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  1. Re:Privacy on U.S. Internet Growth Stalling · · Score: 1

    Much of that could potentially be a pretty big violation of Visa/MasterCard's CPI requirements, and if caught during an audit it could cost them the privelege of being able to take credit cards period.

  2. Re:Key Application Overlooked on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    Um don't you need protons for that also? Adding neutrons would just create isotopes...

  3. Re:Begs a question on ChoicePoint Hit With Large Fine For Data Theft · · Score: 1

    That's $27.68m *quarterly* on $1b *annual* revenue... so multiply by 4 and you get about $120m on $1b annual revenue, or $27.68m on about $250m quarterly revenue. Ain't reading great?

  4. Re:Just like Organic vs. Inorganic chem. on The Semantics Differentiation of Minds and Machines · · Score: 2, Interesting
    People are born with a simple set of pre-defined behaviours. Your brain knows how to operate your organs and sensory devices. It knows how to recieve feedback from those devices. But that is all. Everything else is learned via an instintual desire to understand one's own environment.

    Wrong, wrong wrong. The blank slate theory is a misguided attempt to pollute science with a bunch of feel-good egalitarian crap, and should be placed in the same category as Intelligent Design.

  5. Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. on Mathematics Skills More in Demand Than Ever · · Score: 1

    It's not like the money just magically disappears. The money either goes to his boss/company owner, who spends the money in his stead, or get passed on as cost savings to the person that hired this guy, who can spend it on something else.

  6. Re:Not a big deal on Accused Molester Hunted On Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter whether they're gay or not, if they're under the age of consent it's still illegal.

  7. Re:With a budget of $1bn... on Google To Purchase Stake In AOL For $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Where else are you going to get an already existing userbase of dipshits without buying into AOL? How about right here? *flame on!*

  8. Re:Vague on Jack Thompson Tossed Out Of Court · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's vague and could apply to alot of people taken in the loosest sense, which is why it takes a trained professional to diagnose these types of conditions. There are alot of variables in these situations that need to be factored in that could amplify or negate the weighting of any given behaviors on the list.

  9. Re:Why risk your creditibilty? on Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study · · Score: 1
    Nonprofits are not driven by motives which could be considered the mirrored opposite of commercial corporations.

    I call baloney! Of course nonprofits are driven by motives: ideaology and/or ego. And these motives can lead to just as much number-fudging as a profit-driven motive.

  10. Re:uhm...duh!!! on Cow Tipping is a Myth · · Score: 1

    Don't forget dehydrated water and blueberry peelers.

  11. Re:A practical approach to learning on Linux Commands, Editors, & Shell Programming · · Score: 1

    Too bad I blew all my mod points this morning, otherwise I'd have modded this insightful as well. Honestly I'd rather install windows than use info pages.

  12. Re:Hello! on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    Because the parent poster is overgeneralizing, there is no fundamental disconnect between religion and science. And I'm arguing in favor of ID as a *belief*, not as any kind of science.

  13. Re:I wrote this yesterday on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1
    Zeus to Dionysus: "How many times have I told you not to play with the critter-assembly machinery while you're drunk?"

    Well, that would at least explain the platypus.... :-)

  14. Re:I really don't think thats it on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1, Informative
    Fact: There is a long-standing and fundamental disconnect between religion and science, and while it can be and has been crossed many times, it is very present. At the core, religion teaches you to venerate the unknown, and treat it as unknowable, while science teaches you to investigate it.

    This is really not true.. the rest... well, whatever, but this is just patently false. As a matter of fact, Intelligent Design is an excellent attempt to reconcile a christian belief in creationism *with* the scientific evidence for evolution. The problem with ID stems from the fact that it's being taught as science, which it is not.

  15. Re:"Precious"? on Final Fantasy XII Combat Info · · Score: 1

    Three technically... black mesa personnel, the opfor guys, and the aliens.

  16. Re:10m+ on Time-in-Space Record Broken · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the SR-71 doesn't leak to cool the skin of the aircraft; it leaks because at operating speeds the parts come together due to thermal expansion. If it were built to be air/water/fuel-tight in the hangar, thermal expansion would cause way more problems for the airframe than a bit of lost fuel.

  17. Re:Finally on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    Worst argument ever... by your logic, keyboards are optional too, since you can just copy & paste individual letters from other documents into whatever you're writing. If you're going to include "convenience" features like contextual menus, it helps to make them convenient to use, too, and most people find a single mouse click more convenient than mouse-click + emacsian keyboard chord.

  18. Re:news for nerds? on IGN Interviews Natalie Portman · · Score: 1

    Er... should be installed by default. Basically a way to limit userland resource use (CPU, memory/swap, process run times, etc...)

  19. Re:BF2 on EA's Busy Week · · Score: 1

    BF2 added NOTHING to the FPS genre I disagree. Commander mode and the chain of command seem pretty new to me. The non-combat point system (healing, revive, supply & repair points, damage/driver assist points) for the first time really reward the different classes for performing their unique class duties. And while there may not be any one big unique feature that people can point to, many different gameplay features are brought together in this title to greatly enhance the cohesiveness of the squad-based shoot experience as a whole.

  20. Re:Flash my BIOS on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 1

    As has been said before in this thread, newer motherboards support flashing the BIOS from the OS layer.

  21. Re:I realise I couldn't remember if I had a drive on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 1

    Actually my ASUS mobo came with an OS-level BIOS flash dealie, worked like a charm... (had to flash my BIOS to get my motherboard to play nice with a newer CPU) I don't know how failproof the process is, but it worked well enough for me.

  22. Re:Never use a computer in an internet cafe... on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    54321? That's the kind of combination some idiot would have on his luggage!

  23. Re:Practical on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Uhh so remind me how bring your own copy of ssh is going to stop a keylogger?

  24. Re:Time to Upgrade! on Battlefield 2 Demo Available · · Score: 1

    Actually, triple the number of maps that ship with the game, as each map is resized depending on how many people are playing. The same map in 16 and 32-player configurations play *very* differently.

  25. Re:Hope its like BF1942 on Battlefield 2 Demo Available · · Score: 1

    Nah, not really... after all, what kind of propaganda lets you play as the "enemy" and kick the U.S.'s ass?