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  1. Re:Larry Weed, medical visionary on Excerpt from Kessler's 'The End of Medicine' · · Score: 1

    His program "PKC" would basically eliminate the tv show "House"
    This show seems to be designed to make the diagnostic process something that could obviously be done (better, as Weed states) by a computer program.
    (the link is NG. Better to just google his name)

  2. Re:Old Process + Internet = Patent on Friendster Patents Social Networking · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's with OSNews?
    VONNAGE has captured their site!

  3. Re:Oh well... on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    "There aren't really any machines that "just work"."

    That is not the experience of the 11 year old daughter of my chinese neighbour. I advised them to buy her a 300 (CAD) Dell computer.(the cheapest that I could find) It came, I connected a few cords and it has kept her happy ever since. (It has a sympatico lite broadband connection)

  4. Re:Oh well... on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    "All his Ipod and multimedia problems would have been solved if he'd have chosen these."

    BS
    Just look at the forums of any of these.Problems with sound and multimedia abound.
    2 or 3 years ago, someone on some forum observed that ,in his opinion, there were 10 times as many "installers" as users of linux.
    One thing that "installers" have is time; something that is scarce for users.

  5. Re:Pardon my ignorance... on Linux 2.6.16 released · · Score: 1

    Damn near everything listed was beyond me ( a noobie web browser)
    One poster at OSNews said that if you look at the forums of different distros they all seem to have EXACTLY the same problems listed.( I agree)
    Perhaps the devs could focus on these?

  6. Re:A Link. on Mark Shuttleworth Proposes Delaying next Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    A depressing series of comments
    Only one person said that you can put a link in the MBR (is 512 bits enough for a link?).
      to as much space as needed
    only one person

  7. Re:I don't use Cell Phones on Your Cell Records For Sale Online, Cheap · · Score: 1

    Even a decade ago pay phones were becoming scarce in many parts of the USA and Canada. They were frequently vandalized and the repairs seemed to take forever.

  8. Re:Windows XP? on MozCorp Announces Firefox 1.5 Extension Competition · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  9. Re:thoughts from an employee on Red Hat Co-Founder Bob Young Resigns · · Score: 1

    You might look at the shipping charges at Lulu before praising them.

  10. Re:If it's so new... on Consumers Union Wants You to Share Your Story · · Score: 1

    I found out that if you sign a paper that authorizes the company to withdraw money each month from your bank account you CANNOT have the bank stop paying them: except by cancelling your bank account.

  11. Re:Convenience vs. Security on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution · · Score: 2, Informative

    "NOT be able to save any info to my local compute..."

    Use PUPPY linux 1.0.0 (live cd)
    Can save to a track on the cd that it boots from.

  12. Re:And far better scratch protection on Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    Some independent evaluation of the "scratch resistance" would be nice.
    The market, world wide, for protection of glasses is huge NOW. The dvd market is mainly in the future

  13. Re:Picture sans leaf on Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map? · · Score: 1

    Interesting that some of the google photos have him facing one way with the left leg bent, and other photos facing the other way with the other leg bent.
    Are the negatives reversed?

  14. Re:Higher resolution image? on Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses · · Score: 1

    for free software people to use a pdf that cannot be read by free software (Konqueror in my case) is rather like the "Temperance" society using (paying) a liquor company to advertise their position.
    The bottom line is money; always money

  15. Re:German Firefox was spyware on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    "mistake"
    The most innocuous word in the English language.
    Some people say that using the atomic bomb on Japan was a "mistake"
    If I turn around suddenly and bump into someone I may say"sorry, my mistake".
    The inclusion of spyware was NOT an unplanned act. Just like the use of the "bomb"; a lot of thought went into it.
    So ,"they corrected it" does not make sense. How do you correct the dropping of the "bomb"; or any other deliberately made decision. Except, of course, that "to correct" has become an amorphous word that often stands for "mea culpa"

  16. Re:Still A Scam even if they stop *external* fraud on Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks · · Score: 1

    "You have no way to know."
    Isn't this the crux of the situation?

  17. Re:I can vouch for this on Google Image Index Just Not Updated · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How does their explanation account for the fact that the pictures WERE available; but have since been removed?
    Re:Google just sucks (Score:2)
    by l0ungeb0y (442022) on Sunday November 07, @01:35PM (#10747505)
    (http://www.musecube.com/l0ungeb0y/ | Last Journal: Monday February 09, @06:38PM)

    No, that's not the case at all. Google had plenty of Abu Ghraib pics not too long ago. Now they are gone.

  18. Re:Neurosmith Babbler on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 1

    As a kid I was told that I was tone deaf. Being in an English speaking country this was not a major problem in my life.However had I been in a Chinese speaking country, would I have been seen as retarded because I was unable to understand the spoken language?
    I have asked a number of people about this without getting much of an answer.

  19. Re:Order in Canada on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1

    site does not seem up to date

  20. Re:bacteria bacteria everywhere on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 1

    New Scientist.1999, june 26. p.43
    "The human body contains 100,000,000,000,000 cells, a tenth of which belong to the body proper. The remaining 90 % are the 90 trillion or so bacteria that live on or in us."
    A fascinating article.

  21. Re:Vendor adds lots of patches to kernel on 2.4, The Kernel and Forking · · Score: 1

    your webpage (The Emerald Blackbird) is not accessable to Konqueror

  22. Re:Bic Cars on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    A friend has just leased a chev suv/pickup It has more electronic gadgets than a space shuttle. He doesn't care because the dealer will fix anything under warranty.
    BUT, who is going to buy this when the lease ends?
    I certainly could not afford to keep all the gadgets working.

  23. Re:The luxury of ignorance on Slashback: Flashmob, Currency, Verification · · Score: 1

    And how many times have I read on forums the comment that "man pages are written by programmers for programmers"; and are frequently not comphrensible even to them.

  24. Re:Snipe-hunt? on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    snipes exist. They are small (starling size or a little bigger) birds that inhabit wetlands in (at least) England.
    They have a very erratic flight pattern and are very difficult to hit (with a shotgun).
    I failed almost all the time.

  25. Re:Key question unanswered on The Full Outsourcing Discussion · · Score: 1



    by economists. These are maintaining a "deafening silence" concerning the source of replacement jobs.