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  1. Re:Well duhhhh.... on IBM Leapfrogs Intel With 22nm Chips · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Prior art.

  2. Hmmm.. on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 1

    No wonder we haven't ratified the Kyoto protocol yet! We're biting the bullet for China..
    Well, I wouldn't say biting the bullet, they're still bad enough as it is...

    And don't respond with all the technical bullshit. Learn to sense a joke!

  3. Re:elect obama on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    There are actually 60 members of the OIC (57 Members and 3 observers). IF you look at it another way, he said in that exact speech that he was denied to visit Hawaii and Alaska by his party, which means at that point he would have campaigned in 47 US States, with 1 more to go. Nice try, but the mere slip-up from 47-57 is much more likely than representing a portion of a Organization of the Islamic Conference.

  4. Re:elect obama on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    I believe you meant to say /. Obviously someone isn't checking the logo on their address bar. Surprising after 3 hours of reading!

  5. What the hell? on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    This guy sounds like a crook himself! Oh, we shouldn't do anything about it! You guys shouldn't fall for it! This is the typical sort of response you'd expect from the criminals after being caught. Throw this guy in jail, please!

  6. Re:Question on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah,I've tried wine with a bunch of stuff, and I've gotta say that I'm really, really not keen on using it to run games. especially on my desktop with sli and such. Enough games have bugs in windows, let alone under an emulator. I'd hate to have to get support. Granted, I play very few games, but I'd hate to see opengl go, and I don't think it's going anywhere. It's just too used already, and very practical for lots of stuff. Besides, despite a few game programmers dropping it, what about all the open source programmers that use it for linux and/or windows tasks?

  7. Re:So 0+0=1! on Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    5: Informative? Man, apparently these communication inconsistencies apply to the mod system too.. Go ahead, vote me offtopic. Let's see what it turns up as.

  8. Re:uh on LGP To Introduce Game Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    I'm 100% with you there, buddy! Bioshock was the only game that I haven't pirated before buying since I was about 14 10 years ago, and it was the first game I've ever called a support line on, and one where I had problems with incompatibilities with my system. Not only could I not play the game, but the game was non-returnable after my purchase. I feel screwed.

  9. Re:Metered debit cards? on LGP To Introduce Game Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Wachovia.

  10. Re:Bad, bad title on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 1

    Right. The people who use it should read the code, so they know its intention. Do they use every service that says "click here to scan your pc now!"? Or, if you don't read it, take it as it works :)

  11. Re:When did this change? on White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records · · Score: 1

    If that's accurate, I find that a great clarification of how this pans out

  12. Re:Here is a picture of the stupid cunt on White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records · · Score: 1

    In somewhat vulgar terms, the above post perhaps represents some of my innermost, unexpressed feelings. I'm sorry, Troll.

  13. Re:They mean isotope, right? on Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite · · Score: 1

    Haha! Now we can claim prior art on their secret recipes!

  14. Re:What does that mean? on Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite · · Score: 1

    What you have is a lot of cooincidental material, not "evidence" . Plus you just made a pretty hefty assumption in your last comment. Assumptions are what make people skeptical in the first place. In trying to prove evidence for extra terrestrials, I'd stay away from that :)

  15. Supper Bug? on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    How dare you suggest this possibility.. No bug is getting my dinner!

  16. Re:First! on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And this was meant to be a parent thread.. not a respond to the first post :)

  17. Re:First! on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who didn't RTFA, the new evolution which they claim occurred was the ability to metabolize citrate, a substance in the culture medium that e. coli were previously known to be unable to metabolize, and this occurred in one of twelve populations that were spawned from a single parent bacterium. I think it's pretty interesting :)

  18. Re:Hyperbole on Virgin Media To Spy On & Threaten Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Yeah, lots of those people who you read about today still lived in poverty back then, or were declared heretics / enemies of some entity. Most people who try to make a difference aren't liked much at first when they go about it :)

  19. So What? on RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints · · Score: 1

    Shit, they finally have better enforcement! The way TFO makes it out to seem is that WE'RE manipulating the law to make it work for us, which may or may not be true, but I believe that the cause for which it is initiated is good. This better enforcement is being used to help bring down a tyrant that has monopoly'd music artists for a looong time. Granted, my argument here scarily mirrors the argument for going to Iraq, which I strongly oppose :) Therefore, I can at least consider myself human, for better or worse.

    I definitely think the RIAA has hit a brick wall lately, which is good, because this will force the two sides in this argument to both evolve into something more beneficial for everybody.

  20. Letter from Ballmer to Yang on Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer · · Score: 1

    Below is the text of the letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang. May 3, 2008

    Mr. Jerry Yang
    CEO and Chief Yahoo
    Yahoo! Inc.
    701 First Avenue
    Sunnyvale, CA 94089
    Dear Jerry:

    I'm going to fucking kill google!

    [attachment: executive.chair]

  21. Re:astala-vista on EULAs For Malware · · Score: 1

    that was astalavista.box.sk, I believe...

  22. Take this! on Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I first read that as "Maces gaining bigger role in the enterprise". How much better would that have been? I'll leave the remaining humorous remarks to the pirates...

  23. Re:What the hell? on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but notice the bottom line. They're only giving SCO 5 million. The other 95 million is available to SCO as a loan, but not actually given. I thought the blurb was a little misleading.

  24. Re:Voting is a serious activity on ACLU of Ohio Sues To Block Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. it's probably about 4 decades. Didn't the CIA kill Guevara about '67? Revolution's dead, man. where have you been? :D

  25. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    I think by 100% he just meant that people could control it's interaction with what they're doing 100%, either have it take over, or you take over basically. I didn't see it as people suddenly expanding their minds to crazy levels, just controlling the cerebellum.