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  1. Re:sugar on Science Fair Project Exposes GlaxoSmithKline Lies · · Score: 1

    Aspartame increases muscle tension since it contains phenyl-alanine and some people are extremely sensitive to it. It is probably a leading cause of 'arthritis' like 'old age' feeling in people. The muscle tension effect causes stiffness and soreness in the back, neck, knees - any joint with strong muscles attached to it. Simptoms start within a day and takes about 2 weeks to wear off. There is a lot of bunk bandied around about aspartame, with some people claiming that it causes anything from brain cancer to ingrown toenails, but it is certainly not a completely harmless substance.

  2. Bunk on DHS Wants Master Key for DNS · · Score: 1

    Clearly, the author has no idea what BIND is, what it does, or how it works. BTW, there are root servers in Europe too.

  3. People still download obnoxious jingles? on Private File Sharing To Remain/Become legal In EU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In civilized parts of the world, cell phones have vibrators.

  4. Re:Make them pay! on Fortune 1000 Companies Sending Spam, Phishing · · Score: 1

    Yup - with a helluvalot of effort, even Windoze can be made secure. Here is the manual:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=d39d0028-7093-495c-80da-2b5b29a54bd8&Displa yLang=en

    If you do it right once, then ghost it, you can make as many secure PCs as you need.

    Admins who don't secure corporate PCs are just lazy, stupid or both...

  5. Re:Not suprising to me on Fortune 1000 Companies Sending Spam, Phishing · · Score: 1

    Yup - I worked at a small company where the viruses always originated from the CEO's laptop.

  6. Re:Big surprise on Fortune 1000 Companies Sending Spam, Phishing · · Score: 1

    I can click on anything using any of my computers and I don't get infected with crapware. This is how it should be. You cannot blame the users for the idiotic security flaws of rotten computer systems.

  7. Re:Price point on Media Server Manufacturer Wins in Court · · Score: 1

    I guess they are mainly used in Hotels as part of video on demand systems. Not exactly a consumer item.

  8. Re:Hmm, on Using the Terahertz Spectrum for Wireless Communication · · Score: 1

    Is 'RiFi' trademarked yet?

  9. Morse Code will work... on Using the Terahertz Spectrum for Wireless Communication · · Score: 0

    Hmm, just use wideband CW with Morse Code like the old spark transmitters. That works just fine at any frequency.

  10. Hey, dude... on Dept. of Energy Rejects Corn Fuel Future · · Score: 1

    Hey dude, you can't burn all the grass to run your cars, what we gonna smoke then?

  11. Re:Everything old is new again on Drive-By Internet In Hard-To-Reach Places · · Score: 1

    I think it is called rsync.

  12. A bus full of tubes? on Drive-By Internet In Hard-To-Reach Places · · Score: 1

    But what will they do when the tubes get full?

  13. Re:Efficiency. on USPTO New Accelerated Review Process · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder why they don't just drop the whole cumbersome review process altogether? Just make a simple web form where anyone can patent anything.

  14. Re:Feel free, MS... on Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick? · · Score: 2

    "...I've had doubleclick's servers blocked in my HOSTS file for ages now."

    Don't worry, next Patch Tuesday will restore your full internet experience for you...

    "Where do you want to click today?"

  15. Re:Just one more reason for people to hate MS on Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick? · · Score: 1

    What MS can bring? Three hundred million users that suddenly cannot block DoubleCluck no matter what they do.

    The added readership should raise the valuation of the company very nicely.

  16. Re:Just one more reason for people to hate MS on Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick? · · Score: 1

    "I don't believe a change in its ownership will change that"

    Really? Just wait for the next Patch Tuesday... ;)

  17. Re:Valuations on Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick? · · Score: 1

    Oh, just put this in your hosts file:
    127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com

    There, fixed it for you.

  18. DoubleCluck the most blocked ad server? on Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick? · · Score: 1

    Is there anybody left on the planet that isn't blocking DoubleCluck? How on earth can they be viable?

  19. Buy shares on The Coming Uranium Crisis · · Score: 1

    Obvious: Buy uranium/gold mine stock. It can only go up. Gold and uranium is usually mined together.

  20. Monoculture on De Icaza Pleads For Mono/.Net Cooperation · · Score: 1

    I though monoculture already exists in the computer industry...

  21. Re:reading my bills... on Another Anti-Terror List Impacting Businesses, Customers · · Score: 1

    Well, the list prevents people from incurring debt in the first place, so use of money then becomes moot.

  22. Hackers on Another Anti-Terror List Impacting Businesses, Customers · · Score: 1

    How long till that list gets hacked and the whole House of Representatives gets added to it? ;)

  23. The Archies on Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise · · Score: 1

    Forty odd years ago, The Archies was session musicians - it wasn't actually a real 'band' until the teenieboppers started to ask who the hell they were.

  24. Re:Man, you guys must be young on Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise · · Score: 1

    Huh? When was The White Album and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band made? Do you know which year Don McLean made American Pie? The eighties you say?

  25. Boston - 30 years old? on Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise · · Score: 2, Informative

    About 30 years ago, Boston self produced their first album and it was a huge hit. In those days, the state of the art was still reel to reel tape recorders.