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  1. Sounds reasonable to me on No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA · · Score: 1

    Everybody assumed that MS was selling XP at a seriously low price to netbook OEMs to recapture the market from Linux.

    That's about how much it's worth I guess.

  2. Re:HOWTO: Putting the blame on Apple on First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Actually true. If they hadn't locked down the iPhone, there would be no need for jailbreaking. If the iPhone had an open but secure OS all of this wouldn't happen.
    Me, I'm still waiting for news about how open or locked down the various Android implementations are.

  3. Re:Is there supposed to be only one peak ? on WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US · · Score: 1

    France is also the country with the biggest antivaxx movement in Europe.

  4. Re:Trying to save the planet on Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy, as always with these kinds of arguments.
    Whenever somebody argues "either-or", you need to think of that.

    In this case, we need both - reduction of energy consumption and new, more environmentally friendly energy sources.

  5. Re:JS performance on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 1

    I just used IE8 for the first time on a brand new 2.3 GHz Core 2 Duo laptop with 8 GB that came preinstalled with XP64.
    OMG. Browsing never felt slower. Anyway, waaay slower than on my ancient 2.0 GHz P4 with 1 GB and Ubuntu.
    I thought I needed to familiarize myself with IE8 but it was just too painful so I had enough after about a half hour.
    So, I'll have to say goodluckwiththat.

  6. whatcouldpossiblygowrong? on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 1

    Just hope that your appliance manufacturer has disabled this.

  7. Re:SQL injection? on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 1

    I finally did. As I expected, there was no mention at all how the browser is related to SQL injections at all.
    This is Microsoft sponsored FUD.

  8. Re:That's Pioneer 10 and 11 on Rosetta Fly-By To Probe "Pioneer Anomaly" · · Score: 1

    It's not an anomaly. The universe just sucks.

    What else would you expect? It's mostly vacuum.

  9. Re:Finally, a convenient alternative to pyramids.. on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    They're just round clay tablets. 3,000 year old tech, but obviously very durable,

  10. SQL injection? on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The top vulnerability is SQL injection.
    Can anybody explain how the browser is responsible for SQL injection vulns?

  11. Re:more languages than programmers on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    And then there are the oohs and ahhs you get from other developers when you have implemented a language, especially if it compiles to some real or virtual architecture.

    I thought everybody did this around the fourth semester.

    Designing and implementing a language is easy. Designing a good language is hard.

    Each time I bang out a module in C++ I think about how much easier all this would be in Perl. Hopefully we'll have static compilation into efficient code for Perl6 one day. I can't wait.

  12. Re:fmt on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I definitely prefer programming languages with concise syntax and function names. We don't need another Java.
    Maybe someone can write a preprocessor for the folks that want to bang out source by the megabyte.

  13. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    That is extremely oversimplifying. Throwing all carbs and all fats into the same bin is plain wrong.
    Simple carbs: Bad. Complex carbs: Good.
    Saturated fats: Bad. Unsaturated fats: Good.
    Neglecting the latter leads to equating the saturated-fat rich American (Atkins) diet with the Mediterranean diet. Nothing could be more wrong.

  14. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    So you say the people who eat burgers and fries don't get fat from the thousands of extra fat calories they take in?

    Excess saturated fat intake leads to atherosclerosis and those fat calories end up in your fat stores. Of course, if you burn them all they won't. But it's harder to burn fat than carbs.

  15. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    I wrote non-fat plain. It's the stuff without sugar.

  16. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    The people who are really in shape can usually be found in the (free) weights area.

  17. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    That's normal. However: Fat cells only take up energy in two ways:

    1. Fat (duh), especially saturated fats
    2. Blood sugar when the insulin level is high.

    So, if you only eat little (good) fat and stay away from sugar and bad carbs like non-whole grains, corn and potatoes (which cause an insulin spike), you can eat almost what you want and you'll still starve your fat cells.

    Have a decent meal after your workout with only protein and complex carbs. Whole grain bread with tuna or vegetables with chicken breast for example. Or fruit with non-fat plain yogurt or cottage cheese. Your muscles will like it and your fat cells won't get anything.

  18. Re:Unfortunately not on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    That's what the exercise is for: To keep your metabolism up.

  19. Re:How can that be? on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    Yup. Muscle (protein) contains a lot of nitrogen, fat doesn't. So, unless you have a nuclear reactor hidden in your body...

  20. Mod parent down! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    -5, humorless.

  21. Re:Choosing the correct abstraction layer on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 1

    X11 would have a hard time trying to do the Windows 7 alt-tab or OS X expose features where Windows move around in 3-dimensions on the screen. X11 doesn't expose that kind of stuff.

    I have a feeling that you haven't used Compiz. I'll admit that I'm no Windows 7 user, but no Windows 7 desktop effect looked new to me.

  22. Re:X11 has never been a problem. on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 3, Informative

    If VNC is usable, you'll love NX. It is *far* more responsive for a given bandwidth/latency and it is persistent too (the session keeps running if your client disconnects.).

    You can even run VNC to other machines through NX and it feels faster on limited bandwidth (NX creates a session on the Linux client that runs a fullscreen vncviewer to another system.)

    It's my standard way of working remotely. My default work desktop lives on a Linux machine at the office and it resizes automatically depending on what screen size the client uses (as long as your Gnome or KDE version is recent.) Even at the office I run NX to my work session - over a LAN I can't tell the difference between local and NX.

  23. My experience on Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From what I see here in rush hour, you only need boolean control: Full throttle or hard braking. When I coast towards a red light, there'll always be someone next to me who steps on it and cuts in front of me.

  24. Re:Language is defined by usage, not dictionaries on Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells · · Score: 1

    4 years of Latin and you still don't know your declensions? Virii could only be the plural of virius, a word that doesn't exist. Virus has no plural in Latin. If it did, it could only be viri, virus, or maybe virora or vira.

    Oh and I had 6 since we're bragging.

  25. Re:Where is the evolution? on Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women · · Score: 1

    Nipples only form on the two milk lines roughly from the collar bones to the hips. Many people (men and women) have extra [rudimentary] nipples that may be considered moles, but only on those lines.
    No extra boobs though. There is a separate genetic mechanism for those because humans are the only species that have them. They are a sexual characteristic linked to upright posture so they evolved recently.