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  1. Re:Zune or Xbox? on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 0

    Sliced Kittens? Is that a typo or an attempt to conpare Microsoft to people who eat cat? As for the Win8, I am waiting until the storm passes on this.

  2. Re:Well, it's a beginning on Microsoft Relents On Metro-Only Visual Studio Express · · Score: 1

    You can't organize a tile. Lets be crystal clear. Metro is designed for consumption not work. You have display numerous times that this is what you do. Good for you. However, you fail to grasp that a) win 95 on up has had numerous dimensions of the lists. You simply edit the actual folders in windows explorer. Where pray tell are the actual folders for the tiles?
    And since you seem to enjoy pointing out the impossibility, please give up a screenshot of your start screen.
    Finally, you can kill metro, kill explorer. Of course then you are back to command line. Mind you this is an assumption as I wont even run the download I got since I saw the abomination metro actually is.

  3. Re:Microsoft Vanishing From Average Person's Life on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 0

    ROTFLOL! Thats amusing. Must everyone who is middle income below goes home to their computers checking email and web browsing. Have you tried surfed on a tiny screen? And ipad and Iphones are locked into specific patterns. Just letting you know that this is being typed on a Sony Viao desktop that I am continued to upgrade. Microsoft is shoving the pistol into their mouth this time in the mistaken belief that the base consumer is not their consumer. They believe the oems are. What will happen on launch day? 1000s of computers will be sold opened and then after hours of cursing taken back to Best Buy, Frys, Walmart as broken. Their will be nothing wrong with them but the people will be so clueless they will assume its broken. When the massive wave of returns happens, Microsoft will wake up but it will be too late. They will have blown their own throat out. No Linux wont be there to pick of the pieces. Google will. Chromebooks suck ass but they are easy to use.
    People forget before Microsoft was Commodore. Amiga video toasters were used during the gulf war. But bad business deal lead them to be a foot note.
    I do believe 7 will be around for 10 yrs. maybe more.
    I am willing to bet money on longbets.com that not only will the largest amount of computer returns will happen the month 8 rolls out, but that the start button will return on the first service pack.

  4. Re:Or what? on NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff · · Score: 0

    And apollo 18! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_18_(film)

  5. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    http://www.mendeley.com/research/realtime-terahertz-color-scanner-moving-objects/
    http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/37962/8/04chapter3.pdf I believe this references the L3 200 to 300 GHz ones (.2 teraherz)
    Ours is a SMW passive that runs at 3 thz and is maintained by aligent. As I understand it is uncommon.

  6. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 3

    Worked in an airport for two years. Went through security checkpoint over 200 times. Never forced to go through the backscatter machine. She would have missed her flight because she didn't get to the airport early enough. You get there 2 to 3 hours early. Then if the TSA wants to have their head up their ass you have time. Also according to the Americans with Disabilities act, whatever carrier she has a ticket on is obligated to provide her with assistance with forces them to pat her down. They have female superivsers. One would have done it. She was because schedule and didnt push hard enough. The TSA were idiots as usual. They don't want to do any unless forced. Stop the line for a reason they can't get around and you would be amazed how fast a female appears.

  7. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11826&page=7 Um yes they do. I can post the actual specs. The backscatter ones at MY airport run at 3 terahertz. NOT ALL OF THE devices run at the same frequency.

  8. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the scanner produces 3 terahertz of radiowaves. No radiation in the conventional sense. The company that builds them is Based where I live and Our airport got 2 early because we had enough space. Also, she could simply said no I dont want to go through. Then they have to pat her down.

  9. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    So you oppose the right for people to believe what they want to believe because you believe that some scientist group was predicted that we will alter the environment to unlivable levels? That's textbook hypocrisy. There is no truly hard 100% consensus proof that they are right. On the contrary, this quote shows otherwise.
              "Mr Miliband and his senior scientists are ignoring the most important advice outlined by the [british] government's chief scientific advisor: although the basic science of the greenhouse effect is sound (ie, more anthropogenic CO2 means more warming) what is uncertain is the magnitude and timescale of the effect. Future warming could be pronounced, it could be moderate or it could be insignificant. Moreover, it could be eclipsed by other factors that scientists admit are not well understood. Beddington has made clear that scientists don't know for sure given the complexities of the climate system."
    So, UNTIL they all figure it like gravity, Let the others believe in God, Allah etc. They aren't harming you. This isn't going to turn into Panem, you know. And if it did, Katniss will fix it.

  10. Re:Obviously they were just waiting to start on Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own · · Score: 1

    Good to know that your rooster is capable of pawing. By the way its pronounced own to own.

