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  1. amusing. on Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's · · Score: 1

    These Firefox threads always amuse me, because there is a very tiny minority of people that will run Firefox for weeks at a time, without restarting it, while having 100 tabs open, and then complain about how it handles memory.

    Well no shit... Ever hear of bookmarks? I can't think of any reason I'd even want to keep a browser with 100 tabs open, for weeks at a time. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

  2. Re:Playing devils advocate on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 1

    From the source you cited:

    "The Tea Party movement is a political movement in the United States that emerged in 2009 through a series of locally and nationally coordinated protests." --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

  3. Re:Playing devils advocate on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 1

    More revisionism. The tea party existed in 2007, my ass. Show some concrete proof of that. Just like all the right-wingers who now claim to hate Bush, I also see the same amount claiming the tea party protested Bush. It never happened! There was NO tea party in 2007.

    What was I doing? Voting against the disaster that has become the Republican party, Ron Paul included.

  4. Re:CK patches for the kernel are always updated... on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I would have to agree as an Arch Linux user as well. The idea that it's hard to build the kernel in Arch is, frankly, laughable.

  5. BFS doesn't seem like the solution. on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    In Arch Linux I installed the 2.6.35 kernel with BFS enabled, and I found that it gave too much priority to user input. When playing a standard definition xvid file, it would literally pause for a second while opening Firefox. The default scheduler might have problems, but it will keep playing the same type of file just fine, while also opening something like a web browser.

  6. Re:Playing devils advocate on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 2, Informative

    In other words, you're denying that the language associated with warfare has been deliberately sugar coated.

  7. Re:Playing devils advocate on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's amazing how many right wingers now proclaim they were actually against the Bush administration.

    Were you guys hiding in a cave for 8 years, or what, because during that decade I don't remember much criticism coming from the right.

  8. Re:Playing devils advocate on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Precision guided smart bombs"

    "Surgical airstrike"

    No one from the military ever came out and gave that exact quote that you demand, but the language has been sugar coated for decades.

  9. Re:Corporations do not pay taxes! on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Good thing the price of a google search isn't going up!

  10. Re:can Chrome lose the HAL Simon mascot please? on Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Simon says: I can not do that, Dave.

  11. Re:Net Neutraility? on News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision · · Score: 1

    So when these individuals break laws, do they go to jail? When they kill people, are they sent to prison? When do these people get sick? When do they die?

  12. Re:Net Neutraility? on News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Being a private business does not give you a blank check to ignore laws and regulations set by the government.

    Don't like it? GTFO.

  13. Re:Stallman's answer on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah except for that small detail about Stallman actually contributing something positive to the world. You may not like the guy's opinions, but he's contributed greatly to the world in the form of being one of the pioneers of the entire free software movement. Putting him in the category of a Michael Savage is not only completely unfair, but also just plain ignorant.

  14. Thank god on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    Thank god for our right-wing supreme court! They'll keep us safe from ourselves!

  15. Unionize. on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Despite what fanatical libertarians around here may say, this is exactly the sort of situations unions are for.

  16. Wait... on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    You mean MS isn't seeing the same type of sales, during a recession, than they did in the 90's. I'm utterly shocked!!!

  17. Re:we like quiet on Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate Launched · · Score: 1

    I've been using Arch Linux for about 6 months, and also am loving it. Best distro out there by far.

  18. Re:Bah! on Iran Arrests Alleged Spies Over Stuxnet Worm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Follow the money.

    The tea party has never been a grass roots org. Launched by a stock exchange trader on CNBC throwing a fit, and funded by Dick Armey's Freedom Works; the tea party has always been the Republican Party.

  19. Nothing I'd pay for. on Xmarks May Not Be Dead After All · · Score: 1

    People keep saying that this allowed you to share bookmarks with other browsers, as if that's some type of revolutionary feature. What browser doesn't have options to import/export bookmarks?

  20. Re:other kernels on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Possibly, but they still have tons of work to do. I recently installed Arch Hurd http://www.archhurd.org/ just to get some hands on time with the state of the OS, and was kind of surprised at the status. Many things are in place and work correctly, but it's nowhere near something I could say I'd actually want to use on a daily basis.

  21. Re:Professors of communications... on Most Readers Don't Like Customized News · · Score: 1

    He read and responded to the parts he felt like. Why get the whole picture when you can focus on just what you like!

  22. Re:NoScript on Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week · · Score: 1

    The solution is even simpler. See Twitter for what it is, and stop using it!

  23. The Revolution on Twitter Hit With Second Worm In a Week · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Will not be Tweeted.

  24. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Way to use a mistranslation to prove your point...

  25. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I love the double standard! So, if that's the case, then people should STFU about Iran building anything, considering they haven't signed that treaty either...