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  1. Re:Diagnosing memory failures is hard on Getting Gouged by Geeks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is the reason all of my recovery disks have some sort of memory testing program and it is the first thing I use. Is there a memory checking program for video cards out there?

  2. Re:Just a thought... on Adding Capsaicin Improves Anesthetic Treatment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe they do have the genes for it though. My friend grew some that actually had some bite.

  3. Re:Just a thought... on Adding Capsaicin Improves Anesthetic Treatment · · Score: 1

    Except your body does build tolerance for it. I eat Blair's on my food from an English breakfast to sushi and my bottom like my mouth have built up such a tolerance that anything less than 400,000 scoville or so and it might as well be from Taco Bell.

  4. Re:Do consider on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 2, Insightful

    She turned out to have paint on her hands.

  5. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Dead man's switches of some sorts can be overridden, I won't get into further details.

  6. I have AAJ firmware on Seagate Firmware Performance Differences · · Score: 1

    Anyone know the performance of this particular firmware vs the other two?

  7. Re:Red rings of death on Microsoft Acknowledges 360 Issues, Extends Warranty to 3 Years · · Score: 1

    I thought it was like that song "burning rings of fire" being about STDs.

  8. Re:People will actually do this on Free the iPhone from AT&T · · Score: 1

    We don't even have their "service" here, not till 2012.

  9. Re:So wait. on Manhunt 2 Ban Fallout, Game Rated AO By ESRB · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would rather children play a game involving sex than violence.

  10. Re:I think I speak for everyone here when I say on First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9 · · Score: 1

    I still have a Netscape navigator 3 in original box. It was a classic till AOL bought it out and plumped it.

  11. Re:16,000 meters beneath the sea? on Wreck of Australian Warship HMAS Sydney Found? · · Score: 1

    How long do you think the submarine has been obsolete? They have been using this technology for years for intelligence. It is just not a well known fact.

  12. Re: A thoughtful comment... on Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York · · Score: 1

    They may have the laws but the parents are almost always given the benefit of the doubt. California, Arizona and Texas are some of the worst offenders often sending children back to be beaten up and molested because the social workers are overworked and underpaid. What is needed is a system that guarantees independence free of adults if the child so wishes. I really don't think the nuclear family or the foster family have produced consistent enough results to be used as models.

  13. Re: A thoughtful comment... on Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York · · Score: 1

    Why not give every child in the USA the right to choose to be independent of their parents at any time. I can't think of how many children I have tutored over the years that got progressively less responsive to the challenge of educating themselves because the parents were less and less encouraging as they surpassed them in intelligence. Children if it is their wont should be able to live amongst their peers starting from a very early age.

  14. Re:My comment to the CBC on Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation · · Score: 1

    Haven't they start putting codes on these copies so they can figure out who leaked them? By the same token how long till those digital projectors start putting in watermarks in every single movie theater across the world?

  15. Re:Don't trust public nets. on Hijacking Firefox Via Insecure Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but I have a firewall rule set that blocks all private IPs except the ones on my home network on my laptop and I cannot tell you how many times I have seen crap come in over the Wi-Fi connection that looks suspicious that is blocked.

  16. Ameritrade is bunk on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As someone who has used both Ameritrade, Etrade and Banc of America for stock trading I would say stick with a company who has more on the line than just a Web 1.0 company. Bricks and mortar Bank of America is not going to fuck over customers to get 10 bucks an email address and their security is run through a group of people who have to protect 100's of billions of dollars. It might cost more but you will sleep better at night.

  17. Re:ZFS and Sun boxes on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    Add a cheap PCI IDE card and forget FC. It is highly unlikely you need the throughput.

  18. Illinois has been reactionary for years on Illinois Raids Welfare for Videogame Legislation · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ever since the demise of the American union from a salient revolutionary forum into an overwrought political machine, Illinois and its princely city Chicago have been irrelevant in national politics. It really could of been a different world if greed and corruption had not become the bread and butter of union bosses, Chicago's mayors and eventually most of the Illinois government.

  19. Re:And what about the U.S.? on Some Soft Drinks May Damage Your DNA · · Score: 1

    I agree I get their one dollar salads and just use some oil and vinegear on them at home. And they are a good 150 calorie snack.

  20. About damn time on Best Buy Accused of Overcharging · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I went in to a best buy a few years ago for some laptop memory that was quoted as a 512 mb SODIMM for 90 bucks or so and stated nothing about being an online special. When I got to the store they tried to sell me first a 1 gb SODIMM than the higher quality 512 mb memory, and it took me asking a manager to get them to show me the memory I came in for which was almost 2x the price quoted online. Luckily I brought a printout or I would never have gotten the price quoted online. I thought something was fishy, and I'm glad some AG is doing something about it.

  21. Re:Well on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Well didn't Christianity go through these stages as well? I mean lest we forget the Witch burnings in the middle ages that bred fanaticism against not only Jews, Gays and females but saw the schism of the Catholic church turn into a 400 year long war of fantastic barbaric and unspeakable acts against civilians. It was not uncommon for whole towns being raised, fields salted and every last person killed within a mile of it during Phillip II's reign.

    Isn't this what Islam is going through now?

  22. Re:Well on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hence, Islamo-fascism. Islam as a religion is not the issue, the issue at hand with Islam is the way adherents of particular orders within it have been conscripted to fight in reality economic and political wars under the guise of Jihad. The Taleban is far more wealthy than the average Afghani citizen because they deal with so many illegal activities, including slavery, assassination and opium. The leaders lived in opulence when the US invaded Afghanistan and pry are not doing too shabby now either.

    The same type of mentality can be seen in the US with some evangelical groups where they may not be as desperate to commit violent acts in the name of god are equally willing to turn over their life savings for "the cause". These sort of easily deluded people have always existed in poverty and war stricken areas and they are not going to noticeably go away until many generations have passed.

  23. Look at American Textbooks on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 1

    And see what kind of mention the the eradication of the Native American population gets, even if they mention the atrocities they almost never mention the culture of the Native Americans that was displaced. I did not learn that the Mayans were excellent Astronomers until college and only from new agey folk that talked about the Mayan calender. I can distinctly remember the Mayans being lumped in with the Aztecs as human sacrificing savages by my 7th grade world history teacher, who happened to be a deacon at his church.

  24. It is not only the Barrens on Cleaning up Thunder Bluff · · Score: 1

    Seriously, when I group with people and they have vent or Team Speak I am not amazed that most of them do not have any relationship except with their mom upstairs. When my girlfriend comes on the microphone at least half the time they make lewd remarks. I am using a decent headset is there a way to filter out background noise or make it just broadcast my voice?

  25. Re:You know, the solution is obvious on New York Sues Dell for Poor Customer Service · · Score: 1

    Mmmm, if I know anything by the first minute this is allowed to happen 280 whores will be airbound on a 747 from southeast Asia to the Southern California porn capital of the world.