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  1. Re:In this litigious society... on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 2, Funny

    He wasn't specific to who won. Someone always wins, and someone always loses. It never ends with "they hugged, made up, and went home." :)

    Well it does occasionally end like that. Especially when it's a mother suing her daughter on Judge Judy.

  2. Re:So this is like .. a gzip & mimencode conte on International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries · · Score: 1

    I think they want you to develop a competing algorithm. Reading the rules, it's "arbitrary binary data" they want to send. Interestingly, a zipped file is one form of "arbitrary binary data", so maybe they'll use that as a test case. If so, your algorithm better be 100% lossless.

  3. Re:Wow on Dell To Leave China For India · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not true. Few of the chips are made in China. Circuit boards are likely to be made in Taiwan.

    You may not realize this, but Taiwan is part of China.

  4. Re:Cancer? on Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is that in Kelvin?

  5. Re:From the institute of Duh? on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Cheaper substitutes almost always unhealthy? At least you said 'almost' or I'd be posting a dozen counterexamples.

    That's arguably the single most misinformed and inane statement I have ever read in my entire existence. I said arguably though, so you know, I might be wrong and stuff.

  6. Re:National Drivers License on US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card · · Score: 1

    I wonder what's more distracting, texting while driving or counting the number of people who are texting while driving (;

    Contemplating relative distraction levels is fairly distracting. I started to explain that to the adjuster, but then I got a phone call and I'm not sure what he said after that.

  7. Re:Biased much? on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems only 1 exemption is required to reject a request. Is it possible that the Bush administration didn't bother with enumerating all the exemptions, whereas the Obama administration is more thorough? Just a thought.

  8. Re:$1.4 Billion on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 4, Funny

    Name one other country with a statue considered to be a national symbol that says "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free."

    If we don't mean it, we shouldn't have that written on the Statue of Liberty. Just sayin'.

    The French knew what would happen. Those bastards set us up!

  9. Re:When will people learn on One Year Later, Zer01 Web Site Disappears · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most people are bad at math and logical reasoning. The sooner you accept that, the sooner the world will suddenly make sense.

  10. Re:Bah on Dr. NakaMats Is the World's Most Prolific Inventor · · Score: 1

    Having a sheer amount of parents simply means that he's a frequent flier at the the parent office.

    This is definitely true. Most people stop at 1 or 2, and some unfortunate people don't have any at all. To be fair though, the office is often in a bad part of town.

  11. Re:That's called an "contextual ad engine". on Recommendation Algorithm Wants To Show You Something New · · Score: 1

    I really think someone should add up all the hours required to experience every movie/game released in a year and compare it to the the average persons free time

    Now there's a useless metric. Stuff is produced to satisfy the spectrum of interests. And the "average person" (who does not exist) would consume some small percentage of everything.

  12. Re:Does anyone know if this leads to a soft-hack on Hardware TPM Hacked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given that the first step in the hack is removing the chip and dissolving its outer casing in acid, I'm guessing this isn't likely to admit a purely software exploit.

    In other words, RTFA.

    What the GP was asking is that now that this has been broken once, does the data obtained from said break-in provide enough information to devise a software solution?

    For instance, if the data obtained indicated that passwords always resolve to a relatively small subset of hashes, then brute force attacks would have a much faster time of it. But hey, way to play the RTFA card without understanding the question.

  13. Re:Bad summary on Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot · · Score: 1

    The suspect has nothing to loose

    Except a few bullets.

  14. Re:How cute on "Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    When measuring distance in light years, the shortest path will always between two points(1)

    Isn't the shortest distance always "between two points", regardless of the units of measurement?

    In actuality, all distances (shortest, longest, and everything else) are between two points. That's kind of the definition of distance.

  15. Re:Impact at 5 mph on Super Strong Metal Foam Discovered · · Score: 1

    In other words, calling insurance companies,

    Yes

    calling the police to file a traffic report,

    Not usually

    possible layer involvement?

    Anything is possible. Though I'm not sure why a layer would care (unless I hit his brick truck).

  16. Re:Not too surprising on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or mandate the use of a chauffeur. That would create some much needed jobs as well.

    At the very least make it illegal to pump your own gas. New Jersey and Oregon are very progressive on that front.

  17. Re:As an ATT customer in manhattan.... on AT&T Admits New York City iPhone Service Sucks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So when is ATT going to give me my money back for diminished service?

    As soon as it makes business sense for them to do so.

  18. Re:It's all the wrong system anyway on Why "Verified By Visa" System Is Insecure · · Score: 1

    Good system, but you greatly overestimated the intelligence of the average consumer.

  19. Re:Who's getting screwed? on BSkyB Wins £709m Lawsuit Against HP-EDS · · Score: 1

    ...no doubt management will try and screw them further to pay for this debacle."

    Yeah. Printer ink will now start costing $7,000 a gallon instead of the paltry $6,400 it does now.

    I'm not really sure how raising the price of printer ink is going to screw the striking HP workers.

  20. Re:Use of commas. on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    That's a 15 karma penalty. 1st down.

    A defensive penalty?! You've, got to be, joking.

  21. Re:Time for a backup? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you posted anonymously, sir.

  22. Re:What!?!? on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately he couldn't handle UML diagrams as there there are no tools available to 'read out' what are effectively pictures.

    The real shame is the only companies that use UML (or at least pretend to) are those that got duped into spending $25000+ on a UML "solution". UML is the biggest waste of time since homemade butter.

  23. Re:Big Government apologists chime in... on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  24. Harrison Bergeron on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me, or are stories like this one becoming all too common? It seems we are becoming a society of "if everyone can't have it, then nobody can!" Unless of course they are individually wealthy, in which case they will simply BUY the damn thing.

    So, sighted (and poor) students are deprived because blind students can't have the same advantages. Suppose a device was invented that allowed only blind people to receive information. Do you think there would be an outcry from the sighted world that it wasn't "fair" and so should be kept out of their hands?

  25. Re:Level based or skill based? on Star Trek Online Open Beta Starts Today · · Score: 1

    "You must be level 20 to use this phaser".

    Well that makes sense. Starter phasers only have stun and kill, but you have to be moderately experienced to be able to properly wield additional level 20 phaser settings: intimidate, humiliate and irradiate.