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  1. Re:False positives. on Response to Gordon Cormack's Study of Spam Detection · · Score: 1

    Because it is much easier to visually scan 50 messages and confirm that they are all spam. Ham stands out and is easy to spot. Secondly, [select all] [delete selected] is easier than selecting or deleting individual messages.

  2. Re:MS to Google on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    But your still permitted (so far) to customize the address bar search to use Google (or another search engine).

  3. Re:"Free Trade" is not about free trade on FTAA Treaty Threatens Innovation · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. These are "trade" agreements, not "free trade", as they typically include protectionist measures as well as open-ness measures. I keep posting this, but Dean Baker is an excellent economics commentator on this point.

  4. Re:Overpaid on 2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doctors and lawyers don't just "whine" about their pay (as was suggested earlier in this thread). They have lobbied for immigration restrictions on professionals which artificially keep their pay scales higher, along with our costs for their services

    http://www.cepr.net/professional_protectionists. ht m

  5. Re:States Rights on House Passes Internet Tax Ban · · Score: 1

    FWIW, Oregon has no sales tax. To boost competition, Washington will not charge an Oregonian sales tax if she chooses to cross the border to buy a car, for example.

  6. Re:maybe 100 years.... on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    The Foresight Exchange predicts that there is an 83% chance of having a humanly mobile robot by 2036. For the definition see the link.

  7. If you know anything about baseball fans on The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They will be looking up stats.

    Yes. Even in the minors.

  8. Re:Numb (please don't call them "Smart Menus!") on Office 2003 Beta 2 Screen Shots · · Score: 1
    Yes, please leave my menu items in the same place, so I can find them again!

    I always turn this option off as quickly as possible.

  9. Re:And Then on Finding Every Species · · Score: 1
    Yes, the technology improved over the years of the Human Genome Project. Yes, Celera's competition spurred on the public project.

    But, Celera used the HGP's freely available results to proof it's data. Plus, biologists around the world having been benefiting from the public project all the while.

  10. Re:More importantly.... on Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1
    Have to get some lead boxers...

    Actually, you don't want to use lead with a beta emitter. Plastic will work fine, though.