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  1. Re:First thing's first on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    The drab-looking military IDs (oriented landscape) do have a signature. I think the snazzy new white ones (oriented portrait) don't. I think the white ones are for active duty only. I'm not in the military, but I do work retail and see these IDs a lot.

    Working retail, where I have to write down the ID number on the card for checks and returns, it baffles me why someone wants me to write down their social security number (which is what's on the military IDs, at least the drab ones) instead of their driver's license number.

  2. Re:Confusing the Consumer on EFF and Sony Disclose New DRM Security Hole · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The retailer I worked for pulled all the copies the morning after the announcement. I know because I did it myself. It took 3 hours since many of these new titles were on multiple displays. And I had 10 cartons of daily shipment to process the same day.

    Thanks Sony.

  3. Re:old bug still not fixed on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 Released · · Score: 1

    Why are you putting such long or weird text in title attributes anyway? Being attributes, title="foo" shouldn't be a critically important part of a web page anyhow. I've never come across a useful site that actually uses title attributes that expose this bug.

    Sure the bug should be fixed, but it's not a release blocker for sure.

    And so you know: Don't delay! Bugzilla is accepting patches for this bug now!

  4. Re:d'oh on Loyalists Preserve Past Through Text-Only Games · · Score: 1
    who would win in a fight between a grue and a wumpus?

    CowboyNeal.

  5. Re:Well... on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: 1

    The question is...

    Exactly how long will it be before the ob/gyn has to issue a state-mandated "life certificate" after they find a woman to be pregnant. And we'll have to stick with androgenous names like Chris or Pat since you won't know the sex for a few months.

    And get your RFID implanted passport for the travelling fetus in utero, complete with digital ultrasound photo.

    And how long until we start to celebrate our "lifeday" instead of birthday. My guess is we'll stick with both: more presents that way. ...grumble...

  6. Re:I doubt those figures. on TiVo Buries the VCR · · Score: 1
    ...most actually having a DVD recorder of some form...

    I don't know a single person with a DVD recorder. I'm in my 20's, college educated, middle class, and living in an American city with about 1 million people.

    ...and most having a home theater PC.

    Don't know a soul with one of those either.

  7. Re:Two thoughts on Music Exec Fires Back At Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    How about a variable charge depending on length? Maybe half a penny per second.

    More realistically, do it tiered:
    0:01-0:30 = $0.25
    0:31-2:00 = $0.49
    2:01-8:00 = $0.99
    8:01-20:00= $1.99

    Probably top out an 80 minute song/composition (likely classical, jazz, or new age) at something like $6.99.

  8. Re:double function on Why Apple Picked Intel Over AMD · · Score: 1

    You've never been to the south, have you?

  9. Re:Is it just music players? on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1
    And I also find it hard to believe that a symphony can reach 137 dB (10dB higher than amplified rock? I doubt it).

    That figure might be for the musicians in the orchestra who sit in front of the trumpets and trombones during something really loud, like parts of a Mahler symphony.

    Though I've been in the audience at loud orchestra concerts and it does get really loud, just without the sustained loudness you usually get at a rock concert.

  10. Re:Please just drop it. on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 1
    Which is easier to remember:
    1. "Home Depot is open from 8am-9pm," or
    2. "Home Depot is open 8am-9pm from November until April and 7am-8pm from May until November"?

    Switching the schedule is just as arbitrary as switching the clock.

  11. Re:Please just drop it. on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 1

    As an Arizona resident who prefers to wake up at a reasonable hour (typically no earlier than 7am), let me tell you that it totally sucks having the sun rise at 5am and set by 7:30pm every day in the summer.

  12. Re:apple vs fanatics on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1
    Its always apeared that its the apple apologists, not Apple, who make the excuse that grandma can use one button more easily.

    It's neither. It's grandma, grandpa, and many other folks.

    Every time I go to a flea market, there's some vendor selling a crop of Pentium-166's for $90 a piece. They usually have Win95 or 98 preloaded and people can come up and play around with them. People who buy these are by and large technologically illiterate. The majority of the 30-something non-English-speakers I have observed playing around with these before they buy them only right-click. The concept of clicking icons is intuitive enough, but these folks pop a context menu every time since the choice of the button to click is totally arbitrary.

  13. Re:No daylight savings time here on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 1
    I just moved to Arizona last summer. I for one tell you it totally sucks to have the sun rise at 5am and set before 8pm.

    Daylight saving time would mean daylight from 6am-9pm in the summer like any reasonable day ought to be.

  14. Re:Will some coder please answer this? on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 1

    Because it's more or less like discussing American foreign policy with a 3-year-old.

    Most webmasters of the pages you'd complain to either won't have half a clue what you're talking about, or patently won't care.

  15. soylent hydrogen on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Soylent hydrogen is people!

  16. Re:SImple answer, if you really want to help local on Amazon's Special Thank-You · · Score: 1
    Bookstores are 90% of the time willing to order books they dont have in stock for you

    And when you do, you don't have to pay until the book comes in. And when it comes in, if you flip through it for an hour and don't think it's quite what you really wanted, you can hand it back to a bookseller and say "that's really not exactly what I needed." You don't spend a cent. (At least that's the way it works in at least one of the big brick-and-mortar bookstore chains.)

  17. when the experience sucks on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 1

    I would love to love seeing movies in a theater with a big screen. Unfortunately...

    • The picture is usually calibrated poorly.
    • The sound is usually calibrated poorly.
    • I'm jammed next to some retard who smells bad and talks the whole time.
    • Several dozen other retards who smell bad and talk the whole time.
    • Retards who bring their crying infant or toddler to an R-rated action movie.

    I would easily pay $30 a ticket to see a movie if

    • the chairs were several feet apart with a popcorn/drink table next to each.
    • the picture and sound were perfect, and I got an apology and a refund if the management determined either weren't.
    • 18 and up only. (maybe 21 and up and serve alcohol).
    • ushers who remove patrons who don't uphold standards of decorum.

    I know places like this exist, but why not in my population 1 million city?

  18. sound card on Knoppix 3.9 Released · · Score: 1

    Can anyone get sound out of a SB Audigy on Knoppix? How? knoppix alsa didn't work. What else?

  19. Re:PLEASE make Coral links mandatory on Google Map Hack & Chicago Crime Data · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for Firefox + Greasemonkey to me.

  20. Re:Secrecy? on Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security? · · Score: 1

    Look at the freakin' source if you want to find the vulnerabilities yourself. Mozilla, and all open source software, has no requirement or duty to hold the bad guys' hands through the exploitation process.

    Just because it's possible to shoplift from [insert your favorite store here] doesn't mean that the store has to put up a big sign describing how to subvert their inventory control measures.

  21. Re:This was reported to bugzilla some time ago! on New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can view the source all you want. The bug is right there in the code. Just sift through the thousands of lines and you'll eventually find it.

    Just because Mozilla keeps the specific location of security-related bugs quiet until fixed doesn't mean that the source is any less open.

  22. Re:What I'm curious about on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    Pretty neat since 1.1 isn't out yet.

  23. Wait... on What The Dormouse Said · · Score: 1

    What did I say?

  24. IN SOVIET RUSSIA on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 3, Funny

    respect gets YOU!! (folks must have mod points to spare when fp get a +4)

  25. Re:Purchasing Ringtones? on Short History of Cellphone Ringtones · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why would anyone purchase ringtones when it's possible to convert your own audio files as ring tones and then upload them to the cell phone?
    Whoever posts a link to free software that does this easily will get modded up.