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  1. Re:Ripple Effect on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    eliminating disease would simply trade a humanitarian issue for an economic problem, I don't think it is necessarily beyond our means, maybe more of a problem than us in the first world want to help out with, but that is similar to saying "let them eat cake"

  2. Re:Trap! on MySpace Private Pictures Leak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    so all pictures of nude people are pornographic? I think there's a word for that world view, oh yeah, prude.

  3. Re:I've had 4+ Hemorrhoid operations myself on New "Endoscope On a Pill" · · Score: 1

    my experience, I had this rhoid about the size of a damn quarter, I was drinking a lot and it was coagulated (the blood had solidified) I had the option of surgery or waiting it out, luckily my Dr.'s brother had had the same issue and experimented with an herbal remedy called bioflavonoids, it worked, taking the herb for about two weeks along with hot baths cleared me up. No problems since. I highly recommend them. http://www.google.com/search?&q=bioflavonoids+hemorrhoids/

  4. Re:Give it up, your format is dead. on HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt · · Score: 1

    a market flooded with (essentially) equally performing formats is bad. mp3, vorbis, wma, and aac why do I need to replicate my music collection four times just to play my music on my ipod, linux desktop, car stereo, on windows, or whereever, basically four file formats equal four players turning my 5gb collection into 20, what do I benefit from multiple formats? Just the ability to play music in four different formats depending on where I want to play them.

  5. Re:Class action suit? on IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All · · Score: 1

    Oh I totally agree, if it were up to me the tag wouldn't be required to render properly, it would be used to render in quirks mode and it would look like < MS is a marketing company and I am not a developer >, but it sure as hell sounds better than fscking sitting there walking that fine line between standards compliant and the bastardized crap that render's proper in IE.

  6. Re:Class action suit? on IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All · · Score: 1

    Well now you can just add in the official < MS workaround-tag > rather than adding BS tag here, MS specific CSS there, blah blah blah

  7. Re:Supports Windows and OS X on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    that's hilarious, I have nothing against kde, but since I've started using gnome I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour configuring my desktop.
    3 - balls

  8. Re:Wrong wrong wrong wrong on MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA · · Score: 1

    So, you think untraceable might be propaganda? Cause that's what I keep thinking every time I see the commercial.

  9. Re:John Doe on MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA · · Score: 1

    they killed him? For downloading music? This has gone too far!!!

  10. Re:Thank you, /., for showing me Firefox on Mozilla Celebrates Its 10th Birthday · · Score: 1

    1) What are you doing that causes Firefox issues?

    I often have about 10-15 tabs open at a time, there's three things that cause fairly consistent crashes for me. Java, Flash, and or a shitty myspace profile. Of course I could use some more RAM, hobbling along at 512MB.

  11. Re:I started with C/C++ on Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    actually, it's just a thought experiment in preparation for "flying car analogies"

  12. Re:I'm no ultra conservative... on Green Light for Human/Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    ...I'm sick and tired of clueless cowards trying to tell me that I can't do something because they "feel" that it might be wrong.

    I don't really think you made him feel warm and fuzzy inside. With the right friends you might ask someone to take a look, otherwise you should understand that assholes like this won't likely hurt you unless they're ordered too (they can't really think for themselves), or you tell them you love them. In which case you just went from annoying nerd to abused boyfriend.

  13. Re:Success on Open Source On the Big Screen · · Score: 1
    http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+pixar

    That's really all I have to say, aside from congratulations Matt Ebb and crew, oh and congrats to blender too.

  14. Re:What is Jazz on IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why this is home. :)

    Yes, it's the fine art of the executive summary, but you aren't supposed to tell anyone.

  15. Re:That's why on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    My Spiritual, Technical Guide and Reference says you will go to the land of zeros when you die, whereas I will go to the happy computing grounds of ones. So, there.

  16. Re:Could be it more than just pay on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 2

    Your attitude is why I'm all in favor of a strike, "shut the machines down before you leave gentlemen, we're getting a raise". I think the fact that management couldn't start the blinking lights without (possibly) destroying invaluable systems and the general humanity of the IT professionals is the only thing that prevents this. That and the workload upon returning to work would be massive. Seriously, though fuck you.

  17. Re:That's why on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    Hey asshole! I treat all pieces of technology like a religion.

  18. Re:Personally? on Is the Dell XPS One Better than the Apple iMac? · · Score: 1
    how about "2008 called they want ..."

    (I'm going for overrated today and underrated in a few days from now)

  19. Re:Can we stop it? on Universe May Be Running Out of Time · · Score: 1

    lnad, kinda like fname and lname, you have an lnad and an rnad. I'm not a doctor, but I assume that an lnadslide is kinda like the opposite of an undescended rnad. I don't know for sure but I've heard that lnadslides and rnadslides tend to occur more frequently the more time goes by.

  20. Re:Old news on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 5, Interesting

    sounds good to me, the solution I've always driven for (no pun intended), is to slow down at traffic jams to the point where you can plod along without actually stopping. This does a good job of equalizing the in/out ratio. I wonder why this isn't taught in driver's ed.

  21. Re:weird warnings.. on Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed · · Score: 1

    that's cool, no I haven't seen that photo, this is one of those things I'm gonna have to show my kids, thanks.

  22. Re:weird warnings.. on Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed · · Score: 1

    so are you telling me that if I throw a fluorescent light at a power line it will glow?

  23. Re:In a word on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    pain and discomfort for several hours?

    Regardless, the flu is worse, I don't see how "i felt bad for 2 hours" translates to $250G + 20yrs.

  24. Re:Obligatory on Enceladus "Sea" Mystery Deepens · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a layperson here's what gets me.

    The source of the plumes is "very, very pure water," Dr Schneider concluded, and proposed clean ice, melt water (ice that melts?) or clathrates - a crystal of water, carbon dioxide and ammonia - as alternative sources.

    A quick google search "freeze salt water" returns:

    How do cold-blooded animals survive subfreezing water temperatures as low as 27.1oF without literally being shattered by ice crystals? Salt water with a salinity of 35 ppt (parts per thousand), the average salinity of the open ocean, freezes at 28.5oF. As sea water freezes, the salt becomes more concentrated in the remaining unfrozen water. This makes Antarctic water extremely salty, more so than most of the world's oceans causing it to freeze at a lower temperature.

    http://www.gma.org/surfing/antarctica/salt.html

    Seems to me like he says he's looking at clean ice and ice in general will not contain salt. What am I missing?

  25. Re:people needed on SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned · · Score: 0, Troll

    he's trolling to fill his city with slashtards, link to his city from myspace i tell you.