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  1. Re:Of course... on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 1

    My Linux desktop is full of X terminals. Buttons should be accessible with keys. Repetitive movement from my keyboard to my mouse has caused me years of painful arm injuries.

  2. Re:Digital == Loss of freedom on A RAW repository, The Internet Archive and OpenRAW · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert in this field, but I think that making a color film of even barely acceptable quality would be an enormously difficult undertaking. Kodak, Fuji, et. al. have 100 years of research in their products and a lot of their product uses trade secrets. I would rather try to make my own digital camera.

  3. Re:I'll believe it... on Cold Fusion in a Breadbox Instead of a Bottle · · Score: 1

    Bicycles, being human-powered, require fuel daily.

  4. Re:Sensitive Data via UPS? on 3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost · · Score: 1

    Ah, that explains it. When we were experiencing 10% lost or damaged rates about 1988, I figured it was UPS on drugs. This makes more sense.

  5. Re:Not Surprised on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1

    Failure to honor a rebate is a taking, and the practice is common.

  6. Re:Not Surprised on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1

    Services.

  7. Re:Problem? on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1
    now when i think about it.. it doesn't seem far fetched in the least that a carbureator that could get 1000 miles to the gallon could have existed.

    Please spend some time to learn the physics and mechanics and chemistry of automobiles. Present fuel injection systems are within 20% of perfection under almost all conditions and much better than that most of the time. Major inefficiencies are air drag, tire drag, transmission losses, Carnot cycle losses, engine pumping losses, and extra losses caused by stop-and-go traffic. Perfecting all the above are still not going to give you anywhere near 1000 mpg for any generally practical car running on a chemical-air fuel system. (A lightly used solar hybrid system might work.)

  8. Re:Not Surprised on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1

    Peterborough Community Theatre, Peterborough, New Hampshire, $7. No ads other than 2 trailers. One room, about 100 seats.

  9. Re:Science as the Ultimate Hero on Changing Planet Revealed In Atlas · · Score: 1
    If we don't rely on science, the only alternative is to rely on ignorance. That's guaranteed not to work.

    Perhaps you don't understand what science is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method/

  10. Re:Not enough evidence on Changing Planet Revealed In Atlas · · Score: 1
    "we all have to act to make it a sustainable environment."

    Do you realize that you just wrote that just one person not acting will prevent making a sustainable environment?

  11. Re:From TFA on Single Molecule Transistor A Reality · · Score: 1

    It's too small to see.

  12. Re:stupid. on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    Alas, used batteries are not fungible. Battery swaps are an invitation to fraud.

  13. Re:Oh, come on. on Roger Ebert Answers Star Wars Questions · · Score: 1
    "Star Wars was always about special effects and nothing else."

    The effects, the "lived-in" future, made Star Wars special, but without the grandeur of the plot and the emotional battle of good versus evil, Star Wars would have disappeared from memory. Even at that, Luke was so wooden that he almost sunk the movie.

  14. Re:Why Do Smart People Defend Bad Ideas? on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas · · Score: 0

    Nontrivial, conventional definitions of god all lead to contradictions. If you eliminate all the contradictory properties, and then eliminate all the properties without measure, you are left with nothing but barren assertions.

  15. Re:China: Smart != Number Doodling on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas · · Score: 1
    Please pay more attention to the grammar of the quote you are criticizing. The universe of "The average score of a Chinese on a calculus/trigonometry test" is the score of those Chinese taking the test, not all Chinese.

    Second, the best information I'm aware of says orientals have an IQ advantage of about 6 points over the average human.

  16. Re:Just a coincidence on Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Iraq was a clear and present danger. That there were human rights abuses and terrorist training camps may seem coincidental to you, but they go hand in glove.

  17. Re:Just a coincidence on Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs · · Score: 1

    A popular far-left line circa 1970 was "you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."

  18. Re:What's Wrong with New "Star Wars" Trilogy? on Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs · · Score: 1
    Ah, love, let us be true

    To one another! for the world, which seems

    To lie before us like a land of dreams,

    So various, so beautiful, so new,

    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

    Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

    And we are here as on a darkling plain

    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

    Where ignorant armies clash by night.

    Last verse of Dover Beach (1867) by Matthew Arnold

  19. Re:monitor driver on Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use · · Score: 1

    Manufacturer-specific color correction. Different corrections for ink diffusions on different sorts of paper. Trade-offs for different quality levels on each of the preceding. Head cleaning routines. Software to detect and prevent the printing of money. Fancy and completely unnecessary graphical installation and operation interfaces. Compiling with the "include debugger links" option turned on.

  20. Re:Adult Groups a Liability Risk on Oregon Woman Sues Yahoo for $3 Million · · Score: 1
    First degree burn: redness and pain.

    Second degree burn: blistering.

    Third degree burn: charring of the skin or formation of a separated scab.

    The above from wikipedia.

    I suppose it's possible, just barely, to get a scab from 185 degree water, but charring is clearly not possible.

  21. Re:Adult Groups a Liability Risk on Oregon Woman Sues Yahoo for $3 Million · · Score: 1
    The model release is a good point. However the copyright argument is not without value. It is long established that, absent a contract stating otherwise, the photos belong to the owner of the film. Ownership does not necessarily imply right to distribute.

    If she is identifiable and the photos are produced for financial gain, I guess the release would be necessary. The case is less clear if financial gain is not involved, but I think she has grounds for libel/defamation-of-character angainst the ex.

  22. Re:Can I see you naked please? on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    People go to doctors for the express purpose of having things done that can only be done by the patient removing clothes and being touched by the doctor. The same is not true of flight.

  23. Re:X-ray dosage? on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    It would be informative if someone would provide the relative risks of health damage by radiation versus life and property loss from terrorist events. Although the answers would be largely guesswork, they'd be better than nothing.

  24. Re:Was it rediscovered OR did it re-evolve? on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 1
    in the same sense that water "cannot possibly" rise out of a glass through a fortuitous alignment of Brownian motion.

    Evaporation.

    Small-scale re-evolution is not too terribly unlikely if the genetic change is very small and conditions are favorable.

  25. Re:it's a closed loop on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Pumping the water back down is not likely to happen. It doubles the pipe expenses and increases the pumping expenses. Efficiency, already poor, collapses.