Lesson? on Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow I totally went Slashdot on that and didn't RTFA.

    You didn't even RTFSummary... let alone RTFA.

  20. Re:Use Tax on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    I've even seen it be the case that different sections within the same city charge different tax rates. They charge a little more for the newer part of the city to recover costs where they had to build new roads, traffic lights and other infrastructure. So the businesses within that area would charge the customers more (because of taxes) than the same business a mile down the road... still in the same town. Try figuring out that mess when your business isn't local.

  21. Re:'Can I put peroxide in my ear?' on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. In what way is it stupid?

  22. Re:why 520 days?! on Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip · · Score: 1
    I understand not reading the article (this is /. after all), but the summary says clearly:

    520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface

    That means 520 days total for trip = 245 days going + 30 days on planet + 245 days back home

    The 245 day trip there = ~8 months, each with an average length of 30.625 days

  23. Re:What? on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    Whereas we Americans would probably call your idea of a "caravan"... a camper. A caravan is a line of camels, horses, buggies, cars, whatever traveling together in a line.

  24. Re:Awful attitude on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh really, then why don't you just apologize and get on with life? What, no apology? Gee, I guess you don't think it was wrong huh?

    No... I just don't think it was me who did it... or them to whom it was done. A person who did not commit the wrong apologizing to one who was not among those wronged... accomplishes nothing.

  25. Re:why on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    Or more likely...

    58.44 is the molecular weight of which?
    1) NaCl
    2) K2CO3
    3) KCl
    4) CaCl2