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  1. Re:There is only one true keyboard... on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I think the newer ones made in Russia no longer require the adapter.

  2. Re:Oil change at the dealer on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    The trick is figuring out which dealers to trust without spending a huge amount of time and money.

    It can be non trivial for a non car person in a new town, and so on.

  3. Re:Oil change at the dealer on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do they charge twice as much for the oil, or just more for the labor?

  4. Re:Of Chickens and Men on Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You · · Score: 0, Troll

    Man, whatever you are smoking, that has to be some good shit.

  5. Re:As If You Care .. on Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You · · Score: 1

    You should call that typing. Writing is something else.

  6. Re:Windows' Legacy is too Cumbersome on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    NT(and thus XP, Vista) has decent access control and permissions. Supporting legacy applications means that you can't use them.

    Given that Windows licensing revenues increased in 2007, I wouldn't hold my breath for Microsoft to get crushed under the weight of anything.

  7. Re:We are enslaved. on 40 Years After Carterphone Ended AT&T Equipment Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Yeah man, I know what you are talking about, AT&T just found out my cousin didn't have a phone plan and they had him locked up.

    He says they have him making batteries (he only writes letters, they don't get phones).

  8. Re:Nah ah! on Dead At 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer · · Score: 1

    What isn't funny is that the United States manufactures more goods today than it did in 1980. It's fantastic.

  9. Re:Insert standard replies here... on A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology · · Score: 1

    The number of credits and exact course translation toward your university is usually determined by your university.

    They use the score, but it is entirely up to them what they do with it.

  10. Re:what could possibly... on Cell Phones Tracking Nightlife Activity · · Score: 1

    The clever anarchists will leave their phones at home, or perhaps employ the 'off' feature of the phone.

  11. Re:Transhumanism on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 1

    I like strawberry ice cream.

    Let the non sequiturs roam far and free!

  12. Re:Thank god. on Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission · · Score: 1

    Awful book.

  13. Re:Will surely only delay the h4x0rz? on Blizzard Introduces One-Time Password Devices For WoW · · Score: 3, Informative

    The devices each have a unique key. If I have #1, you can't use #2 to get into my account.

  14. Re:The first thing that comes to my mind is... on Blizzard Introduces One-Time Password Devices For WoW · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The trick is that companies C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z also all value the dollars that exists as bits in company A's DB.

  15. Re:Speculation means nothing on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 1

    Probably not. It will be clearer in ~12 months, but even if there is a significant drop in revenue for this year (they increased "client" revenues in 2007, client is how they report the majority of OS sales), it will be muddled by the current overall economic issues.

  16. Re:When on /. did QoS become "gagging the Internet on Another Inventor of the Internet Wants To Gag It · · Score: 1

    You mean "to their liking". "their likeness" means "their image".

    Not flaming, just pointing out the difference.

  17. Re:When on /. did QoS become "gagging the Internet on Another Inventor of the Internet Wants To Gag It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you want the postal service to charge different amounts for different levels of service?
    I don't know about you, but to me that seems like a really good idea.

  18. Re:Its all game theory. You can't live for ever on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    "Evolutionary disadvantage" needs to be taken in context. If a super-geriatric scientist unlocks the genetic code and is able to engineer his own body to his own will, and then does so to great reproductive effect, living longer becomes a huge evolutionary advantage.

    My point was more that the shell of your argument could be constructed around the benefits of good childhood nutrition. "Change is bad because it necessitates change".

  19. Re:There is no line. on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    Of course they experience pain. The more interesting question is if they take moral offense at the pain.

    A cricket is evasive. It isn't sentient. I'm comfortable enough with both of those statements to not use 'any'. The hard part is figuring out where the line is.

  20. Re:Outlaw automatic transmissions! on Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    The distinction isn't noted anywhere on licenses.

    I think the idea is that the educational time is better spent understanding the rules and procedures of driving, rather than the operational characteristics of a decreasing percentage of vehicles (I didn't learn to drive a stick until I was 26, 10 years after I started driving).

  21. Re:Great Idea... on Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    Too bad your group will be so popular.

  22. Membership on Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    Do they make people quit once they have been in a crash while texting?

  23. Re:Critical thinking requires scientific facts on Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    I would guess that your critical thinking skills have not declined but instead your belief in your own infallibility has been tempered by age.

    19 year olds are crazy hormone driven morons.

  24. Re:Anti-Evolution in other countries? on Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    I'm an American. One of the more entertaining things to happen to me in the past 12 months was working with a Polish doctor of ecology who also happened to be Catholic.

    He barely accepted differentiation and did not believe in speciation. I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is simply framed differently in the popular consciousness of America, such that people in the US will say they don't believe in evolution if they reject parts of it and people elsewhere say they do believe in evolution if they accept parts of it.

  25. Re:Government should not be involved at all on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    Eggs and sperm are different. No matter what a man does, he can only turn so much sperm into babies. A woman has an opportunity to turn approximately 20 eggs into babies.

    I'm not an ideological hardliner on this stuff, and I understand the biology, I just don't understand the attachment to the relatively fine differences. If I am reading you correctly, at the moment of conception, you believe that the cell has moral rights to the woman's body, and I find that fascinating.