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  1. Re:On a side note on Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment · · Score: 1

    Bravo!

  2. Re:On a side note on Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't we just make it so if their popularity goes below a certain amount that an ejection seat in congress launches them somewhere out over the Atlantic?

  3. Re:OK on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence agency would have a copy of the laptop hard drive before they even begin to ask questions. the hidden volume presumes they will use your hardware, that is not a well-founded assumption.

  4. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because, there is very few things about Italy that could be considered civilized nowadays; we should not try to emulate it.

  5. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am 31 and only have a facebook account and 2 email addys. If people really need to talk to me they can buy me a drink.

  6. Stop making it optional on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Firefox developers heed my call. Stop making security updates optional past a certain version.

    Web developers heed my call. Stop making websites accept security corrupting browsers because half the time they are pry zombies. Look at your logs and see the rate at which these computers increase revenue. Drop them at whatever delta you think prudent.

  7. Re:You can't transfer a 'vote' on eBay'er Arrested For Attempting To Sell His Vote · · Score: 1

    Try on open source voting some of them are addressing this problem.

  8. Re:For better safety don't eat the fireworks on Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display · · Score: 1

    He ain't missing as much as most people who have been to Vegas, namely money and STDs. It is an overpriced gaudy abortion of a town and everyone there tries to fuck you one way or another.

  9. Re:Converted on Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language · · Score: 1

    An actual PS reader like GhostView is far more handy. Sciences other than programming use something besides HTML and PDF pretty often to distribute their work.

  10. Re:Ow my head on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    The preferred stuff around here is Butalbital, the grad students eat it like candy.

  11. Re:I don't know about you all... on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    That is the beauty and some would say aim of science. That a theory may produce accurate predictions far removed from the original theorist's ability to conceive them means he produced a viable and well-founded theory.

  12. Re:UV light on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Hardly a neat freak, I have not seen the floor to my garage in a year. I thought this story was about extreme cleaning techniques. She was complaining about keys sticking and I cleaned it. Took me 2 attempts I tried just using compressed air at first but the entire bottom row was sticking so I took it apart. There was like pieces of what looked like wet Dorito crumbs growing mold stuck underneath the space bar and a large sticky red stain of what appeared to be wine that had drained unto the hard drive and out the sides of the HD slot. It could be best described as the smell of old wine and feet. Had to clean it a few times to get the odor out of the HD bay when it got hot or it smelled like cheap red wine in the room. My keyboard has some crumbs in it but I can usually just shake them out or in the case of my old IBM Model M KB just take the electronics out and wash it in the dishwasher.

  13. Re:One problem on An App to Boil Down Online User Reviews · · Score: 1

    No they fit in my pack though. I usually backpack with a PV charger, a phone and an ebook reader. About 2k books including herbals, astronomy and trail guides. If I am going in the city I go with a phone, an ebook reader and a moleskin notebook. I have never found the ability to use the internet outside the home, school or job useful in my studies, job or life. People are far too connected and produce too little original work.

  14. Re:Not really. on AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support · · Score: 1

    Someone has been in college for 10 years. Lol, I still can't believe some people can't get by on 50k. Suburbia costs a lot, huh?

  15. Re:Not really. on AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support · · Score: 1

    There are vacations homes in the boonies in Eastern Oregon that you can get for 20-30k dollars. How the hell is that expensive if you are making at least 60-70k a year if you hopefully graduated college and know what you are talking about. That is like 200-300 a month with a bad down payment.

  16. Re:One problem on An App to Boil Down Online User Reviews · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That is why geology geeks use different phones that may not be all fancy and la dee da but they can be dropped from moving vehicles, be submerged in water/beer and still work to call into town for more supplies/beer. I do not understand the fascination with cell phone internet access. The majority of use I see for it is people in bars looking up statistics to win arguments or endless texting and picture sending from giggling girls. I have a GPS navigation system in the car as well as a laptop for full blown internet access when I need it. 95% of the time I have no desire or reason to be online when I am away from home as I have 10's of thousands of textbooks and reference books that I can use on my ebook reader. Thank you cheap SD cards.

  17. Re:Frozen? on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they are just sitting around it would be far more efficient to build a light rail system that is in constant motion and build park and ride infrastructure on the main thoroughfares. Cars, even electric cars are not the solution if your goal is to minimize the amount of people in a given area. People are inherently filthy animals that eat, shit and fuck their way across the landscape like a rolling orgy of fat in the case of much of the Western world. More telecommuting and less 9 to 5 jobs go a long way from overburdening the sewer systems with those 2 venti latte/triple stack/10 oz of fried potato poos some of us have when we have 15 minutes 3 times a day to shovel food in our face.