  11. Re:The response of 99.9% of humanity: on GitHub Hacked · · Score: 1

    A redneck wal-mart.

  12. Re:Are they serious? on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    I am all for censoring the KKK and Fred Phelps because they are a danger to all of us. I am tied of the all of nothing people. There are limits there has to be or there is anarchy. Telling a fashion house or a photographer that the 80 lbs seriously thin womans photos you took cant be bought because we fined won't lead to baning other forms of speech. Its isnt like porn or religion. Its health.

  13. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    You mean this: http://gofatherhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/kate-upton-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition.jpg Oh the article talks about the very issue we are discussing. And you can even get the scans with bitcoins.

  14. Re:It's True on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    I think really we should ban cosmetics. I found so beautiful women who hide under a shroud of makeup and so truly ugly ones who do the same. lets level the paying field. ;)

  15. Re:What if they are skinny for other reasons? on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Please list your metrics. Inheritantly biased metics are meaningless.

  16. Re:Actuarially, no. on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Ok so how about we increase the population of Stockholm to oh 25 million and see how well it will work. And let bump the total population of Sweden to say 200 million.
    What works for a tiny popluation will not work for large ones. Europe system will fail in China, India and the US.

  17. Re:Actuarially, no. on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    You know while your point is valid, you also must realize that if you smoke you will destroy your lungs. If you overindulge in foods known to cause heart problems then you will get this. I support your right to eat and smoke. However, I WILL NOT PAY YOUR DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL BILLS PERIOD, if you do. See, if I am forced to pay for your medical bills through my taxes then I don't want you to do those known dangerous things because then you are squandering my money. So which is easier, being like the UK and having those rules forced down your throat while the cig is slapped away or being allowed to smoke and paying your own way?

  18. Re:Ban idiotic research first on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Lets establish something: religion is a belief system. It isnt something that generally is proven to exist even without parenting and even without technology. So going down that route will pull the thread off course. Do some people misinterpret scriptures and say 'If I repeat this phrase, healing will appear,' Yes they do. However, there are as many cases where unexplainable things happened while someone was doing exactly that.
    In the TOPIC of modeling images being deliberately manipulated to sell product, there is a willful lie that is being believed. There is no belief in truth. We are arguing if Fire can be shouted in a crowded room after a guy detonates a smoke bomb outside the open windows. There is no fire. Just the lie.
    The fact it causes "harm" is sufficient reason to ban speech IMHO. This is why we vote. To establish what 'harm' is. 'Harm' is young girls starving and dying from food diseases to achieve the impossible. Harm is talented men saying that attractive curvy women are ugly and fat. Harm is saying you have to be a size 2 to achieve your dream even though your body structure would never allow that.

  19. Re:Ban idiotic research first on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Yes. Actually that would be an awesome thing. Everything single one should. ;)

  20. Re:Ban idiotic research first on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    No, because we now have two generations that have suffered. A more appropriate example would be cigarette advertising. Once upon a time smoking was fine on advertisements. Heck, even cigarette companies could sponsor stuff. The solution isn't to ban slender model images. Its to ban the use of digital editing on model photos used on magazines for the purpose of selling the magazines or projects. Force them to go back to how it was in the 70s. Fine the design and model houses that use 80lb models. We must quit allowing the minority to dictate things. Why? Because it is horribly harming people. When parents who tell their eight-year-old girl every day that she's smart and strong and brave and beautiful, and that they love her, and that their proud of her it should be enough. However, she is at school and with friends, and online and we all know what the marketers and model house want, and she sees that digitally thin anatomically impossible model wearing the hottest new thing, she believes it. If she believes it, its her reality and no amount of praise can change that.
        Yet if the magazine has size 4 models and the runway shows have size 2 and 4 models, she believes her parents. Society isn't counteracting parenting. Isn't that what we all want? Everything has limits. Technology shows us those limits. Its governments job to set those limits technology reveals. This is one of those times.

  21. Re:People continue to underestimate the Internet on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    Internet took off because business hoped on board after eternal Septemeber.

  22. Re:Ready? on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    Think WebTV. Now picture that with the slooooooooooooooow speeds of 4 and 8 baud. There you go. Thats why it failed.

  23. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1

    This is the core problem with Islam today. This is why I advocate staying out of Syria.

  24. Re:Thanks Canada on Canada ISPs Not Subject To Content Rules, Court Says · · Score: 2

    Le neutralite de reseau est mort; vive le neutralite de reseau. Network Neutrality is dead; long live Network neutrality. (that is the french translation) is such a BS response. I Think it was an excellent ruling. They get similar safe harbor provisions. And relying solely on elected leaders is dangerous.

  25. Re:Swords on Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen · · Score: 1

    grenades then?