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They already get patented drugs that they're allowed to reap vast, vast profits on for 14 years. Do you think that sum of money somehow insufficient? Do you think that 14 years is not long enough for a real-live breakthrough drug to net billions of dollars in return? We certainly could put a...

Yes. That is exactly what I'd like to see. Saving people's lives - or even saving them from mild discomfort - isn't something that needs to be mixed with a profit motive. Think about how hilarious life would be if you had to wave $100 bills in the air to get someone to come put out your house fire.

I don't think that it's an issue of the average person not being smart enough. Most people know they don't need a pill for "restless leg syndrome." I think it's indicative of corporate culture and priorities, and of a need to change the rules under which drug companies are governed. Everyone who...

Onkyo/Integra parts have been very good for me over the years but I will offer some caveats. 1. One of the things that attracted me to its products was a longer warranty period. I had some Sony ES-class hardware that spent more time in the shop or being shipped than it did in my home theater...

Have we had a discussion on how to make a proper pot of chili? We should do that, because it is 1 degree F out today where I am and chili sounds good.

That's not anything close to the same thing.

Article on Regional Pizza styles. There continues to be no good pizza where I live. In fact, I have to say that I have been to three local restaurants that, in successive weeks, have held the title of "Worst Pizza I have ever had in my life." I'm not sure if it's a characteristic of the area...

Donny is a very pathetic person but you sucjk at photoshop. Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

A bittorrent search for 'kalyway' is handy if you'd like to give Leopard a try... So anyway, if you want a non-black thinkpad (why?), you can take matters in your own hands. Or try these guys who have more classically inspired options.

Can you post a Hijack This log?

I read comic books and science fiction and collect enough pornography that it qualifies as some kind of science project. :) And I build PCs and help people with computer problems on internet forums for my own amusement. That's pretty damned geeky. On the other hand, I've just described...

Nope. Server 2000 supports dfs (lowercase) just fine.

Run MMC. Add Snapin. Add Security Configuration and Analysis. Create a database (right click SCaA, Open Database) Select a baseline template. Choose "compatws.inf" Right Click. Configure Computer now. See if anything changes. What that does is changes all the Local Security Policies on your PC...

Uh, also, those problems aren't coming up in a spyware scan because, technically, they aren't spyware. They are a potentially normal configuration for a Windows PC. You need to be working with Killbox and Hijack This. It might do well for you to take a look at your \system32 folder for files...

More than likely, you've got either a set of registry hacks or a really hilarious group policy applied. A lot of crap from Freeze.com, for instance, installs a registry hack that removes the Display applet from control panel. If you have the basic workstation security template you might try...

NFS sometimes has issues with file locking when it's used in a distributed fashion, though those issues may have been specific to some implementations I've used. It certainly does work - and you don't need Solaris; Microsoft has been offering Services for UNIX as a free download for quite a...

dfs?

Windows Defender is positively the most useless security application in the history of EVAR. Anyway, if you look on the torrent sites, you will find that such tools do exist, usually as BartPE distributions... which can with only a little modification be made bootable on Thumb drives.

Geeks.com has an 8' x 6' Epazz brand drawing tablet for $35 today. I can't ever recall seeing a largish one that cheap.

Greg, upconverted DVDs are just DVDs with slightly fewer blocky artifacts on HD displays. Don't expect any miracles. In fact, don't particularly expect to notice any differences at all.

I'm playing with an interesting modification of Thunderbird right now, called Spicebird. It's available for Windows and Linux, and it's sort of a hybrid of the Tbird client I'm used to and Outlook. It has an integrated calendar, RSS/widgets and support for Jabber-based IM, which is handy if you...

jtr, do you have any idea how idiotic it is to tell people not to have sex?

It's entirely possible that the very large drives could be returning results that the tool would interpret as "out of bounds" on a smaller drive. At any rate, I've seen enough versions of diagnostic tools over the years to know that they need to be updated regularly because they either don't...

Sprint's customer service is nightmarish. That I will give you; when they ported my phone number, they didn't port my voice mail. That took about 16 calls and about six hours to correct, including a lot of calls would start with a 20 minute wait on hold followed by "I'll transfer you." and then...

