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  1. Re:Market forces on Why Digital Medical Records Are No Panacea · · Score: 1

    It depends on who is making the drugs being sold in Canada. If a drug company is negotiating a sweetheart deal with Canada (basically, manufacture cost+profit) and making up for the development costs in the U.S., then the U.S. has every reason to allow reimportation of that drug (because it encourages the drug company to make a deal with Canada that leads to roughly equal prices).

  2. Re:Needed? on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    My favorite part is that the blog post (linked in the summary) contains the expected "Go archive team Go".

    Something this nerdy practically demands it, and there it is. I do think it's great that Jason Scott actually follows through and takes action about something he is passionate about, but that doesn't even begin to make it less nerdy.

  3. Re:Unpossible on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    There are too many cracks in your pottery. Try to chain things together a little more.

  4. Re:Just Curious on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    He won't notice.

  5. Re:I wonder what that will be? on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed. For instance:

    http://www.ovo127.com/blog/2009/03/trevor-blake-unspeakable-horrors.html

    (I don't mean to single out Lovecraft, but the popularity of his (other) work makes him a good sample)

  6. Re:You Would Think... on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 5, Funny

    She will be remembered as one of the great humorists of our time.

  7. Re:Cheating detection is easy on Competition Seeks Best Approaches To Detecting Plagiarism · · Score: 1

    I suppose. I got a warning from a grader for working in the same computer lab as some other people in the same (small) class (collaboration was tolerated for the class, but it needed to be disclosed). The thing was, we weren't comparing work or discussing anything. So there needs to be some sort of balance.

  8. Re:This is how we negotiate on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I should have said "Grammar and style" or just "Style".

  9. Re:Dynamic IP on Second Swedish ISP Starts Scrubbing IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    If you happen to be the only person from your IP pool who was at such and such a place at such and such a time, and the searches line up with some particular detail, the search log would be plenty useful.

    Sure, it could be pointed out that it doesn't mean all that much, but the people on a jury will like the story.

  10. Re:This is how we negotiate on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grammar advice is best dispensed from a house with sturdy brick walls.

  11. Re:Bad business model, perhaps? on Developing World Is a Profit Sink For Web Companies · · Score: 1
  12. Re:A better idea on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    Well, it has been out since at least last summer (2008), so 'it didn't take them long' is nonsensical relative to this particular outbreak.

    Hell, it's even a sequel.

    Let the horse speak:

    http://www.darkrealmstudios.com/product_Pandemic2.html
    http://www.darkrealmstudios.com/products.html

  13. Re:A better idea on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where you are coming from here, so I will just post a link to it:

    http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

  14. Re:Needed? on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    The effort described here is quite separate from archive.org and the Wayback machine. See:

    http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Who_We_Are

  15. Re:Huh? on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Sensationalism on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    I imagine the GP singled out his local Fox station because that was what he was watching. How poisonous.

  17. Re:A better idea on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    Your problem is that you are thinking of reality, not the silly flash game that all the Madagascar comments are a reference to.

  18. Re:A lesson for future generations on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    He needed to make a <blink> and used something that ignored < but turned on fixed width.

  19. Re:success! on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Statistically more dangerous. For those of us that aren't particularly allergic to bees, anybody with a sharp knife, AK-47 or runaway aircraft is of much more immediate concern.

  20. Re:Wow.... on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Must be a real bitch to mow that sucker.

  21. Re:Wow.... on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Don't forget reason.

  22. Re:We are a bunch on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you endorsing Atlas Shrugged or not?

  23. Re:Bloomberg is such a total git... on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    On CNBC, they were saying that the notification came along with a request not to let the public know (but perhaps this information is incorrect or whatever).

  24. Re:Interesting on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    Then he has to worry about people stepping on his little building.

  25. Re:Obviously! on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free · · Score: 1

    People use it for more than that. Here is an example:

    http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/

    I'm not sure it is a good idea, but there it is, and I'm sure there are many other people who use it for more than storing bookmarks.