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  1. Re:mobile platform on Why Android Is the New Windows · · Score: 1

    There is an entire world outside the top linux distros and a few specialized applications. Saying linux isn't fragmented is silly.

  2. Re:Streisand Effect on Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear · · Score: 2

    Maybe it's not us that bothers her. Those gnomes can be terrifying.

  3. Re:Ask the AA/ANWB or whatever fixes car on the ro on 'Pocket Airports' Would Link Neighborhoods By Air · · Score: 1

    Old people tend to be afraid of this kind of stuff, I don't think there would be a big problem.

  4. Re:Yay... on Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center · · Score: 1

    Sure, but I think it's silly to declare Twitter as the next and only thing. I don't use it, most of the people I know don't use it, so that's kind of a barrier in itself. Should I have to go around and tell people they need to use Twitter so I can keep up with them? Why not just Facebook? Why not Google Voice? Honestly, I like Voice (so long as it remains free), and it's kind of awesome that I can just send a text message to a bunch of people much more quickly at a computer. I don't have to worry about who follows Twitter, who's on Facebook, nothing.

  5. Re:Wait... on McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    Yes, billions served, but they leave out how many people were actually affected. Sure, it makes sense to not disclose that number, but I'd bet it is embarrassingly small.

  6. Re:Anonymous Coward on Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked · · Score: 2

    Assange's tiny role as Roger in Pulp Fiction more than makes up for this.

  7. Re:Hmm... on Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked · · Score: 2

    But what about the people the enjoy using dating sites? Don't you think a dating site would be a good place to find like-minded people?

  8. Re:FFS on Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or possibly mutated into some kind of freakish super hero with a giant lightning rod.

  9. Re:Counter Perspective on Watch 200 Years of Global Growth In 4 Minutes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when there's no more oil, it's back to horses.

    I haven't heard of this, how does it work? Do they make some kind of liquefied paste out of the horses? Do some breeds contain more energy than others? So many questions.

  10. Re:Cost on SatPhones — Why Can't They Make It Work? · · Score: 1

    My cellphone just got deactivated because I decided I didn't want to pay the bill anymore. I activated a Google Voice account, and I'm making calls and sending texts for free with my netbook (or texts via my phone when hooked to wifi).

    I can dig it.

  11. Re:A what? on Anonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a machine that stores, retrieves, and serves Fax. Fax such as "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop" and "how often does Google watch me in the shower?"

    Current forms of Fax Machines are Wikipedia, and Answers.com. They serve their purpose and serve it well. Previous incarnations include the Rosetta Stone, Newpaper Rock, and the Black Monolith. While comparatively primitive by modern standards, these archaic Fax Machines undoubtedly sparked the minds of those who used them.

    Honorable mention goes to Baghdad Bob for keeping faithful to the true heart of Fax Machines, though ultimately his Fax were deemed inaccurate.

  12. Re:Google should ask... on Google Seeking "Search Without Search" · · Score: 1

    Surprised there isn't a Google credit card or something to add to all the tracking info.

  13. Re:It is Not DDoS on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    It's still a bit of both, as this DoS is preventing people from ignoring picketers. Forced boycott would maybe be more appropriate.

  14. Re:I've lost track of my passwords... on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    I think you guys are all missing the point. Take off the geek hat for a minute.

    Seriously, who wants to bother with having to do this?

  15. Re:Children suck on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    Big meanie... =(

  16. Re:The torrent file... on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    when you provide it to third parties who may become compromised.

    Which is why I'm comfortable using Google for everything. At least they're rich and huge, if something terrible happens to my life because they get hacked, as an American citizen, I have a right to sue the shit out of them along with a ton of other people.

  17. Re:The torrent file... on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    To study how random people choose their passwords

    Yeah, but does it really matter anymore? I mean, my password of X#ss09@$xxpp-ass93mces!!@!! would be no more secure than my password of 12345 if it becomes easier to just see everyone's password rather than trying to guess.

    The days of the username/password are coming to a close, and it looks like it might happen sooner than desired.

  18. Re:Further Lessons on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    These assholes wanted to hack a site and used a paper thin excuse to do it.

    Maybe, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they have arrived as a politically influential group. I find that kind of interesting, regardless of whether I agree with them or not.

  19. Re:Harsh Sentence on IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I think morality of what happened should factor into the sentence (though, not whether you are guilty or innocent).

    A man mysteriously appears and jumps into the river to save your child. When he gets out of the water, you recognize him as an escaped convict from the news. Do you tell the authorities?

  20. Re:How will this influence solar power research? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, you're right. I tend to think of the evolutionary process as a series of choices between random (but somehow predetermined) events that are likely to occur.

    It's all science, and science is kind of logical sometimes.

  21. HAHAHA!!! on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Personally, I find this hysterical. I mean, c'mon, the /. stereotype can only go so far. Sometimes there's just women out there that want us. And then we pretend to play their games and blah blah blah.

    I, therefore, announce this day Man Day. To be celebrated by doing what ever it is you, as a total and complete geek that understands the draw of these kinds of stories, would like to do. So fuckin what if it's a Thursday. Make it a long weekend.

  22. Re:How will this influence solar power research? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    I have absolutly no amount of expertise in this, but I would guess that the yellow pigments are chosen because yellow is a color of warning. Maybe it also suffers from less photodegradation as well? A combination of the two possibly makes yellow the ideal choice. I dunno, but either way I'm guess it has something to do with how yellow pigments react to light.

  23. Re:There's a really useful aspect to these. on A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets · · Score: 1

    ...then dropping an automated turret, which can be easily disabled by semi-organized militia

    Or possibly by infecting it with the QWOP virus.

  24. Re:It does not have the Juche spirit on A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets · · Score: 1

    Along with most of the rest of the world my human brother.

  25. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    Either way, from the summary I gather it is about rejuvenating some swamp

    Some swamp? Hardly. Jesus man, who knows where you're from, but you clearly subscribe to some kind of fucking newsletter.