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  1. Re:Arsenal on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I try not to make a habit of responding to ACs, but I'll make an exception here. While I agree with the premise of your statement, namely that the distinction between the two nations has been widely recognized and understood since the 1950s, I must strongly express my disapproval of the means by which you conveyed the point.

    All too often, I too am guilty of replying in a manner that is harsher than necessary when pointing out the mistakes of others, typically in cases where the topic of discussion is something that I care strongly about. This is something I try to be more mindful of these days. Perhaps it's because I'm over 30 now. In life, at least in my view, tact matters. Sir/ma'am, your reply simply had no class, and I find that regrettable.

  2. Re:Arsenal on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 2

    You're right. It will be a problem of truly mammoth proportions.

    On a related note, it's generally North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) that people are concerned about in terms of nuclear capabilities, not South Korea.

  3. Re:Mass production on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would be a truly mammoth production level.

  4. Re:WTH on Throwing Light On Elcomsoft's Analysis of Smartphone Password Managers · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have demonstrated a profound level of ignorance of the most basic elements of cryptography. May I suggest spending some quality time with Applied Cryptography, among other notable and readily available references in the field.

  5. Re:obligatory... on Mastering Engineer Explains Types of Compression, Effects On Today's Music · · Score: 1

    Do you like apples?

  6. Works every time. on Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring? · · Score: 0

    Simply take off one article of clothing every five minutes.

  7. That's a perfectly cromulent word.

  8. Re:Foregone conclusion.... on Danish Research Center To Explore Mysteries of Earth's Interior · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the planet is consuming too many plum filled danishes, I can certainly understand hot bubbles of materials rising up.

    Oh, sorry, you said "plume," not "plum." Never mind. Also, for anyone who thought of hot grits and/or Natalie Portman while reading the above, you've got issues bro.

  9. Re:Math on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 0

    Whooooosh.

  10. Math on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hold on fellas, you've got it all wrong. Math is different in Europe (they've got their commas and periods all backward in many places), especially when it's attorneys doing the counting. Folks just have to understand this, and fortunately there's a great instructional video available for those in need of further tutelage.

  11. Re:Quick... on Microsoft: RDP Vulnerability Should Be Patched Immediately · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone who's been doing this for fifteen years, your grasp of information security is appallingly bad. I operate a sizable deployment comprised of Linux, *BSD, and Mac systems. Judging by your last few posts, I sincerely hope you are not employed in a role where any of your duties are closely aligned with the protection of information assets.

  12. Re:Not worrying on Microsoft: RDP Vulnerability Should Be Patched Immediately · · Score: 2

    I believe the GP was referring to this story.

  13. Re:Yeah... on After 244 Years, the End For the Dead Tree Encyclopedia Britannica · · Score: 2

    Since you're obviously an authority on a vast number of topics, please feel free to contribute your wisdom to the encyclopedia you can edit.

  14. Re:microsoft and their credibility on Microsoft Shows Off Adaptive, Multilingual Text to Speech System · · Score: 2

    Stay thirsty, my friend.

  15. Re:jury trials cost more money on How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial · · Score: 1

    After but before getting hitched after you got hitched, you hitch a ride on some FTL neutrinos, naturally.

  16. Re:News posted by Christianists or Republics? on Anonymous Hacks Tunisian Islamist Sites · · Score: 1

    Islamist
    Islamism
    islamist

    While it is highly charged, and there may be some disagreement about the precise definition of the term, it most certainly is a word. You're free to dislike its usage all you like, but that won't change the fact that it is a word.

  17. Re:Available at GOG on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 0

    Your grandmother was simply wrong, your mom is an idiot, and you obviously lack a third grade education. I extend my sincere thanks for the opportunity to make such remarks without veering completely off topic.

  18. Re:Knight-Ridder on Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad · · Score: 2

    Yep, as soon as I read the summary, I got this little tune stuck in my head. Now everybody else can, too!

  19. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    Meant to reply to your post, but replied to the AC instead. Anyhow, there's always the DuckDuckGo architecture page if you want some additional information.

    I use nginx for load balancing, proxy, and back end application serving tasks. Works great for all of the above.

  20. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Sigh. You could just go read the DuckDuckGo architecture page.

  21. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Hey man, quick and dirty sometimes ;)

  22. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    pparadis::palegray-mobile { ~ }-> curl --head http://duckduckgo.com/
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Server: nginx
    Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:26:58 GMT
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Length: 4485
    Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:24:13 GMT
    Connection: keep-alive
    Expires: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:26:58 GMT
    Cache-Control: max-age=21600
    Accept-Ranges: bytes

    pparadis::palegray-mobile { ~ }-> telnet duckduckgo.com 22
    Trying 184.72.106.52...
    Connected to duckduckgo.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7
    ^]
    telnet> quit
    Connection closed.

    That looks a lot like nginx running on Ubuntu.

  23. Re:California on Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do people in Nevada get some sort of horrible sickness?

    Many people in Nevada seem to suffer from horrible sickness, but it seems to increase the closer you get to Las Vegas. I'm certainly not ruling out a California connection, though.

  24. Re:Open on Google To Devs: Use Our Payment System Or Be Dropped · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It will be interesting to see what comes out of this.

    With the subject "Open" no less. Honestly, your post contributed absolutely nothing of value to the conversation, and one can only surmise that you're trolling for points for mods who are suffering from chronic sleep deprivation. I sincerely hope any mods viewing this will mod the OP into oblivion.