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  1. Re:ZoneAlarm users get what they deserve on ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously. What morons are using ZoneAlarm?

    You know that person you told to use Zone Alarm 8 years ago? He's been upgrading since then and telling all his friends that his computer expert friend told him Zone Alarm is great.

    Sucks to be us.

  2. Re:Skinny "Science" on Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It · · Score: 1

    How about we refer to Dr. Ann De Wees Allen as "The quack who shall not be named"?

    BTW, wonder how long before this article is the first hit when people google her?

  3. Re:HA HA HA on Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event · · Score: 1

    People talk about the Steve Jobs reality distortion field that affects people near him. The MS RDF engulfs the entire metro. It's really pathetic to witness.

    Steve Jobs' RDF can't be seen for the same reason the magnetosphere can't be seen. It's around all of us, with a radius measured in thousands of miles. I wouldn't be surprised if it's effecting people in low Earth orbit.

  4. Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They get to sell liquor in the EU.

  5. Re:New York's Problem Becomes New Jersey's? on New Jersey County Fights Landfill Odors Using Fragrant Spray Trucks · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not as if New York is catapulting it's garbage into New Jersey. There's a financial compensation that New Jersey's comfortable with. Otherwise, they'd say to just move along.

  6. Re:Thinking out of the box on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    Fine by me. We sure need extra nurses. Just don't complain much when your bill goes up.

  7. Re:How about on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    Errr... The tubes are pretty much incompatible with each other. You have to really try hard to get a BP cuff tube to fit into an intravenous line. And by try hard, I mean use a knife or scaple to reshape it.

    As or intravenous vs. spinal... That's harder. It will certainly increase costs. How many lives will it save per year vs. how much would it cost?

    Would you spend (a million dollars per life saved) per year? Well, yeah, probably. (I think the statistic is something like that for mamograms for women over 40 years old.) But what if the number's a lot more?

  8. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    The issue is that once you create one electron-positron pair from photons, you can get a cascade reaction where there are so many electrons/positrons floating around that you don't have a coherent laser field anymore.

    So what you're saying is that we can't understand the laser anymore?

  9. A Gnome user that wants to give this a try... on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been using Gnome on Ubuntu for about 5 years.

    I know that Kubuntu is not as polished as Ubuntu. What would be a good KDE distribution to give a try, to see the desktop environment for all it is?

  10. Re:Phone home? on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your definition of easy differs from my mom's. ;-)

  11. Re:35 years of computer time on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    And considering the processor speeds from 35 years ago, I'm not sure if I would want an application such as this running that long, anyway.

  12. Re:It's also nonscience because it leads nowhere on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    I'm all for diversity training. As long as it's not the difference between Catholicism, Mormonism, Quakerism, etc.

    Bring in some Hinduism, Buddhism, Scientology, and the Muslim faith. (okay, I joke about the third one.) Then you get some diversity of discussion.

  13. Re:Google Maps on Recomputing the Sky · · Score: 1

    Except, now that the idea of doing it in Javascipt is out, anyone can figure it out. The math's simple. The database is easy to set up. Any undergrad CS major should be able to cobblestone it together as a project within a week or two.

    Now setting it up to make sure it can handle a /. DDOS may be another matter...

  14. Re:I hope the software doesn't suck on BlackBerry Tablet Confirmed, Supports Flash · · Score: 1

    Blackberry is (unfortunately) being marginalized. They've still got a strong hold on the corporate market, but they see the writing on the wall. At some point Android and iPhones will be considered "good enough" for the corporate IT.

    The problem is (as mentioned above) the blackberry OS sucks. I mean, it sucks almost as bad as Windows Mobile. That bad. It's a miracle it works at all with multimedia.

  15. Re:Music 60 years from now... on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Give Pink's album Funhouse a try.

    Definitely something that will be played a couple decades from now, if not longer.

  16. Re:Maybe missing the point on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 1

    Keep swap on the SSD. If you're using swap you want the extra speed SSDs give you (hopefully you don't hit the swap too much).

    Agree about keeping /home on a large platter.

    If you use mythtv or some other applications that write a lot to /var, you may want to move that to a platter as well.

  17. Re:"destructive device" on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    Have someone testify that the number of items in the court room that could be considered destructive measures in the tens of thousands (if not orders of magnitude higher).

  18. Re:Who? on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to say that you must have low self esteem and no self confidence to say that you can't come up with ideas for yourself.

    It's another thing entirely to believe that you can come up with ideas on the level of Knuth without at least having read some of the literature in the subject.

    If you want to be great, you should at least stand on the shoulders of giants. Not step on their toes.

  19. No pictures? on The "King of All Computer Mice" Finally Ships · · Score: 1

    No pictures of the mouse on the web page. The PDF only shows it in profile.

  20. Re:It's easy on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The second child is not a boy born on a Tuesday.

  21. Re:Expensive on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I didn't look at the dimensions, but the new Mac Mini appears to have a significantly smaller volume than the Zino. That being said, and those sizes, a small decrease in volume is a pretty large percentage drop.

    Also, I think the $249.99 model Zino is significantly underpowered compared to the new Mini.

  22. Re:1970s and 32MPG...? on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Except that the VW Lupo would likely avoid the accident since it's more agile on the road. Much more likely the Ford Expedition runs itself into the side embankment in a curve, since the driver overestimated how maneuverable it is.

  23. Re:boys drag girls down until they finally say NO on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a very close female friend who's out of sorts because she's always been told that her being sexually adventurous is bad, and that she shouldn't like sex. It tears her up inside, and she feels that she needs to hide that side of her from her friends and family. She feels that since she likes sex, she should feel like a whore.

    It's assholes like you that did that to her. She's broken inside, and hell if I know if it's fixable.

    Fuck society.

  24. Re:the only thing worse than a lost fan on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    The first season of Lost *was* something to rave about. Fairly interesting storyline with (supposedly) sane people doing crazy things for reasons that (we've been promised) would be revealed later on. Also well written back stories about the individuals before they reached the island gave a more fleshed out story than something that happened in a purely linear manner.

    Then it all went to pot. Wish I stopped watching with the first season finale.

  25. Re:Display on HP Making a Dick Tracy Watch For the Military · · Score: 1

    How about if it had a laser that can project an image onto the ground or wall?