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  1. Re:The real question on Universal Radio Grabber: the USRP · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're an idiot. For one thing, the Supreme Court banned the use of heat sensors to look for plant lamps in people's houses. If you want to make some germane point, fine, but you shouldn't have been modded up.

  2. Colbert. on ThePirateBay Will Rise Again? · · Score: 1

    Wørd...

  3. Here's an example: on Tom's Hardware Looks at Microsoft Vista Beta · · Score: 1
    From the idiodic screen at http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/05/31/windows_ vista/ie12_big.png

    Microsoft knows that an example of a valid domain is example.com, not treyresearch.com

  4. Re:America needs more jobs on On Point On Slacking · · Score: 1

    At the end of your post You're describing it in terms of national treachery, when by your own terms, you should be describing it as the upper class CEOs selling out middle class west to hire poor easterners (class treachery).

  5. Re:Huh? What? on Overconfidence in SSH Protection · · Score: 1

    That's not funny. Some of us actually care about this story. You're just wasting time.

  6. Re:Congrats Nintendo on Nintendo Announces Japanese Wii Price · · Score: 2, Funny
    especially with how weak the USD is currently
    If the dollar were strong, Nintendo could afford to sell them for fewer dollars. With the dollar weak, they can't afford to raise the price, otherwise Wii couldn't afford it.
  7. Re:The problem is we NEED monoculture to a degree on Dan Geer's Monoculture Bomb Goes Off · · Score: 1

    no, we need 40% OS X, 20% *BSD, 20% Linux, 20% Windows

  8. Re:It's all about context on What Should One Know to be Truly Computer Literate? · · Score: 1

    You could ask college students to raise their hands if they oppose fascism, and a minority would raise their hands. Students don't usually participate in these polls.

  9. Re:Sharing numbers with NSA is legal on Wired Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document · · Score: 1
    We already know that this violates the privacy aspects of the Telecommunications Act [of 1934?].

    The Fourth Amendment accusations are in addition to that.

  10. Nutscrape v. Internet Exploder on Spy Sweeper, the Next Netscape? · · Score: 0
    When I saw the title of this article on RSS, I knew why Netscape was being compared to this product without any previous knowledge of the antispyware company.

    It is sad that a company is primarily remembered for losing to Microsoft.

  11. Re:Source...code. on Possible Antibiotic for MRSA Superbug · · Score: 1
    Just one more reason for us to not destroy our environment.
    Exactly... It reduces out ability to go into the third world, find new wonder chemicals, and patent them!!

    At any rate, it looks like these researchers' business plan will procede as follows:

    0. Find new superdrug in African soil;
    1. Patent new superdrug;
    2. Get held up in clinical trials;
    3. Discover that new antibiotics have little demand;
    4. Lose money!
    If only the US help system wasn't based on maximizing profit endlessly.
  12. Re:I might even be inclined to be sympathetic... on Back to the Moon · · Score: 1
    . . . blah blah blah blah . . .

    Despite your low UID you have a remarkable inability to command either Italics tag or Preview button technology.

  13. Re:So when did we forget... on Tanenbaum-Torvalds Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1
    That's interesting. I apologize for my somewhat obnoxious and technicality-based point--I was sort of karma whoring. [I got modded up but didn't deserve to be.]

    In closing, I'm just happy we have real choices these days: OS X, *BSD, and Linux, and even XP is workable if you know what you're doing.

  14. Re:Read the ABC blog comments on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks · · Score: 1

    It's clearly astroturfing. People are being paid to post that shit.

  15. Re:So when did we forget... on Tanenbaum-Torvalds Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I doubt I'll ever see anything but a monolithic kernel on my desktops.
    Do you realize that Mac OS X has not a monolithic kernel?
  16. Re:old ways... on Google's Love For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    Read zen and the art of poker

  17. Re:There won't be. on U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data · · Score: 1
    See also Charles Tilly, "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime"

    in PDF

  18. Re:Did they alreay win? on FreeBSD Vows to Compete with Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Solid post.

  19. Re:Actually, India's strat is more similar than no on India and NASA to Explore Moon Together · · Score: 1

    True; there are only so many countries that can be in high profit industries before they become competitive low profit industries. India has to try to jump ahead to have a chance at anything that will bring in a lot of $$$.

  20. Re:Nintendo's Wii akin to Chevrolet's Nova? on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you'd prefer to discuss Boise, I-DA-HO?

  21. Re:Funny? on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If you want a good bashing of Mr Clinton, see Don Imus' speech at the WHPC dinner a few years back.

    It wasn't that funny, although it attracted headlines for saying rather vulgar things about the president [which later turned out to be true].

  22. Re:Nintendo's Wii akin to Chevrolet's Nova? on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1
    Lahore, Pakistan literally translates to "The Whore"

    So what?

  23. Re:anesthesia? on Stone Age Dentists · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is the same time period in which agriculture/civilization first developed, which also led to a decline in diet [too much starch] and a lower quality of life [state oppression].

  24. Re:Fun day on FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes · · Score: 1
    So you won't see a revolution anytime soon. People simply don't care. They don't care about freedom. They don't care about junk mail. They don't care about anything as long as their bellies are filled and their nerves are tickled.
    False; Revolutions occur when the old social structures break down.

    If you consider the disasterous debt and the inability of the US to control Iraq [and Afghanistan], and the attempts to reform in Europe, with mixed success, you would realize that things are not as stable as they seem.

  25. Re:unnecessary on No HD-DVD Movies Until April · · Score: 1

    nah, I rent them for $3 or so.