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  1. Re:So which application? on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that Furious Birds clone that promises a hand grenade for each level mastered?

  2. Newscast? on US Bans Loud Commercials · · Score: 1

    Using the Newscast as the standard is fine in peacetime. Advertisers are gonna love war-time volume skewing though.
    I guess we should just be happy they didn't choose Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" show as the standard.

  3. Re:effectiveness in 2011 on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    My Series III TiVo (I'd assume the Premiere, too) regularly aborts playback and jumps to live programming whenever this area gets a EBS (e.g. Tornado Warning) message from Time-Warner cable. The first interruption was freaky (and irritating), but now I really rather appreciate it, since I rarely ever watch live programming.

  4. Uninstall ? on Even Microsoft Wants IE6 Dead · · Score: 1

    Obviously, Microsoft issuing an update that would allow uninstalling IE6 from every platform where it lurks is unthinkable.

  5. More research on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    First and foremost, we need more practice -- uhh, research.
    Add "Have you ever been a calendar model" to the astronaut screening form.

  6. Re:Already been done . . . on A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs · · Score: 1

    Is is too much to say I'm on pins and needles waiting to see which site wins?

  7. Foul? ball on Symbian Blasts Google's Phone Initiative · · Score: 1

    Kinda reminds me of a Left Fielder running towards a baseball he can't possibly catch while yelling "Foul Ball" -- 99% Hope, and 1% denying reality.

  8. PDF?! yuck on Yahoo Competes with Google in Book Scanning · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone else find there is no way to read a PDF with the scroll buttons (mouse wheel, etc.) without the viewer constantly breaking your flow by jumping to the next page?

    This goes along with the concept that for an electronic format, I do NOT need a sentence (or even worse, hyphenated word) broken up by two inches of top and bottom margin filled with page numbers, miscellaneous watermarks, repetitive titles, etc.

    PS. This being flamebait does not make it false.

  9. RFID tracking of tiles on Columbia Coverage · · Score: 1

    It seems like sticking a (sufficiently heat resistant) RFID tag on each tile would be a simple way to detect missing tiles.
    Actually, since the real heat is during reentry, and the whole point is to verify them before that, you could probably just glue them to the outside of the tiles, let them burn off during reentry and simply glue new ones before the next launch.

  10. Intel has a plan on The Pentium IV Dissected · · Score: 1
    Try this for an Intel marketing plan...
    • Assume the market will "buy Intel" -- they always have.
    • The P4 will show faster (just marginally) than other systems on a few quotable benchmarks.
    • Suggest optimizations that will dramatically increase P4 performance and hurt (or at least not help) competitors.
    • Continue pushing P-III's until the benchmarks get rewritten for our optimizations, then...
    • Start pushing P4's by advertising the new, optimized, benchmarks
  11. The actual bill isn't so bad! on Federally Mandated Censorware Up For Vote · · Score: 1

    The House bill is number HR4577.
    I think the Senate bill is S5588.
    The admendment I could find is SA3635.
    Here is its text and the senators' discussion of it from June Read it! Once again, everyone is over-reacting.

  12. ^Key^ for the new Application Installer on Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links · · Score: 1

    This isn't much by itself, but it is key for the enhanced installation/setup engine Windows 2000 introduces.

    Under the new installer, every application thinks it has a personal copy of all the .DLLs on the entire system -- no more .DLL version nightmares. The only way such a system would ever fit on a hard disk is to use an automatic symlink mechanism like this.

  13. URLs on audio on ReviewDave Barry in Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    For real fun, listening to the casette version, read by Shadow Stevens.
    Unimaginable the concentration it must've taken to spell out all the WWW addresses he does in the chapters dealing with the Internet.