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  1. Re:I have a challenge for the DoD: on The 23 Toughest Math Questions · · Score: 3, Funny

    What ads? Or are you some sort of IE user?

  2. Perspective, please on Council Sells Security Hole On Ebay · · Score: 1

    So you can magically VPN in and get an IP address. Maybe its even on the core. 10 quid says that you can go to a local Job Centre, fire up your laptop, and connect wirelessly, TO THE SAME NETWORK. Either way, you won't know what to do when you get in, you can't snoop traffic, and unless you find some password that's "12345" (although that does seem likely) you're not actually going to be able to do anything.

  3. Differences? on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 1

    Given that both parties advocate government control over the airwaves, roads, medical industry, banking industry and housing industry, how can you say that there's any real difference between the parties ?

  4. Re:Easy way to massively improve fuel consumption on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Hey Commie - While you're at it, why don't you legislate morality, and aesthetic taste ?

  5. too many on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    or maybe you're a consumerist douchebag who has too many plastic Chinese gadgets?

  6. Nehalem? on Inside Intel's Core i7 Processor, Nehalem · · Score: 0

    Isn't that one of the books of Mormon?

  7. comics on Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students · · Score: 1

    Isn't this like that D&D comic where the girl hangs herself ?

  8. Cancel or Allow? on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So like I went to a website, and the computer goes like *beep* and like I get a screen about a certificate or something where I like click Next, Next, Next, OK, and then the computer goes like *boop* and like, my paper was totally gone.

    Sorry folks, given the way SSL certs work, there's something going on when someone has a self-signed cert. Users, sadly, have to be aware of this sort of thing. The personal computer really isn't a toaster (yet).

  9. just like the iProduct on Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I buy Apple products. It just makes me feel special."

    http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif

  10. Re:Or....nobody cared on Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't count the famous dancer crippled in pre-production rehearsal, or the lipsync of the national anthem, or the 56 kids that weren't really 56 different ethnic groups, or that the opening fireworks were faked, or the fact that most of the events are not full of spectators to keep crowd sizes down, or the 1000s of homeless animals killed to clean up the streets, or the protesters who were sent for re-education through labor, or the fact that they closed most of the factories and forbid people to drive to clean the air, or that they pumped the clouds full of silver nitrate to make it rain, or that they hospitalized their homeless as insane so that the city looked nicer, or that most citizens lack basic freedoms, then yes, it runs just like clockwork.

  11. Or....nobody cared on Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Other than watercooler chat about "that swimmer kid", this has to be the least watched Olympics ever. China got the big FAIL on this one.

  12. Re:plug for paul sereno on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: -1, Troll

    And some day, something in 1 of his classes, might actually be useful. Archeology and Paleontology, along with Philosophy, are the biggest masturbation degrees ever.

  13. Different career? on IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Project Management, Software Planning, all useless psuedo-IT skills that make real engineers cringe. Nothing hurts more than being on a project and a nontechy pseudo-geek trying to "manage" you.

    Pick something else. plenty of real techie jobs.

  14. Good old SIGGRAPH on Intel Reveals More Larrabee Architecture Details · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With the supposed death of Usenet, the closing of PARC, and the general Facebookification of the Internet, its nice to see a bunch of nerds get together and geek out simply for the sake of it.

  15. little green crescents on Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Will they make the Palestinians all wear little green crescent badges on their clothes ?

  16. Why bother? on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 0, Troll

    100% serious.

    All the lifestyle diseases (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, etc) are manageable these days, we can thank the Greatest Generation for that. So continue to geek out, self-medicate with soda and ice cream, and enjoy your more cerebral lifestyle.

  17. Lost all respect for Make on Hardware Hacking Guide — Citizen Engineer · · Score: 1

    When they had an article about adding a PID controller to the heater on a home espresso machine. The so-called geek who wired it in used an off-the-shelf IC that did the whole thing for you, and admitted that he had no idea what it was or how it worked, just that it did.

    Um, thats what Walmart shoppers do. Geeks and engineers UNDERSTAND things, how else do you think anything gets made? "Make" degenerated into the Mythbusters level after the first year.

  18. off-brand crap: -1, Duh on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    So he bought an off-brand cheapo board, and it sucked? Amazing.

  19. von Neuman rolls in his grave on Worm Transcodes MP3s To Infect PCs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why you separate the executable code from the data.

  20. Re:PPC Linux on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 1

    "In an emergency" ??? This is not LaForge rerouting plasma conduits to the warp drive - PCs do not rewire themselves on the fly in the presence of 'danger'.

  21. Numa Numa on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where's that NUMA NUMA kid when you need him?

  22. Prior art ? on Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops · · Score: 4, Funny

    I get warnings that my computer is broadcasting its IP address all the time !

  23. Re:Real writeable NTFS? on Linux 2.6.26 Out · · Score: 4, Funny

    Careful, some of those other filesystems really kill performance.

  24. -j2 ? on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    Can't you just use the -j2 option to run it 2x in parallel?

  25. From the utterly irrelevant department on Most CF Cards Fail DMA Transfers · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's next, some USB mice fail at implementing the USB 2.0 standard? Or some random printer which claims to support PCL really doesn't?

    Geesh, talk about a slow news day.