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  1. Re:House != White House on White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act · · Score: 1

    Is there any evidence supporting your assertion, apart from the summary?

    Thanks,

  2. Re:RTFA on AMD Preparing To Give Intel a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    What a maroon.

  3. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Peril-sensitive windscreen? You should file a patent for that.

  4. Re:Keller worked at Apple on the A4 and A4 on AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86 · · Score: 1

    Ah! The M4? It's close to the A4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  5. Re:Don't panic! on Government Sent 2,000+ National Security Letters To AT&T In 2013 · · Score: 2

    > 3K NSLs is 600 per state,

    Mathematics. Please study it.

  6. Re:Move on on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Bravo!

  7. Re:Clown Research indicates kids like baloons... on Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding · · Score: 1

    The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth

  8. Re:How do we know that Cisco, etc, has back-doors? on How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Yeah i don't get it on AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor · · Score: 1

    He said it on accident.

  10. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    >I guess there must be some magic key that controls the press when you get elected to the highest office to serve the people.

    Yes, I think it is the fact that you are elected to the highest office to serve the people, don't you?

  11. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    'When referred to as "scare quotes", the quotation marks are suggested to imply skepticism or disagreement with the quoted terminology.'

    I was curious about the answer, so I did what you should have done instead of just posting the obvious link and followed your link and posted the answer. :P

  12. Re:NSA Directory Keith Alexander in a nutshell on No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA · · Score: 1

    ... and if we had voted out all the incumbents, you believe that the FISA legislation would have magically disappeared?

  13. Re:Is this even constitutional? on 'Eraser' Law Will Let California Kids Scrub Online Past · · Score: 1

    Hussy!

  14. Re:as it turns out... on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 1

    Bit of a damp squid, eh?

  15. Re:Interesting times on MIT Research: Encryption Less Secure Than We Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    There, there - They're there.

  16. Re:This is pure security theater on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    > This is as beautiful an example of idiotic, worthless, counterproductive security theater as we've seen.

    On the contrary, this kind of episode will easily increase the acceptance of automated license-plate scanning by the general population, if only because it *could* stop the need for these kinds of messages.

  17. Re:sounds like a wetware problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    > Why can't there be a captcha showing a picture and three buttons with possible answers?

    Well, ~33 per cent will be correct due to chance, which isn't a very good success rate considering there may be BILLIONS of bot-members posting spam.

    So, a picture and 10,000 possible answers? Might be considered clumsy.

  18. Re:Good luck with that on New for 2013: An In-Depth Analysis of Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey · · Score: 1

    I disagree.

    I'm sorry you didn't like the book, but if you did, you might see that the enjoying the film pretty much requires you to like the book.

  19. Re:Out of touch much? on Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier · · Score: 1

    > 9) consider quotes from dead famous people as gospel if they support our agenda.

    That *is* the definition of 'gospel', surely?

  20. Re:Burying the lede on MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email · · Score: 1

    > They play with English a bit.

    Mount Everest is a bit of a hill, too, I suppose? ;-)

  21. Re:should of killed the DRM system on Ubisoft Hacked, Account Data Compromised · · Score: 2

    He only said it on accident.

  22. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    I suppose we could fix this by calling it a PI Number, but then every idiot will have 3142 as the combination for their luggage.

  23. Re:Are there still memory leaks? on Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that closing a tab will not free up the memory in Firefox immediately due to the 'closed tab caching' (may not be the right jargon) that goes on in Firefox.

    I'm talking about the ability to un-close a tab - right-click on any tab header and choose 'Undo close tab'.

    Please feel free to correct me if I'm off-base here.

  24. Re:Are there still memory leaks? on Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls · · Score: 3, Informative

    Memory leaks are normally attributable to the plug-ins used, rather than Firefox, nowadays.

    Unfortunately, memory leaks are usually blamed on the browser, not on a plug-in, regardless of the cause.

  25. Re:to be expected on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 2

    > Making anyone with a printer a "gunsmith" is just plain irresponsible.

    Currently, anyone without a 3D printer can be a gunsmith, so what's your point?