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  1. Re:Privacy Browsing in IE 8 Beta on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Safari has had it for years.

  2. Re:the vanishing chinese moon program on Google's Gatekeepers · · Score: 2, Funny
    Nice troll (1220? An old, old troll, I guess). Google says:

    Results 1 - 10 of about 1,640,000 for China's moon program. (0.14 seconds)

  3. Re:Simple solution. Ask on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    This is a Federal Government Agency we're talking about -- there are strict, unbreakable rules about this kind of thing. No one can give or receive permission to take ownership of surplus -- asking would, at best, get you a hearty belly-laugh.

  4. Re:The ultimate recursion... on IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents · · Score: 1
    > I wonder if IBM's next innovation will be programs that write themselves.

    Hells yeah, ever hear of MDA?

  5. Re:I have a feeling on Is the US Ready For the Switch To DTV? · · Score: 1

    Ummm, yeah. First, the signal won't be cranked up to full power until the transition. Second, mebbe all them stations aren't transmitting digital yet. I'm not a digital polyanna or anything, but I think your complaining is premature.

  6. Re:Snake Oil on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two guys peeing off a bridge. "The water's cold!" says the first. "And deep..." says the second.

  7. Existence proof: IntelliJ IDEA on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    I agree with the folks who suggest version control is the answer, but if for some reason that's a problem, there are definitely editors that do this. IntelliJ IDEA, the commercial Java IDE, has what it calls "local history" that tracks changes like this very well. It will track changes for any file it can edit, and tag the changes with date, username, etc.

  8. Re:Shocked! on Inside Steve's Brain · · Score: 0

    Godwined!

  9. It's a Javascript-centric Rails clone? on Apple's SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps · · Score: 1, Interesting
    None of the other commenters here seem to have checked out their site at all. Sproutcore is apparently a JavaScript-generating, Ruby-based templating framework. To me it looks kind of like a Rails clone with jQuery built in.

    Personally I'm not seeing the need...

  10. Re:OJFS is taken on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    Doh!

  11. Re:*sigh* on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    OJFS!

  12. Re:It's like watching ugly people kiss on Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Do you interpret this graph as showing Microsoft's impending doom? If you do, you need glasses. I call BS; that's a nonsense graph if I ever saw one. Where's XP? What's Windows 2000 doing with those kind of numbers?
  13. Re:"Russian Built" on Space Station Toilets Poop Out · · Score: 2, Informative

    The smart money says the early Soviet space program involved sending large numbers of cosmonauts to near-certain death, then only reporting the successes. You really think a totalitarian regime doesn't sweep its failures under the rug?

  14. Re:It's just the anti-virus companies claiming tha on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ummmm... yeah. Way to miss the point.

  15. Re:It's just the anti-virus companies claiming tha on Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web · · Score: 2

    Good luck with that.

    Last I checked, neither my MacBook nor my Linux desktop used a single DLL.
  16. Re:One *little* thing on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The military isn't responsible for maiming their own soldiers. It's the enemy that is. So we should just present Iraq or who ever we declare as the enemy with the bill for regen on all our soldiers. That's like me throwing eggs at my neighbor's house, then asking him to pay for the eggs because, you know, it was their house they broke against.
  17. Exchange is unusable, period. on Some Anti-Spam Vendors Blocking and Slowing Gmail · · Score: 0

    One word: majordomo.

  18. Re:And it runs for four hours, too. on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    Care to show us your work?

  19. Good clean fun on Microsoft's "Source Fource" Action Figures · · Score: 1

    Some M-80s, some rubber bands, a Bic lighter, and the Source Force. A hell of a good time!

  20. SPOILER ALERT on Three Parents Contribute to Experimental Human Embryo · · Score: 1

    The parent post contains a spoiler for this excellent book; don't read the parent post if you haven't already read the book named in the title!!!

  21. Re:What's in it for Google? on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 1

    > Yahoo.com is still the number one most visited site on the web (check alexa [alexa.com]) Alexa only tells you the ranking among [i]asshats who install the Alexa toolbar.[/i] For this reasosn, their numbers aren't worth the electrons they're printed on.

  22. Re:This just in! on Egypt Calls for Bandwidth Rationing · · Score: 1

    Egypt experiences electronic ennui!

  23. Re:Unique properties? on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 1

    The unique properties include being liquid at 4K, and forming a Bose-Einstein condensate. Being lighter than air isn't unique, as you point out, but the main use of Helium is not party baloons.

  24. Re:Saddam verdict on Sunday, U.S. election on Tues on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    > elected by more Iraqi citizens then Americans citizens who show up to polls to vote for the last president.

    The population of Iraq is about 26 million; about 8.5 million votes were cast, about 33% of the total population. Meanwhile, more than 121 million votes were cast in the last presidential election, about 40% of the US population.

    I did these as total population figures as I can't find a reliable number for the total number of eligible voters in Iraq. But in any case, this particular claim of yours is demonstrably false.

  25. Geek Powerhouse? on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The "Qube" webpage calls the product a "Geek Powerhouse", which makes me laugh. The "About" page talks about "browserless search", which sounds a lot like adware to me; and in fact, that's exactly what it is -- you have to download a program to your local machine to use the service. The part that makes me laugh is that despite its being a "Geek Powerhouse", it's Windows-only; no Linux, no Mac OS X. "Search 2.0" apparently means "Now with 200% more evil!"