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  1. Re:Defense?? on In Defense of the Anonymous Commenter · · Score: 1

    Joe Random Anonymous can speak far louder today than at almost any point in history. Working to increase the visibility of all anonymous comment (if you see this as valuable...) makes sense; complaining that it isn't perfect is just silly.

  2. Re:Desktop Linux on Hungary, Tatarstan Latest To Go FOSS · · Score: 1

    The IIc was an update of the IIe, not the other way around (and they were on the market at roughly the same time, the big difference being that the IIc was smaller and more self contained).

  3. Re:I wish spam replaced postal junk mail on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    Recycling newspaper doesn't save a tremendous amount of energy, and the U.S. paper industry is reasonably responsible about sourcing their fiber. Making it a point to recycle aluminum is going to do a lot more good than worrying about paper.

  4. Re:Popular Domain? on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    Spammers seem to have pretty good access to directory.umich.edu.

    I sort of theorize that they are usually former students who thought it would be great if they could have all those email addresses to spam later on and thus spent some time harvesting.

  5. Re:have your own domain-get universal forwarding on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it sucks that domains are screwed up (org.slashdot.it might be harder to read the first 7 times, but it is harder to spoof every single time).

  6. Re:have your own domain-get universal forwarding on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    People are advocating the use of the +marker with their usual gmail account; I suppose you could send out a request to everyone that you email with to add it, but good luck with that.

  7. Re:have your own domain-get universal forwarding on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    What part of what RFC does it break?

  8. Re:have your own domain-get universal forwarding on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You may have a hard time telling where it came from (they could accept address+marker@gmail.com and then scrub the +marker, it isn't exactly a secret).

  9. Re:I don't know if someone proposed this but... on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    Safer to just leave them sitting wherever they happen to be.

  10. Re:what I thought was interesting. on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    Do they disperse material so well that they would work better than just starting digging?

    I can't imagine that scraping a few dozen feet of somewhat radioactive material off of 100 square miles (or 1,000, whatever) is going to be any easier than scraping a deeper layer of non radioactive material off of a smaller area.

  11. Re:Call themselves engineers.... on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would bet $0.15 that the machines are being incorrectly calibrated.

  12. Re:It's like a Reces Peanut Butter Cup on Microsoft and Yahoo Discussing Search Partnership · · Score: 1

    Are Reces like feces?

  13. Re:Last! Ummm... wait... on Microsoft and Yahoo Discussing Search Partnership · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Search quality isn't the only issue; Google is bringing in more advertising money (and at a higher rate). Yahoo! and Microsoft combined could well do better than either alone (all they have to do is convince advertising customers that they are providing better value).

    I don't use Yahoo! or Microsoft for searching much so I don't really have any idea, but I have heard at least rumblings that they aren't too far from what Google offers.

  14. Re:What's the recharge time? on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 2, Informative

    It depends on what you plug it into (comments above indicate that the batteries can take power a whole lot faster than standard home electric service can give it). The home recharge is something like 4 hours.

  15. Re:28mph over 280 miles is not good... on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Read the comment that the comment that I replied to is in reply to (har, the great grandparent). They are talking about a situation where a gas car has the advantage (endurance at 'highway' speeds), and the immediate reply is "The Tesla is teh whiz". You are responding to me as if the parent to my post was completely in context, except, it wasn't in context.

  16. Re:This is meaninglesss... on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Check your tires. I occasionally get better than the epa highway rating, in a car with a 3.5 liter V6. It helps that I take trips that use up a tank of gas (making the majority of the mileage highway).

  17. Re:28mph over 280 miles is not good... on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 0

    Sort of. I'll race you 1,000 miles, you use a Tesla (you have to charge, not swap), and I'll use my 12 year old gasoline powered sedan.

  18. Re:I've already said so on Dell Adamo Review — Macho Outside, Sissy Inside · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yet this brings to mind a fat guy riding an extremely fancy bike.

  19. Re:Not terribly surprising on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    Complaining about the price (which you are doing) is way different than complaining about the existence of the caps (and a lot of the complaints do boil down to "OMG caps!").

    I wish they would offer a pricing plan where you paid a reasonable (i.e., based on the cost) line maintenance fee and then paid for metered transfer (again, based on the cost). That model really only hurts extreme consumers and the company (because they no longer get to obfuscate their costs in a maze of different customer patterns).

  20. Re:Oblig on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if they throttle the over cap bandwidth on the lower priced plans.

  21. Re:an industrial waste angle. on Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 3, Informative

    Titanium is expensive because the oxygen needs to be stripped off of the ore; titanium dioxide is far cheaper.

    That doesn't mean that recycling paint is a bad idea, but the cost of titanium isn't going to drive it.

  22. Re:I've already said so on Dell Adamo Review — Macho Outside, Sissy Inside · · Score: 1

    If 6 or 7 pounds is a problem (and the Dell is only 4), the laptop isn't the only sissy.

  23. Re:Sounds like a great plan on Norfolk Police Officers To Be Tagged To Improve Response Times · · Score: 1

    I also am not an expert, but I imagine that the speed of light combines with noise to make it very difficult to use a couple of feet of separation to deduce direction (even 10 feet means that you are working with a time difference of about 1 hundred millionth of a second).

  24. Re:Being informed about the rules on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or you could phrase it like most people think about it "you only have to pay taxes on barter if you barter what you would otherwise be paid to do and you think the IRS will be able to find out about it and prove a substantial amount of barter".

  25. Re:I Volunteer... on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 1

    It was written to sound that way, regardless of said experience.