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  1. Re:Greylisting! on Fighting "Snowshoe" Spam · · Score: 1

    There's not difference between email and phone in terms of "on the cheap" except in the eyes of moronic luddites.

  2. Re:Why do corporations have to be people? on Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" · · Score: 1

    So you're suggesting we jettison almost a century's worth of law

    - there, corrected for you

  3. Re:Why do corporations have to be people? on Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" · · Score: 1

    Lowering taxes won't help the working class

  4. Re:Why do corporations have to be people? on Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" · · Score: 1

    120 years

  5. Re:Well... on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 1

    He dared it and even to fall under hate crime law there would have to be a crime in the first place the only crime right now is that a pathological narcissist like Thompson is not seeing a shrink.

  6. Re:Jury system doesn't work anymore on $338M Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Overturned · · Score: 1

    The jury system wasn't born with the lower class, it was born from trials for people who had to and were aware of how pretty much everything in their country worked, since it was family matters anyway. It was not about average people, it was about being judged by peers, and the people who initially had that right were the aristocracy.

  7. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    Frasier, except they're supposed to be part of the wealthy.

  8. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    Er, no, only in some weird fantasy land did it ever mean that, it used to be that apprenticeships and bachelors' lasted until you were 25.

  9. Re:bad idea... on Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation · · Score: 1

    The research in question was generally flawed and the results were questioned - the methodology was also shoddy. In about all but one of these studies.

  10. Re:Microsoft is pure genius on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    Hell, that thing smokes the average netbook. Which I've only seen once on XP and I'd never have described that as swimmingly even compared to the very bloated kdemod-4 available with archlinux when you install everything (which was itself on the rather slow side).

  11. Re:Pundits Hate Tux the Linux Penguin, Too on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    To be very honest, the unnoficial DarwinOS logo is not much more awesome to people who'd think Tux and Beastie are too cutesy.

  12. Re:Benchmarks... on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    2. Ah, yes, these nonexistent manpages I spent every other day browsing when i first started using linux. I must have imagined them. Is ubuntu's documentation less good? sure - but again, I question the FreeBSD manpages' reputation as "without par"

    4. Do tell, please, why then the market is divided between BSD variants and Linux in the embedded world, could it be that, gasp, it actually scales down. Of course this is about Ubuntu, which is not build for ricers but for desktop use mostly.

  13. Prepare to receive a file! on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    And it's only about remembered by geeks anymore who watch it for the admirable snark bait and drinking games. But it was a nice, if stupid, try.

  14. Re:Ubuntu *is* Linux for a lot of people on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    The problem is that user-friendly is measured using average users as a yardstick, with the assumption that more user-friendly = less techie user can get by. Which leads to the problem that the relatively average-user-friendly Ubuntu is pretty easy to hose if you stray away. For all it's worth, imo, Geek-proofing an OS is pretty much impossible.

  15. Re:Benchmarks... on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. Agreed, I think neither is really better and use depends on what you need, which of course some Linux and BSD zealots seem to disagree on - apparently the main free *nix are now entrenched enough to be part of the unix holy wars.

    2. Varies, FreeBSD doesn't have perfect docs either and other distros do have better docs

    3. Lrn2LTR

    4. Yes, it does, there's a 10MB barebones installer for the dedicated and if you need less, pick another distro, even FreeBSD will probably be tons of tweaking at this point.

    5. Political strawman yay

    6. Call the whambulance.

  16. Re:Better than a billy club? on G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" · · Score: 1

    I think plain clothes officers have obviously made much of a difference in people's opinion since they convince tools like you.

  17. Re:Dear Canada, welcome to our world! on Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again · · Score: 1

    There's a slight latency hit because they're entirely based in Ontario, but they do serve in at least Montreal.

  18. Re:machine malware infections on Up To 9% of a Company's Machines Are Bot-Infected · · Score: 1

    Primarily malware network with hints that they used to be useful.

  19. Re:Story title is wrong on High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border · · Score: 1

    What do you expect with so many comments about how "zomg corrupt mexican border guards will seize your things when you get back" because of course it's the mexicans who are doing it and checking who enters in the US of A is Mexico's job.

  20. Re:Dodgy statesmen on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    No, it has nothing to do with Bush, it has to do with an apparent Chicago worshipper. You built up a strawman around your own intent.

  21. Re:Actually... on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    That was only a Bush point in the most superficial of ways, the tone of the OP was that we suddenly had someone who was hinting that we had somebody whose understanding of ecnomics was keeping doing more Chicago-boy-masturbations just in case they might work after 30 years of failures.

    You decided to build a strawman from it.

  22. Re:Dodgy statesmen on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 2, Funny

    It wasn't about bush, stop smoking the straw on your strawmen.

  23. Re:Dodgy statesmen on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    *magically have control of things in 6 months, although the typoed sentence is similarly true

  24. Re:Dodgy statesmen on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    1. A government doesn't magically have control of things
    2. YOU made it a Bush point.

  25. Re:Dodgy statesmen on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    No, you entirely misread the point because you decided to be a partisan moron instead.