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  1. Re:Lesson pointedly taught: Don't do this, or else on 'G20 Geek' Byron Sonne Cleared of Explosives Charges · · Score: 1

    So what are are YOU doing about? Or are YOU the sort of coward that YOU presume the rest of us to be?

  2. Re:Still don't want one on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 1

    ...or with any iOS device for that matter

  3. Re:Still don't want one on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth keyboards work just fine with iPods. Next excuse?

  4. Re:They inherently suck on EULAs Don't Have To Suck · · Score: 1

    The Borland license was great!... and in plain english too!

    http://mobile.osnews.com/story.php/22342/Borland-in-the-1980s-Treat-Software-Just-Like-a-Book/

    No-Nonsense License Statement

    This software is protected by both United States copyright law and international copyright treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this software just like a book, except that you may copy it onto a computer to be used and you may make archival copies of the software for the sole purpose of backing-up our software and protecting your investment from loss.

    By saying "just like a book," Borland means, for example, that this software may be used by any number of people, and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another or on a computer network by more than one user at one location. Just like a book can't be read by two different people in two different places at the same time, neither can the software be used by two different people in two different places at the same time. (Unless, of course, Borland's copyright has been violated or the use is on a computer network by up to the number of users authorized by additional Borland licenses as explained below.)

  5. Re:How much more proof is needed ? on Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The sad thing is seeing people, even here in this thread, arguing in favor of reducing the middle class down to third world levels.

    Well of course they will argue that! Everyone assumes that they will be personally spared when "necessary" changes are made. It's human nature. It's both sad and funny

  6. Folk Dancing on The RMS Tour Rider · · Score: 1

    I read the rider years ago, when he spoke to our unix users group... and had to check and see if the folk dancing clause is still there. It is.

  7. Re:Not Canada... ocean west of Australia? on NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada · · Score: 1

    Okotoks is just outside of Calgary, Canada's 6 sixth biggest city. Glad to hear the debris hit the ocean instead

  8. Re:MMMMMM. BRAINSSSSS! on Researchers Say Dark Winters Led To Bigger Human Brains · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA "The Oxford University team said bigger brains did not make people smarter. Larger vision processing areas fill the extra capacity, they write in the Royal Society's Biology Letters journal."

  9. Re:When will there be too many "i"s? on Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS · · Score: 1

    ROTFLMAO

  10. Re:Why naming it Finland? on Laptop Design For Disassembly · · Score: 1

    Your wording makes it sound like "Stanford and Alto" is a university in Finland

  11. Re:The meaning of random on Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate In 2010 · · Score: 1

    ...all that land in Alaska, Canada and Siberia will be habitable when it warms so it looks like we will have room for the coastal folks!

    What makes you think that we will take them in? You can keep them. Don't expect that someone else will pay to clean up your mess

  12. Re:Don't be naive... on Paul Allen Amends Lawsuit Against Facebook, Apple · · Score: 1

    The original text was "He clearly wants to loose." I think that "injustus" has trouble spelling, but is also fascinated by a certain dead French midget and artist (aka. Toulouse-Lautrec)

  13. Re:Don't be naive... on Paul Allen Amends Lawsuit Against Facebook, Apple · · Score: 0
    ...to loose the hounds upon the peasants? ...Toulouse-Lautrec?

    I suspect that your spelling is a touch loose. I think you meant "lose".

  14. Re:Balmer must have sucked on France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax? · · Score: 1

    Well "le Coq Gaulois" is symbolically important after all...

  15. Re: Transmissions and extreme cold on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've seen all kinds of cars and tractors start in temperatures getting near or below -40 degrees. Some times that meant the transmission got busted.

    As a teenager in northern Canada, I learned that you need to warm up the transmission as well as the engine in extreme cold. A friend of my dad's forgot this lesson and and had to replace his car's automatic transmission.

    In extreme cold, you can protect your transmission by putting it in neutral for a few minutes. This gets the transmission oil moving (and warming) without engaging more delicate mechanical parts. Do not leave an automatic transmission in "Park".

    BTW - While several minutes of idling in neutral during EXTREME cold conditions are required to warm the transmission, 90 seconds of idling is all your engine needs. Any extra idling time is for only for the driver's comfort (i.e. warms up the cars interior )

  16. Re:-40? on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    In a large part of Canada (from the north of Lake Superior to the Rockies) you can guarantee at least a couple of days below -40 every winter... for real, with no wind chill fakery

  17. Re:OSNews? Thom Holwerda? Seriously? on OpenBSD 4.8 Released · · Score: 1

    For example, if you need to build a web server, you might pick OpenBSD because of its "secure-by-default" mantra. But what does that really buy you? You still need to run web server software, which is going to be the vector for any attack.

    A security audited version of Apache, inside a chroot jail, is part of the standard install.

    Please check your facts before posting. You'll avoid sounding like a trolling fanboi.

  18. Re:Imaginary? Really? on Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series · · Score: 1

    The huge fallacy in your argument is the assertion that people are ONLY motivated by financial gain. You have fallen victim to two errors of reasoning: the "false dichotomy" and the "straw man". In fact money can actually demotivate people and lead to poorer productivity, especially for so-called creative and knowledge workers.

  19. Befehl ist Befehl -- "I vas only following orders" on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    The Nuremberg Defense is a legal defense that essentially states that the defendant was "only following orders" ("Befehl ist Befehl", literally "order is order") and is therefore not responsible for his or her crimes.

  20. Re:Have they shown that hands-free devices help? on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the distraction is the problem, not the phone in your hand. Hands-free phones impare you just as much as being (legally) drunk. Here's a link

  21. The word is "orient", not "orientate" on Evolving Robots Learn To Prey On Each Other · · Score: 4, Informative

    The noun "orientation" is derived from the verb "orient", not the other way around.

  22. Rename it "Maxi-pod" on Fujitsu Readies Lawsuit Over "iPad" Name · · Score: 1

    What could be wrong with THAT?

  23. Of course it is! on Is Code Auditing of Open Source Apps Necessary? · · Score: 1

    The consequences of fixing a problem while it's being exploited are usually much more severe than not having the problem in the first place. Proactive security is the way to go. That's why BUGTRAQ is peppered with statements like, "This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago"

  24. Only 1/3 more data than in 1981! on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 1

    These data suggest that consumption has only increaded by 1/3 in 30 years!. If you factor in the fact that the internet has displaced a significant amount of TV viewing and book reading, then growth in data consumtion is even less.

  25. Holy retro Batman! (Win 98) on Opera 10.10 Released, Includes New "Unite" Tech · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just tried it on a vm running Windows 98 and it works! Holy retro Batman! We don' need no steenkin IE 6