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  1. Logitech "Access" keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I've been working a Logitech "Access" keyboard hard every day for a decade. If it were to ever die for some reason, I'd try very hard to find another. It feels great, keeps up with my speedy typing, and handles my keystroke-overlapping "chord" style of typing without ever a single character showing up out of sequence like they do on so many crappy keyboards.

  2. Re:Windows Media Center on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    They have to give you ONE cable card at no cost?? Not sure who might give them away somewhere, but neither of the Massachusetts cable companies I've used have ever given them freely. Verizon recently bumped their monthly rental to $5.

  3. Residential use is a drop in the bucket on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 3, Informative

    I find residential usage citations vary from 5-13% of total California water usage. Let's say it's 10%. I'm having a hard time figuring out how cutting my usage by, say, a big 25% along with every other California resident is going to solve the problem when that represents maybe 2.5% of total water usage. Don't get me wrong, I see no reason to waste water unnecessarily, but I just don't get all the emphasis on residential usage when it's a drop in the bucket. What am I missing?

  4. I don't see the problem on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 2

    Since dinosaurs went extinct just 6000 years ago, it shouldn't be all that hard to find some DNA that's not too terribly degraded.

  5. Re:"Loaded and inflammatory" on RIAA Chief Whines That SOPA Opponents Were "Unfair" · · Score: 1

    And arguably the author and publisher come out ahead because the bookstore will probably replace their stolen copy with another one purchased from the publisher. Publishers should promote theft!

  6. Re:Sounds like what most people would want on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    The difference is that I'm paying about $4 a month for ESPN even though I watch zero minutes, ever. At least with the other channels I don't watch, I'm paying maybe 25 cents, if that.

  7. Re:Why do I have to read it here? on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer · · Score: 1

    I read it on CNN.com two weeks ago. And the NY Times yesterday. AP sent it out on Sunday. So it is out there. Can't speak for TV news, though, as I don't watch TV news. For the reason you cited.

  8. Re:why would I pay for news? on NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan · · Score: 1

    Really? Have you taken a good look at CNN.com lately?

  9. moderation still broken on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    All I know is that I still have my usual 5 moderation points and no matter how many comments I do moderation on the comments' scores don't change and I still have 5 points. This has happens every time I get moderation points, and it doesn't matte if I use Firefox or IE, same result. Is moderation a big prank? Does anybody else have this problem?

  10. Re:Are you guys really loosing it in the U.S? on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Trust is sharing the passwords, for the rare times when it might be needed, and knowing that your trust won't be abused. Oh, and not even having to ask in the first place. I can't imaging being in a marriage for life and not living it this way.

  11. Re:Ooh ooh! I know this one! on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 2

    Would that be the Pradeep Principle?

    When you do find though, is that the generic programmer you get from Indian development shops are the inexperienced ones. There's a very strong hierarchy in these places (and in India in general) which means that once a dev gets experience, he will expect to be promoted to a more senior supervisor/manager/etc position. Once there, coding is not part of his job description, and from what I've found the guys in these positions quickly start to resist being put back in a coding position.

  12. Re:We are going to need new acronyms on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    DDOS = Distributed Delivery of Snakes

  13. 99% of all the material in our solar system on Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed · · Score: 1

    Even if the chute had deployed, it seems like the package might have been a tad heavy for it to support...

    If the package survived, the solar particles -- a storehouse of 99 percent of all the material in our solar system -- would be parceled out for analysis to the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Chicago's Argonne National Lab.