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  1. People trust money more than they trust science on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    It's not about being smart or dumb, conservative or liberal. Far too many people they think having money is a far better immunity than vaccinations, and not just in Silicon Valley. Around the country the most affluent areas are the ones with the worst rates.

  2. Re:Slashvertisements at their best... on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 4, Informative

    At Blizzcon this year they revealed that 46% of players with a 3 star master rating (Highest at the time) had spend $0 on the game.

  3. Re:So much for the importance of "market share" on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 1

    That leaves two possibilities for now:

    1. Sell Android devices also to other species (rodents for example)
    2. Search for alien lifeforms to sell the devices to

    Or sell one very expensive Android phone to one very rich person every possible alternate dimension, Although I'm not sure how that ended up working out for the Vogons.

  4. Good luck on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    I visited a place like that a couple of times. It was called Rapture. It didn't work out so well.

  5. IGDA's take on Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev · · Score: 1

    Back in April the International Game Developers Association released an advisory to members detailing how onerous the terms and conditions of this app store are. http://igdaboard.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/important-advisory-about-amazon%E2%80%99s-appstore-distribution-terms-2/ .

  6. All the carriers suck on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everybody's service sucks. I hear Verizon customers bitch all day long then someone mentions iPhone and all off a sudden they love Verizon and AT&T is the devil. I have had many carriers and they all suck. I tolerate AT&T's suck because the iPhone is better than any other phone I have tried.

  7. Re:Adding to the Speculation on Mark Twain To Reveal All After 100 Year Wait · · Score: 1

    Actually he was more critical of organized religion than he was of God. He was always critical of Man's abuse of power and organized religions hold power over people. Originally he set out to write a book proving that Joan of Arc was crazy and Christians were crazy for revering her. Later in life he devoted 12 years to researching her life, and eventually spent 2 years writing a very reverent portrait of her under the pen name translated from French "Her Faithful Servant". http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Recollections-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486424596/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274737370&sr=8-1 He would later state, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best."

  8. Re:Tethering lawsuit? on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was removed from the North American App store. In North America the Iphone is exclusive to ATT. ATT does not allow tethering. You will not be able to use the Apple tethering app in North America.

  9. Already under NDA? on Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's face it the moment you were hired you were presented with the same/similar document outlining what you could and could not say about the company. This is just a friendly pop-up to remind all the kiddies just out of college that Facebook is not exempt from the NDA they didn't read.

  10. Re:Can anyone else see the wires? on Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ISS Picture · · Score: 1

    If you run it through the image processing software they use on 24, you can actually make out the license plate number too.

    As 24 taught us, all you gotta do to enhance/scan/hack thru any computer problem is open another socket.

  11. Flaming Printer on When Servers Explode · · Score: 2, Informative

    Never had a server explode on me but I did get a call once 10 years ago when I was working tech support at a University from a scared professor about a his printer smoking. I told him to unplug it and laughed thinking it was the usual type of user hysterics. I smell a little bit of burnt plastic thinking maybe there was some plastic left from when the printer was packed up by the manufacturer. I plug it in and right as it starts up its print head check flames start shooting up out of the back of the printer. I quickly extinguished it but looking around we really dodged a bullet. This printer was networked, and sitting on top of a large stack of student papers. The entire room was some college professor cliche with dozens of massive stacks of paper in this tiny 6x6 office. One unattended network print and the entire office goes up in flames in less than a minute.

  12. Re:Vote with a bullet. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1

    I can't mod you up any more so I'll join in with you. I can't stand all those people who say there should be more of this or that profession in Congress instead of Lawyers. I am glad I'm not the only one who might feel that the people writing our laws should be those actually have a Doctorate in the LAW!!!!

  13. Re:World of Guitar Heroes ? on Activision/Vivendi Merger Looms, Fallout Continues · · Score: 3, Funny
  14. Re:Kucinich? on Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats · · Score: 1

    I have supported Kucinich for years now but seriously his campaign consisted of a truckload of spam in my e-mail box, and whining and complaining about not getting in the debates. He was excluded from the Iowa debate because he did not have 1 staffer in 1 office in the entire state holding the first presidential contest in the country. If can't handle that hurdle he is not a serious candidate.

  15. Re:Great Review on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    Think of the Finder in each iteration of 10.X like a tech Demo. It shows off all the features buried underneath like the new Core Animation suite, or FSEvents. In a way its like a first party game by ID. Its just a tech demo so they can sell the engine to dozens of other houses. The Finder looks all shiny and new attracting new users, while the old ones can download an app 24 hours later to revert it to their old preference.

  16. Re:Portman on Geek Stars From Atkinson to Zappa · · Score: 1

    Apparently on the set of Chronicles of Riddick he ran a regular campaign with the cast and crew and even managed to get Dame Judy Dench into playing in it.

  17. Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that Windows ME was more like Windows 0.01

  18. not worth unlocking. on iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice · · Score: 1

    I think it is great the phone has been unlocked. I wish all phones were sold like that. But if I were to buy a iphone today there is no chance I would unlock it because I would lose carrier specific features, specifically Visual (Asynchronous) voice mail.

  19. Scaremongering I tells ya! on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All dem commy pinko leftists wanna do is hurt the American farmer and its just a damn shame. /sarcasm

    Corn is the one of the most powerful forces in America. This will get filed away with global warming as libral propaganda.

  20. Doomed to failure on Bill to Bring A La Carte, Indecency Regs to Cable · · Score: 1

    More pompous grandstanding for the electorate. Instead of doing real work once again congress campaigns from The Hill. It will be a cold day in hell before Disney lets you subscribe to ESPN without paying for Disney Channel, Toon Disney, ABC family, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN Spanish. If the cable companys can't stand up to Disney there is no way congress or the American people can. Not that congress wants to fight them, they are owned by the Media corps anyways.

  21. Oh god no on Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    5 years from now you will walk down the isle in a grocery store and every box will be animating and screaming buy me like the cereal box in Minority Report.

  22. Don't forget the tv ad on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 4, Informative
  23. Take a vaction and test drive a new job on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 1

    Check out http://vocationvacations.com/. Take a week off and test drive a new carrer.

  24. A new box on Dungeons & Dragons and IT · · Score: 1

    This guy is pretty dead on. I laugh at when I hear the phrase "Think outside the box". Any hack can do that, but in the end all you get is garbage because they were preoccupied with the box and how to avoid it. A true innovator comes up with a whole new box to think inside of. Here http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/ mr66 is another excelent artical along the same lines by Marc Rosewater of Wizards of the Coast.

  25. Money Laundering on World's First Virtual Banking Licenses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its only a matter of time till outfits start attempting to launder money thru virutual economies.