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  1. Re:Break out the copy machines... on Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store · · Score: 1

    Yeah sharepoint was so original, Microsoft even made a concept video of sharepoint way before anyone was dreaming of even thinking about this stuff: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097

  2. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    It should have been $(( $RANDOM % 6)), not $[...] which isn't legal bash.

  3. Re:The question we failed to ask on Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online · · Score: 1

    The word you are looking for is fascism. The bailout is fascism. Big government in bed with big business.

  4. Re:Neutrality on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    This isn't a case of Sprint just not peering is it? It sounds like they are blocking it entirely (e.g. even if their other peers peer through Cogent, you won't route through that peer when sprint doesn't provide a 1 hop path. e.g. Sprint is completely blackholing them). Is that a misunderstanding?

  5. Re:Artificial towns fail on Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can just slap down some stone markers on a 10 mile by 10 mile square and call it a city.

  6. Well, someone paid a tax on Doing the Math On the New MacBook · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know who paid it, but someone did:

    The challenge of the thumbscoop was to create a crisply machined scoop that was still comfortable to use. The designers at Apple worked on hundreds of versions of the thumbscoop -- even examining them under an electron microscope -- to get it right.

    If anyone can read that last part without laughing...

  7. Re:Another cycle in the industry on New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    This isn't really an industry cycle, it looks more like a plug for a bunch of current products, ala: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

  8. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    If you have a tire blow out at that speed you are fucked without power steering. Say hello to a guardrail or worse, a tree.

  9. Re:I Am Forever in Debt to Arxiv on Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone · · Score: 1

    Most Physics/CS papers use a standard two column format; you could pinch and zoom in to a single column filling the screen width-wise on the iphone; it would probably be decent.

  10. Re:Why are such examples always so bad? on Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS291&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=aclu+gun+manufacturer

    Sorry, I can't find one documented example of the ACLU suing gun manufacturers for manufacturing guns. Take your FUD elsewhere.

  11. Re:Legislation is not free on Two Bills of Interest Advancing In Congress · · Score: 1

    But most of the pollution they suffer in the urban areas is caused by people commuting in from the sparse suburbs.

  12. Re:Here's a toughy on The 23 Toughest Math Questions · · Score: 1

    I am hereby willing to be you one penny ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o ) that that time would be 'NEVER'.

  13. Re:Innovation on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    Though Jackson allowed "Eat It" and "Fat", he requested that Yankovic not record a parody of "Black or White", because he felt the message was too important. *****However, Yankovic has performed a concert-only parody "Snack All Night" in some of his live shows.*****

  14. Re:Bush saved the economy on McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 2, Informative

    How much you tax doesn't really matter in the long run--it is how much you spend. You will eventually have to either tax or inflate to pay for what you spend, and Bush spent way more than Clinton. AND it was spent mostly on destroying things rather than working towards any progress.

  15. Re:Nonsense on 10 Years of Translated Bin Laden Messages Leaked · · Score: 1

    Stable, because the Thomas Jeffersons and James Madisons of Iraq were thrown into tree shredders, feet first by Saddam. Yeah, one thing Iraq had was stability, except when Saddam was invading other countries like Iran or Kuwait.

    We supported his illegal invasion of Iran and rejected his illegal invasion of Kuwait.

    How dare we "impose" democracy on Saddam, clearly the chosen government of the people of Iraq.

    Actually he was clearly chosen by us.

    Saddam took power by force you idiot.

    With American arms.

  16. Re:Processes in Vista on In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads · · Score: 1

    Anything that garbage collects is going to incur massive copy-on-write damage with forked processes, but do just fine with threads.

  17. Re:I Can Think of Possibilities ... on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    >And is there a law that goods/services need to be sold at razor thin margins?

    If the companies are colluding on the prices, yes. Plus these are public airwaves, we should be able to regulate them however we want for our benefit.

  18. Re:Heterogeny on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: 1

    Thanks for conveniently leaving off Yahoo!, who do use a fixed width layout.

  19. Re:Dunno... on India Joins Nuclear Market · · Score: 1

    >I'd be a hell of a lot more worried about Iran (which has arguably sponsored terrorism)

    If that's the standard, then, to keep from being hypocrites, the UNited States should immediately quit providing nuclear weapons technology to *itself*.

  20. Re:Yes, and? on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    Isn't libertarianism about individual choice and responsibility? What is more antithetical to that than running around the world forcing outcomes that favor you via gunpoint? Country First.

  21. Re:Suspending disbelief. on Examining a Game Character's Physical Presence · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Hello - Libertarian? on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    McCain is no libertarian. He supports lowering the corporate tax. Limited-liability corporations don't exist without intervention from the state. They are perfectly free to structure themselves as standard partnerships and not pay the tax, however they find the advantages they get from both legal liability and minority shareholder rights to more than make up for the tax they pay and they voluntarily pay it in exchange.

  23. Re:My gas guzzler is more environmentally friendly on Redesigned, Bulkier Honda Insight to Challenge Prius · · Score: 1

    The problem with the analysis of your motorcycle is that when you inevitably break your head open and pay a huge hospital bill, you will be subsidizing some doctor's V12 Aston Martin that gets 10MPG and we are back to square one.

  24. Re:As to crackpot theories... on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Which is ridiculous for the simple reason I point out: "the (current) Bush Administration doesn't have people smart enough to pull a stunt like that. The current administration's staffing policies have been directed toward political cronyism and connections, even at the expense of even bare competence. From what I've seen, anyone working there that has any self respect or common sense has quit."

    I don't buy the crackpot theories whatsoever, but it isn't because of some similar logic to the above. Bush's dad was the head of the CIA; Bush has many more connections available than his publicly visible "cron[ies]".

  25. Re:What a secret! on id CEO Claims PC Hardware Manufacturers Love Piracy · · Score: 1

    And what if your user-developed program wants to interact with iTunes? What if your program is only crashing when iTunes is running and you want to find out why?