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  1. Re:Freshmen lawmakers needed on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 0

    Er, no. Our current freshmen are largely ideologically-driven teabaggers.

  2. Re:I am Jack's utter lack of surprise... on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 2

    Clinton was investigated to begin with because the Republicans were fishing for an excuse after he made them look bad with the government shutdowns and /especially/ after he got reelected.

    I couldn't care less if he lied about fucking his secretary, whether he did it or not had no bearing on how he governed the country.

  3. This is how 1337 sp33k got started on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Now we'll have annoyingly illiterate Pakistani youth.

  4. Re:A novel concept ... on Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Redistrict New York · · Score: 2

    The budget supercommitte is bipartisan. That's /not/ a guaranteed recipe for success.

  5. Re:Obvious on 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the funny thing:for some reason Macs have been a stronghold for shareware for /ages/. If you can find a program to do something for free on a Windows machine, odds are you have to pay $19 for a rough equivalent on the Mac.

  6. Re:Resume on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools To Aid When "On Call"? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not for everyone. I wouldn't do it, not with a commute and a wife and kid, but it'd be less bad if I were single and lived nearby.

  7. Re:A lot of nerds don't get horology... on Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock · · Score: 1

    No, it was because one part of the system did time in base-2 and the other part did it in base-10. After operating a while they'd get noticeably out of sync and then the missile would miss its target because of this.

  8. Re:We are getting one on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    Mine was free. :P

  9. Re:We are getting one on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 1

    Most laptops, yes. My Cr-48 with ChromeOS can do that. 5 seconds from opening up to a live connection.

  10. Re:But is it kosher? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    For values of "soundly" that include having 45% of the voters in /favor/ of it.

    You're quite wrong.

  11. Re:You don't see bias because it is for your side on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: 1

    I never said that other news orgs aren't biased. I'm saying that you're moving the goal posts to defend Fox ("everyone else is biased! Therefore it's OK that Fox is REALLY REALLY BIASED!").

    In case you missed it, I can tell that you're politically motivated.

  12. Re:You don't see bias because it is for your side on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: 1

    MOVING GOAL POST DETECTED

    I'm quite capable of seeing bias, thanks much; the point that you're not wanting to admit is that you were wrong about "other news organizations", and you're compounding it by stereotyping liberals.

  13. Re:Red Herring on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: 2

    Er... Mohammed tried to join forces with the Jews in his day because of the belief that Arabs and Jews shared common descent from Abraham. The Jews told him to fuck off.

    I'm very definitely not a fan of the Israeli government, but let's not forget history entirely.

  14. Re:Until reality sets in on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: 2

    ...and NPR had a mention of it today in Morning Edition.

    Let's not let facts get in the way of Quila's faith-based belief that all news orgs are equally biased.

  15. Re:Just another corrupt judge on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

  16. Re:Ubuntu doesn't run on pre-USB boot systems anyw on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    I only wish you luck on getting any modern software, such as an ACID2-compliant browser like Iceweasel or Chromium, to run on a Pentium 1 with 48MB of RAM.

    Heh. I've got a Pentium-90 with 64MB of RAM, running Damn Small Linux. It can run Firefox 2.0. Slowly.

    I'd try a newer Firefox than that, but DSL died (so probably nobody's packaged a newer Firefox) and I haven't bothered to look at something else like Tiny Core which might accommodate putting such an old box on the Internet.

  17. Re:Ubuntu binaries compiled for i686 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't look for 64-bit only Linux distros (at least non-niche distros) for probably another five to ten years.

  18. Re:Ubuntu doesn't run on pre-USB boot systems anyw on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 2

    Any system that has been made since circa 2001 (i.e. the past 10 years) has been able to boot from USB.

    Wrong. I know of some OEM boxes from the '04 era that can't, and some BIOSes from even later than that make it unnecessarily difficult - Gigabyte, IIRC, wrote its BIOS to force you to guess what kind of mass-storage your USB stick should emulate. Guess wrong and your USB stick won't boot.

  19. Re:Tap Energy of Volcano? on In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising · · Score: 1

    And I say "Bounce the graviton particle beam
    off the main deflector dish"
    That's the way we do things lads
    just makin' shit up as we wish
    The Klingons and the Romulans
    pose no threat to us
    'Cause if we find we're in a bind
    we'll just make some shit up.

      -- Voltaire, after ST:Voyager

  20. Re:There aren't many... on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 1

    The Gooney Bird has a certain amount of beauty if you're the right kind of person.

  21. Re:China copies U.S. Intellectual Property... on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you could make a strong argument that we paid Europe back with our involvement in the world wars and the Marshall Plan.

  22. Re:chill out, guys on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I've done the usual things of writing my congressweasels but 90% of the time they'll do the opposite of what I asked.

    I suppose the logical next step is to link up with the Occupy protesters.

  23. Re:You know you've given up on the government when on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We sure manage to make western Europe look good, don't we?

  24. Re:chill out, guys on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 2

    Yes, but Obama's a moderate Republican and the Senate Dems are either useless, in the corps' pockets themselves, or both.

    There's always a chance, but in this case it's probably not a good one.

  25. Re:American rights? on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not even wrong. Nobody said that CU caused that.

    They're saying that CU gave corporations more rights to pour money into politics, thereby giving them more "speech" than natural people. This happens to be true.