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  1. Re:Losing mass or weight? on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    radioactive impurities.

  2. Re:Property Rights? on Google's $30,000,000 Lunar X PRIZE · · Score: 1

    None. Which is the big problem.

  3. Re:Seriously, how stupid do you have to be... on TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase · · Score: 1

    Narcissistic personalities. Got to be in control.

  4. Re:For the last time....the problem was not katrin on "Lifesaver Bottle" Filters Viruses Out of Water · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the hurricane that was the problem. It was the levies A right. because building below sea level is a great idea.

  5. Yeah! You kick em out! on A Coveted Landing Strip for Google's Founders · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Get someone in who can extract more shareholder value from the company.

    Of course, this is exactly how visionary market creating companies turn into, well, HP. I suppose it's inevitable, they decided to float on the markets, you have to expect those results.

  6. What I want from Sun on Sun Acquires CFS/Lustre, Becomes Windows OEM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The FASTEST most powerful machines I can fit in my datacentres.

    Simple.

  7. Re:When my pay is ethical, I'll worry about the re on When Ethics and IT Collide · · Score: 1

    You're not required to find work if you have none to do (for whatever reason). You're required to do work which is assigned to you. That may mean only 10 mins of productive work per day.

  8. Are you willing to pay the increasing salaries? on When Ethics and IT Collide · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because there are already professional certifications available for IT people. Speaking from personal experience they currently make bugger all difference to fees or salaries. If you were to require such certifications then the reduction in supply of IT personnel would cause the salaries of the certified to rocket... As it has for lawyers, doctors, accountants etc.

    No? Not willing to pay up? Oh well then, you can't really complain.

  9. Berlin still uses gas lights on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    So, how does a 250mbps shared, when you're sitting beside it standard make gbit copper obsolete?

  10. Re:None at all on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 1

    Even though you say that you have never had any problems with it, I would absolutely HATE using anything of the kind, and would actively avoid using any piece of software that uses that kind of activation. You don't work in a corporate environment and/or I doubt you deal with many systems.

  11. FLexlm on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 2, Informative

    License management software. Very common.

  12. Standard practice on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    ut you'd think that they wouldn't just wipe everything off and for what? How do they know any particular problem isn't the software? You think it's worth £20/hour to actually test it? So you put in a known good disk and test it that way, it takes 2 min instead of 10 hours.
  13. Re:Troll on Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer · · Score: 1

    I've tried both and this article doesn't bring up any of the really good points MS has going for it From your own lack of points I see you're struggling with that one as well.

  14. Missed one vitally important criteria on Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer · · Score: 1

    File format that will be readable in a decade.

  15. Re:Do you know what a liberal is? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    What nearly always is forgotten No. It's never forgotten. It's implicit in liberalism.

  16. Re:Just In! on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    In the UK, we even have the leader of the right wing Conservative party (David Cameron) saying he will match Labour's spending commitments. There is now nothing to choose between them in terms of policy. The only difference is whichever set of politicians you think is the least idiotic and selfish. Only if your thinking is one dimensional. Those able to think in higher dimensions can consider such radicals as the Liberal Democrats.
  17. Re:It's maths. on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    http://worldpolicy.org/globalrights/democracy/maps-pr.html

    You too could have searched Google.

    HTH.

  18. Re:It's math or mathematics on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Colleges in the UK (outside of oxbridge) tend to be vocational establishments for adult learning. They aren't simply tertiary education organisations. To say one went to college would be inaccurate for the majority.

  19. Actually a good point on Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    2. The page you linked mentions that the usage stats for a site geared toward web developers will be skewed toward alternative browsers. Actually this is a good point. Any and every web site which is created will be targeted at some sub sector of the population. So looking at the stats of any other site, or even the population stats as a whole is useless.
  20. Re:Interesting on Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, but it's the same propaganda that Microsoft uses.

  21. Re:It's math or mathematics on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only non-native English speakers say it's "math". Because only Americans say it's "math".

    Native English speakers. That'd be those from England and the nearby related nations say "maths".

  22. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think we may safely extrapolate ... Ah... One of the clarion calls of great science.

  23. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 4, Funny

    this means that liberals actually think about what they do and are more accurate because of it. No. It means they're better at button pushing.

    and this means that conservatives have difficulties to gasp changes and understand new ideas (nothing new here). No, it means that they find button pushing more interesting and worthwhile of effort.
  24. So... What IS a Liberal then? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    I don't think it means what you think it means.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

  25. Muslims would disagree. on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    , I don't really think there have been any new religious ideas of significant value in, say, 2,000-ish years. Both Christianity and Islam are basically judaism with a bit added on top. Most people don't know that Islam began in the 7th century, it's younger than both christianity and judaism.

    Having said that. I don't think there are any religious ideas of signifcant value. Buddhism I'd class more as philosophy.