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  1. Re:No Really Definite Confirmation of This Yet on Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise" · · Score: 1

    The non-ECMA parts of Mono are still very useful for companies migrating existing Windows legacy apps to Linux ...

    Do people really do this? If I'm migrating .net apps to Linux, I would target Java or other known Linux platform, rather than Mono with unknown status in terms of .net framework compatibility. Sorting out the discrepancy would be worse headache than refactoring the code for a new platform, unless your tactic is throw-it-out-there-and-see-what-happens.

    This notion that Mono provides .net migration path to Linux is not even half-cooked.

  2. Shake-n-bake on Successful Test of Superconducting Plasma Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    Now that's a proper name: shake-n-bake.

    Dude 1: What's this?
    Dude 2: VX-200.
    Dude 1: Ok, what actually is it?
    Dude 2: Superconducting plasma rocket engine.
    Dude 1: Yeah, fuck you, too.

  3. Re:"Guilty conscience" on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 1

    God damn monkey fanbois.

  4. "Guilty conscience" on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, like they gonna sell millions of these. Keep your commie green cool aid to yourself, eh, monkey boy?!

  5. News and open standard on Why Amazon's Kindle Should Use Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Newspaper content would be great for open (no DRM) format. If download/subscription cost is nominal, who would copy last week's news to save a buck? Neat for public transit commuters.

    But this is too obvious. They must have thought of it.

  6. Re:Interesting find... on Unicellular "Enigma" Changes From Predator To Plant and Back · · Score: 1

    I should have written:

    "Common ancestry may be independent of [a particular] similar trait, is his point."

  7. Re:Interesting find... on Unicellular "Enigma" Changes From Predator To Plant and Back · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Common ancestry may be independent of similar traits, is his point.

    The problem, a common one, is that when a finding is reported, notions commonly understood among practitioners are omitted for brevity, and it can mislead when crossing over to non-practitioners of the fields and others less literate in science. Even worse is sometimes even the practitioners forget the proviso of the implicit notions.

    Repeated mention of "correlation is not causation" may be annoying, but do serve a useful purpose, I think.

  8. Re:Why is this important to non-Italians on Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy · · Score: 1

    Hey, is there like separate tourist price and local price there? That is one expensive place.

  9. Re:Art without copyright on Copyright Should Encourage Derivative Works · · Score: 1

    Then consider the case of Michael Jackson. His moon walk elicited countless imitation by hordes of pimply teenagers, inflicting irreparable mental and emotional damages to all exposed to the hordes' douchebaggery.

    Yes, there is a lesson to be had from this.

  10. Hold your horses on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    Calm down, and let us enumerate its qualities in regard to novelty and usefulness.

    Go ahead, you clowns first.

  11. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There you go again, the legal industry in their bizarro universe. Calling something from "erotic" to "obscene" makes all the difference. "Legal logic" makes "Creation science" look bad.

  12. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    Sorry about your damaged brain. Shit happens, eh. ;-)

  13. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    Aspirin seems to mess up people's stomach lining much more than acetaminophen/ibuprofen.

  14. Quick remedy on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Might as well just keel over and die.

    Sorry. ;-)

  15. Re:Do we really need GPS to track mileage ? on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    Can any politicos here shed some light onto who the clowns are on this federal commission?

  16. WTF? on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 2, Funny

    What sorta chicken shit operation is Yahoo turning into?

  17. Re:Ridiculous paranoia on Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle · · Score: 1

    But cows are people, too. Or people are cows? I know some people that are definitely cows.

  18. Re:A "teetering industry"? on Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle · · Score: 1

    Make sure to use a receptacle - blowing horn is considered a bad form.

  19. Re:Moral fiber my ass on China Delays "Green Dam" Internet Filter · · Score: 1

    Like I was saying, you wanna sell in China, and CCP has not mandated it, then you don't have to. Is what I am sayin'.

  20. Moral fiber my ass on China Delays "Green Dam" Internet Filter · · Score: 1

    You want to sell computers in China and CCP tells you need to put that on, you put that on.

  21. Re:BMI is worthless on Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    I cycle 10 miles a day to and from work. Hit the gym 3-5 days a week for resistance training. I weight 215 pounds and have a 6-pack.

    Big deal. I have 3 cases in the fridge right now.

  22. Re:How does this change userland? on New Firefox Standard Aims to Combat Cross-Site Scripting · · Score: 1

    I second "yay!" for Noscript. You have no idea how tangled commercial websites are until you use noscript.

  23. Ha! on Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life · · Score: 0, Troll

    You may live a little longer, fat ass, but you'd still be a fat ass.

  24. Re:HERE'S AN IDEA on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    There is a key for that - Fn-backspace.

  25. Re:HERE'S AN IDEA on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dear Lenovo:

    Put together a netbook, and make absolutely, positively sure to put the track point on it. I'll buy two.