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  1. Seen it on Google Labs list on Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven · · Score: 1

    That's about it ...

    And I do remember the name "drinkypoo" .... in fact other than the "twitter" troll-user, yours perhaps the only real username I remember.

  2. Calling for bets on Syria Drops Off the Internet As Turmoil Spikes · · Score: 1

    20 bucks says Syrian protesters will attempt a Tahrir Square.

    10 more bucks says some concessions will have to be made.

    Unsure about revolution.

  3. Market Expansion / Industry Threat on Google Rolling Out Live Streaming For YouTube · · Score: 1

    I don't know why it hasn't been mentioned, but this will allow Google to threaten the broadcast news industry.

    Why watch news on TV at *all* if you're busy watching livecast after livecast on YouTube?

  4. Consistent Enforcement on Can Android Without Dalvik Avoid Oracle's Wrath? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are what seems to be a countless army of people and companies using Java, and I have never heard of anyone being sued for "Java IP anything". Something smells fishy.

  5. Watch Your Back, Chavez on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    >Besides, when dictatorial, murdering thugs like Hugo Chavez are the primary people taking your side, that ought to be a not-so-subtle hint that you're not quite on the right side.

    They won't be singing Assange's praises when he leaks something about them ....

  6. Tangibility is Irrelevant on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 4, Funny

    "He compared the data contained within an address book that would be searchable."

    In the future, so too would be human thoughts. Human heads are simply containers for memories stored in synaptic format.

  7. Conservation of Mind. on The Perils of Pop Philosophy · · Score: 1

    In the end, a hive mind is only one mind.

  8. What? on Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales · · Score: 1

    >But seriously, people like to justify property by making it some natural right.

    But seriously, people like to justify life itself by making it some natural right. Obviously, if someone could better use the oxygen you breathe, by all means, we should take it from you and give it to him.

    Property is survival. A human depends on secure access to calories, and the land we grow wheat upon is now our mechanism of survival. The transition to ordered society based around agriculture is permanent.

    > we don't give animals property rights to their habitats

    What? And so what are we citizens to our government? Animals lucky to be allowed to live? Government is a human social construct designed to govern humans, nothing more nothing less. Perhaps you're arguing we treat them like second-class citizens? Slaves even? Weird, considering "protected" endangered species may as well have "equal" rights to us humans.

    So much for a government of, for, and by the people.

    If property is theft, theft from whom? Your town? Your country?

    How can one steal what isn't owned?

    Oh, and it's Proudhon, not Marx.

  9. Uninstall Reinstall? on Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer · · Score: 0

    How permanent, exactly?

  10. Turnabout.... on Google Joins EU Antitrust Case Against Microsoft · · Score: 1, Insightful

    is fair play in the corporate world. Be wise, Google.

  11. Easy to find on LimeWire's Mark Gorton Brings Open-Source To Urban Planning · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there's lots of them.

    Skyscraperpage is awesome, but their interest is obviously a bit narrowed lol.

  12. Layoffs on IE Market Share Drops Below 70% · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So....heard that Microsoft might be laying off 15% of its workforce?

    Well.....this might compound that.

  13. Only One on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Karl Rove. Come on, give the guy some credit.

    The guy ran oppo for the Republican party. They guy know who to talk to, and how to get information. He has is own databases of personal information on people - check his website and his own polling data.

    He is fully capable of doing his own leg work with his own resources.

    If *I* know what I would need to do to get the info needed to manipulate only one guy, Karl Rove better know, or the Republican party is overpaying him!

  14. Assumptions. on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One man having an accident, or several, perhaps dozens of people conspiring to fake said accident?

    False dichotomy.

    What is it with people and the assumption that sabotage requires an elaborate chess game complete with blueprints, secret agents, wiretapping, and van full of CIA listening equipment?

    It takes one man with a fucking match to burn down a house.

    It takes only one mechanic with a desperate need to pay his family's medical bills to snip an important wire.

  15. Occam's Razor on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When a mouse in a house full of cats dies, the simpler explanation isn't that he suddenly lost the will to live.

    The Razor is for simplicity. Your need to reaffirm your faith in the humanity of those in power is irrelevant.

  16. Power Law? on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 0

    FYI: Power laws means square of the distance

    60W at 2m > ? at 5m.

    Well, 5/2 = 2.5 distance ratio.....so

    60*2.5*2.5 = 375

    So 375W at 5m is what the article should *really* be comparing the new system to. A two-fold increase isn't as exciting at a ten-fold, though, is it?

  17. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 2, Informative

    karenware.com:

    "Welcome to Karen Kenworthy's web site."

    http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/schools/staff.phtml?teacher=1600:

    "Karen Ciesla"

  18. Whoa. on IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux Virtual Desktop · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Guys. That was twitter. And it *wasn't* a troll post. Please mod accordingly.

  19. Moderators can suck one on Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' · · Score: 1

    Whoever modded that flamebait needs their karma reduced to zero and never given moderation points again.

    /takes stand, doesn't click "AC".

  20. Re:[Citation Needed] on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Silver Lining on Next-Gen Mars Rover Mission Delayed 2 Years, To 2011 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looking back, one thing that scientists wish they had is the imaging technology of the 90's...or even now.....back when they first launched Voyager in the 70's. Heck, computers too.

    Now I'm NOT playing the "what if" game, but it helps keep our chins up when things look down.

    They now have 2 years to make it better, faster, more efficient, etc.

    Except cheaper. Too late lol.

  22. Tipping Point on Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 · · Score: 0

    In the coming flood of OS conversion, shove as much Linux or BSD down their throat as you can. This is an opening that the Open Source community cannot afford to miss.

  23. Users or Malware Study? on Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're assuming its just the Malware's eyes they're after. Perhaps a study of the spread of Malware through Google would tell us something about their culture? Their will of course be somewhat disconnected clouds of competing bot swarms. Perhaps studying the shape of these clouds and how they choose to connect might help us combat their effectiveness?

  24. They Just want money on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 0

    Thanks to Mr Satellite, China cannot stop the world from mapping the Sino nation. It can, however, demand a lot of money and make the world think it can.

  25. Re:Brilliant on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well..... If you walk into a major grocery store and look for carnation, you'll often find they have a faint scent almost like the roses next to them. Decades and decades ago, carnations - those flowers you bought in highschool when too cheap for roses - were known to have a *powerful* clove-like fragrance. In fact, they were planted around monasteries in France *because* of that fragrance. Turns out, the scented oil that gives off the smell we recognize accelerates the deterioration of cut flowers. Especially those shipped from South America. So.....florists bred the fragrance out. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fragrant/msg0617175920581.html