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  1. Re:Which specific search result are you looking at on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    "One of the top ten Google results" seems like the reasonable interpretation of the "One of the results" statement in GP comment (versus "One of the video comparison results").

  2. Re:Video tag on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    Or they feel like it leaves a high enough bar that Joe Everybody is going to spend his time coming back for more instead of watching stuff that he has already downloaded.

  3. Re:HTML is dead... Didn't you notice? on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    How do you reconcile this thinking with the implicit html5 statement that xhtml was a failure?

    (My perspective as a slightly interested spectator indicates that a significant reason for the failure of xhtml was the requirement that all content be well-formed...)

  4. Re:Hmmmm on Mayo Clinic Reports Dramatic Outcomes In Prostate Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    My allergies have attenuated as I have aged. Or so I figure. Maybe the fact that I am in (far) better cardiovascular condition than I was a decade ago has contributed, I don't really know, it could be lots of things. I don't think that I could prove either of those ideas using just my own experience as evidence though, and I never had asthma.

    Also, arthritis is often caused by too much immune activity, so maybe you should leave that one out when you are talking about our ruined immune systems (which I think is oh so much bunkum).

    (and as I understand it, cancer arises when the second order processes that take care of cells that fail to die as programmed become overwhelmed and most people naturally have thousands of potentially cancerous cells in their body, cells that are usually killed by the immune system).

    Glad you decided to drop the name of your medical hero though, I can commit a logical fallacy and ignore you.

  5. Re:When Will the Average Consumer Learn? on Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus · · Score: 1

    The answer is actually really simple. DRM encumbered media should simply be quite a lot cheaper than unencumbered media. If I could by a novel on an e-reader for $2, I'm only going to be worried about it working for around a month, after that, I couldn't give a shit.

    Same thing with movies. Less so with music as my behavior tends to be to listen to things multiple times.

  6. Re:Hmmmm on Mayo Clinic Reports Dramatic Outcomes In Prostate Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    Hilariously, preservatives often work by preventing oxidation. Ya know, like antioxidants, those things that are supposed to keep you healthy and strong.

  7. Re:Smoke up America! on Mayo Clinic Reports Dramatic Outcomes In Prostate Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    Do you stop increasing them?

    I haven't looked closely at such a thing, but I don't have the nicotine itch either.

  8. Re:Hmmmm on Mayo Clinic Reports Dramatic Outcomes In Prostate Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    No. Just no. People used to die much more often because of stupid things like bacterial infections and savagery (people still die of those things today, but not at anything even resembling historical rates. Not even soldiers). Now that we (on average) live longer, we get subtler diseases.

    If we used human processes to create trillions of cells, most of the individuals would die of cancer before they were a year old (or something, take this as hyperbole, not as a fact). I'd say things are working pretty well.

  9. Re:The Model 100 on Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics · · Score: 1

    Some of the sillier graphing calculators come awful close to that description (depending on how important a real keyboard happens to be for a given task).

  10. Re:Hate to sound like a Mac whore on Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics · · Score: 1

    One on ebay or Craigslist...

  11. Re:Apple Don't on Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics · · Score: 1

    Maybe. It is nice to have a free (or built in, whatever) UPS though.

  12. Re:Apple doesn't trust other batteries on Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics · · Score: 1

    The power management might be better, but it will likely be overwhelmed by battery rot (Unless my impression that most people don't buy new batteries is incorrect; my 2.5 year old lithium-ion battery has gone to hell, but I don't use my laptop battery-only enough to want to spend any money on a replacement, I'd rather put it towards a whole new laptop...).

  13. Re:Tabs hell on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should just declare bankruptcy and start over. Especially if the number is still growing, rather than shrinking some of the time.

  14. Re:Finally... on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    Your problem is probably the flash plugin. Using Flashblock, I'm at 175 megabytes after a week.

  15. Re:Should we really increase the world population? on DIY Biologists To Open Source Research · · Score: 1

    The global population growth rate isn't particularly subject to abstract conversations.

    I guess focusing on economic security over those things might be worthwhile though, as that seems to actually decrease the rate of reproduction.

  16. Re:Linky on DIY Biologists To Open Source Research · · Score: 1

    http://www.metasploit.com/

    Not generally malicious, but it is malware lego.

  17. Re:It's the usual HR rubbish on Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement · · Score: 1

    From the perspective of many workers, who mostly deal with HR around hiring time, "Judgmental opinions based out of ignorance" seem to be a huge problem with HR.

  18. Re:Fascinating... on Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement · · Score: 1

    I hope you are being sarcastic, the Lori Drew case showed that people are perfectly willing to bend 'justice' to their own ends.

    I mean, I think she is scum, but I don't want a new legal precedent every time a sufficient number of people think some woman is a huge bitch.

  19. Re:Fascinating... on Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looking back at history, people put up with feudalism for centuries and embraced fascism by the millions. It isn't real surprising that some bureaucrats think they need control over what the minions they hire think (a big part of the problem is that they think they have minions).

  20. Re:Anecdote on DTV Transition Mostly Smooth, Windows Media Center Problems · · Score: 1

    Or the complexity of the current technology is much higher. The upshot is that it comes with actual benefits (I know, people are pissed that they have to deal with change, and some people probably do have weaker signals, but most people actually have access to more channels now...).

  21. Re:Hopefully It'll Just Go Away on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 1

    I thought I covered that in my worst case scenario where a couple of passengers died.

    Someone who knows what they are doing is quite likely to make the first couple of good Samaritan attackers bleed quite a bit.

  22. Re:How scarry is a National ID ? on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is your ID card linked to a database that Russian police can access?

    By comparison, ours would be linked to a database that the Texas police would have access to.

  23. Re:Better on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 1

    Michigan has embedded holograms (or whatever, the shiny things) in their card stock. That sort of thing means per-state forgeries without interfering much with the layout of the information, both visual and digital.

  24. Re:Frist on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It seems to me that, even if Microsoft threw a fit, the worst case scenario would be that they have to pull the package out of the releases.

    I suppose it might be a bigger deal for Canonical, but even the craziest judge isn't going to impose some ridiculous punishment for actions they take on good faith.

  25. Re:DMV on Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It isn't that big a problem. Lots of people put too much stock in the cards that people are carrying around, but most of those people are also worrying more about that person's 'identity' than they need to.

    I put identity in quotes there because it is such a conflated concept. At some level, I'm whoever I say I am; all government documents do is establish that they agree to some extent (the reliability of the documents is going to roughly correlate with the rigor of the processes at the issuing entity).