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  1. Even better on Creative use for empty whiskey bottles · · Score: 1
    The best thing to drink at work:
    I'm not quite finished with my latest McAfee's Benchmark

  2. Re:see http://stevepavlina.com/ on Are Alternative Sleeping Patterns Effective? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Although the jury is out when it comes to how to break up 60 minutes of sleep ...
    when it comes to sex, everybody agrees 3 quickies in the afternoon is just right.

  3. Re:polyphasic sleep on Are Alternative Sleeping Patterns Effective? · · Score: 1
    Eating is at least as important as sleeping. I'd rewrite it as:

    polyphasic eating, the Uberman eating schedule, suggests that you eat 20-30 minutes six times per day,
    with equally spaced snacks every 4 hours around the clock. This means you're only eating 2-3 hours per day.

  4. Battery downside on Undervolting a Laptop · · Score: 1
    Rechargeable AA batteries have been doing this by changing the 1.5V standard to 1.25V.

    They've taken it one step further lately so that my 6.0V devices are now powered by 4.8V
    (you need 5 rechargeables to properly replace 4 standard batteries)

    The only benefit is that Eveready [Ralston Purina] saves money by not investing in R&D.

  5. Philosophy of Work (in-a-SIG) on How to Do What You Love · · Score: 1
    Sign on the wall: "It isn't the activity, stupid"

    --
    WORK is what you have to do.
    PLAY is what you DON'T have to do.
    Great bosses properly manipulate this.

  6. Re:Time is money on Stardust@Home Lets Public Search Grains of Dust · · Score: 1
    My computer cycles I could care less about but my time is valuable to me.

    You gotta turn it into a contest for the smallest, or most distant, or largest.
    And the computer-based program should encompass both fame and fortune.

    Incorporate it into a screensaver, that a coworker will inevitably hack to be like the 1999
    subliminal web page that suddenly pops up an alien after staring intently at a static screen.

  7. Re:Too bad.. on How To Get Free Stuff At Shows · · Score: 1
    hotels around the area are all $$$ at that time ... Free stuff is always good, but as usual, it ain't really free

    I've asked dozens of people how they did in Las Vegas -- and most people "won money" every-single-time! (YMMV)

    --
    Or as their state taxing authority claims:
    'What comes to Las Vegas, stays in Nevada'

  8. Additional sources on the subject on Interactive Learning Fails Reading Test · · Score: 2, Funny
    I read the exact same thing on Fortune last week. Or was it Forbes? It was one of those webpages
    with all the float-over windows with sound and graphics ... it's kind of hard to remember now which.

  9. Re:Do it on my phone. on Crank Blogging, Like Phone Calling, Now Illegal · · Score: 1
    sends out the caller-ID 000-000-0000

    I prefer the cubicle game of asking the janitorial staff to call an inside line 'to make sure it is now working'.
    Of course you have the cleaning crew dial the PHB and leave silent voicemail from the CEO's extension.

    It usually stops the morning rants for the rest of the week.

  10. Re:Bought the $999 ScanJet 4c for a song on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1
    if you run out of desk space, it does a pretty good lap dance

    Only if it has the non-passive SCSI version on the back end.

  11. Running Windows? on Computers That Feel our Mood · · Score: 1

    It feels your pane.

  12. i4i & 2th_4_2th on Sony to Settle Spyware Suit with Downloads? · · Score: 1
    The Judge should make Sony drink their own bad whiskey and go blind.

    Order the rootkit installed on 3000 of their own computers, making sure there is no protection.
    Oh, and they should be spread across servers, corporate desktops, and retail shipping VAIOs.

  13. The real reason it took 8 days on Microsoft to Patch WMF Exploit Early · · Score: 1
    According to MS06-001, you choose from one of 6 fixes for your particular flavor of Windows.

    I'd bet that 2000 SP4, XP Professional, and 2003 Server hardly took any time at all to prepare.
    The x-64 2003 server and x-64 XP PRO probably required a bit more preparation and testing.

    But someone in our party just had to order the 2003 Itanium-based product and make us all wait!

  14. Re:Old old old old news on Security Vendor McAfee to Pay $50 Million Fine · · Score: 1
    This settlement pertains to actions taken in 1998 to 2000.

    OK, and in 2000 their main product (version 6.0 at the time) was on shelves stating it ran under
    Windows Millenium Edition when it absolutely did NOT.

