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  1. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's almost as if the President doesn't micromanage the TSA and leaves the job up to the person he appointed to do it.

  2. Re:"Available in WebM" on 80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now In WebM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does your browser support WebM?

  3. Re:Now... on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just like they made GM vegetables prohibitively expensive.

  4. Re:The most interesting thing about that article.. on Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel · · Score: 1

    mach, not match. You get the idea.

  5. Re:The most interesting thing about that article.. on Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel · · Score: 1

    XNU IS the match kernel. Darwin is the OS, which includes XNU match kernel.

  6. Re:Up next.... on Nintendo Seeks To Trademarks "It's On Like Donkey Kong" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a reason to disallow other people from trademarking it, not a reason to allow a phrase that's been in use for decades to be trademarked by a company that didn't even coin the phrase.

  7. Re:No standards at all on Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland · · Score: 1

    >What else would a summary be except someone's opinion? How exactly do you shrink something down to fewer words without distorting the original meaning through interpretation? By that definition, all news articles are opinion, because they just sum up things that happened into fewer words.

  8. Re:The most interesting thing about that article.. on Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Darwin IS the mach kernel, Mr. Redundant.

  9. Re:Anybody remember if... on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, actually.

  10. Re:Wow on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Rekonq is based on Chromium, which is based on webkit.

  11. Re:Wow on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use Rekonq instead of Konqueror. It's based on Chromium.

  12. Re:The problem with Linux is not the kernel! on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    What would be the point of making a distro if there wasn't something unique about it?

  13. Re:And yet? on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    The only thing worse than closed source is a walled garden.

  14. Re:Great... on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    Linux does it even if you don't suspend/hibernate.

  15. They don't have a point. on Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All this proves is that the cellular networks have oversold their capacity, and have to resort to crippling their phones to keep the whole house of cards from collapsing.

  16. Re:Double the employer on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 1

    >That's like getting paid double what your employer makes! Every third-party contractor I've ever hired makes much more than I do. That's why they're not a permanent member of my staff: I can't afford them.

  17. Re:Wow, just... wow on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 1

    And most of the legitimate ones as well. Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

  18. Re:Rough times on Oracle's Newest Move To Undermine Android · · Score: 1

    Businesses make lots of silly decisions, like installing the flash plugin on a web server.

  19. Re:Wow, just... wow on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 1

    If they charge less they HAVE to take cases that are more likely to win. The more you charge, the more cases make economic sense to take.

  20. Re:Wow, just... wow on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At 5 to 20%, they'd have to turn down most cases unless they were a slam dunk, or the client paid up front.

  21. Re:Why? on Apple Accepts, Then Rejects BitTorrent iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Then why do they allow apps to use http?

  22. Re:Seems strange they approved it at all on Apple Accepts, Then Rejects BitTorrent iPhone App · · Score: 1

    I can see why they don't want to get embroiled in any of the legal stuff associated with Torrents

    Nobody has ever or will ever get in trouble for distributing a torrent app.

  23. Re:Newly laid-off NASA worker looking for work on 1,200 NASA Layoffs, Shuttle Fuel Tank Plant Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    We have private companies that produce better results

    Not a single one has ever put anyone in orbit. I'm all for letting private enterprise launch our payloads for us, but until they star launching people, NASA will still be needed. Or would have been, had they retained the ability to launch people into space.

  24. Re:Well that's stupid. on Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    Government stores have a right to determine their stock.

    I never claimed they didn't have the right. I said it was government interference. It is quite possible to have the right to do the wrong thing.

  25. Re:Well that's stupid. on Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    Have you read this thread? If their goal was to avoid offending people, they've failed miserably.