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  1. Re: WNT on FVWM-Crystal 3.0.4: Speed and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Must be why WNT keeps locking the user outside of the airlocks.

  2. Re:What I find difficult to understand on Most Distant Galaxy Gives Clues to Early Universe · · Score: 1

    Iron is the last step in fusion, and stars that go supernova do build up 1.2 solar masses of the stuff. Except when they implode, everything is turned into neutrons. So, fusion as a positive energy reaction doesn't happen above iron, and supernova's only contribution would be what happens to be outside of its core.

  3. Re:Yeah... really BIG news... bah on The Apple News That Got Buried · · Score: 1

    He meant that it won't help him send his e-mail any faster as it is the narrow tubes that are the performance bottleneck.

  4. Re:Disparaging members of other races? Hardly on Hacking the Governator · · Score: 1
    RTFA. He wasn't referring to physical features.

    You must be using the term "hot" in a way unknown to the majority of men in the world. (Actually, more like all except you)

  5. Re:Hasn't Google already justified it? on Wikipedia Won't Bow to Chinese Censors · · Score: 1

    Hmm, then please give a well reasoned argument for what you consider to be "The Right Thing" to do, and why the current actions are not "The Right Thing".

  6. Re:Principle of Hardy-Heisenberg-Jagger on Tumor-suppressing Gene Contributes to Aging · · Score: 3, Funny

    So it sounds like The Designer of the Universe [a pretty intelligent Fellow, from what I hear] may have placed the very same restrictions on the stuff He created on Day 5 as He did on the stuff He created way back on Day 1.

    I forget, was it spaghetti or ramen he created on Day 5?

  7. Re:Our laws, your country... on U.S. Arrests Online Gambling Company Chairman · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he should have taken out his neural implants and disconnected the transmitter before going into the US... It's obvious that taking the hardware into that country would get him arrested.

  8. Re:Oh well! on State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry · · Score: 1

    "A phrasing more to your liking might be "Innocent unless proven guilty." There's no implication that you will ever be proven guilty of anything, and in fact that "unless" suggests to me that such proof will never happen."

    Um, not really. The sentence you are looking for is: "Innocent unless guilty." In your suggestion, you can still be innocent if not proven guilty, the sentence assumes an external test. You could reorder it to: "if not proven guilty, then innocent", while my suggestion would be: "if not guilty, then innocent."

  9. Slender Neck Pr0n on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder, will they provide an option for only labeling porn images?

  10. Re:How...? on Hacker-Built PC Scans 300 Wifi Networks At Once · · Score: 1

    If we account for reporter incompetence, it seems he is claiming that he is looking for a way to determine that the hash doesn't match, in constant time. Probably working under some assumptions about the length, etc.

    But considering how mangled that sentence is, theoretically, I'd wait for a claim directly from the source before claiming crackpot.

  11. Re:Defensive move on Apple Gives In to Absurd Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    That term is previously claimed by an earlier poster, how about the functionally equivalent:

    That's patently maybe.

  12. Re:Question on ISPs Fight Against Encrypted BitTorrent Downloads · · Score: 1

    BitTorrent traffic by nature is very easy to spot. A large number of connections, mostly idle with short messages being sent every 30-120 minutes and a couple dozen connections with pretty constant upload and/or download. So this product appears to do exactly what the encryption extension was predicted to force, filtering based on traffic analysis rather than packet analysis.

    That is one of the reasons why I've resisted implementing this feature in my client, and still feel rather ambivalent even though someone has provided a (clean enough, considering how ugly the extension is) patch for it. It won't even provide the only redeeming feature it could have had, that of actually _encrypting_ the connection properly.

  13. Re:Pluto in School on Pluto Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    If find 'impact' here to be a really funny pun, except I don't think you meant it as one. ;)

  14. Re:The whole argument seems quite ridiculous on Pluto Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    I've heard the philosophers have had problems coming up with a definition of "to exist" that they can all agree on, not for the past few decades, but millenia. So, please refrain from using that word in any serious context.

  15. Re:Wasn't firefox designed as the simple mozilla? on Marketing Mozilla · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what they're doing, using he KISSASS principle. (Allow Separable Stuff)

  16. Re:the communist government in the Indian state of on Indian State Encourages Microsoft Removal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's nothing, consider this headline from reuters yesterday, I'm left wondering what Hizbollah really wants:

    "Annan urges quick end to Israel, Hizbollah disputes"

  17. Re:your next box needs swap on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you were using "grep" to try finding the irony in the post, you probably didn't get any matches.

  18. Re:Geography Lesson on Target Advertising Used to Censor NY Times Article · · Score: 1

    "I don't think the NYT needs geography lessons, I think someone else needs lesson in politics."

    Their president?

  19. Badger Badger Badger on Wikipedia Wars -- Lake Express Ferry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mushroom

  20. Re:Misplaced interest on The Struggle of an African-language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd say backronym is an oldlogism you should stop propagating.

  21. Re:About damn time on Data Mining Used to Create New Materials · · Score: 1

    Uhm, how could it cause the birds to singe an octave higher?

  22. Re:Why bring an iPod into the lavatory?!??!?? on Do Not Flush Your iPod · · Score: 1

    And the lesson of this story is, if you lose something valuable in the airplane toilet, call in a bomb threat.

  23. Re:Potential for major copyright infringement? on Microsoft leaks Zune Details in FCC filing · · Score: 1

    Last centuries insightful post, now with wireless!

  24. Re:Philosophy 101 on ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have no respect for a guy that pollutes the global namespace by defining 'timeout' as 'wtimeout' in a header as commonly use as 'ncurses.h'.

  25. The article is 34% interesting on Harvard Phd Vs. About.com over Gaming · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... or so my study indicates.