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  1. Re:I know he has a lot to be upset about on The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting · · Score: 1

    Actually, hobbits are well known for the accuracy and make excellent bowmen. In the Scouring of the Shire, a good number of Saruman's goons get pretty well-ventilated finding that out (as does Saruman himself in the end, as a matter of fact).

  2. Why? on Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? · · Score: 1

    Because getting a cert is a pain and an expense. And because you have to spend cycles on the encryption (yes, for a high-volume site, that becomes a consideration).

  3. Re:WP7 on Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Turns Down WP7 · · Score: 1

    Same here as well. Not what does a phone maker need WordPerfect for, what does he need with a 15-year-old version of it?

  4. Re:Oldest dotcoms on Oracle Could Reap $1 Million For Sun.com Domain · · Score: 1

    Winsock.dll was part of the standard win3.1 install.

    Try again. You may have gotten Trumpet Winsock as part of your OEM install, but it was *not* part of the Microsoft standard install. Microsoft did not have a generally available TCP/IP stack shipped standard until Windows 95.

  5. Re:Oldest dotcoms on Oracle Could Reap $1 Million For Sun.com Domain · · Score: 1

    Well, no, they didn't. Until it got forced down his throat, Bill G. was convinced that the Internet was a sideshow. You were going to do all your networking on Microsoft proprietary nets, you see.

  6. Re:Occam's razor on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    Wait 'till they find the thionite.

  7. Re:Again? on Revisiting Ebert — Games Can Be Art, But Are They? · · Score: 1

    Koya-whatsit? Ah. Some arty film I've never heard of before, and likely will never hear of again.

  8. Re:Third blast? on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    There is no explosion. There will be one tomorrow though.

    Well, of course. There's always boom tomorrow.

  9. Re:Human touch is seen as empathetic on How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot? · · Score: 1

    I don't anthropomorphize my PC! Ask him yourself if you don't believe me!

  10. Re:Good luck with that on Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden · · Score: 1

    In the US as well, they're called "Forever" stamps.

  11. Supplement, maybe... on Text Messages To Replace Stamps In Sweden · · Score: 1

    But replace? You have to have text messaging to be able to send a letter? Really?

  12. Re:Tales of old. on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    As reply-all is something that should only rarely be used,

    Actually, I probably use it more than reply. It's very common in my workplace for four or five people to be involved in a email discussion, and people use reply-all to keep everybody aware of what's being said.

  13. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Where and when the unmodified term "democracy" got morphed into being interpreted as "direct referendum on practically everything" is unknown to me

    Unknown because the "morphing" never occurred. That is the original meaning of the word.

  14. In fact... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    ...they passed the law because it's true. The Federal Government *is* a Republic, and not a democracy (although some the states are partially democracies because they vote on binding referendums). "Republicans" and "Democrats" don't have anything to do with that fact.

  15. Re:This game is random , you can't outsmart someon on Can You Beat a Computer At Rock-Paper-Scissors? · · Score: 1

    Except that you're not capable of making purely random choices. The human brain isn't wired for it.

  16. Re:Better than the alternative on Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations · · Score: 1

    We must be cautious.

  17. Re:Not just with video games, but in general on Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? · · Score: 1

    Very true, but an even more overriding biological consideration is that it's the woman who gets pregnant. That makes sex much more of a commitment for the woman--not saying the man can't be committed, but the woman *has* to be, or at least had to be before birth control, which on a evolutionary timescale, or even a societal one, just happened yesterday.

  18. Re:I am ironically.... on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what kind of idiot does that?

  19. Well, eventually we'd hope to get... on Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid · · Score: 1
  20. Taurus? on Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure · · Score: 1

    Shoulda gotten a Saturn!

  21. Re:Moderation on Old Man Murray Entry Deleted From Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    I think it's less a question of data overload on the servers, and more information overload on the users.

  22. Re:Old stuff works fine on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 1

    The running cost may be higher than you think, but the killer is the maintenance cost. When you've got one of the last five, the vendor's gonna want Fort Knox to keep you running.

  23. Re:I suspect the US Government is doing something on Cracks Showing in the Libyan Firewall? · · Score: 1

    but she said what she said.

    That's what she said!

  24. Re:Information wants to be free on Cracks Showing in the Libyan Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Ironic in a way: Egypt was the source of wheat for the *original* "bread and circuses".

  25. Re:Old stuff works fine on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 1

    Psst...hey. It's "JCL" not "JPL". It's those little details that keep your old school cred.