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  1. Re:Native? on Gene Study Supports Single Bering Strait Migration · · Score: 1

    I wonder how fast the equal opportunity laws will get taken down when white people are no longer the majority and these laws could be applied to them.

  2. Re:Outdated business model cramping your style? on Anti-P2P College Bill Moving Through House · · Score: 1

    I remember having THX (or something similar) on the cassette tapes. The tapes played a sound in the beging of side 1 and at the end of side 2. I thought something broke the first time I heard it. I thought the early CDs also had something like that as well. But Cds of today are not made the same way as the ones from the late 80s and early 90s.

  3. Re:Prosecute them. on Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual · · Score: 1

    When again was that definition of treason written? Was it around when the US was founded? Times change, too bad the laws are not updated to go along with that change.

  4. Re:That Doesn't Matter on Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual · · Score: 3, Informative

    Military bases are considered US soil where ever they are. just like each navy ship is a mobile part of US soil. Much like Embassys are considered soil of . The US soldier's duty to uphold the Constitution still applies while on base.

  5. windows 7 on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    Isn't vista windows 7?

    NT 3.5, NT 4.0, windows 2000 (NT 5), xp (NT6), vista (NT7)

    Or does xp and vista count like the win 95, win 98, win me line?

  6. Re:I've done it since Win3.1 on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    I thought intel screwed over DEC? The DEC alpha cpu was developed by Dec and intel. But intel owned major parts and then intel stopped letting Dec use those parts. I don't have the paper in front of me. But not long after the PII arrived and DEC died.

  7. Re:Power efficient??? on Intel Launches Power-Efficient Penryn Processors · · Score: 1

    The amd cpu you mentioned is a laptop cpu. Turion == laptop cpu. I doesn't matter what case it is in, a laptop cpu is still a laptop based computer. So you are comparing a laptop's cpu power draw to a desktop's cpu power draw. from amd's site: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_13909,00.html

  8. Re:Kind of funny, and kind of obnoxious on Intel Launches Power-Efficient Penryn Processors · · Score: 1

    I thought that intel didn't make a LG775 motherboard with more then one socket was most non-datacenter CPUs (Itianium? spelling?) have issues when the cpus count goes over 4. Intel wanted 4 cores fast. They got them but they didn't want people making 8-way home PCs and having memory issues. You notice that the second 45nm cpus have on board memory controllers which should help with the cpu count over 4 issue. When the second set of chips come out watch how many duel socket (maybe 4 way) motherboards come out.
    Would I like an 8 core home PC hell yea, or a quad socket and go 16 way. With a lot of Ram it make a nice VM machine. Now for 3d graphics in a VM.

  9. Re:Rly on Dvorak Says gPhone is Doomed · · Score: 1

    So while one is driving they are going to enter in search info and read that screen? I hope not. If anyone other then the driver is doing the typing and reading then fine. Otherwise it adds up to another stupid driving asking for an accident. And the maker of the phone doesn't matter, I see a lot of drivers on their PDA/cell phone PDA while driving.

    I got rear-ended last week by someone reading their email while driving. They even said so to me and the cop. What made me laugh was they were trying to make it sound like they did nothing wrong. Now that my insurance is going to go up for an accident were I was not at fault. People should not be driving while using your PDA/cell phone PDA/smart phone or any other name you call it.

    sorry for ranting

  10. Re:S.E.T.I on Is SETI Worth It? · · Score: 1

    I like South Park's answer better: Earth is a reality TV show

  11. Re:S.E.T.I on Is SETI Worth It? · · Score: 1

    fission != fusion

  12. Re:Anyone else notice? on AM3 Reference Diagram Disclosed · · Score: 1

    A lot of people want two PCIe slots at x16 electrical. There are boards that have two x16 electrical slots. The new PCIe 2.0 should require x16. Otherwise the cards plugged into the lower electrical slot will not run optimally. I would think that the two full open x16 slots would allow the two gpus to use the most bandwidth. Which should be useful for all the high end graphics and video. I wonder if the video rendering/editing people use could use all the bandwidth?

  13. Re:I'm not... on Causes of Death Linked To Weight · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The BMI thing is so screwed up. And doctors who swear by it are also wrong. I am 5'-9" tall. I was told that i should weigh 150 lbs. At 175 lbs my face was basically a skull, you could see my spine from the front, all my bones were clearly visible, and I was passing out and I didn't k now why. I had a bunch of tests done. My doctor (reading my test results) told me that I was still over weight and that I needed to lose weight until I was 148-153 lbs. Another doctor came into the room with a copy of my test results. She said that I needed to go out and eat right away. My body was feeding on itself and that was the reason why I was passing out. Then she smacked my doctor in the head and told him to open his eyes. Look at the kid (I was 17 at the time) he is not overweight. Then they argued about what a person should weigh at certain heights. Yes I did switch doctors.

