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  1. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report on Crowdsourcing JavaScript Testing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the trolls are hungry too...

    twist the pie charts by leaving welfare, workfare, interest on debt, social security, Medicare and Medicaid out

    Fine, except the 2009 chart you supplied didn't leave those things out.

    2009 Pie chart, detailed, Federal Budget, USA

  2. imagemagic libraries?? on Linux Kernel Benchmarks, 2.6.24-2.6.29 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    in almost all benchmarks, 2.6.29 did the same or a tiny bit worse than the others. Then in imagemagic operations, sometimes 2x faster? what mem / operation combination caused this?

  3. Re:There's already a name for this... on Toward the Open Company · · Score: 1

    clownsourcing.

  4. unionslol. on Toward the Open Company · · Score: 0

    You think your unorthodox HR practices will protect you from labor laws and unions? LOL!

  5. Well.....you could: on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 1

    You believe they are trying to prevent public discussion of their test material. They claim you are hurting their business interests.

    If you think they might be lying, you could ask them to take a polygraph test. Oh....yeah, sorry.

  6. Re:15% of 2.72 years? 5 months? on Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    This isn't a bad idea. With 5 extra months of filtering the air with your alveoli, the air is bound to be a little cleaner.

  7. It's not the heat... on Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life · · Score: 1
    ...it's the stupidity.

    No shit, there I was. Getting out of my prius (i actually just like the car..it's not a political statement), i noticed a dude staring at me as he got out of his 4-door F350. He kind of chuckled to himself a little. I said, "You think that's funny? Your kids are breathing your exhaust. Now THAT'S funny".

    Wasn't there something like 4000 deaths in a few weeks in Victorian-era England due to coal smoke and a bad inversion? Like mother nature stuffing your underwear in your mouth...that's so hot.

  8. Re:Defensive patents on Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh...so like a litigious Boondock Saints?

  9. Umm... on Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI · · Score: 1

    Ok so who patented POSTing a JSON and returning an XML? Or GETing a key/value pair and returning JSON? Or POSTing XML and returning porn?

    And why only over CGI? Why not patent the use of server text preprocessors as well?

  10. Re:That they would get power, then abuse it... on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 1
  11. Re:GTA prevents cop kills on Utah Senate, House Pass Jack Thompson's Game Sales Bill · · Score: 1

    why yes, I was raised by wolves.

    you make a good point. however, it makes sense that aversion to killing is a trait that best enabled the species to survive. like fight/flight/posture/submit, its probably just another innate behavior left over from millions of years of being selected for and against. people that easily killed each other would be less likely to be successful as a species.

  12. Re:GTA prevents cop kills on Utah Senate, House Pass Jack Thompson's Game Sales Bill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Killing a fellow human is a learned behavior. Almost every single person has an innate resistance to killing someone. There's plenty of research to back this up.

    • Thousands of muskets filled to the muzzle with loads that were never fired.
    • A civil-war era study that calculated the accuracy of an Infantry Company: If all the troops were really trying to kill eachother, battles would have lasted minutes, not days.
    • Studies that found that in all wars UP till the Vietnam war, the vast majority of US soldiers IN COMBAT never fired thier weapons at the enemy.

    People can't just be "trained" to kill people: To get any real participation you have to "condition" them to do it. Conditioning, brain washing, pavlovian response (if that rings a bell), doesn't matter what you call it. The Army started using man-shaped pop-up targets. Thru repetitive "target up, breathe-relax-aim-squeeze, target down, reward" cycles we actually have the majority of the soldiers actually trying to kill the enemy.

    What all these goddamn nerds, in their haste to scream how video games don't make you violent, don't know is that some violent video games recreate that conditioning. It doesn't make people more violent, but some of your natural resistance to killing is reduced.

    Now /.ers, do me proud and cry how this isn't possible. "You talking about killing? Hmm? Y'all experts? Y'all know about killing?" -- SSG Barnes from Platoon.

  13. Like oregon trail but... on Video Game Teaches Kenyan Youth HIV-Safety · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..."you died of aids."

  14. Van Eck phreaking? on Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember talk about this in the 80's. Van Eck Phreaking

  15. Re:Breaking the law on BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration · · Score: 1

    Almost all hunting rifles are bolt-action. That would make a pretty ineffective drive-by. Especially if you are the one doing the driving and shooting.

  16. Re:What the hell? on Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status · · Score: 1
    If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.

    --Cardinal Richelieu

    I think the point the lawyer was making is that nothing you say to the police can turn out good for you. So when the police ask if you noticed anyone steeling bikes from the neighborhood, sit down with your lawyer for a few hours and sanitize your statements. Should only cost a few hundred dollars.

  17. Re:What the hell? on Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...if he really was Anonymous, he'd be hacking the scientologists and blowing up yellow vans. Anyone have a picture of said cop in suit, sunglasses, and hat? Can anon deliver?

  18. Re:What the hell? on Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or he just knows people who know how to party.

  19. Re:10 Years, not Infinity+ years on Copyright and Patent Laws Hurt the Economy · · Score: 1

    15 years

    back when they made good music?

    Cobain died in 1994. The halcyon days of the grunge era were closing. Normal rock had replaced Pete Frampton as the music people ignored. That left: Notorious PIG, Outkast, Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Warren G. And while Snoop, it can be argued, left a lasting impression on the artistic scene...you'd be hard pressed to find this era as romantically called "good", musically.

  20. Re:You know whats ironic? on China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    When the hell are they going to get their land back

    When they win the war.

    are we supposed to feel bad about that? we don't. fuck em.

  21. You died of dysentery. on A High School Programming Curriculum For All Students? · · Score: 2, Funny

    A good final project would be an Oregon TrailBot. A scripted user-agent that can buy oxen and die of starvation in pursuit of expansionism.

  22. Re:Forget the charger... on Solar Power Pre-Deployment To Afghanistan? · · Score: 3, Funny

    AN/PRC-14 night vision goggles

    Sorry to be a blue falcon and spotlight a fellow Infantryman...but it's AN/PVS-14. PRC's are radios. Now go get me a Prick/E-7 and a box of grid squares. (:

  23. Re:Umm... on Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are confusing programming and computer science.

  24. Re:Cryptography... on Australian Gov't May Employ a Homegrown Quantum Key System · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spoken like someone who has neither held a gun, nor a human head, let alone at the same time, while interrogating a cryptographer, in Australia.

    How does one answer that question with respect to a 10 gig fiber connection? How fast can you say ones and zeros?

    I'm pretty sure firearms are an OSI layer 1 problem.

  25. It's like, how much more black could this be? on Spinal Tap Announces 25th Anniversary Tour · · Score: 1

    And the answer is none. None more black.