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  1. Re:Frogs on Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance · · Score: 1

    Could the entanglement just as easily happen if the photons were fired into my left butt-cheek?

    Don't think anybody knows / cares what happens to your left butt-cheek so there is no need (under many-worlds,thoughts are a collapsed state,etc theories) for your left butt-cheek to collapse to a state were it is certain if the photon hit it or not.

  2. Re:Hacked by themselves? on Pirate Bay Founder Begs For Hacker Ceasefire · · Score: 3, Funny

    hacker1: finally we got root!
    hacker2: what i thought they were a windows box?
    hacker1: not anymore, dos a load-balanced Lighttpd cluster bitches!

  3. Re:Shouldn't affect the case on Pirate Bay Founder Begs For Hacker Ceasefire · · Score: 1

    If criminals (or at the very least, immoral hackers) are backing TPB, then why is it a stretch to say that TPB has been assisting in some form of not-perfectly-legal activity?

    ahh trying the old guilt by association trick, i call to the stand king kong!

  4. Re:That's it? on A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops · · Score: 1

    i dunno enough to be sure, but reading part 1 leads me to two conclutions:
    1.) The guy really hates the itanium
    2.)

    Advice for AMD: Hold the superlatives. First deliver in quantity the actual, viable physical chip that's supposed to do all these things better than the shipping Intel chip (shipping since October 2006). The adage "talk is cheap" has special meaning to journalists. And, I would imagine, special meaning to AMD's waiting customers.

    The guy doesn't get marketing stratergies, talking up something that is late in a market your loosing is simply a holding tactic so that people don't run into the hands of the competition.

  5. Re:Exactly two ways to avoid this stuff on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    And despite what you say, consumer study after consumer study unwaveringly shows that consumers are incredibly price conscious. Though there is a market for products that give you the warm fuzzies (fair trade, etc), the vast majority of consumers will buy the cheapest product available, even if the price difference is only a few pennies.

    What about fair trade coffee, tea, bananas, etc? its almost impossible for me to get non fair trade stuff at the supermarket here.

  6. Re:What and how on Open Source Study Included In US Stimulus Package · · Score: 2, Funny

    why cant they just use the old techniques, like going to war while your family own shares in the biggest item on the military budget?

  7. Re:Jeez, I'd like to patent invisible rocket suits on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean you can make it work in 10 years or less.

    I think UT has prior art on that

    I guess we should be patenting everything we can possibly think of, now. Sigh.

    I think Apple has prior art on that

  8. Re:Playing devil's advocate here... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    how can Apple take a cut for providing something that is probably free?

    Erm apple get their cut on the fucking overpriced phones+contracts, the developers give the iphones value by producing applications and they still have to give cut that in no way relates to the costs.

    hosting and bandwidth

    Sorry a major tech company hosting a repository does not cost an excessive amount, ISPs crawl over themselves to host repos, but you expect me to believe that its costing apple more than 0.02c to deliver an app to a phone (with any encryption they choose)?

    setting up your own online store

    Funny because a lot of companies DO have online stores, (steam, codeweavers, etc) while apples makes installing stuff easier:
    1) this sells iphones
    2) there is no need to lock out all competitors

    contracts with CC companies

    Finally something substantial but its not going to be more than a few percent, not 30%

  9. Re:Playing devil's advocate here... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    you know how else they could help developers, not charging a 30% cut.

  10. Re:What value? on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    ah but are we talking HDD GB or O/S GiB
    1Tib could well fill 25GB of your hard drive in 0.18s, but an ISP would have to be a complete douche to use such units of measurement...

  11. Re:sweet on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo, our world is a hologram, making a holodeck inside it would be like googleing google.

  12. Re:That's an aweful lot of porn. on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Prostitution, recommended by 9/10 doctors as less virus ridden than using IE for browsing porn.

  13. Re:no good on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    You can have a repeater ever 3 inches. Simply

  14. Re:Noticed this for a while now on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: 3, Informative

    the qt rewrite is dead jim.

    Its a shame i was really looking forward to the qt port, but just like the old port, it got done then dropped AFAICanTell there wasn't enough developer interest and no users were using it as it wasn't quite usable :(.

  15. Re:How fast do we need? on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: 5, Funny

    hey i want the page render before i even click the link (possibly using thiotimoline, but i don't care about specifics), until the browser does that i will never be happy!

  16. Re:Torrents are just tools. on Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday · · Score: 1

    Nah they don't even have bricks, it's like suing the hardware store, for telling the thief that there were some bricks round back, which were subsequently used to steal your car.

  17. Re:End Copyright on Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right. If you've been affected by copyright abuse, then you should realize exactly how useless and counter-productive copyright law is.
    As for drugs, there's a huge gap between what protects people and the ridiculous laws we have today. I believe there's a place for drug law, but that it needs to be made sensible again before anyone will respect it.

  18. Re:Microsoft is responsible on Microsoft Slaps $250K Bounty On Conficker Worm · · Score: 1

    I swear last time i setup XP it was home and there was a power user setting under the hidden user contols menu (ControlUserPasswords2.ccp i think)

  19. Re:One Word on Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux · · Score: 1

    Its just annoying that its hard/impoissible to find a foss version of moonlight. One say i will put the effort in and compile an ffmpeg version, but until then i have no intention of touching the microsoft codec pack.

    It seams like something that could easily be packaged in a tar or deb by people who don't care about legal threats and then linked to by everybody (well apart from the shills that produce moonlight).

  20. Re:Security through obscurity on The Real Risks of Obama's BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    They also got the premise of why he wasn't supposed to have the blackberry wrong, It was to keep stuff secret from the public, nothing to do with spys.

  21. Re:The REAL world of open-source game design on Brave New World of Open-Source Game Design · · Score: 1

    netcraft, wesnoth, tremulous and ufo:ai (while an xcon clone it implements and many things that weren't in the original and generally uses ufo:ai as a launching pad to implement a damn good game)

  22. Re:Headline wrong on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Actually your aristocratic leaders made sure that their minority couldn't be trampled by the majority, you still have congress to stop the two wolves eating you, just the reprisentative of your country will actually represent you.

  23. Re:Is it that easy? on MS Critical Patch Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    yeah but qmail hasn't :p

  24. Re:operation of the air traffic control system on FAA Network Hacked · · Score: 1

    wait so if any point on a network is insecure, everything on the network is unsafe?
    And nobody ever developed a protocol to allow two known safe computer to connect over such an unsafe network?

  25. Re:This is a story? on False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the story was that Wikipedia verifiability over truth policy is retarded!