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  1. Re:Some People on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather go down in an awesome fireball of death rather than being groped by the TSA. At least I'd die with some dignity.

  2. Re:Imagine on Intel Talks 1000-Core Processors · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot for the clarification.

  3. Re:Imagine on Intel Talks 1000-Core Processors · · Score: 1

    No data may be both mutable and aliased

    Perhaps a little off topic but do you know an online article that explains this in detail? (I'm writing my first concurrent server at the moment (in Go) and could use any information on the topic)

  4. Re:And Windows is? on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    But it's the year of the Linux desktop!

  5. Re:I didn't read the whole thing on Building the Realtime User Experience · · Score: 1

    We will be able to use web sockets in the future, but until then we'll have to use this workaround.

  6. Re:Fragmentation - in Amazon's dreams on Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market? · · Score: 1

    Why not be on both? There's no reason why Google should have a monopoly for selling Android applications.

  7. Re:*Everybody* is guilty of something ... on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    If I accused you right now of rape, should you then quit your job to spare your company?

    If it has negative impact on the company in a global scale I could possibly try and keep a low profile until it's resolved, but then I've never been accused of rape so what do I know (other than that no organization wants to be linked with a media shitstorm like that)?

  8. Re:*Everybody* is guilty of something ... on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Check her bio; she's an activist that went into politics after the economic crisis in Iceland in 2009. She's also a Wikileaks spokeswoman in relations to the collateral murder case so I doubt her being an Icelandic politician has anything to do with her interest in Assanges rape allegations in Sweden.

    These personal matters shoudl have nothing to do with WikiLeaks. I have strongly urged him to focus on the legalities that he's dealing with and let some other people carry the torch.

    I don't think that's an unfair request given the allegations he's facing at the moment.

  9. Email is overused on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Simple solution: Unsubscribe

    I used to get over hundred emails a week; newsletters, stuff from mailing lists and lots of emails of almost no importance to me. I unsubscribed from everything, after all we have this thing called RSS so there's no need to get the same information sent to the inbox.

    I also watched a Google TechTalk called Inbox Zero by Merlin Mann and have at most 5 emails in my inbox any day.

    We've got RSS for news, newsletters, IM for short messages like "What's for lunch today?", I feel like mailing lists drown my inbox so I don't let them email me at all, so there are a lot of ways to limit the emails you get each day.

  10. Re:Tabs on the left side on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    you save precious vertical space

    I'm not sure that's right. The tabs are fused with the title bar so moving them to another location makes the title bar ab unused waste.

  11. Re:Viola-Jones? on Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 · · Score: 1

    They're using active appearance models that (AFAICT) work quite differently from the Viola-Jones method.

    There's also an open source C++ implementation.

  12. Re:Neither on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 1

    We still need Silverlight and Flash for the time being for the 75% of the market who's never heard of a codec.

    As developers we still need Flash for backwards compatibility for video. By using HTML5 <video> tag we can support more codecs and platforms AND use flash for backwards compatibility.

    Check out Video For Everybody.

  13. Re:How easy? on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    It freaks me out that teen sex is illegal, especially while teenagers are so obsessed to become grownups they start smoking, drinking and fucking by their own free will and even lying about their age to be able to do so. Who asks people for ID before sleeping with them?

    And consider this: If you're 17 and sleep with your 17 year old girlfriend it's OK, but the day either one of you becomes 18 they're by US laws "raping".

  14. Re:Yu on Feds Bust Chinese Firm's Hybrid Car Data Heist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trick me once, shame one me.... Trick me twice, shame on Yu!

  15. Re:I see what they're upset about. on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    They'll have to rename to 1/99 designs because that'd be the signal to noise ratio :-)

  16. What about Viacom? on Google Spent $100M Defending Viacom Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm wondering how much Viacom spent on that lawsuit.

  17. Re:Hahahahaha on Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied · · Score: 1

    and the sun is hot.

    No no no, it's very hot!

  18. Re:What about flash? on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 1

    I don't get what a browser would gain from 64-bit support at the moment (even with all the 64bit plugins), I mean most browsers today are going towards a multi-process architecture making it unlikely for them to hit the 32bit process limit and going x64 would just increase the memory usage. Anyone care to shed some light on why 64 bit browsers are so important today?

  19. Re:How does this benefit shareholders? on Google Struggles To Give Away $10 Million · · Score: 1

    It's a good PR campaign.

  20. Re:Only link that matters on 'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros · · Score: 3, Funny

    News flash: Windows' "folders" aren't real folders, Twitter's "tweets" do not come from little birds, and you are not in physical contact with your Linkedin "connections."

    But cybersex still counts, right?

  21. Re:Migrate this! on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Ten years worth of security enhancements at the software architectural level, proper 64bit support and lots and lots of eye candy.

  22. Re:That always makes me suspicious on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    Isn't Asperger's syndrome somewhat like ADHD in that it can be seen in mild to extreme cases?

  23. Doesn't make it right though on Why Online Privacy Is Broken · · Score: 1
    To quote south park:

    Giant Douche: We've got spirit, yes we do; Giant Douches me and you!

    Turd Sandwich: We've got spirit, yes we do; we are sandwiches filled with poo!

    With the episode concluding with:

    PETA: But Stan, why on earth wouldn't you want to vote?

    Stan: I think voting is great; I just didn't care this time because it was between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.

    PETA: But Stan, don't you know... it's always between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.

  24. Re:Wow... on Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics · · Score: 1

    If they are so good, let them sell API's which run on top of Linux. Oh wait, they die without the ties to Windows. IMO

    This is one of the stupidest things I've heard this week. I agree that Microsoft is an evil entity spawned by the dark lord himself, but even if they were good they'd have no reason to support a competitive platform. Besides if they did, it'd probably suck on Linux anyway so no harm no foul.

  25. Re:Shrug on In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [...] perhaps I am just fucking tired of parking my bike outside a busy supermarket and when I come back I find that someone had tried to steal it before noticing it is locked [...] Frankly this guy gets on my nerves. He has two choices, go to jail and I hope he has the shit raped out of him or be treated as the mentally retarded person unable to be responsible for his actions

    Boo-fucking-hoo you sadistic fuck, quit your whining! The man is only asking to be tried and sentenced in the same country the crime was committed in. Why should the UK even extradite their citizens to a foreign country for a crime committed in UK? The definition of extradition says (emphasizes mine): returning a person who has committed a crime to the state or country where the crime was committed to stand trial and the crime wasn't committed in the USA, was it?

    Not to mention the fact that if he'd be extradited he'll probably end up in a hard-core federal pounding-in-the-ass prison for a whole lifetime where he's likely to commit suicide. All that for what? A fucking UFO nut-job whose only crime was unauthorized computer access, where he did no damage other than exposing some fatal security flaws?