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  1. Re:Good! More people should play chess. on Over 40% of New Mechanical Turk Jobs Involve Spam · · Score: 2

    You won't know until you open the lid on the box.

  2. Re:After rtfa is the real target Rim's lunch? on Microsoft, Apple, EMC, and Oracle Form Patent Bloc · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is the secret of why all of a sudden they release the mysterious Phone 7 ... It is obvious that they are going all out to make only their phone work with company mail servers and cloud computing communications in general.

    I'm sure Apple is cool with that ...

  3. Re:The rules of aviation are written in blood on 'Pocket Airports' Would Link Neighborhoods By Air · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought of was 17 year old kids fitting a loud exhaust, doing a really shitty tint job, mounting extra wings on the back, and cruising around listening to badly distorted hip-hop.

  4. Re:I wish I had more spare time in my life on MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D Printer Assembly, In Pictures · · Score: 1

    That's just the building it part. Now I've got a really cool 3d printer that needs to be fed instructions in order to produce a bunch of crazy parts. Now I've got a desk full of parts that need to be assembled. Now I've got a v2.0 to plan and design.

    Trust me. As much as I wish it were otherwise, this just isn't on.

  5. I wish I had more spare time in my life on MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D Printer Assembly, In Pictures · · Score: 2

    This is the kind of thing that makes me wish I were unemployed, or retired, or at a different phase in my life when I just plain had more free time to play with cool shit.

  6. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    You do whatever works for you there sparky. But just so you're aware, you've been sprinkling your posts with all kinds of direct attributions that are things I never actually said - presumably in an attempt to set me up as a strawman.

    Seems I'm not the only one who's desperate to paint the other guy with whatever colour paint it is that helps me ignore his viewpoint.

  7. Re:Along with vampires and zombies on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    If a bacterial infection had managed to infect 200 billion hosts over 50 years, and was adding 2 billion new hosts per year, you'd consider that to be pretty successful wouldn't you?

  8. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 2

    You know what? I'm going to give you one here. I'm going to freely admit that I'm guilty of viewing pretty much all teabagger talking points through the same lens of incredulity. I guess I've just sat in one too many taxis listening to a driver who clearly has an incomplete grasp on reality ramble on and on about Obama's secret plot to slaughter fifty million Americans.

    It's a balance of evidence thing. Extraordinary claims - e.g. that there is a gigantic secret plot that involves installing a foreign-born muslim black communist president as a first step toward destroying the nation - require extraordinary evidence. The only evidence I'm aware of is a doctored birth certificate that pretty much everyone has laughed off as a bad fake. Sorry - not extraordinary enough, but if you want to discuss the issue in more detail I know of a really talkative cabbie in Phildelphia who shares your standard of evidence.

  9. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    I've never seen Neptune with my own eyes, but I'm pretty confident in my belief that it exists based on the overwhelming weight of fact and evidence. If you want to deny the existence of Neptune, we are not "agreeing to disagree." Any sane, rational adult would say that you are misinformed and that I am adequately informed.

    Now what was your point about Obama again?

  10. Re:Motives of respondents on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

  11. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually TFA wasn't about people believing things the researchers didn't agree with, it was about people believing things that are simply false. If believing things that are false doesn't qualify as "misinformed" what does?

  12. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    Have you tried FRPwSCTCDwEPNN?

  13. Re:people write down hard passwords on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 1

    So what you do is this: you generate a strong eight character password, print it on a laminated card and keep it in your pocket.

    I'd say that between all the sites/resources I use that enforce periodic password changes, I am forced to create at least one new password every 3-4 weeks. That's a lot of printing and laminating.

  14. Re:Bad usernames too on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 2

    But what if you want to participate on a discussion board? (And don't worry, I'll wait 10 minutes until you're allowed to post your response AC).

  15. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    All I'll have to do is hire one person to manage the team

    Who's going to manage that person?

  16. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Of all the countries I've been, India is probably the most challenging I'll grant you that. But how did we get from "conditions are not that great" to "shitass country?" One of them is a legitimate opinion while the other simply marks the writer as an intolerant asshole.

  17. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    economic stories in Asia
    What has that got to do with
    shitass countries?

    It has everything to do with it, if we're talking about whether or not the local population is willing to put up with substandard and/or unsafe working conditions (as per GP's assertion). People living and earning at a middle-class level aren't going to put up with the same things as a desperate worker who's just arrived in the city from some village 100 km away.

  18. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 2

    Two out of the three, plus a handful of other developing nations in Asia - some of them for quite lengthy trips and some of them multiple times. Some of the nicest people I've ever met were from "shitass countries," as were some of my most memorable and cherished experiences.

    Shame your own visits didn't manage to penetrate your sense of prejudice. Maybe next time.

  19. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 0

    You sound like quite the yokel. Go broaden your horizons.

  20. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    What part corresponds to shooting foxes?

  21. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 2

    Your point would be significantly stronger and more compelling if you hadn't opened by calling 3 of the most impressive economic stories in Asia - nations with a total middle class approaching half a billion people - "shitass countries"

  22. Re:Causality on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 0

    spooning with Bob the hairy, sweaty midget

    Dare I invoke Rule 34?

  23. Re:17.5 billion kilometers on Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind · · Score: 1

    From whose perspective?

  24. Re:17.5 billion kilometers on Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind · · Score: 1

    hiding somewhere out beyond Pluto waiting to intercept anything that we launch that looks capable of crossing interstellar space.

    So I think it's safe to say they're laughing their asses off watching the Voyager probes crawling along.

  25. Re:FFS on Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't Waterloo exactly like this, except for the fact it was completely different?