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  1. Can someone translate this please ? on YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip · · Score: 1
    Here is a para from YouTube 'YouTube Community Guidelines' that is quoted to be in support of free speech:
    http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines

    We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).

    WTF is this ?

  2. Re:I would but I just don't have the time... on The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available · · Score: 1

    "Well, Mister La Forge... It would seem that time is what we have plenty of." - Picard, Stardate 46944.2

  3. Re:You're going to be disappointed...and bored on Corporate Boardrooms Open To Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Yeah and 90% of the time in the meeting was will fill up with these words: synergy, ecosystem, reaching out, momentum, below the radar, initiatives, collaborative effort, challenging ...

  4. Re:U.S. prison system is flawed on SCADA Vulnerabilities In Prisons Could Open Cell Doors · · Score: 1

    The purpose of prisons (in US and elsewhere) is not to correct behavior but to provide tools and facilities to control people. This creates an environment of fear that benefits rulers to enjoy dictatorial powers and still simulating democracy.

  5. Re:yikes, another version jump? on Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons · · Score: 0

    Oh Yea. Perfect consistency here: 3.1, 95, 2000, 7

  6. Re:Scroll Lock! on Review of IBM's Original Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    Not really. It turns and LED on.

  7. Re:Value... on Nortel Patent Sale Gets DoJ Review · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's how much $4B US will convert to Canadian dollars shortly.

  8. Another proof .. on IBM's Morphing Touchscreen Keyboard Interface · · Score: 1

    Just because it is stupid, doesn't mean it cant be patented.

  9. Re:I'm sure there is a joke on Top General: Defense Department IT In "Stone Age" · · Score: 1

    No. There is no such line in there as "A marine, a computer and a proprietary system walk in to a bar ...."

  10. Imagine ... on New Technology Turns Windows Into Solar Panels · · Score: 0

    Imagine what it can do to Linux...

  11. Really ? on Paying Hacker Extortion · · Score: 1

    This looks like a made-up story to me. No CIO of a 'medium sized publicly traded company' can be stupid enough to just throw away 100K like that. What is the name of this company ?

  12. What if on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 1

    What if the 'feces producer' was a vegetarian ?

  13. Re:Weightiest on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 1

    Hint: Dictionary

  14. Re:Weightiest on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 1

    Because we all know, the Heaviest element is "Jumbonium" (http://theinfosphere.org/Jumbonium)

  15. Re:is it just me? on 'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tried on LCD monitor, then on CRT. Still doesn't work.

  16. Tremendous contributions on No Moon Needed For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    I would love a job where I could just sit on my ass and speculate all day.

  17. That's not 'coding' on 'Giant' Neuron Regulates 50,000 Other Neurons · · Score: 1

    That's not coding. That's just conversion (or parsing).

  18. Re:Physics on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 1

    digital quantum batteries. This involves storing energy in arrays of nanocapacitors, whose small size enables quantum effects to require huge voltages for dielectric breakdown.

    These batteries deliver 1.5, 3, 5, 6, 12,48, 110 and 220V. All at the same time.

  19. Same one ? on 'Anonymous' Plans Sony Boycott On April 16 · · Score: 1

    Is he "The" Anonymous ?

  20. Re:It being Microsoft... on Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    its a small part of 47.x.x.x block that Nortel owns.

  21. Re:Something I'd like to know is... on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 2

    How much of that is pornographic "knowledge"?

    approximately 250 sexabytes.

  22. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    "27" is a digit now ?

  23. Re:C too complex? Hilarious. on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    That whole too complex thing... what, was he hired by Google as a janitor? Or a janitor's helper? Seriously, too complex? For whom? Is he trying to teach a German Shepherd to program? Twit. If you came to my company for a job, and you told me C was "too complex" or "too hard", I'd just show you the door.

    I think this guy is onto something. Some sort of unique vision on computing that is totally unheard of. Different than anything we are used to. Something so unconventional that it is controversial and is unthinkable without *really* getting out of the box (and leaving the planet where the box lives). I think this vision is about a revolution in the way which we do computing. A step closer to a day when machines will actually work for humans (not the other way around as Today). Anyone would be able tell a machine, in 'human forms and ways', to do stuff for them, without learning the 'machine rules'.
    Too bad you wont hire him, but something is telling me he is not interested in the kind of work you are offering (not to mention salary). There isn't any particular known shortage of good 'regular' coders. Google must have something different for him.

  24. Re:C too complex? Hilarious. on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    The computer is fast enough and powerful enough to do what you want it to do without you needing to exercise that level of control over how it actually does it.

    No computer is powerful enough to keep up with the crapiness of the software that may run on it. Look at Windows...

  25. Plausible Deniability on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 2, Informative
    RTFM for TrueCrypt:

    It may happen that you are forced by somebody to reveal the password to an encrypted volume. There are many situations where you cannot refuse to reveal the password (for example, due to extortion). Using a so-called hidden volume allows you to solve such situations without revealing the password to your volume.