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  1. Can't say that I'm bothered either way on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 0

    Whichever pleasure website is today's flavour of the month tends to leave me stone-cold.

  2. Somehow on Dharun Ravi Trial: Hate Crime Or Stupidity? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think that the action (suicide) is warranted by the crime (published observation). Don't get me wrong - it's a totally creepy thing to do, and it's not up to me to judge what motivates anyone, but if *that's* what it takes for you to commit suicide, well, then you've got other problems ahead of you.

  3. Re:The posting title could be libellous on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    So you're false flagging the false flag ?

  4. I see on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    European cars are completely left out the write-up. Is this some bad case of 'don't mention number two' ? I distinctly remember Volvo and Peugeot making a big show of their quality/safety statistics.

  5. Why not on Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    make one of those browser plugins ? Like the one right next to the URL bar - they can make sure they don't send cookies, and in that way, Google can never throttle you - it's distributed !

  6. Yay! on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 1

    Yay! I've always *loved* Windowmaker.

  7. Yeah, but bacterial infections often follow on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    The pattern is: a sinus infection clogs your nose somehow. Then you start breathing through your mouth. Then your throat gets irritated so you cough. Then you damage your throat, or your bronchiae, and then a bacteria moves in. And Amoxicilin *does* work against those.

    Moral of the story ? Keep your nose clean and drink lots of water. Just like your moma said you should.

  8. It must be said on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    The same happens in the US - I am not allowed to bring company hardware across the US borders for the same reason. We had Bill Clinton steal for Boeing, and it's not going to happen again.

  9. Re:A much bigger problem on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    We're going to run out of paper !

  10. Re:I am not sure the yeti will like that :) on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1

    Yeah I have movies that start like that.

  11. Re:Screw you Galileo! on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    The difference is that in those days, 'the law' was more akin to 'whatever the pope doesn't like today'. British law at the time that Turing broke them, was a bit more formal.

  12. Re:Metrics on Researchers Feel Pressure To Cite Superfluous Papers · · Score: 1

    It's like Google ranking. Academics have found a way to hack their own system.

  13. We've had a similar case here in NL on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The question is: why oh why do all of these people go back to fscking Iran ?!

  14. Re:BUSH on US Supreme Court Upholds Removal of Works From Public Domain · · Score: 1

    No.

  15. The thing is on Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say · · Score: 1

    This is *only* going to bite them in the ass. Sooner or later, somebody screws up - lightly - and in the resulting suit, some judge will order this information to be public. The fall-out will be considerable, and people will be less trusting. The general who now, obsessed by his power to protect and the technological possibilities, decided to withold this information, is going to rue the day. Or not. But hey - maybe it's his retirement in three or four years, and maybe he can sing it out until then.

  16. Re:People don't need PCs on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Even at home people regularly do work that exceeds the general user-experience that a tablet provides. It is a horrendous typewriter for example, and yet people do write (lots) at home. Also, take work that requires the precision of a mouse - making a birthday-card with some graphics package. All bloody frustrating to do with a tablet.

  17. Facebook? on Facebook Responds to EPIC FTC Timeline Complaint · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook is not critical infrastructure (or even near it); users willingly and knowlingly signed up for what amounts to a toy. A toy with commercial motives.

  18. Re:Just stop trusting closed source software on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 2

    Hardware would have to be awfully clever to /predict/ the software that I'm running on it, and which of the data that it uses, is useful for corrupting or siphoning off.

  19. Re:He should take Constitutional law classes inste on NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Learn To Code In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Oooooh the butthurt.

  20. That's why on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    Ships have goalkeepers. Or whatever the American equivalent is called.

  21. Re:Real problem. Bad solution. on The Semantic Line Interface · · Score: 1

    You know what I like (and also the paragon of office-email programs, Outlook, doesn't provide this) ? Auto-completion. I think auto-completion, as used in shells, but now also in emailers like Evolution (where it completes addresses from your address-book), allows you to forego a tiresome process of inspecting dialogs and clicking and typing at the same time. It should be bloody everywhere. Infinite undo is something else that should be bloody everywhere; your desktop environment should provide it. The same should be true for fonts - that whole part of text-editors should be a standard inside your desktop - not in Word.

  22. Re:Real problem. Bad solution. on The Semantic Line Interface · · Score: 1

    That's not enough. Consider Word or Openoffice; an application that has so many functions, both in menus, in dialogs after menus, in buttonbars, etc. I still fight with it, and I still damn Openoffice to hell for being such a loyal follower of the Word way-of-thinking.

  23. They've got what they want on Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Twitter is down anyway. But presumably, that has more to do with a lot of new-year well-wishers than with the hysterically overblown blame-the-messenger tactics of some media-horny fool in a tiny little state in the Mediterranean.

  24. Yeah, but on Soyuz Lifts Off Again, Delivers Globalstar Satellites · · Score: 1

    Completely different rocket. Like comparing the Apollo- and the Orion-series.

  25. Re:Easy. on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 1

    Throw in a bit of nuts and eggs.