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  1. Re:Don't play the game on What Do You Buy At The Grocery ... Punk? · · Score: 1


    At the grocery store here that has discount cards (Rainbow Foods), when you check out they ask if you have a card. If you don't, they swipe one of the cards that they keep by the register. So, I get the discount and nobody has my personal information.

  2. Re:No Interest on No One Wants The Not-Coms · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, in the case of the military branches, the .com and .mil addresses serve different functions. The .coms are there for recruiting purposes (if average Joe wants to enlist in the navy, he's probably going to type in navy.com), but the .mil sites contain more sophisticated information aimed toward people already in that particular branch of the military.

  3. Re:It's not about dominance on Porting OpenOffice To OSX · · Score: 1


    Having a buggy piece of software available will delight few, and alienate most.

    Actually, I've heard that as many as 90% of people who use a word processing program are delighted by buggy software. :)

  4. Re:Electric Car?? on Global Warming: Do You Believe? · · Score: 1


    Actually, there are some solar-powered car-charging stations in California. There's no reason why it has to be coal/gas powering the car.

  5. Constitutionality of cameras on Rental Car + GPS = Speeding Ticket · · Score: 1

    One concern is that the ticket is then given to the car owner and not the driver. If you lent out your car to a friend or your child, or your car was stolen, you would be liable for any tickets garnered by the driver of your car. It would then be up to you to prove that you didn't commit the crime. The burden of proof should be on the law enforcement officials, not you.

    Also, there are some cases when running a red light is unavoidable, and the cameras don't allow for exceptions. Say, for example, traffic is really back up, and you are half way into the intersection when the light turns red. Ideally, you would go ahead so as not to block traffic, but your rear tires might trigger the camera, which would neither know or care why you were running a red light.

  6. Minor Clarification on Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass · · Score: 1


    They use heavy water (D2O) instead of H20.

  7. Re:How do they know? on Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass · · Score: 1


    They know what type of neutrino has to be coming out of the sun because of the way the sun works. In order for the particle equation to balance the sun has to be emitting electron neutrinos.

  8. Re:Summary, for the non-physicists: on Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass · · Score: 1

    Dark matter: matter that is "missing" (that we can't see)

    Anti-matter: particles that, when they come into contact with their respective particle anihilate.

    I think that this finding now means that neutrinos as well as anti-neutrinos are dark matter. However, other anti-particles (such as anti-electrons) do not fall into the category of dark matter.

    (Disclaimer:please don't be too mean to me if I'm wrong- I dropped particle physics)

  9. Re:Porn Harmful? on Ethically Monitoring Your Kid's Net Access · · Score: 1


    It is unfortunate that you had a bad experience with porn, but I fail to see how porn inherently objectifies women. It seems to me that if you're going to view porn as objectifying, then all parties involved are devoid of emotional connection to the activity, not just the women.

    I think that many individuals, regardless of age, are perfectly able to separate porn from the real world. My boyfriend views an ample amount of porn (somebodyforgot to hide their hidden files), but it doesn't affect the way he behaves toward me at all.

  10. It was supposed to be funny, not scary on Review: The Mummy Returns · · Score: 1

    The movie was supposed to be neither a horror movie nor a documentary of Egyptian culture. It was a very entertaining self-mocking movie. I thought it was hillarious. Sure it won't get an Oscar, but it entertained me.

  11. Re:Other particles to detect on Giant Neutrino Detector, 2km Underground · · Score: 1

    We've already found bosons.

  12. Re:Napster is lame on Napster Offers $1B For Music-Swapping Rights · · Score: 1

    While it might be nice to be all principled and such, Napster is playing a game that it appears they will lose unless they come up with an alternative which would allow them to continue their service while pleasing the record labels.

    Essentially, if there is to be a compromise, it will have to come from Napster, because the record labels are content to shut down the service. Sometimes you have to give a little or risk losing everything.

  13. Patented dubya-ithm (tm) on Florida Election Votes Certified · · Score: 1

    while age40 { drink(); smoke(); go awol(); }