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  1. Re:Creeping Mysticism on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 1

    You can't prove that ghosts don't exist, of course, but you can prove that whatever reasons people have to say the house is haunted have a perfectly normal explanation. Find the short circuit that causes the lights to flicker, the leaky and unsecured plumbing that sometimes starts banging around, the leaky vents that whistle if the wind blows the right way. Shorten the list of things in the house that can't be explained and you increase the likelihood that nothing inexplicable is happening.

  2. Re:NO. NO, GOD, NO on Microsoft Ready To "Take On'' Google and Apple TV · · Score: 1

    You have to spend money to make money. If they stagnate then in time they will become another Sun, just a bunch of geeks with no business plan.

  3. Re:Oh the irony... on Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide · · Score: 1

    They may be rare with Skype, but they are far more rare with a traditional telephone system.

  4. Re:The Interrogation on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    True, but you can always go to a farmers market or a road-side stand, or anywhere else where the POS is tupperware.

  5. Re:The Interrogation on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    Or get large bills, pay for something small, and get nice anonymous smaller bills as change.

  6. Re:Why not just use Polymer notes? on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    They never become 'just paper', currencies aren't normally deprecated that way, there are too many places where it would cause people to lose faith in the currency. I've lived through 2 bills going to coins here in Canada, you can still spend an old $1 or $2 bill if you want, but you pretty much never see them since as soon as they get to a bank they're no longer in circulation, plus at least the $1 bills remaining are probably worth a bit more than $1 now. If a large quantity suddenly showed up in a small area it probably wouldn't be too hard to track down who they came from.

  7. so what? on Oregon To Let Students Use Spell Check on State Exams · · Score: 1

    eye do know think it well make a difference. Eye there they no how to spell, or the checker woe ant help them. On the serious side, the ones that can't spell certainly won't know the difference between their there and they're, its and it's, which and witch, etc. A spell checker will happily help you spell the wrong word correctly, so I don't see this changing much.

  8. Re:This line from the article.... on Why Android Is the New Windows · · Score: 3, Informative

    Several years ago, in the early 2000s, I went to a tech-heavy university. Maybe things have gotten better, but at the time a default install of Debian on the school network would be rooted within a couple weeks. Linux isn't secure by default, if you don't know what you're doing it will be open to attack, just like Windows. The difference being that most people who use Linux are either in an environment where there is no local threat, or they actually know what they're doing.

  9. Re:Why not the US government? on Google Declines To Turn Over Harvested Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 2

    And apparently in Connecticut Google's lawyers believe that the Attorney General saying 'pretty please' is not enough to force them to hand over data. Charge them and get a warrant and I'm sure they'll comply. This data may be evidence in a federal court given the investigations going on, would it really look good on Google if they just started handing it out to anyone who asked without a legal obligation to do so?

  10. Re:Said it once... on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 2

    The highest classified level leaked is 'secret'. Things get marked secret because someone isn't sure if it really needs to be classified or not, so they stay safe and mark it. Everything important is 'top secret' or higher.

  11. Re:Let's clarify one more thing on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 1

    Yes but without wiping the screen between people they won't get a great scan. My understanding is that they're doing a quick measurement check only. It's been that way for years.

  12. Re:does not compute on Why Tablets Haven't Taken Off In Business · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have. And then it auto-updated and broke x.conf. I could have fixed it, but I really don't have time to screw around with that sort of crap any more when Windows has had video and sound drivers that just work for nearly 15 years now. Linux seems to finally have video to an acceptable level (so long as you don't want to use 3D), but sound is still a steaming pile.

  13. Re:Torrents are public information on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 1

    How many people do you know that download every torrent of type x out there just in case they want to use it some time in the future? I wouldn't count it as piracy unless they could show that they had at least installed the game, and that they weren't downloading it because their legitimate copy of the CD had been destroyed, etc.

  14. Re:Why is overflow so expensive? on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 1

    I am metered for my water. I pay for the number of cubic meters I use. Water is a scarce resource for most of the world, why would you expect it for free?

  15. Re:Don't Trust the OS! on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 1

    This is a stupid idea to begin with. Unless you're running on a system where you have in depth knowledge of how the memory is arranged and managed, like on an embedded system, the OS knows how to handle memory better than you do.

  16. Re:And once again on Food Bloggers Giving Restaurant Owners Heartburn · · Score: 1

    Given that we can taste 5 different things, but we can smell over 2000, I would keep smell. Most of what we 'taste' is actually being sensed by smell.