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  1. Bullshit Common Sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    The problem with common sense is that it just means agreeing with everybody around you. If you disagree with most people, you look around and say "nobody has any common sense." If you are getting older, you add "...any more."

  2. Meta-information? Why bother? on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I am understanding the article correctly (which appears to be written in broken english) Ballmer is talking about every online information site supplying meta-information about its content so that search engines are unnecessary. To that I say, fat chance. Why bother if Google solves the problem on plain text?

  3. Re:Revelation 13:16-17 on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1
  4. Evolution in action? on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    One would hope that evolution itself would eventualy solve the problem of humans who claim to believe such stupid things. The scientific method is there for a reason, people!

  5. Reducing tax burden does NOT increase your income on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    Unless your tax rate is over 100% you can't get richer by forgoing taxable income. What this does do is reduce expenses for Google the company by a greater amount than it reduces the income of the Google founders. This is good for the company, which is good for the founder's investments in the company.

  6. inverse square ratio: four billion to one on The Story Behind Cell Phone Radiation Research · · Score: 1

    The important point is that the amount of radiation you receive from a source decreases as the inverse of the distance squared. So if you are an inch away from your phone and a mile away from the city, the city would have to be radiating four billion times as much power to cause the same damage.

  7. First intelligent post on Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First intelligent post!

  8. Re:Not exactly an explanation on LCD Pixel Response Time Halved · · Score: 1

    It sounds to me like they are predicting what the ghosting will look like and actively counteracting it by driving the pixels in the opposite direction. Anyway, that's what I would do.

  9. Star Trek 5: The final frontier on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless, it was worlds better than William Shatner's directing debut. Episode six (the undiscovered country) was equally miserable.

  10. Fortunately, time is all I need on A Six-Step Plan for Apple · · Score: 1

    I'll take that window of opportunity.

  11. Re:Free speech? on Judge Halts Utah's Spyware Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rubbish. You are confusing the right to *be* happy with the right to pursue happiness. They were never intended to be the same thing at all.

  12. Here is an online archive on Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio? · · Score: 1

    Try Dorian's Speakeasy (formerly the Green Room.) Plenty of cool interviews. On a quick scan, I see Paul Krugman, economist from Princeton, Richard Dawkins, Biologist from Oxford, David Dill from Stanford CS.

    http://wfmu.org/playlists/SE

  13. Re:GUI vs. OS on Lindows Allowed to Use Company Name in Holland · · Score: 1

    However, this might mean that one is willing to accept that there could *be* an operating system without a GUI, so the argument becomes a bit difficult.

  14. Image quality is more than lens and ccd on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 1

    One of the most important factors in producing a good image is the "smoothing" function that reconstructs the image from the discrete pixel samples. It needs to avoid ringing, over sharpening, moire effects, and more. Its what all the computing horsepower in the camera is for.

  15. SLR on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 1

    They're not SLR's because of the R - it stands for Reflex. That means you have an *optical* viewfinder (not a crappy lcd viewfinder) and the mirror swings up out of the way to expose the CCD when you take the picture.

  16. Re:Forgot to include... on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1

    Because when you create documents using Office you are putting your data into a secret proprietary format which is controlled by a company which might one day decide to eat your lunch.

  17. There's only one reason on Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words · · Score: 1

    1. Open source lowers software development costs in the long run.

  18. It must have been a delicate decision on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 4, Funny

    choosing a victim with the correct pocket depth...

  19. How is this done? on Lindows Takes a Hit in the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    Is there an accepted method for making a web site inaccessable in a country?

  20. Its not a system for filing legal complaints on Court Rejects msfreepc.com Settlement Claims · · Score: 1

    It is a system for filling out paperwork.

  21. Re:SCO's Stock on Did SCO Actually Buy What it Thought? · · Score: 1

    I don't see how they could actually manipulate the share price this way. Generally stocks having a small float are *more* volatile, not less, because the insiders can't trade without filing forms well in advance, and the few shares on the open market are either strongly in demand or not in demand at all.

  22. Text can be very intimate on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1

    I find that IM-ing with my wife is in some ways more intimate than talking. This is nothing new, people have been having deep and intimate relationships via the post for hundreds of years.

  23. And the truly ironic thing is... on Microsoft Drags Feet with Settlement Claims · · Score: 2, Informative

    Townsend and Townsend says:

    "Although plaintiffs expressed some initial concerns with the Lindows web site, we are now satisfied with Lindows' explanation of its procedures and believe that it fully comports with the express terms of the Settlement Agreement."

  24. Re:Hmmm... on Microsoft Drags Feet with Settlement Claims · · Score: 1

    If you filed via msfreepc you can't be stiffed, you've already received your award! I would think this means it would be fraudulant to file directly.

  25. Emacs works great until... on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    somebody comes along and edits your page using something else. Then you've got a pile of yuck, and you have to start using one too. But that's the price of collaboration.