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  1. Re:Enlightened self interest on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly. MS gives out free security tools, we don't sue them for making the stuff insecure in the first place when the zombies DOS our servers.

  2. Re:Might be a little too far? on Google Wants to Map Indoors, Too · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not every county office has reached the 21st century yet, but my county has the floorplans(the filed ones, anyway) of every building in it.

    It wouldn't take google very long to crawl and digest. They could probably even overlay it on the existing satellite imagery and get the scale right 3/4s of the time.

  3. Re:other countries too on US Relaxes Control Over ICANN · · Score: 1

    You know, any time they wanted to, any country could've just started up their own dns, in their own language, supporting whatever characterset they liked. It isn't like it would have conflicted with the old low ASCII set.

    Instead they just complained and now ICANN covers all of it, they can't pull away without causing a split.

    But they still could, and ICANN would probably roll over and start replicating from the new ones instead of causing a netsplit.

  4. Re:It looks like a cluttered mess on Google Wave Backstage · · Score: 1

    For that matter, you can go back and fix their misusage of apostrophes and slang that they clearly don't understand.

    Well, more likely you'd have a robot do it.

  5. Re:How is using so many VMs more efficient? on Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day · · Score: 1

    I thinl you're missing my point - why have multiple OSes if they're all the same type of OS and the apps could all happily run on the same OS instance?

    HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and a few credit card companies would like to have a word with you.

  6. Re:Please stop... on Amazon's Cloud May Provision 50,000 VMs a Day · · Score: 1

    And the year after that, and the year after that, and ...

  7. Re:It looks like a cluttered mess on Google Wave Backstage · · Score: 1

    Instead of your coworkers top-posting responses with the same subject line but different threads of conversation, email could look as clean as a message board.

    That's all I want.

    If you watch the original video, it shows a pine-lookalike client. Simple and organized, unlike any involved email conversation with multiple particpants.

  8. Re:fuck autotune on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you think he'd be for or against sounding like Kermit the Frog gone techno?

  9. Re:vegetarians on Cooking May Have Made Us Human · · Score: 1

    Depends on the person, I suppose. I make a decent chilli(veggie or meat) and have accidently converted a few vegs when I didn't realize there were "sides" to the food.

    One was a lifer, bitched me out something fierce when he found out(about an hour later), ran into the bathroom and purged. Called me up a month later to apologize and ask for the recipe.

    On the other hand, I had a coworker who'd get legitimately sick with pork, but had no problem with chicken or beef.

  10. Re:No power transfer.. on Apple Behind Intel's USB Competitor? · · Score: 1

    If you think your 2' reception is bad, wait until everything is wireless. Then it will really suck.

    Non-directional wireless bandwidth is finite, cabled bandwidth is less so.

  11. Re:Cuisine indicates wealth of past cultures. on Cooking May Have Made Us Human · · Score: 1

    That people who like McDonalds food will develop unhingeable jaws like constrictor snakes?

  12. Re:vegetarians on Cooking May Have Made Us Human · · Score: 1

    Probably because the first time somebody accidently puts a decent meat chilli or curry on the vegetarian table at a party, they'll switch to omnivorism.

  13. Re:Capitalism means crisis on Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder · · Score: 1

    The only thing China does to keep capitalists in check is shoot the embarrassing failures.

    Move some the points they put into "Oppression of free speech" into "Corporate Bitchslapping" skill.

    What country does that look like?

  14. Re:No Chrome? on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 1

    Did that happen in the last month?

  15. Re:What about game prices? on Wii Gets Price Cut To $199 · · Score: 1

    The base controller had mediocre ability to distinguish rotation from linear movement, the accelerometers could only detect rotation through the change in gravity(only worked when relatively still) or when pointed at the LED bar(so only within a small cone).

    The plus addon is a set of angular rate sensors that improves sensing when pointed away from the LED bar or when in motion.

  16. Re:Still too much. on Wii Gets Price Cut To $199 · · Score: 1

    When you compare it to the Xbox 360 Arcade at the same price

    Isn't that the crippled no-storage version?

  17. Re:No Chrome? on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 1

    See as they don't really support plugins in the current version, that'd be a bit hard.

    Next release has it. I think you can even get the alpha of it, but I'm waiting for the 28th.

  18. Re:What did Google do wrong? on Delay, Renegotiation Sought For Google Books Settlement · · Score: 1

    The public gives an author copyright to induce him to create for the benefit of the public.

    If the author ceases to share to the detriment of the public, he is no longer fulfilling his end of the agreement and the public may take back what they have given him.

    If you don't want to share, don't register your copyright and only sell/give your texts under an NDA.

  19. Re:What did Google do wrong? on Delay, Renegotiation Sought For Google Books Settlement · · Score: 1

    What, like a compulsory license, where somebody can distribute an audio/visual copyrighted work for a fee decide by judges, regardless of how the owner feels about it?

    I wonder why copyrighted texts aren't treated the same.

  20. Re:Well, ain't that something. on ASCIIpOrtal Has Been Released · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Re:Proof Positive that Social Engineering Is Easie on $2,000 Bribe Bought Password To DC P.O. System · · Score: 1

    Having dealt with a similar problem, odds are the detectives would start encouraging others to scam you so they could get paid to "talk" with them later.

  22. Re:Worst move ever, on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    Heck, you don't even have to go that far if an 86 is okay, just swap out the purple ALPHA button and rub off the 9 on the screen, most TAs go by color from a distance.

  23. Re:Font on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Is it feasible that we are heading toward a new style of the consolidation of information? When was the last time you read a 1000 page book? Are Universities graduating more Literature majors or more Graphic Designers? Just a thought...

    Have you seen the Robert Jordan aisle in your local boookstore? I mean, he's only just died a few months ago, new stuff is still leaking out...

    Actually, I stopped 4 books ago, so you have something of a point. My doctor says I can't get anything over 750 pages or my reading tendons will snap~

  24. Re:1984? on Amazon Delaying Public Domain Submissions On Kindle · · Score: 1

    What isn't available on Gutenburg will be available on Gutenburg, because, as you said, it takes time. If you're in a hurry, try Google:)

    And little guys could have content on the Kindle, they just can't use DRM or sell directly through Amazon. There are several stores besides Amazon that sell ebooks that are readable on the kindle(Baen comes to mind). There are a magnitude more sites offering kindle books for free through the kindle's wireless web browser.

    I'm kind of suspicious about the submitter, since the website itself has everything up Gratis. It comes up fine on the kindle's browser and I was able to get several texts that look decently readable. But then again, all those texts I checked were also already available on Amazon for $1.50, $1, $.50, $.01 and free, so I don't know why the submitter is trying, but I do know why Amazon isn't adding any more.

  25. Re:You missed one - on Bullet-Proof Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Working raw titanium can be a pain. If you aren't careful, it will gall and go all lumpy.

    It'll catch fire before it melts, unless it is in an inert gas environment. Far right on the periodic table inert, it'll burn in nitrogen.

    On the plus side, you'll have lots of titanium oxide dust around. If you think FeO+Al is fun, try TiO+Al+Fluorite+Calcium Sulfate. It won't just burn through an engine block, it might keep going into the concrete @ 3800 F