User: spinozanyc

Re:Whatever the plan, we need new terms.

On: Speculation on Real Reasons Behind Apple Switch

Cointelpro

Re:Both options are great

On: Alternatives To Office For Mac OS X

If your Powerbook is running slower or hotter than usual, you may want to check to make sure your lower memory slot has not failed on your Powerbook. Use system profiler.

Re:More good than harm.

On: Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux

Maybe that's why the Darwin community has been complaining that Apple has not been doing its share for open source for the past year.

super-conducting ceramic speaker cables

On: Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It?

I use Monster Arctic(TM) super-conducting ceramic speaker cables. The chemical formula is CaCa. The liquid nitrogen tank used to chill the intra-cable lumen also lets me flash freeze dinner leftovers and do cool tricks when my kid's friends come over.

Re:Statistics can tell you a lot about yourself ..

On: Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites?

You mean Life is not Random?

Re:Baskin Robbins

On: Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America

BR is certainly better than Marble Slab and Coldstone. (The stone ends up re-freezing the ice cream. Yum, ice crystals.)

1) How do they chill the stone?
2) Is Marble Slab a real parlor, or a euphemism?

Re:If they are calling you anyways...

On: Outsourced Support, Now Outsourced Telemarketing?

It was fun - wasted about 20 minutes of the guys time - found out how low of an income they were making etc.

Well, perhaps you've pointed out a good reason not to be *mean* to most of the callers, they're probably poor schnooks working for an hourly wage. The idea is to discourage the business model without mutilating the pawn.

Re:NDA - Bzzzt

On: Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed

IIRC, Clare Quilty was the detective in Lolita.

Re:too big

On: Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter Reviewed

I misread that you were suggesting a "wifey" seeker.

Re:Unlikely

On: Apple Introduces New G5 iMac

Look, Ive used macs since the orignal - that just had 1Mb of ram! - and I always will.

Umm, the original Mac had just 128k ram, not 1Mb. (That was the Mac Plus). Oh, and the original ran just fine on 128k, but required a fair bit of floppy disk swapping for large files.

Re:protecting electronics?

On: Zinc Whiskers Cripple Colorado's Computers

Hmmmm, seems like if you wanted to grow something like zink whiskers, you'd want a nice stable environment, free of foreign contaminants, and time, lots of time. From this standpoint, a dusty garage is a safer environment than a carefully controlled data center. Problems with monocultures.

Interesting. In that case, perhaps where remediation is impractical, a solution is to introduce additional benign contaminant(s) into the system?