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  1. Re:Once again kids: on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 1

    I used to notify/do that myself (though I only notify anymore). However, now people just complain loudly that they will turn themselves off and I should mind my own business... Sorta like people getting annoying at me for holding the door open. Being curteous and polite don't seem to go over well anymore.

  2. Re:OCReMix on The Blending of Music and Games · · Score: 1

    Some of the stuff in that collection is simply fantastic. The Bubble Bobble Hillbilly Rodeo ReMix is simply hillarious! And from many who spent way too much time playing tetris, the Tetris Slavic Roots OC Remix song is loaded with hours of memories.

  3. Re:New Sony Figures on Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures · · Score: 1

    This is why your timer should count up to some arbitrary number, or alternately, have it reset to 99:99 upon hitting 00:00 then explode at 98:53 or something similar just to prove your evilness.

  4. Hacker Diet? on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 5, Informative

    How come nobody has mentioned this one yet? I mean, come on! It has fitness tips as well as diet since you really need both to get the pounds off.

    Hacker Diet

  5. Re:Another prediction of doom on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    Need to incorporate acceleration into your understanding. Small movements translate into much smaller movements, larger movements translate into much larger movements. Works wonderfully in 3d cad with a trackball on two 20" monitors. Rotate 45^ right over a second moves the cursor say 50 pixels. Rotate 45^ right over 1/4 second and your cursor moves 1000 pixels.

  6. Re:Reaching corollary on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1
  7. Re:The harder they fall... on EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers · · Score: 1

    What makes you think ebay wants to change it? Higher priced items give ebay more money. The trumped up values could be what ebay wants. Not saying this is the case, but it makes sense to me. The other two things it seems are that people fail to realize is the cost of something and how also ebay's systems work through proxy bidding, but that is a very different 28d6 fire damage.

  8. Re:Many issues at hand on Terminal Chaos · · Score: 1

    Read the above and about almost everything else as: Every one wants change to happen in their favor but want others to pay for it.

  9. Re:Space-constrained? on Via Debuts Mini-ITX 2.0 · · Score: 1

    They have these nifty inventions that let you attach something to something else rather permanently. The most commonly used are called screws and bolts, less know things include glues and epoxys... If you're more adept, you can construct your own brackets and holders out of sheet metal.

  10. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    In my case, I was bullied for a couple years growing up until I broke this one guys nose. Nobody bothered me again. However, today I'm afraid I would be sent to jail for that kind of outburst, or I'd be paying Millions of dollars to this kids parents because their little Chris would never do such a thing. Heck, my backpack for school back then wouldn't be allowed at a construction site these days...

  11. Re:A fucking sweepstakes? on Pizza Hut Tempts Gamers With a $10,000 Gaming Setup · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Be the 50th caller to win a change to be in a raffle to compete to possibly win a game piece.

  12. Re:Faith in the Singularity on IEEE Special Report On the Singularity · · Score: 1

    Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

  13. Re:Ruby and Python are ex-parrots, not Java on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    We'll have to agree to disagree then. I find the effort for changing the default for one key to be more than offset by much easier reading of code with whitespace characters in it as opposed to your good default of camelcase. I also believe that if you have a choice, readable code should be preferred over speed of typing. To me, designing a task usually takes substantially more time than the simple job of creating syntax to accomplish that task.

  14. Re:Ruby and Python are ex-parrots, not Java on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    What's the issue? Your keyboard/os setup. Flip the upper/lower case on the -_ key (and/or redefine your keyboard layout to say, the / key to make it the _ key. ) and it becomes easy_to_type and easy_to_read.

    It is amazing how many people use the default of whatever they have without thinking about how to make it immensely easier on themselves.
  15. Re:interdiff on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    Why would Debian ever make such a change? Must get rid of all compiler warnings. If it compiles without error or warnings, turn it in!
  16. Re:.... right on The Science of Iron Man · · Score: 1

    Try the material they use for the space shuttles heat shield. Take it out of a 2300F oven, and you can pick it up after about 10 seconds. Thermal Cube

  17. Re:Science or Magic on UK Scientists Make Transistor One Atom Long, 10 Atoms Wide · · Score: 1

    Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

  18. Re:this will benefit lower freq apps too on Record Setting Silicon Resonator Reaches 4.51 GHz · · Score: 1

    Few thousand transistors out of 1-2 billion now? I'm sure that th

  19. Re:250 mph on What Will Life Be Like In 2008? · · Score: 1

    Just curious, what states are these? I have lived in 4 states and I haven't ever heard of a annual safety inspection.

  20. Re:MPG? on New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced · · Score: 1

    what ever happened to cheap thrifty cars?


    Safety and Emission standards.
  21. Re:No worries, mate on Linux PCs Discontinued at Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With linux, you don't have the following:

    McAffee/Symantec/etc paying $X to put the 30 day trial antivirus on there (hoping to snag a $X/$Y/$Z annual fee).
    Aol/PeoplePC/etc paying them $X to put their free trial on the computer (again, hoping to snag a $X/$Y/$Z monthly fee).
    Adobe paying them $X to have reader preinstalled with adverts to 'upgrade' to acrobat for $X.
    Real paying them $X to have their av software installed with adverts to 'upgrade' to the pro version for $X

    etc, etc, etc

    If all those companies paying them money bring in more money than a licensing cost for windows, the windows computer will be cheaper.

    If you can get companies to subsidize a 'linux' computer, you would have a cheaper computer that way too. But I don't see it happening.

  22. Wrong information on Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future? · · Score: 1

    Put in address. Click street view. Notice that the house shown has a street number that doesn't match the address you entered. Unfortunately, too much information, not enough accuracy. Having surveillance that thinks your house was the scene of the crime when it is not is that dystopian future.

  23. Re:$ony? on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 5, Funny

    $on¥

  24. Re:Home Gym.. on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    Make it more like a water wheel and own a two story house and I could see it being a little more useful. Use bowling balls just to know its working! Every morning, go downstairs and carry up several dozen bowling balls to the top of the stairs and put in a hopper. The hopper emptys the bowling balls across a generator that takes the potential energy and converts it to electricity and deposits them at the bottom. If you don't like bowling balls, you can make them of something else, but round would tend to make them easier to work with.

  25. Re:Right-side-up vision is learned, not hardwired on Scientists Restore Walking After Spinal Cord Injury · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The brain is scary. Your vision by itself is very limited. It appears the brain has circuits for finding lines/patterns/faces/etc from the impulses your eyes send. Also, your brain/optic nerve/eyeball all seem to do a lot of pre and post processing on everything. Another scary insight into this is things like habits. I have taken the train to work for 8 years. I always pull left out of my driveway to get to the train station. Even when I should turn right, i almost invariably turn left and have to turn around. Somehow your brain gets used to doing things. What is even more scary is driving to work, then not recalling yourself waking up and getting yourself there. For instance, I worked at a concrete product factory one summer. It was about an hour drive away. A few mornings the first memory I could recall was seeing the company parking lot or punching my card in the timeclock. Now that is scary.