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  1. Re:Why? on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love how George is the only comeback any Rethuglican can come up with whenever special interests are brought up. Onewealthy man directly funding and supporting the Democrats is their only retort.

  2. Re:Why? on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    He didn't mean it in an anti-gay/sexual way. A common saying, "take the stick out of your ass," meaning "lighten up" and realize that humor is inherently meant to be fun and not taken offensively, even when its your party being made fun of. They both slam both parties, just in witty/satirical ways, which may go over the heads of /.'ers who really should 'take the stick out of their ass.'

  3. Re:Wow an adult recieving an average 10 etxts a da on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1

    When my girlfriend and I hooked up in my senior year of high school, her parents flipped out because she had (sent+received) over 30,000 text messages per month. And even then we had no problem hanging out and living our lives, she was just an extreme textaholic. I haven't done the math to prove my numbers, because I know for a fact it's true. Someone else can do the math if they want.

  4. Re:But how precise is it? on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    That comes nowhere close to addressing his concern about unwritten quotas...

  5. Re:But how precise is it? on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 4, Funny

    The reason they drop the speed limits is because there is an increased risk of accident/injury in that particular area. If you really have a problem with it, shoot me the street name so I can check out the Google Maps images of the area. I guarantee the speed limit variation is perfectly justified. Also, there is no such thing as quotas for speeding tickets.

  6. Re:I'm all for it on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    I personally believe this is a stupid move on their part as its just waving a red flag in front of the black community.

    Emphasis added. What's that supposed to mean?

  7. Guess I'll be the first to go into battle on Two-Photon Walk a Giant Leap For Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    I believe the technical jargon makes it sound much more complicated than it is. Understanding what the scientists did requires knowing about 'random walks' and their significance. Think of a typical processor working on a problem that involves random walk sequences. Now imagine if that was replaced by getting 2 photons to calculate the 'random walk' part of the problem -- speed is massively increased, and quantum superpositions are now hopefully being utilized. The problem, in many cases, may have just become exponentially easier and faster.

    Just another "small step" out of thousands we are blessed with being able to witness. Patience is a virtue.

  8. Re:XBMC - Now! on Google TV Next Month, Boxee In November · · Score: 1

    WRONG. Downloading is NOT ILLEGAL. No one has ever been sued for downloading a single thing. You are not breaking copyright laws by downloading.

    [Citation Needed]. So you're saying there's absolutely nothing illegal about downloading copyrighted media such as television broadcasts, movies, and music from p2p? As long as I don't enable seeding and make the files available for download FROM me, it's perfectly legal? If you're being serious, you have changed my life, because I will leave right now and purchase a laptop to use as a media center for the living room.

  9. Re:No IE6 support on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 1

    Exactly. People expect to be able to use all the innovative products on the same shitty hardware they were using even just 5 years ago. Less than two thousand dollars later I bought a computer this year that will never lag, and won't crash even if I try. Every single feature on nearly every innovative website/service works flawlessly for me, simply because I chose to upgrade hardware to keep up with the corresponding software upgrades. Get a computer with a good graphics card, i7/equivalent, and 6GB of RAM. Not expensive at all, and you will run Vista without any problems, ever, let alone a stable Windows 7 distro.

    I just don't like when people refuse to upgrade and then cry because new tech is "resource intensive" - *Hint: get more resources.

  10. Re:You know what would make it instant? on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What fade? I see no fading at all. I see the search results constantly updating whenever I change the text in the search box, in real time, and it is absolutely badass. I'm a ghost-writer who gets paid to write uni papers, so this will increase my pay because of the smaller amount of time it will take to research a topic. i7 & 6GB of RAM, triple monitors, 50-100 tab browsing, searching multiple engines at once, research organization software/sidebar, and this feature == Less time to make x$, fitting more money into my workday. Thanks, Google.

  11. Re:It's something different than an email replacem on Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box' · · Score: 1

    Mod this man up.

  12. Re:Is your wife tech savvy? on Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution? · · Score: 1

    He can simply use a VPN/remote desktop connection to fix it. He's asking about how to provide a live video/audio feed over the internet that will handle long periods of uptime and has a quality audio (noise cancelling) and video (pan/tilt). This is Slashdot.