I think this was mentioned in the other thread about the large Samsung drives, but it's entirely likely that Samsung just hasn't gotten around to updating its tools to support the new drives.

I thought this one was more generally horrifying.

"You really have to wonder where his beard or mustache is though." Not being able to grow a beard is a professional impediment if you are wanting to be a programmer.

The Julia Roberts one is good for a few nightmares.

It should show things like previous video cards or system chipsets. I find it's most useful to "show hidden devices" on machines that have either had a repair install or were installed from a prepared image.

There can be no food more awesome than this.

For what it's worth, American drug companies spend about $30,000,000,000 a year on R&D, and about $90,000,000,000 on marketing... if that tells you anything about their priorities.

If you unplugged the drive with a floppy or cassette from its data interface, it'd keep doing whatever you told it, until its read/write buffers were empty. Which, it turned out, could take a while.

Yeah, but you could pull the external floppy off a Commodore 64 and it would continue its I/O operations. How cool is THAT?

I think we're probably better off letting recession happen than trying to forestall the inevitable. We - the citizens of the US as well as our law- and policymakers have been collectively moronic about money. We spend what we don't have. We exaggerate to keep the good times going and we really...

Well, if you have Windows Server you can implement SUS and at least decide what updates you want.

No. Wrong. Again. We elect people who represent us and who - if they take their dicks out of lobbyists' mouths long enough - can change the rules to suit the will of the people. A government that does not serve its citizens is not going to be in power very long. A corporation that does not...

As I recall, one of your former complaints was that you were having to regularly download the updates and that it generally took too long. Apparently a Real Internet Connection has fixed that problem nicely.

Thank you for that brilliant analysis. How do you then explain functional social welfare programs in places like Sweden or France?

Absolutely. Corporations are amoral beings that have all the rights of an actual human being in our legal system yet serve no other purpose to enrich the tiny number of people who own enough shares to see meaningful profit in corporate activities. Corporations can act outside the best interests...

No. Wrong. Completely. We practice medicine for profit. Medicine. The necessary practice of preventing or curing physical and mental ailments. A necessity for human well-being. In terms of its social role, availability of heath care occupies roughly the same place as having functional law...

One of the things that's been pissing me off lately is the way my local grocery stores are packaging meat. Traditionally, I got meat shrinkwrapped on a small styrofoam plate. I was OK with that. Styrofoam lasts a trillion years in a landfill, but on the other hand, it's light and most...

So I just watched the teaser trailer for the new Star Trek movie. I'm not a trekkie, but it looks pretty cool. To me, though, the coolest thing about it was the little soundbites from John Kennedy and Neil Armstrong, from back in the days when we knew all about our spacemen. We've had some...

Sob. One of the things I really wish I could have is integrated Sprint EVDO. Dell has it but Lenovo doesn't. :( I hafta plug my phone into a USB cable like a chump. Also, does anyone say "lappy" out loud, where other people can hear you? How do you deal with the pointing and laughing?

Most of the stuff that I buy is essentially either media (CDs, Comic books, books) that I'll probably never get rid of. When I shop for groceries I buy things in minimal or at least justifiable packaging. I bring my own bags when I shop, thick plastic ones I got at Costco. I know from...

I suspect they've been working on it for a while, so I doubt it's a clone. Lenovo generally doesn't have much of that sexy industrial design, but a lot of executive-types like to look for something distinct and different from what their peons have, and I suspect that's the main market for the...

I know the feeling. I have a set of Kef reference speakers and I put an amplifier and real speakers everyplace I might possibly listen to music, but a decent pair of computer speakers is an amazing step up from the crappy ones that are built into laptops and LCD monitors, or the $10 Cyber...

Setting up a complex boot loading system.

Better computer speakers already have SPDIF and/or TOSLINK inputs. Buy a $200 pair of Logitechs and you'll be all set. :)

That is entirely too much work when two instances of the same Windows will happily share a drive.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Proper laptops say Thinkpad on them.