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  1. Re:it's like wikipedia on Clandestine Operations at Google · · Score: 1

    So, just like Wikipedia, then.

  2. You mean Keenspot on Independent Cartoonists Band Together for Success · · Score: 1

    The Blank Label guys are ex-Keenspot. Most were never on Keenspace.

  3. Re:Similarities on Independent Cartoonists Band Together for Success · · Score: 1

    s/most/all/

  4. Re:Yeah, but are they FUNNY? on Independent Cartoonists Band Together for Success · · Score: 1

    He gave them some assistance setting up, but he's not part of the group, no.

  5. Re:Anyone intrested in a 20 year, no-intrest loan? on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 1

    You would think so, but experience has shown that very few people who make webcomics update completely regularly. Sickness, vacations, and plain old apathy and laziness play their parts.

  6. Re:BZZT! on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 1

    Actually, the rules only state that the update must be posted within a day of the stated update time. That's a lot of leeway. (Too much, if you ask me)

  7. The Ponemon institute on Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting · · Score: 1
    The Ponemon Institute surveyed 2,933 members of the general public and then 100 DEFCON and Black Hat attendees to get their views on electronic voting.

    Was I the only person who read this as "The Pokémon institute surveyed..." at first?

    65% of respondents from the general public chose "Pikachu", while DEFCON and Black Hat attendees overwhelmingly chose "Snorlax" with 76% of the techie vote.
  8. Re:so you cant... on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 1
    as opposed to a fear of tighting.


    Actually, it would be as opposed to a fear of keeping something bottled up. "Loosing" is the gerund form of "to loose", which means "to let loose, to free". The verb form of the adjective "loose" (antonym of "tight") is "loosen", and the gerund of that is "loosening".

    This has been your daily Grammar Fun Minute.
  9. Anymore? on Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws · · Score: 1

    Has it ever?

  10. Re:Stir me up a candle - moving OT on Stirring The GNOME Fires · · Score: 1

    Adding more fuel is "feeding" or "fueling" the fire.

  11. Re:Unicode email character? on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Oh, okay. You mean U+2709? I didn't think to look in the dingbats range.

  12. Re:Feed Supplements on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 1

    And those cows also ate grass which fed on meadow muffins. By your reasoning, beef is full of cow poop.

  13. Unicode email character? on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    What character is that? I don't remember seeing an "email" character in the Unicode charts before.

  14. Re:Firefox on Microsoft to Issue Out-of-Cycle Patch for IE · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I've never seen that (or maybe I have but I didn't notice it). Weird.

  15. Re:Firefox on Microsoft to Issue Out-of-Cycle Patch for IE · · Score: 1
    I think it is a problem with Firefox. I've noticed that it happens a lot on table layout pages, especially large ones. Livejournal can have the same problem.

    I've seen table problems in LiveJournal under Mozilla, but that doesn't sound like what's happening. It seems like the problem is usually caused by unclosed table tags in somebody's post.

    This is not to say that Mozilla's layout engine couldn't stand some improvement, however. Actually following the Unicode line breaking properties spec, for example.
  16. If you replace the pipe, the terrorists have won. on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 1
    America's Duct Tape Manufacturers need your every effort to keep our business on steady financial ground

    If America's Duct Tape Manufacturers falter, the impact to the American economy
    could be catastrophic! And no patriotic American wants that. So be patriotic! Buy more patriotic American duct tape, and shore up the patriotic American economy, so all of our American children can grow up safe, strong, and patriotically American in good old patriotic American America!
  17. Re:Equalising... on FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be historically accurate, the American attitudes most often called "puritanical" actually had their origin much later, in the Victorian era. Puritanism itself was not, ultimately, that influential in American life--it'd been basically drowned out by secular elements before the Revolutionary War.

  18. Re:Wrong! on Traffic Control of the Future · · Score: 1

    Problem: even if the velocity difference is not large, bumping the back of a car with another car will cause the car in front to swerve, and the driver to lose control.

  19. This is nothing new on Detecting Faked Photographs Gets Easier · · Score: 1

    Batman has already used something like it to determine whether a video of the young Batgirl (before she was Batgirl) assassinating someone was genuine.

  20. There is no XFree... on FreeBSD Moves to X.Org · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...only Xorg.

  21. Re:The Media on Groklaw Debunks SCO's ELF Heist · · Score: 1
    Is any of this getting press in the media


    Some. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a small story on it in the business section recently. It may have been from a wire service.
  22. Scamorama is awesome on 419 Scam Blow-by-Blow · · Score: 1
    These entries are my favorites:
  23. Re:Incredible idea on Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator Conference · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only if your phallus is less than one millimeter in diameter and stretches for miles.

  24. George Lucas on Daleks Exterminated From New Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    It's not a doppelganger...here's what really happened.

  25. Re:imagine on Xgrid Agent for Unix · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it'd be almost as powerful as a Commodore PET!