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  1. Re:a bully's website? on Classroom Bullies On The Internet · · Score: 1

    I'd love to click them, provided you wrap them in the proper tags, too bad I'm too lazy to copy and paste....

  2. Re:Math Call! on Microsoft Announces Dividend and Stock Buyback Program · · Score: 1

    quarterly dividend payments of $0.08 a share (up from $0.16 annually) so... ((4*.08) = .32) > ((1*.16)= .16)

  3. No contest! on Let the Mindgames Begin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just smoke up before playing, no one would be able to beat you!

  4. Re:Some people on Mexican Attorney General Gets Microchip in Arm · · Score: 1

    It was his right arm? Aw, shit. No wonder why the stupid reader wasn't working......

  5. Re:Algorithms on "Evolved" Caches Could Speed the Net · · Score: 1

    Good idea, but every five mins wouldn't be helpfull. We've sent severs to their death in under a min...

  6. hmmm...... on New Radar Sees Through Walls · · Score: 1

    IDK, without the pretty pictures, it just seems less interesting

  7. Re:Give advice to alternative browser newbies! on Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. IMHO Firefox is cleaner and lighter

    2. I believe it will work when you set Firefox as the default browser

    3. Yes but you can set it to close when download is complete

  8. Wow on Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who would have thought it? The government saying something intelligent; about 5 years too late, but better later then never.....

  9. SETI on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if SETI will examine these areas more closely.....

  10. Re:The mighty galaxy on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably just the ones in our solar system......

  11. Not so great..... on Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a $100 REBATE. Means you still have to buy Dell's crap.....

  12. Limits Create Curiosity on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 1

    The more you limit or restrict something, the more children (and all humans) are naturally drawn to it by curiosity. If they can't access it on their home computer, they will do it somewhere else. I think the only way, is to teach your child what is and isn't appropriate. But when the time comes they will go looking for it anyway.

    But this only works for children of a certain age.
    Disclaimer: IANAP :)

  13. Re:Big enough to be useful, finally. on Panasonic's Blu-ray Recorder To Hit Market In July · · Score: 1

    Yea, now it will only be 17 DVDs every 8 months or so. IMHO, still not a viable solution for your backup needs. Or perhaps you can lower the amount you need to backup.

  14. Dual sided Dual layered on Panasonic's Blu-ray Recorder To Hit Market In July · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but I thought I heard something about dual sided DVD discs. Anyone know anything about that? Could there eventually be dual sided dual layered discs? That'd be sweet, 100 GB capacity!

  15. Video clip, my ass! on Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I was thinking that I might actually get to see the clip. But alas, all I saw was a 30 sec long logo. Silly me, I must be new here.

  16. Smell o Vision on Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm just waiting for the horrid day where you are able to smell the programs on TV. Or sure, sounds great for the cooking shows, but what the "secret doorway" in Desperado? (FYI, it was a bathroom stall with shit spread all over the walls)

  17. My 2 cents on Rocket Hobbyists Get Blown Away by Regulations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is the gov't bothering to regulate a hobby the countless people have participated it, that unless my memory fails me, has never posed a threat to this so called "national security" myth. Their time and our money could be better spent in other ways. (I've got no clue where, which is why I'm not running for office.) Model rocketry has been one of my favorite hobbies for years, and i have never heard of it being misused in a way that warrants attraction from the federal government.

  18. But don't forget on PCs Use More Sick Days Than People · · Score: 1

    In my unofficial survey, I've found that 83.46% of all "sick days" taken by computers are caused by user error.

    "What do you mean I wasn't supposed to delete that file?"

    On another note, 99.99992% of computers work harder then the user.

  19. ummm.......? on Mobo for Vertically Challenged Devices · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Aren't flat TVs depth challenged rather then vertically challenged? Unless of course you lay it on the ground and stand over it to watch it.....

  20. Downside on Mutation Creates SuperKid · · Score: 2, Informative

    If anyone bother to RTFA (but hey this is /. so that's too much to ask) it would tell you the hypothesized downside.

    Muscle cells are surrounded by immature satellite cells that lie dormant until the muscle is injured. Then they migrate into the muscle, replacing injured or dead cells. A recent paper indicated that myostatin might normally function to keep satellite cells quiescent. Without myostatin, he said, the satellite cells might be so active building muscle that they become depleted early in life.

    So they worry that the muscle growth will stop, and eventually reverse without the cells to repair.

  21. Re:Uploading is the key issue... on The RIAA Sues 482 More People · · Score: 0

    You're right; downloading the music isn't the problem. Keeping it is.

    You are allowed to download any mp3 that you want, hell download them all. But if you don't legally own media (i.e. cd, tape, vinyl) you are "supposed" to delete them in 24 hrs.

    Of course you can prevent uploading, if fact I do, but if everyone does; there won't be any more P2P suckers to leach off of. ;)

  22. Sue Happy on The RIAA Sues 482 More People · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about anyone else, but these "sue to scare" tactics just don't worry me. They have failed to change my computing in anyway. I still download music; in fact, I may download more, just to site them. IMHO I feel they are just alienating more people with each lawsuit.