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  1. Re:Who cares? on Scientists Stage Funerals To Protest Against Cuts — a New Trend? · · Score: 1

    I said "So many businesses" not "all businesses."

    You may want to work on your reading comprehension.

  2. Re:Who cares? on Scientists Stage Funerals To Protest Against Cuts — a New Trend? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You outline the real problem: so many big businesses don't seem to care beyond the next quarter. Extreme nearsightedness, it seems.

    You don't ever seem to see them taking a hit for the NOW, looking towards a payoff on the LATER. Always it's now now now.

  3. Re:dang, is this really the first post? on Scientists Stage Funerals To Protest Against Cuts — a New Trend? · · Score: 1

    Yea, the fact that the actual first post is first. You know.... this one?

  4. Re:For better or for worse... on Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets · · Score: 1

    Never had a problem with GTK apps on windows or mac. Just make sure you've got the proper theme installed into the run-time environment and if necessary tell GTK to use it.

    Here's some proof if you don't believe me. Looks totally correct, and GIMP looks the same, too.

    While it should just work, for other reasons I've got "gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208_win32" installed, set it's \bin to my %PATH%, and even went so far as to symlink \gtk to it. This is all done because I've got several versions laying around and wanted to be sure it was using the right one.

  5. Re:For better or for worse... on Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets · · Score: 2

    That hasn't stopped GTK+ from working on all three platforms. Why would QT be any different?

  6. Re:Successful ad campaign is successful on Critics Blast Apple's Cheesy New Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    "No such thing as bad publicity" is wrong. Bad publicity is bad.

  7. Re:BEST place to watch is in the middle east on US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage · · Score: 1

    You're near the equator and near the same longitude of UK et al.

    Great place to pick up geosync sats, since those are for the most part stuck over the equator.

  8. Re:For better or for worse... on Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets · · Score: 1

    Why? It's not like the code is just going to evaporate if nobody picks it up.

  9. Re:LinkedIn on Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious · · Score: 1

    That's exactly why you don't do that. There's more to it than just putting data in an unexpected carrier. You need to make the carrier seem natural.

  10. Re:Arizona? No Thanks on Is Phoenix the Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Nice ad hominem.

    Even if they do speak and work better, they are still illegals and thus companies get away with paying them less. Such a thing, when so prevalent, really does push things down in the area.

  11. The answer is no. on FCC Rules That Verizon Cannot Charge For 4G Tethering · · Score: 1

    this raises the question of whether they can continue to charge for tethering on 3G or 1x?

    The answer here is no, because of the very bit in the summary! It was a rider on their buying the spectrum block. Hence, other spectra are not effected.

  12. Re:my pain is not constantly terrible on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    "Pain meds are different, I'll admit that... but you didn't specify what you're talking about and if you ahve that kind of attitude for one medication, you likely have it for another."

    Guess you missed that?

  13. Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    Nope. Straw Man perhaps, but I'm no expert at naming the fallacy. I just know that there's one there.

  14. Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    Well, some people have so many meds they can't well carry them around, so the clipboard would stay with the meds. The watch you would presumably wear.

  15. Re:Oh Dear God No on Shatner and Wheaton Narrate Mars Rover's Landing Sequence · · Score: 2

    I vote for George Takei.

  16. Re:Do not want.... on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    The reason? The reason is you think you know better than a professional?

    If your not going to listen, why did you go in the first place?

  17. Re:HMO cellphones that can track what you eat? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    Totally unrelated to any of this.

    "Downvotes, plz"

  18. Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 0

    You went to the doctor, and he prescribed the fix. TAKE THE FUCKING MEDICINE OR DONT GO AT ALL.

    We don't need assholes like you deciding they know better than a PhD. Half-course antibiotics breed shit like MRSI.

    Pain meds are different, I'll admit that... but you didn't specify what you're talking about and if you ahve that kind of attitude for one medication, you likely have it for another.

  19. Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    Why not just set up a recurring to-do list? Alarm goes off, take your pill and check the box. Then, if you forget you took it an hour later, you can look for your checkmark.

    Whether you do this all with your phone or with a good old fashioned clipboard and watch, is up to you.

  20. Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    Totally unrelated. One does not effect the other. Just because feeding livestock antibiotics is a problem doesn't mean half-finished antibiotic courses are not.

  21. Re:Dreamcast = worst console ever. on ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released · · Score: 1

    I hated it's guts. Whatever, not everyone likes the games I like, so...

  22. Re:Picnic Basket on ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released · · Score: 2

    +4 hilarious, and +1 uncomfortable truth

  23. Re:Dreamcast = worst console ever. on ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released · · Score: 1

    Crappy game.

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

    Erm... no account == no page?

  25. Re:Prosecute? on Ubisoft Uplay DRM Found To Include a Rootkit · · Score: 0

    While you're at it, be sure to ask about any other program you ever installed that had security bugs ever.