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  1. Re:Summary writer is a full blown moron on Simon Singh To Appeal In UK Court Today · · Score: 1

    I believe he would have had to say it about a specific person to be charged with libel. The government on the other hand will simply put him under even more constant surveillance and charge him with jaywalking, failure to pick up his dogs poo, and having crooked window shutters.

    IANABPOL (I Am Not A British Person or Lawyer)

  2. Re:Even a swimwear merchant app that sold bikinis on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    There are a few in the Florida keys. I am not sure where else.

  3. Re:Even a swimwear merchant app that sold bikinis on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am an American Patriot. I am a conservative. I am a liberal. These are not contradictions. I love America, our constitution and the values on which this nation was founded. "OMG! Boobies are the devil! Think of the children!" was not one of those values.

    Those are not American Conservatives.They may be: Regressives. Destroyers of the constitution. Fascists. Theocrats. Enemies of the people.

  4. Re:Even a swimwear merchant app that sold bikinis on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I'm wondering why it's possible to order the bottom of the bikini w/o the top? What good's a swimsuit with no top?...

    It is for the locations that are free enough to allow topless beaches, but puritanical enough to not allow nude beaches.

  5. Re:tubes from their door to my keyboard on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about a car analogy?

    This isn't like breaking the window on a Civic and tearing out the stereo system that cost more than the car.

    This isn't like opening the unlocked door on a Prius and and taking someones cd collection they left on the passenger seat.

    This isn't like reaching through the open window of a hummer and snatching a stick of gum.

    This is like getting on a public bus, and using your cell phone to snap pictures of the graffiti on the wall.

  6. Re:Okay... what is the law? on Google To Restart Talks With China · · Score: 1

    China can say they are following the law and be telling the truth, provided that they have secret laws.

  7. Re:The Crazy loop. on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    This pisses me off. I was very sick when I was young. I was unable to attend school about half the time. I was declared legally handicapped by doctors. And yet, despite passing all my classes I was going to be held back from graduating because they wouldn't give me credit due to missing so many days. Had I stayed in school, I would not have graduated until I was 21. It took more than a year to convince the school I should be allowed to take the GED test. A few months later I was 17 and in college.

  8. Something similar to autotranslate in FFXI? on New English/Arabic Translation Site Hopes To Promote Citizen Diplomacy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to play FFXI and found their system of guided translation to work reasonably well. Several times I was in Japanese parties, or had a Japanese in my party and we were capable of communicating about 80% of what we wanted to. It generally produced less garbled messages than I have seen from sites like babel fish, though that may have been affected by the limited topics of discussion in an MMO.

  9. Re:No surprise there.... on Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent · · Score: 1

    Maybe our terminology is a little incompatible here. But apt-get is a download manager is it not? It and the rest of its cousins common in linux are quite easy and useful.

  10. Re:11 Browsers? on Details Emerge On EU-Only "Browser Choice" Screen For Windows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please God, let one of them be a telnet terminal.

  11. Re:Life like a video game on Life Imagined As One Big RPG · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Things would be so much easier if I had a reputation meter for various people, particularly of the opposite sex, and also knew what to grind to improve that reputation...

    Its called a clitoris.

  12. Re:Ribbon isn't that bad on Free Netbook From Microsoft, Then Things Got Weird · · Score: 1

    I have a perfectly good copy of office 2003 I use regularly with standard menu's and keyboard shortcuts.

    And open office recently had a major boost in performance in its latest release. Comparing vs a few years ago may be doing yourself a disservice.

    Unless you use spreadsheets a lot, Oo still has a long way to go there.

  13. Re:Are the manufacturers getting more greedy on 2010 — the Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off HD Component Video · · Score: 1

    They won't. They will last approximately 2 weeks after the warranty expires and then they will die. You might want to experiment with setting the system clock forwards and see what happens.[/paranoia]

  14. Re:Free lappy and you complain? on Free Netbook From Microsoft, Then Things Got Weird · · Score: 1

    honestly? I would uninstall office 2007 and replace it with anything that doesn't have that horrific abomination of a ribbon. Ok, so some people like it. But would it have been that hard to give the option to use a classic menu based interface?

  15. Re:Talk about the ultimate makeout spot! on NASA Astronauts To Open New Space Station Windows · · Score: 1

    Personally I would rather get my wife and another attractive female there with me. More fun for everyone.

  16. Re:Games don't use multiple cores? on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  17. Re:so whats the problem? on Wolf In Political Ad's Clothing · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the "fiscally conservative" method of debt-and-spend championed by republicans?

  18. Re:i dont see any problem on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 0, Troll

    I generally agree with you. Though I have seen some "change" on behalf of Obama and the current congress. Previously, Bush and Co were capable of achieving horrifically destructive and unconstitutional abominations of law. Obama can't even manage to do that despite his best efforts.

    The differences between Republicans and Democrats exist almost exclusively to marginalize any external political competition. America is a one party fascist police state. And yes, I am using the correct definition of fascist.

    How do you choose between the lesser of two evils when your options on the ticket are Cthulhu and Azathoth?

  19. Re:i dont see any problem on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do remember that the AIG bailout happened way back in 2008... right? Obama wasn't on watch at the time, that was all Bush Jr (and the congress, mostly democrats).

  20. Re:Bill's Sponsor Also Ex-Microsoft Employee on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 0

    No it didn't. It got contracts alright, but it had to bid on them like everyone else. With old Dick, they did away with that pesky issue of bidding and selecting the lowest cost, best value. They just gave it to Halliburten.

  21. Re:Oh no! on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 1

    I don't think we have lasers large enough to fry PETA members yet. Better wait a bit before luring them in.

  22. Re:Definitely Not on Is Plagiarism In Literature Just Sampling? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It depends on how you define plagiarism. At the university I attended, making a mistake in the format of your references was considered plagiarism. I wouldn't personally hold anyone to that high if a standard. Did she originally claim complete ownership and provide no references or sources at all? Then yes, by any definition plagiarism and absolutely unquestionable wrong.

  23. Re:Safety of the device? on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 1

    Probably not much. You would probably place it somewhere that it just won't have an angle of attack where there are going to be people.

    place it level above 6ft and its unlikely to hit all but the tallest people if it can't shoot down, etc.

  24. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Creationism does belong in schoolbook...

    In a comparative religion textbook or perhaps creative writing. Right next to elephants standing on turtles, dream-time stories of mountain ranges being giant alligators, Zeus getting freaky with goats or Beowulf ripping the arms off of giants and HAL 9000 dumping astronouts out of airlocks.

    Where it does not belong is in a science book. I grew up in a fanatically conservative christian family. I grew up being instructed to put both creationist and "science" answers on tests stating "I know creationism is the truth, but the answer you are looking for is:". I eventually could not reconcile what I was being trained to believe with what I saw for myself. I managed to shrug off that brain washing and learn how to think. It was hard, and I pretty much lost my closeness with my family because of it.

  25. Re:Hoooly crap... on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 1

    I've been using Ubuntu on the machine I built in October. I use it for everything but a handful of games old games, for those I have an MSDN license for windows 7. It works great. I suppose I should give wine a try and see if I can cut the strings permanently.