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  1. Re:Someone sells a tool to open these things easil on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 5, Informative

    I got a handy little tool from Think Geek called "The Plastic Surgeon" that works pretty well.

  2. Re:Salaries on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    He was replying to a post that was mostly incoherent, apprently trying to get some clarification. Your response does not decrease the incoherence.

  3. Re:Guess whose bootysnap I'm gonna violate? on Supreme Court Orders Do-Over On Key Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Don't think they care if anyone here buys it. They're engaging in "Search Engine Optimization" -- enough links and they hope to game their search results to move higher in Google's listing.

  4. Re:Flood the market on Software Patents Good For Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Why ancient Greek symbology?

    Because even with capitialization, bars, accents and so on, 26 letters just isn't enough. And overloading those 26 would make things more confusing, not less. We also use a few other ancient symbols, although aleph is the only one that jumps to mind right now.

  5. Re:so... on Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that this was the bar section of a restaurant, and is also part of the eating space. According to the California ABC site:
    There are no restrictions regarding minors entering or remaining on premises licensed for off-sale of alcoholic beverages or premises licensed and maintained and operated as a bona fide public eating place. (Section 25665)

  6. Re:so... on Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' · · Score: 1

    Years ago the manager of a restaurant (El Torito chain) kicked us out of the bar section because one of our party had an infant with him. This was in California, which does not normally have draconian policies about things like that.

    I suspect he was a transplant from somewhere else and was confused about what was allowed, but he apparently had the authority to do it.

  7. Re:All my old photos are faded on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    If you're putting a USB in a fireproof safe, be sure it's a safe designed for digital media.

    You can get paper very hot without destroying it if you keep the air away from it. Most fireproof safes are designed to keep paper safe. Digital media is not quite so robust.

  8. Re:Last bastion on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 2

    I don't think that word (theory) means what you think it means.

  9. Re:Last bastion on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 2
  10. Re:Personal Responsibility on Congress Considering CISPA Amendments · · Score: 1

    And my congresscritter has run unopposed in this district for several years.

    Not that he'd lose -- it's a pretty hard-core right wing district, which probably why no one is likely to run against him.

  11. Re:Software Patent Reform Anyone? on Motorola Scores Patent Wins Over Microsoft, Apple · · Score: 1

    "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. " --Bill Gates

  12. Re:What's best on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Every once in a while I load up chrome (now that I've segregated my Google logged-in services from everything else) and I keep running into annoying "features" where Chrome just doesn't work right.

  13. Re:Canadian Content on Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site · · Score: 1

    Or because it helps them to make money? It drives their sales?

  14. Re:If It Is Fact ... on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Climate science is certainly based on physics. Are you claiming that a climate scientist is (or should be) like Mentor of Arisia, able to contemplate the existence of strong, weak, EM and gravity and from that deduce what the weather in Des Moines is going to be tomorrow?

    Of course, I'm making it easy for the climate scientist -- Mentor would just need one of those...

  15. Re:If It Is Fact ... on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So where are the papers presenting these cogent arguments?

  16. Re:Immenant Disaster... on Official Details For the DARPA Robotics Challenge · · Score: 1

    Relaxed the requirements how? As I recall the second year course was more difficult than the first one.

  17. Re:And they will probably declare him a nut on Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars · · Score: 2

    Nope. You left out the purpose and only included the method.

    Patents are "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts."

    The method the Constitution prescribes for accomplishing this purpose is "by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." But don't get those mixed up. The method is secondary to the purpose. That's important.

  18. Re:First "Me too"? on Microsoft Buys 800 AOL Patents For $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Not very good coasters. They had a hole in the middle!

  19. Re:i would love to sue my boss for that on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I were applying to any company, it would be as technical staff (IT.)

    Handing over a password to *anything* would be proof of a lack of competence for the job, and I'd tell them that.

  20. Re:Nahh on Connecticut Considers Digital Download Tax · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but censorship as a policy is hard to ascribe to incompentence.

  21. Re:Robert Heinlein was here first! on Startram — Maglev Train To Low Earth Orbit · · Score: 1

    Even before that. The Man Who Sold the Moon.

  22. Re:I agree on Publisher Pulls Supports; 'Research Works Act' Killed · · Score: 1

    I had a friend whose employer had him sign up for classes (which he never attended) at our university, just so he could access journal articles. A few thousand dollars of tuition was far cheaper than the subscription for the engineering jounal they wanted articles from. I don't remember how much he told me that was (it's been a few years) but it was either $30,000 or $60,000.

  23. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    It's a small principality in the Himilayas whose only export is their currency. Large corporations like to use "bucks" from Boku as a form of money laundering.

    Glad I could clear that up.

  24. Re:Mine is 54321 UNREAL on Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Any other questions?

  25. Re:If any google employee can stomach what I surf on Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack · · Score: 2

    Are you referring to necrohippoflagilism?