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  1. Re:Nobody is born on the 1st of January on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    I believe you need to turn 16 in the year in which you're competing, so wouldn't it have helped the believability to put 12/31/xx instead of 1/1/xx as long as you're going to fake a birthdate?

  2. EC2 is pretty sweet on EC2 Vs. App Engine Vs. GoGrid Vs. AppNexus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just get the EC2 and S3 plugins for Firefox and it's really easy to fire up instances and manage them. Sure, there's a learning curve, but once you really get it, it's awesome.

  3. Re:What I would do on How Would You Design Your Dream Office? · · Score: 1

    Having no a/c in the server room is unacceptable.

  4. Re:LOGO vs. BASIC on Forty Years of LOGO · · Score: 1

    I, too, credit my love of programming and my career choice to early exposure to Logo in elementary school. Thanks Mrs. Wong!

  5. Re:This would be a good idea if... on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1
    As long as we're using the Electoral College, there will always be the "My vote doesn't count" argument.

    I like your idea though.

  6. Re:true on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1

    While it's true that one can't both wait and not wait in order to compare which was better, by looking at what we avoided by waiting until marriage (emotional baggage, regrets, STDs, teen pregnancy, etc.) it looks like it was a good move.

  7. true on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 0

    I'm a card-carrying member of MENSA and I was a virgin when I got married (so was my wife). It was one of the best decisions we ever made.

  8. roadmap?? on NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "A roadmap for the future" ??? You're just as much at the mercy of M$ as you to the OO.o developers. What kind of security can one kind in M$'s supposed "roadmap for the future". Bah!

  9. Re:Things like this are easy to fix. on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Goliath does not negotiate with David.

    If memory serves, David easily killed Goliath.

  10. Re:well, according to the fbi... on NFL Caught Abusing the DMCA · · Score: 1

    That's because no one could read his message :-)

  11. email her on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    and tell her what a moron she is: dsshell@ix.netcom.com

  12. Re:Will googling for "ReiserFS" make me a suspect? on Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I routinely get searches that hit on my site where people are looking for "15 year old vagina", or something along those lines"

    I do too and I redirect all traffic with stuff like that in it's querystring to the pedophilia article on wikipedia.

  13. Re:Not good..... on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    Taking 500mg of caffeine has short- and long-term side effects of its own.

  14. Re:That's great and all, but... on Growing Insulin · · Score: 1

    You're right, the fact that an insulin is from animal origin does not mean it's long acting.

  15. Re:That's great and all, but... on Growing Insulin · · Score: 1

    Human insulins, or those made from rDNA, are vastly better than animal ones. The fact they don't last long is a GOOD thing for those on insulin pumps. Short-acting insulin is ideal for pumps and insulin pumps are the best way to administer insulin because they behave like a real pancreas. For those who can't afford or don't want a pump, combining Lantus (24-hour insulin) with with Novolog or Humalog (short acting) is the best way to mimic the functions of a pump or pancreas. All in all, the 1970s called they want their animal insulins back. Oink!

  16. Re:why do they care? on Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In response to my own post, I was so intent on getting FP that I didn't think through what I was typing. (How's that for an excuse?)

  17. why do they care? on Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why does Google care so much? They get more money when people abuse it. Just charge less per click if they're that concerned about it.

  18. Re:Birth control is NOT the solution on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1
    You know, now that I think of it, the Amish people are much more eco-friendly than us "civilized" beings.

    Maybe so, but their gene pool is in big, big trouble. I saw a report about how many of their children these days have strange genetic defects never before seen.

  19. Re:SSN? on 'Destroyed' Hard Drive Found At Flea Market · · Score: 1

    On tax documents, perhaps. I know I do.

  20. Re:Dumbasses on Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think not putting your name on something is cowardly. If you want to say something, stand behind it and be prepared to accept consequences whether just or unjust. Otherwise, don't bother saying stuff. If you don't want to sign your name and stand behind what you say, think about whether it is it really worth saying and if it's really a good idea to say it.

  21. Re:Hand Powered? on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the ears are just port covers. I think this laptop is meant to be rugged and able to take a hit.

  22. Re:And it looks like... on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    If they were running XP, that'd be at least $100 right there!

  23. Yahoo! Music on Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts? · · Score: 1

    I pay $5/month to listen to just about any song I want to at home and at work. (It costs 79cents each to keep the downloads forever.) I haven't bought CDs in years because of how cheaply I can enjoy music on my computer. Yahoo hardly makes a profit on this price, not to mention the artists I listen to. I am really tired of the piracy BS that is said to be the cause of declining artist revenues. Load of garbage.

  24. Re:Bandwidth is Not Free! on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 1
    As I've also got an animation killer...

    IE3 works pretty well as an animation killer :-) It won't animate GIFs and certainly not Flash.

  25. wow on The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, thanks for the "brief" "summary." I don't think I need to read the book now...