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  1. Re: on ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear · · Score: -1

    "the" comes from the Germanic pronouns der, die, das, des, and so on. It used to have a purpose, to indicate gender of the noun, but now it's just a filler word because saying, "Girl ran after ball and up hill," sounds wrong to our ears.My omputer. My PC. My Mac. My Amiga. My Linux. My porn archive.

  2. Re: on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: -1

    Esp. considering the massive amount of material that was written in the Federalist Papers(though not written by Jefferson, a large # of them were penned by his protege Madison) about the rights of minorities and how the Constitution was SPECIFICALLY written to enshrine the rights of the minority against the tyranny of the majority. The writers of this law either seem to be ignoring that or ignorant of that fact, neither would surprise me considering it is Texas we are talking about. FWIW, I consider mysel

  3. "Friendly" and "Bank" in the same sentence? on Developer-Friendly Banks? · · Score: -1

    I'm quite sure banks are really friendly to you if you have enough money.

  4. Re: on Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll · · Score: -1

    Hey! Some of us still use 56K modems you insensitive clod! (Hugs laptop affectionately) (It's okay... they didn't mean anything by it.)I remember downloading VGA porn on my C=64. First it took 10 minutes per picture. Then the processor needed about half an hour to convert the 320x 200x 256 color space downto 160x 200x 16. The image would appear one line every few seconds. And the final result was never satisfactory.Not until I upgraded to my 640x 480x 4000 color Amiga did I finally discover the TRUE

  5. Re: on In Argentina, Law Against Plagiarism Plagiarized · · Score: -1

    Do as I say don't do as I do, some politicians outside of Argentina also have that attitude ;-)

  6. Re: on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: -1

    HELLOWe name is PRINCE WUNDAI, my family is ONE OF the largest farmer in Nigeria. Father was captured by Warlord who is trying to steal our family fortune. To secure our family, decided we are to looking for a country we can trust to help us smuggle the grain to a safe location.We picked your country, NORTH KOREA, because of your honest reputation. We'd like to offer you 50% (HALF) of the grain for your help in securing the rest against warlords and USA aggression.The grain is packed on ships, waiting on the name of a port to deliver it to.We need only small bribes for the Somalian pirates to let our ships pass, and we will be on our way.Please help us, KIM JONG IL

  7. Correction: on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: -1

    ROR!!!

  8. Re: on TV Networks Don't Want DMCA Protection For YouTube · · Score: -1

    Cry me a freaking river. Especially as they were forced to make the 'safe harbor' provision in the DMCA to be allowed some of the more egregious stuff. 'Safe harbor' may seem to be fair and sane to most people, but it's important to note it's not particularly supposed to be fair, it's actually intended to be rather lax. It's a compromise reached to allow tougher laws against people who knowingly facilitate the distribution of copyrighted material. And now they're *****ing and whining about it, complaining it is doing exactly what it was intended to do...not require companies to police their customers. So, of course, now they want to use the harsher laws that they only have because of 'safe harbor' to go after YouTube. We might all whine about companies issuing DMCA takedown notices, but at least those are under the threat of perjury and are actual filed legal documents. Too many people have forgotten about the universe before that, when companies would call other companies and have some non-lawyer hint heavily about lawsuits and have them remove content that they had no legal ability to object to or sue over, but the host company didn't want to risk it. I am, of course, in favor of actually filing some perjury charges here and there over obviously bogus takedown notices, but even without that, the system is still better, both for hosting companies and end users. So of course content providers object to it.

  9. Re: on TV Networks Don't Want DMCA Protection For YouTube · · Score: -1

    I guess I'm not a customer despite my monthly access fee...

  10. Re: on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: -1

    I was just thinking how if you keep a jolly ranger in your mouth, in the same position, long enough, it can develop a fairly sharp edge.Clearly, the school was proactively intervening before she weaponized her candy and held the lunch ladies hostage.

  11. Re:RTFA on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: -1

    The state law does not restrict what the parents may include in a child's lunch, however, the girl's parents did not include the candy, it was given to her by another student (probably a friend)... Still seems very stupid, especially if her parents were to give her other foods lacking in nutritional value.

  12. Re:Industrial Last Gasp? on Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty · · Score: -1

    Grow Google, grow! Plant the seeds. Water them daily. Make sure they get enough sunlight. We'll lose our privacy one day. But to whom? Wouldn't you rather it be Google than anyone else? Grow them big. They will hire the engineers. They will build the things no one else will. Why? Because they have a clue and a corporate culture nearing perfection. They're one of the few companies looking out for you and me and that's why we have to stand by them no matter what. Sure, Google's voice may only be big, now. But

  13. Re: on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: -1

    For those that don't know, "acting like a know-it-all" is just something that less knowledgeable people like to say about us more knowledgeable people, as if they are taking some moral high ground by being less knowledgeable. That being said, when you are first starting out, and really anytime you are talking to someone higher in your chain of command, Just point out what you know and let others make the wrong decision. Don't ever clean up after someone else when you already told them what was the right w

  14. Re: on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: -1

    The best part is that this story plays nicely with one opinion about such institutions, popular here and there - that working for any sort of security or law enforcement agency appeals to people who need to compensate for their emotional insecurity.

  15. Notice how the media implies it's okay. on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: -1

    Yeah, you're right, private firms like Blackwater

  16. Re: on Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors? · · Score: -1

    According to the site :Features: * .... * Endless. Get the only card that can free-up space for you after pictures are safely delivered. Never worry about running out of space again. * ...

  17. Re: on Mariposa Botmasters Sought Real Jobs After Arrest · · Score: -1

    He's not a racist bigot, he's a Spaniard.

  18. Re: on Mariposa Botmasters Sought Real Jobs After Arrest · · Score: -1

    There are always jobs available for ex-cons in carnival operations and commercial fishing.Seriously, there are some ex-cons who turn their lives around and do deserve a second chance. For them, they face the tough road of taking crap work for several years until they can put some distance between themselves and their crime, and show that they've truly went straight (can take as long as ten years or more for many employers to recognize that you're clearly not a criminal anymore).But it's been my experience t

  19. Re: on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: -1

    Hate to go Off Topic on this homosexuality discussion (???), but in reference to your statement in the article summary at top, the last sentence you wrote says:"No end in sight for the politicizing of the science and research surrounding climate change."

  20. Re: on AU Optronics Asks For US Ban On LG LCD Sales · · Score: -1

    You know, I keep hearing 'abolition patents' said over and over, but considering the current system, for all its problems, does actually function ... I've yet to hear any really compelling reason to abolish it.

  21. Re: on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: -1

    Damn, I bought mine a year later when it was called Fern Gully.

  22. What? on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: -1

    To further this point. I've talked to "consumers" till I'm blue in the face, but each time I do, I have to repeat what I mean by DRM and Digital Rights Management. My wife finally understands it and usually gives me that "Oh he's going to rant on again to someone else" look when I start on about it. But the rest of my family and friends hardly care, even when they do get burned by it. Half of them are looking at Apple as a viable alternative to Microsoft! (Oh! what wretched state the industry would be i

  23. Re: on Recourse For Draconian Encryption Requirements? · · Score: -1

    you know how many laptops here have the smartcard always inserted and the password on a stickynote?Tough security requirements = worse security than before. It has always been a fact.

  24. Re:Not bad on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: -1

    GnuPG is what you're looking for. Is GnuPG what you need when what you are looking for is a uniform GUI for the non-technical end user and enterprise deployment and management tools for your business?

  25. Re:Summary Is a Bit of a Stretch ... on Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad · · Score: -1

    You make an excellent point.