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  1. Re:Um, why? on Mozilla Labs To Bring Address Book To Firefox · · Score: 1

    That hole is being closed elsewhere (this feature depends on websites providing a Portable Contacts API, consuming websites can use that same API to obtain contacts, rather than asking users for credentials).

  2. Re:Once you learn some radicals... on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully you don't end up teaching each other Chonese.

  3. Re:achievement porn on Baffled By the Obsession With Pretend-Business Games · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Planning? It's not enough! on Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release · · Score: 1

    Do you have any evidence of this exploit being used in the wild?

    (Of course, I was mostly being a jerk in my previous comment, but it really isn't that shocking that they are following their standard release procedure here)

  5. Re:Planning? It's not enough! on Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release · · Score: 1

    Because it is a beta. They don't want to support the people who can't find it on their own.

  6. Re:Meanwhile on Amazon Battles Apple By Arm-Twisting Publishers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because Apple is the one with the contracts that (potentially) hurt Amazon's business (whereas Barnes and Noble is trying to run the same sort of business as Amazon).

  7. Re:Planning? It's not enough! on Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you being intentionally ridiculous?

    The fix is in the latest beta release already, that binary is slated to be the release candidate, and if testing goes well, it will be the release.

  8. Re:he should think this through on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    I think it is safe to call them brands, rather than divisions:

    http://www.deltaportercable.com/AboutUs/History.aspx

    (for further confirmation, click the careers link there)

  9. Re:he should think this through on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    We should encourage the plaintiff to purchase a woodchipper.

  10. Re:he should think this through on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    Black & Decker owns Porter Cable (along with a bunch of others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_&_Decker_Corporation ).

    For the most part, I think build quality is better reflected by the price than by the brand (but then, some of the brands don't really make any cheap tools...).

  11. Re:CDs! How *quaint* on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 1

    My 'people are fools' argument still works. All the fools are tricked by the loudness, driving people that are worried about dynamic range to vinyl.

    This reasoning is entirely retroactive on my part.

  12. Re:Health care: break the MD cartel on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    The AMA works together with the AAMC:

    http://www.lcme.org/faqlcme.htm

  13. Re:CDs! How *quaint* on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Vinyl sales are rising because people are fools.

    (There is some chance that the audio never experiences any filtering and the frequency response of the entire chain of analog equipment is such that there is no cutoff of high frequencies, and that the ears listening can hear the high frequencies, and that there isn't any dust on the record and that the record hasn't been worn by previous playback, but it isn't really all that likely)

  14. Re:It is bad, wrong way to go about it on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    He is talking about the number of slots available to become an M.D.:

    http://www.lcme.org/faqlcme.htm

    (The first two questions talk about how LCME accredits medical schools and how the AMA is one of the sponsors of the LCME)

  15. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    How is that even possible? The worst case I can possibly imagine is all the entrenched players going bankrupt and disappearing, and a bankruptcy isn't going to rob a doctor of his doctoring skills, so maybe glancing at an ear infection and subscribing some cheap antibiotics will cost less than $100 in this future disaster.

  16. Re:Thanks for the TRUTH on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    DHS was created with glue, not raw cloth. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the budgets of the child agencies prior to the consolidation and after though.

    And the USPS is cheaper than UPS and FedEx, especially for sending a letter slowly, but part of the reason for that is that UPS and FedEx are legally enjoined for competing in that space.

  17. Re:hmm on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully most of the problems were related to the weird format (where they wanted to be able to air it in 1/2 hour time slots, but also sell the movies as standalone DVDs).

  18. Re:Microsoft on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's reasonably unobtrusive, not incredibly. Try opening and reading a few thousand small files with it active, and then try the same with it inactive.

  19. Re:So... on Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars · · Score: 1

    On the vehicle that I have the title to, with no OnStar subscription?

    Who cares what they think?

  20. Re:So... on Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the vehicle is otherwise a good deal, I think it is fairly straightforward to either pull the fuse or disconnect the antenna.

  21. Re:Proof he owns the moon. on Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years · · Score: 1

    Can he stop bullets with his skin?

    (Governments tend to use bullets when they start feeling vehement about something or other)

  22. Re:HTML5 Video on Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs · · Score: 1

    I would argue that being good enough and widely deployed are the two biggest factors in a successful format, H264 has both of those, right now.

    (It might be nice that your phone supports Vorbis, but that's probably because the chip maker folded that support into everything, not because the phone manufacturer was worried that the dozens of Vorbis enthusiasts would be more interested in their product)

  23. Re:BTDT on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 2, Informative

    The muppetlabs link ends with the entire program overlapped into the ELF header, and part of the header left off.

    (It is just a toy program that returns 42 to the OS, but he gets it down to 45 bytes.)

  24. Re:Nothing sacred on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    He then goes on to talk about how corruption is a problem for both parties, it is pretty obvious that the bit you are pointing out is him sniping at Republicans, not him talking about how it's a good thing the corruption in Ohio favors Democrats.

  25. Re:Wasted time on Users Rejecting Security Advice Considered Rational · · Score: 1

    Yeah (but decompression only).