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  1. Re:Do we need the anti-smoking jab on A Geek Funeral · · Score: 1

    I read that first sentence as "a large conflagration of smokers out front" and was thoroughly amused by it.

  2. Re:Being too nice again? on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    Wait... Minesweeper got a ribbon?

    What the hell did they put on it? O.o

  3. Re:Why do we sleep? on Alzheimer's Disease Possibly Linked To Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Somehow I see you as having a lawn with a bunch of growling old ladies leashed to trees. Might work, but there's probably some sort of code against that.

  4. Re:As the owner of a dog and two cats... on Researcher Dies After Studying Plague Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So you know, a lot of fleas and ticks are becoming resistant to the poison in drops/top-spot/shampoos. If your vet is competent, he or she will know which ones still work in your area and you can save yourself a lot of money using those. Chances are you lucked into a poison that still had some kick in the flea collars. Expect that not to work in a few years.

  5. Re:It's very entertaining. on New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected · · Score: 1

    Wait... you expect advertising scum to actually do work? Your busted computer's no skin of their back.

  6. Re:Trivial. on Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers · · Score: 1

    Well well... I stand corrected. Out of curiosity I tried the process, and it just let me send the email.

    I think gmail just likes to harass me periodically :p

  7. Re:Trivial. on Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers · · Score: 1

    When did they change this to not be the case? I got hung up on just that on a shared gmail account because it DID require me to put in the secret question's answer, and I'd forgotten that, too (luckily the person I shared with remembered it). The alternative was some weird form that required you to remember when you'd started the account, and someone you'd recently contacted and a bunch of other things.

    And of course, if I can't remember my password or my question, I'm sure not going to remember all that :p

  8. Re:Culture of Secrecy on Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self · · Score: 1

    Ha, sounds like the "Amish" markets around here (or even the Amish just selling out of their front yards).

    Yes people, that thar's an Amish Banana. In Ohio. Yup.

  9. Re:I thought of this immediately, as well! on 12% of E-mail Users Have Responded To Spam · · Score: 1

    And THAT I agree with :)

  10. Re:I thought of this immediately, as well! on 12% of E-mail Users Have Responded To Spam · · Score: 1

    It's still a danger for the non security-savvy who could end up with a drive-by download infection from following said unsub, though, so it's probably still wise to treat them with caution.

  11. Re:eBay on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 1

    TS3 actually has the same problem -- we're missing Slinky and Wheezy.

    And the death of voices is reason #1 (even over their complete crap stories) that Disney's sequels suck.

  12. Re:"Cuter than lawnmowers"? on Google Mows With Goats · · Score: 1

    A hot woman/guy mowing a dry lawn on a hot breezy day starts to look like a filthy, grass-stained lobster in short order. Even goats look better than that.

  13. Re:In My Opinion, a Truly Horrid List on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    Fail them. Fail them all.

    The programmer's high is the only reason I haven't given up programming for construction work ;)

  14. Re:Hmmm ... on Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    Wait... you want to take a beautiful place and put in 4-wheeler tracks and tourists? O.o And that's an improvement?

    (OK, to be less snarky, I can understand what you're saying. It's just sad that so often what it takes to have a good standard of living in a beautiful place destroys the place's beauty.)

  15. Re:Harshness is all about color temperature on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 1

    Wait... what? Fire risk? I've not heard of that one, but now I'm curious, and worried.

  16. Re:Adobe on Design Software Giants Target the Unemployed · · Score: 1

    I pay for all my stuff legitimately (or use FOSS), but I'd venture to say that the answer to your last question is that most tryout versions suck pretty bad. If I were to have to judge a product on a typical demo, I'd never buy anything.

    Not a justification, just a bit of (hopefully) insight.

  17. Re:Yeah, but what's the point? on Segway, GM Partner On Two-Wheeled Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Friction doesn't depend on area.

    Wow. I actually remembered something from Physics class :p

    The inertia thing makes sense, thought.

  18. Re:Broad generalizations do not make good policy on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Trouble with sinusitis is that nobody ever bothers to try and figure out *why* somebody keeps getting sinus infections. Sure, for some people it's just because "Bob in Accounting coughed on me," but if you're having them repeatedly, that's probably not the case.

    Get yourself checked out for GERD (wrote the same thing a few minutes ago to someone else): http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1187755&cid=27571799 There are probably other reasons for repeated sinusitis, too, but you're going to have to find someone else who actually went through that :) I can only pass along my own experience.

  19. Re:Sinusitis on Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Unsolicited advice here, but it might be worth checking out.

    Make *absolute* certain that you don't have GERD. It's nasty to think about this, but if you have night reflux, and don't know it, all the, uh... gunk from your stomach gets up into your sinuses, causing nasty infections that are impossible to unseat with antibiotics (because you just keep feeding the problem every time you lay down). I did the infection-prescription-infection-prescription cycle for about 3 years before finding out what *really* was wrong. Now so long as I control my diet, I'm OK. About once a year I'll misbehave and get a hefty bacterial infection that I need to chase out with antibiotics, but I know when it happens, and I know what I need to do to make sure I'm not going to be able to fix it myself before moving on. And I don't even do PPIs to control the GERD now that I've gotten it under control unless I'm having real problems (usually around the Holidays; we can't all be perfect all the time :) ), so no prescriptions at all there.

  20. Re:Oh on Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told · · Score: 1

    If your adult leader chose your sixers and seconds that way, he wasn't doing it right :p Sorry that ruined scouting for you. I know my Dad (who's done both cub and boy scout level leading) goes out of his way to make sure that the the kids are running their own show (as boy scouts, cubbers still do need a bit of herding :p ) and making their own decision.

    Not looking forward to how the troop is going to end up when my brother finishes Eagle and Dad leaves them to a new leader. Running them properly has pretty much worn him out, or he'd stay on.

    (Before you ask, I not a guy, so I didn't experience boy scouting first hand. Got out of girl scouting because the upper levels were just plain dull :p )

  21. Re:W-T-F on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    "and the fact that 12V doesn't require a sparkie's license to wok on."

    Wow, they're right, those are hot cars ;)

    (Just pulling your leg; I actually learned quite a bit from your post :) )

  22. Re:Amazing, credit card companies being useful! on Major Rogue Anti-Virus Program Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Nah, you'd still pay... Visa would just find another way to increase your "gotcha" fees.

  23. Re:Internet Finance on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    ... which results in the person on the other end of the phone tapping your credit card number into the company's website, probably while using IE.

    I used to do that, too, until I realized that it was all going to the same spot anyway, and at least I could have some idea of the security of my own box.

  24. Re:Easy solution on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 1

    At which point the jurors all gang up and kill the judge.

  25. Re:Hate to say it, but... on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    And I totally read that as "correlation with castration".

    Which may make sense in the context.