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  1. Re:Why reduce the DPI instead of using larger font on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Works equally well for reading that small print on pill bottles as it does for the smaller stuff on a computer monitor. Especially when some designer is getting "artsy" and puts some kind of variegated gray background behind small text.

    There's your solution for people that don't want to use reading glasses. Keep an extra pill bottle and properly label it "cyanide" in small print...
     

  2. Re:Lessons from the STASI on 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's your precious NYTimes article...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html

    The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.

    “This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”

  3. Re:Lessons from the STASI on 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The STASI (East German Secret Police) got awesome participation from its citizens when it asked them to help them spy on their fellow citizens.

    There is a scary lesson in that.

    http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/homeland_security_patriot_act_fema/news.php?q=1255711589

    They don't need STASI, they already have the Boy Scouts:

    "...military and police indoctrination of Boy Scouts at the Boy Scouts Of America Great Lakes Centennial Jamboree, held on September 25, 26, and 27 at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

    “I thought it would be a great adventure with thousands of scouts from all over the Midwest,” an assistant Scout Master writes in an email. “The official count was 10,144 people in attendance (Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Adult Leaders, Parents, and Staff).”

    Instead of an old-fashioned Boy Scout event of camping and outdoor activities, the attendees were subjected to unrelenting military and police propaganda."

  4. Re:Inefficient System on 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It only requires a few unscrupulous groups to voluntarily suggest names of innocent people to inflate the list, increasing the likelihood of false-positives on any given search and reducing the likelihood of being matched themselves within a meaningful time frame.

    Then that's exactly how you defeat the system. If everyone suggested someone for the list, then in no time the list would include everyone, thereby making it useless.

  5. Re:What about just doing what you love? on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't give a rusty fuck what some study says people should or should not go into. I work in the fields I love, and I'd recommend it to everyone else. If you want to do science, do science. If you don't then don't. Who really cares what some frigtarded academic thinks anyway? Final thought - how often is it that we look back on these studies five or ten years later to find out they were somewhere around, oh, dead wrong. if these guys are such friggin' geniuses at predicting the future they should go make $Billions in the stock market.

    If all you care about is money than go into politics or join the mob (it's ethically about the same).

    Great, now we're going to have an entire generation where 90% of males are professional video game testers and 99% of females work with "special needs" children.

    "...work in the field [you] love.." it's like you've never seen an episode of Dirty Jobs. Granted I think the guy that castrated sheep with this own teeth actually did love his job, but that is a special case. No, I'm not making this up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QErgjt_GYBk&feature=player_embedded#t=4m43s

  6. Re:Unions are outraged! on Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended · · Score: 1

    Isn't that sort of a defining aspect of a union?

    No. You are obviously ignorant if this is your belief.

    The owners look out for the company and the unions look out for the workers. As long as there is balance in the force then everyone is treated fairly as both sides make reasonable compromises.

    When there are no unions, as in the industrial revolution, the owners were raping the workers. Now the unions have too much control and refuse to vote down wages and benefits during a recession...

    http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/10/five-major-pension-problems-one-simple.html

  7. Re:BUSTED! on Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ok the guy is making money from this... However Vaccines have a rather poor profit returns (expensive to make and sold with low margins) It would seem like if he was really corrupt he would do something with higher margins.

    It's not hard to understand. If he did something "really corrupt" he would be fined or go to jail. If he does something marginally corrupt then morons will go around defending him saying he "isn't that corrupt" and then he'll get away with it. It's all about risk to reward ratios. Sure he won't make significant money but there is nearly no risk.

    Thanks for being an enabler.

  8. Re:Sounds good to me on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    The world is borderless....

    Want to know about "borders"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport

    The idea of borders, haves and haves nots is a relatively recent concept.

    If we went back to borderless countries we would all be in much better shape because people would travel however they would please.

    So do your history and then understand what I am getting at...

    Here's some history for you. In the "old days" people use to spend 3-4 weeks crossing the ocean or months traveling by ox and cart to cross America. Here's the kicker, it was tough and not everyone made it to their destination. This was a natural barrier that kept out the weak and unmotivated. Today, any mouth-breathing jackass can board a flight and be anywhere in the world within 17 hours.

  9. Re:Why? on Scientists Write Memories Directly Into Fly Brains · · Score: 0

    Is there anyone in you family that has alzheimers?

    I don't remember.

    Is there anyone in your family that suffers moderate to severe memory loss as a result of accident, disease, or trauma?

    Really, I don't remember.

    Does your child have physical and mental problems that impair learning?

    What are you trying to get at, I don't understand.

  10. Bail Out Money on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In order to achieve this level on contamination, one needs to look to the source. Clearly this explains where all the bank bailout money went.... coke parties for all the bankers.

  11. Same as gas stations on Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is this treated any different then a gas station?

    Gas stations have to put a certain amount in escrow to allow for digging up the storage vessels and decontaminating. Why don't nuclear reactors have to set aside the money before they're even allowed to build?

