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  1. Re:not so easy for North Korea and Pakistan on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 0

    run on empty soda cans and banana peals

    What does a banana peal sound like?

  2. Re:Messenger on Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support · · Score: 0

    Give me a YUI Compressor alternative that "some other entity has done better, faster, and more efficiently" :) I've tried several, and haven't found anything better yet.

  3. Re:Yeah... on High Performance Gaming Mice Don't Perform · · Score: 0

    Does a mouse-o-file have a macro button that opens Windows Explorer?

  4. Re:Another report on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 1

    That's like an SQL injection attack for the brain. Just trying to figure out what you said is causing corruption.

  5. Re:phoeey on the enviornment on Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance · · Score: 0

    Replace Enviornmentalist (sic) with banker.

  6. Re:"Some might argue X. They're wrong." on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 0

    Whose reality are we talking about, again? The one in the article that chooses to artificially inflate the Apple numbers by including non-"PC" devices while ignoring non-"PC" devices that use Windows, or the real reality?

  7. "Some might argue X. They're wrong." on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 0

    Reality doesn't argue, and it is never wrong.

  8. Wrong on US Gov't Sides Against Microsoft In i4i Patent Case · · Score: 0

    "saying that the US Patent and Trademark Office should not be second-guessed by a jury"

    The wad of corruption and incompetence that is the USPTO should ALWAYS be second-guessed by EVERYONE.

  9. Re:Table. on My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet · · Score: 0

    My Kindle does email just fine. Not sure what's wrong with yours...

  10. Re:No paradoxes? on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 0

    If you were never born, then you could never have sent the message to kill your ancestor.

    If your enemy was never born, then you would never have sent the message to kill their ancestor.

  11. Re:Sounds like... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1, Informative

    I will hand my young son my phone with the Talking Tomcat "ca-caty!" application when I have to wait in a long checkout/service/wahtever line, lest I be holding a screaming toddler who -- like any 2.5-year-old -- prefers to run around the store rather than stand still for 10 minutes.

    There's the problem. You're rewarding bad behavior: If child misbehaves, child gets a toy. Instead, teach that such behavior is not acceptable, and then offer the reward after you get home if they behave in the store.

  12. Re:Just when you think you're having a good day... on Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis · · Score: 1

    It kicked itself in the ball.

  13. Conspiracy? on Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure · · Score: 0

    Maybe Orbital Sciences Corporation is a global warming/cooling unbeliever and rigged these rockets to fail, since they were both launching devices that would observe climate data.

  14. New meaning on Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted · · Score: 1

    It brings new meaning to the phrase "Don't make me plant my boot up your rear!"

  15. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    Your brain is nothing more than a bunch of clever software with a database of trivia, and you do not understand many things about what you do. The template for Brain - being released many thousands of years ago - having longer to get fixes and new features, and your specific instance of Brain having some years to add content and optimize its database indices doesn't make this event any less significant.

  16. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 0

    Well, if Mormons are sea-faring pirates, it might be related to cannons, but it's more likely to be canon.

  17. Re:Interesting on After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest · · Score: -1

    You've got a broken apostrophe key, and your ellipsis key is duplicating...

  18. Re:My understanding is that they require that the. on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 0

    But on the other hand, where else can I buy e-books that work on the Kindle?

    Anywhere, since Kindle supports .mobi files. Or, if you really want all your books in Amazon format, Calibre can convert them for you.

  19. Re:There's a small legal problem with telepresence on Texas Student Attends School As a Robot · · Score: 0

    Who's Mike? Does he always hit people with wires? If I see him, I'll make sure to get him on camera (with a mic )...

  20. Re:My mom needs to see this on Texas Student Attends School As a Robot · · Score: 0

    Number of people using robots to attend school == 1
    Number of people who lost their privacy due to Facebook == millions

    Number of people who can keep in touch, know exactly where they are, and do work anytime/anywhere using laptops and smartphones and GPS == millions.

    Those all evaluate to true, but that's kind of abstract and practically meaningless. Perhaps you meant to use assignment?

  21. Re:You wanted it, you got it. on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 0

    RTFA. They couldn't "just make it a reader". RTFA.

  22. Re:20-character on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 0

    It's actually 20 random characters that are recommended for use as cryptographic keys. The reason for this is that 20 random keys from the US keyboard has the same number of possible combinations as 128 random bits.

    26 letter keys + 10 number keys + 8 symbol keys * 2 shift keys = 88 characters.
    2^128 = 128 bits ~= 3.40e38
    88^20 = 20 characters ~= 7.76e38
    88!20 = 20 unique characters ~= 7.48e37

    128 bits do not have anywhere near the same number of possible permutations as 20 US keyboard characters. None of the above has anywhere near the permutations a 2048-bit RSA key has (~3.23e616), either :)

  23. Re:Putting the snideness of the summary aside... on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 0

    Are you a CEO at a bank, by chance? That last phrase reeks.

  24. Re:Pretty soon... on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 0

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Locate where it has been shown inferior, where the device that is limited to the given resolution and bitrate has a screen of high enough quality to discern the difference.

  25. Re:frosty piss on Cedega Being Replaced By GameTree Linux · · Score: 0

    So answer honestly Linux guys, how much money have you spent on the software that is currently installed on your PC?

    Both open and closed:

    SuSE 6.1 retail box - $50
    Crossover Games - $40
    over 200 Steam games, most of which run fine - $WTF
    Starcraft 2 - $60
    Warhammer Online for a few months - $50
    EVE Online for years - $WTF

    Combined WTF entries probably total around a few thousand, I'm not going to bother to add up receipts.

    I try to make donations occasionally, but I'm an unemployed college student with the standard unemployed college student cash flow. The bits of code I write end up on various websites where others can take advantage of them. I use free code, so I provide free code in return, until I can "pay for" free code.

    Because hiring coders, constantly having to deal with the changes in the kernel, this I'm sure costs serious money.

    Yes, but some people actually enjoy programming, and are perfectly willing to do it for free, because it's a fun thing to do for them. I'm not going to write a "for fun" program if some for-profit CEO wants to sell it, but if I see a bug in some open source package, or something that could be done more efficiently, and I know how to fix it, I'll do it because I enjoy doing it.

    Also note that there are thousands (or millions) of others paying similar amounts, so these developers have had quite a lot more than my pitiful few thousand to distribute among themselves over the past decade.

    Where is the motivation in Linux? Because you can't feed your family or pay your mortgage with pats on the back, and unless you are selling to corps that seems to me all you get from writing for Linux.

    That's a societal entitlement problem, not a FOSS problem. Fix the stupid arrogant fucks who think that they deserve everything at no cost to them and that problem is gone. Monetary appreciation (A.K.A. cash donations) need to be more common.

    There's always money in support. Users always have been stupid, are stupid, and always will be stupid, unless some mass-enlightening miracle occurs. Selling support will always be a viable revenue source. Also, the code and support itself need not be the sole product. Combine lots of separate programs, install them on a system, and sell the "SaaS" buzzword.