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  1. Hello world on Skype Files For IPO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so this is the moment skype starts to get serious as a business? they already f*cked up royally by losing the social networking scene to FB, when they had a huge head start. They could have made awesome phones years ago, but blew it with those crappy handsets. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I still haven't seen the full skype client for android and webos. At any rate, this has been a company with so much promise for so long--I can only guess that fiasco with the "joltid" dudes is responsible for these screw-ups.

  2. Re:Solution in need of a (perceived) problem on Why Wave Failed · · Score: 1

    I found it the absolute best tool for brainstorming about projects. Really sad about this, and hoping it will be reversed somehow (backlash, full source, ???)

  3. Re:please oh please on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    within enormous key sizes, it doesn't make a difference FTFY

    BTW, a random 256-bit key has less than one billion chance of starting with 000000000000000000000000000000, and the remaining bits still make the space intractable. It is safe to use a random bit, even if it's first 100 bits are all zeroes (That's probably around the same chance of the entire population of America winning some federal lottery every single week for a decade).

  4. Re:please oh please on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    are you insane or just math crippled? divide that space by 100000000000000000000 and it still can't be done. Getting lucky after searching half the space? what a joke

  5. Re:The Washington Post.... on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    Well, we here been expecting this since 2008. Can only hope the Streisand effect kicks in and some really free country decides to protect wikileaks.

  6. Re:Apple and Gesturing on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    the bend over maneuver?

  7. Re:So... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    i respectfully disagree

  8. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Prison is for convicted felons. Indecent exposure is a misdemeanor. Furthermore, you would have to be caught urinating in a public area, such as a park, to be cited for it. But keep up the FUD.

    Are you insane, trolling, or just misinformed? http://www.eagletribune.com/nhnews/x1876416971/Lawmakers-Public-urination-shouldnt-lead-to-sex-offender-status

    Lawmakers: Public urination shouldn't lead to sex offender status By Gordon Fraser , Staff writer KINGSTON - Starting next year, urinating in public could land you on the sex offender registry.

    http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2007/03/florida_banishe.html

    There's lot more if you look for it. The economist had a huge report on the whole sex-offender hysteria. Feel free to change your mind.

  9. Re:Isnt't it obvious? on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the US learnt from VietNam. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 80s the US termed Afghanistan Russia's Vietnam, and now.....

    in soviet russia afghanistan is the US's afghanistan?

  10. You win sir! on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    for your excellence in http skills you have achieved the grand prize of 1 (one) internet. Your internet.com is in the mail.

  11. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 4, Interesting
    right now some kid is pissing, drunk, on a tree somewhere in the US. If he is unlucky, he will be caught by the police. If he's even more unlucky, it will be in a state where that is considered a *sexual offence*, and he'll get a nice labeling for his entire life. If he is even more unlucky and gets thrown on prison (not hard in the usa), gets regularly beaten, he will either learn to fight back and become a violent man, or get depressed into submission and become someone's bitch.

    my point is, even with the selection against agressive genes that wars provide, aggression, and most importantly, the ultra-violent people, get that way through a gradual learning process of though experiences most people in this forum will never be able to imagine.

  12. Re:I disagree on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    grandson?

  13. Re:Those buzzwords are okay, I guess... on R In a Nutshell · · Score: 1

    Sorry, only in loosely-coupled multidimensional-scaling managerial settings

  14. Re:Hmmmm. on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    because he's not working for ballmer?

  15. Re:Google on The Android Gets Its HyperCard · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that one, even just one application of quality or merit will be created with this?

    Oh my iphone's battery is going to die. Homecreen-->scroll until you find "settings", click-->Wifi, click, turn off, return-->brightness, click, lower, return-->General, click-->Network, click-->disable 3g, disable data, teetheting, return-->bluetooth, click-->disable BT, return-->location services, click-->disable, homescreen.

    Wouldn't it be awesome to have "apps" with one-click-profiles? But nope, that's not what Mr Jobs says, so no cookie.

