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  1. Re:being only able to boot into windows on Boot Camp Flaw Leaves Some Users Fuming · · Score: 1
    You should have seen the looks on some faces when he monitor went south on my Compaq and I had this spare bondi-blue tripod monitor (from the G3 towers, remember) --- result: A pure Apple monitor with a (real) Windows desktop!

    Oh the horror! :-)

  2. Re:Is he watching? on How Bill Gates Works · · Score: 1

    Wow, does that mean that I'm half way there to being a millionaire? I drive a 14 year old car...

  3. Re:Same with WiFi and cell phones on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1
    Actually, the thing that skews the results is that it seems to affect people who wear tinfoil hats. Perhaps the hat acts like an antenna/parabolic reflector and focus the frequencies in their brain?

    Depending on how the hat is tilted, it affects the pain, pleasure or grouchy centers of the brain...

  4. Re:I like the "rest" on Google Maps vs the Rest · · Score: 1
    I agree - the interface to maps.live.com is so horrid that I use maps.google.com preferably.

    But quite often the maps.live.com has better images and they are available at several angles.

    Now if we had a mapping system with a Google interface and Live pictures...

  5. Re:I like the "rest" on Google Maps vs the Rest · · Score: 1
    Really?

    Try http://maps.live.com/

    Horrid interface, and doesn't work with most browsers (what do you expect?)

    But nice clear images at different angles.

  6. Re:Turn on on Computer 'Worms' Turn on Macs · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but the virus causes it to turn on by itself after 7 days. Then the screen gets all static-y and a hand reaches out...

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLTK

    Hmm. Just like Rasen: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009X765K

    would be kind of interesting - a virus that turns the computer on & off at odd times, and opens and closes the cup holder^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCD drawer.

    "We don't need virus protection - we need an exorcist!"

    init 0

  7. Re:Tokyo Apple Store on iPod Takes Japan by Storm · · Score: 1
    And just wait till the special Ipod Nano Hello Kitty edition is released!

    ...and it doesn't even have to be an iPod video - Hello Kitty just sits there & looks cute!

  8. Re:right on iPod Takes Japan by Storm · · Score: 1
    Where is the iPod made?

    Japan or China?

    (heh - I wouldn't even ask if it's in the USA :-))

  9. Re:I was in Japan last week ... on iPod Takes Japan by Storm · · Score: 1
    Perhaps it's the user interface, but as the previous poster stated, it's all perception.

    I would agree with that and say that it's the style more so than UI.

  10. Re:Random number on Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies · · Score: 1

    SO, does that mean that now the Democrats need to find a candidate with the last name "Aaron"? :-)

  11. Re:Every election on Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies · · Score: 1
    True.

    If there is fraud or potential for fraud, neither side is safe.

    how the heck did the the Sharia Revolutionary Party get 80% ???

  12. Re:Coup_d'etat! on Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies · · Score: 1
    Perhaps.

    His web page looks good, but if he is going to run for prez, he will have to get a better photographer.

    Face is too asymmetric.

    Sure, this is a superficial observation, but a lot of the voting public is superficial.

    Just look up the thoughts on the Kennedy-Nixon race in the early 60's.

  13. Re:Careful..... on Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers · · Score: 1
    Whoa. Watch out - your post is too insightful (Mod this slashdotter up!)

    We'll be knocking on your door tomorrow.

    :-)

  14. Re:Careful..... on Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yeah, someone a few orders of magnitude more eloquent than me said this a while back:

    "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed"

    And right after that, answers when people start getting uppity:

    "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."

  15. Re:Careful..... on Surveillance Is on the Rise, Straining Carriers · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Your choice, all speculation:

    1) Police were biased didn't like what the shirt read and they arrested her.
    For the other, they saw the "support the troops" shirt patted her on the head, nice patriotic lemming and said sorry no tshirts with stuff printed on them allowed here.

    2) Police were ordered to arrest Sheehan at a drop of the hat.

    3) the person wearing "support the troops" shirt complied and didn't give any trouble.
    Sheehan resisted, physically and/or verbally and the police had to arrest her.

    Wasn't there, didn't see what happened, take your pick.

  16. Re:Personal responsibility on Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss · · Score: 1
    But what about those people who listen to their iPods at high volume, drink hot coffee and smoke while driving at 150 mph?

    :-)

  17. Re:It was his choice. on Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss · · Score: 1
    Heard the guy is coming up with a second suit as well.

    Seems he sat on his iPod (no warnings against that one) and now he wants Apple to pay his proctologist and then some.

    :-) :-)

  18. Re:Not only that... on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1
    What if they don't deposit their proceeds and use it as stuffing for their mattress?

    Then it's not readily available, they need someplace to sleep!

    :-) :-)

  19. Re:Straight from the Steve Jobs playbook... on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1
    The mayor of New York City, a billionaire ("Bloomberg") is also compensated $1.00/year.

    Actually, his paycheck is $0.91 - they took out for taxes (true story!)

  20. Re:Evolution of the Species on Konica Minolta Quits Photography Market · · Score: 1
    This makes me sad, because I used to enjoy chemical photography a great deal...but I just don't have the time/space

    Me too - I haven't handed any of that stuff in ages - but then nowadays isn't one of the problems with home "chemical photography" disposal of the stuff?

    Sure you can flush it down, but is that technically legal now?

  21. Re:management speak decoded... on Konica Minolta Quits Photography Market · · Score: 1
    means the competition's cameras are too cheap and we have no margin left...

    You're probably right, but after following Minolta for many years, I would say, in addition:

    "means our lousy consumer service finally caught up with us "

  22. Re:This should impact future graduate students on Easier Way to Convert Proteins into Crystals · · Score: 1
    It is also a fairly lucrative field, and you need people with advanced degrees.

    Did you ever see the prices that a crystallographic lab charges (even for academia)?

    I don't think that NMR people get paid as well...

  23. Re:Keep it clean will ya on Keyboards Are Disgusting · · Score: 1
    Well, you could suck it. (with your vacuum cleaner, silly!)

    Either way you get the same results...

  24. Re:Keep it clean will ya on Keyboards Are Disgusting · · Score: 1
    Anyone got any good tips for cleaning a keyboard?

    1) Get Cotton swabs, tissues, compressed air, high quality rubbing alcohol with isopropanol or 2-propanol (high % of alcohol to water content)

    2) Disconnect your key board (if not usb keyboard, shut down computer first)

    3) Blow your keyboard (with the compressed air, silly)

    4) Use the cotton swabs and tissues moistened with alcohol to clean all that chunky black grime off the keys.

    5) Dirt that does not come off might come off with water - use sparingly and don't let it get under the keys.

    6) Wipe again with alcohol and let dry

    7) reconnect keyboard

    The key here is the alcohol. Isopropanol doesn't affect electronics circuitry (but since you're using stuff diluted with water, let it dry or you might short something)

    High proof vodka should work also, and then you have use for the leftover.

    The alcohol cleans & sterilizes.

    Whatever you do, don't use acetone (nail polish remover).

    Plastics in keyboards often are soluble in acetone, with rather interesting effects...

  25. Re:More like where do you draw the line? on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1
    Go HEAVY on the mousing

    But if he gets into heavy mousing, he might have to rate his book "R"

    :-)