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  1. Re:Even a stopped clock is right twice a day on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know exactly what you m- wait, what?

  2. Re:not only Verisign on Paul Vixie On What DNS Is Not · · Score: 1

    Or send email to johndoe@[123.456.789.123] ? (yes, that's a legal email address according to the RFCs)

    Actually, technically it's not. The components of an IPv4 address have to be between 0 and 255. :)

  3. Re:the old common sense routine on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    Surely the main cause is that both your examples were male. ;)

  4. The Real WTF... on China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts · · Score: 1

    ...is that physical punishments are apparently acceptable everywhere except in internet addiction camps now.

  5. Re:Wow, that's impressive on China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts · · Score: 1

    When was it that the chinese forced their own youth to fight wars on foreign soil, for ideological reasons alone?

    Surely for ideological reasons is better than for, say, money....? What other reasons are there (killing dictators probably counts as ideology)? But it's probably true that the US is a hell-hole, much like everywhere else.

  6. Re:The really interesting part of the article... on Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project · · Score: 1

    They're not charging for the listening... they're distributing the payments you have already made ($ per month) to artists depending how much you listen to them. ie. if you listen to one band 50% of the time, 50% of your monthly $30 will go to that band.

  7. Re:Sweet! on uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability · · Score: 1

    Actually quite the opposite. The change is just to lower bandwidth so uTorrent uses a more 'extra bandwidth only' approach, so YOUR other activities aren't interrupted. They could care less for the ISP.

    Yeah, they could design the protocol so that it simultaneously hacks into the ISP's servers and increases the bandwidth allocated to the user, changes the passwords and replaces all of the CEO's important documents with pictures of kittens. Take that, ISP!

  8. Reboot? on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    How does restarting the operating system kernel, reinitializing drivers for all the hardware and restarting every running program help?
    I know that's not what you meant, and the operating system in use is probably not windows (I hope, at least). Still, is it that hard to just deal with the problem, instead of starting from nothing and doing a whole lot of unrelated stuff? Reboots should generally not be required.

  9. Re:more than 7 million surely? on After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that almost every household router has a dynamic ip address, so one router could account for many ips over time easily.

  10. Re:Is this constitutional? on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Governments buy things all the time (eg. weapons, worthless bonds)... A couple of houses is just more of the same. It's not like the people are being forced to sell, they just got given an offer (presumably which they accepted, since nobody in their right mind wouldn't).

  11. Re:Greenies - broken accouting on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Hooray, now thanks to a new law passed in my area, I'm allowed to assassinate my competitors to increase profits! I'm so glad I live in a free market.

  12. Re:right and wrong on App Store Developer Speaks Out On Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    Actually I have a feeling restaurants would be happy for you to do that, if you were somehow able to give back the food you had eaten and the time the waiters and chefs wasted serving you. Fortunately in the software business nothing is actually taken when you "eat" and the developers don't generally spend any time at all serving pirates.

  13. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    YYYY-03-14 It's quite simple really. :)

  14. Re:Oh my god. on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 1

    This is ridiculous.
    1. kdawson should be ashamed
    2. His bosses should be embarrassed
    3. The advertisers should be asking some difficult questions
    4. PROFIT!!
    5. ???
    Oh, wait.