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  1. Re:That's nice on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 1

    Why did you post anonymously? That's worth modding up and you'd have at least one fan for it. Not that that really matters a hill of beans, I'd just like to see a little more wisdom around here.

  2. Re:That's nice on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 1

    I've never heard that one. Rape=violence, yes, but the point of rape is not sexual gratification. It's an act intended to hurt, demoralize, humiliate and dominate, and sex has almost nothing to do with it. Too many people confuse the two. It's like comparing a pat on the back to a kidney punch.

    I think piercings and tattoos are mutilation, if self-inflicted. I don't know how many men would have chosen to be circumcised if it would have been possible for them to be asked. I did not make that choice for my son, and I still don't know if I was right not to.

  3. Re:That's nice on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 1

    Perhaps she doesn't know how he feels about her. Most of us aren't mind-readers.

  4. Re:That's nice on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 1

    Who equates all sex with violence? Sounds like they have a personal problem. And what feminist says that circumcision is not genital mutilation? Have you possibly surrounded yourself with straw (wo)men?

  5. Re:Slashdot Pseudo-Science, again on Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not always bullshit. Here's a site that has a lot to say on the subject.

  6. Re:It works in Opera :-) on Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3 · · Score: 1

    My father. I was planning to update his laptop with FF3 when he comes back from his annual trip to Alaska, but he's been using Hotmail for his email for quite a while and it would be a real hassle to get him to change it. He's 80 years old and doesn't like to change things.

  7. Re:lead free solder on Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously expecting all such defects to be found by "bed of nails" testing, or is that not what you are referring to? Please clarify, as I don't want to argue with you if I'm misunderstanding you.

  8. Re:Criminal investigation? on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I actually went to the site to see what they had, and I didn't see anything there that was not their own content. It looks like some pretty interesting stuff, too. Would you like to provide a cite of anything that can be found there that is not theirs? If not, just admit that you don't know what you're talking about and refrain from further comment.

  9. They should have expected it. on First Exotic Space Thruster Test Ends in Explosion · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is how sputtering in a vacuum chamber is done, for manufacturing chips and coating surfaces. The company I work for builds power supplies for these vacuum chambers, and they generally require some arc handling circuitry. Here's a white paper on arcing.


    If you have a negatively charged target in a plasma the target will attract positive ions which will knock bits off of the target if they arrive with sufficient velocity, otherwise they'll stick and neutralize the charge. In a sputtering chamber we want those bits knocked off. If we're sputtering something non-metallic we need to use RF to keep it charged.

  10. Re:All geeks are the same on Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the prosecutor's in Tim Masters' case sure had it solved.

  11. Re:No need for complex legal BS on Developers Warned over OOXML Patent Risk · · Score: 1

    But that is exactly what Microsoft advised be done, specifically with respect to the GPL, clearly for their own fuddish purposes.

  12. Re:Get a life on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 1

    You have no guarantee that your babies will, either.

  13. Re:We need this type of thing done in the classroo on Hand-Made Vacuum Tubes · · Score: 1

    The company I work for makes an RF power delivery system that uses them, and they are still used in broadcast amplifiers. There's still a need to teach about vacuum tube circuits for other than hobbyist applications.

  14. Re:Contact Information on Judge Orders RIAA to Show Cause in DC Case · · Score: 1

    That could backfire. Please don't spam the judge.

  15. Re:Recommendation for online gaming on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    I spend my day at work thinking. I want to do something less demanding in my leisure time. that's what leisure time is for.

  16. Re:a better mantra on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 1

    I donate to support the sites I like, or subscribe, or buy books or T-shirts. I don't feel bad about not looking at ads that are annoying, anymore than I would feel bad about muting commercials on TV, if I ever watched that anymore.

  17. Re:Great on How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons · · Score: 1

    But I'm happy, and you're not.

  18. Re:Great on How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons · · Score: 1

    I play with others, all the time, most often my son, but sometimes with different people who happen to be in the same area. I also don't do Windows, so that lets out some games. Monkey Island was great, but not the same kind of thing at all, anyway. I can't play 32 different characters depending on my mood in that. Anyway, the point is that I take my time and do things when I want to, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I think if you treat games like you're on a treadmill none of them will be any fun. The problem's in YOU, not the game. You might want to think about how often you do that IRL also, as it could ruin your enjoyment of just about anything.

  19. Re:Why is this "insightful"? on How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons · · Score: 1

    I have 32 characters on four different servers, none of them in guilds, and I don't give a rat's ass about endgame. I've been playing since a couple of months after the launch and my highest level character is at 60, and I've just started exploring the Outlands. My main motivation for getting her to higher levels at this point is so I can ride a broom on Halloween, so that's as close as I come to grinding for gear. I still have fun at the game as a casual gamer BECAUSE I'm a casual gamer.

  20. Re:I'm still not understanding that. on DHS Plans Changes in Air Passenger Screening · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My 79 year old dad has trouble every time he wants to fly because his name. an EXTREMELY common one, is the same as someone on the list. It seems to me that they could at least include an age, height, and weight in the list or something to narrow it down a bit. As it is it's clearly not meant to be of much use to actually weed out suspected terrorists; they could have picked names out of a hat and done just as much good.

  21. Re:How about the route to Canada and Continental U on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 1

    They'd have to come more than halfway across Alaska to actually connect to a road that connects with the lower 48 though. That's at least 500 miles, through mountainous country.

  22. Re:Global Warming is the Left's ID... on Wildlife Deputy Changed Science For Lobbyists · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the second page of that article:

    The point to remember, says Connolley, is that predictions of global cooling never approached the kind of widespread scientific consensus that supports the greenhouse effect today. And for good reason: the tools scientists have at their disposal now--vastly more data, incomparably faster computers and infinitely more sophisticated mathematical models--render any forecasts from 1975 as inoperative as the predictions being made around the same time about the inevitable triumph of communism.

  23. Re:Sick Software "Patents" on Microsoft Copies Idea, Admits It, Then Patents It · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isn't that similar to what these guys do? http://www.pubpat.org/

  24. Re:Almost expected on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 1

    They used to have a "Dick of the Week" competition where I work. I won once. I admit to being an asshole on occasion, but I'm rarely a bitch anymore. There is a difference; Assholes get a lot more respect. When you refer to someone as making someone else his "bitch", who's dominant?

  25. Re:Almost expected on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And I suppose you would know about being a tool.