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  1. Re:Possible? Yes. Gonna Stop? Probably Not. on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 1

    While I respect Stallman to the highest degree, immediately after reading this comment, I couldn't help but think of John Malkovich's character in Red.

    If you're going to make a movie reference, pick a movie that more than 12 people saw.

  2. Re:tackling that social problem on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 1

    Really? So everyone needs to learn how to program in order to use cell phone? Does that mean that I need to be an automotive engineer to drive a car?

    Be careful: if it were up to Stallman, you'd have to be a sanitation engineer in order to take a shit.

  3. Re:200-line patch on Linux 2.6.38 Released · · Score: 2

    Figured it might be like that.
    Personally I look for ways to peg the CPU. 8 cores at 2.8 GHz running web browsers ain't doing it most days.
    I wonder if there's a patch for that.

    Yeah, it's called FlashPlayer.exe

  4. Re:It's the ecosystem, dummy! on Hands-on Face-off: IPad 2 V Motorola Xoom · · Score: 1

    You have a choice. You just don't want to deal with the consequences of that particular choice. Typical modern, western thinking.

  5. Re:News at 11 on Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying · · Score: 1

    I have a problem with the nerdish arrogance that presupposes your preferred gaming type and environment is superior to any other. It's just like the invalid thinking that since a nerd finds no value in an iPad, nobody can.

  6. Re:News at 11 on Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying · · Score: 1

    Does your unwarranted self importance come naturally, or is it the result of 'esteem education'?

  7. Re:Truth is a Defense for Defamation, Not This on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1

    If you were Roissy, it would make his writings much more interesting.

  8. Re:Truth is a Defense for Defamation, Not This on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1
  9. Re:This is why we need sites like Wikileaks on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1

    FFS. It's not the government, it's the judiciary. There is a difference, you know.

    The judiciary is one of the three branches of government, you know.

    Wait, the Queen, Prince Charles, and Prince Andrew are considered different branches these days?

  10. Re:It's the ecosystem, dummy! on Hands-on Face-off: IPad 2 V Motorola Xoom · · Score: 1

    You do have the option: jailbreaking.

  11. Re:It's the ecosystem, dummy! on Hands-on Face-off: IPad 2 V Motorola Xoom · · Score: 1

    Nothing like changing jetting and plugs in the middle of a trip because you started out where it was sunny, warm, and sea level, and travelled to cold, rainy/snowy, and in the mountains.

  12. Re:No one investigating, no one going to jail on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court has recently opined that the 2nd Amendment confers an individual right to owning a firearm.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._Chicago

  13. Re:Welcome to Wikipedia on Old Man Murray Entry Deleted From Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    They definitely need to deal with living persons, too. A friend of mine has an article on her and she uses a pseudonym since she's in the media.

    You know Bree Olsen?

  14. Will there be a plot? on Animated Series Uses Kinect For Motion Capture · · Score: 1

    Will there be a plot, or is plot considered something 'shiny' dreamed up by 'mere marketers'?

  15. Re:Out of Australia? on Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money · · Score: 1

    aye mate and she be a fine shela

    You misspelled koala.

  16. Re:It's not my fault! on Study Shows Technology May Inhibit Good Sleep · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get him to fuck you again and you should both sleep ok. If that doesn't work, repeat until you are both too exhausted to do it again.

    Geez, kids these days...

  17. Re:The Challenge on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    Getting an engineer laid, duh.

    Please, let's stay in the realm of science, not fantasy.

  18. Re:Efficiency on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    By itself, that is an interesting figure. However, an aircraft carrier is just a bit bigger than a car. Even a big car!

    You must be a European or otherwise never seen a 70's era Cadillac.

  19. Re:You don't have to bring your cell phone to scho on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You might as well complain about having to get vaccinated or having to wear pants or leaving your bong at home.

    Thank God they didn't have these crazy rules back in my day: I'd have never finished college.

  20. Re:WoW on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 1

    If Ricardo Montalban showed up, I'd think they would be more worried about the zombiepocalypse.

  21. So that's how they are made on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 1

    So cam-whores are made, not born?

  22. Re:An interesting question. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    People have been making those bets for ~30 years.

    None of you predicting their imminent demise have collected yet.

  23. Re:It's about design, in every sense of the word. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint: there ain't no DRM on iTunes music no more. Hasn't been in a while.

  24. Re:Why is this here? on Meth Dealer Faces Loss of His Comic Book Collection · · Score: 1

    I had to go look up "money laundering" in a dictionary...

    Ask the magazine salesman.

  25. Re:incomparable powers on Leave a Message, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Not just any judge. It was Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court of the United States in a unanimous decision handed down ~10 days ago.