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  1. Re:Man... on Nintendo Seeks To Trademarks "It's On Like Donkey Kong" · · Score: 1

    you should get a grant and test your hypothesis.

  2. Re:Get rich quick scheme on Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide · · Score: 1

    I am fairly sure that infinity > astronomical.

  3. Re:Arthur C. Clarke reference on Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide · · Score: 1

    Probably still not available for digital download.

  4. Re:Okay, submitter and editors need a brain check. on Spoiler-Free Iron Man 2 Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so if you go to see a movie you cover your eyes and go lalala till opening credits roll?

  5. Re:Okay, submitter and editors need a brain check. on Spoiler-Free Iron Man 2 Review · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only things in tfa that could be considered spoilers is the same data that one would get from the trailers.

  6. Re:Just like on In Brazil, Google Fined For Content of Anonymous Posting · · Score: 1

    is that an exclusive or? googled prison crowding for you

  7. Re:3.6.2 released on Germany Warns Against Using Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny

    looking at your list, there was one advisory in 2009, one in 2008, and then one in 2006. I think what is happening here is lynx is just introdusing a minor security flaw about once a year just so they can hang out with all the cool kids. They are just trying to be "edgy" and "hip".

  8. Re:Serves the noobs right on IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild · · Score: 1

    Or even better, out of canon.

  9. Re:Serves the noobs right on IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild · · Score: 1

    Remember that managers are there to solve YOUR problems, in theory anyways. They help keep your plate clean so you can focus on task. Present the risks, and let them own this issue and whatever the outcome is you did the right thing.

    Wow, my manager tried to feed me something like that once. He was in a war with one of the other managers over who got to control which minions.

  10. Re:eh? on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I almost never feel the need to add yet more salt to anything I get at restaurants, especially fast food places.

    When I am eating fast food I am glad for the extra salt, because of its anti microbial properties.

  11. Re:eh? on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    To me, legislating food beyond "dis shit be lethal, don't sell it" is rather stupid, and people should be allowed to make their own decisions.

    In sufficiently large doses, anything's lethal.

    Yeh.. he referring to things that you can not detect easily, with your own senses like arsenic and lead. Maybe you should look at the meaning and not the words.

  12. Re:Go go Nanny State... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    by ircmaxell (1117387) writes: Alter Relationship on Thursday March 11, @02:55PM
    Well, the last time I checked, salt is a vital element to our survival (It regulates water content, not enough and we'd all die of dehydration regardless of how much water we drank). So by removing it from public sources, are they thereby impacting at least some people's ability to get salt (IE those that do not eat much at home) and hence endangering them? Sure, excessive salt can be dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as not enough... This sounds to me like a "That sounds bad, we should do something about it!" snap decision... Sigh...

    That,,,

  13. Re:Go go Nanny State... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    wtf?

  14. Re:It's a freakin' PHONE on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    So people that use the iphone never want to say use last.fm or ustream and aim or some game at the same time? Just from a user prospective I would like to be able to use more then one app, that is not part of the default install.

  15. Re:Streaming music player + other app on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well if multi tasking is implemented as a series of call backs so that any process that is waiting on data is not consuming clock cycles then there should be no more drain when "multitasking" then when running one application. I have never written anything in objective C but with most of my embedded c programming I am able to put any processes that is not doing anything to sleep, so it does not consume extra power.

    As far as I can tell using the backgrounder on my jail broken iphone when not actively working most programs still consume cycles. So almost all of this could be fixed if the wait() call is not properly implemented in the lib.

  16. Re:Never Fear!!!! on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 1

    Oh the reminds me I need to stop by the market later, and pick up some Nightshade. You know nothing else tastes as good in salads. And it is all natural!!

  17. Re:Cool on Robot Can Read Human Body Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you read the summary? It can understand body language. This robot is obviously female.

    How does this negate the parent?

  18. Re:who is cenzic? on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 1

    Pfft, 18 is way to many try a real browser
    advisory lynx

  19. Re:Cue the linux trolls. on Apple's Mini DisplayPort Officially Adopted By VESA · · Score: 1

    Hurr durr, I am linux troll. I was written by Linus Trollwards.

    I'm sorry, but before you go any further - are you a GPLv2 troll, or a GPLv3 troll?

    I assume that he is a GPLv2 troll, since Linus does not like GPLv3.

  20. Re:How does it compare to Ubuntu? on Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out · · Score: 1

    I actually like Gentoo's emerge as a package management system better then Debian's apt. They both have dependency resolution, however, if you decide that at some later date you wish to remove something Gentoo is clearly the winner. There is no way to remove unused dependencies in apt, Gentoo has emerge -P.

      I use Ubuntu in any environment where I need it to be very stable and I use Gentoo where I want a smaller footprint and more speed.

  21. Re:Abandonware in 3....2....1.... or not on Skype For Linux To Be Open-Sourced "In the Nearest Future" · · Score: 1

    I would actually be perfectly happy with a situation like this. This was as far as I can understand the original purpose of the gpl before people started going crazy and getting greedy. People wanted to be able to fix software that was created and then abandoned. With the source being closed the only way to fix a closed chunk of software would be to totally recreate the software using best guess as to what it was doing and how.

    If a manufacture no longer wishes to support something, this is the best solution imo. OSS can never truly become abandoned, if I find some software that I like and it is no longer supported.

    I am free:
    --take the software
    --update the libraries
    --fix any bugs
    --share (maybe start a project so other people can make fixes)
    --???
    --profit.

    That is what the gpl meant to me before people got greedy, before people started to worship, before it became a religion...

  22. Re:News Flash: on The Gathering Storm Discussion · · Score: 1

    New WoT book released; nobody notices for 3 days.

    The reason that no one noticed was, because fanatics of the series where not expecting even the announcement that there is another book incoming for another 2-3 years.

  23. Re:I'll ask it again on Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone · · Score: 1

    Why do people that cut throats keep getting lumped with these low life patent trolls?