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  1. Re:Worst experience ever! on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 1

    I took it as a didactic parable written from a rectal perspective.

  2. Re:Another great mystery on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    Even more hilariously, they don't.

  3. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    In the areas that I drive, I can't even think of a 4-way stop where a single traffic flow has more than a single lane of traffic, they all have stop lights (by traffic flow, I mean all the lanes traveling in a single direction).

    I don't spend much time in big metro areas though.

  4. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    I am imagining even more people turning right out of the left turn lane.

  5. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    I got 1 question wrong because I specifically recalled that my instructor had contradicted the law on one question and found it more entertaining to answer as I had been instructed, rather than correctly.

  6. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at intoxicated driving penalties lately? Someone who had been ticketed was bitching about them to me, so I was looking at the rules for my state to see how accurate their bitching was; it wasn't terribly accurate, but the penalties certainly seem to have successful behavior modification in mind.

  7. Re:Excel doesn't even do CSV correctly... on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 1

    There isn't a csv standard, so most people go with 'what excel does', and unfortunately, it behaves as you describe.

    In Excel 2000, if you change the file extension to 'txt' and then open it, you have an opportunity to set the column types. In OO.o 3.1.1, opening the csv file gives the same behavior (well, on the installation on this computer).

  8. Re:Wait a minute before the India-bashing begins on Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No no, the summary contains paranoid Microsoft bashing, not India bashing. Not to mention the hilarious part about filtering being infeasible (I guess it would sort of suck for Indians if search engines started returning only white-listed results, but it isn't exactly hard to think of a way to filter output that you control (but the end result might suck for the searcher).

  9. Re:Open Office is there on MS Issues Word Patch To Comply With Court Order · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oof!:

    http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/productID.105855000

    Not a big deal for lots of groups, but a show stopper for lots of others.

  10. Re:Consistency or hypocrisy? on Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products · · Score: 1

    Are you going to stab your next victim, or are you going to shoot them?

  11. Re:They're not dumb on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    You are chasing your tail. Deranged doesn't narrowly mean "fruit-loopily insane", it can also mean "in disorder".

    Having the intention to kill hundreds of people is not a normal mental state.

  12. Re:What about making other things more secure firs on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I was looking more, 16,000 of the firearm related deaths are suicides, which probably aren't quite the same as accidents or murders.

  13. Re:Everyone here is missing the point. on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    If the excellent security you suppose can be provided ended up costing a lot, people might just fly on Mostly Safe Air.

  14. Re:What about making other things more secure firs on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    You are posting on the internet, there is no excuse for guessing. You did guess relatively correctly, at least for the couple of years I checked:

    http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html

  15. Re:Uh No on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you reject the commission report and make up your own explanation, you are a truther.

  16. Re:If the same happened in Iran or N. Korea, on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 1

    So is it not Western Media then? If the "Western Media" was a monolithic propaganda and manipulation machine, there wouldn't be a Rolling Stone article about the manipulation for the other poster to link to.

  17. Re:First decade of this millennium on Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, there isn't a year zero, so the first millennium AD spans the years from 1 AD to 1000 AD.

  18. Re:If the same happened in Iran or N. Korea, on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What sort of media do you think Rolling Stone is?

  19. Re:The iSlate will have... on The Speculative Pre-History of the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I used the iphone simply as a point of reference, I don't think I was using for scope.

    And no, I don't consider subscribing to ATT to be a practical thing to do.

  20. Re:The iSlate will have... on The Speculative Pre-History of the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Is that cheaper than moving the radio?

    Also, not very practical in the U.S.

  21. Re:The iSlate will have... on The Speculative Pre-History of the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Is there much of a market for cellular devices larger than the iPhone?

    There are applications where netbooks with cellular built into the device makes sense, but I would rather have cellular that I could also use with devices other than the netbook.

  22. Re:Enough of this shit already on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    So why not look it up?

    Here's a hint: You are wrong.

  23. Re:Headache? on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mixing acetaminophen with alcohol is terrible advice.

  24. Re:No antibiotics for me on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    If it had happened prior to the invention of antibiotics, he would likely be dead rather than glad it was only resistant to some antibiotics. The point is that the antibiotic resistance is the thing that makes it deadly, and it is a new thing resulting from us even having antibiotics, the infections were just as deadly when we couldn't treat them at all.

  25. Re:If we evolved to have them... on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe, but you wouldn't be real happy if I cut off one of your legs (That is, maybe they are disappearing due to factors that are sort of external to 'ideal' functioning of our current bodies).