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  1. Re:Yeah, there are on Broadband Access Without the Pork? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's the billing, the cable is already hooked up to my house, and the house is already wired. Ten dollars a month for billing sounds realistic, they don't have any other expenses do they?

  2. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that no one has suggested having a buddy system. Sure, the company should pay someone to come in and boot the computers before the other staff arrives. It's dumb to have idle employees either on or off the clock. But, if the company won't hire a booter upper, then the buddies should take turns coming in and booting all their computers. I mean, if the computer can boot while you are getting coffee, it can boot while you are booting your coworkers' computers.

  3. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    He was talking about manual transmissions, wasn't he? With a manual, you don't need to use the starter motor if the car is moving. Yet another reason why I don't understand the popularity of automatics.

  4. Re:Sigh... on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 1

    That's great if you get them to only use Mail. But, if you allow them to use a browser, how are you going to keep them away from Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other webmail that parent may have never heard of?

  5. Re:You too can be an armchair scientist. on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    Not in my part of America. Around north Georgia, most cow pastures have meat cows and steers in them. There are no barns, just trees and creeks which the cattle use for shelter and cooling. Actually, there are barns, but they are for storing hay and equipment such as hay balers. The cows can't get into the barns unless they break through the fence.

  6. Re:You too can be an armchair scientist. on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    They produce ice milk

  7. It's the cow magnets... on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    http://www.magnetsource.com/Solutions_Pages/cowmags.html

    Did they control for whether these observed cows had these magnets installed?

  8. Re:So much for the seeds of .... on Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair · · Score: 1

    Something about this thread made me think of this

    http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/harry/

    But, I haven't played it in years. We used to have a version at my office using real chairs, but none were motorized IIRC.

  9. Re:awesome on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 1

    Are these security policies causing any one to immigrate? We keep getting these scary stories on /., but do they scare the British public? Homeland Security wishes it had so much power.

  10. Re:TO PREVENT MORE STUPID REPLIES... on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 0, Troll

    a typo? that's when you type "teh" instead of "the" or "fuck" instead of "truck" to give a couple of examples. I've reread your message a couple of times and can't find the typo.

    If I could figure out the type (oops, a typo), I could then figure out the intellegent statement you meant to make. But, I can't. Could it be that you actually made a stupid statement, not a type, I mean typo, at all?

  11. Re:Gmail, Yahoo, etc shouldn't tell you on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    If the estate administrator has the right to go through the dead man'a mail, but google doesn't want to cooperate, then I think it would be ethical to guess at passwords, assuming you haven't tipped off Google to close the account. But, since Google doesn't know the real identity of the owner, they can't be sure he's dead, so I presume the account will be there to be cracked. One possiblitily is to get everyone who knows him well on IM, then try to answer the questions that "only he would know". If you have enough siblings and ex'es to help you, it might work.

  12. Settling affairs, your friends in probate court on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The administer/executor of his estate has the legal right to conduct business in his name for the purpose of settling his affairs. I would present the paperwork from the propate court to all those places you mentioned and procede to settle his affairs as you see fit.

    You may discover something that he did indeed mean to keep private. And, if there is an afterlife, he may care. If so, be like an ethical telephone engineer and behave as if you have no knowledge you aren't supposed to have.

  13. Re:Why Freeze A Living Thing? on German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No reason to worry. Wikipedia will continue to live and breath, just as your cat, child, or spouse continue to live and breath when you take a snapshot of them. A snapshot might not be completely up to date, but it can be much more convenient than having your cat, child, or spouse on your desk or in your pocket everyday.

  14. Re:Number Munchers anyone? on Adults Too Quick to Dismiss Educational Gaming? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sim City, now that game had an agenda. The only way to make a stable city was to keep lowering the taxes. Made me wonder how accurate the simulation was because if it was at all accurate, no intelligent person would tolerate taxation above a very small amount It also had a rather ruthless urban renewal technique, invite a monster or a natural disaster to occur.

