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  1. Re:EU planes still don't allow. on Electronics In Flight — Danger Or Distraction? · · Score: 1

    Because my headphones won't plug in to the paper or book.

  2. Re:What? The plane crashed? on Electronics In Flight — Danger Or Distraction? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you can walk into a huge fountain while texting, then you can miss critical details if there is an emergency. Put the phone away, wait until you're at 10,000 feet, then open it up and keep playing your game. It's a 10 minute break - get over it.

  3. Re:speed bumps on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    I replaced the main motherboard on a 5 year old Dell D505 laptop using just a #00 Phillips screwdriver. Nothing else needed. How it could be more simple I'm not sure. Same thing when changing the RAM and SSD on a Dell Mini 10V - only the #00 Phillips screwdriver needed to basically disassemble the entire thing.

  4. Re:Apple bashing just reached a new low. on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    If you owned the stalls and the bathroom, you have a point...

  5. Re:Wozniak's Apple Is Completely Dead on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    Hex or square driver ARE much more resistant to stripping, and are quite common in just about any size you can find... Would have been a lot simpler to move to a hex drive. Of course, that would also have been a much more common solution, too.

  6. Re:Yay! on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 5, Informative

    iTunes is not their best work, but is far superior to Windows Media 1-99 (whatever version we are up to now).

    Except that I've never needed to use Windows Media Player to update ANYTHING on my Windows Mobile phone. In fact, I can simply drag and drop whatever I want, just like the phone is another memory device... Why do I need a special program to access my phone in the first place?

  7. Re:Bad research.... on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 · · Score: 1

    Given that Android phones outsell iPhones 2:1 - and now have a larger installed base than the iPhone - and do not use Safari, I'd say adding in phones wouldn't help your case that Safari has a "huge" base at all..

  8. Huh, I already knew this... on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1

    It was posted on Facebook...

  9. Re:Apple's angle on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    Apple gets those royalties. They benefit financially from people using H.264...

  10. What about "Blazing Saddles"? on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 1

    We'll take the niggers and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish!

  11. Re:Customability? on The 10 Best Android Hacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was going to get the first response to your post, but my alarm didn't ring...

  12. Re:what the heck is a drive thru restaurant? on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 2

    Posting from the UK. What the heck is a drive thru restaurant?

    It's like a drive thru liquor store but it sells food. Yeah, not as much fun, I agree...

  13. Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1
    Cut the entire DOD budget - we still have a ~$600 billion deficit. Cut SSI and Medicaid and we have a $200 billion surplus. I think the AC got it right - we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem...

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    Oh, and the last time a Republican tried to fix Social Security the Democrats and liberals screamed bloody murder. Allowing 2% of the total SSI funds to be privatized (which, over the course of any 30 year window pretty much outpaces the returns you get from SSI) was the suggestion and was labeled as killing grandma. So how about the Democrats come up with a solution for SSI? Because more taxes won't work - read up on Hauser's Law and see how you're really not going to get more than ~19% of the GDP, regardless of tax rates...

  14. Re:What Canadian law is that? on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 2

    So, your province has to have 25% of its power from renewables by a certain date. But the end consumer doesn't have to actually spend money to buy that more expensive power, meaning demand does not equal required supply. I think I see a logical problem here...

  15. Re:And so on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    The bulk of Iraqi oil goes to Europe and Asia; the US gets a very small sliver of Iraqi oil; if we were "protecting" someone's flow of oil, it was for the nations of Europe and the Far East. The US gets most of its imported oil from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia.

  16. Re:Solved with dogs on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    I agree - pigs or dogs. I have no problem with either, and if your religion makes such animals "offensive" - suck it up.

  17. Re:Solved with dogs on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 0

    Well, you also forgot to mention that in some cultures the use of dogs is highly offensive. And we don't want to offend anyone, do we? Better to use clothes-penetrating, high resolution X-rays and tight groping, much less offensive...

  18. Re:Classic TSA on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    Hey, if it works for Apple...

  19. Re:This is a pattern with Janet Napolitano on TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    Yes, better to trust an upstanding "unbiased" organization like CBS who doesn't engage in anything fake. Right?

  20. Re:Better Idea on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    At least the new Speaker of the House is cutting his travel expenses from his predecessor...

  21. Re:Investing in the Future won't get you votes tod on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    You mean instead of using that company called Comcast to post on a site hosted by that company called Geeknet? Yes, the irony is very thick indeed!

  22. Re:I'd much rather dissolve the NEA on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    For 99.99% of written history, in fact, computers never helped anyone learn to read and write... And in multiple languages too!

  23. Re:Uniqueness on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    Or what's been done for nearly two decades before the Apple stores rolled out - Bose stores. Even if sold in another store, they were typically given their own dedicated room as the contract to sell Bose spelled out.

  24. Re:Misguided Rationalization on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    The biggest cube I worked in was at the Provincial Gov't, they had this massive 1960s job that had two chairs, a proper desk, a fully adjustable "computer" desk and a coat rack. I kinda liked that cube because there was enough room for small meetings, pair programming and it gave you some space for thinking (without having three other noisy people two meters away from you all the time).

    When your "customer" (in this case, the taxpayer) will pay for your service by dint of Government force - you have, in essence, a captive customer who will pay whatever is expected regardless of need or usability of product - you can afford really nice, big spaces and cubicles...

  25. Re:Sq F on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    American corporations typically thought they needed 500 to 700 square feet per employee

    Who's running these corporations? Millipedes?

    Not just millipedes, but millipedes from Picasso!