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  1. Re:Makes sense on Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    Conversely, I'm associated with a group of parents on a mailing list who, going in with the intent to not have any medication involved, eventually ended up using medication on their kids - with drastically improved results. It's one of those things that works for some people but is vastly overused.

  2. Re:Polly McPee on Japan Launches 'Buddha Phone' · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, the magic blue smoke doesn't smell anything like incense smoke...

  3. Re:Might I be the first to say... on Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not really, the GFDL is for things that are much longer, and y'know Wikipedia articles really aren't supposed to be very long (the one on the "United States" is about as big as they get).

    Basically, imagine the GFDL tacked onto a five-sentence stub Wikpedia article about a town in France. Then imagine the GFDL tacked onto a hundred-page software manual. It's (proportionally speaking) a pretty big difference, which makes it very practical in the latter case but not in the former.

  4. Re:Radio would be fun to see on Hacking Our Five Senses and Building New Ones · · Score: 1

    Photons are bumping into your rod/cone cells, changing the conformations of a bunch of molecules. When those molecules change shape they send signals down into your brain.

  5. Re:Nothing to worry about... on Skype Billing Gone Haywire For Some Users · · Score: 1

    I think Citibank has a service where you can run a computer program that will use an encrypted connection to give you a temporary credit card number for such shifty purchases.

    Now the question is, how good is their encryption?

  6. Re:#1 reason on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    The other compelling reason is "It costs nothing and there's a bunch of cool people behind it."

  7. Re:Sound and HDs... on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    "The plural of anecdote is not data."

  8. Re:Games on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1
  9. Re:What about the CueCat?! on Top 10 Disappointing Technologies · · Score: 1

    I hear you could cut those free CDs up and string them together to make suncatchers. String 'em up in an open window and admire the reflections as the pieces of CD oscillate in the wind.

  10. Re:Insightful analysis... four years late. on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 1

    MS Office for OSX? Couldn't you use OpenOffice?

  11. Re:portable Chrome on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 1

    Which is zero, but let's not be picky about metaphors.

    (I agree with you, by the way.)

  12. Re:Everyone at once is better though on Confirmed Gmail / Google App Outage · · Score: 1

    I thought I was the only one!

  13. Re:Phone... Home... on Confirmed Gmail / Google App Outage · · Score: 1

    Not insofar as Chrome is Google's brainchild.

  14. Re:Wikischools is total crap on Open Source Textbooks For California · · Score: 1

    This entire thread and its replies are exactly why school boards won't accept open-source textbooks anytime soon.

  15. Re:Computer obession on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 1

    Handwriting faster than typing? Not true for dysgraphic people, either, for that matter.

  16. Re:!ahugedeal on Chrome EULA Reserves the Right To Filter Your Web · · Score: 1

    Wrong audience. How many people in the audience even *have* wives?