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  1. Re:So how do true Scotsmen occupy their downtime? on NVIDIA Releases Optimus Linux Driver With New Features · · Score: 1

    Be a safer driver.

  2. Re:So how do true Scotsmen occupy their downtime? on NVIDIA Releases Optimus Linux Driver With New Features · · Score: 1

    ...more hand-eye coordination, communication, abstract problem-solving and team-work skills in 2 hours of play than you've gained in your entire life.

  3. Great plan there smart guys! on British Library To Archive One Billion UK Websites · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And then what after that? Print it all out on paper and mail it back to the people in weekly editions for a small subscription fee?

  4. Re:I think it's booty on One In Six Amazon S3 Storage Buckets Are Ripe For Data-Plundering · · Score: 1

    Oh they search engines have been attacked legally too but they usually:

    1) are corporations so they can't be sent to jail
    2) have resources to defend themselves in court or settle out of court

  5. Re:never understood the appeal on DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Judge not, lest ye be judged.

  6. Re:I... don't understand this at all. on South Korea Backtracks On China As Source of Cyberattack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, you are right, whoever did this was not qualified to be setting up networks for their own personal use, much less production banking servers. Seems like the type of novice-level engineering mistake pretty typical of the hiring practices of the US IT industry lately, actually.

    Why pay me 150$/hour when there is some teenager who will feel lucky to get the gig for 10$? This is why.

  7. Re:most salt is not real salt anyway on Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know, when you are asking for a Citation like a smart-ass, maybe you should first make sure there isn't one to be found by searching the very site you're posting on.

  8. Re:most salt is not real salt anyway on Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases · · Score: 1

    So has the bleach... that wasn't exactly my point though. I'd be more worried about safe consumption quantities, how clean the machinery is and the exact natures and volumes of whatever other "harmless" or "beneficial" chemicals are used in the production process.

    Keep in mind that, for example, up until recently they supposedly didn't know the lubricant they use on the machines that make aluminum soda cans can be conclusively, causally linked to obesity in lab rats...

  9. Re:most salt is not real salt anyway on Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases · · Score: 2

    He's saying that natural salt doesn't have Bleach, Iodine, and non-binding agents.

  10. Urgent message from Aaron Swartz's ghost: on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    ... bitch.

  11. I call bullshit. on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    Whoever thinks Card's stories aren't heavily saturated with his moral and religious views just didn't notice because they happened to agree with all the views in the one or two of his books they actually read. If you actually read some of his earlier work you may actually realize he's got pretty standard traditional Mormon beliefs. That he's opposed to gay marriage shouldn't suprise anyone actually paying attention.

    Don't get me wrong, Card is one of my favorite authors and I even really liked The Worthing Saga and would recommend that everyone read it. But I caveat that with a warning; unless you are also a Mormon traditionalist like he is, you may, like, me, also find yourself afterwards often sitting alone in a room arguing with an imaginary Orson Scott Card in your head.

  12. Re:big deal on Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian · · Score: 2

    How about your search history?

  13. Re:big deal on Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, actually they do. Debian, Mozilla and Apache are the ones run by shadowy not-for-profit legal foundations (aka "charities"), but Canonical, on the other hand is a a for-profit corporation is actually selling your demographic info to advertisers just like Facebook and Apple.

  14. Re:Size might not matter... on Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size? · · Score: 1

    You are either oversized, or wear very oversized clothing - often a regionally or subculturally-specific style. The vast majority of people can NOT fit a 7" electronic device into their pants pocket and then still sit down without damaging the device or the pocket or both.

  15. THIS JUST IN: LINUX DEAD, NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT! on Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing · · Score: 0, Troll

    I like the part about how it took of all atrocities, Steam, to convince people that Linux is a viable gaming platform.

  16. Re:Problem? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if you don't also count Comedy Central as a news network.

  17. Re:Why? on DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article answers this question; he was buried under a church which was destroyed around a century later and the knowledge of the location was lost to time. They knew he had to be buried somewhere in town but no longer knew where.

  18. My body has evolved. on Mutations Helped Humans Survive Siberian Winters · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can do the same thing with Rockstar and CHEETOS.

  19. Re:My prediction: cancelled by next month on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    I think you may want to check yourself. What part of "but ethanol sucks by comparison" was ever relevant to the push for ethanol?

  20. My prediction: cancelled by next month on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    Corn-ethanol lobbyists will never stand for this.

  21. Only maybe?? Understatement of the century. on How the Cool Stuff At CES Will Ruin Your Life · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just attending CES will change your brain for the worse.

  22. Re:"Elegant jails" on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Actually I think I lined it out very clearly with my first two points. Anything else you failed to glean from the simple non-equality statements I listed represent fatuousness or willful ignorance.

  23. Re:"Elegant jails" on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Awwww... sounds like someone paid a lot of money for their iPad and didn't expect someone not to kiss their ass for buying one. :( Sad face!

  24. Re:"Elegant jails" on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    No, I addressed your conceptual mistakes surrounding the definitions of "flourish," "money" and "FOSS" all of which make it fairly apparent YOU didn't actually read the article, or at least didn't understand it.

    #3 was entirely editorial, obviously it wasn't meant to be part of my argument.... your reading comprehension could use some work. I recommend stop power-skimming for actionable buzzwords you can spew your ill-informed vitriol about and actually start trying to figure out what the arguments you want to disagree with MEAN. Maybe if the rest of us are lucky you'll figure out what your OWN argument actually means in the process.

  25. Re:Oh boy. on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    WOW you don't get what the GPL is really for, do you? The day RMS has to compromise with Microsoft to "keep GNU alive and kicking" is the day you will notice that GNU and RMS have both been dead for decades and you are playing out a sad little self-contained fantasy entirely in your own head.