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Comment Re:Who exactly is fighting back? (Score 5, Insightful) 641

It's climate change, idiot.

I think it's even more specific than that. It's about human influenced climate change. Climate Change is a fact. The climate on this planet is constantly changing and has been changing naturally for as long as we have any way of measuring. The causes may be something as simple a cyclical changes in the energy output of the sun, volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, or a multitude of other natural phenomenons. There's not much we can do to change the normal cycle of climate change. The question is what impact we are having on the climate with the stuff we are pumping in to the atmosphere and what, if anything, we should be doing about it.

Comment Re:-1 Troll (Score 4, Insightful) 641

Because everyone is a programmer, right?

If you aren't a programmer and still care that much, you could always PAY a programmer to do the work for you. At least you have the choice. If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you.

The Internet

Submission + - Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: "Believe it or not, it wasn't iternet.com or dot.com that was purchased when the Internet was "born." Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm, has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first purchased back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day."

Comment Re:Because its a useles skill (Score 1) 921

You don't even need to know how to spell your own name in order to come up with a "Signature". Looking at mine you MIGHT be able to figure out my first initial and the first letter of my last name, but the rest is gibberish. Nobody cares what the signature actually says, as long as it matches whatever sample they happen to be looking at (e.g. back of credit card, drivers license, etc.)

Comment Re:26 years (Score 1) 921

If I'm trying to explain something while sitting on a terrace, I'm probably talking to the person I'm trying to explain the something to. The only use a pen and paper is going to be is drawing little diagrams to try and make the verbal explanation a little clearer. If I need to write something down to remember for later, I'll just jot it down on the smart phone that I "lug" everywhere with me anyway.

Besides, the prerequisite to explanations on terraces is usually copious amounts of alcohol. Drunk writing is usually as illegible as drunk texting.

Comment Re:As usual with new Firefox releases... (Score 2, Informative) 436

The opera menu item at the top is much better than the "Open All in Tabs" at the bottom of the bookmark folder? Personally, I don't really see a difference, but I guess there could be an issue with someone not having the attention span to read all the way to the bottom of the menu. Middle clicking on the folder is just an interface shortcut.

Comment Re:You've bought the rhetoric. (Score 1) 440

In MD at least, the ticket does go to the car owner, and not the driver. The red light camera ticket I saw had only a picture of the rear of the car, and you could in no way identify the driver.

In BC the registered owner can nominate the driver if they were not driving. However, if you do that, the driver ends up with the same fine and penalty points on their driving record. If you loaned your car out to someone and you later get a ticket in the mail because they ran a red light, get them to reimburse you for the fine. It seems to work reasonably well for car rental companies.

Comment Re:Subscription services and auto-renewal are new? (Score 1) 194

I have a number of magazine subscriptions. One of them automatically renews but they will give a full refund for any remaining unmailed issues if I cancel the subscription. Would the "security" firms give a refund if someone cancelled before the automatically renewed subscription time had elapsed?

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