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  1. Re:But Worse Than Distributing on Android? on Apple To Keep 30% of Magazine Subscription Revenue · · Score: 1

    Help! I'm scared of gay people! And I have to tell everyone, even though the current topic is completely unrelated!

  2. Re:Android 3.1 WILL be available on phones GTFO id on Google Says Honeycomb Will Not Come To Smartphones · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Of course it doesn't on Google Says Honeycomb Will Not Come To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I have one and its a complete copy paste of the iphone, a big iphone for better and for worse

    You're sure it's an iPad, and not another iPhone with a big magnifying glass glued to the front of it? I seem to recall the UIs being fairly distinct...

  4. Re:LOL Key on Smile Efficiently With the Emoticon Keyboard · · Score: 1

    LOL!

  5. Re:Pathetic on Aerospace Engineer Named Lego Czar · · Score: 2

    It also does not account for the fact that you would have to buy your own lego's.

    And the fact that you now have a two-year gap in your resume when you apply to get a job again.

  6. Re:Engineers? on How Facebook Ships Code · · Score: 1

    Only if you're properly registered with your provincial Engineering professional association. In Canada, anyway.

  7. Re:Releases. on Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up · · Score: 1

    If there's something I wish I could undo Real Life would be it.

    Too dark to see anything isn't cool and I don't want to either open my eyes to extreme levels (and have to get out of my basement) nor do I want to remodel a room just to include lights so I can see.

    And then the "tedium is skill" angle is the kicker.

    I should have followed my corollary to the /. rule (the more /. hates something the better it is), the more /. likes something the worse it is. Given all the hype it got here I should have known it'd have issues.

  8. Re:Releases. on Minecraft Reaches Beta Status, Price Goes Up · · Score: 2

    Close. It's "write once, debug everywhere".

  9. Re:Mute button on Video Adverts On the Printed Page · · Score: 1

    Except that unlike for Firefox, this installation requires a sledgehammer :)

  10. Re:Location on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    But do they run Linux?!

  11. Re:Let's see if I've got this right on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    Well in that case it's probably easier for Oracle to just buy Sun.

    Didn't they do that already?

  12. Re: Incredibly painful Ubuntu upgrades on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 2, Funny

    My latest upgrade went along just fine.
    [Four paragraph description of things that went wrong]

    Wow, at first I thought you were being sarcastic, but... now I'm not so sure.

  13. Re:History Repeating on Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout · · Score: 1

    Nonono, he was using it to indicate that he meant "that word pronounced like he'll [contraction of he will], rhymes with peel or wheel".

    As in "making a heel of a case". I guess he couldn't figure out how to spell it.

  14. Re:It should be: 4+3+2=x+2 (Solve for x) on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    Nonono, it should be:
    => 4 + 3 + 2 = (empty value) + 2
    => 4 + 3 + 2 = NULL + 2
    => 4 + 3 + 2 = NULL
    => 9 = NULL
    => NULL

  15. Re:CS vs. IT on Website Lets You Bet On Your Grades · · Score: 1

    "What's a command prompt?" He'd [...] only ever owned a Mac

    Then tell him it's another word for Terminal :)

  16. Re:Wow, interesting! on The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band · · Score: 1

    At my (Canadian) University, our Engineering Students' Society sells t-shirts that say "I get to drive a train!"

  17. Re:More likely explanation on ASCAP Refuses To Debate Lessig · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Otherwise you'd be stealing Williams' two cents (pun!), and they gotta make some profit somehow.

  18. Re:Ya forget AT&T, ask the FBI on AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo · · Score: 1

    Nope - I had an LG Fusic (a featurephone with a built-in FM transmitter) way back in the day. It would transmit on any frequency from 88 to 108.

  19. Re:well... on Your Online Education Experience? · · Score: 1

    You realize the whole point of AP is to cover the same stuff you'll cover in university, right?

  20. Re:This is going to be posted quite a bit. on An Unprecedented Look At Apple's "Black Labs" · · Score: 1

    There's a product?

  21. Re:hooray on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 1

    Or, for another $200, you can get a brand new iPhone 6 complete with a better screen, faster processor, new features, etc.

  22. Re:I read it differently... on Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we've detected you're infringing on 17 of Monsanto's gene sequence copyrights. Now pay up!

  23. Re:Welcome to a highly competitive industry on Frustration and Unhappiness In the Games Industry · · Score: 1

    Care to site your sources? ;-)

    Shouldn't that be cite? Or-

    Ooh, I see what you did there.

  24. Re:umm... on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    Come on, we both know that was awesome.

  25. Re:make sense? on Facebook Wants Ownership Case Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    The holes aren't so much pointed out in the article, as they are in the article.