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  1. Re:three words... on Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Three words: what the fuck?

  2. Re:How is this news? on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    I thought the peanut 'allergy' was because of a mishandling of a protein or enzyme, and wasn't a real allergy?

  3. Re:Also on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, with the right type of water heater, taking those cooler showers lowers your electrical bill and, in the kind of tiny amount a given person can do, helps out environmentally as well.

  4. Re:Oily yellow doplets on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    Thank you, memnock. I haven't laughed that hard in a long while!

  5. Re:Huh? on UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger" · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Huh? on UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger" · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's not talking about a commercial airline. He's talking about small private planes for private use.

  7. Re:EA on EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs · · Score: 1

    I do. I'm hoping they could "reform" and be out from EA's thumb. Great company, and being bought up by EA was the worst thing that could happen.

    Unfortunately if this happens, they loose much of the IP I would really consider to be theirs in the first place.

  8. Re:Give it time on Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss · · Score: 1

    I got electrocuted (ok ok, shocked... but it was several hundred volts with the potential to push a couple amps, resistance allowing) in a way that the electricity passed through my shoulder. I wasn't able to lift it up against gravity either.

    Eventually, this got better... months later. It's still a bit creaky sometimes, occasionally it 'snags' and feels quite "interesting" if I push it without dropping it again.

    So, what you are seeing may not necessarily be atrophy from the immobilization, but actual damage caused by/during the accident that required the immobilization.

  9. Re:Kevlar on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Mail armor isn't plate - though it usually goes with and supplements plate armor. Though, yea - leather armor would be mostly useless regarding bows.

  10. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Do read the comment before you reply.

    I said nothing about the link or it's contents.

  11. Re:Not Really on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Well, I prefer FLAC.

    But then, I can tell a difference between 16-bit and 24-bit, and 44/48khz and 96khz.

    Perhaps I'm special, though it more likely comes from playing real acoustic instruments as a youngin'

  12. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Such a shame that your CAT5 cable passes a digital signal, not analog.

    I'm not arguing against your point, just that particular piece.

    Shielding IS important for audio. That said, no need to go grazy - just a grounded sheath will do you fine.

  13. Re:Cringely is an idiot. on The Space Garbage Scow, ala Cringely · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    The objects pass through the field, get 'pulled' by the drag. They slow down, dropping orbit.

    Slow them down enough and they spiral into the atmosphere to burn up.

  14. Re:As long as it dont gets mono infested. on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    Between mono and this you may just want to start switching early.

  15. Re:Wow on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    Well, this is basically that, but it's per-feature.

    You can pick it up and dial etc - but if you hit the web browser feature, you must enter the PIN to proceed further.

  16. Re:Wow on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    My razr allows me to set a security PIN and flag any menu entry to require the PIN for access. You hit one of those accidentally, you need to type a 4 digit PIN to continue.

    That said, I have a provider who doesn't suck (T-mobile) and my Razr has vendor-neutral firmware (this thing is hardly under warranty at this point)

  17. Re:And now thanks to /. and microsoft on Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    You do know that gmail allows imap now, over SSL even.

    Set up thunderbird, and you could have 100s of gmail accounts being checked by a single application.

  18. Re:if (NO == dedicated_servers) on John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage · · Score: 1

    Well, then my point would be rendered irrelevant wouldn't it?

  19. Re:Gpl violation on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    Ah, I wasn't thinking into it enough. I was thinking of, say, taking a binary of 'cp' and using that or something similar.

    I blame lack of sleep.

  20. Re:no big deal on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    Actually, that part about going 36 in a 35, is because there is a tolerance of 10% variation at 60mph (exact numbers might be off) to cover for mechanical imperfections in the car's speed measurement system. It has nothing to do with the officers being nice.

    They COULD peg you for it, but since even the most useless lawyer could render it a waste of everyone's time, they tend not to.

  21. Re:no big deal on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    No, but if they were REALLY smart they could find somewhere convenient (like the middle of an EULA) that someone would be highly unlikely to read.

  22. Re:Gpl violation on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    Don't change the code, and you have no changes to publicize.

  23. Re:Knee jerk on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mod up! This particular problem has survived too damn long.

  24. Re:"Obviously lifted" not so obvious on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    Which is great, because they themselves offer debug symbols and checked builds.

    One hand giveth, the other taketh away.

  25. Re:Typical AMD bullshit on AMD Graphics Chip Shortage Hits PC Vendors · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I'm intrigued. Do you have a newsletter?