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  1. The bigger problem... on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't care that it's MS Research. The irritating part is that my "browser is not compatible" because I don't use silverlight.

    Oh, and regarding Bill's comments on it being a bad idea for Google to have two OS's (Chrome and Android)... MS HAS MORE THAN ONE OS, DUMBSHIT! Is Gates so out of touch that he thinks that win mobiles run Vista?

  2. Re:ODF on Hands-On Preview of Microsoft Office 2010 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Save-As-PDF works quite well for us, particularly since it's a compromise somewhere between the crappy third-party app option and the thousands of dollars that Adobe's products cost us in years past.

    Outlook 2007's rendering, OTOH, makes me want to kill people and break things.

  3. Re:Thanks Captain Obvious... on Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cute, but they didn't report that sex was "more enjoyable". They reported that "sperm travels faster".

    So maybe not so obvious, huh?

  4. Re:Ridiculous on Researcher Discovers ATM Hack, Gets Silenced · · Score: 1

    Let's compromise. He should give out the names of the banks that use that ATM.

    Then we can all go [call bank and bitch]|[close accounts] and the banks, in turn, can go fuck that manufacturer up.

  5. Re:Top Gear Veyron goodness on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Yep, greatest video ever. It's better than the one where they raced the Veyron against a jet fighter.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1t6S737Cs&feature=fvst

  6. Re:Symantec is saying this? on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 2, Informative

    I called ESET (US) to buy their product, they couldn't sell it to me. Pretty typical, they referred me to some shitty online retailer. I called my CDW rep (as I often do spending larger $ amounts), and I actually had to introduce him to their product. They got it worked out, and now CDW sells ESET products. Anyway, it was ridiculous... CDW has pretty much everything, (they're just usually not the cheapest), but they had nothing for ESET in the DB, which I found amazing.

    In the end I'm really happy that I chose their AV solution. The distribution and management server and console are fantastic. I have zero problems with the client and it has a small footprint. I don't miss Symantec one f'ing iota.

  7. Re:Symantec products are apparently the same. on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Symantec's corporate 10 did that, and you had the option to pw protect the uninstall directly from the management console.

    Now we're on nod32, which also has an uninstaller.

  8. Re:Better than a tail light? on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, it's just projecting a false lane on the ground behind your bike. Basically the bike rider is insisting there's a bike lane where there isn't one, and the hope is that cars will see it and think of it like a real bike lane. In the meantime, the bike is constantly moving... making this just a bunch of flashing red light on the street.

    FTA: Originally presented as a losing design competition entry, LightLane has continued onto a path to production thanks to widespread public interest and encouragement.

    It's a shit idea, and I SERIOUSLY doubt there's been "widespread public interest and encouragement".

  9. Re:Why? on The Twitter Book · · Score: 1

    They'd have done a typical O'Reilly book, but they couldn't figure out which animal to put on the cover.

  10. Re:Waiste Money on what has allready been done on US Sets Up Emergency Multi-Band Radio Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where's the money in that?

  11. Re:I had to get my training from somewhere on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    Ok you win an award... for one of the best posts ever made on /.

  12. Re:Ban how to host a murder while you're at it. on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    that happens only when you have a strong predisposition towards violence and crime, and happen in the same way it would happen trough alcohol or drugs.

    Hey, careful with that correlation... we put legal controls on drugs and alcohol.

  13. Re:Android G1 also heats when using GPS on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 1

    PS. No idea why you've been modded off topic, since a comparison of similar issues with other phones seems highly relevant to me. Had I mod points I'd have corrected that.

    That would be the hypersensitive Google fans countering the hypersensitive Apple fans. Out of my way, I'm getting out of here!

  14. Re:Provably False on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 1

    iMood, +$100.

  15. Re:Results don't surprise me. on Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it wasn't that long ago that women who are overweight now were once what was pretty. I'm honestly not sure what evolution tells me and what I was raised to admire.

  16. Re:Fixed on Boxee vs. Zinc vs. Hulu · · Score: 1

    Don't feel singled out. By and large they're making the american people pay for their content too.

  17. Re:Girl rover on Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nor would it wait for NASA to send directions. Look at what that got her.

  18. Re:Location, location, location on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    The keys pads seem very cheap on the Macbooks. This only bugs me more because I've always thought of Apple as an attention-to-detail company.

  19. Re:Curious interpretation of "the public" on RIAA Defendant Moves For Summary Judgment · · Score: 1

    The law books say that for a distribution to be "to the public" it can't be to a limited network.

    Huh... what you guys are talking about is interesting. It seems like it illustrates yet another gross disconnect between the law and the real world. Certainly if I put some piece of software out for download, free of charge on the internet, I'd call that kind of distribution "to the public". I mean, I guess the internet is a limited network, so not everyone has immediate access to it, but to me it's available to the public. As usual, thanks for the insight NYCL. I hope you're publishing on this stuff like crazy.

  20. Re:Easy answer on Text Comments Out In YouTube "National Discussion" of Health Care · · Score: 1

    This isn't a vote. This is an informal RFC that's going to be largely disregarded just like everything else.

  21. Re:Then write a letter on Text Comments Out In YouTube "National Discussion" of Health Care · · Score: 1

    I've gotten those pre-printed responses too. They don't even take the time to sign the replies with their own hand.

    No thanks.

  22. Re:Good ideas. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    The part of the "Get us off this rock" attitude that bugs me is that everyone seems to think that leaving Earth will somehow put them in the company of like-minded people, or that we'll end up somewhere where you can more easily avoid people who don't think like you.

    To me this seems like the very opposite of what early space travel and colonization will be like. I think people will disagree with each other, dislike each other and eventually fight with each other, just like we've always done, just in much closer proximity to each other with much higher stakes.

    Maybe another way to put this is, people who are the opposite [political party] and [atheist|religious] and [pragmatic|idealistic], etc. are probably going too, and you're all going to behave the same wherever you land, which is to say, probably badly.

  23. Re:If you give up the inch, they'll take the mile on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    We don't use decimals for temperature in general use because we've never had to... F is precise enough without it. It's what we're used to, and it works nicely.

  24. Re:If you give up the inch, they'll take the mile on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    You live immersed in it. It's like learning a language... it happens faster when it happens all at once and you don't have a choice.

  25. Re:If you give up the inch, they'll take the mile on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    I'm pushing 30, lived in the US my whole life, and we never used anything but metric in school. The problem was everything in school was metric but when we left for the day everything was imperial.

    At least you can't blame our educational system for this one.