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Comment Re:Do you use the start menu often? (Score 1) 570

you can quickly build shortcut buttons for the desktop to do reboot and shutdown (google is your friend) then you can add them to the start screen as well by browsing to the shortcut and selecting pin to start (or something close to that).

Should this be in a standard install, of course, but it is easy to fix.

Comment continuity be damned (Score 1) 735

Who ever does continuity and science consistency checks for Abrams should be banned from all future creative work. I think he should be voted most likely to reboot the script and not reshoot what is already in the can.

I can see it now: people dying after getting sucked into the vacuum of space but others without spacesuits saving them by doing mouth to mouth while waiting for the airlock to cycle.

Comment Re:Randomized passwords are the best (Score 5, Insightful) 193

I don't have a different phone number for every person I call. People I call do not make up rules like my phone number must be at least x characters long, must have a special character in it, can not have a special character in it, must not begin with an upper case letter, must begin with a character, must begin with an emoticon ;-)
and I don't know what other crap they are about to come up with...

Comment Re:About time but is it enough (Score 1) 53

Kaiser is now much harder to work with.

They will not request medical records to be transferred from your old doctor. As far as I can tell, you must request them directly from your old doctor on paper (this generally means paying for copying costs at a jacked up per page rate) then the fun really begins.

You can't just take the copies of the records to Kaiser and ask them to put them in the system, you have to take them to the doctor (in that department) with an appointment and have the doctor designate what is important to be entered into your local records. Multiple conditions has meant multiple doctors get the information.

It is usually easier just to let them order new tests/x-rays

The attitude you are left with it that they do not trust other doctors.

Comment Make sure your age is not obvious (Score 1) 232

If you are looking for work and your resume shows anything over 15 ago (or even sometimes 10 years ago) most HR departments will blackball it. If it is your current job they might look at it but otherwise flush. I have even been told by a well known contract firm that they don't look at anything related to the current position they are trying to fill if it is over 1 1/2 years ago,

Comment I wonder how much the water in the air factors in (Score 3, Interesting) 133

Having lived in very dry places. (It frequently gets below 5% humidity in the summer outdoors) I know that with low humidity you can dry out fairly quickly. In Phoenix you are allowed to carry water into most sporting events because you need to replace the water that evaporates and everyone does it in the summer.

When you are in someplace that is humid, you do not dry out as quickly because the water is being replaced by water in the air (yet I know there are other factors),

It would be interesting to strictly control the isotope content in diet/drink for a month but in two different regions and then do a comparison.

Comment Why do they think it will stay up so long? (Score 1, Insightful) 282

Any course correction fuel will quickly (relatively) be used up. Geosynchronous satellites have course correction systems to keep them in the proper orbits.

Yes air resistance is minor at that distance from earth but they have not solved the three body problem. Tidal forces from the moon will eventually disturb the orbits and that will be the end of it. If this was not the case, we would have tiny natural moons around the earth.

Now if they put the disk in one of the L points they might have a chance.

PS: from an orbital mechanics point of view, geosynchronous orbits are not special. They just happen to take the same amount of time as a rotation of the earth. When the length of the day changes over the time frame mentioned, the orbits will no longer be geosynchronous. A billion years is long enough for the moon to change the rotation speed of the earth.

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