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  1. Re:Regardless on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 1

    You let a neighbor zombie, 3 years dead, nurse your kid? Are you INSANE? (However, his immunity to zombieism will probably be a credit to the species if we can hold off long enough for the genes to make it into broad circulation...)

  2. Re:Even more safe on Riskiest Web Domains To Visit · · Score: 1

    So I guess the band Via Gra should be fine, then...

  3. Talk About Lazy and Capricious on US Banks That Offer Transaction History? · · Score: 1

    This is your make or break bank feature? Just don't be lazy and check it once a month. I do mine via Quicken about every weekend to two weeks, just 'cos. It takes about 5 minutes, and I have transactions going back to 2001. Easy peasy. (substitute your program of choice to do the same exact thing)

  4. Re:This comment not safe for 15-year-old on Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship · · Score: 1

    Nominally Christian, but you've never apparently even looked at a Bible before? Riiiiight.

  5. Re:The case against Hurd is dubious on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 1

    The board just wanted to avoid publicity? They sure fucked that one up.

  6. I just use... on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    12345, same as my luggage. Lots easier to remember.

  7. Re:Hello world on Skype Files For IPO · · Score: 3, Informative

    He said full version. Dunno about yours, but my Skype only works over Verizon's connection, with WiFi not allowed to be used.

  8. Re:What! on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you consider concentrated bee barf gross, but nary a word about sugar with mole asses in it?

  9. Re:Someone tagged this FOIA on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    Your rare example isn't really very meaningful in the real world. The weight of numbers is against it. It doesn't take much looking to see where the suicide bombers blow themselves up and what the typical civilian casualty's nominal religion is.

  10. Re:Someone tagged this FOIA on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting thing to say when the vast majority of suicide bombings have had civilian casualties, and a large number of them had that as one of their very goals. You might be correct in a tiny number of cases, but even a cursory look at casualty figures disproves your statement as anything but a random exception.

  11. Re:DNA (Douglas N Adams, that is) would have loved on Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics? · · Score: 1

    You know that a hooter is actually something else, right?

  12. Re:Statistics on Officers Lose 243 Homeland Security Guns · · Score: 1

    A guy from another company in our battalion apparently took a nap on the night land nav course, woke up, and forgot to bring his weapon along when he finished the course. Their whole company ended up in the field for two weeks looking for it, and his platoon an extra two weeks beyond that. I can only imagine how bad life must have been for him.

  13. Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! on Emmerich Plans Foundation As a 3D Epic · · Score: 1

    Yes, but ID4 was simply an action movie, and Foundation is about a lot of thinkin' and such. That leaves out the example of story raping -- consider if the movie that we watched as ID4 had actually been called something else, like say...Footfall. And maybe you've heard what happened with Starship Troopers?

  14. Re:Eat at White Castle on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty horrible way to do, from either potential perspective!

  15. Re:Easy solution on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    Evolution is just a process of change. It does not "expect" or anticipate things it ought to do and plan for. Various adaptions succeed and reproduce, passing on the adaption, or not.

  16. Re:Had To Laugh on The Nuking of Duke Nukem · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that Daikatana and Battlecruiser 3000 had their days as well, but were eventually released, to expectable mediocre to crap reviews.

  17. Re:.no on Are Sat-Nav Systems Becoming Information Overload? · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good for you, but it doesn't hold up well applied across a general spectrum. Travel is not necessarily about adventure. Travel can also be about business, about getting things done, about getting to the hospital in time. It's all about your usage. I took a trip a few months back where I knew exactly where to go over the course of 4-5 hours except for the literal last 5 minutes of the trip. Nice Lady didn't tell me when to get gas nor particularly bother me about turns, since I turned her volume down. It was nice to have the projected time of arrival to relay to my brother, as we took a couple of detours and breaks. Nice Lady doesn't bitch at me when I go offroute; she dutifully figures out the new route, which I am free to ignore as well. You act like GPS is some kind of prison or detriment to travel, but it is no more so than a map would be. People who want to go straight to their destination can do that, and people who want to wander can do that equally well, either with a GPS, a map, compass, dead reckoning, or terrain association. Your method / purpose of travel is not your method of navigation.

    GPS doesn't make anyone less capable of navigation. If you can find the way, you can turn off or ignore the GPS. If you can't, that GPS makes you more capable. A map also helps find things, but the lack of "You Are Here" complicates things more. Don't rail against GPS if you don't need it or don't like it. Just don't use it.

  18. Re:BWB on US Air Force Confirms New Stealth Aircraft · · Score: 1

    we will see the regular airlines pick this up, put cargo on the outer edges and avoid the issues with having a regular airline pick it up. Why? Because it will use 30-50% less fuel.

    What?

  19. Re:Good grief! on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting autistic people are some kind of criminal superninjas that could break into his mom's basement and sit next to him without him even knowing?

  20. Re:Bribery on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that people are searching for the BBC instead of searching on a particular topic and finding an article on the BBC site. Traffic that doesn't require the use of a search engine would not be impacted by this in the first place. You can find results on a website without looking for that website itself.

  21. Re:Where are the cops? on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Legitimate fraudsters?

  22. Re:Use the master password feature and stop worryi on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    You could always lock your machine, and set the screensaver to lock after a period of time. It's a much better solution.

  23. Re:A new name for this? on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Had a co-worker do that to the boss he didn't like. (Dunno that it was child porn, regular porn would have been firing offense enough.) He put a bunch of porn files on the guy's computer and then turned him in. However, it did not occur to him to change the owner of the files to some userid other than his own. Oops.

    As an ironic aside, this guy later molested his own (step?) daughters and was on the run around the world for a couple of years before being caught and returned to face justice.

  24. Re:Where are the ads? on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1

    That depends on the urls you use. The beginning of the filter list has an array of *ad* type exclusions. It would take some minor bit of planning, to be sure, but not much.

  25. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    This Dvorak comment said it all to me:

    "I haven't received a single personal note from a Microsoft PR person for roughly four years."

    He whined about the marketing and lack of pizazz, and hadn't anything to say about the OS itself. It was an article about nothing.