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  1. fastest? on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 5, Funny

    i'm pretty sure i can get lynx running through cygwin.

  2. Re:What are the reasons for Sendmail? on Linux System Administration · · Score: 5, Insightful

    for sending mail. that's my guess, anyway.

  3. Re:sendmail vs postfix on Linux System Administration · · Score: 2, Funny

    Results 1 - 10 of about 1,030,000 for google is unreliable. (0.06 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?q=google+is+unreliabl e

  4. Re:Doesn't convert to MP3 on Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole · · Score: 1

    wait wait wait, i skipped over zune because they were in the other guy's list. it lists them as supporting AAC. that counts.

  5. Re:Doesn't convert to MP3 on Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole · · Score: 1

    if anyone wants to continue looking, i stopped here

  6. Re:Doesn't convert to MP3 on Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole · · Score: 1

    Pretty good [cnet.com]. In fact, I'd reverse it and ask if any significant music players don't support it. I certainly wouldn't look at any that didn't.
    that's a very bad list. there's two non-apples there, Sony and Zune. here's a better list.

    supports AAC:
    creative: no
    san disk: no
    archos: no
    samsung: no
    rca: no
    cowon: no (and cowon is known for its wide range of supported formats)
    diablotek: no
    SupportPlus: no
    PENGO: no
    iRiver: no
    JATON: no
    ok this is getting weird
    MACH SPEED TRIO: no
    Kingston: no
    Mustek: no
    PHILIPS: no
    i was just planning on listing a couple, but this is getting silly, i MUST find a non-ipod on newegg that supports AAC
    RjTECH: no
    TOSHIBA: no
    oh cmon, i've found 3 that support OGG so far, no AAC?
    SUPERSONIC: no
    Fuji Labs: no
    DANE-ELEC: no
    (there's the 4th OGG)
    LASONIC: no (did i do that one already?)
    SnapSights!: no
    Latte: no

    fuck this, i give up. if newegg.com is anything to go by, it looks like AAC is one the least-supported audio formats of all.
  7. Re:My question: on 6 Burning Questions About Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    the precise moment that everything interfering with it dissappears.

  8. Re:Somewhat OT question about wireless network on 6 Burning Questions About Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    as someone else mentioned, they make router-sorta things that work through the electrical wires. i know there's at least one brand that's reliable, but many arent.

    also, if you have long enough ethernet cables, you could get clever with the snaking. shove it in the crease between the wall and the rug, and send it up and around door frames. you could paint it the same color as the wall to make it less noticable.

  9. Re:Now everyone has a pre-existing condition on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Uh, you realize that if you had said that 20 years ago it would probably be fulfilled today in the US without any reform at all, right?
    ahem, you do realize there are people without healthcare, right? in other words, no that's completely false.
  10. Re:Now everyone has a pre-existing condition on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    how about this: everyone gets at least what is today considered average healthcare.

  11. Re:Now everyone has a pre-existing condition on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    ok, i'll bite. what makes you think that?

  12. Re:Definition of discrimination? on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you were to force the insurance agency to charge a single premium, ignoring individual risk factors, then those who know they have less risk will find the premiums excessive and choose not to participate.
    that's assuming that someone who believes they will pay more for insurance than will get out of it wont sign up, which is clearly not the case. the average person pays more than they get from it, otherwise the insurance companies would go out of business.

    the average person is paying about average healthcare. you're probably paying close to average. if you believed you were low risk, would you opt-out? i wouldnt.
  13. Re:Connections on Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability · · Score: 1

    you dont have a bloody clue what you're talking about do you? Amersterdam has one of the smallest drug problems in all of europe and america.

  14. Re:Definition of discrimination? on Genetic Information on Major Diseases Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Is it to our long-term interests to force insurers to operate in ignorance?
    isnt that the point of insurance? if insurance companies knew with 100% accuracy how much they're going to have to shell out for you, then they're going to charge at least that much, and then there's no point in getting insurance.
  15. Re:Imagine... on Puncturing the "PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs" Myth · · Score: 1

    indeed.

    every case of malware i've seen on a PC could have been avoided had the user made better decisions. i'm not saying is the user's fault, but i know i wouldnt have made the same decision that led to it.

    help fight malware! spread the word: a legitimate porn file will never end in .exe.

  16. Re:In 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    not true (about it taking 13 billion years). light could have travelled what is today 1 light year in less than a second. the reason being that, when it made that travel, the space that is now 1 light year across was then only 1 light second across. after it travelled that 1 light second, the distance it travelled inflated to 1 light year. so we could be seing light from some other planet as it was 1 second ago, but the planet is now 1 light year away.

  17. Re:the more we advance in science on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    actually, it was over-generalization that gassed millions of jews. dont know much about the russion side of history, though.

  18. Re:How come no one can make money with Flood Geolo on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 2, Funny

    How come no one can make money with Flood Geology?
    you can:

    1) build museum
    2) charge entry
    3) ...
    4) PROFIT!
  19. Re:the more we advance in science on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    no, most pain and suffering was caused by non-americans (Stalin, Hitler). no wait, most pain and suffering was caused by men (Stalin, Hitler). no wait, most pain and suffering was caused by humans (Stalin, Hitler).

    no wait, most pain and suffering was caused by over-generalization.

  20. Re:In 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    ahhh, but now cosmologists are claiming there was a period of inflation just after the big bang, when the universe expanded much faster than the speed of light (doesnt violation special relativity because nothing in the universe is moving faster than light, it's the universe itself that is moving).

    so, we can theoretically see things farther than the universe is old.

  21. -1, troll on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    he just said we should kill religious people. DURRR wonder how i should mod this.

  22. Re:Confused on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Discovery Channel has a special on noah's flood not too long ago. IIRC, their conclusion was that Noah probably did exist, he already had an ark (that he used to transport goods), and one day it rained and swept him out to sea, and he assumed the whole world was flooded. or something like that.

  23. Re:Confused on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    ahh i see. now what about the carbon dating, does the flood resolve that as well?

  24. Re:In 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    hey, i'm athiest as well, but what does creationism have to do with the speed of light?

  25. Re:Just wasting their money... on Microsoft and LG Electronics Sign Linux Covenant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    does that mean that MS is telling LG what patents they claim they own in linux?