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  1. Re:Not good..... on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about other non-mammalian / pre-mammalian animals, but the modern reptiles with which I'm familar certainly sleep themselves. Some are diurnal, some noctural, some crepuscular, but AFAIK they all sleep sometime.

  2. Re:KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken on First Company Logo Visible From Space · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Kentucky Fried Cruelty is more like it.

  3. Re:remember, this is SINGAPORE on Jailtime For Leeching Wireless? · · Score: 1

    Unless something has changed, you do indeed permission to use the WiFi at Charbucks -- at least the ones around here, who have T-Mobile's for-pay service. Yet another reason to go elsewhere.

  4. Re:But which OS!? on Code Execution Bug In Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver · · Score: 1

    What's even worse is when people talk about "Windows" instead of "Microsoft Windows".

  5. Re:cool on Wave-Powered Desalination · · Score: 1

    Sure, that strategy's worked great with Microsoft.

  6. Re:A good start... on YouTube Restores Comedy Central Clips · · Score: 1

    I know someone who's disappeared into TLF. She was an active member of a nonprofit that I'm involved with, but after she discovered TLF, she individually lobbied everyone on the board (including me) to attend their seminar. Nobody saw any benefit, especially for the $400 or so per person it'd cost. I asked her what her cut was, and she was surprised, saying that she didn't get a dime. Nobody's seen her in months - last word was that she was spending a lot of time out of state on "leadership training". I went to one of their introductory pitches at one point hoping that'd get her to leave me alone about it. Three hours of platitudes and pablum, mindless repetition of the words "create a possibility!" as if they mean something. The whole time I kept thinking "how can these people fall for this thinly-veiled crap?" and "Didn't anyone learn anything from EST?". There are several episodes of Six Feet Under that depict Ruth's encounter with "The Plan". When I saw those, I immediately thought of TLF, and wondered if the writer(s) were directly targeting it. No legitimate Christian religion charges $400 to attend a service, nor does it pester you repeatedly after you've politely declined.

  7. Re:Of course... on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Gamer kids are never happy anyway.

  8. Re:Okay... on Judge Says RIAA Can't Have Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    oic. I personally will continue to buy used legit CD's and rip them, though.

  9. Re:Extending the battery life with C2d Macbookpro? on Want To Know About the New Apple MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    For my usual purposes, breaking TCP connections is disruptive :-/

  10. Re:Hats o' gold, thanks to your friends at /. on Want To Know About the New Apple MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Li ion? Doesn't Apple claim Li polymer?

  11. Re:Extending the battery life with C2d Macbookpro? on Want To Know About the New Apple MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Can you swap the battery without disrupting operation? Dual-bay Dells that I've had could do that, but unless the MBP has some sort of internal buffer battery, the need to shut down to swap the battery would seem to severely limit the utility of carrying a [no doubt very expensive] spare.

  12. Re:Okay... on Judge Says RIAA Can't Have Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I have personally seen a case where the MPAA sent legal threats to someone who used bittorrent to obtain a TV show - one which, curiously enough, was put up for legit download a couple of years later.

  13. Re:You're right, it's mostly about cost... on Cringely's Shameless Self-Promotion · · Score: 1

    Convex offered dual drives, at least for a while. This was in the 8" SMD/IPI days.

  14. Re:Memory Upgrade Too on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    Since Firefox (actually, all of the Netscrape browsers) and Safari have always had gaping core leaks, more physmem at least lets them run for a week before their VSIZE hits two gig. Color me tired of pinwheels.

  15. Re:The real solution on Why Apple Failed in the 90s · · Score: 1

    The lack of a floppy drive even made it into at least one major comic strip.

  16. Re:it's a learned disability on Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People · · Score: 1
    What I have seen is that women who want to date a particular type of guy, the type who happens to be the jock alpha-male

    That's pretty much all of them, despite their claims to the contrary -- at least for ones over 30. If this weren't true, height wouldn't be so prominent on personals sites.

    have to try and fit in with the likes/dislikes of that type of guy

    They don't care. By and large women don't care. They want to be protected, and they want status. Anything else is background noise.

    and they find themselves being someone they don't want to be, and resenting men for it.

    ... or, more often, they break up with the clod, then go right back out in search of exactly the same sort of guy.

  17. Re:I'm shocked, shocked... on Comcast Lying About Vonage · · Score: 1

    I hear Comcast ads lying about DSL all the time. One claim they make is that it ties up your voice line.

  18. Re:Better late than never? on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 1

    And people get their panties in a wad over that restriction on a residential service? The mind boggles.

  19. Re:Better late than never? on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 1

    My place is rural, but in the greater Seattle area and only a few miles from Monroe, WA city limits. Yet Verizon refuses to provision DSL into the local phone site. Comcast's cable plant is several miles away, and none of the wireless providers can get through the trees. They'd have a captive audience for DSL and would easily book sufficient customers, yet they simply can't be bothered. This leaves me using, yes, ISDbloodyN at a total cost of about $120/mo. Currently looking into FR/PTP DS1 again, which would run over $500/mo. My concept is unlimited for Verizon's focus on providing yet another connectivity choice for people who already have at least three.

  20. Re:Better late than never? on Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that you mean that they block *incoming* connections on tcp/80 and tcp/25 to keep people from running email and web servers at home? Blocking outgoing connections on tcp/80 would disincline pretty much anyone from keeping the service.

  21. Re:This is a good thing. on IBM's Interest in Red Flag Linux · · Score: 1

    POSIX didn't get us anywhere, why would LSB?

  22. Re:Why change from DSL? Reliability... on Open Source Router on Par With Cisco, Users Say · · Score: 1

    When I had my DS1 installed, Verizon sent 1 or more people out no fewer than *six* times before it was actually turned up. The last crew were the ones connecting the copper, and actually *asked me* what the pinouts should be on the cable. Ended up taking them 3-4 tries to get it right.

  23. Re:Moo on University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year · · Score: 1

    Fighting cancer is easy. Simply stop shoveling pesticides, herbicides, and animal products down your throat and you'll avoid most cancers.

  24. natural calf leather on Strangest iPod Cases Ever · · Score: 1

    There is nothing natural about leather.

  25. Re:Coming soon to an Apple Store near you... on The Apple News That Got Buried · · Score: 1

    Over and over