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  1. Re:Well... on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 3, Funny

    You do realize you just volunteered yourself to take one for the team if a cougar ever approaches a group of your friends, right?

  2. Re:USA Today on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 1

    Let's assume someone's parents got married and re-married thrice respectively.

  3. Re:USA Today on 10-Year Cell Phone / Cancer Study Is Inconclusive · · Score: 1

    They ASKED them how long they used their cellphone? That's bullshit, just get access to their calling logs. People who talked more time would be more exposed to it than someone who used it once a month to wish granny happy birthday.

  4. Re:Software patents are profoundly anticompetitive on Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox · · Score: 2, Funny

    No it's not, "profoundly" modifies "anticompetitive," a noun, not "are," the verb.

  5. Re:Not as effective as you would think on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you're being sarcastic, I've never seen anyone type an ip address into the browser for anything other than troubleshooting. Hell, if you have a netgear router, you can even type out routerlogin.net if you don't want to memorize "192.168.1.1". I'm not saying people won't figure it out if they need their fix, but even something like web-based proxies are vastly unused by high school students trying to get around filters.

  6. Re:It's because FOSS is no longer the biggest fear on Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source" · · Score: 1

    WebKit, CUPS, mDNS, OpenCL, HTML5, to name a few.

  7. Re:#8 now true on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    The Unix talk command also sent conversations character-by-character. This was made in the 70s.

  8. Re:Hmm... on Should the Gov't Pay For Injured Man's Wii? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do realize you're typing this on the Internet, which came from ARPANET, which was a military project funded by the government, right?

  9. Re:wow on Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    Except Google is already completely behind h.264 and would get a lot of bad rep if they switched "just because"

  10. Re:Can't lose! on Sony Sued Over PS3 "Other OS" Removal · · Score: 1

    No, the bad tire becomes the spare when it is replaced.

  11. Re:To Give The Devil His Due... on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft should absoultely take none of the blame for this. PowerPoint is a tool that does have it's useful purposes sometimes. For example, it's absolutely great for printing shipping labels or making last-minute valentine's day cards.

  12. Re:Translation on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 1

    It's working fine for me. It might be time to panic.

  13. Re:McAfee on McAfee Retracts Lowball Bug Damage Estimate · · Score: 1

    Why not just run Windows raw, without any protection? Especially if it's just a "gaming system," just run everything under a really limited user account and practice good judgement. Oh, and use noscript in firefox.

  14. Re:Here you go on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    I thought you'd be linking to "Habla Con Ella". It's a Spanish film about this sort of thing. It actually is the inspiration for the American remake, Vanilla Sky. Both really good movies, I'd recommend them both.

  15. Re:in other words... on Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals · · Score: 1

    +1 Nostalgia

  16. Re:New Overlords on Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously, why doesn't Sony just start leasing their consoles instead of selling them? Just pay $20 a month. If it breaks, you get a replacement at no charge. If you do anything they don't want you to do, they can argue that it was never *yours* to begin with. Kind of how I can't hack around with my cable modem because it's technically not mine.

  17. Re:Nerds on NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images · · Score: 1

    We discuss it in kilograms instead of pounds, though, so they usually take it as a compliment.

  18. Re:The future is now on What Is the Future of Firewalls? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean like defaults?

  19. The future is now on What Is the Future of Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    Everything you said sounds like it can just be scripted, not some sort of fundamental shift in the way we think about firewalls. The beauty of the Unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well) is that it works at an almost intuitive level. The more complexity you layer on at the base level, the less clear things become for someone trying to understand it.

  20. Re:No surprise on Heavy US Demand Delays iPad's Worldwide Release · · Score: 1

    If anything, New Zealand should get new Macs from Apple faster, considering new models ship directly from China on a pallet.

  21. Survival tactic on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This, of course, is clearly because of all the fat unathletic people that are hoping to survive the upcoming 2012 apocalypse by being the "engineer" guy that actually knows how to use a radio. I'm sure the number of people enrolled in community college car repair classes have shot up too, but they'll die down after 2012 again.

  22. Re:Probably 500 lines of actual game play code on Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base · · Score: 1

    Half day old? Now, I'm no dumpster diver, but 12 hour old pizza sounds good to me.

  23. Self-correcting problem on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, this sounds like a self-correcting problem on a long enough time scale. Hope I'm one of the 40!

  24. Re:Its like 1000's of customers cried out on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 1

    +1 Damn shame

  25. Re:ÖÖ×YÉZ-¥z3 on Remote Malware Injection Via Flaw In Network Card · · Score: 1

    It looks like you're using a mac... Is this an accurate guess? and am I a complete geek from being able to tell that?