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  1. Re:Give me some context on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    Approximately 186 picoLOCs.

  2. Re:Jobs is happy with it? on Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can say that again. We bought a Panasonic house phone set, and the UI sucks eggs. For example, there's a "speaker" button to turn on speaker-phone mode. However, the same button doesn't turn it off. (It's not broken because there are multiple handsets). I never figured out how to turn off speaker mode (the manual was lost). It's as if they don't do any real UI testing. They bang out a design and as soon as it merely works they ship it. And don't even get me started about Windows.

    If you have the same sort of Panasonic phone I do, you switch it from speaker to normal by pushing the talk button.

  3. Re:min req windows on Cygwin 1.7 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    It works well using WINE.

  4. Re:Boom. on "Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week · · Score: 1

    Stove - sure
    Furnace - Not gonna work real well without electricity to run the controls and the fan.
    Water Heater - Not gonna work real well without electricity to run the controls, and the power outage may result in a lack of water pressure depending on how things are where you live.

  5. Re:Words of caution on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    That's controlled by a field (typically called the "Removable Media Bit") in the USB device descriptor.

    In some cases, you can switch this with a utility from Lexar called BootIt (or "Lexar USB Format Tool"). Sometimes it works with non-Lexar devices, sometimes it doesn't. The tool requires you to reformat the device.

  6. Re:Words of caution on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Turn off write caching for the drive and this problem goes away. It's supposed to be off by default (at least on removable drives, but some IDE/SATA-to-USB bridges show up as normal fixed drives rather than removable for whatever reason), but I've found it seems to turn itself on for whatever stupid reason.

  7. Re:Urban on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    I already do that with the A&W (Mmm. Onion rings and root beer..) next to the McD's up here. And the wifi has always been free since they put it in put it in in January.

  8. Re:Nice, but I don't see it lasting. on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    They had one at the local McD's when I was about 8. I got ahold of one of the game cartridges when they replaced the NES's with N64s. I still have it, though I lack a functioning NES.

  9. Re:Burger King is still better on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    You have evidently never eaten at New York Fries or made your own. Either one beats McD's fries with a sack of potatoes.

  10. Re:Wikipedia says: on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    And Americans are every bit as much descended from those people as you Brits still on the island

    Actually, only about 8% of Americans are of British Ancestry. They're far outnumbered by the Germans and Irish.

  11. Re:Good Riddance on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    I like cash as much as the next guy, but it's not convenient for large transfers, like my tuition for example, which also exceeds my maximum interac transfer by about 3x.

  12. Re:Should be on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 1

    You could go to Virgin Mobile for Saskatchewan coverage if you want to completely ditch Telus. They run off Sasktel's network.

    Though that should be moot soon as Sasktel finally seems to be getting with the times and rolling out UMTS/HSPA.

  13. Re:Should be on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 1

    Here in Canada, we almost have government-backed monopolies with even higher monthly bills.

    How do you figure that? I see no monopoly in wireless, not even on the vaunted iphone, given that I could go get a phone from Bell (iphone), Rogers (iphone), Telus (iphone), Virgin, or Sasktel, and I think I am forgetting one.

  14. Re:There is still room for Psystar 2 to do things on Judge Orders Permanent Injunction Against Psystar · · Score: 1

    Or do it the same way and open up shop outside the US where the DMCA doesn't exist.

  15. Re:Adobe still used why? on Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe some Adobe fan will tell you that some obscure functionality is missing from Foxit Reader.

    Certainly there is missing functionality. This article points out one such instance of missing functionality.

  16. Re:Wrong approach entirely on EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    You presume that he did not reproduce in the 20-30 years it took for the hearing loss to manifest in a significant manner.

  17. Re:What can't I f**king decide for myself? on EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    A better question is, "If your disability is self-inflicted, why should you be eligible for the dole at all??"

    And your sure-fire method for determining whether hearing loss is self-inflected is what precisely?

  18. Re:Placement on Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do realize it is winter. it's currently about -25 C where I am (Central Canada), however, obvious things are not always obvious to everyone.

  19. Re:Placement on Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show · · Score: 2, Informative

    Russia's coastline isn't that open when you look at it.

    1. North - Covered with ice during most of the year, including now, so testing here is not an option.
    2. East - Would take forever to get there from the sub bases on the west coast (You'd either have to go north and stay under the ice for weeks, or go south down the Atlantic, around Africa, and through the Indian ocean), so also not an option.
    3. West - This is the coast of the Baltic sea (And it shares coasts with Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and maybe Norway (I forget where the Baltic ends and the Atlantic beings)), from which you can get to the Atlantic, which puts you right at the south-western coast of Norway, and just a bit northeast of the UK.

  20. Re:And that's bad how? on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    And he had something to back up the questioning.

  21. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    We've had those for over a century just through old fashioned selective breeding.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian Blue
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmontese (cattle)

  22. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The human is the best animal in the brain department

    Which we are using to (attempt to) become better than everything at everything.

  23. Re:A view from Asia-Pacific on Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share · · Score: 1

    I think heat dissipation is a greater concern than battery capacity.

  24. Re:KaBOOM!!! on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Most cheaper wood contains a fair bit of water and is more than conductive enough to give you a nasty shock when you're dealing with tens of kilovolts.

  25. Re:Btrfs: kill off ext# please! on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released · · Score: 1

    Unless I am out of date, there's only really ext2 in windows via ext2fsd, which will mount ext3, but sans journaling, and will only mount ext4 if you disable extents, which is one of the major features.