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  1. Re:Maybe on The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe she likes her some pizza.

  2. Re:Where the hell do you go for pizza? on Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year · · Score: 2, Informative

    Naked ladies are at least as likely to wash their hands as clothed ladies. Being that they are naked, there is even some chance that they are more likely to have taken a recent shower.

  3. Re:You get what you pay for on Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year · · Score: 1

    Plenty of insurance companies are essentially coops.

  4. Re:Anyone still has JavaScript enabled? on Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack · · Score: 1

    I just have javascript turned off, the vast majority of exploits use it.

  5. Re:Of course being in China, on Microsoft Steals Code From Microblogging Startup · · Score: 1

    I'll worry when we are in deep ostrich.

    The best measure of the stability of the United States economy is the ability of the government to borrow money, and it is just fine right now (I'd really prefer a government that spent a lot less money, but the current debt isn't a disaster just yet).

  6. Re:ELASTIC Compute Cloud on Amazon Introduces Bidding For EC2 Compute Time · · Score: 1

    I think his point was more that they are setting prices in a way where they aren't losing money (they do eventually have to have actual hardware somewhere, which is where the cost comparison comes in).

  7. Re:You get what you pay for on Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year · · Score: 1

    Someone called me about buying an extended warranty for my refrigerator. She told me that she personally thought they were a great deal. I told her she should look into it, they wouldn't be cold calling if the fridge was really all that likely to break down in the period they were selling the warranty for.

  8. Re:Anyone still has JavaScript enabled? on Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And then someone who is paying you money sends you a pdf and expects you to make comments using Adobe's proprietary comment system.

  9. Re:BUT WAIT!!!! on Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack · · Score: 1

    Reader 9 isn't really all that sluggish, and opposed to the alternatives, it actually has nice on-screen rendering (both the final product, and the initial presentation of that product, the others either have shit font support, need time to pre-render or tear all over the place...).

  10. Re:BUT WAIT!!!! on Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack · · Score: 1

    They infect ad networks, automatically launching reader, and their exploit.

  11. Re:Where's the security around this? on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    You can work around the problem:

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582

    I looked for a website providing similar lookups but didn't find one.

  12. Re:Better idea on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    Domains aren't the problem, CMS systems that expose 99% of the implementation in the url are the problem.

  13. Re:Nope, still too long. on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    He wants to know why you took his pants.

  14. Re:No on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is creative accounting or a mistake, I think they are working hard at figuring out how to have a presence in the entertainment center, and succeeding at it (The games/entertainment division made money the last two years, Xbox 360 and Xbox live seem to be working pretty well).

  15. Re:Why am I not surprised? on Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You missed the happy ending, where it all falls apart.

  16. Re:Embargo fails. on Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones · · Score: 1

    They seem to have at least made more progress.

  17. Re:why is this even in question? on Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How do you reconcile your fascist attitude with the fact that a case about this question is going before the Supreme Court?

  18. Re:Recession on Cybersecurity Czar Job Is Useless, Says Spafford · · Score: 1

    They generally don't actually have any administrative capacity.

  19. Re:No on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the statement is nonsensical. Apparently Microsoft had their first quarterly decline in revenues since 1986, and the article writer somehow twisted that into a statement about them losing money (where in reality only the games division lost money, the company as a whole still made more than $1 billion a month).

  20. Re:I'm waiting for this to seem like a problem. on PayPal Offers $150,000 In Developer Challenge · · Score: 1

    The bad part was that it was Paypal that you had to trust. From where I sit, they didn't have anything to throw away.

  21. Re:eInk MPD remote control client on B&N Nook Successfully Opened · · Score: 1

    There is a wifi card in there already.

  22. Re:Limitations of e-paper on B&N Nook Successfully Opened · · Score: 1

    It's like 1" by 4".

  23. Re:And so it begins on B&N Nook Successfully Opened · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or they'll just block them entirely, void the warranty (because it was messed with...) and have Barnes and Noble file 'Network Access Restoration' under 'Warranty Service'.

  24. Re:Outrageous on Documentation Compliance Means MS Can Resume Collecting Protocol Royalties · · Score: 1

    The pretense is in your head. "there should of course be nothing preventing you writing a competing protocol or your own clean room version. that's why patent are bad, but this is not." is pretty unequivocal.

  25. Re:Outrageous on Documentation Compliance Means MS Can Resume Collecting Protocol Royalties · · Score: 1

    Your wit is like a huge gaping anus.