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  1. Re:Wake up call on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Ye she was. Just like hacker dumnpoter diving.

    You're problem is that you have put some emotional bond on the term and now keep apply the Scotsman fallacy.

  2. Re:Really? on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    "If they didn't want these pictures out there then they shouldn't have had them taken. T
    that's a bullshit argument. You have the right to take picture and keep things on your machine without them being distributed.

    this was time used to find someone who was breaking into other peoples account and services. So, money well spent.

    The only real issue here is that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
    Like many crime,s one can be punished and NOT put into prison.

    This is worthy of weekend work for about 2 years.

  3. Re:Open Source information? on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    They didnt.
    they define "Open Source". Caps have a purpose, you know.

  4. Re:Open Source information? on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    " where widespread usage among my peers dates to around 1995."

  5. Re:Comparison with deaths due to alcohol on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    and...? what?

  6. no quiote right on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    "China's fast-expanding cities with smog.""
    should be:
    China's fast-expanding cities with pollution."

    Smog is smoke and fog.

  7. Re:What's with the camel? on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    Once again proving a bureaucracy does complex things well. That's why they were invented.

  8. Re:I used it. Once. on Perl Turns 25 · · Score: 0

    Whats more readable french or German? Depends on which one you know.
    "foo bar baz foo zorg baz"
    how about you use good names instead of intentional vague ones to make some kind if ill advised point.

  9. forgot to show mine: on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    % reduction = (A-B)/A*100
    a= original price, b = new price

    300% = 300/100
    So you are subtracting (300/100) x 100 = 300
    And 100 - 300 = -200

  10. Re:Here's another WTF on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    show your math.
    explain how a 300% price drop is 66.67%

  11. Re:Here's another WTF on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 2

    100% of 100 dollars is 100 dollars.

    300% of 100 dollars in 300 dollars.

    So, how did the price of 100 dollar drive drop 300 dollars?

  12. Re:WTF?!?!?! on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    holy crap you are BAD at math.

    Don't stop, you have moved from facepalm WTH stupid into entertaining stupid.

  13. Re:WTF?!?!?! on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    5% is 5% regardless of the number of unit generated.
    It's a strong indicator of poor QC.
    He may not know statistics, but based on your post, you sure as hell don't know statistics.

  14. Re:WTF?!?!?! on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    thing on sale more expensive after sale, news at 11

    The trend is downward, and lately the trend has steepened. You really don't understand the market, the idea of trends, or and article review trends.

    I'm going to be buying a 3TB drive for 90 dollars this afternoon, but I certainly wouldn't use the single data point as a trend, or to refute a trend.

    Wise up.

  15. Re:Can't wait on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    I had to read that several time to realize you weren't talking about computer buses, but large vehicles

  16. Re:You'll be waiting a long time on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    "SSDs are an excellent example of Moore's Law in action - because doubling the transistors at a basic level doubles the storage."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEgh8TUlpQc

    Please read and attempt to understand Moore's paper.

  17. Re:Cringely has a better track record... on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    outdated mainframes?
    Another clueless person spouting off about mainframes. joy.

  18. Re:My predictions for IBM's technology... on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    ClearCase is the best software mismanagement tool ever created, I'm not sure what your issue is.

  19. Re:IBM 5 in 5 on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    "Touch through your phone, No chance."
    exists in lab, today.

    Visual recognition for medicine, I doubt it.
    exists in lab, today.

    "Computers hearing everything, Ever heard of the ACLU?"
    Whats that have to do with anything?

    "Computerized taste, Why?"
    Why not? Anyways, getting a chemical analysis and then telling you if it fits your likes based on experience is pretty nifty.
    Plus, think of the foodies. They will be able to have exact measurements of what they consider 'good' and when they realize breaking down their system into concrete data will break the very subjective truths about foods down, the rest will laugh at them.

    "Computers that can smell, Why, also redundant (See taste)"
    it's really an airborn chemical analyzer. Handy for a great many things.

  20. Re:Let's look at what their record has been? on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    1) Mostly have succeeded, i'm not sure why you think most have failed. Also, I can down load some really good health care apps.
    ", none of them have gained wide acceptance " Right now many people throughout Africa have access to some form of health care online.

    2) I use google translate work pretty well.

    4) nano technologies is being used pretty widely in 'green' technologies, a lot more then in 2006.

    " Nothing revolutionary has happened in the last 5 years,"
    haha, seriously? pay attention.

  21. Its actually good. on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    Did you read it? lets go back to 2006, 5 full years:

    "We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world."
    Can do.

    "Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm"
    Can do.

    "There will be a 3-D Internet"
    There is.

    "Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance"
    This is happening

    "Our mobile phones will start to read our minds"
    Predictive computer is now in many smart phones.

    Soooo, not so bad.

  22. Re:Smell sensors would be interesting on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    " She did all the wife could do, except she had difficulties communicating with the home computer and detecting odors."

    Really? All?

  23. Re:Smell sensors would be interesting on IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes it should.

  24. Re:Of course they'd say that to avoid global panic on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 1

    now now, don't give that self absorbed idiot actual facts. He won't know what to do with them.

  25. Re:Complete waste of time... on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 1

    SO small minded. In a lot of ways you are worse then those people, and a far poorer thinker.

    "As long as they do it to themselves. "
    they never do. They drag their kids, the spread there ignorance like a plague. Having an official agency explain the science side is a good thing. This isn't one generation of people, it's a continuing and growing.

    "I see no upside of trying to convince them of their folly."
    this is about giving people data so they don't get sucked into the folly. Knowledge isn't some magical think that everyone has equally and some people do use it.

    It's about stopping ignorant teachers from repeating these things. Its a very big problem that impacts everyone to some degree. yes, even you.