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  1. Re:Redundant? on 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open · · Score: 1

    Read the entries. If you don't spot the malice, then it probably isn't redundant.

  2. Re:OLPC on Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business · · Score: 1

    Bad at patting myself on the back for being obtuse? Not really, more disinterested than anything.

  3. Re:OLPC on Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business · · Score: 1

    Huh?

  4. Re:OLPC on Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business · · Score: 1

    Me (obviously!) intentionally misunderstanding the GP is a lot funnier than you assuming that I am a bonehead.

  5. Re:'The hackers took over' on Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like your synergy and value delivery and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  6. Re:OLPC on Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business · · Score: 1

    If you think RMS is a woman, you are really confused.

  7. Re:Fail a lot? on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    The ceiling collapse in the Big dig is another great one. They used the wrong glue.

    Of course, at some level, the mistake was having fast set epoxy available on the construction site at all, or not carefully managing what epoxy was available to who.

  8. Re:Flimsy construction on USB Flash Drive Life Varies Up To 10 Times · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they aren't golden, but they are among the more known quantities among places that manage to keep reasonable prices on things like memory.

  9. Re:Flimsy construction on USB Flash Drive Life Varies Up To 10 Times · · Score: 1

    Try one of these:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820189033
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134462
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134484

    The $5 premium isn't too bad.

    I have a 128 MB version of the same line, and I swear the thing is indestructible, despite being made out of two plastic halves that are glued together. One reason might be that there is a write protect switch on the drive, so the inside needs to be held to the inside a little better. I didn't really check the drives I linked to see if they have switches.

  10. Re:Of course they don't violate ... copyright ... on Mod Chips Legal In the UK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So kick her out.

    That is, after all, what most people choose to do.

  11. Re:Liberals on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    I also have a problem with remembering. I've posted anonymously when too lazy to log in and sort of remember that I had to preview, which is the only basis I have for my comment.

  12. Re:Why withdraw? on Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org · · Score: 1

    One way to put it is that he can spend his time on something productive rather than throwing it into the abyss (setting aside the fact that he has essentially been on an information campaign for the last several months, one that he could continue).

  13. Re:Hail to the robots on Douglas Hofstadter Looks At the Future · · Score: 1

    The concept isn't particularly hard. The precision machining and so forth would present tons of challenges to 10 year olds (no one has quantified children yet...), infinite money and knowledge or not. Clever ones might do it, but they also might get distracted by some frogs.

    And it isn't that children aren't intelligent, it is that they aren't a whole lot more intelligent than they have been in the last 1000 years. They are better fed and less stressed, and thus probably somewhat more intelligent than the historical average, but there isn't anything significant going on genetically. Especially in the hilarious 50 years that the GGP specified.

  14. Re:Hail to the robots on Douglas Hofstadter Looks At the Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because your're drunk.

    Or would you like to show us all a group of children that could produce an atomic weapon given a few years and a few billion dollars?

  15. Re:Liberals on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    The screamer (this is a word I have decided on the spot to call the combination of filter/informational message system) accounts for Karma somehow or another. Part of that may be the ability to post without previewing.

  16. Re:What Yahoo Wants? IN ANY case, msoft on Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead · · Score: 1

    Please don't.

  17. Re:Liberals on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lose dude, not loose.

  18. Re:Peace is a valid concept on Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts · · Score: 1

    You aren't born a blank sheet of paper. Not by any means.

  19. Re:You Married your Father? on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    She married the father of her daughter.

    It must not be Sweden. Huck huck.

  20. Re:I would like to finally see people talking... on Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just go down to your local Hippy Dippy Noodles.

  21. Re:Yeah, right on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    1.3 billion...

  22. Re:Why do I need a party hat? on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling that they will be drinking an ice with "Smirnoff" in front of it, not "Natural".

  23. Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    I continue to be disappointed in the GNU people calling their branding package Iceweasel. First, it is weaselly, and second, they could have used Ireox, at the very least until Mozilla told them to cut it out.

  24. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    I do not have such proof. That doesn't change the fact that you over-interpreted the data.

    The laffer curve is neat, but it is an argument against punitively high taxes, not an argument for marginal tax cuts. It will be interesting to see how much more damage deficit spending does to the dollar (both actual government deficit spending and the flood of money coming out of the reserve end up looking like deficit spending).

  25. Re:Okay. Here's *MY* blog entry, Senator on McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs · · Score: 1

    Do you somehow have proof that tax receipts would have been lower without the tax cuts?

    And really, there probably are a lot of college fraternities that need to be closed down.