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  1. Re:What... TOUCH Typing? on Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, thermal. Like, it gives you a small burn when you click the mouse?

    Well, ok, it was a shot in the dark lol, but
    the interesting benefit of implementing some
    'standards' would be a thing called 'safety.'

    Maybe a 'cool sensation' would sell the idea better, or
    if you're a gamer, crash 'n burn?
    HECK YEAH! Thanks!

    ...Unless you're just pulling my finger.

  2. Re:What... TOUCH Typing? on Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Sean

    Perhaps some custom audio or thermal feedback would be in order, but
    there is no mistake in your statement of fact; there is a very fundamental
    and well-integrated reason for the skilled practice known as touch-typing.

    It is an ubiquitous method of input using what pop culture takes for granted:

    Standards.

  3. The Question Should Be... on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    The statement of fact is in error; sci-fi is not 'running out of steam,' rather
    its hard-working labor force of brilliant creators has been replaced and
    its definition has been slowly undermined by the poor spelling, grammar
    and foresight of changeling-zombies.The question should be, 'How can we
    exclude the latent influx of horror, gratuitous sex/anime and 'professional'
    wrestling from our midst..."

    Fikstit fer ya.

  4. Stratasys® 3-D Printing + DVDs on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    While Stratasys® is 'printing' all my capacitors, resistors and heatsinks, I'll be busy turning this ream of photo paper into head-to-head layers for a slew of motherboards and DVDs.

  5. Re:ClusterFoxed! Hour #5 Reinstalling on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    (addendum)

    My above entry I posted running Windows 7 (RC) booted in safe mode with networking enabled, on a machine not yet updated, as the propensity toward small-to-irreparable errors have been having their cascade-failure affect on all 9 other members of my cluster; these errors include *ie8* spontaneously opening and alarming all with a series of 5 minute pop-ups at full volume and a variety of "Video Hardware Error" notifications. It does not at all surprise me the EU refused Internet Explorer Infinity, err, 8.

    Some fix.

    Some don't, I suppose.

  6. ClusterFoxed! Hour #5 Reinstalling on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a small cluster (10 Windows machines) in my 3-room apartment, nearly all of whom are multi-boot - even ME can be *enjoyed*. Guests and visitors are welcome to login, check email, view apps, game, watch cable, shop... whatever. I catch immeasurable *7734* from innumerable doubters for inestimable reasons, not the least of which would be EM irradiation and massive power requirements -- but I know my PC farm, and I feel obligated to give /. the low-down on the low-down:

    A) They're computers, and they're connected. They've experienced issues all along, so I was actually looking forward to this so-called "fix";
    2) Multi-booting exposes all kinds of issues, from small to the complete opposite of small, in which case Windo7s makes no secret it is in many ways *WVII,* a narcissistic second version of Windows: V; and

    first of all, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' does not change my need to reinstall and adapt 3-4 OSes, 32 and 64-bit configurations, drivers, applications and settings, all on 10 machines, copy and wipe mass storage drives ...yet not perceive recent developments as a problem?

    "I don't care who started it. Knock it off."

  7. Re:You're ingeniuos among men, Nintendo on The Changing Face of the Console Wars · · Score: 1

    Microsoft haters forget that there are two sides to Microsoft: The one that sucks and

    If I understand correctly, Nintendo plans for Sony and Microft to mass-produce sets of both right-and-left Powergloves, but at the same time, like in a package deal? Why didn't they think of that the first time?

  8. ...we are the borg; on Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death · · Score: 1

    lower your firewalls and power-down your preferences; twitting and booking face are the collective versions of email; your financial and technological distinctiveness will be adapted to suit our own; you will be assimilated; individuality is futile...

  9. Re:Why Not Spread Them Out? on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Maybe, what you're thinking of is quilts, not patches.

  10. Anybody Knows... on Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms · · Score: 1

    If they were really serious about merely protecting the community, they'd give up...

    and "...you can't help those who don't want to be helped."

