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  1. Try it. on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    It's just as fast as Chromium now, and with many windows and tabs and after being open for days it seems less of a resource hog than Chromium. Only the startup takes longer, at least with several extensions. There's a Greasemonkey beta for it too now - the last reason that held me back from setting FF as my default browser again.

  2. Re:Well... on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1

    Because industrial food manufacturers have adulterated food to the point that it makes you sick, simple as that.
    There isn't much need to go organic, but there is a need to go back to natural foods. It would roll back the obesity epidemic.

  3. Re:Aging is probably in the telomeres on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Except that preserving telomeres with drugs causes cancer, so there's a fine balance. The cell can only afford to live so long under normal DNA damage, so if you want to preserve it you have to make the whole chromosome more resilient. That sounds nontrivial.

  4. Re:Causal link on Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility · · Score: 1

    Bah, humbug. How can you hook up these days without a cell phone? You can't. There's your causal link.

  5. Cause and effect? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    I don't know any reasonable people who consider Fox News a valid source of information. Everybody I know will flip the channel with an expression of disgust right away.
    So my feeling is that only dumb or uninformed people watch Fox News anyway.

  6. Re:What about murder? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    That's primarily violence, that's probably acceptable.

  7. Re:Why stop there? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 2

    And don't forget Ringworld. Sex with aliens, eww.

  8. Re:Censorship ? oh come on .... on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 2

    I hope you learned your lesson.

  9. Re:What about murder? on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Murder doesn't have anything to do with sex, it's just killing people so it's totally acceptable.

  10. Re:No. on Researchers Develop Genuine 3D Camera · · Score: 1

    Does anybody know what the problem with true holographic cameras is? High power pulse lasers are available. What would the requirements be for a sensor to record the interference pattern?

  11. Re:I'm dissapointed on Small Fujitsu Device Harvests Both Solar and Thermal Energy · · Score: 1

    In this house we obey the second law of thermodynamics!

  12. Re:where does the burden of proof lie? on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    Who knows if fairies didn't explode regularly back then? Do we have historic data on fairy explosions or at least proxies?

  13. Re:where does the burden of proof lie? on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    The notion that the economy is "threatened" by climate change or by attempting to cut emissions is a vague form of economic model.

    And it has been proven wrong by several countries that have started successful "green" industries. Those can not be found in the US though. Those countries also happen to do better in the current recovery. Dunno if that's causation or just correlation. My suspicion is that's due to better policies overall.

  14. Re:Everyone here is a vegetarian, right? on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    Eating lots of meat is bad for you anyway, especially lots of cheap meat (sausage, hamburger or other processed meats.)
    3 to 5 servings (stack-of-cards size) of *high* *quality* meat (pure muscle meat like fillet or chicken breast) per week is healthy.
    So, you don't have to become fully vegetarian but you might want to do your health a favor.

  15. Re:YOU CAN'T SPELL VAGINA WITHOUT VGA !! on Goodbye, VGA · · Score: 1

    OK, show the excerpt from your resume.

  16. Re:Conference rooms on Goodbye, VGA · · Score: 1

    Come on - it's nice to have time to go to the bathroom and/or get some coffee while the presenter sorts out the problems between his/her laptop and the projector.
    Happens in over 50% of the meetings I go to.

  17. Re:I guess they wanted free porn. on Porn Site Gave Federal Agents Free Rein · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So if they don't pay for it, it's ok?

    We've all learned from the RIAA and MPAA that downloading destroys the industry, so downloading CP should be a good thing.

  18. They really outdid The Onion this time on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but I don't think they're aware of that.

  19. Re:to avoid what? on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    To avoid working code of course.

  20. Re:GOTO... on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    You won't believe how many GOTOs I see regularly in our C/C++ sources :(

  21. Re:Programming Mistakes To Avoid on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    Whenever yo hear "framework", run like hell.

  22. Re:Don't bother... on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Makes a First Appearance · · Score: 1

    You're not supposed to run it in a VM - be a man and do a real install.

  23. Re:What if the local storage is made zero? on FTC Is In Talks With Adobe About the 'Flash Problem' · · Score: 1

    I have read that rm -rf ~/.adobe; mkdir ~/.adobe; chmod 000 ~/.adobe does the trick. Can anybody confirm?

    Looks reasonable. I did
    rm -rf ~/.adobe;touch ~/.adobe;rm -rf ~/.macromedia;touch ~/.macromedia;

  24. Re:Less editorialization please on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 1

    Those policies are not applicable for devs, thank $DEITY. I don't think IT is going to bother what kinds of tools I install - they don't know them anyway. If they complain the answer is "I can't do my job without them" and my boss will back me up.

  25. Re:Secrecy on WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Has anybody looked at the counter argument? That long term, the release of these messages will lead to improved policies?
    Global politics has been messed up by the US since after WWII - wouldn't it be nice if that stopped?