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  1. Re:Back to the Future on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    So you agree, then, that conservatism shouldn't be blamed for the effort to censor Card's book.

  2. Re:Back to the Future on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    Don't blame conservativism. The author himself is a "conservative Mormon," according to TFA.

  3. Re:First keylogger? on How Allan Scherr Hacked Around the First Computer Password · · Score: 1

    At my university during the early '80s, each student's VAX-11/780 username and password both consisted of the student's Social Security number. When exam results were posted on the bulletin board, they were listed by SSN.

  4. Re:A first on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    That's the spirit! The captain always goes down with the ship.

  5. Misleading Summary on Bell Labs Builds Cheap Telepresence 'Robots' · · Score: 1

    The technology will likely be priced in the 'hundreds of dollars,' rather than the tens of thousands that the likes of Cisco and Polycom charge for high-end telepresence rooms.

    And that's because this is not a "high-end telepresence room"; it's a "low-cost camera and screen that swivels on a set of robotic shoulders, and sits at a meeting table with physical attendees." Apples and oranges.

  6. I prefer Sciarrino on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 1
  7. Speak Softly Love on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 1

    Opening three notes of the Godfather Theme ("Speak Softly Love") at 8:53.

  8. Re:Context on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 2

    Albert Camus? Is that you?

  9. Re:The crackpot's web site on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's no Kaczynski.

  10. Re:Strabismus is not "lazy eye" on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 1

    It is not "malaise" that causes strabismus or amblyopia.

    I think the word the OP was looking for was malady, not malaise, as in There's a malady in children that can prevent full stereopsis (depth perception) from developing, called strabismus or lazy-eye.

  11. Re:because .xxx is nothing like .sex on ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites · · Score: 3, Informative

    The doc you linked does mention a different idea that I could get behind though, establish a .kids which would be a semi-walled garden of child appropriate material.

    That's been tried, via an administered second-level domain, .kids.us

    From the link, It's the first and only "youth-friendly" Web space to be established by the United States government, and it features advanced technical, policy and operational mechanisms that keep young people informed, entertained and protected online.

  12. Re:wrong on Flash Crash Analysis of May 6 Stock Market Plunge · · Score: 1

    Interesting, considering the grandparent consisted of bare assertions and lacked supporting evidence or arguments.

  13. DIY on Verizon Makes Offering Service Blocks a Fireable Offense · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can go to verizonwireless.com and add (or remove) the blocks yourself (note: some of the links are found at the extreme right or bottom of the page):

    Account -> Plan -> Set Usage Controls -> Add/Remove Blocks

    • Block Ringback Tone Purchase
    • Block Premium Messaging
    • Block V CAST Music
    • Block Premium Animated Messaging
    • Block Mobile Web
    • Block Web Purchases
    • Block V CAST Video Clips
    • Block Application Downloads
  14. Re:well, it is true. on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 2, Informative

    I seem to recall W saying that it was just a "goddam piece of paper."

    You seem to recall that, do you? I suggest you check your facts.

  15. Repeat Ten Times Fast on Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sally sells solar shingles by the seashore...

  16. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    It's protected by the US Constitution, which is "just a goddamn piece of paper", to quote your ex-president.

    There's no evidence that any US president ever made that statement. Check your facts.

  17. Re:ENIAC on Researcher Resurrects the First Computer · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of the relevance of this, as this article is about a successor, not a predecessor.

    The relevance is that I was attempting to reply to this post, with regards to the Atanasoff-Berry Computer; replied to the article by mistake.

  18. ENIAC on Researcher Resurrects the First Computer · · Score: 1

    ENIAC was the first Turing-complete, general-purpose electronic computer, completed in 1946. Its predecessors were either not Turing-complete, not programmable, or not fully electronic (i.e., electro-mechanical). The judge in the 1973 patent decision was misinformed.

  19. Re:pong on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    I get it now. This version of pong being "far superior," it simply refuses to play with a hack like me.

  20. Re:pong on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    In your pong game, how long do you typically have to wait before the ball is served? (I've been about ten minutes so far...)

  21. Re:As for the right hand... on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    I guess a twelve-fingered hillbilly might type a "b" using the right hand.

  22. subject-verb agreement on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    There's nearly 2,000 shorter words that can typed with only the left hand -- including one word that's even longer.

    And there are two words that should be used instead of "there's" when referring to a plural noun.

  23. Re:Thousands of BS patents from Apple on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1

    It's against the law to list yourself as inventor on a patent application if you aren't really an inventor. So Jobs has some patents. So do many other Apple employees.

  24. Ask the pros on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    Why not submit your questions to the pros?

  25. two words on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    dymo, shoebox.