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  1. Re:gave GAVE *GAVE* on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 1

    Thank you! Homophobic pejoratives aside, good point.

  2. Deduct? on Form1 3D Printer and Kickstarter Get Sued For Patent Infringment · · Score: 2

    as one can deduct from the demands

    I have deduced that someone has made a typo.

  3. What am I missing? on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So the Linux Foundation, quite rightly, are trying to make available a signed bootloader which will then anyone boot whatever we want without having to disable secure boot - have I got that right? What stops someone monkeying around with the next level of abstraction?

  4. Re:School offered to let her wear a disabled ID on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 1

    It seems to me the school does not want to encourage other students to be individuals and determine for themselves if they agree with being tagged like cattle.

    How does wearing ID (which identifies you as the individual you are) take away individuality?

  5. Re:Not surprised on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good catch, typing in bed is never optimal...

    You're holding it wr- nevermind.

  6. Just put down the damn cookies, tubby on Google Glass Could Be the Virtual Dieting Pill of the Future · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  7. Re:Maybe they could improve the algorithm? on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    To be fair, if you actually need the accuracy NTP provides...

    ...then run NTP on Windows.

  8. Re:Not an NTP glitch on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    Had your home router sync'd with such a server and been rebooted, it would have booted with the wrong time, and then wouldn't have accepted the corrected time when the error was fixed...

    Why would it have accepted the big skew the first time, but not the second?

  9. Re:I'm on the edge of my seat... on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 2

    Also, whoever tagged the article with the misspelled "curiousity"... great job.

    That's the Martian spelling.

    It's also common enough that its use as a tag can be justified (although it was most likely done in error, since there was no "curiosity" tag)

  10. Re:Got any more mangled similes? on Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love? · · Score: 2

    I'm being unfair. All of the above is forgiven since the submitter actually wrote their own submission (or at least went to the effort of not copy-pasting from either of the linked articles).

  11. Got any more mangled similes? on Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love? · · Score: 2

    In what would be akin to General Petraeus pledging fidelity to his wife from the Gmail account he shared with his lover

    Yeesh.

    Betcha

    is not a word.

    ...who fesses up to Tweeting on her boss's behalf!

    "His" is the gender non-specific pronoun.

  12. It's the oldest working digital computer.

    This is what you get when submitters copy-and-paste everything.

    New submitter prpplague writes

    Can we get rid of this standard introduction? It's almost never true.

  13. Re:... and the police do nothing on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    In this case, firing on the drone means they weren't firing on the carefully plotted pigeon range, but instead over inhabited areas.

    How do you know the drone wasn't within the pigeon range?

  14. Re:Quick question then on Particle Physicists Confirm Arrow of Time Using B Meson Measurements · · Score: 1

    no time can pass because they by definition move through vacuum at c.

    What about when they move through air or water? Are they really "slowing down" or is there quantum wibbly-wobbly nonsense going on?

  15. Re:If he is so confident in his innocence on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    I don't. I wasn't talking about McAfee.

  16. Re:How timely on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Raymond Luxury-Yacht?

  17. Re:Over private property? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    Note that the limit of the scenario #3 is that all birds are extinct.

    Possibly missing your point here, but I think birds have proven themselves capable of reproducing without human help.

    The point is, life is impossible without death.

    That doesn't mean we all have to be cool with people killing for sport.

  18. Mixed metaphors are fun on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    I guess the cat is out of the Pandora's box, eh?

    Put your battle-axe back in the scabbard. You've made your bed; now you have to eat it. We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue. It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.

  19. Re:I'd opt-in - but it needs to be an opt-in on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    Pandora and Spotify are just labels by a different name.

    How many musicians are signed to Pandora or Spotify?

  20. Re:IE doesn't support APNG/MNG, but GIF... on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    Why?!

    Because animated GIFs are bloody annoying and people should be forced to implement the effect with Javascript which will make them think twice before doing it frivolously :)

  21. How timely on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's going to be Word of the Year for 2013? "RealPlayer"?

  22. Re:If he is so confident in his innocence on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    That's a hell of a way to brag about getting some.

  23. Re:If he is so confident in his innocence on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He should defend himself in court.

    I'm guessing things look a little different when it's oneself being falsely accused, even without taking into account whatever level of corruption is perceived in the local judiciary.

  24. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 2

    Not turning in DNA is not probable cause for an investigation

    Is "being the only remaining suspect living in the area" cause enough? Also, there's plenty of investigating that can be done without probable cause or a search warrant.

  25. Re:Sad truth though on Nanoparticles Stop Multiple Sclerosis In Mice · · Score: 1

    You seem to be under the misapprehension that everyone in the entire world is a massive douche.