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  1. Re:Contrary to what kids think on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, I was answering someone who called it soda water, which it really isn't, sorry you read something else into it.

  2. Re:Ah, I see you are an american on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    Bud is very much an American lager, but you are criticizing it poorly; see, it isn't particularly hoppy, and it has a rather high alcohol content (for a mass market beer).

  3. Re:Average Wait For Bug Fixes on Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is how this manages to screw up Office.

  4. Re:Progress on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 1

    How so? Water usually freezes around 0 C, they managed to make it freeze at -7 C. That's the wrong direction if you are trying to figure out how to freeze hell.

  5. Re:Remember folks, it's a NETbook. on Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition · · Score: 1

    Unless they are doing each for separate reasons, rather than for the Glory of the Google.

  6. Re:Video for Everyone code hack is the solution on Oh, What a Lovely Standards War · · Score: 1

    As my post indicates, I am lazier than you. I would embed the video using flash and just provide a direct link for people that didn't want to mess with flash. I guess, I might use a video tag with just the h.264 and fallback to flash inside of it though. I wouldn't mess around encoding everything twice.

  7. Re:Video for Everyone code hack is the solution on Oh, What a Lovely Standards War · · Score: 1

    So, they have to serve h.264 inside of flash to support Internet Explorer, once that concession has been made, what's the point of the rest of it?

    I guess if they want viewers to have access to the video they could provide a direct link to the file.

  8. Re:A couple errors in a 3,000 page document on India Ditches UN Climate Change Group · · Score: 1

    No. It isn't uncommon for software to have more than 1 defect per 10,000 lines though (my comment is 10 times higher than that, bot I was just following along with the big numbers).

  9. Re:A couple errors in a 3,000 page document on India Ditches UN Climate Change Group · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, that billion line program could have millions of errors and still be perfectly useful.

  10. Re:Cow is the host, man is the parasite on DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    I was going to say something similar, cattle are among the most successful mammals on the planet.

  11. Re:There must be something in the rules... on Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The application asks you to list 5 restrictions or activities that you will commit to doing. They will pick people who list interesting things. They will not people who list sleeping, eating and drinking.

  12. Re:If only I were still Unemployed... on Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, except for the fact that they are selecting 4 people, and they aren't quite so likely to select people that have it easy.

  13. Re:Audi?! on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they got the Audi real cheap?

  14. Re:We're all mind readers on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 1

    I guess I win by not having an expansion slot.

    Have you experimented with different cards much?

  15. Re:We're all mind readers on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've had it explained to me that it makes much more sense to build the metadata index on a powerful PC, rather than building the functionality into each mp3 player.

    My $40 sandisk indexes a couple of gigabytes in about 10 seconds, so I scratched my head too.

  16. Re:AppStoreRejections.slashdot.org on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 1

    When he is around, he usually posts (at least) 2 root level comments to every story.

    It sort of seems like spamming, but not quite. It is mostly just odd. I don't think it is driven by Apple lovin'.

  17. Re:AppStoreRejections.slashdot.org on Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store · · Score: 4, Informative

    You clicked through and made 2 root level comments. That doesn't speak to you trying to ignore it.

  18. Re:Uninsurable on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    I haven't been making it very well, but my point is pretty much that controlling the information insurance companies are allowed to use is a terrible way to socialize medical care costs. If the goal is to share the costs of care, we should just do that.

    Once that is taken care of, we don't need to moralize about the content of contracts people choose to add on top.

    (The current system leaves a lot of people out, it rewards cheaters, it amplifies the consequences of unemployment, etc., and it does all those things without having any apparent ability to actually be cost effective)

  19. Re:Another reason on Can You Trust Chinese Computer Equipment? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Intel is a terrible example, they do most of their chip fabrication in the U.S, with much of the rest of it done in Ireland and Israel.

    They say they do 75% of their chips in the U.S.:

    http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2009/20090210corp.htm

  20. Re:This just in... on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    One reason I still read novels is that I find the quality to be far superior to most of the short stories and such available on the internet.

    Your opinion may vary.

    (and really, publishers aren't impoverishing anybody, they are opt-in (if they weren't opt-in, your cherished free content wouldn't exist). They are probably complicit in copyright protection being somewhat excessive, but so are the citizens who ignore the actions of their representatives)

  21. Re:Uninsurable on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    It's only a problem if you insist on calling it insurance. And once you stop calling it insurance, the idea of making the cost sharing pool as large as possible becomes a little less offensive.

    (and if the condition is actually insurable, rather than a guaranteed expense, is it really so offensive to charge the people who are actually part of that risk pool?)

  22. Re:Uninsurable on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    Just imagine though, once an insurance company starts billing people for having certain genes, their competitors can advertise "We bill you based on the probability that you will need care in the future and the costs of that care, not by arbitrarily punishing you for having certain genes!"

    I don't really have a problem with society working to offset the consequences of the genetic lottery, but it is just silly to call something insurance when it is purchased after the flood.

  23. Re:This just in... on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    You really think it is inevitable that everyone will own a Kindle?

    (I will concede that even the relatively small installed base of a million or two units probably makes up a noteworthy chunk of the book business)

  24. Re:Just So Everyone Is Clear on Police Want Fast Track To Get At Your Private Data · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't be that upset, a key aspect of the book is that most people aren't paying attention.

  25. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    $300:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116718

    (That's for a full copy of the most expensive workstation edition, not an upgrade)

    I suppose some fool payed $500 for it somewhere.