    I for one think this little tool will be of great service, and I hope Apple wakes the F up.

  16. Well CONGRATS THEN! on New Google Research On Social Networks · · Score: 2, Funny

    well congrats then!

    Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'unable to get preference' in /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:420 Stack trace: #0 /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(365): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.data.g...', Array) #1 /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/mycliques/lib.php(121): FacebookRestClient->data_getUserPreference(0) #2 /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/mycliques/lib.php(133): getPrefRaw(Object(Facebook), 0) #3 /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/mycliques/lib.php(153): getPref(Object(Facebook), 0) #4 /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/mycliques/index.php(36): getPivot(Object(Facebook)) #5 {main} thrown in /home/httpd/htdocs/facebook-platform/client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 420

  17. Re:Fascinating on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    what? the constitution here is pretty huuuge dude, a real labyrinth: http://www.senado.gov.br/legislacao/const/con1988/CON1988_05.10.1988/index.shtm

  18. Re:WTF dude on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 2, Funny

    son, one day, with luck, you may be a troll of legendary proportions. for now, you're just trying too hard

  19. Re:Intelligent Design on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    then your intelligent designer decided to bring to this world lots and lots of innocent infected babies

  20. WTF dude on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sieg hiel?

  21. Re:HIV off the radar? on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 1

    but I think twenty-three-year-olds sometimes have issues actually comprehending what 50 years of an expensive daily drug regimen would be like.

    incredibly insightful remark. Here's more food for thought. http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/Heat_of_Moment.pdf

  22. Re:Sounds good... on Antibody Discovered To Boost HIV Vaccines · · Score: 1

    It's a _very broad_ antibody, so here's another analogy: if you can only eat carrots, will *you* still be *you* in the long run? The major thing I see in these papers is that there's a new method for finding out the one-in-a-million antibody that gets to a seemingly "stable" (hard to mutate) part of the virus envelope. So I think that not only can these two newfound antibodies, *in principle*, hold out 90%+ of the strains, but a) they just might be putting the other strains on such "a miserable carrot diet", and b) this is a *new method* which I suppose hundreds or perhaps thousands of researchers are RIGHT NOW going crazy over and over studying it, trying to replicate it, looking at it from other angles, ad nauseam. If lots of ambitious people are seeing this as their possible ticket to the nobel, expect to see more news in time for christmas.

  23. Re:The New York Times. on Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers · · Score: 1

    by Walt Mossberg!

  24. Re:It may have been on Experts Explain iPhone 4 Antenna Problem · · Score: 1

    I use a Macbook Pro as my development machine. I love that computer. It runs like a champ, is fast, battery life is great, and the trackpad is just about my favorite piece of computer hardware ever. It's great...except for the PERFECT right angle along the perimeter of the thing. A perfect right angle + solid aluminum construction = sore wrists for me.

    You nailed it, sir. I sold a macbook air for that reason, and while I still have a unibody macbook (need osx here), I detest that f*cking right angle, and there's not a single week when I don't curse j. ive for this. The funny thing is that with precision machining, it could be the smoothest thing out there, yet they pull these shenanigans over and over (the new mac mini has a memory slot *behind* the machine for crying out loud). It's *always* form over function in jobs little kingdom.

  25. Re:WTF on Google Voice Opens To All · · Score: 0, Troll

    "New Ubuntu resealed for all!!" (South Africa only) / "Skype available for all!!" (Finland only IIRC) / "Wikileaks discloses shit for all" (Iceland only). Nobody questions that /. is US-centric, that's a straw-man. People question the use of "for all" to refer only to the superior, as in "All men are created equal". Douglas Hofstadter once wrote an incendiary piece in which he changed male-centric words (man, guy) for white-centric words, with things like "White lands on Moon". He did this to show, in the most incendiary way possible, how much we categorize some and gladly leave others away from the party. I for one think this is funny weird language, but I was just pointing out a funny thing, not really into a political mood for such rant today.