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  1. Re:A synonym of "scourge" is "flagellate" on Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia · · Score: 1

    He casually discusses his mistress' family, i.e. proclaiming he has a mistress. I'm guessing his wife knows his /. name.

  2. Re:Wrong units in summary. on Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia · · Score: 2

    At least summary managed to write "km/h" properly, not "kph" (the unit is not "k") or the even more nonsensical "kpm". What's that even supposed to be? Kelvin per mile? Rate it gets colder as you drive north?

  3. Re:Wonder about the mileage on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    To a lesser extent, this car reminds me somewhat of the pre-iPhone cellular industry about 10 years ago. Nokia and others sometimes had models put out which were not as breathtakingly advanced, but instead, had silver/gold cases, inlaid gems or crystals.

    Vertu still happily sells their phones with gems and precious metals in the cases. The iPhone hasn't hurt them at all, they've just switched to Android for their flagship model. I gawked at the models on display at IFC Mall in Hong Kong just last month. They have half a dozen branded "boutiques" and at least ten jewelers licensed to sell their line-up in Hong Kong alone. There's always a market for bling and tackiness.

  4. Re:CNC machines can do that already on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    Outside the US, in places where you can't legally make your own gun, this is a much bugger deal.

    "Bugger deal"? Is that an attempt at simulating a Kiwi accent?

  5. Re:Please, Google on TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you'd end up needing to sign in with a google account, storing your private keys in the cloud, posting stats on your g+ and allowing google to index the encrypted data.

  6. Re:This should be encouraged on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 1

    Nah, cobalt bombs are for entire continents or planets,

  7. Re:This should be encouraged on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 2

    No-one's actually shown that neutron bombs will work as intended. The high neutron flux would do all kinds of weird shit to building materials. Could make the entire city too radioactive to be useful.

  8. Re:Not the leaks on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty certain that neither the Australian Signals Directorate nor the NSA engages in any sort of rendition, and they seem to be part of the topic here.

    Yeah, you're sure for now because no evidence of it has been leaked, but when it is leaked, somehow in your mind it will be the leakers' fault and not the agencies engaging in these practices.

  9. Re:Not the leaks on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    Why do you take every opportunity you can to blame things on Snowden? What did he do to you? Did he tell your wife about your gay porn fetish or something?

  10. Re:Headline fail. on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    There's no slavery involved. In this case "people smuggling" refers to offering passage by sea from Indonesia to Australia to desperate asylum seekers. No-one wants these people. Indonesia doesn't want them adding to the population, and Australia demonises them because it makes good politics to play up to xenophobia. The spying probably has nothing to do with the people smuggling at all, it's just being another excuse not to play ball with the new Australian prime minster Tony Abbott, who has already been doing his best to piss off Indonesia.

  11. Re:What's the point? on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh come on. N64 had Golden Eye, Turok, various Star Wars games, Mario 64, a decent Star Fox game, some good Zeldas, and even Pokemon Snap was a unique rails shooter.

  12. Re:Not the leaks on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    That's funny, he actually does try to justify it a few posts down. You beat him to it in fewer words.

  13. Re:Why get excited? on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    Firefox doesn't run on the metal. It's another Linux distro with a firefox-based UI server of sorts.

  14. Re: "2000 Degrees," eh? on Kepler-78b: The Earth-Like Planet That Shouldn't Exist · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't make sense at all, as it would be 2000 Kelvin, never 2000 degrees Kelvin since it's an absolute scale.

  15. Re:Technodrome! on Magma Reservoir Under Yellowstone Is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Raphael's cool but rude, which I imagine is how our ethanol-fuelled friend likes to see himself.

  16. Re:Sir Goatse's Family Tree on Genome Hacker Uncovers 13-Million-Member Family Tree · · Score: 1

    It's called hello.jpg, not goatse.jpeg - looks like you're sullying the goatse name yourself.

  17. Re:But did Han shoot first? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If that scene had been included, then Jabba's character development would've been very different, and consequently the Jabba we saw in RoTJ would've been different. You can't restore it and have it fit the story that developed without it.

  18. Re:Computer says no.. on NSA App Ideas To Popularize Spying and Big Data · · Score: 1

    Haha given the situation, I think people will read this as a way not to set up a blog.

  19. Re:Not if they know history on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    No, it's IE6 all over again. People are designing websites for the quirks of WebKit. To use a car analogy, it would be like the road maintenance guys deciding that the most popular car was the Toyota Camry, analysing its suspension, then building corrugated roads that match its time constant at the speed limit. If your car's suspension behaves differently, you're in for a rough ride. If Toyota makes a new Camry with different suspension, even if it's better in the general case, it will seem worse because the roads are built specifically for the old Camry's suspension.

  20. Re:USB support still sucks though on VirtualBox 4.3 Comes With New Multi-Touch Support, Virtual Cam and More · · Score: 2

    I've found the USB support works perfectly when it works, and otherwise just doesn't, with both OSX and Windows hosts. It works perfectly for hard disks, card readers, FPGA programmers and input devices. It doesn't work at all for mobile phones. At lest Nokia S40 and Samsung Android phones don't work with it.

  21. Re:Tell Al Gore to give up his mansion and car fle on Why Small-Scale Biomass Energy Projects Aren't a Solution To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Carbon offsets are the papal indulgence of the twenty-first century. The only thing they actually achieve is allowing affluent people to manage their guilt.

  22. Re:edited by 04882 Joel backdoor on D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It might have nothing to do with anyone called Joel. When I was far younger and quite bored, I graffiti'd "Patrick Tang was here" (in a place where a Patrick Tang had been). Patrick Tang had nothing to do with the use of his name, but when he discovered it, he went to considerable effort to obscure it, believing he would likely be blamed.

  23. Re:Looks just like Merck's HQ built in 1990 on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1

    Clever, it's shaped like a benzine ring, bringing to mind organic chemistry.

  24. Shitty article on The Game Controllers That Shaped the Way We Play · · Score: 1

    The article is bullshit. Ape Escape was nothing new. SM64 had camera control with right thumb (C buttons) and movement with left thumb (analog stick). Ape Escape just used a stick for the cameras. Doodle Jump? Seriously? What a load of fluff.

  25. Re:Who's left besides John Glenn? on Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies At 88 · · Score: 1

    At the risk of being modded off-topic, nick nick you've got there.