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  1. Re:Or WikiLeaks Pulled Its Own Plug... on Wikileaks DDoSed Again · · Score: 1

    You sound just as paranoid as the "9/11 was a plot to boost Bush ratings" crowd.

  2. Re:Hansen again? on NASA Scientist: Heat Waves Really Are From Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Hush! Everyone knows science is evil, and the faith in the modern luxuries brought by St. Exxon and the Church of The Holy Energy Industry will be our salvation.

  3. Re:Beh. on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    Actually what would help Africa the most is if the EU stopped to fuck with their market by dumping heavily subsidized food there. Local chicken farmers cannot compete with packaged goods where the European tax payer happily has paid half the price. But that won't happen until someone comes and tells the EU to actually observe the "free market" principle they pretend to adhere to.

  4. Re:Playing Games With Names on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    Shrimp and the like are in effect "sea insects", and we eat those... and people generally do not bother trying to find out what is inside their hot dogs... :)

  5. Re:Point of this story is ... on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 1

    He should patent that flying chair.

  6. Re:Wow, what a catchy new name! Win Zebra! on Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI · · Score: 1

    Windows Hip. Because it is hip to be square.

  7. Re:Why must it predate? on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 1

    The hardware they emulate has been designed, so yes they are emulators. The JVM, much like the other byte code systems like the p-system, WAM etc. that predated it, are not.

  8. Re:Separate the Enterprise Crap! on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 1

    Net *net=new Network();
    MSData *data=net->getFile('http://mysite.com/sound.mp3');
    SoundSystem *sound_system=new SoundSystem();
    sound_system->setVolume(100);
    sound_system->playSound(data);

    Barring some error handling and callbacks, that is about as much as you need to play music in iOS. You create a NSUrl to the file, create an AVAudioPlayer targeting that URL, tell it to prepare to play (that's an extra step to your recipe), set the volume and then tell it to play. Your presudo-code does not properly encapsulate the music data into the player object though... :)

  9. Re:belief on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 1

    Maybe "year WP7 will overtake iOS" is one of those perpetually moving dates, like "year of Linux on the desktop", or like cold fusion which is always 20 years into the future...

  10. Re:Market Share on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 1

    Photoshop? I know Apple have alternatives for Adobe Lightroom (Aperture) and Adobe Premiere (Final Cut), but which Photoshop competitor did they fund? Closest I know of on OS X is Pixelmator which is third-party...

  11. Re:Wine isn't, but JVM is on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between a VM and an emulator?

    A VM is a "CPU" written in software, and emulator is a pre-existing machine emulated in software. The VM does not need to emulate anything existing - e.g. the physical processors running the VM bytecodes came to market after the VM.

  12. Re:Wine isn't, but JVM is on Should Developers Support Windows Phone 8? · · Score: 1

    "Emulator" means there is something they act like. Are there actual physical processors with the JVM or CLR instruction set - that predate either virtual machine?

    Javascript is largely an interpreted language.

  13. Re:This doesn't surprise me. on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if the black man was insulted he should have drawn his gun and shot the insulter, like in the old days...

  14. Re:What an douche on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    He was able to say it, and now he gets to taste the consequence of his threats.

  15. Re:Both title and content of this post are wrong. on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Everyone's "just an Internet tough guy" until they go on their first killing spree.

  16. Re:Jeremy Clarkson on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    I think the later ranting posts about murdering people were what he was arrested for. Not too thick-skinned that man.

  17. The US has much the same: If you have "drug paraphernalia" that is illegal even though you need not do any drugs: You have the capability to.

  18. Re:Guns should be banned alright on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    Oh, they did mostly beat the stoners, which were largely unarmed hippies. What they did not beat were the cartel-backed crack cocaine dealers, armed to the teeth. Nor did they beat the dealers of "Hollywood Fuel", aka. cocaine, because Hollywood has influence.

  19. Re:Odd statement on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    ... but strangely the 2nd Amendment proponents will not defend someone's right to carry a katana or baseball bar for protection. Just the guns, guns, guns. And rifles.

  20. Re:But ... on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    Here, AC, I'll quote all the arguments you presented to counter harrkev's: ...

    Well, look at that: There weren't any. Better luck next time.

  21. Mod up! on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    This is an important point: Why should "arms" just be firearms? Why can you get a license to carry a concealed body-hole-puncher, but not a concealed rapier or even dagger? Heck, a carpenter with a hammer in his belt is carrying just as lethal a weapon...

  22. Re:But ... on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    The Federalist Papers talk about how stupid and expensive it would be to have a professional standing army, and instead the US should arm its citizens to fight against any invaders. After all, the US would not go to war itself...

    If you do not organize them into a militia though, how are they expected to know where to report for duty in the case of said invasion?

  23. Re:WHO makes Steve Guetenberg A STAR?!! on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what would be the point of being a proud gun-owner if you don't get to shoot people every now and then?

  24. Re:Another user created video on The Future of Project Glass · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why do you get butthurt over someone making fun of the next step in Google's control and surveillance of our lives? They are not fucking saints curing cancer.

  25. Re:WordStar? on OAuth 2.0 Standard Editor Quits, Takes Name Off Spec · · Score: 1

    WADL is the REST equivalent of the WSDL of SOAP, though apparently REST services can be described using WSDL 2.0 as well.