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  1. Re:The Children? on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Technically the hierarchy of needs says sex is needed prior to shelter, but (no|a few|some|most|all) psychologists say that the hierarchy of needs is broken in this respect.

  2. Re:oh gn0es! on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 1

    It is pitch black.
    Both of you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  3. Re:Wordpress has the option on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    The problem is I don't feel like going to Google when I could just change
    http://www.example.com/2009/3/foo.html
    to
    http://www.example.com/2009/3
    which will DTRT in Wordpress AFAIK unless your server is broken.

  4. Re:lkml.org server is slashdotted. on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    ext3 "forces" a fsck every ~37 mounts, but you can override it with tune2fs.

  5. Re:lkml.org server is slashdotted. on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    I'd say ~34 mounts until it forces it... unless he played with tune2fs, in which case, yes it will be stuck for eternity.

  6. Re:wow on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Is this a bad joke, or didn't you read the page you linked to? (Grammar Nazis, look it up BEFORE complaining.)

  7. Re:The Science Teacher Who Cleaned The Chem Closet on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    For the bored, picric acid is in the same class of chemicals as TNT, and its Wikipedia page describes in a way reminiscent of Nitroglycerin.

  8. Re:NASA problem on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Ironically enough, that (the Cs-Bathtub thing) was disproved by Mythbusters. They tried Francium too. Admittedly they only used 20 grams, but the show said "2 grams". 20=2×10^1

  9. Re:NASA problem on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    We may never know. So let's save some virtual ink and paper and stop trying.

  10. Re:Myth... on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you are unfamiliar with his unfamiliarity with Mythbusters.

  11. Re:Wrong. on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    So The Truth (tm) might be an impediment to the truth?

  12. Re:Kind of like interviewing Sarah Palin then. on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    That's not unique to Palin, all politicians do that, especially at debates ("The question, I think ... is... [but what about the question he asked you?]" (One of Obama's responses to a question in the first debate (paragraph "We haven't seen the language yet")); "If [condition that doesn't apply], then [irrelevant answer], else if [irrelevant condition], then [irrelevant answer] else [nobody cares]." (general gist of Obama's response to Joe the Plumber -- and just because Joe isn't a Plumber, and his name isn't "Joe" doesn't mean his argument is invalid.); "FUCK YOU! I know more than anyone here!" (McCain quote, not verbatim, but the expletive was, said in committee, in Congress, while in session, and no, that comma wasn't wrong.))

    Finally, moderators, please remember that (-1, troll) != (-1,idontlikethat)

  13. Re:Using Twitter for material on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    Do the human respondents have access to Google etc? Can they formulate and execute a search query with the primary delay being network lag rather than thinking time? I'd say a definite no for the second one.

  14. Re:Interlocutors on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    On a tangential note the interlocutors I hate the most are the pre-programmed phone systems the telco sets up to "help" you. You know, the ones that say "I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question" when you tell them for the hundredth time "my DSL keeps randomly disconnecting."

    At least they're ten times better than the outsourced-to-India tech support.

  15. Re:Got that? on Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM? · · Score: 3, Funny

    and 2.629% of comments are so-called "Combo breaker"s. About 90% of them work ;). In other news: 2.6.29% of people don't understand decimal points, oddly enough.

  16. Re:Genius on Stardock, Microsoft Unveil Their Own New Anti-Piracy Methods · · Score: 1

    Hint about the GP:
    Car=DRM
    Car-buyer=Company
    You're thinking:
    Car=Program
    Car-buyer=Program-buyer (i.e. end luser)

  17. Re:You don't get sober in 5 seconds! on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 1

    I don't think Google is that stupid, but there might be practical reasons for making it client side...?

  18. Re:That makes no sense on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 1

    No good, various inept GUI designers have given the average luser a hairtrigger "hit OK" response to dialog boxes--usually faster than they can read them.

  19. Re:Total War? on TomTom Sues Microsoft For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Heck, you can be smart and STILL waste all the money you earned for being smart.

    Note to lazy mods: Make sure you read the paragraph before the "Barbara ... Mikkelson" line, if you don't understand WTF I'm trying to say. If you won't follow my link, go mod someone else instead.

  20. Re:Remains unbelievable on Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution · · Score: 1

    What % of Americans are fundamentalists/don't see the bigotry?

  21. Re:What do you expect on Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution · · Score: 1

    And the '60s and '70s were just a "burp"?

  22. Re:As someone from Alabama, let me say thanks on Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution · · Score: 1

    the baby Jesus was Real (as in, he was in fact a real person who actually lived around 0 to 40 CE).

    OTOH, The Baby Jesus is totally ln(-1)/pi. And stop using ! next to numbers -- it looks like a factorial (wtf is i! anyway?)!

  23. Re:Zero! on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    The PATRIOT act (yes it is supposed to be capitalized like that) passed and no one even read it!

  24. Re:Ibuprofen pusher? on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    The responsible people and the school need a severe smack down in civil court. Start by taking the vice principles net worth times four from him (leave him destitute and in debt). Then hit the school for enough money to pay for the girls college after lawyers fees.

    IANAL. The law system doesn't work that way, unfortunately. Be nice if it did, though, except for the RIAA cases suddenly being constitutionally valid and all. Again, IANAL.

  25. Re:Been following this for awhile. on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules," the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, "only that she was never caught."

    So, he (the spokesperson/whoever made that statement) works with kids his whole life and most of them are bad, ergo all are bad? Use logic people! Or at least stick to deductive if you're too stupid to attempt inductive, as these people evidently are. WTF do they think they're saying?? Innocent until proven guilty. There's a thousand holes in that statement. What were these people thinking?