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  1. Re:But teh gubment is BAD! Corporations are teh GU on The Fight Over NASA's Future · · Score: 1

    NASA failed back in the 70s and because it is a government program it has continued to get funding. A private company is not suppose to do that. Of course the more everyone is accepting government dependence the more bailouts we will see until finally there will no longer be a free market and the ministry of plenty will provide all of our needs as they see fit. I for one welcome our new big brother overlord.

  2. Re:If you can't fail, why bother playing? on Avoiding Wasted Time With Prince of Persia · · Score: 1

    The fun part for me isn't getting past the hardest parts, or the story line. It's impressing the chicks at the bar with the extensive list of games that I've beat.

  3. Re:Really bad review on The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion · · Score: 1

    ...and I don't give a shit either way if my keyboard clicks or is silent but I really hate the other people around me with the clickity ones.

  4. Re:Begs the question - not so much on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    Begs for the question. Perhaps instead of just pointing at the problem; you could provide a solution.

  5. Re:I'm Gonna Be Rich! on Storing Photons In a Solid State Device · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's my initial design blue prints:

    Active Photon Refection and Recapture Matrix

  6. Re:Photons, Toddlers, and Tonguetwisters on Storing Photons In a Solid State Device · · Score: 1

    He said fast

    thatthatthatthatthatthatthatthatthatthat

  7. Re:unsurprising. on Not All Cores Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    No, you are completely wrong. In a grouping of 10 random numbers 0-9 there are only 10 that repeate every number:

    • 2222222222
    • 6666666666
    • 0000000000

    There are many more that have no repeating numbers such as:

    • 1983027456
    • 1234567890
    • 5647382910

    Then there are even more that have mixes of repeating numbers and non repeating numbers

    • 4902227405
    • 4956218444
    • 1112222333

    It comes down to there are fewer chances that you will randomly get something that looks as though it has a pattern compared to something that looks like it has no pattern.

    The fact that the odds of getting 1234567890 are the same as getting 7890243849 is obvious but off topic.

  8. Re:EULA what the fuck? on OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined · · Score: 1

    By receiving this software you agree to the terms of the license of each individual package.

    By receiving this distribution you agree not to utilize SuSE and the little green lizard thing and a few other logo's and icons owned by Novell, inc. in another product or redistribution them.

    There is more to a distribution than just a collection of open source tools. They want to make sure to protect the branding they apply to the collection of tools.

  9. Re:Totalitarian goverment, invasion of privacy... on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 1

    I know it's nice to bash Wikipedia. It does really threaten payed authors as it is far more updated than even the most recently published book or article. While there are very likely edge cases or uninteresting articles with one author that has many mistakes, high traffic Wikipedia articles are going to typically be far better than any other reference available. And they will also include a large list of further references to follow.

  10. Re:unsurprising. on Not All Cores Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    Yes but the probability of a string of random numbers looking similar to the first is far less then that of a string of numbers looking similar to the second. Just like it may be the same chance to have 9999999 as to have 8675309, one is very consistent and can be seen to have a pattern while the other may not. Unless you're Jenny anyway.

  11. Re:Totalitarian goverment, invasion of privacy... on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitoes

    Your statements don't seem to match up against reference.

  12. Re:anker? on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 1

    With 37 moose ankles.

  13. Re:Too many factors on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 1

    Very unlikely. They found blood in it. If it had come from a tax official there would have been no blood. Including mosquito blood.

  14. Re:Those Finns are dedicated on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who should have paid for your unprotected property? Were you suggesting that I should pay for it to be removed? If you don't take care of it your self then you have to face the costs involved.

  15. Re:Those Finns are dedicated on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 1

    Maybe they wanted to finish the job

  16. Re:Stupid idea on New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video · · Score: 1

    3. guy in a dark room browsing other peoples personal information saying he's windows....she's windows....he's windows.

  17. Re:Chrome has a long way to go on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1

    Time for a car analogy:

    My Volkswagen Bug is nice and fast and has a small foot print but it can't tow a fully loaded semi-trailer. Their working on it so soon we'll have a small fast Volkswagen Bug that can tow a lot.

    What do you mean the new Volkswagen Bug is nearly the size of a house and weights 20k lbs?

  18. Re:Terrible Article on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    Is this the first preemptive triple dupe article?

  19. Re:Global Warming Heretics on Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming · · Score: 1

    "...but the tide is slowly turning."

    or rising.

  20. Re:Battery development on my tax money?? on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    That is not capitalism that is socialism. Handouts are socialism whether they are going to a begging 100 year old company or a begging 32 year old Vietnam vet.

    As opposed to capitalism: Failing companies fail and new ones take their place.

  21. Re:Why play catch up? on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1

    Better yet, don't take the $1B in the first place and let the people buy what they actually want.

  22. Re:Global Warming Heretics on Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Where should I crap then? Didn't the space station just have some issues with it's crapper?

  23. Re:So? on Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We had a WARMING TREND.

    Fixed that for you, it's been getting cooler the last 10 years.

  24. Re:i hate fans on NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance · · Score: 1

    Equal amount spend on the audio system.

    Reminds me of an old joke, "I spent $500 to get my muffler fixed on my car, but now I can hear all these other things that are wrong and it's going to cost me another $500 to get louder speakers."

  25. Re:ugh on NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somewhere there is a real press release that is of this same tone from Gillette. Of course there was less cursing and such, but almost as funny. I have a feeling this was written as an exaggeration of the real one.