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  1. Re:SOMEBODY BETTER TELL THIS GUY MESSIER !! on Info Leak Wars To Get Messier · · Score: 2

    Mod parent up. That's just beautiful.

  2. Re:Meanwhile in France... on Germany Produces Record-Breaking 5.1 Terawatt Hours of Solar Energy In One Month · · Score: 1

    Ever considered what would happen if an asteroid hit that nuclear power plant?

    Ever considered what happens when a werewolf bites a vampire?

  3. Re:Translation: Groklaw has been gagged on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    False information? Where do you see false information in her announcement?

    I don't, that's my point.

    Withheld information, certainly

    How can you possibly know that? My point was that if PJ had said "we're shutting down and I'm not going to [or can't] tell you why," then yes, it would be reasonable to suspect that she was the subject of a gagging order. But, as she has seen fit to give us over 2000 words explaining her reasons for shutting down, then it seems less reasonable to assume there is also a gagging order in place.

  4. Re:The car Mitt Romney derided... on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish I'd bought then, because that stock is now around $140 per share, and climbing.

    Anyone else wondering how many Romney nabbed?

  5. Re:Android had something like this on Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required · · Score: 4, Informative

    Android had something like this, and I believe it went the way of the dodo.

    Not quite. It went to MIT: http://appinventor.mit.edu/

  6. There was also a cease-and-desist letter on Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Would this ruling still have been made if they hadn't also ignored the cease-and-desist letter sent to them by Craigslist?

  7. Re:Translation: Groklaw has been gagged on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is that it has been served with a demand for information/wire-tapping along with an attached gag order, courtesy of the 'Star Chamber'.

    Do the gag also orders also order you to write 2000+ words of false information on why you're shutting down? Because if you're trying to hint that you're not allowed to talk about the reasons, inventing valid but false reasons would seem to be the wrong way to go about it.

  8. Re:who is held accountable? on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    i presume it would be the manufacturer.

    Why would you presume that? It would more likely be the other, non-computer-controlled, party that's at fault.

  9. Re:Context on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 2

    Now that he's served his time for parole violation, he's out of prison. How normal.

    FTFY.

  10. Re:"That that"? on Most Veterans Administration Data Breaches From Paper Documents Not PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    That "that that" that you have pointed out is perfectly valid. That that "that that" that that person has chosen to use seems wrong to you is neither here nor there.

  11. Re:headline needs an "are" on Most Veterans Administration Data Breaches From Paper Documents Not PCs · · Score: 4, Interesting
    In this case it was a bad idea, mostly because "breaches" can be both a verb and a noun. Come to think of it the whole headline could use a rewrite, because it's not clear that "Veterans Administration" is a thing by itself and the lack of apostrophe - while quite possibly "correct" - doesn't help. I read it as:

    Most Veteran's (Administration Data) Breaches (v.) From Paper Documents Not PCs

  12. Re:Coding != Typing on How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard · · Score: 1

    So I don't understand why do we need voice recognition software that recognizes English?

    He's got his own sounds for common commands, tabulation, etc, but you still need to be able to give names to and use the names of functions and variables.

  13. Stop underestimating my imagination on How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Instead of English words for commands he used short vocalizations — you have to hear it to believe it.

    No I don't. I can easily believe it already. Why would you think I'd have trouble with this?

  14. Re:don't see where it matters on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 2

    I'm not trying to justify what yahoo did -- it was scummy, and I hope they get prosecuted

    What for?

    "...any rights to your Yahoo! ID or contents within your account terminate upon your death."

  15. Re:LIcense Plate Scanners on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    This is why you continue to hear stories on the news how they were able to track down that a suspect was in a particular area at the time of the crime as a justification for the retention of this data.

    Do you? I haven't heard any.

  16. Re:Installed base, day one. on Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? · · Score: 1

    This must be a new definition of the word "installed" of which I have previously been unaware.

  17. Editing lessons on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They always showed rocket ships sitting on their tails and blasting off, and landing, straight up[1]. The shuttle went up that way but had to land like a plane[2], and anything else[3] was considered impossible or impractical. Now, the Space X's rocket Grasshopper can not only do that

    Do what?

  18. Re:Really, rabbits for milk? on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    They're also tidier poopers.

  19. Re:I WANT ONE! on Has Anyone Seen My Rabbit? · · Score: 1

    Calm down, Lenny.

  20. Re:LIcense Plate Scanners on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This one is only good for those cameras that use a flash:

    The ones that take your photo when you break the speed limit? If only there was some other way to avoid getting your photo taken by those...

  21. Re:Is there no governmental limits anymore? on US Horse Registry Forced To Accept Cloned Horses · · Score: 1

    Quakers adhere to the biblical command from Jesus not to swear oaths.

    So they say. What reason have we got for believing them? ;)

  22. Re:Yet another anti-Obama article on Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    he never heald a real job in his life, he was senator for 7 months before he became president.

    Was that right after he emerged fully formed from his birthing pod?

  23. Re:Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Then you still have to get him, and the patient, back.

    No you don't. There are already motorbike and bicycle paramedics who can get the patient assessed and stabilised before the ambulance gets there.

    Not that I expect this to be a practical alternative, but that point at least is invalid.

  24. Re:Is there no governmental limits anymore? on US Horse Registry Forced To Accept Cloned Horses · · Score: 1

    I'm not gay, but I'm not welcome in the Boy Scouts for odious discriminatory reasons. So why do I hang around?

    May I ask why? Feel free to give a list of other discrimination they practice if you'd rather not be specific, as I ask so I can be better informed, rather than trying to poke my nose into your personal life.

  25. Re:Is there no governmental limits anymore? on US Horse Registry Forced To Accept Cloned Horses · · Score: 1

    a better question is, why do so many gays (and others) want so very badly to be in a place where they are so clearly not wanted and appreciated?

    Why do gay people want to get married, an institution to which (until relatively recently) they were never welcome? Why did black people want to sit at the front of the bus where they weren't welcome?

    Why do Anonymous Cowards keep posting stupid shit on a site when everybody thinks they're idiots?