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  1. Re:Pfft, why? on Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI · · Score: 1

    That doesn't even make sense! What the hell?! I could understand if they had problem remembering the exact printer model when selecting which area to print to and gave it a name like "Barney", but amending an identifier specifically to make supporting it easier? It beggars belief...

  2. Re:far less than 50% on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    That makes a lot more sense now. Doctors do recommend that women using cycle-suppressive hormone pills to come off them for a couple of months a year, presumably for the reasoning in your last paragraph.

  3. Re:example for those who didn't get the point on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that a woman is having sex if she's not pregnant.

    A female human who is not pregnant and not on contraceptive medications has an average period of 1 month between menstrual cycles (ovulation to ovulation).

  4. Re:Pfft, why? on Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI · · Score: 1

    Good point. It's terrible that hostnames are hard-coded into the operating system on installation, and that sticky labels are permanent fixtures once applied.

    Boy, I could sure save some money replacing equipment which needed to be moved by changing the hostname and printing a new sticker.

  5. Re:Pfft, why? on Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI · · Score: 1

    This guy was talking about a computer lab. I get the impression that Huey, Duey, Louie, Barney, Smarmey, Charley, Blarney, Indigo Montarney etc will get particularly bothersome to keep tabs on as a convention. Why not B2R22Cad4? CAD machine 4 in lab 22, building 2. Not easy to remember, but memory isn't required. You have all of the information you need without having to learn anything but a naming convention.

  6. Re:Yes! We're ALL individuals!! on Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    You're just as individual as the next guy.

  7. Re:damn on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 2, Informative

    They did. Open up USC, select Installed Software, search for and select Empathy and press the remove button.
    Once that's finished, select Get New Software, search for Pidgin, select Pidgin Internet Messenger and press the Install button.

    You're done. Automatically hooks into the MeMenu.

  8. Re:Unrelated on Three Ground-Breaking Miniature Biosensors · · Score: 2, Funny

    By any chance did you experiment with mind-altering substances in the 60's?

  9. Re:One of these doesn't belong on Three Ground-Breaking Miniature Biosensors · · Score: 1

    On a serious note, it would prove a useful way to check if a needle is safe for use by drug addicts. Would cut blood-borne infections in the western world by a lot.

  10. Re:Is there a way to exploit this? on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    Sure! Just start having relationships with men while secretly lusting for women, and you'll be good to go!

    Good luck staying sane. Oh, and if you get found with a female hooker you'll probably be done for tax fraud.

  11. Re:Paying straight people less, lawsuit? on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, the government can't and you should collectively stop them doing it.

    Wait, you're not gay and don't care about gay rights unless you're on the losing end? Hypocrites.

  12. Re:Still unfair.. on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Troll. Mod to death.

  13. Re:far less than 50% on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Next, it is not natural for a woman to have a monthly period. That's a side effect of birth control. Go all natural, and you probably get a couple periods every couple years.

    I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that this lack of basic knowledge of the human female reproductive system is strongly correlated with the fact that you have a 5-digit user ID.

    Unless you think the vast majority of women on the planet are being surreptitiously fed contraceptive pills by some clandestine government agency, the statistics point to an average 1-month menstrual cycle. Bear in mind that records began before we knew about such things as the corpus luteum, oocytes, and probably back when we all blamed Eve for original sin and the bleeding from her hoo-hoo was the punishment.

    Abnormal levels of oestrogen is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, though.

  14. Re:Answers to all TFA questions on Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you're telling me he was at Woodstock '69?

    For those who don't know what it was like, clicky

  15. Re:Pfft, why? on Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How idiotic. Name servers that way if you must, but workstations should be named by geographic location, building, room, station number. Nicknames don't count, but for sanity's sake name your equipment logically.

  16. Re:Sweet on Automated Language Deciphering By Computer AI · · Score: 1

    Only if the gross gains in closing juncture exceed the long-term sustainability goals of the viability imperative for all mass interoperability.

    Only if we can update the UI for version 2 and sell it a second time to the same saps.

    We at Mega Industries believe this will move us forward to our cloud-based monetization of the human-media dynamic which is strategically important in an ever-evolving mobile continuum.

    When everyone has it, we can turn it into a subscription-based cash cow.

    We have directed our customer experience champions to ensure consumers realize this when they call in with emphatic expressions of dissatisfaction.

    Tell the whining losers that premium support is only available with the Platinum Care package, and transfer them to "Gord-on" in the Mumbai sales office.

  17. Re:Animal Intelligence on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 1

    As amusing as that is, we can all agree that lawyers are multi-cellular parasites, and therefore more closely related to Hirudinea.

  18. Wrong idea, Jobs. on Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. · · Score: 1

    If it was me, I'd have said "We put a pair of headphones with an integrated microphone in that box, yet you insist on holding the phone up to your ear! How are you going to operate your iPad with one hand near your head? Do like I do, and use the headphones for total freedom when using your giant iPod Tou... err iPad."

  19. Re:Grammar Goliath ONLINE on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 3, Funny

    YouTube is an single corporate entity and not plural

    Muphry's Law

  20. Re:Without content protection, we would not ... on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 1

    It didn't do that for me. Check your cookies, turn off form autofill... You've done something wrong there, or you need to sign out of something.

  21. Re:Slashdotted on First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    If you're not happy clicking a link with the word "whore" in the link, here's one from a local US news website: http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/97450059.html

  22. Re:I can't really afford a big camera on UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stopping a press photographer from photographing a public event in a public place featuring members of the public, and some public servants in the form of military personnel, or police officers who are expressly forbidden preventing photographs being taken of themselves or their identifying markings?

    I read about this yesterday on El Reg, and watched the video. The kid was polite yet firm, and remarkably well informed for a teenager (he's 16). I hope he gets a few of these idiots fired.

  23. Re:She looks like a spy. on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 1

    Model, millionaire pro poker player, heavy metal fan, Astrophysics graduate.

    Liv Boeree

  24. Re:What secrets do spies hope to obtain? on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 1

    I don't have a whole lot of time.

    OK, I'm a former employee of Area 51. I was let go on a medical discharge about a week ago and, and I've kind of been running across the country. I don't know where to start! They're going to triangulate on this position really really soon.

    OK, what we're thinking of as aliens are extradimensional beings that an earlier precursor of the space program made contact with. They are not what they claim to be! They've infiltrated a lot of aspects of the military establishment, particularly the Area 51. The disasters that are coming, they, the military, the government knows about them. And there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin moving the population to now. They are not!

    They want those major population centers wiped out so that the few that are left will be more easily controllab7&*(^[CARRIER LOST]

  25. Re:Hands Up on 36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    s/story/headline;