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  1. Re:Silly people on One In Five Employers Scan Applicants' Web Lives · · Score: 1

    Considering that a lot of people have used cannabis these days it really doesn't indicate shit, especially considering a lot of intelligent people feel that the illegal status of cannabis is, quite honestly, bullshit.

    In other words, it means that those people feel they can break the law when they personally find it "okay."

    How reassuring.

  2. Re:Only 20%?? on One In Five Employers Scan Applicants' Web Lives · · Score: 1

    You don't necessarily ever grow out of "stupid enough to do illegal things on camera"

  3. Re:Can this be hacked around? on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    I think there are ways to enable that, but doing so decreases the life of the battery since much more activity is going through the radio.

    There's also that many people don't yet (afaik) have unlimited data packages for their respective phones, so emailing via handset as an alternative to SMS might be more expensive for them.

  4. Re:And we're suprised by this why? on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Apparently Pen and Teller didn't go anywhere where the water is overly mineral rich (yay water that tastes like sand) or has a metallic or chlorine bite.

    You'd have to be dead to not be able to tell municipal water from where i work or live from bottled. The stuff out of the tap smells and tastes like pennies.

  5. Re:And we're suprised by this why? on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Out of curiousity, did cancelling your txt service lower your bill at all? IIRC the iphone plans come "standard" with 200 or so text messages included. I'd gladly be rid of those if it would shave some off my bill.

  6. Re:This one since 1884 on Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but my understanding is that O2 is let in in limited quantities naturally due to convection caused by the heat via mineshafts and fissures in the rock.

    This limited O2 is what has caused the thing to smolder for a century rather than erupt in a blazing inferno

  7. Re:Zeus on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 1

    Well stated.

    I was perplexed by the summary, as my idea of a superstition is something like the belief that a blacksnake can take its tongue in its mouth and roll after you like a hoop. Or that saw about black cats crossing your path.

    (and yes I know and work with people right here in 2008 that believe the snake one to be reality)

  8. Re:Calculus, or no-calculus? on Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook · · Score: 1

    Yep, I got physics and calc 1-3 out of the way at a community college, in classes of between 30 and 6 students. Plus, the professors were all teachers FIRST and foremost, not researchers who were required to educate as an unfortunate side effect of being given a lab to work in.

    Plenty of my peers ridiculed the idea, when I suggested they try it, as community colleges here have unfortunately got the bad rap of being where the highschool dropouts and uneducated older people go for job skills.

  9. Re:Calculus, or no-calculus? on Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to mention that college level calc may well taught in an arena type hall with 250 students, by a TA or a professor who most likely is going to find such "elementary" math beneath him or her.

    Getting calc "out of the way" (at a community college level, in a class of mostly highschoolers who wanted the credit) was the best thing I ever did.

  10. Re:Latency is kinda pointless for this kind of stu on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    This makes a lot more sense with the trans-exchange trading aspect pointed out. Thanks for the explanation.

  11. Re:$200 bounty on Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? · · Score: 1

    I would (seriously, cause i own a hybrid :)) like to see your sources: a few minutes of googling shows people claiming anywhere from 2-6k, maybe that's not counting labor, but considering this isn't a rip-the-transmission-out type of job I don't see how the difference is coming from labor costs...

  12. Re:What does her wealth have to do with it? on J. K. Rowling Wins $6,750 In Infringement Case · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't see why reorganizing original details verbatim should be protected under fair use, but I'd be interested to read why you think they should- or why you don't think that is what the lexicon did.

    NYCL, this, please. I don't doubt that I may misunderstand the law or how it applies to this case, so having it laid out plainly may help.

  13. Re:Hold your horses! on J. K. Rowling Wins $6,750 In Infringement Case · · Score: 1

    Every fiction reference book I've ever looked through (LotR oriented, mostly) has also been decidedly light on verbatim-quoted material. What I've read so far about this lexicon indicates that, whatever else it has, it contains masses of the author's own text.

    Also, is it certain that the book contains all the supposed extra commentary and whatnot that exists on the site? (one thing that comes to mind is that anything user added may be omitted) Again (and I can't check the website from work) the impression i get is that whatever value-add the site has, the book is more like an index of quoted material.

  14. Re:More than scientific learning on LHC Success! · · Score: 1

    You're going to need to lose a little weight if you think you'll be able to pay the ferryman with 20 bucks. ;)

  15. Re:$200 bounty on Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but I don't think the battery pack for a Camry or Prius costs anywhere near 10,000 dollars.

  16. Re:Latency is kinda pointless for this kind of stu on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    I think the unclear point is: Why can't the person you bought from, and the person you sell to just trade between themselves without someone intervening to take their cut.

    If the answer is "They could, if not for some guy getting in the way" then arbitrage does seem to be an unneeded burden

  17. Re:Try Reiser's new filesystem on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you're doing it wrong...

  18. Re:commiecast doesn't get the law on Comcast Appeals FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    Possibly because the likelihood of getting a judge to understand the concepts involved is almost, but not quite absolutely zero.

  19. Re:Fine by me but... on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    Well, if they don't want to fork over a substantial chunk of money on union dues, no, they couldn't get the piece of paper.

  20. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Assuming the EE KNEW the code, I might more faith in him to FOLLOW it as opposed to say, cutting corners and doing a shoddy job in general.

  21. Re:Woah on Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Whoops, "surface mount and soldered" -1 redundant

  22. Re:Woah on Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    IIRC the iPhone's flash chips are fine pitch surface mount and soldered to a board--I don't know of any way you could feasibly attach leads to a chip like that without taking it off the board and putting it in some kind of specialized unit.

  23. Re:How can you tell if a box is zombied? on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 1

    I recall Windows Defender (Microsoft's antispyware/malware offering) to be able to detect and fix alterations to IE's default behavior--have you tried that app? My memory could be bad (or this could just be a different situation) but I think i've used it in the past to fix student computers which had subverted IE installs that did something similar to what you mentioned.

  24. In other news... on 88% of IT Admins Would Steal Passwords If Laid Off · · Score: 1

    80% of people talk big about all kinds of hypothetical situations and then turn tail when push comes to shove.

  25. Re:Should have used Harry Potter... on Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure plenty of writers would be right onboard with the idea.

    Convincing their publishers to allow it might be a little more difficult.