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  1. What else do they have? on Spam Gets Personal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are they also hosting some pages on their site to help me make anthrax or a nuclear bomb? How about how to pick up under age girls.

    Seriously; do the spammers NEED any more help?

  2. *Every* zip code? on Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again · · Score: 1

    What about the three that I own? Do they own those too? :)

  3. Will *their* customers sue *them*? on Suing Google Over Pagerank · · Score: 1

    Since this site is just another one of those spammy links sites; will their customers (advertisers) now sue kinderstart.com? It seems that they have justified that sort of suit by their suit against google.

  4. BS: The best Windows PPC is the PPC-6700 on Treo 700w Review · · Score: 1

    Have they even seen any other PPC's?

  5. You mean the BETA is not production ready?!?! on First Windows Vista Security Update Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't this just a little too much? Do the people who accept these sort of stories have ANY introspection at all?

  6. WinRK is excellent on A Look at Data Compression · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just downloaded it and I find that it compresses significantly better than winrar when both are set to maximum. Decompress is quite slow. I use it to compress a small collection of utilities.

  7. Re:This is a BETA, Right? on Metadata in Vista Could Be Too Helpful · · Score: 1

    This might be funnier if Microsoft was the only company out there shipping buggy releases. Have you tried Mandriva 2006?

  8. This is a BETA, Right? on Metadata in Vista Could Be Too Helpful · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it a little annoying when someone does a "doom and gloom" review of a beta product, focusing on bugs or immature features. Its like doing a review of a building in progress and shouting out: "It has no roof! The rain will come right in! What are they thinking!"

  9. Re:Not embryonic? on Stem Cells to Treat Brain Injury in Children · · Score: 1

    I don't know if "slipper slope" is what I was going for there. Any time a issue comes up that involves anything that devalues human life, it will be latched onto by the abortion rights people. If a embryo can be harvested for something valuable, then it provides a "benefit" to doing things with embryos in the first place.

    How long do you think it will be before they *do* start harvesting aborted babies for whatever they can?

    As for the fertility clinic thing, I was not aware that they disposed of embryos like so much garbage. I find that disturbing.

    I would be curious where abortion rights ranks on your personal list of political issues. Ever notice that the DNC will pull out whatever stops it has to for any abortion question? Nothing brings more action from their leadership than abortion. Not civil rights, not pacificism, not even fighting school choice (although that is a close second). Why is that? You might want to follow the money on that to see why they are so left of even their own base.

  10. Re:Not embryionic? on Stem Cells to Treat Brain Injury in Children · · Score: 1

    Did I say that they come from abortions? No. You just had a good answer to that so you pretended that was what I was saying.

    For the record, I am not against abortion. I believe the child should have the right to choose; just ask him or her once they reach 18 years of age so they can make an informed decision.

  11. Re:Not embryionic? on Stem Cells to Treat Brain Injury in Children · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps everyone's outlook would be different if the acclaim for the potential of embryonic stem cells in ANY WAY matched their potential. Why the drive for embryonic stem cells and not the other? To make abortion more paletable. Nice that science is so pure, right?

  12. Of course now... on Google Acquires 5% of AOL · · Score: 5, Funny

    this means more stupid people will be using google. IN ALL CAPS!!!!!

  13. Re:And it will continue to grow on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 1

    *I* was just relating *my* experiences. Are you a better judge of what I have experienced in my life?

  14. Re:What is essentialism? on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 1

    So, everyone is born the same?

    http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/Jennnife rRobackMorse/2005/11/28/176881.html

  15. And it will continue to grow on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 1

    You know, Men and Women are different. Why is that so complicated? In my IT career I worked with about ten different women who had equivalent jobs as I and I have had some contact with probably a hundred others. In that time I have found 1 (one) who I thought *really* understood the finer details of the job. In almost all cases the women would gravitate towards the administrative side of things; paperwork, organizing, etc...

    As a electronic technician in the USAF (METNAV) I found the same thing - except it was worse there. They just were not interested in the real nuts and bolts of our job. Again they would gravitate towards the administrative parts of our job.

    That is just *my* experience. I'm sure that many of you will site a exceptional woman that you know and project her as the norm.

  16. Re:Abuse of anonymity is the injury *AND* the insu on Wikipedia to Restrict Creation of Articles · · Score: 1
  17. Re:This guy is Shilling his book on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that this article was timed to help his book sell; he has a conflict of interest. This was reported as hard news; whereas it is content from a upcoming book that is obviously aimed to damage the Bush administration.

    He has had this information for a year, he submitted the book three months ago - yet this story is released the day after the Iraqi elections just in time to take the focus off of that great achievement?

    Nothing to see here, move along...

  18. This guy is Shilling his book on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&p id=518822

    The NY Times failed to reveal the conflict of interest. Additionally this stuff has been known to congress and the federal court involved.

  19. Re:Just use ORB on Up Next... Skypecasting · · Score: 1

    You can *watch* using Linux. They do plan on having both a MAc and Linux server at some point in the future.

  20. Just use ORB on Up Next... Skypecasting · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I already have someone in Germany (I am in the US) watching ball games and other TV programs live from my computer using Orb

    And yes, you can watch using linux...

  21. Re:This is just stupid on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    I wish that *someone* would be a arbiter of this sort of thing. This is far from the worst example, but it is crazy how much money is wasted on vanity research projects and whatnot.

  22. Re:This is just stupid on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    Oh, I got the point: Find the obvious and make it seem scholarly. Humans develop slower because the are less specialized. Is that so confusing that they need to do a study?

    I imagine that this has some sort of political push behind it - save the monkeys because they are smarter than we thought. Why can't they just say "Save the Monkeys"?

  23. Re:Why do you hate science? on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 1

    >>Why do you hate science?

    Hello there, Mr. Exageration.

    My point is that Chimps develop the way they do because that is what works for their enviornment. Of course a chimp is going to be able to do more complex things than a human infant! The chimp is MUCH more specialized - that is what makes the chimp limited.

    How long would the species last if it was not able to "hit the ground running" fast enough to protect itself.

    Same reason kittens can do certain things well - they *need* to. This is the result of evolution.

    To me, this is quite obvious - but then I am a genius. Apparently "scientists" have to do these studies to get things through their pointy little heads.

    BTW, you better stay clear of any talk of learning more about Autism; some of those in the spectrum are rabidly against anything that might lead to a cure.

    I find it interesting that I got a flamebait mod for my post, yet you did not even though you inferred I was "anti-evolution" and a luddite. Is calling names your "go to" move?

  24. Re:This is just stupid on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 0

    The hostility is from the waste of money; if this had been done with private funds the hostility would be replaced disdain.

  25. This is just stupid on Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why didn't they compare cats and humans? At 10 weeks kittens can already jump up on tables and wreck things - the kid is just slobbering on the floor. Does this teach us interesting things about how things learn?

    No, it teaches us that there are some real morons at the university level wasting money that could be going to a WORTHY project.

    This reminds me of the study a few years back when the attempted to discover why hot pizza burns the roof of your mouth.