Recent content by McMullen

Oh it's even better; one of the first times I got a drive-by infection, UAC let it right in, and then tried to prevent me from removing the malware. It also didn't prevent Google Earth from getting silently installed on one of my machines due to a bug in Google Update. I'm no longer sure...

Given what was quoted, everyone's replies seemed reasonable. Your comment about not seeing nuances is rather... strange, since most of the replies were showing how what you said was not actually true. That's not missing nuance, that's pointing out to you that you missed key aspects of the...

I agree. There's been way too much of this kind of thing on the Internet for a while now. I mean, what's with all these link thingamajigs I've been seeing on the net? Everyone knows the only true way to use the Internet is to go to one page and view that page only. Links and referrals and...

You know, all I read was that, and I knew exactly what I'd see when I clicked the spoiler box, and I was right. I think that says, more than anything else, how much explanation it didn't need.

Mojang 'fixing' the enchantment system in Minecraft twice, but not removing the randomness from it. It would make sense in a game about crafting things to have consistent recipes for enchantments like any other game I've played that uses enchantments. However, Mojang seems happy to have us...

If you're talking about thimerosol (sp?), they stopped putting that in most vaccines more than ten years ago in response to scares about mercury. Such scares were unfounded, because mercury is a part of thimerosol in the same way that chlorine is a part of table salt. Of course, that didn't...

"Found to cause x in lab animals" is always a statement that worries me because of how irresponsibly journalists and bloggers use it. It can mean "We gave a rat a dose that is about the same size for the rat as it would be for a human in the kind of amounts we expect the human to be exposed...

I thought the findings from the SPE and the Milgram Experiment were that nearly everyone is that cruel when put in the right circumstances.

I don't find that incomprehensible at all. I'm not sure it's effective or wise, since there are many ways it could go wrong, but I have no trouble understanding it. Q tests humanity (or at least Picard and a few others) for weakness and places them in circumstances where they must either grow...

You know, even the Daily Mail doesn't often post articles with headlines claiming the exact opposite of what is shown in the article's images. They usually just settle for spinning the story. Almost every week we see articles on the Escapist that would violate the TOC if they were forum...

I'm enjoying Skyrim for what I wish it were, rather than what it is. Unfortunately it's made by people who have no interest in quality work (and it's not because it's a big game; there are highly visible (and irritating) bugs that the community has fixed by changing a single numerical value...

You say that like there haven't already been several posts not doing either of those things. Why? OT: Molecules and atoms do move, but that is due to their thermal energy, not any innate properties. Thermal energy is a) not that easy to harness, especially in small amounts, and b) can...

I like how in one sentence they say the market needs to be free while trying to shut down the freedom of the market's biggest asset.

Using Detect Life to level up repeatedly in Skyrim so you can make the Alteration skill legendary and transfer the perks to other skills. This works because the spell does more than just show you where people are, it establishes a connection between their soul and yours, and their knowledge...

Then what you learned had little to do with the content of this thread, because you weren't paying any attention to what people are actually saying here. You could save yourself a lot of time by just not reading anyone's posts at all. OT: She reminds me of the person sitting next to me on...