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  1. Re:Gimme a break on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Nor can you really eradicate HPV with this vaccine. It doesn't kill all forms. It's not like smallpox. People will still be vulnerable to certain strains of HPV which cause cancers. You might even start to see the rarer strains becoming more prevailent. I am not against vaccination but eyebrows are raised when a $350/treatment vaccine becomes mandatory from a drug company that just got in trouble for lying to/killing people with their Vioxx drug. Now that one cash cow is dead, and will become a reaper cow that sucks at thier profits, they need a new one. How convenient. Also I am tired of the feel-goody commercials that they're putting out.If Merck really gave a damn they'd donate the vaccine at-cost, instead of reaping massive profits off of it.

  2. Re:clocks on Unofficial Win2K Daylight Saving Time Fix · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't setting Pi as a public constant be the smart thing to do? Then you just have to change a single line of code to update the value of Pi. If you went through your code and just used the value "3.14" instead of the constant 'Pi', I could see that as a way not to program.

  3. Re:Linus is wrong on Linus Speaks Out On GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Can't you still by the firmware upgradable WRT54GL? Isn't it only like $5 - $10 more than the WRT54G?

  4. Re:New Egg not one of my faves on A Look Inside Newegg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll have to comment that if you really really needed the part like you said you did, then you should have been on it when you didn't get a confirm e-mail. Not having a tracking # you can check every five minutes reduces your fun factor x 10.

  5. ummm? on HD Era Doesn't Start Till Sony Says So · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because Sony makes an array of HD products doesn't mean they're work better than mixing/matching. Just like how having an HP printer hooked up to an HP computer, doesn't suddenly make your prints look better than if you had it hooked up to a Dell.

  6. Get off his ass on Response to Spider Robinson on the State of Sci-Fi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any community is going to experience points of stagnation and critics who bitch about it. I think people need to face the facts that community as a whole loses that shiny interesting effect on them. Everything is no longer "WOW!", it's "Oh I've seen that before". This has happened with Anime. Miyazaki said the state of anime was critical and that less and less worthy series are being made. Well the same can be said for movies. The same can be said for Sci-Fi. The same could be said for alot of things. The thing is instead of bitching about it, he needs to get off is ass and go right some create some new great genre defining novel, or whatever.