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  1. Re:Mozilla Office on Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight · · Score: 1

    Isn't Java the program that tries to get me to DL OO every time I update it?

    They could just tag it in there like that, too

  2. Re:Make more typewriters! on Sharp To Quit Making Personal Computers · · Score: 1

    hmm, embedded Linux running open office, a 10x4 LCD screen with an integrated printer and keyboard. That would be an interesting device

  3. Re:I agree on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should have been a little more descriptive of what was actually done because I wrote a long rant about "who the hell is wiki to decide that city is called Derry and the county is called Londonderry.

    What actually happened is there was a compromise on the "Article Names" and both articles start the same. The city article Derry "Derry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland..." and the county article starts "County Londonderry or County Derry is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland..."

  4. Re:Imagine that! on Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Implying that dragging people to court isn't engaging

  5. The real reason Monica was on her knees on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    she was helping him look for the launch codes

    Shamelessly stolen from Fark

  6. Ethics? on Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of the cloud but I've never considered it unethical. Care to elaborate?

  7. Re:US needs China more then China needs US on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Actually the PRC is back on top by a margin of ~25B

    Also Hong Kong has $135.2B when it comes down to it I'd count that as well.

    And for a good laugh $150.7B by Caribbean Banking Centers

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

  8. Re:Environmentalism on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Fantastic even faster than before.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

  9. Re:kick them out on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    From my understanding mining is the easy part, the hard part is processing it, and that is a messy job and is expensive to do because of environmental regulations.

  10. Re:a trade war? good on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    America hating and Anti-deodorant, you sound French.

  11. Re:Control on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was shortly after Apple's Marketing Department redefined the word Nerd to include "artsy people" who know nothing about technology.

  12. Re:Talking about the apocalypse... on How To Deflect an Asteroid With Today's Technology · · Score: 1

    Couldn't it also be true the apocalypse happened before anyone built a time machine?

  13. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 1

    That quote is from the book "God in the Dock" or basically God on trial, I haven't read it and I so don't know the full context.

  14. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 1

    He was still elected by the citizens, it's just the system doesn't necessarily require a majority of the citizens to be elected.

  15. Re:Anyone surprised? on Government Admits Spying Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    You know what's even worse I miss read John Boehner as Justin Bieber. The only reason I realized that I miss read it is because of the statement "obscene percentage of people had no idea who $NAME is"

    I have no clue who John Boehner is I don't follow political news.

  16. Re:Anyone surprised? on Government Admits Spying Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    Pure democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep deciding on what to eat for dinner.

  17. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember reading about someone shooting a robber who was robbing a neighbors house and it being ok, and yes it was Texas

  18. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    IANAL but if they don't have a warrant they cannot come onto your property and in theory they do not have the legal protections. In actuality ...

  19. Re:Ear Drums? on Baumgartner's Daredevil Parachute Jump From Space Put On Hold · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain he's going to be in a full pressure suit.

  20. Re:They did a space jump in Star Trek (2009) on Baumgartner's Daredevil Parachute Jump From Space Put On Hold · · Score: 1

    Starship Troopers did it well before that

  21. Re:Wow! on Countries Considering Circumlunar Flight From ISS · · Score: 1

    So we need to convince the DoD that we need a "Rods from God" array in orbit?

  22. Re:Doing what we already did 40 years ago? Yawn. on Countries Considering Circumlunar Flight From ISS · · Score: 1

    Once you are in orbit you are half way to anywhere

  23. Re:*yawn*. Call me when we lose at Go. on Computer Defeats Human At Japanese Chess · · Score: 1

    I don't claim to know any thing about AI, but brute-forcing doesn't sound like a good way to solve problems, and humans obviously don't user brute force when they play so ...

  24. Re:It looks like it'd take an economic meltdown to on Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt · · Score: 1

    I thought Breeders were banned in the US because of some nonproliferation bs.

  25. Re:In other news... on AI Pushing the Boundaries of Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that we've basically exhausted the capabilities of chemistry in terms of rocket fuel, the only tricks that chemistry has left produce fuel that is too unstable to actually be used/produced in any useful quantities.

    Please note that I'm under this impression from what I saw at a site that was advocating nuclear rockets.