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  1. Re:priorities on UK ISPs Near Agreement On Illegal File Sharing · · Score: 4, Funny

    > if half the resources were put into combating online identity theft, pornography or malicious hacking, these problems could be stamped out.

    How exactly is pornography a problem?

    GP was refering to the problem of pornography theft.

  2. Re:Misunderstanding... on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tag this article misunderstanding. The moderator to made the original post has since corrected himself.

    Next we will kill the children.

    Sorry, my bad. That should read free candy for everyone.

  3. Re:Earth-observing? on Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope · · Score: 1

    So, by "Earth-observing", what you meant was "everything EXCEPT Earth", right?

    No, he is suggesting "Flip Flop Flyin' in an Aeroplane" to make earth observations possible.

  4. Re:I'm getting damn sick of this on Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK · · Score: 1

    Funny, informative and insightful.

    For the truly lazy people out there, here is the same thing but clickable

  5. Re:Fuck Python on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Malbolge is a public domain esoteric programming language invented by Ben Olmstead in 1998, named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno, the Malebolge.

  6. First Dupe? on When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    (See sig)

  7. Re:Excuse? on Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? · · Score: 1

    Thing is the know how isn't the big deal. Any decent group of physics PHDs and professors could build a bomb with the right materials. The only thing really stopping every tom dick and harry from building one is the uranium enrichment. That takes serious money and time to get working.

    Fewer lunatics with nukes => fewer dead. You can work either on limiting nuke production or preventing lunatic playgrounds from emerging (or perhaps work on both?)

    The CIA has been working hard for a few years to create these playgrounds. Before anyone explodes (and I'm looking at you), I like the U.S. My country would probably have been invaded by the Soviet Union during the cold war had it not for the U.S. ability to whop ass globally.

    Now with that said, relax and read on.

    The CIA has done some really crazy stuff during the years. Installing dictators responsible for killing and torturing people. They helped Contras in Nicaragua (which involved drugdeals). As long as Irak and Saddam was against Iran they didn't care that he used mustardgas against his own people. They trained "a highly religious faction" in Afghanistan and gave them weapons.

    Does anybody see a pattern here? If you are ok to work alongside bastards because they are your enemies enemy, you should not be surprised if they turn out to be bastards once the old enemy is gone. After all, you knew this already.

    Again, I like the U.S. and I like your constitution, I just don't like everything that the CIA does. Their type of action hurts your country in the long run and breeds this crazy hatred of the U.S.A. around the globe. (Bring on the flames)

  8. Re:Tinfoil Hat on Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation · · Score: 1

    Note to the oblivious: OpenID doesn't eliminate anonymity. Far from it.

    Being of a oblivious nature, I have a question for you:
    In what ways does the OpenID system promote user anonymity?

  9. Re:twine "semantic"? how about no. on Untangling Web Information · · Score: 4, Funny

    It works like a charm. I entered "parsing" as an area of interest and it came back with "Beer"...

    I was quite surprised by how quickly it understood me and my interests based on such a limited amount of information :-)

  10. Re:I caught my boss having sex with a poodle. on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    And it is only monday....

  11. Re:It's your job... on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't have my copy of the ACM code of ethics

    Well, look no further: The ACM Code of Ethics

    Some sections relating to this issue would be:
    1.1 Contribute to society (and human well-being.)
    1.2 Avoid harm to others.
    1.3 Be honest and trustworthy.
    1.5 Honor property rights (including copyrights and patent.)
    1.6 Give proper credit for intellectual property.
    1.8 Honor confidentiality.

  12. Re:This is a crap study and Title is WRONG on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    First of all, I do not suffer from fibromyalgia or even know anyone who claim to do, but I do find it funny when people claim that they know more than sufferers.

    Surely some of these people will be crazy but there will also be a lot of people who become depressed/neurotic through suffering. You don't think being in pain affects you mood and outlook on life?

