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  1. Re:Good luck with that. on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 2, Informative

    Still, just embed some code in the bios that boots into a keylogging management screen when you hold down s-c-r-e-w during boot. That way, you don't need to modify anything, you just need to turn it on when you happen to gain access to the hardware of an interesting person.

  2. Re:ROI on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Try comparing the energy you use for lighting to the energy you use for heating and cooling (living in some areas may moderate this energy use a great deal; Canadians, Scandinavians, and such, unless they have recently moved into a very efficient house, are using enormous amounts of energy for heating, just as many living in the American south are using it for cooling).

  3. Re:Now wait for it to be a government agency. on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 1

    You could walk 20 miles in 7 or 8 hours, no problem.

  4. Re:Bad water... on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 1

    My water comes straight from a well right here by my house. There is minimal filtration, and no treatment, and I happen to be in the United States (the minimum filtration I am referring to is the screen I am guessing the well has, and the aerators on the various faucets...).

  5. Re:Fraud-bait... tort-bait on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't be terribly astonished to see an insurance company going through the hoops to get something like an iPhone approved as a medical device, if they actually thought it would save them money (that second part is the kicker though).

  6. Re:Fraud-bait... tort-bait on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 1

    The health insurance companies are required to provide medical devices that doctors think are necessary for treatment. If it isn't a medical device, then it can't be necessary.

  7. Re:Perfect storm of regulation and corruption on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 1

    It's called rice and beans. Flavor to taste.

  8. Re:Now wait for it to be a government agency. on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A big contributor to the lack of choice in health insurance is that employers treat it as a benefit, rather than compensation (if all those people were shopping with the dollars their employer is currently spending to cover them, there is some chance that there would be better options available, and probably even pools that were slightly easier to get into).

    Of course, another issue with employer provided insurance is that there is small scale socialism going on (employers are willing to employ people with chronic conditions that are essentially not insurable (the condition), and the organization simply pays the cost of their medical care (even if it happens to be embedded in the premiums they pay)).

  9. Re:Not quite a of an electron in an orbital on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 1

    I would sort of hope they look like orbitals, the classical model isn't really all that bad.

  10. Re:make a real camera please on How the iPod Nano's Video Abilities Stack Up · · Score: 1

    I would guess that the USB camera can't go in.

  11. Re:DNA? on Maori Legend of Man-Eating Birds is True · · Score: 1

    He favors those that run away.

  12. Re:make a real camera please on How the iPod Nano's Video Abilities Stack Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The DSLR I use sometimes for work has a full auto mode, it isn't that scary.

  13. Re:What is the cost to a business ... on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 1

    Depends on how much the CEO makes, and on whether the business is crazy enough to take the CEO's only working PC and perform an upgrade on it, rather than having someone build him a duplicate PC with the updated software on it.

  14. Re:In practice, theory and practice are different. on Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot · · Score: 1

    The things is, graphics are best measured abstractly as attractive or not, not based on mechanical things like resolution or framerate.

    Sure, given the same graphic, higher framerates are better, and higher resolutions create the opportunity to create more attractive graphics, but it isn't a given that a game with faster, higher-res graphics will actually look better than another game.

  15. Re:The comet's shape on Captured Comet Becomes Moon of Jupiter · · Score: 1

    At some level, primes are defined to be positive and non zero (or at least, that is the way I have understood things, but I'm no mathematician, so the 'real' definition may be a good deal more complicated than the simplified one us normal people use).

  16. Re:Maybe true for the teeny-boppers on Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that I can't think to myself "Hmm, I wonder what would have happened had blah occurred instead of blag?", when I read a book?

    A little harder to share than user generated RPG content, but not really. And I'm not so sure that 95% of the RPG content is going to be worth playing out.

  17. Re:The comet's shape on Captured Comet Becomes Moon of Jupiter · · Score: 2, Informative

    non-zero positive primes

    Isn't that somewhat redundant?

  18. Re:Not free on After 8 Years of Work, Be-Alike Haiku Releases Official Alpha · · Score: 1

    You are more radical than the FSF, they consider (modified) BSD and the like to be free software (but they created the GPL because they felt that it was important that derivatives of free software also be free):

    http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

  19. Re:GUIs only: regressions, stability, low standard on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1

    My solution is much easier than using some alternative iPod manager, I buy music players that work the way I want.

    And I'm not asking for the iPod to find and play arbitrary content on the disk, I'm asking for a 'browse disk' menu item. Then the user can find the file. All the iPod has to do is know how to play it.

  20. Re:GUIs only: regressions, stability, low standard on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1

    Neither 'fuse' nor 'kioslave' are obvious terms to associate with an ipod, so lmgtfy, while snarky, is not appropriate in this instance.

    Again, the idea is not to expect users to differentiate between managed songs and stuff on the disk (most users wouldn't even know they could mess with the latter!), the idea is to at least allow a user to use the audio and video hardware to play back something that only happens to be on the disk, for whatever reason.

  21. Re:Can Its Power Be Tapped? on Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    The usual answer is that doing one thing is cheaper.

  22. Re:still 85% are offered full-time jobs on Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love · · Score: 1

    They are still a growing company. In terms of absolute revenues, since Google went public, Microsoft has grown more than Google (new revenue doesn't translate directly into new employees or anything, but it demonstrates that maybe there is some explanation other than turnover).

  23. Re:why whatcouldpossiblygowrong? on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 2, Informative

    Beer is a technology that employs biology.

  24. Re:Why? on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 1

    They weren't eaten (particularly much), dogs and such destroyed their eggs, and we humans destroyed their habitat.

  25. Re:Silly to use a Prius on First Algae Car Attempts To Cross the US On 25 Gallons of Fuel · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of their distortions depends on having the battery to store most of the energy they will be using to power the vehicle.