  15. Re:Blah blah. on Engineers Make Good Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    The other night, I watched an old Robert Redford movie where the protagonist worked for the CIA, his job was to sit in a cushy chair and read novels all day, then write up a memo summarizing the plot points of concern. My thought, "does ths job not exist anymore?. Or maybe, they just don't read Clancy.

  16. Re:Tea on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 1

    no CBNeal jokes, please. This isn't a poll.

  17. Re:We already brand criminals as unemployable on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    You know someone who has a great future in sticking up gas stations.

  18. Re:Workaround on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    Of course, if you treat them all like criminals, then you won't inadvertantly leave one criminal out.

  19. Orwell got the year wrong... on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The UK has problems if anyone in power takes this police request seriously. God, I hope it isn't that bad. Five year olds? Do all five year olds who act out become criminals?

  20. Re:Our ugly future on GE Announces OLED Manufacturing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the cereal box (and all other in store packaging) IS an ad for the product inside. They don't use bright colors and cartoon characters simply because they feel like it. Anything to get the attention of the eyes going down the aisle. It's also why the most obnoxiously packaged stuff is about a foot or two lower than adult eye level, because the kids in most families pick out their own cereal, whether or not the parents mean for them to. I just hope they don't work sound into the packaging. All I want is pricing information. I almost wrote nutritional, but I've noticed that the most nutritious food in the store doesn't have nutritional information.

  21. Re:The Point is ... on British Airport Will Require Fingerprints From Domestic Passengers · · Score: 1

    If Americans were citizens of a land the size of the UK, the domestic air industry would have died a long time ago. Use of private boats, planes, and automobiles is way up. Many people routinely drive distances that can't be done in the UK by any sensible route. Domestic airliners are mostly for getting out of the country or to a completely different part of the country. The fractional ownership industry was not significant eight years ago. Private planes of all sorts were a dying industry, but all this has changed. Everytime they tighten the screws, a few more quit flying. If the railroad was any good at all, it would be doing a great business. But, government has no talent for running a railroad either, so for anyone in a hurry to travel a long way, airlines are still here.

    About that kid and his half drunk bottle of water - you'd think having him consume a gulp of it in front of the agent would have been sufficient proof, it would have been at least as reassuring as when security at Hearthrow requested me to push every button on my TI-59 back in the 70's. As far back as I can remember, security at Heathrow has been outragiously stupid. Hey, if I really had a calculator bomb, I would have used an odd key chord to set it off, not a single button, but maybe I've said too much. Do they read /.?

  22. Re:if ip = real p, how about some taxes on The Copyright Crusade a Lost Cause? · · Score: 1

    So MPAA/RIAA, which is it - are movies and music Personal Property, or Real Property? There is another option, one that makes sense in a literal fashion, and possibly in a legal fashion. That would be intangible property, generally considered to be stocks, bonds, currency, and other pieces of paper that are valuable for reasons that have nothing to do with the value of the paper as paper. Wouldn't a book also be a piece of paper that gets it's value from the words and ideas it conveys rather than the material itself? Music is even less tangible, now that CD's are going the way of the LP. Oh, stocks and bonds aren't issued as certificate anymore, they are just bits in a database somewhere, much like the cash in my checking account. They are quite intangible, but of real value. They are taxed on the change in value, not the value itself.
  23. Re:So Americans Who Sympathize With Cuba... on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the only way to put some teeth in this embargo is to embargo Canada, Europe, China, and everyone else who is to stupid to know that the right thing to do is to embargo Cuba. That will show them!

    PS. How do you make a sarcasm tag?

  24. Re:One opinion on How Do You Find Programming Superstars? · · Score: 1

    When's the last time he updated his resume? I suppose once your compensation is divulged and justified in the 10K's or you make a list at Forbes, you don't need a resume.

  25. Re:Arguments on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    American politics makes me ill. I prefer following Belgium politics.