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  1. Well, duh. on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 0

    "...maybe it's high time to stop using PayPal?" Stopped years ago. They've screwed me (and a lot of other people) out of so much money. I've never used Google's services, so I don't know if they're any better.

  2. Re:Banksters on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: 1

    Words from my mouth.

  3. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 2

    Damned good chicken?? Which Chik-Fil-A do *you* eat at?

    And don't get me started on that artificially flavored and colored alleged vegetable substance CFA calls "waffle fries".

  4. It all boils down to this thought on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    You are *not* entitled to your opinion -- you are entitled to your *informed* opinion.

  5. Sound science-based decision on EPA Makes a Rad Decision · · Score: 2

    Ever read Physics for Future Presidents? It's a good source of scientific information that should influence public policy more than it currently does.

  6. I remember Hypercard! on Google's House of Cards · · Score: 2

    Did consulting work for BP back in the '80s when they were strictly a Mac shop. Hypercard was used extensively in homebrew apps like BP's MSDN stack.

  7. What a candyass thing to do on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 1

    What Stallman does in his spare time in the Middle East is his business, not the Palestinian Authority.

    Giving into the PA's demand was a wimpy thing to do, particularly from someone the likes of Eric Stallman, who has been known to take controversial stances because it was the right thing to do.

  8. I'd start with Jon Pertwee on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    Catch The Dead Planet from Hartnell's work; don't bother with the rest. There are damned few episodes of Troughton's work that survived the BBC purges intact, and it's downright painful to watch the kinescopes of those that did. (This is too bad; Troughton's a good actor.)

    Start with Jon Pertwee--the first decent doctor. Watch him and Tom Baker. Don't bother with Peter Davison. Colin Baker's only worth watching to catch up with DW continuity in the Trial of a Time Lord thread. I personally love Sylvester McCoy's work, but that's me.

    Skip Eccleston altogether--a potentially interesting character development that never got close to being realized. Go right to Tennant; you could watch his stuff twice over if you're so moved. I cannot abide Matt Smith, but again--that's me.

    I'm still lobbying for a female Doctor for the next incarnation.

  9. Re:The moon is a harsh mistress. on Does the Moon Have Military Value? · · Score: 1

    What's interesting about the above situation (and very much unlike the presence of nuclear weapons on earth) is that "rocks", while quite deadly when lobbed at Earth, cannot be used against anyone residing on the moon itself.

  10. As Dear Abby said many years ago... on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    ...you meet people worth meeting at places that people worth meeting meet at. Libraries, museums, church/temple/mosque (I know--ickickick, but still...), theatres (stage, not movie), etc.

    Me? I met my sweetie online, so I don't count (except to ten).

  11. Reminds me of the *old* days on Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go · · Score: 1

    The first MS Flight Simulator had a setting (described in the manual) where you flew through foggy daylight (despite the 00:00 local time setting), and the plane flew itself briefly, heading for some sort of warp that dumped you into Chicago airspace.

  12. The Eternal Triangle on AT&T Dropping Usenet Netnews; Low-Cost Alternatives? · · Score: 1

    Like so much else in life, there is Good, Fast, and Cheap. You can only have two of the three.

    I liked Giganews when I read Usenet. They're good, and fast.

  13. Re:What's the Klingon phrase for... on Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie · · Score: 1

    Free translation: I should cut you down where you stand!

    (But then, that's a free translation for most spoken Klingon.)

  14. Re:So to everybody complaining ... on Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation · · Score: 1

    When I lived in Wisconsin, I used TW copper but Earthlink internet access. (Yeah, I know, Earthlink sux, etc.). TW wasn't happy about it, but the local PUC said, "Either allow your competition to rent bandwidth, or go somewhere else kthxbye."

  15. Re:Short answer on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...or even better: use your middle initial as part of your name on your resume. That will cast some doubt in (most) HR minds about just who they're dealing with it.

  16. Re:Greed on Carbonite Stacks the Deck With 5-Star Reviews · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wonder - how often do good people in a ruthless business environment actually remain good people?

    By having proper moral compasses to begin with.

  17. Re:Soap Operas Will Destroy Our Society on MIT Creates Class About Soap Operas · · Score: 1

    "Remind me to write a piece declaring that 90% of all neuroses can be traced to the act of wallowing in other people's problems" -- Jubal Harshaw, _Stranger in a Strange Land_

  18. Re:Hard SF on Ringworld's Children · · Score: 1
    The best hard SF these days is Ben Bova - at least until Kim Stanely Robinson comes out with Purple Mars.

    Don't know what planet you're from, tovarisch, but I'd hardly call Robinson's Mars books hard SF. Scientifically based, sure, but packed full of sociological and metaphysical sputum (especially the last one).

  19. D'oh! on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    I thought it said *infests*, not *invests*.