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  1. Re:Obvious joke on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    We try to maintain decorum in my household, so we only mention Pennsylvania's euphemistic PA GINA.

  2. Re:What about Life Insurance? on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    I changed jobs twice in the past year. One thing that seemed odd (but beneficial) to me was that signing up for insurance in the first 90 days pretty much grandfathered me into the system, pre-existing conditions and all.

    After 90 days, I would have to provide a note from the doctor to prove I wasn't a crippled, disease-ridden, syphilitic bag of impending medical bills.

  3. Re:Will This Work on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    Of course it goes on. But most try to follow the law, so it is reduced, and the law gives you recourse if they don't.

    Not perfect, but when you find a perfect gov't, let me know, I may move there.

  4. Re:I have a dream... on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's designed to reduce discrimination.

    No, I don't think it protects privacy, you can read the legislation to determine that.

  5. Re:This is fine and all... on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    Honest question: Is there discrimination based on BMI?

    As for pre-existing conditions, a single national risk pool (AKA universal national health care) would solve that.

  6. Re:Demographic breakdown on Breakdowns of Website Defacement by Platform · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't pay extra for IIS or pirate it. It's included with Windows XP Professional and Vista (I don't know exactly which editions) as well as Windows Server.

  7. Re:Demographic breakdown on Breakdowns of Website Defacement by Platform · · Score: 1

    How many home users run a web server? Out of those , how many have enough traffic to invite vandalism? I would think home servers are statistically insignificant. And speaking of statistics, WTF are these "registered attacks" they measure? Is there a certifying body where you register your attacks?

  8. If it's secret, why do I know about it? on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    "...the government can secretly implement such a system..."

  9. Disappointing on Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dang! I thought "penguin-tipped" meant a big ol' fiberglass penguin head on the car's nose.

    Better yet would be a something like the 3-foot tall chicken on top of our local Broasted Chicken!! delivery car.

  10. Re:Hmm, so... on Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? · · Score: 1

    I assume this is true - if they interviewed a lot of dead non-believers.

  11. Ceiling Cat!! on Spamming Google Maps · · Score: 1

    A 200x200 foot Ceiling Cat!!

  12. I like Gmail's targeted adverts on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's as unobtrusive as Gmail's topical advertising, I think topical+geographic advertising would be OK.

  13. Re:But when... on Mars Rovers' Software Upgraded · · Score: 2, Informative

    There was a microphone on the Mars Polar Lander, but it was lost with the failed ship.

    The Planetary Society successfully extracted audio from the Huygens probe to Saturn's moon Titan.

  14. Re:two words. on Will the Next Election Be Hacked? · · Score: 1

    Why would a change in demographics cause a major problem with exit polls?

  15. Vista runs hot on some x86 machines, too on Vista Runs Hot on Macbook Pro · · Score: 1

    I have two AMD Athlon 64 3200+ machines. Under Vista beta 2 and RC1, one runs hotter (the CPU is always at 100%).

    On the other machine, Vista does control the Mhz, usually running at 1000Mhz, jumping to 2000Mhz when needed.

    Under XP, both machines idle at 50% and rev up to 100% on demand.

    It seems to be CPU and/or motherboard dependent. The "good" machine is a socket 939, the other is an older socket 754.

  16. Re:Security wise... forget about it... on Forbes Reviews AJAX Apps for Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    No reason Ajax apps couldn't be hosted locally. For example, imagine Google selling something like the The Google Search Appliance to host Google applications on an intranet.

  17. Re:ANSI SQL conformance? on Pro MySQL · · Score: 1

    In MS SQL, the command SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON (or SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF) toggles the treatment of quotes.

    From MS SQL Books Online:
    "[SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON] causes Microsoft SQL Server to follow the SQL-92 rules regarding quotation mark delimiting identifiers and literal strings. Identifiers delimited by double quotation marks can be either Transact-SQL reserved keywords or can contain characters not usually allowed by the Transact-SQL syntax rules for identifiers."

  18. Re:I've got an idea... on Paint-on Antennas for Mile-High Airships · · Score: 1

    Angelina Jolie is on it.

  19. Re:Interesting on Beginning SQL Server 2005 Express · · Score: 1