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  1. Re:Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is the right word on Insomniacs, the Phantoms of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've always been a night owl and for the past few years I'd been working a noon-8pm shift. Even with that not so terribly late shift there was a lot of opportunities to socialize that I'd been missing out on. It will be a challenge for me, especially at first, but for my next job I'd really prefer something more standard.

  2. Re:Anybody here? on Insomniacs, the Phantoms of the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what about if you have one tab open to /. and another tab open to facebook? Is that pathetic yet geeky-cool or just plain pathetic?

  3. Re:Anybody here? on Insomniacs, the Phantoms of the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe, but what's really bad is there are parts of the US that seem to close down by 2300 GMT too.

  4. Re:Why? on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess I can't exactly call it "wrong" not using your right pinky, since I only scored around 75wpm on typingtest.com using both of my pinkies, but I still can't see any justification for calling my technique of using 9 fingers to type stupid (I don't seem to use my left thumb for anything). I mean it's at least more efficient in theory, even if there's not a perfect correlation with better typing speed.

  5. Re:Dvorak on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 1

    That's a good solution for command shortcuts, but doesn't solve anything for vim/emacs.

  6. Re:Why? on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you're saying you use your ring finger for shift, control and enter? How is it stupider using the pinky which is closer and which requires much less wrist movement to reach with?

  7. Re:They don't understand jailbreaking on Tethering Is Exhilarating (With the Nexus One) · · Score: 1

    My girlfriends jailbroken 3GS looked the same as the non-jailbroken one, but Wi-Fi stopped working after a few weeks. Then it stopped booting. I had to do an emergency restore to fix it and she decided she'd rather stick with the official software ever since.

  8. Re:On the other hand on EU Says Google Street View Violates Privacy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well Bush is the one they are talking about, so your vote in the previous election is irrelevant.

  9. Re:Raped in an MMO? on Examining Virtual Crimes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any virtual environment or even chat systems support virtual rape by way of emotes

    No, no they don't. There's a reason why you can be sued for sexual harassment at work for saying something obscene but you can't be sued for rape for something you say. Words can be hurtful, but they can't be rape.

  10. Re:Perhaps another Sudoku app... on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    He said content, but clearly from the context he was talking about apps.

  11. Re:Just like desktop linux. on Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices · · Score: 1

    I think these delays are from the phone vendors, not from Google. I wouldn't be surprised if the desire to keep phones updated without having to wait for the slow phone companies is a big part of the reason for Google starting their own phone store.

  12. Re:Perhaps another Sudoku app... on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    The Android market has the same problem. Tons of "apps" on the market are theme packs for alternate homescreens, soundboards, and T&A apps.

    A lot of this shovel-ware comes from the same developers. One easy improvement I've been wishing for is the ability to blacklist these devs.

  13. Re:Perhaps another Sudoku app... on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    What other ways are there to install apps on a non-jailbroken iPhone?

  14. Re:FIST... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make sense. If doing the wrong thing frequently has no bad consequences, how would it be self-correcting?

  15. Re:Damn Good. on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Talk radio is more analogous to the Two Minutes Hate, although instead of 2 minutes it's more like a 3 or 4 hour hate.

  16. Re:which prompts the question on White House Press Secretary's Tweets Archived · · Score: 1

    Danse above provided the references. It was pretty big news at the time, not sure how you missed it.

  17. Re:which prompts the question on White House Press Secretary's Tweets Archived · · Score: 1

    And in many respects they are much, much more transparent then the previous administration. Of course it's early to say, but I don't see this administration using unofficial email addresses to illegally circumvent archiving laws.

  18. Re:How? on White House Press Secretary's Tweets Archived · · Score: 1

    It would probably look something like what you just did.

  19. Re:Waste of good chocolate on Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Dude, the crap at the convenience store is the left over chocolate. You can pick up a box for dirt cheap.

  20. Re:Well, duh on RHIC Finds Symmetry Transformations In Quark Soup · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the idea that we just don't have a big chunk of anti-matter nearby has been pretty much ruled out. If there were big chunks of anti-matter somewhere in the universe, then there would be border areas where they meet big chunks of regular matter and that should be very easy to spot.

  21. Re:Yes, but... on New Interactive Black Hole Simulation Published · · Score: 1

    The images of gravitational lensing typically show galaxies deforming into arcs, I'm not sure about stars. Stars are effectively point sources in even the best telescopes, so that may make a difference.

  22. Re:Yeah, it's called blissful ignorance on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there were plenty of atheists who went along with religion enough to avoid prosecution, but that clearly was not the case with Newton. He even published some religious writings along with his scientific work.

  23. Re:What is hate speech? on Google Rejects Australian Censorship Proposal · · Score: 1

    I don't see how "That guy's crippled! Get him!" makes any less sense then "That guy's skin is a different shade! Get him!".

  24. Re:Turbo! on Swiss Firm Claims Boost In Android App Performance · · Score: 1

    It was only too fast because of poor programming practices. They assumed a certain MHz processor and so faster CPUs threw off their timing.

  25. Re:Huh? on A "Never Reboot" Service For Linux · · Score: 1

    Aren't most of the air traffic control servers still using hardware with tubes? I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't updated a kernel in the last 30 years.