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  1. I thought the chimera were defeated... on The 300 Million Year Old Brain · · Score: -1

    those huge eye sockets may interfere with standard laser mounts

  2. Re: on QT 4.5 Released, Plus New IDE and Analysis Tool · · Score: -1

    Is whether this release un****s the whole thing, as KDE 3.5 did, or was this release number applied to make people feel like it did, to get them using the new system so that it can be debugged?

  3. Re: on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: -1

    He hasn't actually ordered anyone BY NAME to appear in court.

  4. Re: on Securing PHP Web Applications · · Score: -1

    Always sanitize user-inputted data before displaying it on screen (strip_tags)

  5. Re: on Securing PHP Web Applications · · Score: -1

    If I had to, under certain circumstances, I would take a stab at doing what a heart surgeon would do. If it didn't go right, then I might consider reading up on the procedure. However, if the patient survives long enough to be released, I am confident that I could simply document any lingering anomalies he might suffer as a feature, not malpractice.

  6. Re:Well, if Bruce Perens, legal expert said that.. on Analyzing Microsoft's Linux Lawsuit · · Score: -1

    ...and calls it essentially a paper tiger

  7. Re: on Visa Says No New Processor Breach After All · · Score: -1

    I just hope we get this smart-chip cards soon so at least they cannot be copied. Bloody hell, here's something that could use some stimulus and regulation. Mandate the upgrade to these cards and give us the names. Aw, bless.A few of the things that have been known to happen with the chip cards in the UK, where they were introduced a couple of years ago:1. The magnetic stripe's still there. Stripe gets cloned, information is sent to some far-off country and used over there where chip cards don't exist. Ch

  8. That's on Florida Lab Gets Pregnant · · Score: -1

    Grey goo , here we come.

  9. What? on Parrots Teach Man To Speak Again · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  10. goes further on Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  11. Re: on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: -1

    :)I think the point is that ICC has been made "gcc compatible" in certain areas by defining a lot of pre-baked defines, and accepting a lot of gcc arguments.In the end, though, autoconf/automake and cmake and even a hand-coded Makefile could easily abstract the differences between compilers so that -mno-sse2 is used on gcc and

  12. Re: on Sony To Unveil New Fuel-Cell Prototype · · Score: -1

    (Yes, I'm still holding that grudge. Such is the PR price a company pays for being so mind-numbingly stupid.)

  13. Re: on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: -1

    They may well have been licensed.

  14. Re: on Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop · · Score: -1

    I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothing, but Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Cyber Cynic, has striking green eyes. I wonder if he did that with Photoshop?

  15. Re: on Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada · · Score: -1

    Obligatory YouTube video . Also, you can't mention Indian traffic without mentioning farm animals .

  16. Re: on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails · · Score: -1, Redundant

    No, ICBM's would have functioned correctly.

  17. Re: on European Crackdown On Skype "Loophole" · · Score: -1

    It's much worse than that. The knowledge for using an encrypted tool is much more portable than that used to fly a plane. Once one has learned which tools to use, the whole collective effectively has.

  18. Re: on Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking · · Score: -1

    Do not taunt happy fun Internet. If the internet is a game: You win.

  19. Re: on Satellite Collision Debris May Hamper Space Launch · · Score: -1

    Duck Dodgers! Space garbageman of the 21st century!

  20. Re: on Pirate Bay Day 5 — Prosecution Tries To Sneak In Evidence · · Score: -1

    Considering that this trial is in Sweden, the submitter may be Swedish (though they do learn English pretty thoroughly in school), and homophones can tricky even for native speakers, I think we can let this one slide.

  21. Re: on Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs · · Score: -1

    How does it compare to Evince in Ubuntu?

  22. Re: on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: -1

    You'd be simply astounded at how many people do not have laptops! /sarcasmThe 'point' isn't to be used as a full time dedicated anything, it's simply (in the meantime) for those "damnit, wish I had something installed that could do this" moments, however, "in the future" there will be an even greater desire for web-based applications, with the 15 devices people have, all being able to access their one home server, being able to run your favorite app *as you like it* from anywhere, on any machine with intern

  23. Re: on When Servers Explode · · Score: -1

    I believe the correct phrasing should be, "When Servers Asplode."

  24. Re: on Spaceplane Concept Receives Euro Funding · · Score: -1

    We already have a welfare system.We now have a new welfare system for rich bankers, investors, and politicians *plus* the effective cancellation of the widely-lauded Welfare Reform Act signed by former President Clinton for the welfare system we already had.Strat

  25. Re: on Review: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin · · Score: -1

    So you think every game should take >13 years to develop? Cause that's how long it's taking 3d realms to give us more aliens on toilets.