    Terrible example: Lets say that someone was going to hit you in the face every day for five years time and that there was no way for you to avoid this. Should you be called a neurotic if you where depressed by this or would you just be a normal person responding normally to reallity?

    Do you remember all the neurotics who got themselves ulcers by stressing too much? You know the ones that doctors said caused their own symptoms? I'm convinced you know that there where two guys who got a Nobel prize for discovering that you could treat this bacterial infection, some years ago. All of a sudden, doctors forgot that they had for many years called former patients neurotics, causing their own disease.

    (I myself admit to being a tin-foil-hat-rash sufferer.)

  13. Re:Think about the consequences this election year on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, if you really think about it, maybe we don't want Joe Six Pack to be cured of cancer. Thinning out the herd can be good.

    Is it ok if we start with the people you love?

  14. Re:Wait, this sounds familliar! on Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding · · Score: 1

    wait... what other kind of C is there?

    That would be hand-coded c

  15. Re:Good luck with that on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    What will happen? W will claim executive privilege, file papers blocking the motion, then make looking at the papers illegal again citing executive privilege.

    You don't always win, but at least this will make them squirm in public. Some times you win even when you lose. (And some times you win.)

    I respect the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

  16. Re:Ebay, Pirate Bay... on FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests · · Score: 1

    I know you are joking, but since I feel TPB is a good thing for several reasons, let me just tell any nervous souls out there that it would be illegal for the swedish police to do something similar. They are not even allowed to do this to catch previously convicted murderers selling drugs and weapons to minors. The police simply are not allowed to commit a crime to prevent a crime.
    (They still do from time to time, but these individuals usually end up either in jail and/or without a job)

    In addition, TPB has never distributed anything illegal to my knowledge. It merly keeps track of where the torrents are located. Information wants to be free and over here it still is (but as usuall, there are people who would like to change this)

    We are under risk of contracting the ACTA - They want to search your laptop or mediaplayer among other things.
    Please read up on ACTA here

  17. Re:Dark market shut down. on FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests · · Score: 1

    The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid your neighbors' wallets and give you money.

    Exactly, the government is more like an older male sibling, who's purpose is to waste a lot of your money, buying things you don't want, at a too high price from companies that his friends own.

  18. Re:Well, duh, the internet = n Libraries of Congre on Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain · · Score: 1

    I can't believe it's n

  19. Re:WHAT! on 99.8% of Gamers Don't Care About DRM, Says EA · · Score: 1

    And he got his numbers from where?

    BT? (Sorry)

    We implemented a form of DRM and it's something that 99.8 per cent of users wouldn't notice, claimed Riccitiello, but for the other 0.2 percent, it became an issue and a number of them launched a cabal online to protest against it.

    So I assume that esteemed Mr Riccitiello would not mind anyone taking money from his bank account as long as he was not made aware of the activity?

  20. Re:Questions: on Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap · · Score: 3, Funny

    Boeing a/c do have a lot of computer controls, but they can all be easily overwritten by the CO/FO flying the a/c.

    That actually sounds worse, but you probably meant overridden.

    No, the GP is correct and the process is called "flash and burn" :-)

  21. Re:coldfusion on 10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting · · Score: 3, Funny

    Low energy nuclear reactions are useless when scripting

  22. Re:Fast javascript on 10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Attila Szegedi maintains Rhino which is javascript on the Java virtual machine. As secure as you decide, fast and portable.

    Rhino
    Attila Szegedi

  23. Break down of Hummer Owners - Demitri Martin on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    Tough guys 43%
    Pricks 27%
    Douche bags 15%
    Dildoes 14.99%
    Poets 0.01%

    Demitri Martin - Flip chart and art

  24. Re:This is obviously true, but on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    Hasn't that selection already started? When going to the sperm bank, you can already select your favorite profile of sperm donors.

    At that bank, I only make deposits.

  25. Frankenstein? on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    "You are my creator but I am your master!"