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  1. Re:And go where? on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Some suggestions: the gym, the mall, evening classes, dancing lessons, cooking courses, museums, art exhibitions, volunteer work.

  2. Re:I don't buy it on DRM and the Myth of the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    Power = Money
    Money = Power

  3. Re:Hundreds of Millions of dollars to fight Malari on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    Malcolm Gladwell ("The Tipping Point") wrote an excellent article about this: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_02_a_ddt.htm

  4. Re:Retort on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 1

    So you are telling me that police departments are staffed with the same percentages of psycopaths, loons and other nutjobs as they would have been if screening never took place?

  5. Re:Retort on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 1

    Bollocks! I don't think anybody claims that their screening method is 100% effective, someone always slips through. That doesn't mean that screening is worthless though.

  6. Re:Why? on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 0

    Why? GTA4 !!!

  7. Mod parent up! on Perspecta Walk Around 3D Display · · Score: 1

    Cool pictures!

  8. Re:Omega Point on Simulated Universe · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Transmitting power wirelessly... on NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges · · Score: 1

    It's called a transformer...

  10. Re:I'm Late to the Party... on Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Keep watching...

  11. Re:Useless on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity · · Score: 1

    I don't work at a plant but I have visited a couple of them and I never noticed anything or heard any complaints about the smell of the bonding material. Maybe it's a problem at other plants? I wouldn't know. One of the problems with the chemicals that I have heard of though is the toxicity of the dye. It's really f-n toxic!

  12. Re:So when will my cheap CDRs from the late 90's d on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity · · Score: 1

    How do you store them? That makes a ton of difference. The golden rule: Always keep your discs away from heat and sunlight. Otherwise the dye will degrade much faster. Remember the dye is MADE to be light/heat sensitive. How else would you write to the disc? I can for the life of me not understand why R/RW-discs are sold with transparent jewelcases? Maybe to keep us re-burning our data every few years?

  13. Re:Useless on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity · · Score: 1

    Why would the smell of the bonding material (glue) be an issue? It's REALLY thin (so as not to disturb the light passing through it).
    And you would only be able to smell it on the side of the disc.
    The bulk of it it stuck between two plates of polycarbonate, right?

    It may stink up the factory, but I don't believe there is enough of it in a package of DVD-R's to be noticable.

  14. Re:But instead . . . on UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    I know that this was meant as joke but writers are not really supposed to have lifes. Especially when they are supposed to prop up/ save a sagging franchise. Then again I don't think they really have lifes anyway. But they began to stray somewhere and started to write "Everwood in space" or something.

  15. Re:Accuracy on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Re:Accuracy on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 2, Informative

    The grandparent is probably referring to a FoxNews.com article a while back. It was a pretty inflammatory article that tried to make it seem like Western Europe has huge problems with muslim immigrants. It pissed me of because I live in the Swedish city mentioned and I found it very exaggerated and biased.