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  1. Re:The U.S. is notoriously bad on Rare Earth Deposit Discovered In US · · Score: 1

    Or until it becomes obsolete and possibly a liability.

    It reminds me of a guy I know of who used to stockpile old car batteries. The price of lead kept increasing and he figured he had saved a fortune. By the time he was ready to sell them they were considered hazardous waste. He had to pay to dispose of them. Since then, they've gone back to positive value.

    Our resources aren't worth a damn if we don't use them at the right times. We incur debt to other countries while we put our own people out of work.

  2. Re:This is why we can't have anything nice on Finding Fault With the Low, Low Price of Android · · Score: 1

    No, they're not bundling Android with Google Search, but are they bundling Google Search with Android? I don't know, just wondering. MS became a powerhouse because of its pre-Internet systems software whereas Google's beginning *was* the Internet. Their paths were different but they do seem to have converged.

    So far, I think Google has been a fairly respectable company. Microsoft? Not even on their best day.

  3. Re:yipes on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. Once the infinite loop had been detected, it can also be reported and characterized.

    Granted, it's no insurance policy against a faulty mission-control system on an airplane or in a nuclear facility, but it does represent an interesting facet of quality control.

  4. Re:Wouldn't it be nice? on Judge Blasts Prosecution of Alleged NSA Leaker · · Score: 0

    Tim McVeigh revoked some immunity. Just sayin'.

  5. Re:That's what you get for exploiting your citizen on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    So would we, the citizens of Massachusetts. Instead, the lottery commission has created thousands of high-paying, do-little jobs for government insiders. Payouts to the cities and towns aren't nearly what they should be. In other words, the state is the crook.

  6. congressfuckers on House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users · · Score: 2

    Hey, congressfuckers,

    We all hate child rapists/pornographers. We don't need or want you looking at everyone's privates. You are the evil bastards in this country. We should punish you by letting the pedophiles assfuck you with baseball bats. Of course that would be unreasonably cruel punishment for the bats.

    Fuck off and die.

  7. Re:Trojans! on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 2

    Ribbed for her pleasure TM.

  8. Re:wow on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 2

    You're right about the clones and the resulting rise of MS. OTOH, the original IBM PC did do one important thing. It legitimized personal microcomputers in big business. Many large corporations would not allow Apple ][ no matter how badly finance people wanted Visicalc. The IBM name was what made it happen.

  9. Re:Sounds about right. on 675k Stolen Credit Cards = Ten Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    You say that credit card theft and identify fraud is some form of capitalism? And you think I was trolling?

    It's no wonder you post as AC. If you trule think that it's just a game that everyone else is playing then you are a sociopath.

  10. Re:Sounds about right. on 675k Stolen Credit Cards = Ten Years In Jail · · Score: 1, Troll

    No fucking way. I'd say he deserves at least two years per $1M. Just kill him now.

  11. FDA is a bleeding pustule on FDA To Scrutinize Mobile Medical Apps · · Score: 1

    Everything at all related to food and drugs is FUCKED UP IN THE U.S.A.. The FDA is one of the major causes of this. They feed on our own money and drop their excrement on us.

    Improve the physical and economic health of America by doing whatever you can to take those motherfuckers down.

  12. Ahh, New Hampshire on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    I like New Hampshire. "Live Free or Die". New Hampshire used to stamp it into the license plates on every car. I liked that. I also liked The Old Man of the Mountain.

    Now, i like this guy. Balls made of granite.

  13. The Sun Also Rises on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    No.

  14. Re:Ah, progress... on JPMorgan Rolls Out FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    The brightest heartless are inspired by the best computers to advance the problems of mankind.

    I eagerly await the next big bombing in NYC.

  15. Re:Jellyfish Heaven on Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    That's beautiful. Demented, but beautiful.

  16. Whose brain? on A Million Node Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Abby someone?

  17. Re:Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    I'm not trolling. They were notoriously unsafe.

  18. Re:Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    No, even compared to other small cars and motorcycles, Beetles were dangerous.

  19. Re:Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. They were deathtraps from day one.

  20. Re:Ummm... on Oracle Thinks Google Owes $6.1 Billion In Damages · · Score: 1

    Samurai? Is that another word for cunt?

  21. Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It sounds like he was a brilliant EE but, if he was driving one of those things, then he was a damned fool when it came to ME and physics.

  22. Re:To ask the question: on Programming Is Heading Back To School · · Score: 2

    One in a million people need understand machine language.

    One i one a thousand need to understand a high level language.

    One in ten need to understand Excel macros.

    Everyone needs to have some understanding of how computers "think".

    One in ten get by with no knowledge.

    One in a thousand pay someone to look after all their computing needs.

    One in a million control the programs.

    One in a ten million control the architecture.

    Programming was a high-school level course as far back as the 1970s and, for many, it was at least as valuable as metal shop.

  23. FUCK CHINA on China Blocks Web Searches About Protests · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Really. I mean if you're a citizen of any country where you still have some freedom, any freedom, then FUCK CHINA.

  24. Prior art on FitBot Lets You Try Clothes Before You Buy · · Score: 2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV2N4KSh3x4

    From Woody Allen's "Sleeper".

  25. Re:Unacceptable. on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    Precisely, chill.