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  1. Re:Hipsters can ruin UIs like nobody else. on Canonical Finally Lets Users Move The Unity Launcher To Bottom In Ubuntu 16.04 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Truer words were never spoken. The UIs are all Easter egg hunts now with extra points for a low contrast font. I never thought about the origin of it being related to the migration of workers from print media, but it makes sense.

  2. Re:Not smart on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 2

    This is an example of proper use of the automobile analogy.

  3. Re:What the fuck on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has to compete with Reddit.

  4. Re:Homie Opethie on Growth of Pseudoscience Harming Australian Universities · · Score: 1

    they make good lawyers, because they are "belligerently argumentative."

    oh, yeah? Says who?*


    *IANAL

  5. Re:It's only fair use if you go to court... on Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down · · Score: 1

    Whoosh...

  6. Re:Probably won't find anything... on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: 2

    All your email are belong to us

  7. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    Please define the jargon: PF, PNF, TOGA, "in normal law", "in alternate law"

  8. Re:ummm on Apple Logging Locations of All iPhone Users · · Score: 1

    You must not have read yesterday's article. The forensic device the police use (similar to machines retailers use to transfer your info from an old phone to a new one) fully dumps all content. That file would certainly be among the data. Legal or not is another matter.

    Check out this app that displays that data:

    http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

  9. Re:If you're hungry for science and tech, Physorg. on Obama Will Nominate Elena Kagan To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Thank you. Just added that site to my morning reading list.

  10. Re:GOTO ... on Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Jack Palance computer:

    Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
    Curly: This. [holds up one finger]
    Mitch: Your finger?
    Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don't mean shit.
    Mitch: But what is the "one thing?"
    Curly: [smiles] That's what you have to find out.

  11. Re:All mine were cheap! on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The cost of education always increases to match any increase in Government subsidies or funding.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+education+increases+with+subsidies

  12. Re:Citation Needed on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 5, Informative

    General information can be found in this FAQ: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/rf-faqs.html and in particular in FCC bulletin 56 page 15: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/info/documents/bulletins/#56

    The maximum permissible exposure to the general public from a radiator must be lower than the prescribed limits outside of the fence line. Lower frequencies, like AM radio, have a much higher permissible power than the frequencies used in cell phones or WiFi because the biological effect is less.

    They fact that they mention interference to intercoms would lead one to think one of those involved may live nearby or near another antenna.

  13. Re:I don't know, but... on Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  14. Re:No, it's the stupidest tech startup on Is the Federal Government the Most Interesting Tech Startup For 2009? · · Score: 1

    Or, more precisely, chump change.

    Oh, I make funny! :)

    Or, here's your change, chumps...

  15. Re:Typical on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thank you for the link to that article. I became addicted to cigarettes at age 11, after just one. Worst mistake of my life. It took me almost twenty years to quit for good (and that was twenty five years ago). Now I have a better understanding of why.

  16. It's true!! on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They also over represent people with big muscles, excellent combat skills and multiple lives. What tripe will be next?

  17. Re:who the hell is FCC on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    June 19, 1934

  18. All the crazy people out there... on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?", George Carlin

  19. Re:Network Backups on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Carbonite works well to. I've got over 100GB backed up with them for $50/year. Comes out to about $0.04/GB/Month.

  20. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a synergistic effect between the two drugs that enhances the pain relief from the narcotic and reduces the amount of narcotic needed to achieve relief. Separating them will require doctors to prescribe the two be taken together or more of the narcotic.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicodin#Pharmacokinetics

    I recently had surgery and was given clear instructions about avoiding anything with acetaminophen while taking Vicodin. If adding a little acetaminophen reduces the amount of narcotic needed, I think that is a good idea, as long as instructions are followed.

    I would think all the OTC remedies that mix acetaminophen in with every known variety of other drug would be a much greater problem w.r.t. acetaminophen overdose.

  21. Re:Change Password on Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement · · Score: 1

    Not that it makes it any more acceptable, but, most of the comments here seem to think the City was requiring continuous access to the accounts, and that was not the case.

    There were no restrictions on changing the password after the city was done accessing the account during the hiring process. The password was used to access the account one time during vetting and the paper application form was stored "securely" after that.

    Obligatory car analogy: Insisting on getting a peek in the trunk while saying they were only interested in the paint job still stinks.

  22. Re:Oh come on. on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Gawd, I hated Fortran. It was all they taught in the early seventies to lowly scum sucking undergrad Engineering students at the Univ of Mich. Fortran was the single biggest thing that turned me away from computers (until I saw a MITS Alair. It was love at first sight). I can't believe anyone would still think Fortran's the right first language. It's like forcing someone to learn to hand crank a car engine, in the age of plug-in hybrids.

  23. Yes, but it's in Chickens, not frogs on Microbes 100M Years Old Found In Termite Guts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1026340/Jurassic-Park-comes-true-How-scientists-bringing-dinosaurs-life-help-humble-chicken.html According to Jack Horner, professor of palaeontology at Montana State University, the answer is an unequivocal yes. He says: "Of course we can bring them back to life. Their ancestral DNA is still present. "The science is there. I don't think there are any barriers, other than the philosophical."

  24. Re:I know where . . . on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 0

    Take out the yellow ink or toner. Copy only with a black and white copier. This article is about laser printers but the same thing would work for inkjet: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/secret_forensic.html

  25. Re:Wasn't there a Stargate episode like this? on Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine" · · Score: 0

    And it just made them angry so they started wiping out any humans throughout the galaxy that might have been inoculated. Aren't mosquitoes already angry enough?