  13. Re:Wheel of Bug Chasers! on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 1, Troll

    Give ME a break. I can't believe the "bug bounty hunters" would really sell a Google vulnerability for a thousand dollars - I used to mindlessly wipe asses and roll people over for two weeks for that. It's an insult to their intelligence considering the amount of work they put into the penetration-testing/logic analysis involved. An average-sized college internet-portal exploit would be worth $1,000... let alone one of the largest web services company in the world. I think $10,000 is much more appropriate.

  14. Re:This is good. on NASA Buying Private Companies' Suborbital Rocket Flights · · Score: 3, Funny

    Along with heavy government regulation. Free market restricted by sensible government regulation, thank you FMRBSG.

  15. Re:Commercial Payload Companies on NASA Buying Private Companies' Suborbital Rocket Flights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How can someone just whip out a "commercial satellite bus" business without having a launch vehicle? I'm sure as soon as the half-dozen companies you referenced (plus more that will inevitably be created) are fully functional, "payload launching" will be the next large commercial step.

  16. Re:Already used in the UK on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Thank you so much for putting dumbass in his place; mod this man up; I accidentally already replied...

  17. Re:Already used in the UK on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's been awhile since Sociology, but Milgram and the Stanford Prison Experiments come to mind. People in power will often abuse their authority unless they will get caught. Period.

  18. Re:Let me see if I've got this right... on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1, Funny

    Amen. I cannot even recall an occasion when Flash has crashed.

    I must say, my Vista machine with an i7 and 6gb of RAM has never truly crashed. People piss and moan while I couldn't ask for more. There are over 30 tabs open on this browser instance, to the point where the tabs on the top show not even the favicon. On my second/minimized instance of Chrome, I have over 20 tabs, but at least the favicons are displayed. This includes multiple tabs of Pac-Man on level 5-15, and multiple Youtubes. My taskbar has so many applications minimized on it that it has switched from 1 column to 2 columns and I can no longer read the titles of anything I have open (I go mostly by memory/quick trial and error to find what I need when it gets to this point). I have 1 IE, 3 other Firefox windows, Limewire/MediaMonkey, 6 notepads, 3 OpenOffice Writers, my AV, Ventrilo, etc. I have VC#.Net IDE opened, along with BitPim (to fix a cellphone). My computer only costed $2,300 and still has a full warranty. So if anything goes wrong, I'll just send its ass in. RAM = 73% full, CPU = 4% (considering all of the above) while just reading.

    People complain about Flash, Windows, etc, because they are attempting to fit ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag.

    If only people would be disciplined enough to make/save and spend $2,000 on a high-quality machine, they wouldn't have so much to complain about. Vista is an incredible operating system for me, and runs so beautifully it is not funny. I got clocks, Youtube, Wikipedia, RAM/CPU monitors, calculator, notepad widget, and todo list on my Vista sidebar and they have ALWAYS worked FLAWLESSLY. Nearly everything on this machine has worked flawlessly.

  19. Re:Tabs on the left make sense on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why post as AC? I would've given mod points...

    Dear Google,
    Go with this idea. Please.

    Love,
    snort10mg

  20. Re:Tabs on the left make sense on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Amen. I use 1900x1200 resolution and have my taskbar on the left (best thing I ever did) and my Vista Sidebar on the right (also a great feature). It still affords me more than enough space to browse/work comfortably. I would love to see an option to move the Chrome tabs to the left-hand side.

  21. Re:Cheap replica handbag on Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pretty sad, but I actually just bought ~$340 worth of clothing from this site. Never bought a knock-off, so I loaded up on some Gucci shirts and a pair of jeans.

  22. Re:business is done differently there on BlackBerry Battle In India Going Down To the Wire · · Score: 1

    Are we going to start seeing your shameless self-promotion on every story now?

  23. Re:conservatives on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 1

    Reconciliation is only to be used for budget allocation/modification. (Gotta love the way the 90's GOP majority shoved through tax cuts and how the current Dems shoved through the Health Care Reform, hey it has SOMETHING to do with the budget.. right? right?)

  24. Re:This is my shortcut to learning chinese... on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    You can tell that you apparently didn't learn English in the US school system or all those dumb rules would've been taught to you. Double consonants, vowel-consonant cases, etc. Eugene Delacroix would be pronounced "Yoo-Jeen Deh-Lah-Cwah" ... it's somewhat simple if you were raised with it.

  25. Re:Not limited to logogram-based languages on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    So far nearly everyone who has replied to this post has made me sick. Absolutely ridiculous that people are so stressed out and uncomfortable over writing something.