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  1. Re:Why not Konqueror? on Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests · · Score: 1

    Firefox on windows gets far more eyeball time than other platforms, so platform specific bugs tend to get worked out a lot faster. Also, flash support on windows is quite a lot better than linux (or this sure seems to be the case).

  2. Re:of course on Lenovo Service Disables Laptops With a Text Message · · Score: 1

    True enough, but my impression is that most thieves are not yet this sophisticated.

    (More, the intent of the feature seems to be disabling access to secure data more than it is theft deterrence)

  3. Re:Privacy on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    That's not the presentation given in the comment I replied to. The implication in that comment is that they would go ahead and do it, why not, not that they would do it for favorable consideration during negotiations.

  4. Re:It was long? What? on Anathem · · Score: 1

    The correctness of the statement varies with the time of day?

  5. Re:Ignorant summary writer. on Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space · · Score: 1

    The post called out the ignorant summary writer in an ignorant fashion. It was begging for a hair splitting correction.

    I drink tap water all the time. Hell, I'm not uncomfortable with all the solid human waste that ends up being used as fertilizer. Sometimes, when I'm out in the woods, I take a piss and then eat food without washing my hands (someone I was with called me out on this and I laughed in their face, so "so does everybody else" apparently doesn't apply).

  6. Re:But it doesn't taste like urine. on Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space · · Score: 1

    I thought Starbucks charcoal filtered their coffee.

    (for those of you who haven't caught up yet, not the water, the coffee)

  7. Re:Ignorant summary writer. on Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space · · Score: 1

    Every drop? Prove it.

    Take special care with water that has recently fallen from space (ya know, from meteorites).

  8. Re:"Gen-Theft": if its on the computer, its free! on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    There is nothing new about people being dishonest.

  9. Re:Privacy on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, because if corporations are going to be corrupt, they are going to do it in a way that costs them money.

  10. Re:Democracy on Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed · · Score: 1

    My point was that if the O.P. isn't willing to take such actions, his "I pay taxes because" is empty rhetoric.

  11. Re:Democracy on Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed · · Score: 1

    Have tried not paying your taxes?

    I suspect you pay taxes because your employer takes them out of your paycheck.

  12. Re:what is incarceration about? on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    It's about punishment.

    Still, a simple cost benefit analysis suggests that rehabilitation is a good idea for the ones that you plan on releasing.

  13. Re:I still don't get it though. on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Guards don't need to be able to bring their phones into prisoner areas.

  14. Re:So what? on Google Turns On User-Tweakable Search Wiki · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand it, you have to pretend that it exists (I would be really surprised if such a feature was quietly rolled out, given that it would be quite the reversal for Taco). I may be wrong, but I haven't seen anything that suggests it is real.

  15. Re:A "FETCH" unit on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth · · Score: 1

    You need to assert that you are the leader of the pack.

  16. Re:A "FETCH" unit on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth · · Score: 1

    Like knocking tools out of the astronauts hands.

  17. Re:A "FETCH" unit on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth · · Score: 1

    I imagine the hard part would be making sure that it doesn't do things that are harmful.

  18. Re:Travesty on Misdemeanor Plea Ends Norwich Pornography Case · · Score: 1

    So you want to protect all people from all events that may emotionally effect them?

  19. Re:It works for *me* on Google Turns On User-Tweakable Search Wiki · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it has. The chances of a random person using the latest version of Firefox are mediocre; the chances of a random person using Epiphany are negligible.

  20. Re:Revenue stream on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    Well, how fast were you going? These parts, 10 over is only a couple of points, so to get 16 points, you must have been going ~80 mph. That means you are angry that it took the officer, based on what you say, about 45 seconds to pull you over. Of course, if you were a good way through the mile you are talking about, he had even less time than that.

  21. Re:Why? on Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Fad.

    Sometimes, municipal water can taste funny, and a lot of people have their own wells, so taste can be an issue there as well, but for the most part, water in the U.S. is fantastic.

  22. Re:dehumidifier? on Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Or they could just store an equivalent mass or volume of water.

    Sure, a generator has some advantages over consumables, but I doubt the math works out for a life raft.

  23. Re:Amazing! They've invented... on Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air · · Score: 1

    You mean "thought of".

    Reserving "invented" for things that actually do something will save us all a lot of trouble later.

  24. Re:Secondary effects? on Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Draw some boxes. From the point of view of the water, these devices decrease the drop in elevation.

    (That is, if a given stretch of river has the effect of adding 1 unit of energy to 1 unit of water, with the devices installed, that same stretch of river will add less than 1 unit of energy to that same unit of water)

  25. Re:Indeed PD Greed Needs Speedsters to Speed on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    If you are in the wrong pool (young, nice car, recent ticket, collision), a ticket can easily add hundreds of dollars to your insurance costs. If you are going to speed anyway, the detector is an investment.

    (I don't have any evasion devices and don't make speeding a habit, but I know of other people's experience)