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  1. accurate... on Computer Scientists Scour Your Holiday Photos · · Score: 1

    extremely accuratean interesting start.

  2. Re:It's about war on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    It's a war of choice for the United States. That is reason enough to at least consider having a doctrine of treading lightly.

    (Andy yes, it is a war of choice. Car accidents are a bigger threat to our way of life than radical terrorism. That isn't a sufficient argument for not being in Iraq at all, but it provides a considerable amount of context to the discussion about whether the war is a choice or not.)

  3. Re:Aren't these guys supposed to be better? on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter. How many of the 6.5 million downloads do you think are people who are trying it for the first time?

    Maybe a few hundred thousand, but that isn't enough to matter, and the high or low quality of the release (beta4 has been fine so far...) will quickly have a much larger impact on the number of users.

  4. Re:Stubborn... on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1

    The judge has to have some recourse to be able to conduct a trial.

    A judge that consistently abused contempt of court would not remain a judge in most jurisdictions (and in the others, legal ideals aren't really the first issue that needs addressing).

  5. Re:Free speech. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1

    All people everywhere will always be backward compared to what you want them to be. As the people move forward, your wants will increase.

  6. Re:Free speech. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1

    You didn't mean that the way you phrased it. A "to find out" adds a great deal of clarity.

  7. Re:Sigh on Pimp My Datacenter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It happened at least 10 years ago (I'm 28). Maybe about 50 years ago. (Don "Magic" Juan Yo)

    More likely than 'when did become' is 'where' not including the area that you grew up in.

  8. Re:"I have nothing to hide..." on Understanding Privacy · · Score: 1

    Ask them if they think the government should be informed if they buy a pregnancy test or a prescription. Not just the government though, all of the people that work for the government, including their friends.

  9. Re:Free iPhones! on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 5, Funny

    Deep breaths there skippy, deep breaths.

  10. Re:Doctors contribute to government corruption. on California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I think it depends a great deal on where you live. I flush my toilet without giving it a second thought, but I live 100 miles from Lake Michigan in an area that receives 2.5 feet of rain each year.

    I guess I could get all twisted in knots about it, but people living in Vegas and LA are probably doing more damage to water supplies just by living there than I would by having a hedonistic water park in my back yard.

  11. Re:Doctors contribute to government corruption. on California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Regulations against shitting in the creek are regulation for the sake of drinkable water.

    If you don't think people would shit in their own drinking water, read a history book.

  12. Re:How can they keep this secret? on FCC Revises Broadband Penetration Metrics · · Score: 1

    They'll just take their time complying, rendering the data marginally useful.

  13. Re:From a former employee . . . this sounds like I on Anatomy of a Runaway Project · · Score: 1

    It could well be running up to an implosion (revenues won't necessarily reflect erosion of long term business), but the stock is up on real revenue and earnings growth:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=IBM&annual

  14. Re:This means what? on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: 1

    If a piece of software could make computers shit gold bricks, gold would quickly lose much of its value. Then I could finally have my golden toilet.

  15. Re:Office 2007 runs on Wine 1.0 too. on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Recognition is the first step.

    The next step is to eat some pudding, it will make you feel better.

  16. Re:Yellow is better on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 1

    Hence the "may be".

    I probably would have appreciated it more if you had said that I liked red balloons though.

  17. Re:Yellow is better on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 1

    Your sarcasm detector may be poorly tuned.

    I was demonstrating that the failure is even worse than you indicated by inventing a narrative that was compatible with the facts, not trying to slam Obama.

  18. Re:bet on N-Prize Founder Paul Dear Talks Prizes For Nanosat Race · · Score: 1

    How much have you got?

  19. Re:Just if any one else wonders..... on Special Effects Wizard Stan Winston Dead At 62 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Moderation isn't a contest. It exists to make the comments more filterable.

  20. Re:Yellow is better on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 1

    You got the rumor all wrong. Obama is a secret Muslim. Of course he has a Christian minister, it helps keep the secret.

  21. Re:Tell him tt's a trap on How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam? · · Score: 1

    What does a fake email address look like?

    curlyjoe@wonder.com, prettyPrincess400@yahoo.com and big_lovin69@hotmail.com are completely within the bounds of what I would expect to find on a list of email addresses.

  22. Re:It really doesn't matter.... on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 1

    Modding you down is not the sort of censorship that is comparable to the pernicious censorship that is problematic in a personal rights sense. It's comparable to a newspaper editor choosing not to publish a letter, not to the government throwing someone in prison for saying that they don't like biscuits.

  23. Re:Yellow is better on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 1

    Do you rail against the man because it feeds into the hero story that you tell yourself you are living?

    It's telling that you so "those with an agenda" as if you somehow don't have one. *Everyone* has an agenda, even a wino out picking up cans for the deposit.

  24. Re:Does it mean on UCITA By the Back Door · · Score: 1

    They better not make a mistake against somebody who doesn't like their agenda.

  25. Re:Why move? Because you have to, that's why. on XP Deathwatch, T Minus 2 Weeks · · Score: 5, Informative

    To some extent, the copy speed improvements in SP1 are simply Vista telling you the copy is done before it is actually finished on disk:

    http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx