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  1. Re:This made my day on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Vaccinations are worthwhile. It could've been much worse without the scaremongering.

    It's just like any other technical work. When you screw up, everyone hears about it. When you do everything right, everyone asks "What the fuck are we paying you for if we never have any problems?" Nothing bad happened because we reacted strongly and quickly.

  2. Re:'Losses' on App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million · · Score: 1

    s/365,000/3,650,000/, but you probably figured that out. The argument is still fairly coherent regardless.

  3. Re:'Losses' on App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Piracy doesn't necessarily imply that people are using it regularly, or even more than once. If I steal your car while you're asleep, and return it before you wake up, having refilled the gas tank with a value of gas commiserate with the IRS standard value of the mileage I've used, and I do this every night for one year, assuming your car is worth 10,000 dollars, have I cost you $365,000? Of course not. I've not cost you a cent.

  4. Re:A major problem is the programming language. on IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is the programmers fault. Dijkstra is smarter than you.

    The programmers could have chosen to add bounds checking, etc. to their programming. However, they did not, because that shit is slow.

    People have been trying to create a new language that made all their problems disappear for 5 decades. It's not going to happen. It's the height of naiveté to believe otherwise.

  5. Re:A major security flaw in IE? on IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah I was going to bring up Dillo. I'm surprised it hasn't shown up in phones.

  6. Re:GFS on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 2, Funny

    I meant never.

  7. Re:GFS on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Meh, I always do.

  8. Re:Google doesn't need journaling? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    It's always rather curious to me when people re-state the last question in a post as a sentence when a simple 'yes' would have sufficed.

  9. Re:Thought JavaScript clipboard was opt in? on Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://man.netbsd.se/?find=hosts.deny+5+30

    I think the proper way is ALL: .tynt.com

    *.tynt.com shouldn't work on any platform, to my knowledge.

  10. Re:Off the cuff, knee jerk.. on Kodak Sues Apple & RIM Over Preview In Cameras · · Score: 1

    My knee jerk reaction is that the patent is valid, and people are trolling. If it was remotely invalid people wouldn't be referring to it in such vague terms, they'd just give the abstract.

  11. Re:Thought JavaScript clipboard was opt in? on Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's plain JS. It doesn't actually access the clipboard. It just tells what you're highlighting through mouse interaction.

    In any case, I blacklist *.tynt.com in hosts.

  12. Re:SHOCKING on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It actually is fairly shocking they found evidence the Chinese government was responsible. Usually it's just "hackers in China." Who the Chinese can disown.

    You read that China was responsible in the same blog post that the attack was disclosed in, so you didn't really deduce anything of note.

  13. Re:But... on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They traced it to Chinese government IPs. Unless China comes out and says they were hacked, and are working with Google to find the nature of the attack, that's pretty ironclad.

  14. Re:So from what I can gather... on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    I really don't know where to begin, given that you haven't even had a basic course in genetics.

    In terms of genetics, Humanity's medium balls could be on the way out. And humanity is no more monogamous today than it has ever been. Societal preference for monogamy is a very old institution, and it's something that probably has always been with us. Now, that's at least as far as one man per woman. How many women a man is restricted to is a slightly more recent innovation, but you see at least monogamous marriage as an ideal going back to Roman times.

    This particular discovery doesn't have anything to do with monogamy.

  15. Re:Probably not. on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Given that a lot of businesses (for example mine) have moved to docked Lenovos for people's desktops, I'd say the target market includes sysadmins. Like myself.

    Though it doesn't bother me that much. What does bother me is the fact that you need to press Fn to get at the function (F1-F12) keys. Those I use daily.

    Stuff like brightness and volume should have dedicated keys, even if you're handling it in software. They don't belong on a keyboard.

  16. Re:At last... on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    It's perfectly reasonable that some women are incapable of bearing either male or female progeny thanks to the conditions in their vagina/uterus. In those cases, such a man would simply be unable to conceive very easily.

  17. Re:So from what I can gather... on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    You really don't understand the first thing about genetics, or human history.

  18. Re:Even Simpler on Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not at the border. There's a ton of language in sections 7,8, and 9 of article I that makes it pretty clear that dealing with foreigners is the domain of Congress.

  19. Re:Two predictions on China Emphasizes Laws As Google Defies Censorship · · Score: 1

    Who needs Chinese business? Who has it to begin with? It seems like for the most part, Chinese pirate American software and don't bring in much ad revenue.

    Saying that they're by far not number one in China is kind of pointless - they have at least 25% marketshare. If that's not enough to be profitable, what is?

  20. Re:HTML5 for the win? Sorry, that's not a codec. on YouTube Revamp Imminent? · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that H.264 is very likely to be the source. My Droid records in H.264.

    You're highly unlikely to find a portable that records in Theora. It doesn't even merit a mention as an Android core media format

    This is obviously just Android, but I'm fairly sure it's representative of the industry's choices.

  21. Re:HTML5 for the win? Sorry, that's not a codec. on YouTube Revamp Imminent? · · Score: 1

    It's not really rocket science. It should work basically like an image. There is the autoplay issue, but Google is more than capable of handling the (minor) headache of serving different content to different browsers.

    The only conceivable issue is that Ogg Theora content will likely be degraded, since it will doubtless be transcoded from H.264.

  22. Re:DOJ in classroom... on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Now I'm just appalled at the mods.

  23. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the horror of Amazon being required to put forward .01 percent of their profits towards expanding their device to reach an additional target market. It's almost like they're being forced to make sound business decisions or something.

    There are no hardware or software advances needed. The basic tech has been around for decades. All they're asking is for Amazon to include it.

  24. Re:iGoogle support? on Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that bug has been fixed. Actually, from that bug report, I think you're exaggerating the nature and extent of the (solved) problem.

  25. Re:iGoogle support? on Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default · · Score: 1

    Google has a lot of rough edges on their peripheral apps. The Android plugin for Eclipse is unsigned. (And this is the plugin that most developers will be signing their apps with.)