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  1. Re:Tales of old. on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    If I am reading your post correctly, that doesn't help if it isn't a mailing list. So, it wouldn't help if three people are taking part in a discussion via direct email.

    How about having a limit of something like 5 or 10 addresses, and if it goes over that, all of the addresses get moved to the BCC field. This way, there are no extra steps for the user, the Reply To All will only get used for small groups since there won't be any large groups in the To field for ReplyToAll to reply to, and all email gets sent as expected. This would give the added bonus of keeping inconsiderate mail users from sending our email addresses out to everyone on their mailing list.

    This could easily be implemented on the server to get the ball rolling and to deal with email clients that don't behave, and could be implemented on the clients as they get updated to improve the user experience by notifying them that the To field is being moved to the BCC.

  2. Re:These are people who still believe Joseph Smith on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    I don't think they realized that he didn't live there. The rant implies that they thought he did live there, and it makes the joke fall apart. It just isn't there best work.

  3. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    There reason the constitution doesn't have a mechanism for that is because it is the right and mechanism to secede from the union is reserved to the state. The Confederate States did leave the union. They were just quickly conquered and reintegrated.

  4. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Bingo. The votes for President are just requests by the people for the Electoral College to vote the way the people want. I'm sure some states have put into law that their Electoral College votes must be cast to to match the public will, but that would be a state by state issue. Governments also have millions of laws that make pinning them down 100% into a few categories very difficult, so to describe them we have to pick the closest match. Many of the descriptions used for governments overlap, so the closest match can often be fuzzy. As far as categorization goes, Republic is the closest single word match. Constitutional Republic is the closest match.

    Utah is making the right decision, although possibly for the wrong reasons.

  5. Re:These are people who still believe Joseph Smith on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    You know, I usually really like Southpark, but the wookie on Endor joke was some of their poorest work. The joke was supposed to be about making nonsensical statements, and then declaring that if the statement made is nonsenecal, then some other unrealated item must also be nonsensecal, which is in itself nonsesical. Haha, funny. Unfortunatly, there is nothing anymore nonsensical about a wookie visiting Endor than a human visiting Endor.

    The flow of Sourthpark as a show, should have Kyle pointing that Chewbacca was on Endor for the same reason that Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Lea were on the planet. And that claiming it makes no sense for him to be there shows that Johnnie Cochran was a racist. They would have ended the show with the lesson of the day being that racism comes in all colors.

    The way it played out though just makes it sound like Trey and Matt slept through most of the Return of the Jedi, so didn't understand the plot.

  6. Re:"FOSS licenses are easy to comply with, certain on Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations · · Score: 1

    I have yet to meet a single individual that truly doesn't pirate ANYTHING. You really have never sang happy birthday to someone in a public place? You never drew a copy of a popular cartoon character for a child just because they wanted you to? Copyright violations are EVERYWHERE. It is just that they tend not to get prosecuted if there isn't any money in it.

  7. Re:Oh please, DAO 1 too difficult? on Dragon Age II Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it is one that goes of on Friday nights for hours on end, and the one time you followed her and found her at some dude's house with 5 other guys, she told you she was "playing D&D". Yeah, that's why she was in a leather bikini and the guys were all standing around in loin cloths.

  8. Re:Something more immediate.... on Kidney Printer · · Score: 1

    There is no satisfying organizations like PETA. Their end goal is a paradox. Printing fois gras would just give them more time to go after other animal uses.

  9. Re:Yeah but how much is the ink cartridge? on Kidney Printer · · Score: 1

    Yep, inkjets were are cheap stopgap that should have only been used long enough for laser printers to come down in price. That time has come and passed. There is no longer a good reason for inkjets to exist in the consumer market.

  10. Re:punches all other GPUs in the nuts on AMD's New Flagship HD 6990 Tested · · Score: 1

    Just for fun, lets look at his statement and see if it is as silly as it seems. I would guess that his budget is "About $350". And since this card is $700, it is "exactly" twice the $350 number. Thus it is About (his budget isn't exact) Exactly ($350 + $350 = exactly $700) twice as much.

    I would say that the sentence is awkward, but accurate. The real question is whether it should be "about exactly" or "exactly about".

  11. Re:Not just with video games, but in general on Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? · · Score: 1

    At least that is what women tell themselves to feel better about the fact that male/female relations have been prostitution since the dawn of time, and the conflict that having two cultural and biological forces working against each other have not yet been dealt with.