    Approve or Decline

  11. Ought/ Ought Naught, Ground/Zer0... on Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking · · Score: 1

    Weeee Dogies! Y'all're gonna have ta excuse mah cogitations, Mister Drysdale, but Ah figgers this's one thread just about the perfect Phishin' hole fer them there squattin' folk. Ahmah gonna has ta asks y'al tah not pay no never-mind t'mah sig. Yore Friend, Jed Clampett

  12. Define r-e-t-r-o virus on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1

    the fate of all diseases and all parasites is equilibrium with its hosts. it does no good to kill off your host so quickly there's no retransmission. so after an initial sickle swinging period of mass slaughter, the strains of any disease that dominate will be those who tend to be more mild, simply because by killing less faster, they spread wider and therefore survive longer

    so most likely its not the stand or 28 days later we're talking here

    Au, contraire. By definition, HIV, as a retrovirus, says you are wrong about that; lemme guess, you can't get pregnant the first time, either?

  13. Re:Risk on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1

    More likely, it has less to do with size, and more to do with the motions and noises.

  14. Yelp! What's the number for 9-1-1? on Verizon Offers Compromise In Exclusivity Debate · · Score: 1

    Dog-saves-owner's-family-by-chewing-apart-phone; owner then buys groceries for hungry family of 3.14. Dog found still chasing tail with owner.

  15. One man's coal is another man's moondust... on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Ha, ha, ha! Mp3re: X-Files.

  16. Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere... on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    ...remember when we could, without delay, without an account, a
    background check, or an extra 20 dollars or so every month for service...

    listen to popular music of the day...

    ...view a program in video with sound, without a network logo
    and ticker feed blocking "certain" portions of it...

    Computers are not very good radios, and
    they are even crappier televisions.

    Internet technology hasn't been much help, either; It
    looks to me like a pack of youngbloods have their horse pushing the cart.

  17. Pay-Per-Spam, anyone? on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    (Let us assume, for example, the sender uses software or a mass-email account with a company:)

    Suppose an email Recipient receives ve$0.02 credit for every message reported as spam, debited against the Sender's account and payable to the Recipient's email account, in increments of ve$10;

    Further suppose, the otherwise legitimate source of said software or mass-email account must by regulatory restrictions through CAN-SPAM register for the purposes suggested herein; and

    (among other things,) pay the Recipient, as the Service is commercially benefiting, and/or restrict the Sender'(s) account - bear in mind, no one wants to set up or install commercial email routines every 100 messages while racking up $50 expenses, but it takes money to make money, and customer satisfaction...

    Although the following is very much the clear and present reality, Heaven forbid even one person, objecting to spam, should receive the following notification-

    "You have received a collect spam from [nobody]; do you accept the charge(s)?

    Painfully, this indeed is what is currently going on, but to put it in those precise words, well, you get the idea.




    What ever happened to the thing about, "...it takes money to make money..." anyhow? The internet gives only spam the right to negate that? Yeah, right... get a life, you lawbot.

    And why, for goodness' sake, hasn't it been the case, all along.


    Anything else is simply a case of WHOIS harrassment through a third party.



    A no brainer, out-of-place, casts a lot of pennies the wrong direction, and were talkin' a lot of pennies, here.

  18. Re:pay-per-spam on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Making people pay for posts. Making people pay for email. That will stop spam dead in its tracks.

    Now, I didn't say you'd LIKE what 's next...

    RS

    ...being that it has long been the case that, it takes money to make money, the idea is not only good practice, but sound business.

  19. Re:Penguins v Polar Bears on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    ...I didn't get 5 feet from my terminal before I thought I heard Charleton Heston exclaiming, "They finally did it... Those S.O.B's..."

  20. Penguins v Polar Bears on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    If it were an oil field, Wall Street, Detroit or Silicone Valley, you could count on something being done about it right away. NSLIG (no such luck, I guess.)

  21. Shocking. on MIT Building Batteries Using Viruses · · Score: 1

    Nothing further. Or, is this about intestinal fortitude...

  22. Name? on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1

    ...why not, 'Tiffany?' Anyhow, it's name is Mudd, now.

  23. Re:Idea... and a good one! on Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads · · Score: 1

    I second the motion. Now, if naked people and their babies could decide, in a timely manner,which one of two ways to express themselves (verbally - oral/written, or non-verbally) the discrepancies between what they 'said' and what they 'meant' would no longer be an issue or tie up the courts. Oops. I'm a man and I said something... does that make me wrong?

  24. Vestiges of King George on Wisconsin Passes Digital Download Tax · · Score: 1

    When I grow up, I wannabe the middleman in an economy based on making the same money twice. If I live that long.

  25. Re:Pirates! on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    addendum: My dog is going to eat my homework and I'm not going to take that test because I'm going to be sick that day.