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  1. Re:Meanwhile... on New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners · · Score: 1
  2. Re:"Threats" ? These are convicted FELONS !! on New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is a similar accepted spelling "Paedophilia" but, yes, you're right, his stereo equipment isn't heard of.

  3. Re:I sure hope they get this patent on Apple Seeks Patent On Operating System Advertising · · Score: 1

    Yeah, stupid microsoft! what were they thinking!?

    oh wait.. this is apple? Wow, this may actually be the final straw that made Linux win.

  4. Management on The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's usually a decision on management's side to not use best practices, despite warnings from the tech dept.

    tldr; There's nothing wrong with the technology, just the greedy bastards using it.

  5. Re:Autotune the News on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, during the video, some of the vocoded effects utilized a chord from the synth, not just a single note. This is not a feature of Antares Autotuner.

  6. Re:I somehow let myself fall into this @ Circuit C on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    But nevermind, looks like since the OEM (probably around SP1), they officially say all are compatible now. There was a horrible time when they really did recommend only 2007.

  7. Re:I somehow let myself fall into this @ Circuit C on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's true. Although a few quick hacks will get it to work, officially microsoft doesn't support under office 2007 on vista.

  8. Re:Not Autotune on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 1

    I mentioned this above, but this seems like a much better thread for it-

    While Autotuning is a form of a vocoder, I must point out that this was not, in fact, an autotuner, but just plainly a vocoder with the particular notes carried by a synth.

    The difference being that autotuners attempt to use the same sound as the voice for a carrier, in order to keep it sounding like the singer. In this vocoder, the singer is only the modulator, and a synth is used as the carrier.

  9. Re:Autotune the News on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 1

    While Autotuning is a form of a vocoder, I must point out that this was not, in fact, an autotuner, but just plainly a vocoder with the particular notes carried by a synth.

    The difference being that autotuners attempt to use the same sound as the voice for a carrier, in order to keep it sounding like the singer. In this vocoder, the singer is only the modulator, and a synth is used as the carrier.

  10. Re:Vaccine Is Partially Successful on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently you've never watched old movies. Seriously, color is a recent invention.

  11. Re:Profit! on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make any sense at all! You'll probably win in court though, that sounds just about the level of the average judge's IQ.

  12. Re:this patenting thing ... on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doing the opposite of what was said? I have a patent on that .. !

  13. Re:already the case on Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology? · · Score: 1

    It's funny, my old computer could handle just about anything I threw at it- 3d games (on low), videos, multiple monitors.. but HD video on hulu was the reason I needed to upgrade! That and web browsing was a tad slow (especially with multiple tabs open!).

    It's interesting how I upgraded for the internet.

  14. Re:Another unhappy FP customer... on FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test · · Score: 1

    That sounds like the average experience with fairpoint. nobody has ever had a good deal with them.

  15. Re:FairPort or FairPoint? on FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test · · Score: 1

    I believe it's Fainport, no wait.. FarPoint, no.. FairPair.. FrapPants?

    I giveup

  16. Help! on FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Help! New Hampshire Internet Refugee here -

    The reports slamming Fairpoint have not been exaggerated, I work in the tech industry in NH, and I have seen countless problems with many of my clients who have fairpoint. I personally have had endless frustration-

    A new 7.1 mbps service that took them 3 months and 1000 calls later to actually hook up! The techs there seem to have little idea of what's going on, and each promises a phone call back that never happens. They've mastered stalling techniques such as "Well I put it in the system, but we'll have to wait 24-72 hours for it to 'go through'"

    "go through!?" Let me tell you guys something, this is the tech's way of not dealing with you. When my problem finally got fixed (I had finally gotten through to a top tier tech), he was on the phone with me and went, oh I see the problem, and it was fixed instantly. There is no magical factory of oompa loompas out back processing these cpu instructions- it's a fucking computer network run by .. computers.

    Techs decide what they can and cannot do in order to get off the phone with you as soon as possible, conveinently never having access to that part of the system that can FIX anything.

    There's nothing good going on behind the scenes at fairpoint, and their staff are a bunch of jokers. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get on the phone with their billing department and figure out why my auto-pay billing keeps billing but never charges the card! I've got over $300 in late fees.. and I don't know why!

  17. Re:Creepy... on How To Send Email When You're Dead · · Score: 1

    this made me seriously laugh out loud. Thank you!

  18. Re:Linearization on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    only if you measure the pebble on top of mount everest from sea level. It's all about your frame of reference.

  19. Re:Linearization on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Which always made me wonder, how do gravity waves escape a black hole?

    Quantum WTF. From what I've understood, not just gravity but the black hole itself will eventually go away.

    Well I mean.. Gravity Waves are the gravity, so I'd assume they'd have to escape the black hole, or it wouldn't be a blackhole.

  20. Re:Here's some pedantry for ya on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    haha, I wish I had a mod point for you. +1 awesome funnytimes

  21. Re:money on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    And there you've summed up just about all businesses in the USA.

  22. Re:Bug free software would be insanely expensive! on Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    if they sold it for $2.. wouldn't that be $450m profit?

  23. Re:Bug free software would be insanely expensive! on Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    Not everything can be controlled by you, but certainly every exception can at least be handled gracefully. Otherwise we call it a bug.

  24. Re:I believe almost every free software I use has. on Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    I have written the bug free code:

    print("hello world!");

    it works, even on my toaster.

    Queue comments pointing out special places where even this would break.

  25. Re:Nows not the time to be logical on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    not socially intelligent or successful at all he was scary (aggressive drinking manipulative).

    You have to be socially intelligent to be successfully manipulative.

    Agreed. Manipulation is a skillset all on it's own.