  14. Re:"With the exception of Apple" on Bypass Windows With Fast-Boot Technology · · Score: 1

    One can set what happens when the lid is closed. You can have it do nothing (stay on), sleep, shut down, or hibernate (anything else that I am missing?) It is under power settings. Sleep != hibernate. Hibernate write everything to disk then shuts down. You can change the battery if you want to. Then turn the computer back on and all your apps come back (you may have to log in again). Sleep is a very low power state. Change the battery and everything is lost. I don't have a apple notebook to test this but when the apple laptop is sleeping, can the battery be changed and nothing is lost? Most people I know shut down before changing the battery.

  15. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    I saw the headline and was actually looking for the the mouse in the yellow suit with the red cape.

  16. Re:Hmm on Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan · · Score: 1

    unless you are wearing a full body condom, you can get herpes while wearing a regular condom.

  17. Re:Lottery Equation??? on Patterns in Lottery Numbers · · Score: 1

    I have have gotten all 6 numbers including the power ball/mega ball number 4 times.

    Problem was three number were on one line and three were on the next line. I wish I could use cut and paste on my lottery tickets.

  18. Exactly on 22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. Now if Wi-LAN had been defending their stuff all along they might have something. And pending patents are NOT patents. The pending ones could be thrown out.

  19. easier way on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Just bomb the canary island, hell just some regular explosives would set off the land slide. The whole east coast of North America is screwed, the sea life is moved a bit but not totally killed off from fallout, and it would be a lot easier to do.

    Quick someone but a few battle groups around the canary islands.

  20. come on movie makers on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Why hasn't someone made a scene where two people fight one with a sword the other with a pen and the pen wins? Think airplane style humor.

    I am also waiting for another movie where (american) football players trip on and get pinned under that line that is put on the screen for the first down.

  21. Re:Since always on Leopard Already Hacked To Run On PC Hardware · · Score: 1

    If I glue an apple label onto my computer does that mean it is "apple labeled"?

  22. Re:New Analog Format on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 1

    You have had to store the vinyl records in a safe place. And you have never broken a record? You must be young. My family has some records and 45s from the '50s. Some are so brittle that unless one picks them up very gently then snap. I also have some from when they first started (late '80s for me not sure if they were earlier). The CDs that I first bought are stronger then the ones I can get now. We have started replacing the vinyl records with CDs. First, the records are breaking, wearing out, and the sound on a lot of them suck now. The CD versions of these old records are clearer, sound more "life like", and you hear all the music. This is coming from people in their 50s, 60s, 70s who actually heard these people live. And yes I did ask if they have had hearing tests recently. I got a few things thrown at me for asking by they did. Granted the master recordings from back then are different then today. But CD > vinyl for everything that I and everyone I know listens too.

    Why they are making suck cheap CDs today is the real question. Older CDs can take a few scratches and still work. Anyone remember seeing that demo where the guy scratches a CD from the center to the edge then plays the CD? The CD sounded fine. Do that with a CD made today and the disk is dead. I have blank CDs from 94, 95 that still play fine. I would say today's CDs both original and the blanks are made very cheaply.

  23. Re:Worth upgrading my GeForce 7950 on my box? on Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards · · Score: 1

    Why the tuner card in a gaming system? Do you do both on the same system? Is the tuner card running its software while you are playing a game. Or maybe your ram is starting to show its age. Most systems now use DDR2 (some DDR3) RAM, I don't now of many socket 939 systems that use DDR2. Your video card is a DDDR3 card on PCIe so that should be fine for most non direct x-10 games. Is your case cooling correctly? If the air flow is not good (it could be full of dust) then your machine builds up heat which will kill the performance.

  24. cotten candy on Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone · · Score: 1

    You have never been allowed to make your own cotton candy wand/pillow/bunch (whatever it is called) straight from the machine have you. Straight from the machine is the best.

  25. Re:XP Sales? on Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter · · Score: 1

    Vista 'ran' but was terrible to use on a p4 2.4 ghz, 2GB of ram, and a vista approved 128mb video card. Switched to a 64bit cable processor and the system ran fine. The rest of the hardware was the same I just changed the processor. To me it looks like vista was designed to be 64 bit. Someone at microsoft got 32bit thrown in later to get people to upgrade to it. Vista runs better on 64bit hardware even installing vista 32bit. I am working on getting the slowest 64bit processor to try this out. The pent D 800 series is slow compared to the core2s but they are not the slowest 64bit cpus. I have to look at AMD chips again.