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  1. These are going to fail usability testing so hard. on Intel Unveils Tiny Next Unit of Computing To Match Raspberry Pi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody will be able to find the memory ports because they're SO-DIMM.

  2. Re:Yes, Screen shots of bikini'd asses. on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 1

    My mistake, not Ubuntu team. About Linux team. And yes, I know it's an album cover, and it's tiny, but frankly I don't care.

  3. Yes, Screen shots of bikini'd asses. on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 2

    That's totally the way to get me to take you seriously, Ubuntu team. That's also totally what I want on my screen at work in my open office environment.

  4. Dammit Valve! on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 4, Funny

    The entire reason I *have* an Ubuntu partition is so that I *can't* play all the modern games I'm used to having. With this and how well WoW runs under Wine, I guess that programming Skynet will have to wait.

  5. Sigh... on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Looks at physics degree.*

    *Tosses it in the trash.*

  6. Even though it's against Apple . . . on Patent Suit Targets Every Touch-based Apple Product · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...it's lawsuits like these which make me want to get out of programming as a profession.

  7. About half of those ways were just . . . on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 3, Insightful

    . . . "Guys, we have a styles system! And it's better than Word's!"

    From the title of the article, I was expecting 12 distinct and separate features, not 6 features and a treatise on how awesome Styles are in LibreOffice.

    I am counting hyphens as another point in styles, because the hyphens point is essentially "You can specify this with styles too!"

  8. Catch him if you can. on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 0

    When this kid graduates from college, he ought to get all the job offers ever. EVER.

  9. Dang it Luke! on Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air · · Score: 2

    Fix the Atmospheric Condensers.

  10. There's a difference... on The Dead Past: the Biggest Threat To Privacy Is Us · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...between haxing accounts and forcing ISPs to give up info, and me sharing a photo of myself at a party. If I share a photo of myself at a party, that goes out to friends, and friends-of-friends, and in general I trust that people aren't going to just post that everywhere. This isn't always the case, but when it does happen it's commonly accepted as a dick move.

  11. Re:haha, outdone by reddit! on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 0

    ^ That post needs mod points for funny and informative.

  12. Re:haha, outdone by reddit! on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It's ok, though. I'm not talking just to you - a lot of ACs on this post.

  13. Oh, in the Men's Rights subreddit. on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1, Troll

    For those who don't know, the Men's Rights subreddit is full of people who think that anybody who identifies as a feminist wants to take away rights from men. In general, the men's rights subreddit is all about asking the question, "but what about men?" when an issue primarily pertaining to women (like birth control, rape, etc.) comes up.

    There is also a significant contingent who is there for advice when they get divorced, in order to get the most and/or lose the least from the divorce.

    It is pretty much a terrible place.

  14. Re:haha, outdone by reddit! on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's why /b/ doesn't keep a record of its posts - by the time a family member would react to something like this, the post would already be gone. And even then, the people are posting as anonymous anyway.

    Not posting AC because I'm a real man.

  15. Re:I can't record on my Android phone but... on SMS-Controlled Malware Hijacking Android Phones · · Score: 1

    But all of them require you to turn on speakerphone mode, since they can't record directly from the mouthpiece. At least, last time I checked, that was true.

  16. In other news... on Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets · · Score: 1

    In other news, suddenly no Linux machines can connect to Windows servers.

  17. The Science Guy?! on NY Bill Would Require Online State Records · · Score: 1

    "Bill Nye Would Require Online State Records"

  18. Won't Loving Work. on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He's just going to be slapped with an unreasonable fine he can't pay and then he will have to file for bankruptcy or some such thing. Courts are fine with giving out unreasonable fines because "hey, at least it's not jail time." However, fines can make it impossible for you to pay your bills, even if you are allowed to pay them off over a period of time.

  19. Oh man, Starcraft?! on The World's First Osmotic Power Plant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh wait, Statkraft? Gosh, I thought they were talking about something important for a moment there.

  20. Re:indeed on SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust" · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a better solution be to outlaw lobbying? Ignoring the political and legal feasibility of such a task, it would cause good laws to emerge from the ensuing political wreckage.

    Wouldn't that be great?

  21. Planetside on Early Look At EVE Creators' DUST 514 · · Score: 1

    Man, this reminds me of Planetside. Anybody remember that game? I got it free at Gen Con one year, and I stopped playing after running around for about 3 hours and getting killed by things I couldn't see. How is that MMOFPS doing, these days.

  22. Re:indeed on SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust" · · Score: 1

    So, let me get this straight. You want it to be direct source-code that gets copyrighted. OK, I'm going to copyright the following code:

    while (i > 0)

    WATCH AS THE MEELIONS START FLOWING IN!!!11

  23. Re:indeed on SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust" · · Score: 1

    So... researchers solve problems just because they want to solve the problem? Not because they are paid for by universities? "Oh sure, I'll somehow make the quarter-million dollars I'll need for the research for this project, then spend it on the highly-specialized machinery necessary to do the experiments to figure out this vaccine. Out of the goodness of my heart. Down with copyright law!"

    You forget, sir, that most academics are capitalists.

  24. Re:Getting Firefox? on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    Well, I figured I'd code up a basic browser from scratch and then use it to get Firefox, but most people won't know C well enough to do that.

  25. Re:Getting Firefox? on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you're saying that they're shipping an FTP client, and instructions to lusers on how to use it?