    McAfee wouldn't replace it and substituted a single use electronic version which couldn't reinstall.

    Lousy product, lousy management, and lousy support. You're right -- same old story in 2006 too.

  15. Got one in my Christmas stocking on Portable Brain Scanner to Save Premature Babies · · Score: 1
    Researchers at UCL are developing a portable brain scanner

    I was going to report back on the one I got today, but Santa forgot to leave the right size lithium thionyl chloride batteries.

  16. Re:Why prime numbers ? on New Possible Record Prime Number Found · · Score: 4, Funny
    the more primes are known, the less secure your encryption becomes

    But the more we know about those people who calculate primes in their spare time,
    the safer America will become.

  17. Re:That's because Wal-Mart sells garbage. on ISPs Race to Create Two-Tiered Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Give the people what they want, and give it to them good and hard!

    The U.S. Department of Commerce will soon be defining "durable goods" as something
    other than products with an expected lifetime of more than three years.

    The problem with the original Ma-and-Pa example can be shown with cheap house paint:
    When the cheappo Walmart '10 year' exterior paint needs to be done again in five years,
    Ma-and-Pa paintstore are no longer around when consumers realize the need for quality.

  18. Re:all engineering and physical sciences on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 1
    "Tech is out" since the dot.bomb

    According to the introduction, they are talking about a key event happening 20 years prior to that:
    The peak male to female ratio of 5:3 for students who decided upon their college paths in 1980.

    Those women matriculated in 1981, during a period of the infamous 69-cents-on-the-dollar pay;
    entering one of the sparse professions where their gender had very little influence on earnings.

    Today there are moany other choices for a field of study (that avoid blatant salary discrimination)

  19. Aspergers Syndrome on Algorithms Determine Mona Lisa's True Emotions · · Score: 1
    Invent algorithm ... profit!

    Helping all the socially clueless geeks for a nominal fee.

  20. Re:Give me a break on Podcasting Officially a Word · · Score: 1
    Last year we were "downloading audio", this year we're "listening to podcasts" - right.

    It's just a word. For at least a hundred years, the phrase 'Pod casting' has been 2 words to East Coast fishermen.

    --
    "Baby spoke his first word today.
    I distinctly heard him say mother.
    No that isn't just half of a word."

  21. Re:Let me get this straight on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 1
    a beta version of anti-virus software it intends to sell as a subscription service

    I'm going with the first major AV company who releases a new standalone, non-bundled antivirus product
    in 2006 that doesn't require a subscription (ie., "security" that doesn't suddenly go on strike and disappear.)

    And even if McAfee someday meets that requirement, I'm never buying from them again after version 10.0
    dies after a few weeks of no internet connection, and then pushes those "Tuneup needed" popups on users.

  22. Re:I hope the final version is free. on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 1
    like paying the mafia for "protection."

    The average Joe wonders if current antivirus firms are like tire repair shops who drop nails on the highway.

    --
    There is a difference between Norton and McAfee
    McAfee often hoses Windows during a basic setup
    Norton hoses things first AND when uninstalling

  23. Mature content on Clinton Introduces Invasive Game Legislation · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So in 1965 when Senator Clinton was 17 years old, the government should have been investigating
    all the hidden content being revealed when teens started playing 45rpm records backwards?

    There's little new under the sun, and gray hair still makes people forget their own younger days.

  24. Re:Survival is unlikely on A Recipe for Newspaper Survival in the Internet Age · · Score: 1
    Do a simplistic case study instead:

    Start by picking one hundred metropolitan areas based on factors unrelated to your study.
    Get (true) subscription data for the past 5 years for the major publication in each area.
    Adjust figures for factors such as demographics, population growth, etc.
    Pick the 4 or 5 obvious winners and losers (assuming that circulation sales is your goal)
    See what traits the gainers share and the dying publications do not.

    Simplistic, since it covers sales and not profits, but the point is staving off readership drops.
    Learn from the successful.

  25. Re:I'd like to thank the guinea pigs on Xbox 360 Very Unstable · · Score: 1
    I really appreciate ... your willingness to queue up for the box;
    to pay a premium rate for a revision 1.0A piece of hardware;
    to choose from a paltry selection of mostly mediocre full-price games.

    You can only truly judge a system once there are a half-dozen or more Pro Wrestling games that have been released.
    And I'd recommend a 1790kHz based-processor if you are concerned about heat-related issues.