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  1. Re:Alright, what does this guy really do? on App Inventor Continues Life at MIT · · Score: 1

    Actually, I called him a dumbass for conflating teacher and professor,
    and then running his mouth off without verifying any of his assumptions first.

  2. Re:Alright, what does this guy really do? on App Inventor Continues Life at MIT · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No dumbass, MIT actually has a little known program to make *teachers*, not professors.
    http://civic.mit.edu/users/klopfer http://step.mit.edu/ http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m11a.html (11.124-11.130)

  3. Re:Global Hysteria on UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT · · Score: 1

    Natural, or backgrounds levels of greenhouse gases are what keep the planet habitable.
    Otherwise the Earth would be like the Moon. This does not mean that small perterbations
    are welcome or without effect. The climate is a chaotic system with many meta-stablestates.

  4. Re:Please... warming == more energetic weather sys on UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT · · Score: 1

    100 year storm baselines are affected by warming (more energy), but other factors as well.
    A 100-year flood often refers to the expected frequency of water accumulation in an area
    from some, often-outdated, baseline calculations. As land is developed and natural permeable
    surfaces are converted to black and green asphalt (the latter is also known as grass), the rate
    of accumulation changes, magnifying the effects of stroms. Similar effects can be seen in heat
    waves and wind strength.

  5. Re:But NIST certified it! on BlackBerry Server Can Be Hacked With Image File · · Score: 1

    No, they certified the (stupidly named) PlayBook tablet.

  6. Re:Finally on FTC Probes Android and Google Search · · Score: 1

    As a user I'm more concerned with "d3velopers" throwing tons of ads at me in a trivial app, than I am their choice of ad provider...

    But to answer your question, there is at least one non-Google (AdMob) option: AdChoice from Yahoo.

  7. Re:Account verification on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 1
  8. Re:What? on Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit · · Score: 1

    Crap, stupid made-up URL untag, drop the trailing slash
    http://blogzarro.com/2007/07/100-greatest-simpsons-quotes/#comment-4431

  9. Re:What? on Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit · · Score: 1
  10. Re:What? on Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit · · Score: 1

    *woosh*

  11. Re:What? on Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit · · Score: 0

    I conquer, the editors here is worse and worse yearly.

  12. Re:I have a Chromebook on Update Brings Android USB Mounting To Chromebooks · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the ability to mount a fileshare on the LAN would seem to be more useful.
    Even if you are supposed to view/edit everything in Google Docs, etc. Are you
    supposed to have someone/something else upload them?

  13. Re:Because it's Australian. on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 1

    Yes of course. National internet filtering (of whatever, for whatever reason) is a great ploy to sell to nerds.

  14. Re:Will it make a difference? on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    >If we keep spending at the rate we are, without collecting sufficient taxes from those who rely upon the national infrastructure to accumulte obsecene levels of wealth, it'll be a much faster decline.

    There, fixed that for you.

  15. Re:Expanding Money Supply isn't Necessary on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 1

    It's not necessary, or good, but a side-effect of the current system.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_as_Debt

  16. Re:On the other hand.. on Sydney Has 10,000 Unsecured Wi-Fi Points · · Score: 1

    He's no more a troll than you are being helpful...
    Let people post to random forums, but they cannot check their gmail,
    Woohoo!

  17. Re:OpenAFS on The Best Unknown Open Source Projects · · Score: 1

    Nope, the server is a PITA, but if one already exists and you're on windows the client is simple to use. I wish were possible to setup the server in a non-apocalupse-proof manner.

  18. Re:Next to go: on Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results · · Score: 1

    But where shall I hosht my forum about the merits of shwords vershus writing implements Alex?

  19. Re:Thunderbird quite painful on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    You did not have to stop the process, but that was one way.
    You could also have let it run to completion/failure, and then
    entered your settings.

  20. Re:Thunderbird quite painful on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    Configuration became trivial for most servers in Thunderbird 3,
    where it gussed or tried various parameters automatically.

  21. Re:seems simple on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    Oh, odd. When I had searched before, only 3.2 was coming up as reference to honeycomb,
    so I assumed 3.1 was Gingerbread. Particularly since some of the apps I have installed
    (Words with Friends) supposedly do not yet support Honeycomb, but work just fine; v2.4 was
    installed some time ago, but now the flipping forced update wants update to a version which
    is limited to Android 2.1 - 2.3.3

  22. Re:seems simple on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    The latest update from Samsung is only 3.1

  23. Re:This is a disgrace. on Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want · · Score: 1

    A) Nobody said anything about cell phones, they just asked for a phone number
    B) You don't have to give it. I left the filed blank without any problems.

  24. Re:Czar: Great title for a job ina democracy... on CCIA Calls Copyright Wiretaps 'Hollywood's PATRIOT Act' · · Score: 1

    It's been in use since at least the energy crisis:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Czar

  25. Re:Modern browser on retro OS? on Retro Browser War: IE6 Vs. Netscape In 2011 · · Score: 1

    I use K-Meleon for this on Win98.
    The Gecko engine in a light, modular "IE-like" skin.