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  1. Believed to infringe? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 1

    Hi, you've got a nice website there... you wouldn't want someone so start believeing that it infringes on copyrights, would you?

  2. EMP from from orbit on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    What if the driver got distracted by the radio, CD player, GPS, etc.? Clearly, an EMP (from orbit) is the only way to be sure.

  3. Re:It has to be Tesla on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you're saying that this reply of mine will get modded up merely because it mentions Tesla?

  4. Re:awaiting the equivalency idiots on A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp · · Score: 1

    In America, you can say whatever the hell you want about the government -- even if it is slanderous, false, crazy, whatever -- and unless you are directly threatening to kill somebody, you can get away with it. That is NOTHING like a totalitarian government. If the Obama administration was really like China, Fox News would have been squashed a long time ago, and media types like Beck and Limbaugh would be quickly losing weight in a rock quarry somewhere.

    OK, if you're famous you can, but what if you're just a nobody?

  5. Why is crime in scare-quotes? on A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp · · Score: 1

    She has been detained in the past for several other 'crimes,' including criticising China's Communist Party.

    If this is against criminal law in China, then this is a crime, not a 'crime'. Something being criminal doesn't mean it harms people in any meaningful way. I'm glad it's just China with this kind of thing.

  6. Re:What purpose does this serve? on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if the purpose were to confuse the buyer. Imagine, you see an SSD that plugs in to a DIMM slot. "Woah, that's got to be faster than normal SSD! Or it's got to be doing something that makes it better than this other one that only connects to a little ribbon cable.

  7. Re:Bluffing? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    In other words, turnabout is fair play. He beat them at their own game of telling lies. I love it!

  8. Re:And Windows is? on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 1

    I have an earnest question: what percentage of your original cells remain in your body today as when you were born?

  9. Steal doesn't apply to imaginary things on MPAA Dismisses COICA Free Speech Concerns · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means."

    And steal was not intended to describe theft of imaginary things.

  10. Re:So pay your bills on Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe · · Score: 1
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    l my cards get paid off in full by direct debit. So basically they act as debit cards. I'm the worst possible customer for credit card companies as they'll never make a penny from me.

    If only. The merchants you use those cards with have to pay extra costs when you use them, and those costs get passed on to you. So, the credit card companies are laughing at you all the way to the bank.

  11. So much for cheap LCD monitor stands... on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Phone books make great LCD monitor stands, and platforms for other things. But wait, now instead of getting residential and business phone books from one company, I get business phone books from at least three, so I guess there's no shortage of monitor stands after all. As a bonus, the "eco-friendly size" (hahaha.. wait, they were serious?) is useful as a keyboard/mouse stand.

  12. Re:OS X and BSD culprits too on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Ahhh no, don't tell me that's a hoax. All along I wanted to believe it was real. That makes it more funny.

  13. OS X and BSD culprits too on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Also, OS X and BSD promote evolution, the devil, as covered by Objective Ministries.

  14. Re:what ever happened to good old email? on Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? · · Score: 1

    As always, the universal solution is end-to-end encryption.

  15. Re:Original Source on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 2, Informative

    And if you don't want to install Java, there's an image of the text (at least I think this is the same, but the author didn't bother putting any on his site so I can't be sure). Not very readable; I think this could be improved on.

  16. Re:No way this could be misused on Internet Blacklist Back In Congress · · Score: 1

    The thing is, virtually everything is copyrighted, even this freaking posting I'm making. So finding infringements on just about any website is trivial.

  17. Re:you know.. im all for.... on Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use · · Score: 1

    And yet despite my previous post being entirely sarcastic, this is the logic some people use to justify accessibility laws.

  18. Re:Actually that sounbds quite large. on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    I really doubt this is a case of spending less time in the kernel, rather better scheduling. In other words, this is an algorithmic improvement, not merely code optimization.

  19. Re:But 400 lines of code.... on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    No, that would make it half the speed; 100 lines of code would double speed, since there's half to execute. Continuing, 50 would make it four times... woah, if it were reduced to zero lines, it would go infinitely faster. I'm going to try this zero-line version right now...

  20. Re:Freeform linguistics no good unless perfect on Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Put another way, a natural language system has to do better than I can do with a dumb system. The dumb system is predictable, so I can use my intelligence in best formulating my commands to it. A natural language system is not nearly as predictable, so I either have to learn its much more complex behavior, or just give up and hope it does what I want, but have little recourse if it doesn't. I know which type of system I'd want (and Google's unhelpful "hey, I think you were really searching for this, so I changed your query" is a perfect example of why I hate clever systems).

  21. Re:you know.. im all for.... on Proposed ADA Requirements May Affect Public Internet Use · · Score: 1

    But if we don't force these things on private businesses, they could theoretically band together and refuse to sell anything to the oppressed group, so that they literally starve to death, can't buy any clothing or anything. Since this is possible, clearly we must make laws to ensure that this won't happen.

  22. Re:Relativity of Simultaneity on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not sidestep all that and say that they discovered that they can currently see images of a 30-year-old black hole? Whether it's happening live or is a stream from millions of years ago is irrelevant for their study.

  23. Department of Redundancy Department on Video Games Found To Enhance Visual Attention · · Score: 1

    Action games [...] can enhance visual attention, the ability that helps us focus on relevant visual information. The mental mechanism allows people to select pertinent visual information and ignore irrelevant information.

    Another mental mechanism is telling me that there is some irrelevant redundancy above.

  24. Re:ARSES on Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    I remember our geometry teacher in high school saying that we would fail the test if we called the Side-Side-Angle triangle congruence condition, SSA, by the acronym for the alternate name for it, Angle-Side-Side.

  25. Re:Needed some more filler for the article on 'Smart' Vending Machines Triple Sales · · Score: 1

    For people lacking self-initiative, advertising is apparently like being forced to buy things. For the rest of us, it's like spam email, to be filtered out and ignored.