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  1. Re:Kill Her Now on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone is asking or expecting you to grieve over the situation. And yes, some folks do like dark humor and other folks abhor it.

    Some folks like dead baby jokes. I don't, but if that's their bent and they like telling those jokes among themselves, that's fine. But if they walk up to someone who has just lost a child and tell it, I expect someone to punch the asshole in the face. They'd deserve it.

    This is a similar time. Someone in a bad personal situation has come asked for advice, and some assholes are joining in a topic about the problem and posting the equivalent of the dead baby jokes. They are the the same asshole.

  2. Re:I thought Apple said there was no antenna probl on Chip Guru Papermaster Loses Signal At Apple · · Score: 0

    That was a quote from the grandparent. I accidentally hit the submit when I was going for preview and had forgotten the quotes.

  3. Re:I thought Apple said there was no antenna probl on Chip Guru Papermaster Loses Signal At Apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually they never said it was a software issue. They said it was a attenuation problem that all modern smart phones have.

    Then they lied about that as well. Does the iPhone 4 and every other phone have attenuated signal to it when the hand blocks the signal yes.

    The ADDITIONAL problem with the iPhone 4 is it detunes the antenna when you hold in in a certain spot. No other phone has that problem.

    That's the real problem. Apple has tried to distract folks by both claiming at one point that it was a software problem, and then later by saying it's the same problem all other phones have.

    Both are lies.

  4. Re:Conditions Apply on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    Maybe not enough to supply 100% of their needs, but they do have enough to put one whale of a dent in their needs.

  5. Re:Conditions Apply on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They don't have roofs in Chicago?

  6. Re:I see AT&T's position on AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo · · Score: 1

    the presenter may well have just committed a number of crimes in front of a live audience, and probably a fair few cameras.

    A live audience filled with feds...

  7. Re:well... on Your Online Education Experience? · · Score: 1

    Please realize not every high school out there has the resources yours does. I went to a rural school and we had almost zero college prep classes. Calculus wasn't even offered.

  8. Re:Desalinization? on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    The salt used in the system is not NaCl. So, No.

  9. Re:Can we say, Sprint NASCAR?!? on 'Bloatware' Becoming a Problem On Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Sprint TV?

  10. Re:The others on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought it was hilarious that he said it 'iPhone 4 drops an average of less than one additional call per hundred than the 3GS.' My cell phone almost never drops calls. Certainly not one in a hundred to even start with. That's just sad.

  11. Re:Like radar, but shorter wavelengths on Aussie Lasers To Stop Satellite Collisions, Death · · Score: 1

    and sell the data it collects to satellite owners and companies like NASA.

    NASA is a company?

  12. Re:$200 is "mid" range? on Nvidia's $200 GTX 460 Ups Bargain Performance · · Score: 1

    If I can get the features and framerate of cards that normally cost $500 for $250, that's a bargain.

    First you were complaining $200 wasn't mid range by your definition, now you are complaining a bargain isn't a bargain unless it's in your price range.

    Once again, you are not the target market for this article. That's ok.

  13. Re:$200 is "mid" range? on Nvidia's $200 GTX 460 Ups Bargain Performance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In much the way $600 is cheap for a SLR camera, but $50 is cheap for an average home camera.

    The $200 mid range for a card for a gaming rig, not mid range for an e-machine or other generic computer 'decent enough to use for most stuff' computer you get from a big box store.

    If you aren't into high end gaming with the latest graphics crunching game, at really high resolution and fps, that's fine. Other folks are and have a different definition of what's 'mid' range for a gaming machine than you have for a generic machine.

    In other words, this article isn't aimed at you. That's ok. Not every one has to be.

  14. Re:funny but ineffective on When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies · · Score: 1

    1900?

    Try 1974. That's when the U.S. had one big ol phone company. Ma Bell. I remember replacing our phones in our house when it happened and you could finally buy your own phone. Before that, Ma Bell made you rent theirs. At a hefty price per phone every month.

  15. Re:how to do it on ScienceBlogs.com Deals With Community Backlash Over PepsiCo Column · · Score: 1

    You are missing part of the point of peer review. When you get a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, it means you got a stamp of approval from a group of fellow scientists who looked over the science, the methods and conclusions, and have considered it good science, and important enough to be published in the journal submitted to. Journals have a reputation they want to maintain, and don't publish 'junk' just so folks can all later talk about it and say 'bah, it's junk'. There is a world of difference between a peer reviewed journal and your posting on /.

  16. Re:Supporting citizens vs supporting a platform on No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British · · Score: 1

    Sure, but it's likely that in the future, folks will get an HD TV as their old SD ones fail. The signal and older high-def shows you may want to watch again will be waiting for you. What's the odds everyone in the country is going to eventually replace their current phone with an iPhone?

  17. Re:Supporting citizens vs supporting a platform on No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you don't have a TV, you don't pay the TV tax.

    If you don't have an iPhone, you've still had to pay to make an app for it.

  18. Re:Would you prefer "irrational"? on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    When you go into a pharmacy and get a prescription filled, or buy something off the rack, you know for a fact you are buying a drug which may have unknown long term effects.

    When you go into a grocery store and buy a few ears of corn, you have absolutely no idea if you are buying stuff which has been genetically engineered to produce some insect/mold killing drug may have unknown long term effects.

  19. Re:A dark, dark day. . . on NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha · · Score: 1

    You just described exactly my experience watching Johnny Sako and his Flying Robot. Killing fond childhood memories is not a good thing.

  20. Re:Next please! on Proximity Sensor Presents Latest iPhone 4 Issue · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does Honda tell you you shouldn't hold the steering wheel at 10 and 2 because it doesn't run well that way?

  21. Re:Not on the iPhone on Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex · · Score: 1

    When someone sticks an 'i' in front of their application's name? Yes.

  22. Re:Before everyone cheers (or jeers) on Apple, AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 Antennas · · Score: 1

    If you take these posts that way, you blew it.

  23. Re:Cloaking device malfunction?! on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 1

    No need for extra power to the dish, just reverse the polarity for a while. That should balance out the neutrino count they are observing.

  24. Re:Simple really... on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    Get a phone from one of the many vendors who will sell you one month to month or by the minute?

  25. Not a good answer. We need solar or fusion. on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's nice and all, but you should keep in mind how lots of places in the U.S. get their natural gas these days. Through phracking.

    It's not a good thing. There are huge environmental concerns. Flamable drinking water, Neurotoxins and other poisons in drinking water. There's even a movie about it.