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  1. Re:He is correct. on Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe that gives you automatic access to level 4 Country and Western

  2. Re:What the west has missed on China's DIY Aviators Take Flight · · Score: 1

    The people outsourcing the companies are doing it because government meddling and taxes have made it too expensive to run any kind of competitive business here. And we're just about to get another dose of that.

  3. Re:Crazy chicks on Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys · · Score: 1

    And that he's a he.

  4. Re:How are these getting indexed? on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    "Target's" for the apostrophe Nazis.

  5. Re:How are these getting indexed? on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    Though of course, it may even be yet another site responsible for the problem.

    Someone posts on their blog "Hey, [link to search engine with 'love beads'] love beads are great.

    Google then follows this link to the search engine. The page returned from the search engine contains search results and an affiliate link to "Buy 'love beads' at Target" linking to the target search page. Google follows this link and voila, we have the issue at hand.

    No malice on Targets part (though they could do more to make sure it's not indexed).

  6. Re:How are these getting indexed? on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    Search for something (on Google for example) over on the right you'll see a bunch of links. (Some of) those links will be to a site with a term that specifies the search term you searched for even if the site doesn't actually carry that.

    I propose that this may be where such links arise from. Maybe not from searches on Google itself but from other sites that offer similar linking schemes.

  7. Re:Typical! on Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint: They're only calling it the colonies when they know an American is listening.

  8. Re:Say goodbye for XML on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    win32s?

  9. Re:As long as he knows how to ... on When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? · · Score: 1

    He'll be remembered as the guy who has his shit together enough that he's not having to deal with problems at 5pm all the time.

  10. Re:Vote For Something Serious! on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 1

    Amend this to "You could get other suckers to pay for your glasses on the NHS. But they were shitty looking because the government was in charge of it and you couldn't just go to specsavers on the high street and they cost the people who did pay them more than necessary because, again, the government was in charge of it"

  11. Re:IE6? Really? on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Needs +1 insightful.

  12. Meh on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 1

    I quite like "Killing in the Name" but it is fairly contrived and hardly really subversive, just exploiting standard youth feelings of rebellion, alienation and frustration.

    It does fill me with glee to see the charts subverted this way though.

  13. Indeed, Aluminum sucks on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even just crossing the atlantic, it lost an "I"

  14. Re:squares on The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza · · Score: 1

    Definitely this. I always cut pizza square these days. Not everyone needs the same amount, it's easier to get right and, if the pizza's a little soft, you don't get it folding and big lumps of cheese sliding off. You also get more, smaller pieces helping avoid over-consumption for those who care

    Sure you end up with a few small crusty triangles but there's always someone hungry enough to eat those.

  15. Re:Is this really a problem? on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    There are no hyperlinks in text/plain.

  16. Re:RBP on Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 · · Score: 1

    As do SIRDS in fact.

  17. Re:RBP on Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 · · Score: 1

    I meant for common use. I am aware there have been many experimental and development and special use displays over the years.

    3D: 3 Dimensions. X,Y,Z. Stereoscopic counts in my book.

  18. Re:Why not do both? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    And if everyone jumped off a bridge...

    If I were having to interact with other parties besides myself, I'd agree with you. In this case, however, there's only me, doing something nonstandard on a nonstandard port.

    If something blows up, I'll drive to a location of your choice so that you can say "I told you so" to my face.

  19. Re:DLP? on Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 · · Score: 1

    And as for blue ray and 2x blue ray.
    first 3d info should not take double the bandwidth. There's only a little added information (depth usually) since the RGB and intensity (nearly all the bits) are the same for most objects in the scene. (things like velvet and pearlescence being exceptions that don't look right anyhow in Binocular vision 3D and can only be differentiated for foreground pixels anyhow.

    Only for planar surfaces. Depth is not enough. One eye will see things the other eye doesn't see all over the image.

  20. Re:Warning: You're being "marketed" on Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 · · Score: 1

    The image appears to vary in position in the Z axis therefore 3D. If another technology comes along, you may need to qualify the 3Dishness (fixed point 3D vs limited angle 3D vs full sphere 3D for example) or come up with a new term.

  21. Re:What about copper? on Silicon As the New Lithium · · Score: 1

    So when you're trying to get your toast out of the toaster, use a stainless steel knife rather than a silver one.

  22. Re:Why not do both? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    They are doing it for lookups that fail though. It's like a global typosquat.

  23. Re:buy compatible cartridges on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Not only that but a camera image DPI is entirely arbitrary. a 4000x3000 image has no actual physical size as an image file and any DPI is simply a setting in the file and could be changed with appropriate software without otherwise affecting the image.

  24. Re:Why not do both? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Definitely this. My ISP changed their upstream provider and *their* network was intercepting requests on port 53. Luckily, I also administer DNS on another network so set up a bypass on port 54. Personally, I think providing false DNS information should count as fraud.

  25. Re:If he was paid $50, he wasn't a "slave" on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So the government decided that only the government can own slaves. Quel surprise