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  1. Re:On the other hand... on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right, that makes all the difference, because this is perfectly reasonable:

    >We've discovered some counterfeit parts in your car.
    -Oh, really? Well, I'm going to drive over to the dealership take that up with them.
    >We've already handled the problem. We crushed your car into a cube.
    -Uhhh...
    >You have 15 seconds to move your cube.

  2. Re:Parliment Hill != The White House on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 0

    Of course, since you have actually royalty - that by birth are your superiors in every way - you know that politicians aren't it.

  3. Re: 1980s on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Your story is very cool, but you realise that you in no way represent the typical US female right?
    What do you think the phrase "I'm a rare girl" means?

  4. Re:Enough with the concern trolling on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    There wasn't. There was peak where for five years the % of women got above 35% (but never reached 40%) which clearly is not 50/50. At least by the chart on the article.

    If the premise of the article is correct then the problem is going to reverse itself anyway, computers have been very common for a while now after all - 80% of US households have a computer at home. Some crazy schools are handing out crappy netbooks (though I don't think they call them that anymore) like candy - not just to the boys.

  5. Re: Most hated character flaw on Security Company Tries To Hide Flaws By Threatening Infringement Suit · · Score: 2

    Taste is temperature dependent, and room temperature is the place where it works best (unsurprisingly given that's going to be the temperature of most of the stuff being eaten during its evolution) - coffee has a bunch of bad tasting stuff in it but your taste sensitivity drops off at high and low temperatures. Thus hot coffee or iced coffee is great, but lukewarm coffee is bad.

    http://www.nature.com/nature/j...

  6. Re:½mile == 1km? on Mars Orbiter Beams Back Images of Comet's Surprisingly Tiny Nucleus · · Score: 2

    Within their measurement errors bounds, yes ½mile == 1km

  7. Re:"racist" - LOL on Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code · · Score: 1

    Of course Hitler was racist.

    What hairs am I splitting? What specifically is my racist belief system?

    I don't pray for peace.

  8. Re:"racist" - LOL on Doctor Who To Teach Kids To Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're an idiot.

    Though Daleks are more speciest than racist, given their goal is to exterminate all non-Dalek life from the universe, the racist is the equivalent term for their beliefs from our current perspective.

  9. Re:Nature scraping on Chemists Grow Soil Fungus On Cheerios, Discover New Antifungal Compounds · · Score: 0

    And what does any of that have to do with getting a patent on said compound?

  10. Re:Suspension of Disbelief on A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien · · Score: 1

    Which says nothing about the claim. Well actually I guess is disproves it via counter example if you now saying those are two examples of what you claimed was impossible?

  11. Re:I watched half an episode on A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien · · Score: 1

    It seemed easy to make that conclusion from the advertisements.

  12. Re:Suspension of Disbelief on A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien · · Score: 1

    So it's not possible for a non-idiot to be smart enough to intentionally write something that an idiot would like?

    Do you have any actual evidence for that remarkable claim?

  13. Re:Chimps have rights, babies don't on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    Clearly they don't agree. There a re plenty of pro-choice people who believe:

    * Abortion should always be available and without needing a reason.

    That's not just "different contexts" from your view.

  14. Re:21 day incubation period... on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 2

    The flu kills people who are already sick (or elderly or infants) before they got the flu.

    Ebola kills people who are perfectly healthy at the time of infection.

    Which you certainly knew, but just decided to be deceptive about.

  15. Re:So what they are saying... on US Says It Can Hack Foreign Servers Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    The constitution is not granting those rights. They are inalienable preexisting self evident natural rights. The constitution merely says that the people have not surrendered those rights (which given they are inalienable shouldn't be necessary to state in the first place) and thus the Government can not infringe upon them.

    And no that is not just a "technicality". This belief that the constitution grants rights is one of the factors that ha seen those very rights infringed upon.

    The people have granted things to the government, not the other way round.

  16. Re:not complicated...monopology on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So by your definitions package delivery is a monopoly, since even though I can choose between Fedex, DHL, UPS, and USPS they all end up getting to my house on the same government run road.

  17. Re:Quality of life in Sweden on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 4, Informative
  18. Re:Simple on NASA Study: Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed · · Score: 1

    Heat rises, does not sink.

    Huh? Given the mass energy equivalence a hot object is heavier than a cold object, so no heat does not rise. Of course that effect is so tiny as to be irrelevant...

    Sure hot air rises, because the density of air decreases with increasing temperature. Water is trickier since there's a density maxima at 4C and so if water is below 4C then heating it will make it dense and thus sink... That's part of the reason that lakes have warmer water at the bottom in winter.

  19. Re:A spanning tree? on Snowflake-Shaped Networks Are Easiest To Mend · · Score: 1

    Not for you apparently.

  20. Re:Australia can get it right on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Sure, but the post you replied to explicitly stated that car registration was state based in Australia. Making it obvious hat they meant by "the US not getting it right" - that the way it seems to be handled in the various jurisdictions in the US isn't as good as the way it is handled in the various jurisidictions in Australia. Whether that is true or not is another matter, but it has nothing to do with federalism and state rights.

  21. Re:Perjury on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 1

    Right, whether you actually are or are not a bad guy has no influence on the amount of fuckage that will be rendered.

  22. Re:Makes Sense on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    DNS predate URLs. So no DNS did not "then" come up.

  23. Re:Slash 2? on Internet Explorer Implements HTTP/2 Support · · Score: 1

    In 1996 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc... - earlier if you count the prior drafts.

  24. That's how the bash issue was handled on Xen Cloud Fix Shows the Right Way To Patch Open-Source Flaws · · Score: 4, Informative

    That some idiot decided to publish the prenotification is just more likely when you have something in as widespread use as bash.

  25. Re:Australia can get it right on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    It's state by state in Australia too. You've seriously never noticed that people group things together when they have similar properties before?