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  1. Re:I find the obsession with tech in the class bad on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Forgive me, I seem to have misplaced a word ("in") between "erudite" and "Latin".

  2. Re:I find the obsession with tech in the class bad on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    I concur. Why, of all things, does it seem you are egregiously disturbed about children not erudite Latin?

    After all, I took Latin and my own English is no better than the parent's.

  3. Re:Pleeeeease keep them on dial up! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    unplug the phone line

    This is why it works so well.

    You can unplug the CAT 5e cable just as easily.

  4. Re:This is probably good news on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    Anybody else think of I am Legend? The recent movie, that is - not the book.

  5. Re:The U.S. should have abolished pennies long ago on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    So it takes more time to take your [saved up] to a coin machine and exchange them for larger denominations of currency?

    I don't like having to carry around change with me, but usually at the end of the day, I throw all the change that I have in my pocket (usually not more than a dollar, but sometimes I forget I have change, and don't use it) into a jar. Every couple of months, I get around $30-$50 back just by taking a visit to a coin machine (and that's with a $.089 to the dollar).

    Along this vein, home coin counters are pretty cheap (as low as $22). On a $50 return from the coin machine at the store (Coinstar, in specific), I'm losing almost $5. Getting a cheap, personal coin machine makes back the investment in five or so trips (depending on the type of coin counter purchased).

    In three months time (maybe a bit longer), by doing nothing other than throwing coins you'd get back from using cash, you earn $50. It's not much, but certainly not a waste of time.

  6. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yea, see this thread. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=597501&cid=23969359. Same deal. Eclipse is fast in that particular alternate dimension. Pretty cool, huh?

  7. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 4, Informative

    Golden, what else would it be? He lost his re-election bid in '92 to Clinton. Why wouldn't they? Firefly is the highest rated show in the history of television.

  8. Re:Hope on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they wouldn't mind wiping out the aging (seeing as how we're all aging). I'm pretty sure, though, they write in a loophole that would exclude themselves, their family, their hired help and mistresses (or "male mistresses" for those female politicians)

  9. Re:Never too late on Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" · · Score: 1

    I would look a gift horse in the mouth.

  10. Re:Oh... my... god... on Bjarne Stroustrup Reveals All On C++ · · Score: 1

    And here I thought he was going to reveal the C++ was gay...

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/19/entertainment/e190351D69.DTL

  11. Re:The conspiracy continues... on First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware · · Score: 1

    Delaware is a plot between the banking industry and the DuPonts to get a few free Senators.

    Well, it must have been a very early plot as it was the first state to sign the Constitution

    I've learned from lots of movies and books that history is written by the winners.

    What does this tell you about DuPont?
  12. Re:Don't forget... on First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That he claims to have fought against Chuck Norris and lived to type about is proof that he either a) doesn't exist or b) is lying. About everything.

  13. Re:Excellent.. on Android Phones Delayed · · Score: 1

    Nah, you will have failed to survive only if you continue to get your whitespace nuked by /. \n\n But I can tell you, I totally sympathize with you.

  14. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    IPv7? You either overestimate the proliferation of computers or people.

  15. Re:NO on Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing · · Score: 1

    One would guess that the parent's favorite game is solitaire, as any other game has too much story and dialogue.

  16. Re:Do not forget about simplicity on Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you forgot: You find the princess and rescue her. Then she goes and gets stolen again.

  17. Re:Where is Adam Smith when we need him? on OS X Snow Leopard Details · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because they should be expected of every OS. You pay for it, you should get something that works well 99.9% of the time.

  18. Re:goodhe on Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Dunno, last time I checked, OpenOffice could save in the .doc format (which is MS Office compatible, btw). So you don't really need to spend $449 on getting that done.

    Also, according to Newegg, Office isn't $449

  19. Re:This is ridiculous... on Mod Chips Legal In the UK · · Score: 1

    Yea, but don't expect them to fix your XBox (for free) after you get a Red Ring of Doom.

  20. Re:I can always do it.... on Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves · · Score: 1

    How inefficient of you to move a sticker more than once!

  21. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    So we should just take all that money and give it to each household?

    It'd be a good day to be lazy, I guess. Or work a job, and get $15k free.

  22. Re:The sad thing... on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1
    Because your money is going to support a more wasteful system.

    Though GGP didn't have any evidence as such:

    It would have been cheaper to make public transport free of cost. It's costing the gov't MORE to charge people. So if your money is already going to public transportation, might as well take the cheaper route, no?
  23. Re:The Iraq theater on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    No subsequent acts have occurred for any number of reasons, almost none of which have to do with the wars, as the wars were about pride and oil. Just to play devil's advocate for a bit... But what if all the [US] military activity over in Iraq has caused Al Qaeda to focus more on staying alive and avoid detection, and less on doing damage to the States?

    Like I said, I'm not for the war, just wanted to know, what's to say the activity hasn't resulted in less Al Qaeda involvement elsewhere?
  24. Re:hmmmmm Vista... powershell ... winfs..... etc on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 1

    (and to the mods: parent should be modded insightful, not funny)
    Oh, ok. Lemme go take care of that...
  25. Re:It's called a jukebox on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and when you pay to listen to the song, you do so with the understanding that you're getting a jukebox like song, not the whole song.

    Like GP said, it's a stupid business model, and I hope it fails. Screw Warner Bros.