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  1. Re:Go Moore! on NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB · · Score: 1

    No. Moore's Law applies to processors, not storage.

  2. Re:We Listened! on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    What I meant but wasn't clear about (pun intended!) was that as a driver, I'm not going to notice any difference between a windshield from Company A and windshield from Company B, whereas I will notice a big difference between an OS from Microsoft and an OS from Apple (for example).

  3. Re:Quick solution on The Risks and Rewards of Warmer Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Well, that made me smile. Not what I expected.

  4. Re:as they would say on FARK.. on Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Is it femynyst?

  5. Re:We Listened! on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    OK, we have to have a car analogy, but the windshield is not a good analogue to the OS, despite the Windows-like name. The OS is much more important/integral to the user experience than the (different) windshield is to driving. Hate to say it, but I don't think there's a suitable car analogy for this one. Maybe we should ask BadAnalogyGuy. ;-)

  6. Re:Quick solution on The Risks and Rewards of Warmer Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Try ... offtopic. But you can't anyway since you already posted.

    --Part-time grammar/spelling Nazi with no mod points right now.

  7. Re:Linux is better that Snow Leopard on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 1

    That's why he said....

    Oh, just take your whooosh and go!

  8. Re:Windows 7 is better than Linux on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 1

    I thought Win7 was Vista SP3.
    (at least, that's the anti-Microsoft viewpoint)

  9. Re:Quick, your state needs you! on 100,000 Californians To Be Gene Sequenced · · Score: 1

    First, it's "to have", not "to of".
    Second, are you implying that Schwarzenegger is a conservative?
    I think those four conservatives in CA would disagree with you on that.

    In fact, the wikipedia article you linked to has this to say:

    In recent years, many commentators have seen Schwarzenegger as moving away from the right and towards the center of the political spectrum. After hearing a speech by Schwarzenegger at the 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said that, "[H]e's becoming a Democrat [... H]e's running back, not even to the center. I would say center-left".

    If Gavin Newsom is saying Arnold is "center-left", you can surmise that real conservatives think he's somewhere between FDR and Fidel Castro.

  10. Re:tell me something a child couldn't figure out on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 1

    I think (IANAMB) that the interesting part is that genes that are "used together" end up adjacent to each other when folded. I don't think that is to be expected.

  11. Re: the most expensive part was buying the helium on Australian Student Balloon Rises 100,000 Feet, With a Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    No. It could have been, not it must have been. He got the camera back in working order, so it didn't cost him. If you buy a car then drive over to your uncle's house, you don't say that it cost $20,000 dollars to drive to your uncle's house, do you? Why am I replying to an AC when the answer is obvious to everyone elsde and the AC probably won't even see it. That just cost me a minute of my life...

  12. Re:On what desktop system do you use ECC? on Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chi · · Score: 1

    Half the market? Maybe, for sufficiently small values of "half".

  13. Re:soft error on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 1

    Yes, these kind of things have cropped up before and they have always been attributable to human error. The best thing to do would be to re-install the unit and wait for it to fail.

  14. Re:Will it the entire digestive tract? on Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon · · Score: 1

    Blew? damn lameness filter..When the video runs, actual sample information, which (for this type of sample) has a regular appearance and changes only slowly from frame to frame, can be distinguished from noise, which varies rapidly and randomly with both position and time. The sample information is seen to continue out to substantially higher spatial frequencies in the TIRF-SIM data set compared to the conventional data....damn lameness filter...why why why.... Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 1 hour, 3 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment.

  15. Re:Hitachi S-6180 for $5k on An Electron Microscope For Your Home? · · Score: 1

    Could be a good deal for someone who needs to look at 6" or 8" patterned semiconductor wafers. Not for general samples. And it said one of the vacuum pumps doesn't work and it hasn't been used for three years, and it weighs two tons. If you can live with all that, go for it!

  16. Re:We will never colonize the moon on NASA's LCROSS Moon Impact Mission Provides Great Data · · Score: 1

    This thread will now terminate due to excessive whoosh/pedantry density.

  17. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    That might be often true, but you can't say you know it's true for him as if you have the certainty coming from knowledge that it is true 100% of the time. Read my earlier post - my son's health care costs, I don't even know the total, but I know it was in the six figures at least. It perhaps was exceptional, our case, not the norm, to come away with essentially no debt, but you'd be wrong if you said it never happened.

  18. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is that the only option in this debate for those who disagree with government control of health care? Is that the level of argument? I'm not impressed.
    I'm sure I'll be modded down, like my original comment was, and I probably should not have said "most". I should have said half, since the latest polls show about an even split. But few Americans are going to be happy about the total cost when the bill finally comes.

  19. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    For myself, I haven't used it that much, thankfully.
    But for my son, who was born with a congenital heart defect, and later died from the results of that, a lot of health care was needed. And if anyone should be unhappy, it should be me. He needed a heart transplant, but died while waiting for one, and had a nosocomial (hospital-given) infection that may have had something to do with that. But absent the health care system, his life would have likely been much shorter than the sixteen months it was.

  20. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    And you are suggesting that the only way to have sex is to pay for it?

  21. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not just you, but it's almost just you. Most Americans, including me, are satisfied with their health care as it is.

  22. Re:Missed by Voyager? on NASA Discovers Giant Ring Around Saturn · · Score: 1

    But you are new here!

  23. Re:Just asking... on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    It was a dark blue and stormy night, which matched the color of my eyes...

  24. Re:Hope he never gets funded again on WARF and Intel Settle Patent Suit Over Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    They gave up their moral position when they became actively anti-Christian, contrary to their Christian establishment.

    For example,

    In 1893, Baedeker's guidebook called Harvard "the oldest, richest, and most famous of American seats of learning."[7] Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The college was named for its first benefactor, British-born John Harvard of Charlestown, a young minister who, upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution. The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College was signed by Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley in 1650. The College's original purpose was to train Puritan ministers.[8]

    During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists in New England. The College was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Puritan churches throughout New England.[9] An early brochure, published in 1643, justified the College's existence: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery [sic] to the Churches..."[10] Harvard's early motto was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae "Truth for Christ and the Church." In a directive to its students, it laid out the purpose of all education: "Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Iesus Christ which is eternall life, Joh. 17. 3. and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning.[11]

    from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University
    [emphasis mine]

    ...flame away...

  25. Re:Like stealing illicit drugs? on Researchers Hijack Mebroot Botnet, Study Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but according to the wikipedia article on larceny, that is not larceny.

    Without consent

    The taking must be without the consent of the owner. This means that the taking must have been accomplished by stealth, force, threat of force, or deceit. If the offender obtained possession lawfully then a subsequent misappropriation is not larceny.

    Intent to steal (animus furandi)

    The offender must have taken the property with the intent to steal it. Traditionally intent to steal is defined as the intent to deprive the owner of the possession of the property permanently. However, intent to steal includes other states of mind such as the intent to recklessly deprive the owner of the property permanently. A person who takes property of another under the mistaken belief that the property belongs to him does not have the requisite intent to steal. Nor does a person "intend to steal" property when he takes property intending to make temporary use of it and then return the property to the owner within a reasonable time.