  18. Re:UV light on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah it is night and day for my girlfriend and my laptops. I love sunlight and often go out and use my laptop outside and she has taken to using her laptop mostly as a 1000 dollar radio inside her dark writers loft. Her laptop is simply something I will not touch as it has been on top of a messy food strewn desk or kept at her side while we eat at the kitchen table more often than ever been taken to school or work or play in the wide expanse of the outside world. The last time I cleaned out her laptop in march I wore latex gloves and taking it completely apart discovered that there were graham cracker crumbs inside the fan housing for the CPU and 1000's of particles of food and detritus; some of which had mold appearing to grow on it, ewww. My solution was compressed air than wiping it down with Lysol as others have suggested but it is pretty disgusting again after only 4 months. If you want to stop worrying about germs I would suggest washing your hands more with good old soap and water as well as to STOP EATING at the damn keyboard. God, I hope the GF doesn't read this.

  19. Make the investment on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, anyone that makes their money in front a monitor should be investing at least 400 dollars on a reasonably high quality model. Apple is junk for the money, you can get the same specs for less than half the price. What the extra 100 or 200 bucks buy you is better power circuitry, cathode ray tubes/LEDs and electronics. Any one of those things will makes a noticeable improvement in long term usage and durability. Cheap cathode ray tubes or their ballasts are what makes the monitor stop working a lot of the time. There is a reason my at the time almost 2000 dollar 21" SGI/Trinitron monitor lasted 10 years and I have not had a single LCD last more than 4. Of course I paid less than 600 dollars for my current center monitor, high end but not top of the line from Samsung about 6 months ago. Looks like it is only about 400 bucks now. Well worth the investment a had a cheap 500:1, 100 ms monitor that was unusable for anything besides web surfing and it is now on my left side running my Linux media server and displaying my 100's of RSS feeds.

  20. Re:Great on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    God, and think about how much respect we treat the freshman dorm with. That is the loudest thing in miles around here.

  21. Re:Eee 901 for 399? on A Video Tour of the MSI Wind and Other Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Sorry, looked through my emails it was a 4g for 299.

  22. Re:But it's okay to shoot robbers in the back ther on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1
    Good luck with the Moral Relativism freshman, it works so well.


    I prefer my Popperian cosmology which recognizes that there are physical, subjective and objective worlds and that objective ideas like human rights may indeed triumph over your radical relativism by virtue of your obscurantism. It is deceitful to say we cannot know the moral implications of an act because we lack the nebulous qualities no one but a relativist cares to define of persistent geospatial this and/or cultural presence that. We have not even begun to explore the full implications of recognizing that we as a species are inborn with such rights do not attempt to subvert them through your own ignorance.

  23. Re:Eee on A Video Tour of the MSI Wind and Other Netbooks · · Score: 2, Informative

    The 901 was on sale at new egg for 399 awhile back. I think it was an email to certain customers. Check out Hard Forums for the best prices because the cheapest I could find was a 400 dollar 4g at Amazon and they look like they are out of stock.

  24. Re:But it's okay to shoot robbers in the back ther on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    What treatment is available for thieving immigrants?


    Drug related burglaries are the most common and easiest to solve. Do you think people steal because it is in their nature? People steal most often to feed themselves be it drugs or bread. The solution was in the link.


    How is vigilante justice "non-thinking"?


    Any system of belief that requires one to presume they are qualified to be "judge, jury and executioner" in any situation besides a well-founded belief that one's life or person is in danger cannot at the same time entertain thought that could be considered civilized let alone cogent.

    Also, it is not a crime to black in Texas. Why would make such a racist statement?


    1 in 3 blacks in Texas are in the criminal justice system and incarcerated 7 times more often than whites and more than twice as much for the same crime. I did not know I was required to post links to information that should be common knowledge to anyone who has read a newspaper about the death penalty case in the supreme court in the last year or so.

  25. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    All the mediums have something to offer. As a first day XM subscriber to present I can attest that I no longer regularly listen to analog radio, but I do still listen to the local NPR station for local news. The problem currently with broadcast radio media is that too much is syndicated garbage that does not pertain to me or my locale a local radio stations have been waylaid by nationwide conglomerates. The same thing in my eyes is occurring to television and it sickens me. We had 5 local news teams 2 years ago when I still tuned in on the weekends to catch up on local news and we now only have 3. The other 2 just run syndicated talking head shows in the same time slots.