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  1. Re:But is the price right? on Self-Serve Car Rental · · Score: 1

    Then you should have rented a car.

    The intended use is somebody who wants to go somewhere relatively close, but off the T (or with lots of stuff)
    for a short time. That is, a quick jaunt to the Ikea, BJ's Wholesale Club, or Bob's Store in Stoughton.

  2. Re:How will Electric vehicles save the planet?! on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1

    You are missing something, electricity doesn't have to come from fossil power plants.
    Solar arrays and micro-turbines can be used to charge cars, larger versions can power
    local grids. In addition, storing breaking energy is much simpler an electric vehicle
    in the first place (as opposed to grafting an electric system onto a an ICE to get a
    hybrid, of course this chimera has other benefits for the ICE like optimal throttling).
    Finally, even using conventional grid sources it can reduce pollution because it is
    usually more cost effective to install few large-volume (and efficient) abatement
    devices at centralized plants than many small and mobile controls.

  3. Re:Actually, this study draws a false correlation on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    And I think you've missed what was on the page before, let me rephrase it for you:

    1) divvy up illnesses into comparable classes (don't want to compare sprained ankles to heart transplants)
    2) average cost = currency spent on sprained ankles and skinned knees / incidents of same

    In this way you can compare the currency expended to treat illnesses in different locales.
    And that is my point, it's been repeatedly shown that if you do this that we *still* seem spend a lot for little.

  4. Re:Information on Microsoft Unveils Online Advertising Service · · Score: 1

    Personal Search keeps a(nother) history of your searches, so that you can review them.
    I occasionally check it when I kind stumble across things I know I've seen because I
    didn't bookmark, and they've slipped out of browser history. However, the cookie
    constantly expires so I only have spotty coverage as I don't actually use gmail.

  5. Re:Floppingwienervision?? on Microsoft Unveils Online Advertising Service · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's the Microserfs' nickname for it?

  6. Re:And you don't know half of the absurdity of it! on Identity Theft From Tossed Airline Boarding Pass? · · Score: 1

    For the non-francophones "soldE" is FR for (account) "balance".

  7. Re:Another suggestion on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1
  8. Re:And why can't they sleep ? on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Sure, because working 50-60 hours a week on a salaried job so you don't look like a slacker,
    or holding down two or three part-time jobs to make ends meet dosn't have *anything* to do with it.

    It's not as simple as that obviously, but your simple causality diagram isn't going to win a Nobel.

  9. Re:Actually, this study draws a false correlation on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no. Because this is not the first study along these lines to yield comparable results.
    Well, it's pretty obvious one could adjust for currency spent per illness (of a certain class)
    and control for your objection. I'm certain someone has.

    Tea is not a feature in all of the two dozen other countires ahead of the US in health.
    It's prevalent in what, maybe a handful of countries? CN, JP, UK, CA, IN...

  10. Re:OpenBSD fixed on Jan. 21, 2000 on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    No, I was being skeptical.

    Even if they are pricks, it's hard to believe that they would have simply ignored such a simple
    path; a parenthesis. Now, if they included their entire rewrite in the patch then—while still
    uncool—it's a little more understandable how it could have fallen through the cracks.

    If I have a fancy new project of Apache with embedded MySQL and discover a bug in Apache,
    I should not send a diff of my chimera code against the official Apache branch and expect them to apply it.

  11. Re:OpenBSD fixed on Jan. 21, 2000 on Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11 · · Score: 1

    If that's true, it's nice they saw fit to kick back a patch.

  12. Re:Apple should be honest on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 1

    No, not menus. Drawers of icons. Like what the various clones of Next's
    dock have (hence the dig at arcane text files and self-maintainenance).

    [X]
    [Y]
    [Z]

    Click X to see the drawer contents

    [X][a][b][c][Q]
    [Y]
    [Z]

    Click [c] to run c or Q to open the sub drawer/folder Q.

  13. Re:Apple should be honest on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 1

    >As for the start menu -- Apple did user-switching better than Windows, Apple could >do a Start Menu better than windows -- I would *love* for Apple to make a better >"start menu" than sits as the left-most Dock icon, or maybe a Dashboard widget. Just >because it's in Windows doesn't mean it isn't useful -- and it shouldn't be hard for >those Apple geniuses to do it one better.
    You mean like an actually useful wharf or "dock", where the top level buttons represent folders, and the drawer contents are sub folders or applications?
    Something that you didn't have to maintain independently though, configured
    in an arcane text file. Wouldn't that be grand...

  14. Re:Marketting on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 1

    No... *you* might be writing games in DirectX, but DX is not synonymous with games.
    One could write something to SDL for instance.

  15. Re:14 reasons from Apple on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 1

    I can also run DOS, BeOS, Solaris, BSD, even SkyOS, ReactOS, ...

    There's more to this world than Neopolitan ice cream,
    and the "option" of OSX doesn't seem so significant in this light.

  16. Re:Marketting on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 1

    Re: All the good games are for Windows

    Given BSD-based OSX on new x86 architecture, oughn't developers be able to
    port/write to/for both Linux & Mac together relatively easily? I mean, you're
    probably not writing games in Cocoa...

  17. Re:What I received on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 1

    Brilliantly twisted world view, "We would much rather not waste our resources and
    send you these useless mails."

  18. Hell in a hand-basket on Higher Education Fears Wiretapping Law · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  19. Re:Let me start by quoting... on Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2 · · Score: 1

    Of yeah, the project is still alive, I meant stagnated feature wise (they only claim partial CSS2 support).

  20. Re:Let me start by quoting... on Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2 · · Score: 1

    Eh-hemm, though it does appear to have stagnated a bit of late there is Amaya

  21. Re:oops! missed one on Google Propping Up Typosquatting Biz? · · Score: 1

    Weird, because I have a Ti spork. It's great, you can even
    cook with it; because of the low thermal conductivity you don't burn yourself.

  22. Re:KISS on Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Indeed, like syphilis.

    Rickets is not a communicable disease and is completely irrelevant.

    Also of note, Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem.

  23. Re:You should have attended your english classes on Nintendo's 'Wii' Just A Marketing Gimmick? · · Score: 1

    See the homonymophone debate.
    You probably mean it is not a homonoym 1b (webster's 1913, read homograph).

  24. Re:US lags behind the rest of the world on Verizon Ruling May Tax Dial-Up Customers · · Score: 1

    Because we don't generally have local toll calling in the US.

  25. Re:Why not spamassassin on windows? on Exchange Compatible Spam Filters? · · Score: 1
    Mail here comes in to UN*X servers, however our group uses Exchange so our stuff gets received there and then kicked over here. All incoming mail on the UN*X boxen is run through SpamAssassin, so the end result is the same as this (though the implementation sounds interesting).

    In any event, SpamAssassin deinfitely works well with Outlook, you just add a rule based on

    X-Spam-Level: ******
    and each user can set their threshold as they see fit, by changing the number of stars.