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  1. Re:Everyone knows: I don't know on Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Right now with comcast my BT is probably sending more handshanking back and forth than actualy data anyways.

  2. Re:Preference on Flash Vulnerabilities Affect Thousands of Sites · · Score: 1

    Flash isn't available for linux x86-64 and hand-installing doesn't work, I'm not sure that it is available in windows-64 either. If your site is Flash dependent, your excluding the early-adoptors, not something that's good if your trying to develop market-momentum.

  3. Re:Good luck with that... on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 1

    I'd have to give Chuck top-billing though; Chuck looked pretty slow since "Delta Force" came out but he still faster than Mr. T since the Comcast commercials. I might even go as far as to say that "Delta Force" era Chuck would have been a good match for "Battle of the Bar-room Bouncers" era Mr. T.

  4. Re:Everyone knows: I don't know on Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    From what I'm seeing Comcast isn't throttling BT traffic specifically, downloads are just fine, and uploads work as long as your downloading, but when you cross that line from peering to serving the gig is up. Now I've tried to be nice and severely limit connections and upload bandwidth during prime-time and even, during off-peak, but no dice almost nothing goes upstream. Anything they identify or misidentify as as a server gets forged resets; If I was a java coder I'd be hacking Azureus to use UDP instead of TCP, let them try and reset that!

  5. Re:More Accurate Headline... on Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent · · Score: 1
    all I get is

    Error in download_count on line 262.
    ./ubuntu/gutsy/0.5.7.95/deluge-torrent_0.5.7.95-1_i386.gutsy.deb is already defined.
    and I'm trying to download the sources!
  6. Re:Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 1

    Sorry drsquare but human nature is to underestimate what I eat and overestimate what the morbidly obese eat, not the other way around. Fat may be the body storing excess energy, but not all excess energy is stored as fat and some fat is more morbid than others as well. Some bodies are more efficient at storing excess energy than others and why a body may choose to store excess energy as short-term glycogen and others as long-term lipids is unclear. There is a lot of factors and many are being discussed in emerging research,and the research frequently draws conflicting conclussions. Claiming anything to be cut-and-dried is dogmatic.

  7. Re:Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 1
    Here's the joke for you, Sen Clinton thinks obesity is caused by sex and violence on the boob-tube;

    Research has shown that violent and sexually explicit media contribute to aggressive behavior, early sexual experimentation, obesity, and depression. Hillary Clinton Tells Common Sense Media She Would Support Video Game Legislation

    Don't get me wrong I think their should be some limits and that's something the government has proven it's competent with.
  8. Re:A matter of courtesy on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The book capitalizes on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris' tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said

    Let's see if I read this correctly;
    1. A book as been written by Ian Spector and published by Penguin,
    2. the majority of the content in it has been stolen and/or plagiarized from the internet,
    3. consists tacky and rude Chuck Norris jokes,
    4. The book full of plagiarized material will surely be copyrighted

    and so;
    "Defendants have misappropriated and exploited Mr. Norris's name and likeness without authorization for their own commercial profit," ... seeks unspecified monetary damages for trademark infringement, unjust enrichment and privacy rights.

    Weird Al Yankovic makes money by parodying other artists; but the key concept is he does it, by creating the parody himself with his own sick-warped genius; He doesn't steal other peoples parodies.
  9. Re:Good luck with that... on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    PhearoX. is Mr. T in disguise and Mr. T can call anybody a fool.

  10. Re:Looks great but on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 0

    Does Chuck Norris runs Linux ?
    I don't know but his law-suit-roundhouse kick is going to knock Penguin into next Tuesday!

  11. Re:Hey! on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    I finally got a new dual core AMD 6k machine with 3.1 Gb ram and discovered that I really didn't care for eclipse. Vista runs pretty good on it and x64 Linux is wicked-fast

  12. Re:s/nothing/very little/ on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    How do you define "girlfriend"?

  13. Re:Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A big chunk of the diet industry is pretty traditional nutritionally, and not whacko fringe elements like grapefruit diets, apple cider vinegar diets, Adkins ectera. The more traditional can get people to loose weight temporarily, get they always seem to return to their original weights so its aways wash, rinse repeat. Right now I should lose about 30 Lbs, yet I don't eat significantly less than people who should lose 300 Lbs. The relationship between excess body fat and the calorie intake/exercise is at best fuzzy.

  14. Re:Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, eat to much doesn't cause obesity, if it did then eating less would would cure it and the multi-billion dollars diet industry would go out of business. You think like a typical American, if doing something is ineffective, then doing it harder will make it work! A diet consisting of the poisons you've listed would make somebody fat even if they only ate 1400 calories of it a day.

  15. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    well my corvette mako shark hoverpod will have a fricken laser on it's hood

  16. Re:So what on Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay · · Score: 1

    I suppose that technically setting a price lower is also price fixing and maybe illegal, I doubt that any prosecutor would prosecute. I don't think that Nintendo is required to do business with anyone either as long as the reasons are non-discriminatroy.

  17. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    And I bet judges frequently require traffic violators to re-take their drivers training too.

  18. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    but asking permission to change altitude is only slightly more difficult than use the turn-signals on our present cars, oh yeah sorry like that ever happens.

  19. Re:Other incentives on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    It's possible that when you plug your car into the charging station at the parking structure in town, that instead of charging, the car's computer negotiates a deal and instead sells electricity purchased at lower rural-offpeak rates to the the power company to ease their peak-surge requirements.

  20. Re:on the market already on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    Of course you could get a Volkswagon Polo that gets in the neighborhood of 75MPG right now if it wasn't for the 'greens' in Cali and their environmental protection regulations.

  21. Re:XKCD on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    we've got a really cool light, if your turning left onto Krafft, you watch the oncoming platoon of cars approach for 12 seconds, while your left turn arrow is red and the oncoming lane is empty. When the oncoming platoon arrives two cars make it through the light which then turns red for them so the people waited through the 12 seconds of empty traffic can get 2 cars through the intersection; don't think that East-west traffic can turn right while North-South is turning left either.

  22. Re:How practical on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    well since the title of TFA is "Nanosolar prints flexible solar cells" I would think that means yes

  23. Re:Where we live ... on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    reduce the "Surplus Population"!
    OK you drink the kool-aid first then I will, after I'm sure it'll work.

  24. Re:Switch statements are syntactic sugar on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    you can do all of your control flow with while statments
    Young whippersnapers don't know when they got it good, all we had was IF THEN's, and GOTO's and were lucky to have that! Scoped variables are for woosie and we had to punch our own Hollerith cards, next your going to tell me that you need more than 16k core; now get off my lawn.

  25. Re:1.4 billion light years on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sure what they really meant to say was that the galactic events we are seeing happened 1.4 billion years ago and had been occurring for 1 million years before we noticed it.