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  1. Re:What trend? on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    The default configuration is the only configuration that the vast majority of business and home users care about. The 2nd thing that servicemen ask is if we've reverted to the default configuration to resolve issues. The first thing they ask is if we've tried rebooting the machine.

  2. 99 Red Balloons. on Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound · · Score: 2

    Nena seems appropriate here. 99 Red Balloons.

  3. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    That WHOOSH! belongs to you, Calydor.

    You should reread the comment about the large mirror.

  4. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The goal is energy storage and mobility. Stored hydrogen is much more efficient than a solar panel at night or under ground, for example.

  5. Re:What a waste on Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh no, not at all. They merely want to make every free act a gray area in court, so they can selectively prosecute whomever they wish.

  6. All your base pairs are belong to us. on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hahahhaha funny.

  7. Re:It's a flawed way to keep a site up. on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    Well before the internet, magazines and newspapers relied on advertisements so I fail to see where the "shift of focus" is.

    There isn't. Nobody with two eyes open takes the magazine articles at face value when the rags include advertisements from the companies in the reviews.

    The internet made this worse. Instead of being able to read around the adverts in the magazines, now we must uncover the "useful" content from pop-over ads and distracting video and and sound.

  8. Re: Not sure... on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1

    Anonymous coward with poor quality control? Do you work for EA?

  9. Re:I say cut the F-35 on There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon · · Score: 1

    The government attempts to tightly control inflation, and availability of money in general. Tell me how a private company is going to beat that.

  10. Re:Bad analogy on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 1

    Aside from the many cheap and goofy devices that obscure the license plate to electronic cameras, you just logically made all other forms of electronic tracking and gps based systems superfluous.

    Oh wait, our government, in an rare fit of common sense, realizes that a ubiquitous network of cameras nationwide would be prohibitively expensive.

  11. Re:Low low Walmart prices on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 1

    Oh, we could. And the world would pass us by, much like 1900's Japan.

  12. Re:Low low Walmart prices on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 1

    That's moronic. There's no way short of bypassing another country's sovereignty to inspect and enforce our laws on foreign based businesses. It's impossible to inspect them from afar with any degree of assurance. WMD's in Iraq, for example.

  13. Re:Low low Walmart prices on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 1

    Sure it's exploitation. Given that there is no way to practice inter-nation commerce with a nation that does NOT have identical environmental, wage, and human rights policies, the only alternative is to seal our borders and live without the benefits of global economies. You know, things like foreign oil, electronics, rare minerals, and imported EVERYTHING.

  14. Re:Seen from space = BS on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 1

    True, but I usually take the "from space" figure of speech to be visible from low earth orbit with 20/20 unassisted human vision. Yes I am aware that low earth orbit is a grey area, and not 100% entirely "outer space".

  15. Re:Lest we become hypocrites... on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem isn't mismanagement. It's lack of management. Industrial oversight is not intuitive to new industrial booms, because the short term profit will always outweigh the long term unseen consequences until they come to light.

  16. Re:You have a DO NOT TRACK option, called DO NOT B on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 1

    The free market doesn't have two constitutional clauses to cover it's back. The postal and interstate commerce clauses both specifically assign this job to the federal government.

  17. Industrial revolution standard procedure on Growing Public Unrest Leads China To Admit To 'Cancer Villages' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've maintained for years that China, Mexico, and similar countries going though industrial booms are simply in early stages of industrial revolution. Next we shall see environmental, wage, and health reforms, as these countries realize the need for sustainable management of their labor base.

  18. Re:Bad analogy on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You mistakenly believe that force of law is effective in privacy rights. http://www.dhs.gov/

    If you want your car to be invisible to electronic monitoring, you must drive a car with no electronic capability. I suggest one of these http://www.legendaryfind.com/

  19. Re:weird analogy on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 3, Funny

    By admitting the need for an opt-in requirement, you are implicitly agreeing with the need for an opt-out mechanism. You're arguing semantics.

  20. Re:a fancy way on Quadrocopters Throwing and Catching an Inverted Pendulum · · Score: 1

    To be pedantic, "Succession" would be viable as a result of impeachment. Just saying.

  21. Re:so what? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    All good. 8-)

    I hope we see good results from this publicity. Or at least discover the other half of the story. You know, the US's version of the "truth".

  22. Re:I'm getting a different message on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    By posting as Anonymous Coward, and presenting such an uncooperative speculation, I'm assuming you are a spitter. Perhaps you can inform us as to which option is favorable, and when? You seam to be much more experienced at this particular form of interview.

  23. Re:I'm getting a different message on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    You're assuming the "best applicant" will the one that plays by the rules, and minimally performing at that. Resume coaches universally encourage people to break the rules in creative and fun ways, from colored resume paper to resumes formatted around large pictures, to delivering said resume in a memorable way. And nothing beats the connection on the inside of the company. Becoming the "best applicant" involves going past the effort of the crowd. If that means a degree AND a mariachi band, then the person that delivers the live music gets the job.

  24. Re:Easy solution on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    Good point. Pulling up roots and vacating is certainly a viable option.

  25. Re:Easy solution on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    I didn't say which side the collateral damage would come from. A terrorist taking a wedding party hostage is just as repugnant as our government representatives bombing the whole thing to take out an important target. The point was that third parties become active parties the moment they become aware of local conflict, and that ignoring the conflict only makes them victims.