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  1. Re:We Listened! on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The OS is much more important/integral to the user experience than the (different) windshield is to driving.

    Try driving down i-75 in Florida WITHOUT a windshield and your mouth open. I bet you will recant this statement :)

  2. Re:Sounds good to me on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    How about stopping corporate welfare and stop propping up Goldman Sachs bonuses?

  3. Re:Surprised? on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    I don't know what your point is; do you really want to boil your water before you drink it? I've done it, and I'll tell you, it sucks.

    You can cover the container and shake it for a minute to remove that "flat" taste from the escaped oxygen.

    Yea, it still sucks, been there too.

  4. Glendale University on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to Wikipedia

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

    this University isn't even accredited!!

  5. Re:Thumbs up on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 1

    Helping queer's and druggy's.

    Instead of spreading hate- why not work on your English? There are no apostrophes in the plural form of "queers" or "druggies". Furthermore, "druggie" is not spelled "druggy".

  6. Re:First amateurs? Not quite! on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    No, they're professional astronauts with a hobby. I was a professional fireman for years, and sometimes at night I played Pokemon. That doesn't make me a professional Pokemon Trainer.

    It does if you're playing Pokemon whilst putting out fires :)

  7. Re:toposhaba on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    No, to me, your post sounds like typical road rage: the road belongs to me, and everyone else on it is a raging idiot who should be shot. Not to mention that I knew the instant I read the word elitist, I knew the direction your post would go in. I'm pretty sure also you're part of the idiots who sit in traffic school and think they're perfect drivers, and that everything that happens to them is the fault of other people.

    FYI, personal attacks are by nature logical fallacies and childish at best.

    Since you implied you would like to know, no, no road rage here, just a former Oregonian & avid cyclist who is thoroughly embarrassed and saddened by the behavior of my former state-mates. I love riding my bike. Never again in Portland.

  8. At least it's better than... on New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    that lame-o Fermi Paradox.

    I love how people act like some physicist's smart-alec remark is somehow gospel.

  9. Re:toposhaba on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can't they just read an odometer

    You've obviously never been to Oregon. I've never lived in a more elitist state. Now I wonder who is going to pay for those mandated GPS devices! Knowing the mindset of the typical Oregonian politician I can guarantee you they never thought of that or the repercussions of having very poor families (Oregon has A LOT) shell out cash they don't have for something they don't need.

    Oh I forgot, we're talking about Oregon, the state where cyclists (who pay nothing) have more rights on the road than drivers who's taxes and fees actually pay for the roads. We're talking about a state where cyclist "gangs" actively ride the streets of Portland and have been known to pull drivers out of their car for ALLEGED infractions and beat the crap out of them (google cyclist violence portland to see what I mean).

  10. Re:What browser? on Comparing Microsoft and Apple Websites' Usability · · Score: 1

    I have not run in to this however the two QA people sitting 15 feet from me log bugs for it all the time...

  11. Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? on Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    What about "The Great Zero Challenge" that ended back in January? I tried going to the site but 16 Systems seems to have taken it down. Was anyone ever able to recover the files from the drive? I can find some peripheral information concerning the data recovery challenge... but yea, as far sa I know dd should be able to "zero" (with /dev/null used as the input) out a hard drive quite well... http://hostjury.com/blog/view/195/the-great-zero-challenge-remains-unaccepted

  12. bad summary... on C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use."

    this is specious reasoning, just because they're using them on the weekend doesn't mean that the languages are "more fun to use". I tend to drive my car on the weekend but it's definitely not as fun as when I'm walking on the weekdays.

    I'm not arguing with the conclusion I just think the presumption is bogus.

  13. Re:Wouldn't this make a good source of fossil fuel on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ten times the size of Alaska???

    okay, let's run the numbers.

    Alaska's area is 663,268 sq mi.
    10x Alaska's area would be 6,632,680 sq mi.

    the USA's TOTAL area is 3,794,066 sq mi.
    Russia's TOTAL area is 6,592,800 sq mi.

    You're telling me that some people think there is a mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean SLIGHTLY LARGER than Russia???

    I'm not saying it's not as bad as it sounds but I really doubt the numbers are right.

  14. Re:Isn't this an obvious way to recruit on Defense Department Eyes Hacker Con For New Recruits · · Score: 1

    They don't look much like independent thinkers when they're all lined up in their LAN parties... more like drones pressing buttons...

  15. Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Because:
    -you have too much time on your hands
    -you live in the MIT hallway on a cot
    -you put false importance in javascript
    -you are obsessed with the definition of the word free and are happy to spend the rest of your life debating the minutia.

  16. worst summary ever on Google Returns Chrome To Beta, Touts Speed Boost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Chrome is not in beta, there has ALWAYS been beta builds around for Chromium & they are advertising those builds more since the new features are pretty solid (and the speed too) but Chrome is NOT in beta.

  17. Re:Not a bug on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Talk about doublespeak! Not a bug vs. It's a consequence of not writing software properly. reminds me of that FG episode where Stewie says, "it's not that I want to kill Lois... it's that I don't... want... her... to... live... anymore."

  18. Re:Attention all personnel on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, their site is FAIL on so many levels. The least of which is their lack of a custom error page...

  19. Re:Big on EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney · · Score: 1

    Maybe. In this case it's obvious that they are just wasting money. Nothing will come of this.

  20. Let me correct that for you on Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs · · Score: 0, Troll

    was: I honestly don't get the whole hate that Wikipedia seems to have against sci-fi and geeky topics...

    should be:

    I honestly don't get the whole justified hate that Wikipedia seems to have against lame sci-fi and moronic topics...

    I think you answered your own question!

  21. Re:Bavarian police invading privacy!?! on Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Certainly not the Brits!

  22. Re:remove the chip? on New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses · · Score: 1

    The article (while it does mention the current licenses) doesn't mention whether or not these new IDs will be replacing them or not, or if they give you an option to purchase one or the other hence my wondering about removing the chip.

  23. remove the chip? on New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What are the legalities of defacing the ID by removing the chip?

  24. Re:the truth is on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Consensus (among psychologists) is that IQ scores are following a normal distribution, thus mean and median are the same.

    Wow, psychologists must be forbidden to ever take a statistics class then. Remember, these people are usually just as fucked up as the people who pay them $$$ to listen and now we're trusting them to do math.

  25. Re:taxpayer funded on Congress May Kill NIH Open Access Research Rules · · Score: 1


    Specifically, they are opposing the part of the bill that funds alternative energy research.

    can you provide a reference to a Republican source that states this? If only to strengthen your argument... an din doing so, please ensure that there is not some additional rider on the bill that wold necessitate killing it as well, rather that this is the specific reason and not something justifiable...