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  1. It's not Iran vs. the U.S. on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1

    It's Iran vs. most of the 1st world. Iran keeps pointing fingers at the U.S. while most the world is pointing fingers at them.

  2. Re:I won't be doing it. on MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network? · · Score: 1

    There are modified carrier files out there that are MMS enabled with tethering. I don't have much use for tethering, but I have it if I ever need it.

  3. Re:Looks like a nice device on Early Details On Courier, Microsoft's Take On a Tablet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It still has a backlit screen. I have yet to be able to read any ebooks on lcd or any other backlist screen. I've tried on my desktop, my netbook and my iphone.

    At this point, it's e-ink for ebooks or nothing.

  4. Re:Exactly. on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    In my 4 years of undergrad and beyond (started as a EE major and switched to chemistry), I never saw a HP calc.

  5. Re:Erm.... Labs? on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 1

    Every undergrad chemistry student at my Univ used nmr and mass-spec by their sophomore year.

  6. Re:tests? on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 1

    For the one online class I took, I had to have a proctor.

  7. Re:Erm.... Labs? on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Really..

    Chemistry degree here. I've yet to see a 'timmy tries chemisty' set that has a rotovap, access to a nmr, mass-spec or X-ray crystallography. I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment at my disposal, and this was a univ with a chem department of about 60 people, including students and faculty. The standard equipment that each student was issued in Organic cost well over a thousand.

    Get real.

  8. Re:My experience with Ubuntu on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1

    I switched it to the intel card before I sold it my father. When I had the Ubuntu problem, it was the Dell 1390.

  9. Re:My experience with Ubuntu on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Troll? Seriously?

    Grow up.

  10. My experience with Ubuntu on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought I would try Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex), again, out on my Dell Inspiron 640m. I got everything installed but the wireless wasn't working, so I plugged it into the lan and did some googling. I had to edit several config files and use some ndiswrapper. For someone who doesn't code and doesn't work in IT, it was a pain but whatever. I got it working.

    A couple days later, Ubuntu tells me I have auto-updated to install, so I say okay. It hoses the wireless. I go through the same procedure again and get it working. A couple weeks later, the same thing.

    I've told this story before and got all kinds of apologist telling me various reasons why it happened. The fact is, I don't care what the reasons are. I went back to windows.

  11. Re:Really good ideas... on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 3, Informative

    Naa. Everyone I see that gets a DUI switches to a moped.

  12. Too bad on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    You don't, and never should, have the right to not be offended.

  13. Re:Astronauts != scientists on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    I think you check should check the credentials of a few of the astronauts. Many of these guys (and gals) have more PhD's in hard sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, biochem, engineering, etc) than you can shake a stick at.

  14. Re:not unusual on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Show me a pesticide that doesn't contain carbon.

  15. Re:not unusual on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just like "organic" farmers changing the meaning or organic. Organic means carbon based and has no bearing on how you grow something.

    All crops are organic.

  16. nice marketing on PS3-Compatible Phone Coming In October · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's sounds a little.. whats the word... pointless!

  17. Re:large bureaucratic hierarchies like banks... on Security Test Prompts Federal Fraud Alert · · Score: 1

    In before the grammar nazi. Yes I see the error.

  18. Re:large bureaucratic hierarchies like banks... on Security Test Prompts Federal Fraud Alert · · Score: 1

    That's why it's a good reason to stick with locally owned banks/credit unions. The president of my bank lives five miles from me (he is also my uncle). If there is any sort of test like the above, he is there. Not sitting 300mi away sending memos.

  19. Re:Windows Vista: "Good Enough" is the right answe on Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology? · · Score: 1

    Go out on any icy or wet parking lot and lock up the brakes without ABS, next try it with.

    Check your results again.

  20. You got to be kidding on Solar Roadways Get DoT Funding · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Road surfaces? You mean the same ones that get demolished every winter because of plows?

    I was going to make more of a point, but I'm not going to bother...

  21. Re:Podcasts, Vidcasts, &c on An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC · · Score: 1

    Haha. This is the same argument the woman and I have. She is from Seattle, I'm from Indiana.

  22. Re:Podcasts, Vidcasts, &c on An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC · · Score: 1

    You do when you follow teams and can't exactly travel around the country to watch them.

    Yes I watch local sports, and I play some too, but I can't follow the colts from stadium to stadium.

  23. Re:Podcasts, Vidcasts, &c on An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC · · Score: 1

    That does little for sports nuts, like myself.

  24. Re:Who tagged this "Fascism"? on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, he is a champion of himself and gives a damn about anyone else.

  25. Re:Flushed down the toilet? on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 4, Informative

    Flushing drugs down the toilet isn't the problem. The problem is that a large portion of many medications taken are simply peed away. Good luck telling people not to urinate in the toilet when they are taking antibiotics or birth control pills.