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  1. Re:That's fine because I plan to bypass... on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Maybe a phone-company OS, such as some form of Unix.

  2. Re:That's fine because I plan to bypass... on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Are Irish Setters really that stupid?

  3. Re:Nocebo on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    Unless there already is some treatment for the condition. Withholding such treatment is a violation of medical ethics.

  4. Re:Remeron has a 1% chance of priapism on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    Untreated priapism can have adverse affects on male sexual performance

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapism#Complications

  5. Re:last example is very interesting on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    Well, if they are sugar pills, a sufficient quantity might kill a diabetic.

  6. Re:The Mind is amazing on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    What, they're made out of helium, argon, neon, xenon, krypton, and/or radon (although radon is radioactive)?

  7. Re:That's What We Did on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    It was the states, such as Virginia.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/virginia-senate-passes-revised-ultrasound-bill.html?pagewanted=all

    Alabama

    http://www.care2.com/causes/discomfort-is-the-point-of-transvaginal-ultrasound-bill-sponsor-says.html

    Sorry, I thought there were more. The Democrats opposed the Virginia bill; I'm not sure about the Alabama bill.

  8. Re:That's What We Did on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    Republicans requiring vaginal ultrasounds for abortions for the protection of women..

  9. Re:That's What We Did on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    And given the Republican "nanny-state" treatment of sexuality, shouyld I label them as Democrats?

  10. Re:That's What We Did on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

    A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line.

    Is he really a Democrat now?

  11. Re:That's What We Did on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    I thought the OP meant more like freedom from police-state surveillance as a civil right.

  12. Re:Early-Breaking News: AGILITY! on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 1

    Acceleration for an object in uniform circular motion is v^2/r, where v is the speed and r is the radius. For an airliner traveling 500 miles per hour (733 feet per second) and a radius of 1 foot, that would be over 500,000 feet per second squared. That is more than 16,000 g's. Good luck with that.

  13. Re:That's What We Did on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As if Romney's policies will get them jobs, or the Republicans will care about civil rights.

  14. Re:THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE. on Data-Fed Monitoring System Will Put New Yorkers Under Police Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Quantum mechanics?

  15. Re:Copyright violations on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Can happen in many different scenarios on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: 1

    They'll probably strip search him too, for a $25 fee, if he asks for it.

    Who's doing the strip searching? It might well be worth $25. :-)

  17. Re:Is EVERYONE on Slashdot COMPLETELY RETARDED? on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    I don't seek out Windows stickers, but a large amount of hardware in stores has it. I prefer not to order hardware.

  18. Re:Is EVERYONE on Slashdot COMPLETELY RETARDED? on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    And who is producing non-Windows ARM hardware?

    Also, I have bought x86 and x64 hardware with Windows Logoes on it (I'm on such a laptop right now), so why wouldn't I do it with ARM?

  19. Re:Is EVERYONE on Slashdot COMPLETELY RETARDED? on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    Will the ARM machines have a "Disable Secure Boot" setting?

  20. Re:Won't Win8 compatible be enough? on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that they want Linux running within Windows, not so much the other way around.

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/default.aspx

  21. Re:-2000 Lines Of Code on How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    It means we kicked your butts at Yorktown.

  22. Re:If you don't have javascript, you're a bot? on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 1

    paying 80% too much for their ad space?

    More like 400% too much, as they pay for four bot clicks for each real click.

  23. Re:Very Erlang-y on Chaos Monkey Released Into the Wild · · Score: 1

    I don't have such a problem.

  24. Re:Which one? Surface or Surface RT? on Microsoft Surface Release Date Confirmed · · Score: 1

    If you make equal bets on every space in roulette, you're guaranteed to lose.

  25. Re:God I hate that use of "free"... on How Will Steam on GNU/Linux Affect Software Freedom? · · Score: 1

    In the end as one of the Red hat devs points out the current system is completely broken and will only get worse [google.com] because the current Linux philosophy simply doesn't scale, why? Because a handful of devs simply can't provide QA or QC for tens of billions of lines of code, tens of thousands of drivers, and thousands of programs in the repos, that's why. That is why you get half baked software in the repos, drivers that work in foo but not in foo+1, its not because the devs want to break shit its that there is no way in hell to test everything before release.

    Are Microsoft and Apple that much better? What driver problems do you have with Ubuntu? Also, the Linux kernel has more than a handful of developers.

    From the GP's link:

    Desktop Linux users are, naturally, voting with their feet: they prefer an open marketplace over (from their perspective) micro-managed, closed and low quality Linux desktop distributions.

    Really, would you care to support that statement, Mr. Molnar? That also applies to what he claims users want. Has he gathered data on this, or is he just making it up?

    Again, I consider Linux as end-user friendly as Windows (I don't know about Mac).