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  1. Re:Where's the control? on Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told · · Score: 1

    Tape?

  2. Re:If only HIV killed instantly.. on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 1

    Finding out that people are stupid and/or mentally ill really isn't that much of a mind fuck.

  3. Re:Every now and then... on UN Attacks Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Imagine what you might end up thinking if you bothered to actually inform yourself.

  4. Re:In other news: on Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Pope has a whole country.

  5. Re:Sanctions overdue on Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Defaulting on the Chinese debt would put all of the rest of the U.S. debt into question; this could make if difficult to receive oil in exchange for paper (at the very least, Saudi Arabia and other petroleum funded societies would want to continue to trade with the U.S., but they almost certainly wouldn't do it in dollars anymore).

  6. Re:Commenters ? on Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, that's what I think when I look at China -- "they are going to run out of people sometime soon".

  7. Re:Target operating system? on Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered · · Score: 1

    From that page:

    "# Bio Visit the official site www.dalailama.com for more information. Not affiliated with the Office of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama."

    Take special note of the 'not affiliated' bit. The official story is far less exciting:

    http://www.dalailama.com/page.67.htm

  8. Re:Its good to be the king on Charter Files For "Prearranged Bankruptcy" · · Score: 1

    When you fly your helicopter out to the yacht, you need to call ahead and ask which helipad to land on.

  9. Re:Printing on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    The web upload system someone mentioned above sounds nice (no dealing with drivers and configuration for the clients...).

  10. Re:Not that quick, actually on Mozilla First To Patch Pwn2Own Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The linked bug was not hidden, it wasn't identified as a security issue (it was eventually identified as a duplicate of the bug that was fixed this week, but it was open for months; if you dig in, you will see that Mozilla is examining their processes a bit because of this).

  11. Re:First post. on Mozilla First To Patch Pwn2Own Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Putting 'son' in your posts makes you come off as a dildo. Just sayin'.

  12. Re:I am not a climate scientist, but... on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    The evalutation for the models can be sarcastically summed up as "they do a pretty good job with the 20th century":

    http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/309.htm
    http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/336.htm

    (a later edition of the report is available here:

    http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

    but only as pdf, I am talking about Chapter 8; skimming it a little bit indicates that the above statement continues to hold.)

    I'm not qualified enough to pretend to have an opinion on the accuracy of the reports or the likelihood of significant anthropogenic climate change, but I get an uneasy feeling when I compare the apparent confidence of the scientists and the apparent confidence of a lot of advocates.

  13. Re:Its good to be the king on Charter Files For "Prearranged Bankruptcy" · · Score: 1

    What do you by fronting?

    Reuters has a better article stating that he will have about 3% of the equity (with the ability to purchase more) and 35% of the voting shares:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN1942658120090319

    The previous structure gave him near total control of the company and much of the bank debt would become more expensive if he gave up that control. Presumably, his bonds and preferred stock are what gave him that equity, I can't imagine that any of his regular shared survived the deal.

  14. Re:The problem skeptics like myself have with this on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    Taxing consumption probably works better.

    As far as rain forests, Brazilian ethanol comes from cane which basically won't grow on the soil present in most of the rain forests. The rain forests are being destroyed by (mostly) illegal logging and subsistence farmers who come in and burn the land (the farmers only get a year or two of crops out of the soil before it isn't worth farming, then they move on to an area that has recently been logged...).

  15. Re:There is money and publicity on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the billions of individuals that have an interest in cheap energy.

  16. Re:zero-day flaw disclosed earlier this week on Mozilla First To Patch Pwn2Own Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    It might not be the best terminology, but it is describing how many days a patch has been available for the vulnerability.

  17. Re:chargeback forwarding? on iPhone App Refund Policies Could Cost Devs · · Score: 1

    They are being pragmatic. There would be far less apps if they made developers pay for everything (which might be good for iPhone users, as the typical app might end up being higher quality, but Apple makes money on volume here).

  18. Re:And this is a surprise? on Mozilla First To Patch Pwn2Own Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    See what sarcasm gets ya?

  19. Re:Almost pointless discussion on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    Virtual machines (perhaps inside of virtual machines inside of virtual machines) will keep you working up until a 'bit' loses meaning.

    Though I would bet that in 100 years there are widely available apps that can read ascii text, unicode text, pdf, doc, odf, and so on (if only for use by legal researchers and government archivists...).

  20. Re:Preserving gibberish on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    That link doesn't make your point at all; 1 of the examples is 'people today find it cheesy as hell' (the drunks watching Shakespeare back in the day probably thought so too, they just happened to be drunk, so it was good for a laugh) and the second is 'they don't talk about the vagina innuendo in school' which doesn't have much to do with lacking context (the innuendo isn't particularly obscure). I also doubt that the feign/fain distinction was noticed all that often by typical contemporary viewers (but this is rank speculation on my part), so it is hard to attribute this to the erosion of context.

  21. Re:Sounds Normal on iPhone App Refund Policies Could Cost Devs · · Score: 1

    The implication in the summary (which, according to several posters above, is wrong) is that Apple is charging developers 100% of the App price for returns, which is 143% of the revenue that the developers get.

  22. Re:Did know it was that bad on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 1

    Numpy adds (fast) support for multidimensional arrays to Python; Scipy provides a bunch of tools for working with Numpy arrays.

  23. Re:About as surprising on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    Do you distinguish your awareness from the awareness of an ant?

  24. Re:Required reading on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    I like to think of it in terms of whether the lobster is offended by the pain (something that I doubt quite a bit). That some humans take offense at the pain of a lobster doesn't bother me much.

    Of course, I'm allergic, so I should put 'cattle' in there, not lobster.

  25. Re:Effort in wrong place on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 1

    How much of what you want do you get with Cython/Pyrex?