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  1. Re:cool. on Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5 · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Flying versus driving on What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety · · Score: 1

    Mr Merritt should go for a ride on one of those newfangled jetliners; some of them can zoom more than 100 miles per hour, as fast as a car!

  3. Re:Dell-usional on Dell Aims for Gamers with XPS M1710 · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Not always that bad. on Ajax Sucks Most of the Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Back (aka Undo) is definitely needed in desktop apps and one of the main annoyances of webpages like google mail and google maps.

    Bookmarks are equally important for content navigators (of which maps and mail are examples), and for this functionality google has gone to the effort to provide bookmarks (for maps) and stars (for mail).

  5. google-analytics on Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team? · · Score: 1

    So... Slashdot pushed log-analysis from server-side to client-side, so we get to wait for google-analytics processing before we can read each page?

  6. Re:At the risk of a rantfest: IP's the problem on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    You are the only one.


    Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
    Where the caravan camels roam
    Where they cut off your ear
    If they don't like your face
    It's barbaric, but hey, it's home

    ...

    Oh, I come from a land where intrigue is in style
    And adventure is status quo
    Where they hack off your lips
    If they don't like your smile
    It's the law, did I make it? No!

  7. Answer: on China Sets New Rules On Internet News · · Score: 1

    Nobody in the ruling class cares about human rights abuses as long as there is more money to be made.

    Naturally.

  8. Re:My turn!! on Epicrealm Uses Vague Patents to sue Web Sites · · Score: 1

    The main server passes off the request to a secondary server, leaving the main server free to accept the next request?
    Sounds a lot like httpd.

    Reading that claim, I think EpicRealm patented the fork()

  9. blowing smoke? on Microsoft Linux Lab Manager Responds · · Score: 1

    What surprises most people when I tell them about our Shared Source program is that 99% of the 70 programs have full redistribution and modification rights.

    Which half of which program is the one missing the redistribution and modification rights?

  10. Re:Because something is politically incorrect... on Study Links Genetic Diseases to Intelligence · · Score: 1

    You are reading it wrong.

    Pinker said that it is "a thorough and well-argued paper" that "cannot be dismissed outright", and "politically incorrect", which does not mean the same as (scientifically) "incorrect".

  11. Re:I forget which University it was... on Cybernetic System to Allow Physical Interaction · · Score: 1

    In other words, we should be a bit beyond the chicken stage.

    Yeah, I expect eggs by now!

    Or were eggs the stage before?

  12. Re:LEDs are definitely becoming more powerful on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 1

    That design bug is the single most (and perhaps only) infuriating aspect of Mac hardware design.

    "Hey guys, let's make it light up when it's time to go to sleep like a precocious misbehaving child!"

    "It's brilliant!"

    "No, it's radiant!"

  13. Re:"See ID" does NOT work. on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    Hmm?

    The *charge receipt*, not my card, has my signature to show that I have read my credit card contract and agreed to it ("I agree to pay..." i sprinted on the receipt. My card only says "Authorized Signature". The card is activated by the credit card company when I agree to the contract.

  14. "See ID" does NOT work. on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Credit Card companies explicitly tell merchants to refuse cards with "See ID" written on them. I was refused service at a Post Office for this reason.

    As far I as I can tell, the credit card companies WANT to encourage fraud, because (a) they don't pay for it, the vendors do, and (b) advertising fraud-protection (at the vendor's expense) makes them look good. The credit card companies sell the customers on the convenience, and then together the companies and the consumers squeeze the vendors.

  15. Re:Problem with HTML on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 1

    it renders bad in safari too.

    those numbers looked silly to me... 1050 in 10-33 seconds doesn't seem so bad, (aside from the negative time....)

  16. Free speech refers to content, not form. on Vonage's CEO Says VoIP Blocking Is 'Censorship' · · Score: 1

    Free speech, as protected by our Constitution, refers to content, not form. VOIP restrictions are completely unrelated.

    (Also, free-speech is only protected from infringement by *government*.)

  17. Re:Attention All TMobile Customers on More Holes Found in T-Mobile Website · · Score: 1

    They'll cry their hearts out as they withdraw our $250 early termination fees and sell service to someone quitting Sprint's crappy service.

    Cartels are as bad as monopolies.

    -mike, who just got hit by Tmobile with a $20 in hidden TXT charges for AIM. (5c each time you log in, log out, open the phone, close the phone, look at buddy list...)

  18. Re:Wouldn't that be IANAR? on Reverse Engineering of a Graphics Format? · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you choose bind your adjectives....

  19. I thnk you mean ANAIE on Reverse Engineering of a Graphics Format? · · Score: 1

    ANAIE == (I am not a reverse engineer)

  20. Re:Walmart on eBay Begins A Change · · Score: 1

    eBay charges a listing fee of THIRTY CENTS to stop spam, then charges a commission so that they can afford to provide the service to people selling their used toiler paper for 99cents, and so that the customer pays a fee in direct commensuration with the value eBay provides.

    You know who else charges a commission? Salesmen, charge card companies, retailers, stockbrokers, and almost everyone else in the world involved in a financial transaction.

  21. Re:Walmart on eBay Begins A Change · · Score: 1

    Half.com, an eBay service, guarantees purchases gives refunds to scammed customers. Many people, like me, use Half.com, and not eBay.com, for this reason.

  22. Re:Microsoft has to, gulp, innovate to win on Can Microsoft Beat Google? · · Score: 1

    Innovation: Come up with a new name for your search technology, advertise the hell out of it (and per 2 above buy a single word domain for it) and then Google will be worried. If you build it, they will come.

    Where oh where would Microsoft place these advertisements for its search technology brandname? :-)

  23. SideTrack on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    SideTrack.

    Look it up.

  24. Re:Paralax issue on High-Speed Video Using a Dense Camera Array · · Score: 1
    That's a feature, not a bug! It gives 3-D perspective to the observer.


    Cf: Burning Man photos

  25. Re:Is it any coincidence on Google Suggest · · Score: 1

    But "Paypal", the second suggestion, has more hits.

    How are they choosing which results to return?