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  1. That's not it on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    They're supposed to have guide rails, and Apple's don't. Otherwise this story would be about slot loading drives, not Macs.

  2. Re:Yes on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    They're described as "Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)" on Apple's website.

  3. Don't put words in my mouth on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    I'm perfectly fine with people replacing their legs to compete.

  4. Alright on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    We'll also include in that list machine grown food, air travel to the games site, physiotherapy...

  5. Certainly better than mine on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    So he should be barred from competing, so it's fair to me.

  6. Yes on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Calling them DVD drives certainly does that, and really, not coming clean with the fact that they're *not* is enough.

  7. And that logic is asinine on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Should we limit the training time athletes may invest? After all, you shouldn't have to destroy your career to have a chance at winning (these are, after all, supposed to be amature athletes).

    It's time to take the gloves off. Let the Olympics be a spectacle of what the human form (which intrinsically includes human technology) can do. Bring on the biotech!

  8. So... on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Should people with longer legs be disqualified for the same reason?

  9. I do on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    They quite clearly call it a DVD drive, but it is not one.

  10. Tracking on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    Of course it would only be useful to have text dead centre, but a vague blur to the side could tell you that there is something to read.

  11. No on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    For a wide scale deployment, they'd almost certainly have to add capacity that didn't exist before.

    Distributing 4GB to lots of people isn't trivial, and that's ignoring the marketing fact that most people wouldn't be willing to do so in the first place.

  12. Obviously they did on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    And they decided that Apple's tiny market share wasn't worth holding the product back for. At least they warned you, they'd be well within their rights to say nothing and blame Apple for selling mislabeled drives.

  13. No on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They've specifically said they wouldn't support Apple's non compliant hardware, which Apple dishonestly marketed as compliant.

  14. There's absolutely nothing stopping you on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    From boycotting non labeled meat.

    Demanding a label most certainly is making a statement about safety. If it's just about information, why not also label the astrological sign the animal was born under?

  15. Blah blah blah on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    You have a right to whatever you're willing to pay for. I'm sure you'll be able to find someone willing to sell you non cloned meat.

    You managed to spew six paragraphs of verbal diarrhoea without addressing the real issue. Why should your superstition about biotech carry more weight than kosher superstitions?

  16. You've got it backwards on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    Labelling it necessarily implies there's something wrong with it. Besides, where do you draw the line? Should we require non kosher meat to be labelled so?

    Of course not, we simply allow those who want it to buy from suppliers who voluntarily label. Don't ask me to fund your superstition.

  17. Congratulations on missing the point on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't "selectively focus" on documents where the author is actively trying to hide things from a casual reading.

  18. You aren't asking for full disclosure on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    You're asking for a minor and irrelevant part of the meat's history. If you luddites want non-cloned meat, there is absolutely nothing preventing you from paying for it.

    Don't try to force sane, reasonable people to do so.

  19. Speak for yourself on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    I don't give a damn. If *you* want non cloned meat *you* can pay extra to get it. You can die in a fire before you make me pay for labels to assuage your superstitious technophobia.

  20. Quick! Smash the looms! on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    They're taking our jeorbs!

  21. Did you read the article on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're complaining that people are doing just that.

  22. It's that or coal on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 1

    Any opposition to nuclear power is implicit endorsement of coal generated power.

  23. Sitting on a rock? That's irresponsible on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 1

    You'll have to seal yourself in a cave, so you don't release methane when you decompose.

  24. Bullshit on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 1

    Sane, rational people do not oppose atomic energy. The only people who don't consider it green are the technophobic wingbats who'd like to see us revert to a hunter gatherer lifestyle (and you'd better not be using flint tools).

  25. Charles Stross on The Magic 8-Ball's Take on Tech in 2008 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Writes some good near future sci-fi (Accelerando and Halting State). You should also check out Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.