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  1. Pick a channel near as few of the nearest ones... on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    In my old apartment my laptop offered me the choice of 45 access points to connect to, and my wireless still worked fine - I did set the channel away from the highest signal access points...

  2. Re:Even if the answer is no... on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    Or 17 hundred different malware variants all actively sending spam emails...

  3. It's consumer friendly europe... on Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    Surely there must be a "send it back within X days for a full refund".

    Not sure how you send back a download, but whatever the consumer rights group is will know...

  4. Re:Obamatard portmanteaus on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Yes, imaginary..

    Not mentioned in a bunch of places such as the over a dozen times in Presidential Transition Act of 1963: http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?contentType=GSA_BASIC&contentId=24780

    Sure usually you don't hear it used often, but usually you don't have an generational economic crisis in motion and the sitting President twiddling his thumbs.

  5. access via email on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    The chances of it all still being active isn't high, but: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/

  6. Re:Answer the summary on Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing? · · Score: 0

    Analogy 101.

    Katrina was an expected to occur natural event which was not prepared for appropriately. This is an expected to occur natural event which has not been prepared for appropriately.

    If you try reading the article this is more obvious, since they are contrasting it with a "space Pearl Harbour".

    I realise this is hard for you, but just to short-circuit the confusion when they say "space Pearl Harbour" they don't mean Japanese planes attacking Hawaii in space (because yes Hawaii isn't in space, and yes WW2 planes can't fly in space) they mean a surprise military attack.

  7. Re:Bank, Credit Card Company, Merchant on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 1

    My debit card has no association with Visa or Mastercard, so no I'm not using their good name or network.

  8. Re:And what is wrong with this? on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 1

    Can you explain for us dummies which part of using a debit card to buy something involves purchasing an item on Credit?

  9. Re:Import calendar? on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FOr fuck sake, how do you manage to read that part and not read the part before it: "source code for the bad driver".

    The QA person/people testing the driver for the real time clock better damn well be testing date and time stuff.

  10. Re:I Wonder on Developing "Eyes-Free" Gadgets and Applications · · Score: 1

    Of course it would. A phone with keys with braille (or raised numbers/letters or whatever) on them would be better for a blind person - why would they want ab LCD screen covering the whole device even if it is a touch screen?

    The article does mention that, something along the lines of the guy likes to think about things in terms or what if the user can't look at the screen right now, rather than what if the user was blind.

  11. Re:What? on NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report · · Score: 1

    No, they would have survived long enough to be killed in said blast.

    Seatbelts, the solution to all of life's problems...

  12. Greencards have a fingerprint image and a photo on DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders · · Score: 1

    on them already.

    So it's not like they are getting anything new - maybe an updated photo but given the number of security cameras in most places they check your visa that also seems like nothing new.

  13. Re:Wow, such bias on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1

    Since the Palestinian population is growing you have a very low bar for "systematic genocide", or I guess Israel is spectacularly unsuccessful at it.

    When people armed with rocks attack soldiers armed with automatic rifles and attack from within civilian areas you would expect the casualty count to be unbalanced, even when adding in the civilians on the well armed side having rockets launched at them and bombs blown up around them.

  14. Re:Berne Convention? on Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS · · Score: 1

    If you are completely retarded you might somehow think that, everyone else will go on knowing that copyright is what makes the GPL work in the first place, automatic or not.

  15. Re:Oblig. on Dell's XPS 730x Core I7 Gaming System Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's not stupid as such, it's the standard human thought process for making decisions which is:

    1. Make a decision based on what you feel or what other people tell you to decide.
    2. Find evidence that supports your decision, ignore evidence that counters it.
    3. If there isn't much evidence make some up so you don't look stupid for making the wrong decision.

    Nothing to do with Vista, or Microsoft, just the usual method of thinking.

  16. Surprise Surprise on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    If you are willing to commit a reasonably serious offence you can inconveniance other people pretty easily.

  17. Re:Gossip on Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? · · Score: 1

    All of which will be less than the cost overruns that always occur, since the costs were low balled so that funding would be provided...

    So you probably can just ignore them.

  18. Re:It's about time on FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    Nope. All it would mean is that they infringed the copyright by distributing without being authorised by the copyright holders.

    Which makes them pirates and thieves these days, but has no effect on their own code.

  19. Re:Someone Post Pictures Now! on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 2, Informative

    You would need to see all the food service places the commenter had seen, and rank them according to "dirty and unsanitary-looking"ness and then determine where the cutoff is for "one of the most".

    The language is so vague it is meaningless...

  20. Re:Missing the point on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 1

    "next time". The chances that particular judge has ever run for public office in the past is vanishingly small. The chance that he will in the future is just as small too.

    The chance that he runs for office campaigning on his judgment history is exactly zero. Especially considering he previously threw out a bunch of interviews from evidence and accusing the agents of kidnapping and falsely imprisoning the accused terrorist...

  21. Re:Missing the point on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Australian judges aren't elected.

    So no.

  22. Re:At $107 per life... on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    If your brain doesn't insert the two missing letters, and delete the one extra letter you have some serious reading problems. Or you do proof reading and hence have trained your brain not to do that...

    And no, I am not going to read my posts before I click submit - as per the post I replied to no one reads the articles, there's no way I'm reading my own posts.

  23. Re:Not a new idea. on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    How can you be tanking if you are convincing hospitals to pay you $1 million/year for some pieces of paper with:

    (1) wash their hands with soap,
    (2) clean the patientâ(TM)s skin with chlorhexidine antiseptic,
    (3) put sterile drapes over the entire patient.
    (4) wear a sterile mask, hat, gown, and gloves.
    (5) put a sterile dressing over the catheter site once the line is in

    on it?

    And all this time I thought Order Sets were those things doctors filled out that both gave them the list of options for a given treatment and also resulted in the instructions to follow for the nuses, etc. And not a simple checklist that a nurse would follow and stop the doctor if he was missing a step.

  24. Re:$3M / 28,000 = $1071.43 per life on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    Why?

    What percentage of the average income is $1000 in the US? What percentage of the average income does a vaccination/defense strategy work out as on a per capita basis in those countries?

  25. Re:At $107 per life... on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    Instead of making bets with yourself, why not read the damn article and see how those numbers were generated?

    Or even just stay as a pontificating lazy idiot, but possibly when something is done by a trained researcher and published a well respected scientific journal not assume they methodology was stupid?

    Seriously, you're a fucking idiot.