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  1. Re:I'll just wait longer... on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    Well, my personal finances are fine. My income isn't anything I am excited about, but I am in control of my consumption.

  2. Re:Mice on Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers · · Score: 1

    The study is about mice, not humans.

    Of course, there is probably at least some notion of investigating whether there is a similar result in humans.

  3. Re:I'll just wait longer... on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    It isn't about your behavior, it is about the aggregate behavior of millions of people, and it is a little more plausible that there will be impulse purchases in that window if you consider everyone instead of just yourself.

  4. Executive summary of WWII on Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed · · Score: 1

    The United States invaded half of Europe.

  5. Mice on Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the mice that were talking on cell phones had a richer mental life, staving off the disease for reasons other than the radiation.

  6. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sort of, the key sizes are being increased because it is an effective way to offset the increases in computing power, not for marketing reasons.

    If something convincingly better comes out, I'm sure people would use it.

  7. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    They factored a particular number named "RSA-768". They did this using a large but obtainable amount of computing power, meaning that RSA-768 probably shouldn't be used to protect secrets that are more valuable than the amount of computing power they expended (and given how easy it is to use bigger keys, they recommend doing that for everything).

  8. Re:Not Bad on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sickle cell anemia originated as a mutation. The mutation happens to confer some defense against malaria, so it became widespread in certain geographic areas and is still present in the population.

    That's a small difference in phrasing, but it is much clearer.

  9. Re:Not surprising, given how DNA actually works on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    That video is tiresome, not good. And it wastes a couple of minutes attacking creationists (Which simply isn't informative, the religious creationists don't have an interesting point of view, they don't need to be addressed in a video that dives into chemistry).

  10. Re:What does "Acquire" mean? on Is Getting Acquired Good For FOSS Projects? · · Score: 1

    I almost threw a probably in there.

    It would be a tough argument to make.

  11. Re:What does "Acquire" mean? on Is Getting Acquired Good For FOSS Projects? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MySQL was careful to maintain copyright over the entire MySQL codebase, so Sun did, in fact, purchase the 'IP'.

    The wording of the GPL is such that they can't take it back or whatever, but Oracle could continue to support proprietary versions and stop releasing updates to the GPL version (leaving the community to support themselves starting from the most up to date GPL release from MySQL/Sun/Oracle).

  12. Re:I was just thinking about this today on FTC Worries About Consumers, Cloud Data, and Privacy · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you are really worried about it, don't accept phones from strangers.

    If you can't manage that, take out the batteries.

    If you continue to worry, smash the device to destroy the secret battery.

  13. Re:Outlook Express? on Fake "Bill Gates" Message Dupes Top Tools · · Score: 1

    Because the web mail services all do it?

  14. Re:Its about time on Minnesota Introduces World's First Carbon Tariff · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please define 'dramatic' in numerical terms.

  15. Re:It's just gunna get pushed to the customers on Minnesota Introduces World's First Carbon Tariff · · Score: 1

    That's actually the whole point of it.

  16. Re:Translation: on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    With any luck they'll just patch in support for a codec or two and then defer everything else to directshow, meaning that anything supported by ffmpeg will work, via ffdshow (or an offshoot).

    I swear that isn't gibberish.

  17. Re:There's a likelyhood I'm about to post this. on Blu-ray Capacity Increase Via Firmware · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the best you could come up with in 3 minutes?

  18. Re:This is the year of wishes being predicitons on 2010 Will Be the Year of Sandboxing Apps · · Score: 1

    Right after the baby? Or are you going to give it a few months?

  19. Re:Did you read the numbers you posted? on Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement · · Score: 1

    Tough to say, Apple's momentum certainly looks nicer right now, but they also collect something like 10 times the gross revenues on the sale of a computer (and there is a similar situation in the phone business, but Apple is also winning the market share contest there, at least relative to WinMo).

  20. Re:1st vendor to release a PADD from TNG gets my $ on Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement · · Score: 1

    I believe you, but I'm curious, what do you find so attractive about some writer's fantasy from the 1980s?

  21. Re:idiocy? Incompetence? on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    That RFC even mentions that it is not a standard, simply documentation of stuff that exists in the wild.

  22. Re:I don't understand... on Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft isn't jealous of Apple's profitability, they are just looking for ways to increase their gross revenues.

    They are currently a nice bit more profitable than Apple:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL

  23. Re:Where it matters most. on Framerates Matter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That isn't always the case, I recall a game in the past where gravity had less effect on players that had faster hardware. Or something like that. Anyway, the logic was mixed in with the rendering, so frame rate had an impact on what the player could do.

  24. Re:From the article on Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements · · Score: 1

    Have there been any flash exploits that bust out of the IE8 sandboxing in Windows 7?

    (Real question...)

  25. Re:People aren't robots on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    Have you pushed a lot of people into that?