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  1. Re:THIS is WRONG - it is WORSE on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    a) most modern "soaps" aren't, they're detergents
    b) no properly produced soap (or detergent) contains lye, look up saponificaiton in an encyclopedia.

  2. Re:Solution: Avoid RIAA Music on A Commonsense Proposal On Net Radio Rates · · Score: 1

    So far as I understand, no. Not without incurring headaches. SoundExchange will still try to collect royalties
    to pass on (minus handling fees). That's one of the major sticking points here, they're tied to the RIAA but
    claim to be acting on everyone's behalf.

  3. s/i/a/i on Share a News Story With Coworkers, Pay a Fine · · Score: 1

    SIIA

  4. Re:What about things that aren't human hands? on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with bleach? Or ammonia? Or peroxide? Or vinegar? There are plenty of "natural" substances that
    can sterilize without leaving residues. Some are even "harmless" in their commercial concentrations. Note for
    ammonia though, I recommend buying pure ammonia which can be hard to find; most sold now includes perfumes,
    coloring and sudsing agents.

  5. Re:Dumb question but what about hand santizers? on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    If you read the bottle, you'd see that most of these are basically jello shots
    (although now more commonly made with isopropanol or denatured alcohol).

    In any event, the over-employment of them is the same flawed concept: sterilize
    the planet, icky germs everywhere want to hurt me an my cream-puff kids.

  6. Bad idea on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    There are far more important things to fix like basic literacy (including language, math and science).
    This sort of scheme is not uncommon in Europe (exists at least in FR and BE), only you pick in the 6th
    grade (they have no concept of junior high). Forcing children to pick a career path, whether it be in
    the 5th or 8th seems like a really bad idea. Simply offer as wide of a variety of *well taught and
    funded* programs as possible, minimizing some of the arbitrary standardization. (Obviously we need some
    standards to ensure that erveyone say, has some basic concept of the Bill of Rights and federal gov't's
    struct, but not prescribed in such detail that there is no lattitude for creativity on the part of the
    teacher. Teaching to the test is bad, 'm-kay?)

  7. 10 sec soundbites suck on Largest-Known Planet Befuddles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Although I think many people do not have a particularly strong grasp on the nuances of English,
    I suspect in cases such as this the issue is instead brevity and punchiness over specificity.

  8. Re:Genetic screening is the way to go on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    And who says you ought to be able to benefit from fiscal inheritance (to the extent that you can)?
    They're both dumb luck, and neither has a damn thing to do with whom you actually are i.e; you have
    in no way earned that reward. For perspective, compare Disney's grandkinds and Mickey Mouse (C).

  9. Erm on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    Maybe not illegal, but I'd say unethical. The search for a "soltuion" to the problem of the two-party system is laudable, but this ain't it.

  10. Close call on House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension · · Score: 1

    I'me no fan of the two party system, or the increasingly weak-willed Democrats,
    but this isn't *as* extreme of a defection as some are making it out to be. 40
    fucking "red-state" Democrat votes. On the other hand, the 20 lazy fucks whom
    abstained from voting on such a sickeningly saccaharine and deceitfully named
    bill as "Protect America Act" ought to have their pay docked since they can't
    even manage to do their "jobs."

  11. Super-popular?! on Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack · · Score: 1

    'Common' ne 'popular'

  12. Re:Need to change campaign laws on FBI, IRS Raid Home of Sen. Ted Stevens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >And if you try and limit their rights, then that whole pesky First Amendment thing gets in the way.
    Actually no, because you address that by rectifying another egregious aspect of our current political/
    legal system: treating corporations as individuals. If Monsanto cannot serve 10 years for manslaughter,
    it's not a person.

  13. Re:weird ideas on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    You have an odd definition of "not so far away", 93 million miles. OTOH, I read your past as a lament that MIT
    does not draw any power from its research fission reactor. That idea has been floated, but I imagine the NERC
    doesn't like it. It'd also probably mean that we'd have to refuel more often since I doubt the reactor is usually
    kept burning at full throttle.

  14. Re:weird ideas on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    Umm no, the research reactor is only about 5 megawatts, that's not huge,
    though it could provide some decent district steam. Cogen is 20 MW.

  15. Re:Menus at the top! on Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment · · Score: 1

    Multimon is better, it gives a start button and clock on the supplementary taskbar too
    (although, unfortunately, you cannot right clock this clock for the date)

  16. Re:First web browser on Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment · · Score: 1

    Not at all. Browsers are still useful without servers, as long as they support something like file://

  17. Re:Looks like WindowMaker! on Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, WindowMaker has a Wharf/Dock a la NeXT. Etoile has auseless dock" a la OS X.
    One allows for nice cascading graphical menus, the other allows for candy clutter.

  18. I always preferred on Leonard Nimoy to Play Spock in Next Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1
    (to the tune of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)

    Kirk: I am the captain of the Starship Enterprise
    Spock: Captain Kirk, this is Spock, please step on the transporter
    Scott: Dilithium crystals! Hit by Klingon missiles! No!
    McCoy: I'm a doctor
    Kirk: Not an actor
    McCoy: Not a milkman
    Kirk: What does that mean?
    McCoy: And i'm sorry, he's dead Jim
    Chekov: Photon torpedo..oo.oo..
    Kirk: Lieutenant Uhura, open hailing frequencies
    Uhura: Yes, Captain Kirk, opening hailing frequencies, Sir
    Kirk: Let's boldly go where noone's gone before (chuckles)
    Kirk: Beam me up, Mr. Scott, Sulu go to warp
    Sulu: Warp three sir
    Kirk: No! that will be way too slow
    Sulu: Warp four, sir?
    Kirk: That still is way too slow
    Sulu: Warp five, sir?
    Kirk: It still is too damn slow
    Sulu: Warp six?
    Kirk: It's too damn slow
    Sulu: Warp seven
    Kirk: It's too damn slow
    Chorus: It's too damn slo.oo.oo.ww
    Kirk: No no no no no no no, Mr. Chekov, Mr. Chekov
    Chekov: I am firing torpedo
    Spock: That will not work and will be illogical to me, to me, to meeeeeee from the Hillman Morning Show
  19. Re:Sonique: on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    Yeah, me and my silly preconceived notions of usability and beauty.
    I've used many media players and Sonique was not a good one. Indeed,
    by and large they all suck. That one just happened to be huge and ugly too.

  20. 3-2-1 on NASA Investigates Possible Sabotage by Worker · · Score: 1

    Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?

    (two references for the price of one)

  21. Re:Charging Content consumers on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Not as much as you think, see South Dakota based credit card companies.

  22. Re:DMCA on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    One does not copyright an algorithm (math), one (unfrotunately) patents it.

  23. Re:Clippy. on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    And yet the folks at OOo felt the need to replicate the fucker.

  24. Re:Sonique: on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    Are you shitting me? That was the crappiest designed media player ever. Worse than Winamp Classic.

  25. Inaccurate on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    My understanding was that in group dining situations, people tend to adjust their eating
    to that of others. Any coworkers one happens to befriend are also likely to have similar
    habits and therefore suffer similar side-effects of lifestyle.

    But hey, what's a little sensationalist title recasting among friends.

    fvcking editorf