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  1. Re:The one crucial point on On the Efficacy of Flu Vaccine · · Score: 5, Informative

    The WHO and CDC are driving the H1N1 vaccines, not the vaccine companies. No matter how good the lobbyists for the vaccine companies are, they aren't good enough to get the government to step in and bear the liability without some government agency agreeing that there is actually something there to address.

    (The issue with H1N1 is not its lethality once it has infected a person, but how good a job it does of infecting those who are exposed)

  2. Re:bad phrasing on Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online · · Score: 1

    Amazon and Walmart have happily been putting competitors out of business for years now.

  3. Re:Altitude on Australian Student Balloon Rises 100,000 Feet, With a Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Presumably the parents helped the kid with the balloon, so they probably had some idea of how big the balloon was.

    There is noise on the morning nattering that it was an intentional hoax (quoting the kid saying something about doing it for a show...)

  4. Re:Seems like a structural issue waiting to happen on Dev Discusses Upcoming Spy-MMO, The Agency · · Score: 1

    A sober American...

  5. Re:crooks tag obviously applies to the casinos on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not just say that you don't think casinos should be allowed to offer blackjack?

    No one would bother running a blackjack table if they had to face ridiculous shit like that. I mean, you didn't even put anything in there for people that are being disruptive (say they are ripping drunk or whatever); I imagine you would be fine with such a provision, but once you split the hair, it is a matter of where you stop, not whether you are going to split the hair.

  6. Re:This is not what gaming should be on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    You have come dangerously close to describing a lottery.

  7. Re:So it was okay because it was fake? on Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking · · Score: 1

    If you really wanted to deceive your son, you would rig an ejector seat to that rivet.

  8. Re:Bat Country? on Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence · · Score: 1

    A stripper.

  9. Re:Air vs. Rail on Delta Air Lines Sued Over Alleged E-mail Hacking · · Score: 1

    Unless the inbound flights are rather limited, it is a little silly to lay all the blame on the airlines for the flight times that your parents booked.

  10. Re:Air vs. Rail on Delta Air Lines Sued Over Alleged E-mail Hacking · · Score: 1

    I live in a rural area outside a town with a population of about 10,000. If I drive 2 hours, I can get to a couple of metropolitan area that have 500,000 plus residents. In my mindset, any city with over a million people in it is a big city, so it isn't real fair to call it a research problem.

  11. Re:What about the banks? on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 1

    You 'just' have to successfully, transparently MITM a bunch of HTTPS connections. And hope that the infrastructure you needed to do this is not noticed quickly.

  12. Re:What about the banks? on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 1

    The information isn't easy to figure out if you make up answers and store them in a password safe.

  13. Re: Channeling Yogi on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well sure, but things aren't likely to get to the point where that program becomes possible and still have 'somebody' be limited to a few people, so it will become increasing difficult to stop everyone capable of creating it, and then, if things don't reach that point, you don't have to stop anyone.

  14. Re: Channeling Yogi on The Ultimate Limit of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    There isn't any letting the singularity, if it is going to happen, it will do it on its own, and if it isn't going to happen, it will do that on its own too.

  15. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Flip open phones are popular because it makes turning off the keypad extremely simple, and it makes a phone with a well placed speaker and microphone easier to shove in a pocket.

  16. Re:Millions of fans disagree on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    This is a tiresome attitude. I'm perfectly willing to ignore the opinion, as 'wrong', of anyone who thinks Dan Brown writes 'amazing' fiction. And those people do exist. That it doesn't fit into your arbitrary classification of things worth sorting into 'right' and 'wrong' is irrelevant, and your comment is essentially the same as the grandparent comment, except you have added a layer of abstraction.

  17. Re:The ST bible on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    The stilted, awkward nature of the first season likely contributed to any lackluster ratings. The episodes stand out in that manner.

  18. Re:Superfund on EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    The classic is at least nested. I use the following bookmarklet when I want to jump between child and parent comments (it changes the links to be to the on-page parent comment, so the browser back button will properly return you to the child comment without a lot of waiting for page loading and rendering):

    javascript:(function(){var%20as=document.getElementsByTagName("a");for(var%20i=0;i<as.length;i++){var%20a=as[i];var%20h=a.href.lastIndexOf("&cid=");if(a.text=="Parent"){a.href="#"+a.href.substr(h+5);}}})();

  19. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    There were (bulky!) handheld radios before Star Trek. The cell phone is a natural evolution of radios, miniaturization and the telephone system, not something that came from Star Trek (all sorts of props to the show for getting it right, but it isn't really all that out there).

  20. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Made up characters at least have the potential to be more satisfying than made up technology (evaluating whether a given character is plausible is mostly a personal thing, evaluating whether a fantasized technology is plausible is a little personal, but unknown unknowns quickly crop up).

  21. Re:Cleanup bill on EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    We have enough nuclear fuel available to run civilization for thousands and thousands of years. And exploration isn't something that has been emphasized particularly much over the last 40 years.

  22. Re:This is a bad bug, yes, but... on Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data · · Score: 1

    You are over or under parsing grandparents use of 'online storage'. A file server in the basement is storage that you leave online all the time.

  23. Re:Superfund on EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Help and Preferences -> Discussions -> Use Classic system is one option. Unless you like the fancy.

  24. Re:Superfund on EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By God! I have a solution! Buy them extra pairs of shoes.

    (What I really mean here is that you can manage the clean up in such a way that the people doing the work clean themselves up before they leave the damn site, part of that is having them wear protective equipment)

  25. Re:Not so fast, says the IRS... on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    I've had people actively tell me that small amounts of interest are not required to be reported. I've ignored them, but they aren't making an accidental mistake, they have failed to understand the requirements.