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  1. Re:Some possible problems, here? on Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine · · Score: 1

    No. Microsoft does not need to tackle the GPL head on. Ever.

    In the event that linux becomes 'the' desktop OS of choice for most users, Microsoft can become a linux vendor (if they want). I guess they might not be real popular with the faithful, but there really aren't any roadblocks if they want to go that route.

  2. Re:At last! on Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code · · Score: 1

    Motivation.

  3. Re:Guerrilla Marketing on Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    You need to go spend a few minutes standing in the corner thinking about things.

  4. Re:WPA2 is NOT broken on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    If your ISP has caps, they are certainly using up some of your transfer (this is also a good reason to find another ISP, but the competitive landscape isn't exactly competitive in all areas).

  5. Re:Well duh... on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 2, Informative

    The architecture of DSL is usually such that you can't see anybody else's traffic (well, it was the last time I spent any time trying to understand how it worked).

  6. Re:WPA2 is NOT broken on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 1

    What are you protecting?

    Are you slowly moving away from glass windows to steel shutters? The first is generally more convenient and has features the second lacks, all while being less secure.

  7. Re:Bill Joy's terrorist connection on Bill Joy For New National CTO Post? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think it has much to do with any particular frenzy, I think it has a lot more to do with a lack of interest in nuance, and the us-vs-them mentality that flows so easily from our genes.

  8. Re:Fringe on US Army To Push X-Files Tech Development · · Score: 1

    I haven't watched this Fringe thing, but I get the sense that a third X-Files movie is more likely than a second Fringe season.

  9. Re:That juicy t-bone steak on Frozen Mice Cloned · · Score: 1

    There may be a nutrition problem for vegans, but it isn't calories (unless they have some sort of problem with eating potatoes, rice, wheat, etc., which all provide abundant calories).

  10. Re:That juicy t-bone steak on Frozen Mice Cloned · · Score: 1

    A vegan is a loathsome, sickly creature. I shudder at the thought of the taste of their flesh.

  11. Re:A tremendous opportunity on FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum · · Score: 1

    I don't know what the original poster meant. I would point out that the fact that these devices work best when there is a lot of unused spectrum and the fact that a lot of the people that live in areas with unused spectrum would be well served by radio broadband (mostly less capital cost for install) may be more than a happy coincidence.

    That sort of broadband could be done in a licensed context though, so it isn't really a check mark on the good-things-about-unlicensed-use list.

  12. Re:four accidental or metabolically efficient? on Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Most people call it bilateral symmetry (i.e., side-to-side).

    My hand has some symmetry with my foot, but my head has quite a bit less.

    The inner-middle-outer (endo-meso-ecto) tissue groupings also seem more logical than grouping the stuff that sticks out of the torso.

  13. Re:Eight-armed creature on Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    You mean like a bat-eating centipede?

    http://www.google.com/search?q=bat+eating+centipede

  14. Re:A tremendous opportunity on FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Somewhere in the midwest, I have four channels (well, I can aim the antenna and pick up a fifth, snowy channel, but that is a decent reason not to count it in a digital context).

  15. Re:At least the mystery is over on Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's · · Score: 1

    He was rich. He could have had medical records altered to fit the corpse that he purchased, or maybe even had himself cloned.

  16. Re:No surprise here... on Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the other hand, bastardized English they are.

  17. Re:ISBN on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 1

    Look for problems much?

    Try these:

    http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?id=prod395859&CATID=306811&skuid=sku395860&V=G&ec=frgl_618217&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=sku395860

    (The package is cardboard on the back, to get the razors out, tear along the perforations. Note that these razors do no provide that burst of pride that comes from using the newest, most expensive razor.)

  18. Re:stupid fucking seal on the edge of CD's.... on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, a priest, a rabbi, and a blond?

  19. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    I see that you enjoy T-ball.

  20. Re:Penny Arcade on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Plain Text Links adds the ability/option to open the link in a new tab, and uses a context menu entry instead of a double click:

    http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/textlink/

  21. Re:there's nothing wrong here on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Nothing, but you would have to rename them SUPER-SSH and SUPER-TLS.

  22. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows that the golden toilet was for Rush.

  23. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    When you type a group of letters that may be words into Google, it often suggests a real word that is close to that group of letters. This could change many things on the internet.

  24. Re:Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory on Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web · · Score: 1

    Hopefully you saw the ironic intent in my first reply (this still leaves you plenty of room to not appreciate it...). The mix of moderation and AC replies suggests that it wasn't particularly clear to something like half of the general readership.

  25. Re:Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory on Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice job asshole, somebody already posted that fucking link.