  12. Re:Sigh on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    If you can put in the 20 years of work to earn the pension, you can get it. My father started getting his first pension at 38. That is hardly dead. Of course, the age that you get your pension is correlated to age, but it is not caused by age, other than SSI. And SSI is given because you are PAST the age of functional adulthood. Whereas renting a car has the specific has the requirement of being 25 because they feel that people under 25 are not mature enough to rent a car.

    I'm sure you know all this though, and are just grasping at straws.

  13. Re:Sigh on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Yeah? Try renting a car at 21. It's not going to happen. In the US, we have retarded our population to the point that you are not actually considered a full adult until the age of 25.

  14. Re:What will they think of next? on Facebook May Bust Up the SMS Profit Cartel · · Score: 1

    True and fair enough. That being said, SMS gained acceptance on feature phones before email was available, and there are still a lot of phones out there that do SMS and not email. It would also take a little tweaking to get email to work like SMS. Not much, but a little. Even on smart phones, it would require users to basically 'sign up' for the service, which is basically what google talk is. Because of that, you don't have the critical mass.

  15. Re:What will they think of next? on Facebook May Bust Up the SMS Profit Cartel · · Score: 1

    The problem with email is that you have to install a separate application...Oh...right....

    Really, this has the same problem that every other alternative have. It requires everyone to install the same app to be on the same network. The only draw I can see to SMS is that every phone has it, so if you have a phone capable of doing anything with any kind of data, you know you are compatible with everyone else. It is a question of critical mass.

  16. Re:In other News.... on Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future · · Score: 1

    I prefer the working of "These drives use 30% less power of their lifetime than our previous line".

  17. Re:Not saying anything new on Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future · · Score: 1

    Current usage patterns and turning the bulb on and off are not mutually exclusive. Blocking a light source is just as effective as shutting it off if your goal is to make a room dark. It might not be the most energy efficient to run lights 24/7, but it doesn't mean it can't be done. The example, and your explanation basically boil down to us using most incandescent bulbs outside of their actual tolerances, and having gotten use to that causing them to fail early.

    Of course, that doesn't change your primary point.

  18. Re:Non-Profit? on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    Using a medical graduate as an example of a colleges in general is a poor choice. There are certain jobs that really do need access to something like a college. doctors, lawyers, that sort of thing. Now compare your averages Arts major, or Business major to the for-profit schools. This stop looking as rosy for the traditional schools.

  19. Re:Non-Profit? on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    That aside, how to you judge the "market rate"

    This is why it is always a bad idea to complain about spelling on the internet. You eventually end up being a hypocrite.

  20. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Well put. A related phenomenon that I suspect is helping propel this problem is the general misunderstanding between fact and opinion. This seems to be something that isn't taught anymore. I have found that most people I talk to do not even believe that a statement of fact can be incorrect. They think that a statement of fact is a true and correct statement, and incorrect statements are thus 'opinions'. They then reason that 'opinions can't be wrong', so the incorrect statement must be correct.

  21. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    You left out that c) we don't exist in our form today, and only think that we do. d) we spontaniously formed in our current form randomly, without any help from any god or advanced civilization.

  22. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    So, your basically saying that there is only one explanation. After all, a third explanation is that what we see today is the starting configuration of a universe that was randomly generated. That has exactly the same amount of evidence as an invisible man in the sky creating the universe.

    Your post indicates that you accept that there are TWO available explanations. Either there is one available explanation, or you are half way to being a creationist.

  23. Re:They are going to have to pass a law on Students Suspended, Expelled Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    The school didn't tell them to do this, and their parents didn't tell them to do this. BUT, it is at the school that they most likely learned the kind of behavior that lead to this particular instance. Institutionalized rearing mostly involves something resembling Lord of the Flies. You didn't address who you thought was the primary care givers of these children. The biological parents or the State.

  24. Re:They are going to have to pass a law on Students Suspended, Expelled Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    Agree with you for the most part except that institutionalized rearing is the CAUSE of the problem, not the solution. How many hours a week do you think these kids spend under the care of the state as opposed to the number of hours they spend under the care of their biological parents? You can bet that they are already getting more institutionalized rearing, as are most kids in America.

  25. Re:Is that really well tested in the real world? on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    That statement is completely and utterly out of touch with reality. Just read the comments in this thread, and you will see that it is highly common. While there are SOME people that don't use maximize, the vast majority of people use it regularly.