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  1. Re:Hmmm on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    You know what is going to happen the first time ARIN says no? The organization will go "Oh, ok.Can I get a nice block of IPv6 instead?"

    Nope. They're going to say, "Oh, okay. Who can I buy some IPv4 addresses from instead?" And they'll get their IPv4 addresses from somebody they can persuade to surrender them for a price. Having only IPv6 addresses only will be the second-class of the internet, relegated to those who can't afford to buy the addresses that most of the Internet can reach. Eventually this will change as IPv6 finally does spread out, but it'll be years yet.

  2. Re:For what application? on EComStation 2.0 GA To Be Released May 14 · · Score: 3, Funny

    this is 2010, is there still a market?

    Short answer, no.

    Long answer, nooooooooooooooooooooo.

  3. Re:No fly list is a dumb idea on Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC · · Score: 1

    Morons even made it illegal to be in the country illegally.

    Because, of course, it should be legal to be in the country illegally. Wait, what?

  4. Re:This is why you dont buy McAfee junk on McAfee Kills SVCHost.exe, Sets Off Reboot Loops For Win XP, Win 2000 · · Score: 1

    Although what constitutes "decent" in a corporate environment I dont know.

    NOD32.

  5. Re:So change providers on RCN P2P Settlement Is Not Even a Slap On the Wrist · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And some of us are more interested in what cand be done to improve our choices rather than agree to government regulation that will guarantee that our choices will be limited forevermore.

  6. Re:Oh shut up on Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands · · Score: 1

    Let me provide you with a real world example:
    Edward Diego should have never been given access to Shodan.

    Um, so your "real world" example is from a video game? A damn good video game, I'll grant you, but still...

  7. Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    Choose your own adventure books. Are they art?

    Of course they are. I go by Scott McCloud's definition of art from "Understanding Comics", which I always found to be insightful: Art is anything a human does that is not for the purpose of survival or reproduction. So, yes, adventure books are art. As are games, whether video, card, board or sports.

  8. Re:college the new HS because HS education failed on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    Further, frankly I didn't need chemistry and Calculus I-III & DiffEq to help me design circuits or code.

    Um, if you think you don't need differential equations to design circuits, I can only conclude you know nothing about designing circuits.

  9. Re:UIKit != AppKit on Cross With the Platform · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's like bitching against linux when trying to build your Qt code against gtk.

    It's like bitching against something billing itself as "Linux desktop compatible" when your Qt code isn't supported on it, only gtk. Which would be a legitimate gripe; "Linux desktop compatible" should support Qt as well as gtk.

  10. Re:How does virtualization help on Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory · · Score: 1

    Easier? Yes. More Efficient? Yes. More secure from threats and bugs? Most likely not. 10 processes on 10 virtual servers means that if one process takes out the server, it takes out 9 other processes, not 99 other process, unless it can actually manage to screw over the hypervisor, which is very well protected.

  11. Re:Remind? on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 1

    200 years old? No wonder he's forgotten where he's buried stuff!

  12. NIMBY? on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone needs to remind our government of the meaning of NIMBY.

    This was 95 years ago. The chemical sites were there first; the backyards came later.

  13. Has to be said... on Databases In Caves? A Unique Google Fiber Bid · · Score: 1

    Tony Stark built a database in a CAVE! With a BOX OF SCRAPS!

  14. Has to be said... on Databases In Caves? A Unique Google Fiber Bid · · Score: 1

    Tony Stark built a database in a CAVE! With a BOX OF SCRAPS!

  15. Re:News Flash: Apple limits app store! on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 1, Informative

    And therefore there should be none. 'Cause that's crimethink.

  16. Re:if you're in the intersection and it's red on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Canada probably has national traffic laws; the US does not. In the US, each state has its own traffic laws, although they are mostly similar. Being in the intersection when your light turns red is illegal in all of them.

  17. Re:if you're in the intersection and it's red on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: -1, Redundant

    No, it's not. I understand your point about needing to run a red light to get anywhere in a lot of places (and I've been in that situation myself, much to my frustration), and the police may well ignore such cases because of it, but the fact remains that being in the intersection when the light turns red is technically illegal in every state in the nation. You may want to read your state's driver's manual to educate yourself on this point.

  18. Sorry, you just flunked driver's ed. on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you are in the intersection before the light turns red, you have not run it, even if it takes a little while to clear it.

    Um, nope. If you are in the intersection when the light turns red, you have run a red light. You're not supposed to enter the intersection if you can see you won't clear it before the light does turn red; that's why there's a yellow.

  19. Re:Some of P. K. Dick's stuff is great, but how ab on Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick · · Score: 1

    Sunshine?? SUNSHINE????? As in, "the sun's going out and we're going to re-ignite it" Sunshine? You have no sense of what hard SF is supposed to be. Absolutely none. To start with, it needs to be based on *actual science*, not some Hollywood writer's fever dream with no discernable relationship with actual physics.

  20. Re:A Few More and Some Musings on Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. 2036. At this date, the cartoon that inspired Turing's suicide in 1954 (Snow White) will finally be considered part of history.

    You think so? You *really* think so? 'Cause I don't. Disney will get yet another extension. The Mouse will never be public domain.

  21. Re:Notability on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 1

    There is an article on my last name. 0.0001% of the population of the USA shares my last name, which is Aramaic. Hell, most people trip over the spelling/speaking of it since two of the letters in it are never seen in that order in any English word. (Even though it's only 6 letters long, it really trips up people due to that reversal)

    Aramaic would be seven letter long, wouldn't it?

  22. Re:Another Battle Lost Because MS Has No Mojo on Microsoft Promises To Fully Support OOXML ... Later · · Score: 1

    But when the PS3 came in so expensive and with the Wii seemingly so underpowered, console gamers were stuck with the 360 as default.

    They were? The Xbox 360 has sold 39 million units over four years. The PS3 has sold 33.5 million over three years. That looks pretty neck-and-neck to me.

  23. That's offensive! on Rogue Brown Dwarf Lurks In Our Cosmic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    It's "unconventional height-challenged person of color," and they don't lurk, they add diversity to our neighborhood!

  24. Re:ASD on Japanese Build a Virtual Hugging Vest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somewhere, a behavioral psychologist is quietly crying...

    But only because he was trained to do so whenever a bell rings.

  25. Re:Relatively speaking... on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Lunch time doubly so.

    (couldn't resist)