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  1. Revolutionary on Typing With Your Brain · · Score: 1

    because this represents the first time the human brain has been involved in the process of updating Twitter.

  2. Conservatism: on FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors · · Score: 1

    The belief that there are certain things which it is of vital importance not to appear to condone.

  3. Re: "His analysis of some 30 studies showed..." on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    The analysis was of 30 studies, not 30 cases. It would be helpful to know how many cases each of those 30 studies represents, though.

  4. Re:Women have great difficulties using Linux too. on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    No reason why you couldn't...
    alias manual=/usr/bin/man

    Knock yourself out.

  5. And good luck with Google, too on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As often as not, the only hits you get are posts in forums where someone is asking the exact same question you need answered... and getting no replies. Since 2005.

  6. Re:ROFL on Cryptographic Tools To Keep You Hidden On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Obviously, all you have to do is put data in the outside server that's encrypted in some other way. Then Facebook just has a link to data that's really just a link to somewhere else. See? Problem solved.

  7. Re:God, Not Another One on Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    Wrestling isn't a charity...

    (And before I lose all my karma... this is a joke.)

  8. Re:Copyright on Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    I don't know the details of their contract but... didn't the copyright expired like 50 years ago? Have we moved into a society where copyrights never expire?

    Fixed that for you.

  9. Re:Is it so unusual? on GMail Experiences Serious Outage · · Score: 1

    Probably not those of us who run our own mail servers... and aren't Google. :)

  10. Re:More Microsoft calculation on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  11. The brain is self-modifying on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    It's not a question of petaflops. Cells grow, new synapses form, it routes functions around damaged areas... Yeah, we're a long way off.

  12. Re:In other words... on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    A license bestows upon the licensee the right (within specified restrictions) to do something that normally is prohibited by law. It's not against the law to have a CD or an MP3 in your possession, or to listen to it. Copyright grants the rights holder certain exclusive rights, but those are not among them. You don't buy a music license to listen to music. You buy what you bought: a physical object with a recording of music encoded on it, or a digital file that serves a similar purpose. What you would need a license for would be anything that the rights holder has exclusive right to do, for example to make another copy or to perform the work publicly.
    If you bought a physical object and it broke, tough. You should have taken better care of it. Unless you were lead to believe the object in question was significantly more durable than it was in practice. That's fraud. If you bought a digital file with an artifically enforced limited lifespan, that's your tough luck again unless you were lead to believe you were buying something else.

  13. Re:Books aren't perpetual either on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    Sure, but if the publishing company goes bankrupt, that doesn't stop you reading the book.

  14. Re:Some sense please.... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    That all seems perfectly reasonable. So, this constitution, it's only a couple of weeks old, then? Because if it hasn't been enforced for something more like 70 years, for example, it would make less sense to feel a sudden need to start enforcing it now.

  15. Re:tremendous waste. on Robot Soldiers Are Already Being Deployed · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that.

  16. Re:How about a Crap Tax? on NY Bill Proposes Fat Tax On Games, DVDs, Junk Food · · Score: 2, Funny

    In practice, it would penalize those who don't sneak out in the middle of the night and crap on their neighbors' lawns.

  17. Re:I still say they should get rid of HFC Syrup on NY Bill Proposes Fat Tax On Games, DVDs, Junk Food · · Score: 1

    That's right! I'd love to give a -1 to everyone who uses that tired phrase.

  18. Re:Whose side are you on? on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    Take a look at some actual numbers: http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html . Notice the bottom 50% of taxpayers by income are paying an average of 3%. You're asking them to increase their tax burden by 17% of their income. Now look at the top 1%, the people making more than $388,806 a year. You're their new best friend.

    Whose side are _you_ on?

    Not to mention, you're completely off topic. The article in question relates to corporate taxes, not individual income taxes.

  19. Re:The problematic truth on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that when people come to you with their broken computers, you see a lot more people who've stayed with Vista than have downgraded to XP. Your assumption is that the subset of users with broken computers corresponds roughly to the inverse subset of users whose computers are not broken. I'm not convinced you have grounds for that assumption. It's at least equally plausible that a larger percentage of users who stay with Vista end up bringing their computers to you to fix them.

  20. Re:Causation & vinyl flooring. on Hints of a Link Between Autism and Vinyl Flooring · · Score: 1

    So, what you're saying is that you've observed a correlation between a belief that correlation is not causation and an ability to solve problems and avoid arguments.

  21. Re:That's weird on Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life · · Score: 1

    Totally thinking the same thing...

  22. Re:Product naming, again on Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 File-Sharing Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, as opposed to something like Linux, which is... oh wait... crap.
    No offense to Linux users, I'm one myself, but it's just not everyday that you see Microsoft described as "geared to the techie user". Everything in Windows is obfuscated and hidden from the technical user by the elaborate machinations designed to allow the 'average joe' to accomplish simply only those things that Microsoft assumes the 'average joe' wants to do.

  23. Re:Warning - concealed terms of service on Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 File-Sharing Beta · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uninstall? Seriously? It's been a long time since you used Microsoft software, hasn't it?

  24. Re:Security on Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 File-Sharing Beta · · Score: 1

    I think we can anticipate that, considering it's being created by the company that has the most well known security reputation of any company, world-wide.

  25. I'd have RTFA on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 1

    If I could C TFA...