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  1. Re:Insanely Great Experiences? on Apple's Change of Heart On Flash · · Score: 1

    Interesting. On my Ubuntu 9.10 dual core desktop, the flash version is running about twice as fast as the html5 version, in Firefox.

  2. Re:Not faster than light, but still teleportation on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    And what if nobody receives the call? Does the energy "disappear"? What if two people get the message? First one to reproduce the directions gets the energy? Who determines which is first? What if they are (as close as possible) simultaneous?

  3. Google! on How To Spread Word About My FOSS Project? · · Score: 1

    Surprised no one mentioned this:

    Make sure your web site has a very good description of the application. If it does things similar to other apps, mention the apps, and the similarities and differences.

    Then wait. Eventually, google will index your page, and you'll start showing up in search results. Eventually your page views and user base will increase.

  4. Re:More than one Buran out there... on Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines · · Score: 2, Funny

    Free Shuttle parts for the cost of transport?! Please, will somebody in the know confirm you don't have to be some large educational institution or venerable museum? ;)

    Or Bond villain.

  5. Re:And buy what as an alternative? on Google Charges ETF For Nexus One On Top of Carrier's · · Score: 1

    See my problem with "don't buy it" in the cell phone market is that there aren't enough alternatives. Okay so I need a cell phone to do my job, and keep in touch with my family. Exactly what do I do?

    How did people do your job 10 years ago? If it's necessary for the job, the employer should probably ante-in on the device.

    How did you keep in touch with your family 10 years ago. If you were using a smart phone then, isn't it paid for in full by now?

  6. Re:Amazing how bond could go 30+ years on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. The problem is that if they had comic book characters age appropriately, it would destroy the storylines. An arc that takes 2 years would not be possible in a comic involving a teenager. Gaps between arcs are a bit better.

    For more info, see the disaster behind Marvel's New Universe from the mid 80s. Having a month of real time between issues killed the entire line of comic books.

  7. Re:Stop with the drugs already on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    From what I remember, C. diff is part of the normal intestinal flora. It only becomes a problem when the rest of the intestinal flora gets wiped out by antibiotics, in which case it grows unchecked and causes problems.

    So, C. diff would exist without antibiotics, but wouldn't cause any significant number of infections.

    MRSA... Who knows? (Any Infectious Disease specialists in the house?)

  8. Re:The People Problem on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    Agree one hundred percent.

    I think that patient education now is better than it was 10-15 years ago. Unfortunately, a lot of damage has been done in that time period.

    MRSA is bad. God help us when vancomycin resistant S. aureus becomes widespread.

  9. Simpler solution: on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Make the green light (which is supposed to be on the bottom) an incandescent light. Make the yellow and red LED. The heat generated from the one light will keep it from attracting ice. If it's obscured, people can't tell what it's doing, and it becomes an automatic stop/hazard situation.

    Also uses 1/3 the power of an all-incandescent solution.

  10. Re:taunting? on Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that many of us have incidents in our past that would make for a good book or movie. I certainly thing that there is stuff in my past that would hold interest for a couple hours of movie time. Certainly I tell stories that keep people engaged for a long enough time socially or at work.

    The problem is that writing a book or screenplay is deceptively hard.

  11. Don't worry! on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nature will find a way.

    Did we learn nothing from Jurassic Park?

  12. I wonder if they would like an opt-in program? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    When you buy something, amazon brings up a page that states:

        We understand that your state, and possibly city and local, governments levy taxes that may include taxes on the things that you purchased. Click here to send a report at the end of the month to the state, city, and local authorities regarding your purchases.

    It's then up to the individual to determine if they want the state to take care of the accounting or if they want to do it themselves.

  13. Lawsuits galore? on Virtual Visits To Doctors Spreading · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It sounds like a good idea.

    I hope the physicians are covered by some sort of indemnity so that they won't be sued for something that they cannot possibly figure out via a video phone and 10 minutes. Otherwise you'll see doctors figure out that it's just not worth the risk.

    As a physician, I'll be happy to participate in something like this so long as my exposure to lawsuits is limited.

  14. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    As heard on the news about a year ago, "I think we can all agree that there are too many abortions".

  15. Re:At least it was fixable. on Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look · · Score: 1

    It's easy to get this to a whole bunch of Ubuntu users. Scary easy:

    1. Create a repository for a new build of a popular program which doesn't have it's own repository, such as nightly builds of Firefox or Handbrake.

    2. Update the repository as you normally would for the builds of the above application.

    3. Create a trojan piggybacking on an application which is always installed on Ubuntu, such as Transmission. Give it a version number higher than the one in the standard repository.

    4. Since your repository is already trusted, the next time the system is updated, your trojan version of Transmission is automatically installed.

    Like I said. Scary easy.

  16. Re:Information Technology (IT) on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    Err... I'm a physician, and I don't know what the difference is between a Brain Surgeon and a Neurosurgeon. :-)

    Also, the whole deliniation in the medical field is being blurred as we speak. When you are admitted to a hospital, who is rounding on you and making health care decisions? Is it an M.D.? A D.O.? A N.P.? A P.A.? The first two are physicians. The other two are physician "extenders".

    You'll be seeing more extenders in the years to come, since they are cheaper to higher and will be more plentiful than physicians. Don't like it? Be sure to pay extra to make sure you don't get seen by them (if that's even possible).

  17. Canonical likely has the data... on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    Canonical has likely been collecting data on what their users are actually using. They notice that Gimp is not used much. It takes a lot of valuable real estate on the default CD. Hence, it had to go.

    Hopefully this is a wakeup call to the Gimp developers to finally get the UI updated. Yes, I know that they've been working on it for the last year. The thing is, people have been complaining about it for many years and just got the scorn of the developers.

    Serves. Them. Right.

  18. 10% over what? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    Is this 10 percent greater than the combination of MSN and Windows Live Search? Is it a statistical bump (has the combination of MSN and Windows Live occasionally bump like that)?

  19. Re:MSN/Live had about the same market share before on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    Yawn.

    Call me when you hear real people* say they "Binged it". Google is a freakin' verb. Hard to beat that.

    * I mean real people, not some marketing droids or college kids in the Microsoft Club or who attend Windows 7 (tm) parties.

  20. What about Google? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are surely a top-1000 site. Will they get the cash to de-list themselves?

    P.S. The guy is an idiot. People go to Google not to get stuff from a top-1000 site, but to find stuff that is not found in the search bars of the top-1000 sites.

  21. Re:squeezebox family on Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? · · Score: 1

    Totally agree with this, as well. I have a squeezebox in the living room, and control it (most of the time) via the browser.

    The one caveat: There's no IR blaster output on it so that I can control my receiver. That being said, none of the other cheap options have this capability, either.

  22. Re:How does it compare to Ubuntu? on Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out · · Score: 1

    Those people are probably still waiting for the Hurd.

  23. Re:It's yhy anti-piracy is a BAD thing... on The Golden Age of Infinite Music · · Score: 1

    Where is all the free music from the 1930s? Surely some of those people might have died soon after. Has their stuff gone into the public domain? Any of it?

  24. Re:Umm on Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter · · Score: 1

    You can give a non-transferable, and potentially revocable, license to anyone for free.

  25. Re: the routers also expose their web interfaces t on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    The nice thing is that they may actually be able to update everyone on their networks to plug the hole, given this feature.

    Whether they will or not is another issue.