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  1. Re:honestly... on Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands · · Score: 1

    Although, to humor you, the landlord has a right to inspect his premises at any time, even if you're living in the apartment. Remember, the landlord owns the place, you're just paying him/her to borrow it.

    I don't know of any state in the US where this is true. Certainly not in mine (TX).

  2. Re:Nothing new on IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US is leading in meddles, so maybe interest is higher than anticipated.

    Yes, we're some of the best meddlers around!

  3. Re:Customer of Size? on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    I know right? Serious buckets of lard.

  4. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    So the press must cease all coverage of political races during election season, instead airing only paid advertising?

    What if this already happened and no one noticed?

    Seriously, from the mindless blabber that I've seen passed off as in-depth analysis during election seasons, I might be OK with hearing only what comes directly out of each camp. Certainly no worse off.

  5. Re:Right of free speech + right of association on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    It's amusing that people who would think of themselves as "Constitutional originalists" when it comes to fictions like the "right to carry handguns" and "the right to have the US military wear bible verses on their hats" all of a sudden believe that they have to "fill in the blanks" in the First Amendment.

    Amusing isn't the right word....

  6. Re:KaBOOM!!! on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    I next tried pouring my equipment with gasoline because of its high combustibility and hoped the bullets would collide with metal and create sparks. It doesn't work that well. Those scenes in the movies where the cars always explode after shooting the gas tanks--not as easy to do in reality as you would think. So imagine trying it on old electronics.

    Tannerite is what you're looking for.

  7. Re:Still some very important stuff to fix on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Or if you need a fix now, you could try searching the MS Knowledge Base for a KB article describing the problem, and see if a hotfix is available. If it is available, thanks to the introduction of online hotfix request, you could request the hotfix for free right there. If not, you could try to contact MS support and talk about the problem, whether that is free or not depends.

    No thank you.

  8. Re:Oblig. XKCD on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    And in the strips where the author tries to come across as a maths expert he normally fucks up and ends up looking like a knobhead.

    Examples?

  9. Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! on First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And you clearly don't realize that the laws of a particular jurisdiction may very well be different from the applicable laws where you live.

  10. I'm safe! on Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a good thing they only use the last four digits for identification at my school.

  11. Re:Urban Transit on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    It depends on how you define "Los Angeles" but yeah, basically.

  12. Re:Change? on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because, you know, current administrations have a habit of becoming previous administrations after a few years, and if every incoming president legally screws the people who just left, that would tend to cause productivity problems.

    Being held accountable for your actions causes productivity problems?

  13. Re:It takes two to tango on Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought "flamboyantly gay" was one of the quarks.

  14. Re:This is stupid. on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    Doh! I guess that was inevitable.

  15. Re:This is stupid. on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    And in Ceasar's day and age, it was "in loco parentis ".

  16. Re:What else can you do? on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    Teacher: Go to the principal's office, young lady.

    Student: No.

    Teacher: NOW!

    Student: You can't make me.

    There are no other options. At least, not in our society.

  17. Re:Oblig. I.T. Crowd on One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Am I crazy, or have I heard her on BBC Radio 4 a couple of times? I swear it's the same voice.

  18. Re:Let's hear what they said first on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 1

    Americans increasingly do not like authority, and I include myself in this.

    Greeks increasingly do not like authority. Americans increasingly don't give a shit.

  19. Re:You're a genius on Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant · · Score: 1

    I've never had a problem installing MySQL from the installation CD/DVD on Solaris 10.

  20. Re:Dijkstra couldn't use a computer?!? on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 2

    Dijkstra was no doubt very smart, but I'm not sure I'd hire him to build business software.

    Just like I wouldn't hire Daniel Bernoulli to fly my corporate jet.

  21. Re:Wrong! Lying is the correct form. on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    Just to add further pedantic detail to this conversation, these are properly known as transitive verbs (takes an object, i.e. lay) and intransitive verbs (takes no object, i.e. lie).

    I remember once telling my father I was "going to lay down", and he responded with something like "where exactly are you going to place these goose feathers?". That cemented it in my head forever.

    I know -- very dorky.

  22. Re:Erics Python IDE, Wing IDE, Komodo. In that ord on Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? · · Score: 1

    None of these search results offer what the OP came here for: thoughts, experiences, insight, and anecdotal information from a massive collection of peers.

    How deep into your search results do I have to go to find these things?

  23. Re:Erics Python IDE, Wing IDE, Komodo. In that ord on Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And one more thing: There is this think called 'Google', you may have heard of it. It usually answers this sort of question in under 10 seconds.

    No it doesn't, jackass. A Google search returns a wiki with over a hundred different editors listed, a useless "article" from the equally useless about.com that starts out with "What is a text editor?", a marginally useful blog post which reviewed 6 editors with the conclusion that:

    PyDev is the clear choice if you have Eclipse experience. If not, well, the situation isn't pretty. Perhaps you'll have better luck with one of the IDEs we didn't review here.

    another blog post reviewing VIM's features, and a smattering of Sourceforge sites and project homepages.

    None of these search results offer what the OP came here for: thoughts, experiences, insight, and anecdotal information from a massive collection of peers.

    Your snide remark just makes you look like an asshead, and completely canceled out what little value was added by your mindless links to project pages (let me guess, you did a Google search!).

  24. Re:Linux authenication aganist....can not connect on Linux Authentication Against Active Directory · · Score: 1

    an LDAP backend to an authentication system

    You used that phrase several times so I'm quite sure it's what you meant to say, but it's completely nonsensical. How can you have a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol backend? It's like saying your website has a TCP/IP backend.

  25. Re:I have my doubts... but, on Using Sun's Energy to Split Water Means Solar Power All Night · · Score: 1

    From what I can see cycling is usually only a poor choice in unusual circumstances and when cities have been built expecting people to drive everywhere.

    So, like 99% of the United States, then?