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  1. Re:Like DRM? on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You forgot one: not letting European colonial powers draw an arbitrary line and declare that "Iraq". As it is, the British created a country that was doomed by baked-in ethnic (Arabs, Kurds) and religious (Sunni, Shia) divisions.

  2. Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Right, but didn't the 86 have more features than the 84?

  3. Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Spot on, except the TI-86 has been out of production for a number of years. Presumably their market niche was too small.

    From what I've read, Casios /are/ a lot cheaper than equivalent TIs, but they are different enough to need retraining and there are many more textbooks that assume a student has a TI.

  4. Re:How short our memories... on E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you want to stick with old apps.

    You sound like people who have a Pentium 4 and load it up with modern programs, then wonder why it's so slow - it used to run the same number of programs lots faster, after all... it's just that this was in 2002 and they're not using Windows XP RTM and Office 2000 anymore.

  5. Re:sponsered phones. on E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    You can always pay $20 or $30 (whichever it is) to turn off "with offers".

  6. Re:"older iPads" on E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Nobody's ever made a tablet with a 1" screen, surely.

  7. Re:Regulation, regulation, regulation on Why Phone Stores Should Stockpile Replacements · · Score: 1

    "Regulation is always bad", says the fuckwit who gets clean food and water because of government regulation.

  8. Re:change.org petition on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    Has *anything* ever changed from having a bunch of people sign a change.org petition?

  9. Re:An improvement on Raspberry Pi Gets a Brand New Browser · · Score: 1

    It's unlikely Apple will go anywhere; Safari will keep using WebKit and it's a pretty good fraction of the mobile market.

  10. Re:Awesome on Raspberry Pi Gets a Brand New Browser · · Score: 1

    But he's clearly smarter than everybody who spent years thinking of and designing an enormously successful product.

    Nah, he's really a fuckwit but thanks to Dunning-Kruger he doesn't know it.

  11. Re:Do they know more than they let on? on New Computer Model Predicts Impact of Yellowstone Volcano Eruption · · Score: 2

    You're trolling and not actually that stupid, right?

  12. Re:Does this office need Congressional approval? on Google's Megan Smith Would Be First US CTO Worthy of the Title · · Score: 2

    Only if it's overt and provable.

  13. Re:Does this office need Congressional approval? on Google's Megan Smith Would Be First US CTO Worthy of the Title · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pfft. She's more likely to be discriminated against because of the uppity black man who nominated her.

  14. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    *snore*

  15. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    You really need to level-up your trolling. This is 101-level shit, son.

  16. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    I don't believe a word of it.

  17. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Yeah, bullshit. Your nickname has enough entropy that it's exceedingly unlikely this is not you.

  18. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Boring troll is boring. Put your back into it, boy.

  19. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Further, if this is you:
    http://www.fiero.nl/cgi-bin/fi...

    You're conclusively an idiot. Only an idiot believes in homeopathy.

  20. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    If you're going to troll and be full of shit, save us both time and say so up front.

  21. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Put up or shut up: who are you, really?

  22. Re:Why is it not trivial? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 0

    You're a poster child for Dunning-Kruger: some random on the Internet who thinks he's smarter than the folks who designed a Mars rover that lasted over 10 years past its 90-day expected life.

  23. Re:Assumptions on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 0

    You're a poster child for Dunning-Kruger: some random on the Internet who thinks he's smarter than the folks who designed a Mars rover that lasted over 10 years past its 90-day expected life.

  24. Re:Alternative Title on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  25. Re:ECC? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're a poster child for Dunning-Kruger: some random on the Internet who thinks he's smarter than the folks who designed a Mars rover that lasted over 10 years past its 90-day expected life.