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  1. Re:I have to wonder what goes through peoples mind on Zer01 Parent Strips Web Site Following Report · · Score: 1

    That's actually the robo calls. The automated dialer is designed to listen for a short spoken word, then a pause, then if it hears another short spoken word it connects you to the call center, if it hears nothing it will eventually hang up assuming it got an answering machine.

    I *never* say hello twice unless I recognize the callerID.

  2. Re:My favorite on Open Source Languages Rumble At OSCON · · Score: 1

    My favorite language was Z80 ASM. That would be as useful now as a kick stand on a bass boat.

    http://www.guitarsite.com/news/and_finally/giant_guitar_boat/

  3. Re:Warn and continue on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    Pro and Con to that. Pro is it is simpler to use, con is shell integration (Or is it really running all the time to detect when you try to delete a locked file?)

    Either way, both do what you're asking.

  4. Re:Warn and continue on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Generally you can free up the file handles. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx

    Got a file stuck? Open a cmd prompt, run 'handle filename' to get a list of file handles for that file. then 'handle -c <HEXHANDLE> -p <PID>'. There ya go, file is forced closed and you can delete it.

  5. Re:Good on How Apple's App Review Is Sabotaging the iPhone · · Score: 1

    As has been mentioned, you don't understand what a user interface is. The physical size/shape of the phone is not the user interface. I've never used an iphone, but the UI on an ipod touch is really really intuitive. A layman can pick up the touch and use it. Period. No need to read instructions on how to use it. Just press places and you learn it fast.

  6. Re:As a die hard Guitar Hero fan on Rock Band To Allow Independent Artists To Add Their Own Songs · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised I haven't seen RawdSD mentioned for the Wii. RawkSD is a program which will export Rock Band 1, GH1-3 (Not world tour (yet)) songs into RB2 format and they'll be playable from the SD bard like current DLC is.

    You can also write your own charts (I can't, I don't have the patience) or get pre-made charts from ScoreHero and use your own music to import. It is Ogg based.

  7. Re:Celebrity status? on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, he's got 55,000 and growing followers on twitter. In the last 7 hours he's sent out a dozen or so tweets. To 55,000 people. 25 cents (.25 dollars) per text == AT&T making a lot of money off Adam's outrage.

    He just got commision =)

  8. Re:Best Photos on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    In a very, very odd bit of irony, you can actually thank Hitler for Jews being alive today.

    No. No, no no no No.

    That is like saying every morning I set my alarm for 7AM and walk over and punch you in the nose. But on Friday, I fall asleep on the couch and don't hear the alarm go off in the bedroom at 7AM to remind me to go punch you in the nose. You don't thank me for not punching you in the nose that day. It was a mistake, I meant to punch you in the nose just fell asleep in the wrong place.

    Just because Hitler lost the war doesn't mean you thank him for only killing millions, not all of the Jews. That's idiotic.

  9. Re:Makes sense on Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US · · Score: 1

    Exactly true, which you will see I pointed out in a previous post in this thread =)

  10. Re:Makes sense on Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US · · Score: 1

    The internet is multi-national. Connectivity to it constitutes something that facilitates commerse (To a huge extent when you consider what phones and the internet have done for commerse in the US). It is not a stretch.

  11. Re:Makes sense on Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the United States Constitution is a pretty easy read. Before you say what you said above, you should give it a look. What you are looking for is the 10th Amendment.

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  12. Re:Makes sense on Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Section 8 - Powers of Congress
    To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

  13. Re:Wait... on Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers · · Score: 1

    The Marrow was donated by a 10/10 marker match anonymously. It was gathered from the donor through PBSC Donation
    PBSC donation uses a process similar to when you donate Plasma. The actual transplant was much different than what I expected. They took the Marrow and it was put into her intraveniously while she was asleep. It looked similar to a blood transfusion, except the bone marrow looked chunky. Was very strange. Not as strange though as the platelet transfusions she needed while the bone marrow was grafting. The bag of blood platelets were yellow. Looked pretty nasty.

    I'm pretty sure you were joking, but I do recommend you get on the National Marrow Registry at http://www.marrow.org./ They take a swab of your cheek and put your DNA profile into a registry that is checked for matches when someone needs a transplant. If you are a match you get a call.