  12. Re:Blue Eyes? Blue Vision? on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Notice that the eyes have completely changed color as well. I'm thinking I do not want my eyes filled with blue tint.

    Yeah, given the choice between blue tinted eyes and spinal injury most people will chose spinal injury, I know I would.

  13. Re:So eating M&M on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can be considered healty now?

    At least if you have a spinal injury or possibly other type of nerve damage?

    Or will you have to eat a truckload of M&M before there is any effect?

    Depends, if you can eat blue smarties INTRAVENOUSLY they might be helpful. I would work up to it by taking them in suppository form first.

  14. Re:I would probably do the same thing on Security Certificate Warnings Don't Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I work on a lab intranet. Almost every switch and ILOM uses an https GUI for management. I 100% don't care about man in the middle attacks, but I do care about the 4 clicks (now 2 with a little tweaking) that Firefox makes me jump through every time I open up a new console to do work. It's ridiculous and the 'chicken little' scenario just desensitizes users.

  15. Re:neat on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    It produces less (laws of thermodynamics are a bitch). But you point out an interesting way to describe it to people. i.e. It takes energy to desalinate sea water, this process is sort of like running desalination in reverse to generate energy.

    This makes a lot of sense. Much in the same way it takes energy to say... read books for example. If we simply unread lots of books we could actually generate power.

    Looks like US schools are heading up this green initiative.

  16. HW != Portable on RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? · · Score: 1

    "I want any drive and its data to be as safe and portable as possible (that's the reason for choosing FAT32)"
    .
    Hardware RAID often uses a header to store meta data about the RAID configuration. Software RAID for windows does too (8MB), but that is portable across it's lineup.
    In other words if you want this to be portable you had better check. It may not be possible to just pull a hardware RAID disk and slap it into another system due to proprietary meta data headers.

  17. Re:Another reason not to gamble online on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are no house odds in poker.

    Sure there is. There is a 100% chance the house will take a rake. Those are pretty favorable odds if you ask me.

  18. Re:Great! on China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-Earth Metals · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gallium for LEDs
    Germanium for optics
    Indium for LCDs
    Rhodium for ???
    Tantalum for Cellphones ....

    These are the rare earth metals manufacturers are after, and they're running out.

    http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/04/26051202.jpg

  19. HDMI Ethernet on New HDMI 1.4 Spec Set To Confuse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    â HDMI Ethernet Channel
    "The HDMI 1.4 specification will add a data channel to the HDMI cable and will enable high-speed bi-directional communication. Connected devices that include this feature will be able to send and receive data via 100 Mb/sec Ethernet, making them instantly"... OBSOLETE

    Thanks for coming out.

  20. Re:Website and Warning on Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade · · Score: 3, Funny

    Easily found from apt-p2p's main page: protocol... please don't ask me to browse the web for you again, kthxbye.

    What are you a leprechaun? You're bound by ancient laws to comply with any mortal request, the only loophole being that you can bitch all you want :).

    Just to be sure, can you please post your credit card number, name, address and CID.... oh and naked pictures of your leprechaun wife too and any daughters over the age of 250 (I'm not falling for pedochaun's trap again).

  21. Re:HAHAHA yeah right on Review: Halo Wars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most of it was listen to a couple minutes of conversation that suggests that there may be a story somewhere

    WTF... if you want a story go to the library and check out a book. You can look at the cool illustrations while your mommy reads it to you.

    The only reason companies pander to you low-lifes is so they can sling replica Halo helmets and overpriced collector's editions, hahaha. Enjoy your stories and glossy inserts losers.

    Games are about game play first and story second. Give me a polished shooter and I'll make my own stories... COD4, nuff said.

    The stories I have from hunting people in COD4 are better than any boring pre-rendered crap with cheesy dialog.

    BTW HL2 kicked ass. Let me guess, you couldn't appreciate Portal either?

  22. Re:sliding scale traffic tickets on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 1

    I've heard that in some countries, traffic fines are proportional to one's income. I wish we'd institute that system here.

    Great instead of "Bum Wars" videos we'll be flooded by "Bum Races".

    Synopsis: Homeless people are given the keys to beater cars while independent film-makers document their struggle.
    - The first rule of Bum Races, there are no rules.
    - The second rule of Bum Races, the first one to make it to McDonald's get a free Happy Meal.

  23. Re:Equal Protection? on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 1

    He also has no income and gets deeper and deeper into debt.

    Begging your pardon, but if he is sitting in jail, he also has no expenses.

    That's not true, just because you're in jail doesn't mean you're exempt from say... your monthly Trollers Union dues.

  24. Re:A good question.... on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    The question is, did anyone have any specific knowledge of the likelihood of this specific collision prior to the event?

    Maybe they're like slashdot dupes. Everyone knows they're coming, they just can't be certain when.

  25. Better get Geico on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did Russia have Geico? 15% off public liability insurance for satellites...