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  1. Re:The world didn't end last time... on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Course, it'd suck pretty bad if your atoms were the ones bunched up around the event horizon. Sting a little more than a poke in the eye by Moe I imagine.

  2. Malware? on No Full HD Playback for 32-bit Vista · · Score: 1

    Why isn't it surprising that Microsoft has a different notion of malware then the typical user?

  3. Re:You're as crazy as my wife! on The 7 Ways That People Search the Web · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should block divorcelawyer.com while you are at it.

  4. BLAM!!!!!!! on Intel - Market Doesn't Need Eight Cores · · Score: 1

    And another exec opens his mouth and manages to shoot his whole company in the foot.

  5. PC Mag and Integrity? on Dvorak Admits To Trolling Mac Users · · Score: 1

    PC Magazine? Integrity? Who are they kidding? PC Magazine lost all integrity years and years ago. Did something happen that they got a shred of it back?

  6. Re:Homebrew SETI? on Universal Radio Grabber: the USRP · · Score: 1

    Didn't Charlie Sheen already do that?

  7. Re:So? on U. Washington Crypto Course Now Online for Free · · Score: 1

    First all the links were dead. Now they're back, but all they link to are course descriptions. Even community colleges have their course catalog online now, where is the course material?

  8. Re:I want on Giant Paramount Auction of Star Trek Items · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the problem with 7 of 9's cat suit is that it won't include 7 of 9.

  9. Ask Col Jessep... on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 1

    YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

  10. Re:Those who fear the government... on New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying · · Score: 1
    You, madam, deserve to be neither safe nor free.

    They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - some patriot that you wouldn't know.
  11. Mod parent DOOOOOOOWWWNNNN on Google to Digitize National Archives Footage · · Score: 1
    5 - insightful? Knee jerk.

    Maybe you read a different write up then I did. The one I read has this sentence:
    The history of the world should be universally accessible and this is definitely a great step towards making sure that our history is not lost, and that everyone has equal and easy access towards such information.
    Course, maybe my American bias is clouding the issue.
  12. Re:Separation of church and state on Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google · · Score: 1

    Anyone care to pint out WHERE? I have not read the constitution in its entirety, however I have skimmed through it...

    Are you a citizen of the US? If you are, I remind you of the quote by Bo Franklin (Ben's younger brother) where he said that lazy people deserve neither liberty nor temporary safety. Read it. It isn't that long.

  13. Re:Time for some critical thinking here on Little Red Book Draws Government Attention · · Score: 1

    1. Many colleges use SSN for a student ID number. It's stupid, but they do. As for the second part of your question, they just want to know that you are a student, and therefor somebody they already have a finacial relationship with, before they loan you an asset, ie the book. They don't care why you are borrowing it, just that they'll be able to collect the value of the book should you fail to return it. 2. NSA? The article said "two agents of the Department of Homeland Security".

  14. Re:Can't reference Wikipedia because it changes on Wikipedia's Accuracy Compared to Britannica · · Score: 1

    Alas, if only you had a quick reference to look up the spelling of permittivity.

  15. Re:How much?!? on Court Finds For Student In Web FOS Case · · Score: 1

    It's not irony, it's justice. Sucks being stuck with the bill, but they are the electorate that is responsible for the school board, who are in turn responsible for the school administrators.

  16. Re:Wha? on Open Source Replacing Books in Kenyan Schools · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they mean that the texts are open source as opposed to the technology dislaying them. I didn't see a mention either way in the article when I skimmed it though.

  17. Re:Why the IAFC is against the change on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1

    This is the thing about the United States that people from other (smaller) countries don't seem to grasp... and as you illustrate, even a lot of Americans forget it. It's a huge country, and it's very regional.

    Very true.

    I had a boss from England. While visiting a customer in Michigan, there was a blizzard that closed the airport. I called to let him know that I wouldn't be able to attend his weekly '10am, yell at the troops meeting' the next day. So he tells me to rent a car and drive back to Fort Lauderdale, I should get back in plenty of time. I had to explain that driving without break or allowing for weather conditions would still leave me 10 hours away when the meeting started.

  18. Re:Why the IAFC is against the change on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1

    The word state isn't different in American English, but he's from Wisconsin, so allowance have to be made.

  19. Re:The Solution without a Problem... on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    If I want it to be one-peek-per-customer, that's my right, it's my content.

    As long as we have some large label about your content only being compatible with certain monitors, and not some bullshit "open the shinkwrap to find out it won't work for you". Something large, on the front of the package, at time of purchase.

  20. Re:are you sure you read the article? on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 1

    Thats C#, not VB!

    Stop the hate!

  21. Re:Could be ok on Keystroke Logging Declared Illegal in Alberta · · Score: 1

    Oh man! The poor security tech that has to review THAT tape.

  22. Timothy Hutton? on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    But will Timothy Hutton free the test subject before they complete the sequence?

  23. Then and Now on Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails · · Score: 1

    Then: We will pull out your fingernails to get the information we want.
    Now: We will pull out your fingernails to get the information we want.

  24. Re:The Russian court has got see reason, here. on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there is no money to be made...

    Suppose that dandelion tea was an effective cure for cancer. Would Pfizer spend millions to do a ten year trial with thousands of patients? If they proved it worked then everyone would use the dandelions in their yard, or start cultivating them, and Pfizer would never make a penny from it.


    I can't help but think you are wrong. Not that I'm a fan of drug companies, but they are out to make money anyway they can. Will they research dandelion tea to cure an exceedingly rare disease? Heck no. Not enough of a base to sell. But cure cancer? Heck yeah, they'd isolate what exactly was in the tea that cured the cancer, so that it could be administered in a pill with a tightly regulated dosage. The process of producing the pill would be patented, I imagine some gene engineering might go on with the dandelions to make more potent varieties. The plants themselves would be patented. And it's not like "Made with weeds" would appear on the label.

  25. Re:Translated into English... on Microsoft To Pay IBM In Antitrust Settlement · · Score: 1

    Naw, that was just a mistake. IBM makes a ton of those. And pre-1.0, windows didn't exist.