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  1. Re:Firefox 3 on Firefox 3 Beta 3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    oops

  2. Re:My experience differs on Xbox DRM and the Red Ring of Death · · Score: 1

    Nice astroturfing, Bill.

  3. Re:Firefox 3 on Firefox 3 Beta 3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding on what is possible between webkit and gecko: webkit is LGPL, gecko is MPL. They are incompatible.

  4. Re:Not surprising on First Sight of Google Android · · Score: 1

    Basically with more memory, you only do the initial rendering once, and cache that. Then when you scroll around, etc., it is just basically just blitting from memory.

  5. Re:Strike 2, OpenBSD. on OpenBSD Will Not Fix PRNG Weakness · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It isn't that they just flippantly refuse these things to be assholes, they have extremely limited resources and they have to make tradeoffs.

  6. Re:Idiots on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    Yeah, tell that to holders of BRK

  7. Re:Almost as bad as concentrating on just Florida. on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    That was his most recent strategy, not the strategy he started with.

  8. Re:Idiots on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    By "shareholders" for all intents and purposes you mean mutual fund managers, if you own stock through a fund, you don't get to vote.

  9. Re:My bet... on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    I agree, they would take action if Microsoft tied it into the desktop in a way that Google couldn't compete with, but they wouldn't pre-emptively kill the deal (they might put stipulations on it however).

  10. Re:Who cares? It's just a product refresh! on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Your sarcasm detector is great.

  11. Re:Wow on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only that, this document gets cached all over the place by ISPs, etc., and they *still* get that many hits.

  12. Re:Who cares? It's just a product refresh! on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Now you are just coming out completely biased. FOX was the only television news outlet to report on the Obama Madrassa scandal. Sure, it turned out they made it up, but still. They have also recently hired Karl Rove as a commentator (I'm serious), further proving their alliance to objectivity.

  13. Re:Cue... on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    %s/intercepting/interrupting

  14. Re:It'll take off when cosmetic replacement is her on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Ironically, a popular sugar substitute which is labeled as a significant health risk to humans, is drastically safer and extremely well documented to be so, safer to humans than highly processed beat and cane sugars. Which one are you talking about?
  15. Re:Yeah Yeah Yeah Just trying to get the bid up on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If you own a gas station, try to make a "business agreement" with the gas station across the street to collectively raise prices and see how far you get.

  16. Re:Money well spend? on US Pulls Plug on Low-CO2 Powerplant Project · · Score: 1

    No one can give you that estimate. Nuclear companies can't even purchase insurance for the case of melt-down--no one knows how to estimate those risks. That's why the US government uses taxpayers to provide corporate welfare to all nuclear power operations in the US by giving them free liability insurance for anything over (if I recall correctly) $1 billion.

  17. Re:Cue... on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These are not failed attempts--these are diversions. It is hard to splice in without intercepting service, so the purpose of these is to make a splice further down the line indetectable. The splice goes in while service is out, then the diversion cuts are repaired and no one is the wiser.

  18. Re:wrong question on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    I said it had never been successfully implemented when I meant it had never had success when implemented.

  19. Re:Touch Feedback? on Touch Screen Tech Comes of Age · · Score: 1

    With an ultrasonic speaker you could do it with corn starch.

  20. Re:What about KDE integration? on Hardy Heron Alpha 4 Released · · Score: 1

    >Also Dbus is not friendly on laptops as the event model prevents many models from going to a power saving mode wasting battery power. I wonder if this has been resolved.

    I can't find any mention of that anywhere; care to expand on this?

  21. Re:SVN branching a daunting task? on SVN's svn:externals To GIT's Submodule · · Score: 1

    Why settle for losing any history?

  22. Re:wrong question on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    Without DARPA, we wouldn't have the internet. The only areas of the United States economy that have done well internationally have all been heavily government subsidized, and centrally managed/state planned. The one exception I know of is the entertainment industry. Pure US-style-libertarian (as opposed to left-libertarian) capitalism has never been successfully employed by any nation, and always leads to disaster. The concentrations of wealth that occur and pass down through inheritance makes such systems take become indistinguishable from feudalism.

  23. Re:Obama good, Huckabee bad on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    His wife is (was) an IP lawyer--she understands restricting those creative rights with the best of them.

  24. Re:Check the candidate web sites -- and web hosts on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    You know damn well Paul only chose that registrar because AG is the symbol for silver.

  25. Re:Google cannot be undersold on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I watched the whole thing and he never mentions the auction model they use. Thanks a lot.