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Comment Re:Exactly (Score 1) 1172

Uhmm... Olbermann has compared the Democratic Party to Homer Simpson. He is hardly a water-carrier for the party. Not to mention the time that Obama made the "Worst Person in the World" list.

I have found that his vitriol is reserved for those who are callously indifferent to human life and liberty, and for hypocrites -- regardless of which end of the political spectrum (which, IMO, is basically useless) they occupy. Obviously his show has a point of view, but having watched him for a few years now I believe him to be remarkably fair-minded. I just wish he would lay off the lame impersonations.

Comment Re:Exactly (Score 2, Insightful) 1172

I am a "far left" liberal", whatever that means, and I watch Olbermann everyday. He is not a far-left liberal, there are none to be found in the mainstream media. Not even Rachel Maddow is in that category.

Here is how I know: no one in the MSM stood up and said that single-payer should have been the starting point for HCR negotiations, no one in the MSM calls for an end to Prohibition (the War on some Drugs). The only thing I can think of which might qualify is the fact that KO often calls for investigations into government lawbreaking, which reads to me more as a profound respect for the Rule of Law than any personal political beliefs.

Biotech

Scientists Build a Smarter Rat 302

destinyland writes "Scientists have engineered a more intelligent rat, with three times the memory length of today's smartest rats. Reseachers bred transgenic over-expression of the NR2B gene, which increased communication between the rat's memory synapses. Activating a crucial brain receptor for just a fraction of a second longer produces a dramatic effect on memory, as proven by the rat's longer memories of the path through a maze."

Comment Re:Nothing to see, move along (Score 2, Interesting) 166

DD-WRT is sweet, I've been using it for a couple of years now. The best feature for me is WDS (a distributed wireless network, I use it to wirelessly bridge my house and recording studio about 75m away). Unfortunately, I found a barely-documented bug which prevents WDS from operating with WPA2-PSK/AES encryption. It tends to lose the connection and not regain it until you stand on one foot and unplug both routers while whistling "God Save the Queen". Apparently the answer is to use TKIP, so now I'm using WPA2-PSK/TKIP. I'm thinking I'll move to RADIUS eventually, once I buy a Snow Leopard Server license ;)

Comment Re:Vodka (Score 1) 770

Make no mistake, you all bought the same thing as the mac users going from 10.5 to 10.6. It's not a whole new OS - it's the same old OS shipping with a new skin, and few new minor updates.

Really? So it adds 64-bit support (yay >8gb RAM!) and a completely rewritten file manager? It seems like we Mac users got a whole lot more for our $30 than you poor windows users did for 4x the cost.

Apple

Submission + - Recall: MacBook Pro w/ NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (apple.com) 3

An anonymous reader writes: Little known support article reported by Apple on May 29, 2009 states, "In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected. If the NVIDIA graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within three years of the original date of purchase, a repair will be done free of charge, even if your MacBook Pro is out of warranty."

Products Affected
MacBook Pro, models with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors

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