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  1. Re:If You Can't Lead--Get Out Of the Way on Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply · · Score: 4, Funny

    I explored Paris via Google Maps, but it's just not the same as being there.

  2. Re:It's not the business model that is broken. on Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? · · Score: 1

    There's no money to be made in basic research when you can sell shitty packaged "solutions" consisting mostly of off-the-shelf hardware.

    Then using capitalism as the model for getting basic research done is broken. You need a model where profit isn't the motivation.

  3. Re:Kudos to Nokia on Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say we're better off for having GTK, or at last we're not better off having GTK be as popular as it is. Choice is good, but Linux would be much further toward acceptance on the Desktop with one main GUI toolkit. We'd be better off had GTK completely killed off QT, or if it hadn't been created at all. We ended up with the worst possible outcome. I can't think of anything that could slow down Desktop Linux development more than two major competing DEs duplicating each other's efforts.

  4. Re:Kudos to Nokia on Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt · · Score: 2, Informative

    Such as a declarative one.

    Such as... ? If it doesn't exist yet, it's not modern, it's futuristic.

  5. Re:Actually on Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" · · Score: 1

    So I take it there is a specific exemption for libraries?

  6. Re:Simple solution on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    Get sued for the key.

  7. Re:Virus on MAC ? on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Err, thats pretty much the biggest vector for malware. Pick any popular app for Windows, go to pirate bay, download it, run it, and guess what? You have an infection.

    Have you ever noticed the little skulls by people's names on TPB? Those are there for a reason.

  8. Re:Let me say.... on FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    during the last 10 years.

    It seems to go in 4 or 8 year cycles. I wonder why that is.

  9. Re:OMG, freedom. on British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid · · Score: 1

    Well, both do teach you to wear a helmet.

  10. Re:Ditch Linux on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    How will switching to Mac make people think you're not a fag? If anything it'll only reinforce their suspicions.

  11. A word of advice... on BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Don't let your schooling interfere with your education.

  12. Re:It's $100 bucks...! on First Android-Based Netbook, Set-Top Box · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the size, yiou could probably easily make a smartphone with those features. They're expensive because they're small.

  13. Re:obviously a glorified cellphone on First Android-Based Netbook, Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    If you can't modify the hardware without a soldering iron, does it really matter?

  14. Re:In a word... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    Train security isn't nearly as tight, since it's hard to crash one into a building.

  15. Re:which state(s)? on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They have lower income taxes, though. All taxes considered, they pay about the same as us. But they can avoid a lot more taxation by saving their money than we can.

  16. Re:so we're on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    I imagine dropping another thousand (or whatever a Windows Server license costs these days) to upgrade the OS is pocket change in comparison to the Exchange licensing and dedicated hardware and support personnel you need to run the thing.

    Sure, if training your employees on the new OS were free.

  17. Re:Blah on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    What cell phon that supports exchange doesn't include a web browser to get to a webmail account?

  18. Re:Wow on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most hardware compatibility? Try installing it on anything but an x86, then get back to me.

  19. Re:Wow on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 1

    We copy Xerox by proxy, than you very much!

  20. Re:Not very bright in most cases on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    HTML isn't interactive, either. To interact you need some form of code capable of producing/displaying dynamic data. Sure, you can make a form, but without submiting it to a program of some sort, it's kind of useless.

  21. Re:Funny or an idiot? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    Give me wordpad and $50/hr and I'll write the HTML in haiku form if you'd like.

  22. Re:Screwed? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    HTML Developer? Code is developed. Markup is written. Unless you think a secretary is a OOXML developer.

  23. Re:Screwed? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    You're not a webmaster unless you maintain the web server.

  24. Re:Tax my Toilet on When Politicians Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Poor people can still afford to smoke as much as Obama can. The man can't be sneaking but a smoke or two a day.

  25. Re:Tax my Toilet on When Politicians Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Which part of Obama enumerating only federal taxes on income didn't you understand? Context counts.