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  1. Re:I'd think "D.C." alone is a title of doom. on DC CTO Vivek Kundra Named To Top Federal IT Job · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's this thing called the House of Representatives, you may want to look into it for your representation based on population needs.

  2. Re:Why? on Wind Farms To Receive Future Wind Forecasts · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why would an energy company want to have an estimate of how much or how little a particular portion of their grid is going to produce? What could they possibly do with that sort of information? It's not like our electrical grid is built to primarily rely on a very steady base load and doesn't tolerate spikes well...

  3. Re:Pepsi on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    But Ginseng (and Siberian Ginseng) are NATURAL! Don't you understand? They're not drugs, so you don't have to worry about any side effects. They're obviously good for you and perfectly safe.

    Socrates: I drank what?

  4. Re:Geography - not nationality on Apple's Terms No Longer Allow ITMS Purchases Outside of US · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing this means getting a foreign region's gift card to use with the appropriate store will no longer work without going through a proxy either then.

  5. Re:Geography - not nationality on Apple's Terms No Longer Allow ITMS Purchases Outside of US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gotta love it when the recording industries refuse to let you give them money for their product.

    Ya, those regional restrictions are really helping to promote piracy, err, I mean combat piracy. 'Cause if someone can't legally get access to something they want for non-exorbitant prices (or if at all) they'll just totally stop wanting it...

  6. Re:Pepsi on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    Pepsi Max is a manly diet pop.

    Just drinking it could lead to a "I'm good" moment.

    Prolonged exposure to Siberian Ginseng (which isn't a true ginseng but is much cheaper while having most of the same compounds as true ginseng) can cause nerve inflammation which will lead to muscle spasms. Unfortunately, this is not something they mention on the can, so if you think you've finally found a diet pop with a decent taste and a sizable caffeine payload and make the switch to it on a four can a day habit it may come back to haunt you.

    It is the best tasting diet pop I've found but I can't really risk drinking it anymore.

  7. It uses the grounds? on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I thought someone actually found a use for the burnt to a crisp more acidic than battery acid sludge that is supposedly break room coffee.

  8. Re:Doesn't matter. on Judge Rules WoW Bot Violates DMCA · · Score: 1

    So it's complete happenstance that glider just coincidentally always happens to be undetectable by a program which has the purpose of blocking programs like and including glider?

  9. Re:Doesn't matter. on Judge Rules WoW Bot Violates DMCA · · Score: 1

    Credit cards are issued so they follow the Luhn algorithm. Luhn wasn't reverse engineered. The numbers were engineered to work with it. The Luhn algorithm isn't for encryption, it's a farking check digit.

  10. Re:Blizzard is doing a lot of damage to the indust on Judge Rules WoW Bot Violates DMCA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So Blizzard shouldn't be able to set the terms of use for a _service_ they provide?

    Just think how viable xbox live would be if MS couldn't stop people from running hacks and mods.

    And I'm sure everyone sitting in a queue waiting to get on their primary server will just love you and your afkave bot.

  11. And then the DHS... on "Subhuman Project" Human Powered Submarine · · Score: 1

    It should be interesting to see if the DHS chases this thing down as one of those evil drug running semi-submersibles, as they are now illegal (by U.S. law) to operate in international waters...

  12. Re:I'll take Pandora, thanks. on OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots · · Score: 1

    I pre-ordered the Pandora once already. Then their lack of foresight with credit card transactions shut down my and many others' order.

    Now they won't take my money except in manners that leave me no recourse to recover it in the event something happens.

    Guess I'm waiting till they get into actual stores.

  13. Re:MOD PARENT UP on OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots · · Score: 1

    20 to 30 text books take up a lot of space and weigh a hell of a lot more than an XO.

    Not a big deal right? It isn't until you have to ship them somewhere. With a computer available you can transport AND duplicate an entire library on a pocket full of SD cards if there isn't some sort of network available.

  14. Re:"and it will be rolled out free of charge. " on "Live Expansion" Announced for Warhammer Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ya, it'd be nice if they added new instances without having to pay for a new expansion...

    MC (shudder), BWL, Dire Maul, AQ and Original Nax were added to the retail release.
    Burning Crusade had BT.
    WotLK is coming up on the next CONTENT patch which will add a new raid instance.

    Yup, no free expansions there.

  15. Re:If this is true... on Athletes' Brains Reveal Concussion Damage · · Score: 1

    I think it's a federal law you have to sustained at least one lifelong injury while in highschool to meet their No Child Left Unmaimed standards.

    It's pure coincidence the bill was backed by the sports medicine lobby.

  16. Re:"Better" is relative... on Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project · · Score: 1

    We know ogg exists because we have to demux the file, re-encode the audio with a "normal" codec and then remux it.

    I wish I didn't know that ogg existed since it would either effectively not exist or work seamlessly and invisibly with non-obscure hardware so I didn't have to care about it.

  17. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    The problem with selling what you seize is you don't know if there's any contaminants in any particular lot you've seized.

  18. Re:How long do we have, really? on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 1

    I'd use the nukes to set off volcanoes. More atmospheric ash, less radiation.

  19. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    I would be most disappointed if I was required to replace a muzzle brake (aka "loudener") with one that converted the solid "BA-WHOOOOOM" into a wimpy "bang".

  20. Re:Because we all know... on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    Just set it to play a tone at a frequency just outside of the normal audible range for humans or in the frequencies cluttered up by the noise of daily life. There's probably going to be either enough hearing loss in that range to make it hard to detect or there will be enough other sounds in its range to camouflage it.

    A machine would be able to pick up so it can be proven to produce a tone.

  21. Re: !literally tag on Sugar-Coated Drug-Dealing Game Approved For iPhone · · Score: 3, Funny

    So is figuratively the new old literally?

    "His head literally exploded."
    "I bet, he must have been really mad."
    "No, his head exploded. You can pack a surprising amount of C4 in someone's mouth."
    "Why'd you say literally then? You meant his head figuratively exploded."
    "There's never enough C4..."

  22. Re:Correct link on Apple Disclosures About Jobs To Face SEC Review · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahh FOSS zealots, gotta love you guys. Without your ilk the year of the linux desktop might have already happened. Carry on spreading your ill will against anyone that doesn't march in lockstep with you. All your enemies just love seeing you piss off (and piss on) any potential allies.

  23. Re:Why? on Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App · · Score: 1

    The software tells you how much and which direction to turn each knob.

  24. Re:Why? on Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App · · Score: 1

    Eventually you have to do the equivalent of clicking with a larger offset of pixels to get the mouse to click where you want it to compared to where it is pointing.

  25. Re:Out of line on Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App · · Score: 1

    The simple solution would be to put it on the m107 instead of the m110.

    Subtlety is not one of its strong suits.