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  1. Re:Logical Result on Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count · · Score: 1

    A decent idea, but it should report $threshold rather than 0.

  2. Re:Paper ballots on Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported · · Score: 1

    How about this then?

    It prints out a ballot for you to verify. You verify it recorded the correct candidates, then walk out of the booth and deposit it into the locked ballot box. The computer keeps the tally for convenience and speed of reporting, the ballot box provides an auditable paper trail.

    That's my ideal system.

  3. Re:Office2007 on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you have a cold!

    Would you like help finding the nearest [MS advertiser] drugstore to your address of XXXX?

  4. Re:So wait.... on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Well considering he was trying to purchase PS2s to develop WMD, it is safe to assume he was going to put linux on them.

    The real question is which distro?

  5. Re:Google Provides Servers? on Utube Sues YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As the market matures, it makes sense to me that business insurance should cover unexpected things like this that impact business.

  6. Re:Nuh-uh! on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Richard Dawkins, whom I find abrasive, had a cogent point recently.

    The insult should be taken by moderate, rational Christians because the special consideration faith and superstition are given, even to moderates paves the way for firebrand Creationist idiots to swing freely under that cloak of well-intentioned respect for others' beliefs.

  7. Re:Oh My. on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1

    Many of them are in fact improvised from the leftover artillery shells and what not. Cheaper that way. Just because they're improvised doesn't make them less lethal. I'm sympathetic to where the spirit of your comment is going, but I think you're reading too much into the connotations.

  8. Re:first nerd in space? on Microsoft's Charles Simonyi to be 1st Nerd in Space · · Score: 1
    he first American in space, Alan Shepard, had a Bachelor of Science from Annapolis.


    Every graduate from the Naval Academy receives a BS, even if you major in English. Seriously.

    But back in Shepard's day, there was only one program, no majors - so the geeks and the jocks took the same classes.
  9. Has everything to do with litigation on Sony Defends Rumble Loss · · Score: 1

    This is backwards justification on techinical terms for a decision that was made because of the IP dispute between Sony and Immersion. I say dispute, but really Sony's getting their ass handed to them in the courts by Immersion. Immersion has already won a ~80M dollar decision based upon IP of the vibration feedback and an injunction against the infringing controllers, but Sony has since gone to the scorched earth strategy in endless appeals.

    fwiw, Microsoft also infringed in the XBox controller, but chose to settle early.

  10. Re:Other Languages on 'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development · · Score: 1

    Not when you have an accountant as good as mine.

  11. Re:German Petition against voting machines on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was the 16,385th voter.

    Now there are -1 votes for this petition.

  12. Re:I'd rather have a choice on Male Blood Elves Get Pumped Up · · Score: 1

    Love will drive you insane.

    Roll d20 for a SAN check.

  13. Re:SteerMouse on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    That looks pretty neat, but wouldn't it bind to key presses globally? The other mouse buttons work fine in other applications, I was thinking there was somewhere in FF i could bind say MOUSE3 to Back, etc.

  14. Re:Not anymore... on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    This might be a stupid question, but I haven't found a good answer in my white belt google-fu

    I'm used to using a multi-button mouse to browse (forward / back bound to the mouse buttons). If I connect that same mouse to my PB, Firefox ignores those buttons. Is there a way to bind those buttons?

  15. Re:I bet they got a better deal from the RIAA... on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 1

    How is that a troll? Everything I said here is supported by the literature.

    Mod -1 unpopular expression

  16. Re:I bet they got a better deal from the RIAA... on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 0, Troll
    I once heard a gay activist emphatically state that almost all child molesters were heterosexual, including the ones that molested boys. He was trying to battle the stereotype that gay=molester,


    Attraction isn't a binary state, or trinary, or even discrete. The argument is more muddled by taking "child molester" as a single type. If you took a sample of heterosexual men, and showed them an array of women of varying age, there would be some (a lot) who would be attracted, even more attracted to those women who were post-pubescent, but not of legal age. Men busted with jailbait type adolescent girls don't have abnormal sexual attraction, they have problem with impulse control. You could say the same thing about the congressmen. There's nothing especially wrong in the attraction of a homosexual man to a 16 year old, but acting on it is.

    Attraction to pre-pubescents is a whole nother bag of worms. That imho is a problem with attraction AND impulse control.
  17. Re:I can hardly wait for... on Up-coming MMORPG Based on Shakespeare's Works · · Score: 4, Funny

    #Godot has entered the channel

    Finally!

  18. Re:15 minutes on How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives · · Score: 1
    Or Scrabble?


    We do this at work actually. I keep the board in my cube, and the running score on the whiteboard. When you have a word, you drop by place it, put your score on the board and take new tiles back to your cube. Of course there's a certain level of trust required, but it's a lot of fun. We run through a game in a week or so.
  19. Re:Despite the marketing speak... on Boot Linux, BSD, and OS X from Vista · · Score: 1

    Well it makes it easy to visually convert binary into decimal

    0001 0011 0011 0111

  20. Re:This is the perfect time... on Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home · · Score: 1

    You're clearly forgetting the work performed by the chips. Since the bits with meaningful information have higher potential energy than those bits in the bit bucket,

    W = B_info - B_bb

    I mean c'mon now.

  21. Re:*scratches head* on Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber? · · Score: 1

    That's what my girlfriend told me after....

    well nevermind.

  22. Re:Lots of insight in that interview on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1
    who would simply yell upstairs for mom to cook an egg


    MOM! MORE HOTPOCKETS!
  23. Re:Lots of insight in that interview on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1
    Programmer + vague question = eggs for breakfast.


    I'm neither a programmer nor terribly bright. What does this mean?
  24. Nerdgasm on Why Spore Is Special · · Score: 1
    "Despite the fictions, many of the themes of Spore are immensely valuable ones, particularly in an age of environmental crisis: the fragility of life, the connection between micro- and macro- scales, the complex networks of ecosystems and food webs, the impact of new technology on social systems. Spore's players will get to experience firsthand how choices made on a local scale -- a single creature's decision to, say, adopt an omnivorous lifestyle -- can end up having global repercussions. They will detect similarities between one level of the game and another, the complex balancing act of global trade mirroring the complex balancing act of building a sustainable environment. And traveling through a simulated universe, from cells to constellations, will, ideally, make them more curious about the real-world universe they already inhabit -- and show them that they have the power to shape that universe as well."


    I just had a nerdgasm. ...procedurally of course.
  25. Re:swallows on New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps · · Score: 4, Funny

    African or European hard drives?