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  1. Re:If you are just starting on Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Well, the rest of the world can't reach you.

    I guess that could be considered a feature.

  2. Re:The secret history of C# on C# In-Depth · · Score: 1

    Why does being born at the same time God was conceived make you an expert in C%?

  3. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in all classes I have taken that have taught Photoshop, I was always told to use ~300 DPI, because that's what the professional printers are gonna want. I can always bring it down to 72 DPI for the website later.

  4. Re:Wait, what? on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Add doctors' general unwillingness to put 'cause of death: unknown' on death certificates, and put your disease in a place where young death from other diseases -- particularly cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox --

    Actually, the cause of death wasn't unknown. They very clearly died of cholera/yellow fever/smallpox, and the patient had always been rather sickly. The doctors just didn't realize that there was a disease that caused the patient to be sickly all those years.

  5. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Not only are prefixes common, they provide a quick way to identify whether this app will use a lot of resources because it belongs to the other desktop environment. I don't use KDE or Gnome, so I favor apps that have a prefix of x.

  6. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I have been having much the same problem with Debian. The ee sound is just so much more natural than eh.

  7. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You could abbreviate (that's probably not the right word) it to GNU PIMP.

  8. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I installed 2.5 on my work machine. Yesterday.
    Good thing I am the kind of person that doesn't mind updating to the latest Firefox nightlies every day.

  9. Re:blogosphere on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    Do you prefer interblag?

  10. Re:Totally agree on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    Noone was locked out of their data because those services where dropped. They seem to be simply accessibility features. I would hope that Google would give a few days warning before dropping Gmail or Google Docs.

  11. Re:Totally agree on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    I have a private email address for actual private communication

    I intend to set one up at some point, but one of the reasons I don't is because people will send me chainmails, attaching my address to all the other recipients on the sender's list and everybody they forward it to, ad infinitum.

  12. That was harsh. on MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...when they realized he was serious, they swooped on his home and seized his camera and PC.

    I hope they intend to replace it.

  13. Re:Rules are regularly a part of art on 'Systems-As-Art' In Games · · Score: 1

    *muttering under my breath*

    I will not link to XKCD.

    I will not link to XKCD.

    I will not link to XKCD.

  14. Re:Well on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 4, Funny

    My PC doesn't fit in canned food. It doesn't run as well, either.

  15. Re:Waterhenge! on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    But how good are they at repelling tigers?

  16. Re:Not yet on Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I was thinking ~4.238 years. December 21.

  17. That would be bad on Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    About how big of a crater would 700,000 liters of liquid helium make?

  18. Re:But what about the other islands on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    Just give Iceland a cloak, too...

  19. Re:Robot Santa has moved shop! on Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow · · Score: 1

    Let me guess... You live in a crowded city and you want a BFG9000.

  20. Re:Two years in the first line? on The Stigma of a Tech Support Background · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok, what if he had been using Mac?

  21. Re:So... on New Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just guessing here... 3-5 years.

  22. Re:Russia on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 1

    ...the system being put in place in former-Soviet countries (as well of others, but those ones on the border of Russia are the sticky ones) aren't going to be of any help. North Korea would shoot over the Pacific, and probably anything from the Middle East would also shoot that way or wouldn't shoot in the first place.

    I would bet that we have missile defense systems in Japan, Alaska, and Guam/Hawaii

  23. Re:Escape Velocity on On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Flamebait on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not that type of baking, silly. This kind.

  25. Re:iPhone killer? Really? YES! on "Pull" Barcode Scanning Could Be Android's Killer App · · Score: 1

    Buy some beer, keep the barcode, and scan whenever you need more beer.