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  1. Re:Great idea! on Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am interested in your necromancy approach to dying industries, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
    But only if it's free.

  2. I like to live dangerously.

  3. Re:Wait a sec... on Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation · · Score: 1

    In the Tsardom of Russia, you have a succession of Czars.
    In contemporary America ... Er same

  4. Re:I've got built-in phishing protection. on Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1? · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Nigerian company, in a Joint venture with a Russian company, actually sells an anti-stupid product.
    It really works, and it's available to buy TODAY!

    http://shop1337.youscam.ru/darwin/get_smart_stupid

  5. Full screen youtube? on OLPC 1.5 Hardware Upgrades Include Java, Full-Screen Video · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Must not be using adobe's linux flash player then. Not even my 2ghz machine can do full screen without the jitters.

  6. Re:Actually... on Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nothing. I fell into an experimental cryogenics pod and was frozen for 1000 years, and had to wait for time travel to be developed, so that I could travel back in time and tell Matt Groening my life story, so he could make it into a popular cartoon series thus preventing a spacial anomaly that would have destroyed the alpha quadrant.

  7. Re:the true "what the fuck" on How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a solipsist I'd say everyone does it.

  8. Re:changing of the guard on Code-Breaking Quantum Algorithm On a Silicon Chip · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the kinda factors an idiot would have on his luggage.

  9. Re:A step in the right direction on Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems to me like the site is a work in progress and will improve with time

    Then where is the digging_man.gif? Where is are the road cones with flashing beacons, or the web 2.0 equivalent, the beta status?
    No. This must be assumed to be a finished website and judged "as is"

  10. Re:Open source governance on Collaborative Filtering and the Rise of Ensembles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "better" would require a fitness function; and everyone thinks that they vote "best".

    If it were possible to define such a perfect function, we wouldn't really need voting anyway. We could just get a computer to crunch all the parameters and spit out a utopia.

  11. Re:Hmm... on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you could probably replace gamer with "person" and still be accurate.
    At least in the developed world, where age distribution tends to bulge out at around 35-40. Waistlines bulge out at around the same time, just in time for a mid-life crisis.

  12. Re:URL Shortners Are Bad on URL Shortener tr.im To Go Community-Owned, Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Twitter can fuck off

    2. With a bit of sensible design, the sites can manage this functionality themselves.

    Redirect short to long. No need for the tinyurl hack.
    http://example.com/123
    http://example.com/123/arguably-really-long-urls-stuffed-with-keywords-are-good-for-seo

  13. Re:You wouldn't steal a car... on In the UK, a Plan To Criminalize Illegal Downloaders · · Score: 3, Funny

    You wouldn't steal a baby.
    You wouldn't kill a policeman, and steal his helmet.
    You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet.
    You wouldn't then send the helmet to the policeman's grieving widow.
    and THEN steal it again.

  14. Re:Reasons why China and Japan are so low. on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps they use coins at the commonest level of transactions. Who knows...

    No. 100 RMB is the highest denomination note, and it's too small relative to the price of things.
    You end up carrying large wads of 100s with you everywhere you go.

  15. Re:Antigua can just the WTO to give them even more on BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering · · Score: 1

    Why do people so often the verb when posting online?

  16. This on UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but the government would probably object.

    It got hog-tied in red tape.

  17. But... on Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can it be used to control a botnet?

  18. Re:The other solution on "Easy Work-Around" For Microsoft Word's Legal Woes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Word patent troll edition.

  19. Re:Layer DRM on top? on Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Googled openwashing and it only came up with 1,530 results, some of which where about open washing machines.

    Whether this concept has an official name or not, open has lost its meaning, and only specific formats, licences and specifications have the property of open-ness as people around here would have it.
    It's going to confuse the hell out of the public, now that consumers and companies have started to identify open-ness as a "DO WANT" attribute.

  20. Layer DRM on top? on Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is open-washing.

    Is there a word for that? Like the eco companies green-wash, Sony, Microsoft etal have all been open-washing all their stuff lately and it just isn't open by the non corporate double speak definition.

  21. Interesting on Facial Expressions Are "Not Global" · · Score: 4, Funny

    ^_^

  22. Full refund on Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Better have a full refund and buy from someone else.
    Case closed

  23. Re:WooHoo my first first on Open Textbooks Win Over Publishers In CA · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually posted before you from my kindle, but amazon deleted it.

  24. Re:Unique Enough? on Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack

    Careful with your use of astronomically low.

  25. Re:Not a database error on Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M · · Score: 1

    Unsigned bigint auto-increment.

    You can be number 1.