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  1. Re:This is gonna suck... on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 2

    It'll break most of your add-ons, but it will just drop in.

  2. Re:I don't get that on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 1

    I would have been more comfortable if Mozilla hadn't terminated support for a three-month old release!

  3. Re:Obstruction? on Man Updates His Facebook Status During Hostage Stand-Off · · Score: 1

    Because video games are *such* an excellent guide to real life combat.

  4. First? Not hardly. on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1
  5. Re:The FBI should try that on cloud hosting on FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia · · Score: 1

    5. Have the manager of the data center--who is right here, surrounded by our agents--pull the remote storage. Yes, he has assured me he'll be cooperative.

  6. Re:As a follow up review/study, maybe... on Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? · · Score: 1

    Considering that there's no such increase to be looking at, why should they?

  7. Re:Priceless. on Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can solder with that. For one thing, the heating tip is *way* too broad.

  8. Re:That's not anonymous, this is on How the Web's Relationship With Anonymity Has Changed · · Score: 1

    Um, you *do* know that you can reprogram the MAC address of a network interface (including a WiFi card) to be anything you want at will, right? You might not be able to do it with the software that came out of the box with it, but it *is* doable.

  9. Re:A challenge on How the Web's Relationship With Anonymity Has Changed · · Score: 2

    No, it means you'll be responsible for everything your neighbors do. It's not right, it's not fair, but when shit goes down, it'll be your name on the IP address, and that'll be all the cops care about.

  10. Re:Pretty much my feeling on Women Remain the Ignored Audience In Gaming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Minecraft (and I suppose its newer counterpart, terraria) ARE co-operative, non-violent, and social.

    Non-violent? Sssssss....

  11. Re:Mining is dangerous. on Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, unlike gold (which does require large amounts of toxic chemicals to refine), aluminum isn't refined chemically; instead, it takes large amounts of electricity (which is why you didn't have aluminum production until the 20th century).

  12. "Prescious"? on Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks · · Score: 0

    C'mon guys, if you can't spell, use a spell-checker. They have their limitations, but you obviously need one.

  13. Re:Mining is dangerous. on Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mining gold and other precious metals is a filthy job dripping with toxic chemicals: arsenic, cyanide, lead, mercury, etc.

    Correction: "*Refining gold ore and other precious metal ores* is a filthy job dripping with toxic chemicals: arsenic, cyanide, lead, mercury, etc." He's not doing any of that. He's literally just picking already refined metal up off the street. While he might be at hazard to whatever filth he has to brush off the metal, he's not not dealing with a large amount of toxic chemicals.

  14. Re:Prizes for everyone on Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam · · Score: 1

    Give him time, he hasn't even been in office three years yet.

  15. Re:How about testing? on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 2

    Automated authentication testing that doesn't test using the wrong password?? Must have been brought to you by people who took the short bus to Q/A training...

  16. Re:Regression testing on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    they use one single encryption key for all data stored.

    Well, gee, that makes me feel good about their security...

  17. Maybe I'll start... on Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek" · · Score: 1

    ...a Pencil-Neck Geek Squad! Fortunately, Freddie Blassie is dead now...

  18. Re:Use in Commerce on Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek" · · Score: 1

    90% of the market is not reasonable

    Words in legal terms often has special meanings. If that sort of person is 90% of the market, that sort of person is *by definition* "reasonable", legally speaking.

  19. Re:Frankly... on Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek" · · Score: 1

    At least they don't call it "the Genius Bar." Biggest. Misnomer. Ever.

    What do you mean? Don't you always get support that's as helpful as a genius who's had five shots of Jagermeister?

  20. Re:New Books Maybe Old Books Never on The End of Paper Books · · Score: 1

    There's economies of scale and there's economies of scale. In mass production, the cost of each item if you made 100,000 was less than 1% the cost of each item if you made one. It was completely impractical to make such items as a one-off. With custom manufacturing ("3D printers"), your discount for making 100,000 might only be 50%. People make things one-off because the convenience is worth the extra cost.

  21. Re:Its not a benefit to the economy, its pure loss on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Why not just fire them into the dirt a day before they "expire"?

    Possible lead contamination of the groundwater?

  22. Re:Wind power must be stopped in tallgrass prairie on Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie · · Score: 1

    Thulsa Doom? Can't the Midwest just ask California to loan them Schwarzenegger?

  23. Re:Environmentalists - NOT A CHANCE on Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie · · Score: 1

    Point is they got there first.

    Actually, with the confirmation of the pre-Clovis peoples, we can say that the current Native Americans got here second, at best. Maybe third or fourth.

  24. Re:Old school on The 8-Bit Computer That's Been Built By Hand · · Score: 0

    Hm. Impressive, but when you get down to wiring your own processor, I start to wonder where the line can be drawn before you can declare it "from scratch". Did you draw your own wire? Smelt the copper for it? Mine the cuprite? Well, then.

  25. Re:Physics: an alternative political spectrum on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    It has authority over everything, although it make take a little while getting to you.