  14. Re:Wait... on Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Playing with dirt is a part of being a kid. Loosen up. Seriously, it's not all that different than tending a garden. The fact that you consider it such a dangerous thing shows you have lost your sense of perspective. Everything you do has a certain risk associated with it. I'm inside a building right now. There is a possibility there will be a power surge which will cause a fire. Does that mean I shouldn't be in the damn build? Hell, I could get hit with a meteor driving home tonight. Does that mean I should never leave my house?

    I am not going out and having my kids mud wrestle with iv using crack addicts armed with used needles and feces laced bandages. They're playing with their horses or making mountains. Digging roads and playing cars.

    I don't live in a damn rain forest. It's upstate NY where the ground freezes every winter and dries out every summer.

  15. Re:Wait... on Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree with this wholeheartedly. Our first daughter we went out of our way to make sure she had social interaction and played in dirt, etc. Then my second daughter was born and we found out she had Kostman's Syndrome (Rare disorder where you can't make the white blood cells that fight off bacteria). We went from an attitude of letting our daughter play with anything she wanted and not caring to being one of those families that has hand sanitizer outside the door so visitors washed their hands before entering the house.

    I like to say that we reinstalled her immune system (Bone Marrow Transplant) and she is one of the few who has no side effects at all after a transplant, so we're back to letting them (both) play in as much dirt and sharing of waterbottles, etc.

    People work out to keep in shape, why not give your immune system a workout too?

  16. Re:Nonsense on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's more likely the moon is a 60,000 year old spaceship like in Mutineer's Moon.

  17. Re:Laser weapon can fix this problem. on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, not the 88. Here is a link to the gun I'm talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_cm_Gustav

  18. Re:Laser weapon can fix this problem. on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    I liken this to an attempt to destroy a German 88 shell from WW2 with a patriot Missile. File it under the "Not Going to Happen" file.

  19. Re:TFA Is slashdotted on Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study · · Score: 3, Interesting
    http://www.unmuseum.org/dinobront.htm

    Today, scientist's vision of the habits and habitat of the Apatosaurus are quite different than what Marsh and other early paleontologists had thought. Early analysis suggested that the animals must have been weak because their small heads could only chew the minimum amount of food necessary to fuel such a big body. So weak, in fact, that large sauropods were thought to be slow, unable to lift their bulky tails off the ground and only able to support their massive weight by living in shallow lakes and swamps where water floated their bulk.

    Paleontologists like Bakker showed that this image was wrong. No Apatosaurus skeleton has been found in an ancient body of water and its feet were not at all suited for walking through marshy and muddy ground. In fact, Bakker notes in his book Dinosaur Heresies, an analysis of changes in geology over time suggest that large sauropods moved out of areas as they became wet: they didn't like swamps at all.

  20. Re:Connection? on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Even discounting that. Why the hell did it bother chasing Kirk? It just caught lunch!

  21. Re:summarizing the article for you... on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I still have a copy of the original VHS releases that I toss in every once and awhile. I suppose I should convert them to DVD, but never felt the need. I've considered downloading the Laserdisc versions but haven't yet.

  22. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 5, Informative

    35MM film has more resolution than 1080P. http://filmschoolonline.com/sample_lessons/sample_lesson_HD_vs_35mm.htm As long as you're working from the original 35MM film (and also assuming it's not degraded too much) you can easily move to HD and redo the special effects for a true HD original series.

  23. Re:No, you don't on Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission · · Score: 1

    Going from 17,000MPH around the earth in one direction to 17,000MPH around the earth in the other direction requires that you give a 34,000MPH speed change. Good luck having that happen with a part coming off, an explosion or a detonation. 34,000MPH is in the realm of speeds that are achieved with gravitational slingshots. You don't change your orbit direction with a gravitational slingshot, although I suppose it's possible you could slingshot from around the moon into a reverse orbit around the earth. You'll have to have someone else do the math though.

  24. Re:No, you don't on Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission · · Score: 1

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

    Essentially, there is very little in orbit going the wrong way because it's more expensive and energy intensive to do it that way. The chances of a 34,000MPH collission are extremely low.

  25. Re:A Message From a Loyal Fan on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I see this more as the Kirk from the timeline that wasn't fixed. In the future what's to stop them from going back and fixing the timeline and meanwhile we ride along in this timeline for a bit. Think of it as the Mitchell that went back to 1919 and waited 10 years to kill B'ahl as he came through the StarGate or the Daniel who stuck around in Ancient Egypt after Ra left earth.

    Or just think of it as a good movie and leave it at that.