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  1. Re:The problem with English on One Man's Quest To Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake · · Score: 1

    ...is grammatically correct in that it puts the punctuation...

    Stop.

    Punctuation is not grammar. Grammar is not punctuation.

    If I could only teach the internet one thing, it would be the difference between grammar, punctuation, spelling, and semantics; along with the massive difference between language and orthography.

  2. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    IMO they should just have Quentin Tarantino do Star Wars. We could finally have the glorious final showdown involving JarJar that everybody has been waiting for since he first showed his annoying face in episode 1.

    http://www.dustinresch.com/pulpphantom/phantom1.html

  3. Reddit live thread on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Reddit live news thread: http://www.reddit.com/live/u5b...

    Honestly, compared to most news sources these days, it's probably the best one to read.

  4. Reddit live thread on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reddit live news thread: http://www.reddit.com/live/u5b...

    Honestly, compared to most news sources these days, it's probably the best one to read.

  5. Re:Zero-Day Flaw? on Lizard Squad Targets Tor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (I know, I'm a dick).

    Yes, yes you are.

    This is why we can't have nice things.

  6. Re:NetworkManager on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 1

    In that case, what's minor letter?

  7. Re:Or better yet on Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Beware of the leopard."

  8. Eating the Dog Food on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 0

    Submitter's source links to news.dice.com

    Uh huh, this is how it's going to work now, is it?

  9. Re:https://thepiratebay.cr on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again · · Score: 1

    Ah, wait, http://thepiratebay.cr/ is just a proxy/mirror. That now makes sense why it hasn't been updated.

    At time of posting this, "The" Pirate Bay still hasn't officially come back online. Source.

  10. Re:https://thepiratebay.cr on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again · · Score: 1

    Remove the "s" --> http://thepiratebay.cr/ . The interesting thing about this one is the chat box in lower left corner. Worth lucking for a while in there to see if any interesting info pops up.

    However, it looks like none of the content has been updated since yesterday. Maybe the upstream "pool" is still AWOL, as well.

    There's also http://thepiratebay.ee/ , but I'm not sure about the (more/less) authenticity of that one. It also hasn't been updated in a about 24 hours.

  11. Re:How is this specific to Selfie Sticks? on South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales · · Score: 1

    Or is it that Selfie Sticks are just so wildly popular that suddenly this has become some sort of problem?

    Yes.

  12. Re:Only win32? on Amnesty International Releases Tool To Combat Government Spyware · · Score: 1

    Runs in WINE for me. ("wine-1.7.31") Not an issue.

    Naturally, it didn't find any spyware. :)

  13. Re:Dagnabbit! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    And, I can count to 21 if I take all my clothes off!

  14. Re:It was Bob in accounting. on First Victims of the Stuxnet Worm Revealed · · Score: 2

    "Birdman, did ya get dat thing I sent ya??"

  15. Insightful Point on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 2

    "If everyone always wants to look different than everybody else, [then] everybody starts looking the same."

    Whoa. Probably the most insightful thing I've read all year. Worthy of putting on a T-shirt and wearing around (like a hipster).

    (It's turtles all the way down...)

  16. Re:Land of the Free on Berlin's Digital Exiles: Where Tech Activists Go To Escape the NSA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, there's your problem right there.

    The iPad doesn't have keys!

  17. Re:How about... on New Facebook Update Lets You Choose News Feed Content · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. So, in other words... on Birds Found Using Human Musical Scales For the First Time · · Score: 1

    ...that underlie many Western and non-Western musical scales...

    So, in other words... that underlie all musical scales??

  19. News With a Bullet on Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin At Tsinghua University In Beijing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow. [White] Anglo guy come to China and speaks Mandarin ("Holly Shit! Look, THE DOG'S DOING CALCULUS!!11"), but a Chinese tech CEO (Jack Ma? Charles Chao? Robin Li? pick one) coming to The USA and speaking English in a meeting... well, obviously that's not news-report worthy. Hell, everyone important in the world speaks English without question, right? And, if not - what's their excuse??

    Holly crap Anglo world, get over yourselves, will you? Of course Mark Zuckerburg speaks Chinese... in China. What would we expect him to speak, French?? Notice how everybody focusing on how he spoke, rather than what he said.

  20. "Okpo" not "Opko". on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 4, Informative

    Both this and the original source at Wired have the name of the Korean place wrong, it's "Okpo", not "Opko".

    Signed, your local friendly Korean geography nazi.

  21. Big Caveat: not a drop-in replacement forTrueCrypt on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note that VeraCrypt can't open existing TrueCrypt container files, nor can it create new container files that are backward compatible with TrueCrypt. Instead it suggests you do a clumsy, "un-enecrypt, copy over, re-enecrypt" lock-in process in order to "upgrade". At least the others (truecrypt.ch, Ciphershed, Tcplay / Zulucrypt, et. al.) allow you to keep working with existing TC container files.

    Why this isn't in screaming bold text at the top of the VeraCrypt page (which is here, btw), is beyond me.

  22. The spec wars are over on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    This. The desktop PC CPU spec wars were over about 5+ years ago. With the benefit of hindsight, it seemed to hit this point with the release of the Intel Wolfdale Core2 Duo / AMD K10 Deneb cpus.

    After that, there seemed to be little new CPU technology that made desktop computers "seem faster" in great multiple leaps, except for hard-core gamers and other edge cases. However, having 2 or more gig (ideally 4+ gig) of ram seems to be important. For example, I got an Intel E8500 Core2 Duo (what's that... circa 2009?) and maxed it out to 8 gig of ram (motherboard/slot limit).... the thing hardly breaks out in a sweat in Windows 8.1. I don't think I could tell the difference between it and some new i7 thing if they were sitting next to each other doing the same (non-gaming) tasks.

    Naturally hard-core gamers want more CPU power, but a lot of the needed grunt comes from the newer and greatest GPUs. For those in an office and/or just internet surfing, anything beyond a RAM-maxed Wolfdale/Deneb is just overkill - reflected in Microsoft's almost static system requirements for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and beyond.

  23. Not sure, but... on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 1
  24. Huh on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 2

    Huh. So, they're more like humans than we first thought.

  25. Important part of the statement: on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    *most*