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  1. Re:The only thing I got out of TFA... on Shuttleworth's Take On GNOME 3.0, Coordination with Debian · · Score: 1

    we're far beyond having to manually file things in this day and age
    Exactly, so the whole 'Desktop' metaphor, including the silly unintuitive dragging about of pictures to various obscure effects on the underlying file-system has come and gone.
    Good riddance to bad rubbish. Glad I can still type things like 'cp -a' and 'mv'.

  2. Re:malware on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have the government outlaw your product?

  3. Why bother on Software Converts 2D Images To 3D · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cows are spherical, as every mathematician knows.

  4. Re:1300 MPG on Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Please let there be no X! on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes let's replace X11 and C with a proprietary layer on top of java.
    That'll make everything work.

  6. Re:It was to be expected on Is IE Usage Share Collapsing? · · Score: 1

    You mean we were at peak-stupidity?
    I'd gladly settle for less.

  7. Re:Bottem up? on DIY Biologists To Open Source Research · · Score: 1

    Are you insinuating that beer bio is not academic or fundable research?
    Tell that to him, or to this guy, or to that one

  8. Re:For the Masses on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like having my browser history so I can tell if I've read something or not.
    I think you'll find that ./ has found a way around that trick.
    Just duplicate a story from 2000, 2006 and 2009 with slightly different url's.

  9. Re:Not too bad.. on Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls · · Score: 1

    The modern three point safety belt was patented in 1962 by Volvo and the patent was made freely available to all; Probably saving a couple of million lives
    That sort of sick anti-capitalist behaviour would obviously no longer be tolerated by modern shareholders.

  10. Re:Wasn't it also the first for USB too? on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    You're garantuee isn't worth much. Apple and Solaris had USB drivers in 1998, Windows partial support in 2000 and Linux in 2001.

  11. Re:While there may be "newer" languages on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Depending on which languages you mean; at least a couple of the following:

    Speed
    Native complex numbers
    Optimized libraries
    Parallelized vector algebra
    Existing code base
    Portable code since 1959
    Ansi standard

  12. Re:Apple Safari Jumbo Patch 50+ Vulnerabilities Fi on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are aware that these patches are for the beta release of a major upgrade?
    Of course you are; You just like to use the word hypocrite a lot, to divert attention.

  13. Re:That's a lot of patches on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, and yes.
    Exactly indeed.
    I wont bother with suppling a clue, as you've obviously never seen Ubuntu or any other Linux distro.

  14. Re:Fuck em on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    There's a third option:
    Become marginally competent at your job.
    That way you can fix all the users problems before the coffee break, and relax the rest of the day to avoid your burn-out.

  15. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Oversimplified sniping, or childish fantasy
    No just ignorance. Many people have been killed in airlaine crashes where the pilot ignored systems and used his 'superior' judgement.

  16. Re:pffff on Microsoft Files For 3 Parallel Processing Patents · · Score: 1

    No API: We're talking really automatic parallelization. The optimizer detects loops and indepemdent blocks and unrolls them across multiple cpu's.
    Obviously we did this manually with the PVM,OMP and MPI api's years before that, but these compilers were pretty impressive.

  17. Re:And to celebrate, it issued the command: on Unix Turns 40 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you meant "kids*"

  18. Re:pffff on Microsoft Files For 3 Parallel Processing Patents · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mips compilers came with the APO options since the late 1990's. As usual Microsoft is 'inventing' 10 year old technology, and patenting it.

  19. Re:pffff on Microsoft Files For 3 Parallel Processing Patents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are.
    Second post trolling is really old.

  20. Re:they just need to search locally on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So it's the official version you mean?

  21. Re:HMTL? on Google vs. Microsoft On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    I have to ask: Which words did you fail to miss-spell?

  22. Re:Financing Options Available on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 2, Funny

    You married to the mob?
    Could be a story in that.

  23. Re:What economic assumptions is it using? on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 1

    The machine is based on the principle that you cannot create an infinite amount of water from nowhere.
    Any modern banker will be able to explain you that that assumption is incorrect in the case of money.

  24. Re:Bad words? on Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed Link · · Score: 1

    No there's not really more to it; that lecture is just listing manifestations of the same stupidity.

  25. Re:Another one bites the dust on The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap · · Score: 2, Informative

    Testosterone helps build muscle mass. Men have higher natural testosterone levels
    Men and women will get equal physical strength when equal amounts of steroids (anabolic or androgen) circulate in the blood stream.