I heard Charlie Sheen was doing coke in the back room whereas Linus, the party boy, had brought his own stash of Jolt.

Yes, they do give those out anymore.

Quoted from: http://www.vaccineinformation.org/polio/qandavax.asp

Who should get this vaccine?
All infants should get this vaccine unless they have a medical reason not to.

>The vaccine is certain to be more dangerous than the disease

Really? I wonder why they still use it then?

How safe is this vaccine?
The IPV vaccine is very safe; no serious adverse reactions to IPV have been documented.

Completely agree. I'd mod you up if I had points.

Who in the world would dual boot a machine just to use a web-browsing-specific OS?

I can tell from the book title it's something to do with websites, but it hardly helps to "spread the word" when you don't even mention in TFS what Drupal is or does?

A strongly worded opinion. Well written, with references and links. It's not even a controversial topic, From what I see this is rather a majority opinion on slashdot.

Who the hell modded this flamebait?

I don't think it matters just who wrote it,
As for the 'why'.. for the same reason L Ron Hubbard wrote about the thetans. The same reason Joseph Smith wrote his own little book.

Here in Japan the majority of phones on sale have had the ability to 'video call' over 3G using a front camera for several years. My wife's crappy old sharp which is ready to be thrown in the bin included.

My current iPhone was a step back in that regard, and it'll be pretty amusing once Softbank starts selling the iPhone alongside phones which can video-call over 3G and has to tell customers that the iPhone is 'wifi only' for some goddamned reason.

Cos, y'know... what's the point in buying one if you've already got one?

"Light of other days", is all I can find. I think that's Clarke, though.

Anyway I remember it, I liked that story. A bit sad at the end, though, when the guy flips his glass over so he can look into his own house and see his late wife as she was 10 years ago.

For 99% of people the universe of what apple lets you install is easily enough. With the added benefit of every app having been screened for malware.

It's easy to find an app that does what you want, in one place, relatively cheaply, and relatively well on the iPhone platform (I'm extending that to the iPad.. I don't own one of those yet). On the Windows platform you have to fish around for a whole bunch of apps just to get to the pre-installed functionality. And that is a bit of a slog, the road paved with malware and complete crap you have to search through from a multitude of different sources. Much of which is old versions that don't work on whatever version you happen to have.

On the Apple platform, if you really want to hack, they always make it relatively easy to jailbreak. I doubt this is an accident.

FTFS: If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about Mozart?

The fact that you are not asking

"If Mozart could write an Emily Howell (the machine) sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what is so special about Emily Howell?"

answers your question.

Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. and by 'steal' I mean add creativity on top to the point where you are the one people want to emulate. That this machine can emulate prolific composers is great, but not a massive surprise to me. I'd be a lot more surprised if it could write something like -- but more importantly *as original as* -- Mozart's Requiem, or the score for Star Wars.

Exactly! This is bullshit.

This is a signal to criminals that they should target big spenders to get the big bucks.

I've lost a significant amount of money to a "man in the middle" attack involving regular signed cards.

My cards were raped to the max, with forged signatures, and returned to my person so I didn't find out about the charges until months later.

Credit card co's response? "You signed. Even if you *claim* those are not your signatures, you admit you were at the establishment, you were drinking (I was) and you let the cards out of your sight, you're negligent.. cough up."

I'm talking AMEX gold, here, for several tens of thousands of dollars. I know very many people to whom the same thing has happened.

Their publicity over 'liability' is bunk. If you can't *prove* a crime was committed, they don't have to pay.

Be VERY careful with your credit cards. It could happen to you.

it was certainly horizontal gymnastics that led to my kid's genetic code being built.