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  1. Re:Hyped to the Nth degree on Time Magazine Person of the Year — It's You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is the magazine that refused to name Adolf Hitler "Person of the Century" in 1999, and that refused to name Osama Bin Laden as "Person of the Year" in 2001. It's marketing, nothing more.

  2. Re:Another right bites the dust on White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing · · Score: 1

    And what country are you from that is so free and enlightened?

    New Zealand. You were saying?

  3. Re:The site has bad design... on FSF Launches "BadVista" Campaign · · Score: 1

    be happy that the people who are organizing the campaign can still work at the level of natural-language codes, and don't depend on visual development tools to organize their campaign by point-and-click methodology

    I'm sorry, but WHAT THE FUCK?

  4. Re:THIS IS FAKE, HE MADE THIS UP! PLEASE READ. on Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? · · Score: 1
    As you call for the witch-hunt to end, did you take a look at the WORDS of the blog entry you quote?


    Over the coming weeks I am going to be attempting my very first viral campaign.


    Sheesh.
  5. Re:"Unskilled"? on Unrefined "Musician" Gains a Global Audience · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. That's a pretty standard Baroque chord progression, and anyone familiar with Bach will spot the harmonic minor touches immediately. The guy may not be able to play the piano, but he certainly knows music.

  6. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Unrefined "Musician" Gains a Global Audience · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He is unskilled musician.

    I have always relied on the definition of music as it was taught to me by my first college music professor: "Music is sounds and silence organised in time".

    As far as I'm concerned this guy is very skilled at organising sounds and silence in time. Ergo, he's a skilled musician. He's just not a skilled instrumentalist.

  7. Re:Oh, the price difference is worse! on iTunes Sales 'Collapsing' · · Score: 1

    I belong to Sony/BMG record club and right now they're selling new CD's for $6.77 delivered.

    Yeah, but... it's SONY.

    I've had an embargo on all things Sony since the rootkit. That was the final straw. No albums, no audio/visual equipment, no computer gear, no toys. Fuckem.

  8. Re:12 seconds on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    On my decrepit Palm V, it's about 1 second from button-push to GUI.

  9. Re:Very old news, but typical Microsoft on Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    Yep, Windows is the new Classic.

    After a week, you'll figure out a way not to need it.


    Until the day Google releases Picasa for OS X, I'm going to need it.

  10. Re:Good on Stem Cell Bill Passes in Australia · · Score: 1

    This stem cell debate being pushed by those "pro-choice" people who are looking for benefits to abortion. It serves their agenda to dehumanize unborn children.

    Do you have any idea how many human embryos get flushed down the toilet at a fertility clinic EVERY DAY? Enough to make abortions statistically insignificant.

  11. Re:where's the news? on FBI Taps Cell Phone Microphones in Mafia Case · · Score: 1

    Given the state of the mobile-phone industry in the USA--i.e., five years behind the rest of the world--my money would be on Estonia having the better hardware.

  12. Re:Helping Hacker Culture Grow on Vista Hackers Get Busy · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Irony of venue on Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that it's =possible= to "fight terrorism".

    Oh bollocks, just look at how successful the US has been at fighting drugs.

  14. Re:So, why is that? on iPod Has Nothing To Fear From Slow-Starting Zune · · Score: 1

    Sony has their ATRAC and Apple has their AAC.

    Huh? AAC is just MPEG-4. It's an open standard. (as in speech)

  15. Re:Suggestion: Until Death of Creator on UK Copyright Extension Not Happening · · Score: 1

    *skim-reads post*

    What's that you say? You think someone should kill Sir Cliff?

  16. Re:Do very little evil? on Gaia Project Agrees To Google Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    More to the point, is it anything to do with "Your Rights Online"? WTF?

  17. Re:Apparently on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1

    It is amazing to me how nothing has changed in Russia since the cold war

    Cold War? Russia has been like that since we were living in caves.

  18. Re:Mexican scientists must be humble on Giant Mexican Telescope Launched · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reality that an underdeveloped country like Mexico is placing such a high importance on scientific research while the the United States of Jesusland lobotomizes itself really burns, doesn't it? A Third World country is trying to work out how the Universe works while the USA is teaching its children that everything was created by an invisible superhero who lives in the sky.

    But don't let me interrupt you. Please continue making jokes about Taco Bell.

  19. Re:I just wanna know... on Tolkien Enterprises To Film Hobbit With Jackson? · · Score: 1

    Hey, let's not forget "Meet The Feebles".

  20. Re:This religion is just out of favor on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Many of the biblical stories refer to actual historical events.

    So list some.

    (crickets chirp)

  21. Re:Why? on Want To Know About the New Apple MacBook Pro? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you on crack? OS X is the best UNIX I've ever used.

  22. Re:Real reason he is being arrested: on FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home · · Score: 1

    The agencies mentioned and the laws specified are nothing but fluff. Everything you need to know about the charges and punishment he's facing is contained with the first word.

    He is being charged with conspiracy, with everything that entails. He's not being charged with whistleblowing, or fraud, or being a public nuisance. He is being charged with conspiracy. In other words, chances are he's fucked. Seriously fucked.

  23. Re:Celebration! on 30 Years of Public Key Cryptography · · Score: 1

    The magic address is Squeamish Ossifrage.

  24. Re:For his sake on FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home · · Score: 5, Funny

    the second he goes missing the entire internet will raise a royal hell storm

    Oh no, not a hell storm of nerds posting anonymous comments on Internet messageboards! Anything but that!

  25. Re:Too bad it has to be this way on FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The fact that you think Soghoian should have HIDDEN HIS IDENTITY FROM THE GOVERNMENT in order to identify a flaw in official security processes says a lot about your government.