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  1. Re:Xcalc? on How Many SUSE Subscriptions Can You Get For $240M? · · Score: 1

    How is that smug superiority. It's what he did and likely he didn't think anything of saying that.

    People do say "firing up calculator", "firing up google", "firing up IE". when they do those things.

    And running a calulator program on a computer is hardly "elite" or smug.

  2. Re:unpossible on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    his isn't the same though, since his is also out of the usual "append 's" rule.

    Where is Mike's brain?
    Where is its brain?

    It isn't "essentially reversed" true (you don't add an apostophe where you don't in some other usual case), but it doesn't follow the usual possessive generation rule and hence people get it wrong.

    If "his" wasn't a word a taught at the learning the alphabet stage I wouldn't be surprised to see "he's" as well. I wonder if that's seen in non-native English speakers?

  3. Re:No kidding on FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While I can't see the linked page, the summary contains no mention of either bringing them back, or having them survive the trip.

    That makes it a little easier (though still very expensive).

  4. Re:perhaps on Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, more advanced.

    Violence doesn't matter, since it makes no difference whom initiates, so if the less advanced civilization is more violent the end result is the same as if the more advanced civilization is more violent.

  5. Re:Sure thing on Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget you have to buy the aps as well.

    They'll just be $20 in the ap store. But you'll need the one for the ipad and then the one for the iphone. Well one for each player's iphone actually...

    Excuse me while I go and hack up a board game for the ipad, I have bills to pay.

  6. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on Reported Obama Plan Would Privatize Manned Launches · · Score: 1

    Voting for Obama because he is black is not necessarily racist.

    Voting for him because you think that the fact that he is black means he is superior or inferior in some some traits like intelligence, moraility, etc. would be.

  7. Re:Well yes... but: on Behind Google's Recent Decision About China · · Score: 1

    How is 29% disappointing?

    Apple must be really disappointed with the Mac.

    Toyota's US market share is so disappointing too.

  8. Re:Am I the only one? on Fujitsu Readies Lawsuit Over "iPad" Name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Making fun of it involves telling people about it.

    The number of people who wouldn't buy one because of the name is vanishingly small.

    So benefits far outweigh costs.

  9. Re:tiling on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    except that they do manage windows. You never manually resize or shift a window a little to see something behind it, for example.

    It's stacking window managers that don't do the managing.

  10. Re:Google is further away than your ISP on Google Proposes DNS Extension · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because their ISP plays stupid games with DNS and setting the DNS numbers on the computer is a tad easier than setting up and running a DNS server.

  11. Re:Censoring the Axis of evil on Google Proposes DNS Extension · · Score: 1

    Because that's whom the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 applied to. Now that it's only applicable to Iran, saying "Iran and/or Libya" is just ingrained in the minds of those who care about not getting on the shit-list.

  12. Re:The patent system exists for aiding innovation on Champerty and Other Common Law We Could Use Today · · Score: 1

    That would require a constitutional amendment, which is a slightly higher bar than the average lawmaking or judicial action.

  13. Re:IP is not hobbling traditional research on Open Source Software Meets Do-It-Yourself Biology · · Score: 1

    "only 3% of respondents reported stopping a project in the past 2 years because of a patent" so "IP limits traditional biotech research" is a true statement then.

    Of course the limits might be made up for by the incentive such IP provides to doing research in the first place, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

  14. Re:Let me take you back 25 years on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    They'll just focus the aggression of those males.

    US will have far less economic (and hence military) might. China will have an army aggressive men looking to rape and pillage like the good old days.

    An aging population is less of a problem in China than in the US. The Chinese don't have the same entitlement mentality that Americans have - they already know their government doesn't give a shit about them.

  15. Re:What if they refused to obey? on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    Possibly nothing, possibly they would find themselves in a great deal of legal trouble (if someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided to make an example of them).

    If he wasn't a US citizen then there's less risk as long as he doesn't visit or transit through US territory. Since the US has a reputation for nabbing people in airports - see owners of non-US gambling web sites and Russian software programmers as examples.

    It isn't censorship, in the sense that they aren't stopping their own people from getting whatever it is. They are stopping people from countries they have trade embargoes against.

  16. Re:Telemarketer solution on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Convenience wins over efficiency. It's hardly strange or surprising.

    Most people who want an efficient car choose a car over a motorcycle too. Same reason.

    You might enjoy driving or getting better performance or whatever. Lots of other people prefer not to have to push the clutch in and out constantly for the hour of stop-and-go bumper to bumper commuting that do each day (and don't try telling them to just stay in second, that's just more details they don't care about...)

  17. Re:Cheating on PS3 Hacked? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes because zapping the driver into unconsciousness while he is driving at 65mph on the highway will reduce accidents.

  18. Re:This is how it's done where I'm from... on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    I'll take the under on that collapse date.

  19. Re:This is how it's done where I'm from... on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    Why does taxable income matter in a state with no income tax?

  20. Re:This is how it's done where I'm from... on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    I had the same job for that entire period, it just let me live where I wanted so I tried a bunch of places (7 n the last 4 years - hey look I stayed in NYC for 3 years...)

    If you want to never leave your home town that's your choice, some of us don't mind that we've lived in multiple countries and states in a short period of time before deciding where to settle down.

    I probably shouldn't mention that 3 of the places (in three difference states) were about half an hour from each other - the states in the northeast are mighty close together - since it invalidates my point above. Oh well, did anyway.

  21. Re:Why? on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    Because it is easier, and it is what has been shown to work.

    Realism is overrated.

  22. Re:Story? on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    Well on the positive side at least story was eliminated from the equation.

  23. Re:Four YEARS? on Claims of Himalayan Glacier Disaster Melt Away · · Score: 1

    Which has nothing to do with comparing it to predicting the weather next week.

  24. Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So because some people are stupid and can't distinguish fantasy from reality we should stop with the fantasy?

    You're all for banning violent video games too, right?

  25. Re:Story? on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everything in a movie is just a "crutch" to keep the story going forward.

    Well for those movies that have stories. In some everything is a "crutch" to enable them to show off pretty CGI, and in others everything is a "crutch" to enable to show off various body parts of the cast.