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  1. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the customers *who aren't on his site* for whom he's building the systems would find his site license real useful.

  2. Re:good! on The End of Individual Genius? · · Score: 2, Informative

    nobody is going to be immortalized for discovering that distance = acceleration * time^2 these days

    Since distance = 0.5 * acceleration * time^2, I should hope not.

  3. I ordered the special of the day... on World of Warcraft, the Restaurant · · Score: 1

    ...but the waiter told me I needed to level some more before I could eat it.

  4. Re:Bad summary on Android Susceptible To Apps That Turn On Roaming · · Score: 1

    Summary's not bad, just incomplete because it doesn't tell you the worst part. Not only can you not turn off roaming, it makes you think you have when you haven't.

  5. Re:Analogy on Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? · · Score: 1

    But only if he's a black man with a funny name.

  6. Re:Obstruction == Fired on Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Governments seems to work quite efficiently in a lot of other countries around the world.

    A not uncommon illusion created by distance. The further away from a government you are, the better it seems to work.

  7. Re:No, no on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    wife 1.0 (upgraded from girlfriend 3.6)

    And now it won't let me install any other software!

  8. Easier than it looks on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    All they need is a Knoppix CD that dumps out an image of the disk to their own storage. The image can then be turned over to a real expert to analyze at his leisure. There, done.

  9. Re:Doxide? on Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Doxide is what Jack the Ripper did.

  10. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    Could it not be possible that most of it flowed back and the Pacific Basin is only what's left?

  11. Re:Lets think about this for a while on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    I guess by "ionizing" radiation, you mean shorter wavelengths. Shorter wavelengths mean the photons have more energy, making them more likely to ionize whatever they pass through, and, yes, the greater photon energy does make them more damaging. The problem is, cell phone RF is low frequency (in terms on ionizing, although it is on the high side for radio signals), so I'm not sure why you regard it as "ionizing". Like any other device that uses EM radiation for communications, cell phones use a wavelength *longer* than visible light (about 1 million times longer, as a matter of fact). If you don't regard visible light as "ionizing", you can't regard cell phones that way.

  12. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 2, Informative

    Japan had already started the peace negotiations before we dropped the bombs.

    Yes, they had. Unfortunately, we didn't know that. The Japanese made the mistake of trying to send their feelers through the Soviet Union. The Soviets, seeing a chance to divide Japan the way they were dividing Germany by prolonging the war, made sure nobody else knew about them (as it was, they managed to do it to Korea). All we knew were the Japanese declaration that they would fight fanatically to the last man, woman and child, and after Okinawa we had no reason to doubt them.

  13. Re:Why SAS fill eventually fail on USPS Server Meltdown · · Score: 1

    There is a better way. Code your own backup solution, revert to it when the SaS you are counting on fails.

    If you've coded your own solution and you're ready to run it, what the hell do you need SaS for?

  14. Re:Healthcare? on USPS Server Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Let's see you get a letter acorss the country in a week for less than 50 cents. UPS and FedX can't - they get $5 for the smallest item.

    Sure they can. However, they aren't allowed to because it is ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW. So much for the Post Office being "private".

  15. Re:That sucks on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Mormons have not officially sanctioned polygamy in over a century.

  16. Re:What is this? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    I know this has happened to people who where analphabets

    They didn't have any letters at all?

  17. Re:Negative headlines sell better on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NO, that is not true. Breastfeeding improves the baby's immune system, but it does NOT provide the same kind of specific immunity that a vaccine does. Please stop spreading lies that endanger the public health.

  18. If you ask me.... on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...there's too many gits on the internet *now*...

  19. Re:Dangerous on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 1

    Really? How do I show a film that I haven't had voluntarily classified?

    By showing it in theaters that are willing to show unrated films. They do exist, you know.

  20. Re:Encryption on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 1

    You assume that anybody involved in this project has any real interest in actually making it effective.

    This is all about being able to go the voters next election and say, "I helped fight Internet child porn!" Or, to be more accurate, it's to prevent the opposition from saying, "Politician X voted in favor of Internet child porn!"

  21. Re:Ghosts on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    Preposterous!

  22. Re:butterfs on Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.

  23. Re:What sort of Jury? on Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Learn something new every day.

  24. Re:What sort of Jury? on Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Correct. I'm pretty sure that an British lord must still be tried by a jury of lords. However, a "jury of your peers" in the US is mostly a tautology--in the US there is no titled nobility, and thus *everybody* is your peer

  25. Re:OT but I don't care on Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    My best guess is that it's not factoring in your karma bonus.