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  1. Re:My first question would be... on Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework · · Score: 1

    [...] you can just as easily write .cs files in Notepad.exe and [...]

    You can just as easily punch your nuts repeatedly, and I assure you'd feel much better than using notepad.exe.

  2. Re:Again the police give the best advice on Cops Mistakenly Donate 25 Pounds of Pot to Prison · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot to say your friend's name: Rin Tin Tin.

  3. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the word more suited for his beliefs would be agnostic, but I consider myself an atheist too, and practically share all his beliefs. Btw, I studied about several religions, just out of curiosity.

    The thing is most people wonder the beauty of nature, and proclaim that only god could have created it. I wonder the beauty of nature and the complex mathematical dynamics that evolved it. But I would certainly never call math a god.

  4. Re:Beats UK prices on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 4, Funny

    The unlimited that is limited, the free you have to pay. And Orwell and I laughing in the newspeak sense.

  5. Re:What kind of idiotic title is that anyway? on EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The story is tagged badtitle when in fact it should be wrongtitle, or even better toostupidtomakeagoodtitle.

  6. Re:REMEMBER! on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    I upgraded a machine from 8.04 to 9.04 and everything went smoothly. But YMMV.

  7. Re:Criminal vs Civil on Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BHWTETA!

  8. Re:Holy shit on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not necessarily, they could skip a step entirely, just like WinXP was followed by Win 7.

  9. Re:Qubit does not double power in traditional sens on A "Photon Machine Gun" For Quantum Computers · · Score: 1

    $ q_dec ~/unencryptableMessage.txt
    0011100
    0100010
    1000001
    1000001
    1000001
    0100010
    0011100

  10. Re:yeah, but... on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: 1

    Actually, if it was a Linux OS, there would also be some folks bashing it. It's the "group mentality" that makes people so much partial.

    To the point: my Aspire One booted Linspire in 15 seconds, and now boots Ubuntu Netbook Remix in 25 seconds, so I can't see the revolution they're talking about.

  11. Re:biotech rocks on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Indeed. It'll be cool when we'll be able to receive some butterfly genes, and see ultraviolet.

  12. Re: 'We're talking about code that is 12 to 15 yea on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    Don't underestimate the power of incompetence.

  13. Re:Full screen youtube? on OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Include Java, Full-Screen Video · · Score: 1

    Ooops, my bad! Thank you for the correction. Mods, please mod me "-1, Misinformative"

  14. Re:Full screen youtube? on OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Include Java, Full-Screen Video · · Score: 0

    Actually, it's 1900x1200 pixels, that sure is bigger (memory-wise) than my Desktop's resolution. And yes, it has the XVideo extension since the first beta versions, so the stretching part is hardware accelerated. I doubt the decoding part would be implemented in hardware, so my guess (I didn't RTFA) it's just a better processor.

  15. Re:You down with DPP? on DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property · · Score: 1

    Actually, I do! And also I release my projects under the GPL, as a way to payback the community. The most used one seems to be a little tool called dnatagger, google it.

    Now, may I know what you do?

  16. Re:dear IEEE on DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property · · Score: 1

    I'm included in Everybody, but let me explicitly sign in
    -- dmbasso

  17. Re:You down with DPP? on DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property · · Score: 1

    Bring it on, I say. It's funny to watch the corporate idiots wasting their time and money on nonsense, rather than adapting to the world we live in today.

    Remember, if you buy their products, it's your money being spent. I use GNU/Linux exclusively since 2001, so that's a non-issue to me.

  18. Re:It takes less bits on How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder if it is just me, but every time I read it as "Slow Leopard".

  19. Re:Robots on Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant · · Score: 1

    The problem is not that it got religious, as it kept doing its job. The problem (better fitted to this context) would be if it developed tentacles and... well, you got the picture.

  20. Re:I want one! on Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator · · Score: 5, Funny

    sudo apt-get install oz-flight-simulator

  21. Re:Godel's Incompleteness Theorem? on World's First Formally-Proven OS Kernel · · Score: 1

    Godel found that, within a system of axioms, there are questions you can't answer using only those axioms. The specification of an OS, although extensive, is not composed of "hard" questions. You don't need to prove P=NP for an OS to work.

  22. Re:Quality of simulation on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    To accurately reproduce the function of a human brain, you must reproduce most of the linkages, stimuli, output, feedback, etc

    FTFY. And the simulation needs to be only sufficiently good, not perfect.

    Don't worry, there are lots of people working on it, and they (we) are aware of it.

  23. Re:Antitrust avoidance on Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat To Windows · · Score: 1

    For me, 2001 was the year of Linux on my desktop (exclusively). What others say about 'the year' is really irrelevant, isn't it?

  24. Re:If the government did research that proved on Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion · · Score: -1, Troll

    Alan Cocks will be responsible for the pistons.

    So the question is: will it run in Linus?

  25. Re:It can never be human like... on Games That Design Themselves · · Score: 1

    Wow, that was a nice reasoning! ~50 years of research "failed", therefore it is useless to keep going on -- we'll never achieve human intelligence!

    Perhaps you're right, human intelligence is too difficult for us to achieve. But I guess that in ten years AI will reach your level of intelligence.

    And pretty soon after that, AI will be as intelligent as a hamster!