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  1. Re:Issues I've had. on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    I just the other day got a second lcd monitor (asus), different model than the first (acer). I plugged it in, and it Just Worked (Ubuntu Karmic). Different modes were available, as well as resolution choice for each screen. Absolutely simple. I have no idea where all this talk about it being hard to dual-screen on linux came from. It's easy, I promise.

  2. Re:Okay, I know this is off-topic... on Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ninety seconds? Look at who thinks he's a bigshot, Mr. "I'm not a minute-man anymore". Now to click "post anonymously" to protect myself from embarrassment.

  3. Re:List his peace initiatives... on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    "He created a multinational project of cooperation between tons of people"

    Programmers may not be the most attractive or slim people ever, but I think it's a little unnecessarily offensive to measure them in *tons*

  4. Re:IE is also an injection on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 1

    This is known as an "interjection" attack and is becoming increasingly common.

    FTFY

  5. Re:Add-On System on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 1

    Any useful addon on ie costs $10-$30. The free ones are mostly malware. At least that was the case last time I checked, maybe a year or two ago.

  6. Re:Wow. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    What's this "we" thing you're talking about?

  7. Re:A solution for some old RPGs (Ps:T, BG, IwD) on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    Having just played Neverwinter Nights 2 tonight, I have to say that the visuals in Ps:T kick ass. Not kicked, kick. I don't know why they ever moved away from the 2d style, except for ease of mod-making.

  8. Niven on Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Larry Niven short story about Gil the ARM and the organleggers.

  9. Re:Fixing all the WRONG problems on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Perfectly working cars? I'm sorry, I thought it was called Cash for Clunkers, not Cash for Efficient, New, Perfectly-Working Cars.

  10. Re:Bill Itself: 220-215 on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    This! What right-winger-economist-wannabees fail to realize is that health care is not a zero-sum game. Providing for the poor has a nice effect of reducing crime and thus increasing societal stability, which certainly helps the rich. Early treatment of a disease can reduce costs by orders of magnitude, but that doesn't help if the sufferer has no health insurance and will just wind up in the ER at some point.

  11. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    government "interference" - you keep using that word; I don't think it means what you think it means.

  12. Re:Where's the... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, knowing that they're more aggressive opens the floor for treatment of said aggression, making them less likely to kill since it's more likely that that was their primary motivator. That would argue for shorter sentences and specific correctional action.

    On the gripping hand, you just can't punish people more for having worse genes, or the wrong genes. And yes, prison time is punishment as much as correction. You just can't pull that in this country.

  13. Re:It is funny on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 1

    The only sources of energy we have are Earth's rotational energy (tides, wind), radioactive decay (fission, geothermal), and solar (wind, hydro, biomass, fossil, photovoltaic, solar thermal). Everything is based on these three sources.

  14. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    Your case only happens if you're in overdrive, which is likely in an automatic transmission.

  15. Re:! surprising on Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA · · Score: 1

    Do you have a better idea, or are you just going to bitch?

  16. Re:Oblivion is the perfect example. on Should Computer Games Adapt To the Way You Play? · · Score: 1

    There are mods that remove all that bullshit and replace it with a decent system. I'm not sure of the names, but you should be able to find something good.

  17. What? on ARM and Dual-Atom Processors in New Portables · · Score: 1

    No mention of the Touchbook? http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

    It's already been released as of last month.... of course it doesn't involve Intel in any way, so is can't be mentioned. It's only an ARM netbook with some sweet features such as the ability to separate the keyboard and use the screen like a 1lb tablet... also great battery life.

  18. Re:Basic physics/electronics fail? on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 1

    It's not even that. There are two types of relevant fields here. Radiative fields, and nonradiative fields. Radiative fields (EM radiation) go out as r^2. Nonradiative fields are caused by the source, but don't propagate by themselves. Think a garbage truck where some flies fly off (radiation) and some follow near the truck (non-radiative). Coupling involves the nonradiative. hence the longer range as r^2 doesn't apply.

  19. Re:Basic physics/electronics fail? on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 1

    The inverse-square law doesn't, in fact, apply. There are more types of fields than simple radiative fields. Pick up an E&M textbook or something before making such foolish pronouncements.

  20. Re:Went to bed on Earth, Woke up on Mars on Aussie Data Centres Brace For Dust Storm Barrage · · Score: 1

    I can see why it's a bad idea to fly a 'thopter into that.

  21. Re:North Paw on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    I've got to get me one of these. Any idea when you're likely to have more kits for sale?

  22. Re:But... on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    Times the number of cars in this country = ~half a billion dollars.

  23. Re:But... on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    Try being blind and doing most anything. Not so easy, eh? Sucks for them, but we can't hold back civilization for every corner case. This is obviously an attempt to hold back the electric car. Don't parrot the official line....

  24. Wow on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So they killed the electric car. Or rather, they will, if they're as dumb as they seem.

  25. Re:Why the distinction between ethics and morals? on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    I'd actually argue for the reverse distinction. Morals comes from Latin, where mores meant something like social customs, not necessarily ones that related to ethics. I think that morals should denote adhering to or violating agreed upon societal rules, where ethics is strictly about right and wrong, regardless of society.