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  1. Eyes... on Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to use your eyes when crossing a road?

  2. Re:Is the headline accurate? on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    Is the headline ever accurate?

  3. Re:Comment from Birgitta Facebook page... on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    So she's saying that Assange should temporarily step aside as spokesman for Wikileaks until the facts of the case have been sorted out.

    That is what I got from The Daily Beast article. But by habit I skipped the article text and only read the quotes from her. From the replies here I was wondering if anyone actually read TFA.

  4. Re:Let me round it up for ya on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    What does hating the US have to do with suggesting it is the CIA at work here? It is completely reasonable to suggest this, based on past activities of the CIA.

    I bet people within the CIA even believed they did it. When the story first broke, there were probably CIA spooks asking others, "Are those women our agents? Did we authorise this?"

  5. Re:Identifying on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 1

    I think you take me too seriously.

  6. Re:Identifying on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to create a competing trojan/virus that, instead of turning the machine into a spambot, disables all network connections and displays a message saying: "SECURE YOUR FUCKING COMPUTER!"

  7. Why is every minor thing in America on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    Such a big deal? It's garbage... you separate recyclables, you put it in a bin, someone collects it. The end.

    Why are people bringing up the constitution? Seriously.

    You guys really need to get over such fucking petty squabbles about every single issue. Learn to accept the government can't please everyone and the same time...

  8. Re:save lives by exposing military tactics.... on Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents · · Score: 1

    It isn't like they have a choice.

  9. Re:The irony on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    Your "observation of culture" is that almost every culture is stupid, except yours?

  10. Re:The irony on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, somebody will fill those empty countries, and the "future generations" don't look like they will be the types of high-tech folk who will keep things green, care about your culture, or be high-tech enough to get homo sapiens "off this rock".

    You are saying immigrants from less developed nations are uninsightful idiots? That's just a little bit racist.

  11. Re:Terrorists schmerrorists on Reading Terrorists' Minds About Imminent Attack · · Score: 1

    Don't listen to him! He is a terrorist! You don't need to measure his brainwaves to know he is guilty.

  12. Re:Thoughtcrime - doubleplus ungood... on Reading Terrorists' Minds About Imminent Attack · · Score: 1

    You're a traitor! You're a thought-criminal! You're a Eurasian spy! I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to the salt mines!

  13. With enough detailed measurements on Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Cleanup on UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6 · · Score: 1

    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

    What's the ratio in SI units?

  15. Re:I don't care if you are from Iran on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    The key holders are the Elders of the Internet.

  16. Re:At the last place I worked on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    Yeah it wasn't too old, and would have been fine if nothing much changed. But when you consider they're in an industry that has an increasing use of technology (such as the high res imagery) and the site has increased in size in previous 5 years, it's being a little cheap. Especially when they make literally hundreds of millions in profits every year.

    It's hard to convince management to spend money on it when everything apparently 'works fine' and they have no understanding of it. It doesn't help that IT is semi-outsourced and offsite.

  17. Buying? on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 1

    People buy HDMI cables? I have three in my draw at home, which all came with something. Currently I have nothing to use them on though.

  18. Re:My only question is... on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 1

    I thought that display port was taking over from HDMI? I see many devices not just video cards with display port as an option.

    Display port is replacing DVI. In other words, display port is for computers, HDMI for home theater. At least, theoretically.

  19. At the last place I worked on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    The main "file server" had only 2 TB of storage, for a ~200 user site. Our department started using high resolution imagery, and we were burning through the remaining 500 GB of free space. They told us our department needed to upgrade the hardware, and offered to set up a 4 TB NAS for us for $10,000 (or maybe $20,000?) I questioned why don't they upgrade the file server and they said it was full. I found out later all the servers on site were 5 year old HP machines.

  20. Huh on Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we still root outside the zone? I haven't had a root in a while, but there's always the possibility.

  21. Re:why? because.. on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the ideal? Pretty much the opposite of sexism, that.

    Yes but, think about how men treat each. I routinely insult, hit/play fight and pull cruel jokes on my male friends. They do the same back to me. We enjoy this. Most women would not enjoy that.

  22. Re:why? because.. on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    It's not because you're a woman but because the men are treating you like any other man.

    Yes, IT guys/geeks don't know how to treat women so they treat them like men. Men who function more typically socially will treat women differently.

  23. Re:Lack of objectivity? on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    Many discoveries in science are made by people following their 'gut instinct'.

  24. BO on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 1

    Contrary to popular belief, your own personal 'musk' actually repels women.

  25. Re:Same with sugar rush in kids on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    Do you actually have any idea? Do you know what the glycemic index (GI) is? Refined sugar, which has a high GI, is absorbed into the blood stream very quickly. If you eat a lot of it you will get a large spike in energy, followed by a large dip (crash) when your body produces crap loads of insulin to counter-act all the sugar in your blood.

    Yes most foods have 'sugar', or more accurately, carbohydrates. Anything with a relatively low GI will not cause you to have a sugar high and crash, as the energy is absorbed slowly and the insulin is released slowly, or more consistently.

    Do you even have children? Have you known a child since you were a child yourself?