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  1. Re:Mine has two on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 1

    Lisa, is that you? Roy (no, he's dead)? Claudia?.. shoot, she's dead too.

    SPOILER ALERT!

  2. End User License Agreement on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're going to have a License Agreement presented to the End User.. Maybe call it LAEU?

    It's walking like a duck and quacking like a duck.

  3. Re:Best cure for fundamentalists: scripture. on Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed · · Score: 1

    He said it would be a great place if EVERYONE did it. I'm not a bible thumper (by any stretch), but presumably if EVERYONE followed, no one would be trying to overpower and enslave you.

  4. Re:Platinum-Iridium on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Talk about a ball and chain...

  5. Re:Embedded OpenType (EOT) on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 1

    Anybody want a peanut?

  6. Re:Inks fade... on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    No one was suggesting using a consumer-grade printer for this task. At least I hope they weren't.

  7. Re:And if you're innocent? on Canadian Privacy Czar Wants To Anonymize Court Records On the Web · · Score: 1

    I think the word you're looking for is "presumed".

    I'm typing this sentence very slowly to make sure this comment takes long enough to write...

  8. This has nothing to do with his name.. on Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name · · Score: 3, Informative

    It has everything to do with the EMAIL ADDRESS he apparently wasn't willing to change. They wouldn't grant him the address he requested. All he had to do was pick another email address and he would have been fine. I'm sorry, but you are not entitled to any email address you want.

  9. Re:Oh, So That's What Happened... on Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're not actually shipping the affected product anymore, so presumably if you get a newly enough manufactured replacement part, you won't have the problem on the new piece of equipment.

  10. Re:Hulu == US only! on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    can I naturalize?

  11. Re:4 Threads per core? on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 1

    I always thought the definition of a "core" as whatever the minimal set of hardware required to run a single thread at "full power". By my logic, anytime you run more than one thread on a core, you're doing what SMT does.

    Someone please tell me if I'm wrong (and how).

  12. Re:Kart before the horse ... on Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed · · Score: 1

    In sort of the same vein of misunderstanding how evolution works, the body doesn't "invest" in anything. It makes random changes that either work or don't. This would be better worded as saying "bodies that require the expensive neurological systems would be less likely to survive unless they served a purpose" would be closer to how things really work. Saying that the body is going out of its way to go towards a certain trait is insulting to how absolutely simplistic evolution is. "Try everything and keep what works"

  13. Re:Ask for a test problem on How To Show Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    You have limited time to get done what you want. You want to see how well the person communicates and codes, so you have to combine the two - that's exactly what white board or phone coding does.

  14. Re:Have to repent for the sin... on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    That's so fucked up, isnt' it? Hold the innocent with standards longer than the guilty with nothing other than wanting to save their own ass. Jail doesn't rehabilitate shit, so this makes no sense to me.

    s//\%\@\#\$/gi;

  15. Re:I plead not guilty but hey, here is the body. on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Presumably his lawyer worked this stuff out. That's the lawyer's legal responsibility to his/her client.

  16. Re:Good Stuff! on AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might want to keep looking. Companies that do this kind of thing once don't usually stop at 1.

  17. Re:First fanboy alert. on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 2, Informative

    Likely you've never used an iphone keyboard for an extended period of time. The keyboard is actually quite good. Well, I do suppose it's good for typing english. I'm not sure I'd want to program on it. It likes to tell you what you mean.

  18. Re:Do no evil doesnt stop 'aiding evil do bad thin on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 1

    And the police can enforce those laws. Doesn't mean Google, a company with a fine rhetoric about not being evil (not not-following-the-laws-of-every-country-they-operate-in), has to .

  19. Re:If it wasn't so dumb... on GPL vs. Skype Back In Court · · Score: 1

    This is not a criminal case. The lawyers are in control. If they are asked to do something unethical, then they are required to not do it or they will be sanctioned by the court/bar. Contrary to popular belief, lawyers are not owned by their corporate masters and have a higher "rule" to obey.

    In a criminal defense, the defendant in the end is responsible for his defense and can tell the lawyer to stfu. However, he cannot make the lawyer do unethical things - they tend to do that kind of stuff on their own - but they can't be forced to.

  20. Re:Hope it wasn't released under the GPL on Tilera Releases 64-Way Chip Dev Tools · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Only if you distribute ALL your binaries with source do you not have to provide source for ANYONE on demand. If you allow written requests for source, you must allow the source to be obtained by ANYONE.

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesWrittenOfferValid

  21. Re:2,843 MPG is shabby compared to... on Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg · · Score: 1

    It would also be possible to die from old age before completing the three circumnavigations. The Concorde wasn't built in a time when energy conservation was a goal.

    Considering the F-22 is the first (and only?) airplane capable of supersonic speeds without the use of afterburners (or some sort of rocket technology), it's not surprising that the Concorde needs a lot of gas.

  22. Re:No "fair use" in Australia on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because certain types of copies are allowed. For instance, you're allowed to have a copy of a program on your hard drive and in RAM. You can have a copy sitting in a hard drive cache. The intent behind copyright is that you purchase it for a purpose (and likely the DJs had to purchase a more expensive version that allows public performance) and you can use it for that purpose.

    I've always thought the music industry should have to pick. Either they can sell you a physical media with which you can do whatever you want (public performances or personal use) or sell you a license to use the music in a certain way (private use only, but you have the right to the music in any format you want for that purpose).

  23. Re:It disappoints? on NVIDIA Quad SLI Disappoints · · Score: 1

    Two cards - four cores.

  24. Re:I'm a little disappointed . . . on Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit · · Score: 1

    The GPL really doesn't need to be tested in court. As it relies on copyright, if you don't obey the requirements of the license, you fall back to the default constraints of any copyrighted work -- namely you can't distribute it.

  25. Re:Sounds scary on Ads With Your Name On Them · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exactly. That's why they're not going to do this. They don't want you knowing that they know who you are. Unless of course they know you know they know who you are.