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  1. Re:News Flash on Pluto — a Complex and Changing World · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he's already been leeching files all week.

  2. Re:i'll grant you pluto is a planet on Pluto — a Complex and Changing World · · Score: 1

    Memorize 80 planets? They probably said the same thing in 1959 about states.

  3. Re:Terrible fear on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Especially if a land mine has taken your sight, taken your speech, taken your hearing, taken your arms, taken your legs, taken your soul, and left you with life in hell.

  4. Re:Like Microsoft on Woz Cites "Scary" Prius Acceleration Software Problem · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing the quote wasn't directly referring to an American car company then, huh?

  5. Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree on Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree · · Score: 1

    He said he had degrees from there, he didn't say he attended. Shoot, I have a laser printer too.

  6. Re:Compliance Rates & Hands-Free Use on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ron White said it best: you can't fix stupid.

  7. Re:T-Mobile? on FCC Probes Google and T-Mobile For Double-Whammy Fees · · Score: 1

    Wait until nearly everything moves to the cloud and hacking your device is irrelevant.

  8. Re:T-Mobile? on FCC Probes Google and T-Mobile For Double-Whammy Fees · · Score: 1

    That kind of depends on how well you and your friend... "get along".

  9. Re:Bad write up. on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    The real story here is NOT that the judge erred in his ruling. A judge can only work with the law as written, and as interpreted in the light of normal statutory interpretation rules and past judgements (precedent/stare decisis).

    The lawmakers have to do that, otherwise you have "activist" judges who give rights to those dirty, dirty gays. At least, that's what happens in the US.

  10. Re:SAP on BSkyB Wins £709m Lawsuit Against HP-EDS · · Score: 1

    Yes, actually. My wife's company recently did a company-wide SAP implementation, migrating from several smaller apps at smaller divisions to a centralized system. It's been a resounding success. Her division migrated from a heavily-customized Solomon though, which lowers the success bar quite a bit.

  11. Re:Overstated. on BSkyB Wins £709m Lawsuit Against HP-EDS · · Score: 2, Funny

    it could lead to a real scratching of heads, particularly among lawyers."

    At least they've been practicing scratching the other end.

    Sorry, I mean practising.

  12. Re:Wait a minute... on Tor Users Urged To Update After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Redundant Author Is Dead?

  13. Re:Password strength vs. how often you change it on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a place where the help desk did more or less the same thing... they'd put administrative account names and passwords on their monitor on post-it notes. I guess that's not so insecure after all.

  14. Re:Password strength vs. how often you change it on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 1

    You didn't mention that your user names are random, 20 digits, and can't be re-used.

  15. Re:Yum on Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction · · Score: 1

    Can industry be trusted to act responsibly?

    No, unless it increases short-term value for its stockholders.

  16. Of course they're plugged in. on New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day · · Score: 1

    If you don't plug them in, how are you going to charge them?

  17. Re:Please educate me a bit. on Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    You mean GNU/NetBSD and GNU/Hurd, right?

  18. Re:Please educate me a bit. on Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    In other words, in FreeBSD they fix the shit that's there, in Debian they just keep shoveling in more shit.

  19. Re:Phoronix on Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because it was in line with their other, unrelated benchmarks? I note you don't identify any problems with their testing, you just imply there must be a problem and they didn't look for it.

    Besides, you should have shown the PostMark benchmark, where it was a 10:1 improvement with 64-bit.

  20. Re:Ironically on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Just walk around with a notebook and walk around

    I can do that.

  21. Re:What are the odds? on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Why? He's just proven that there are aliens.

  22. Re:idle on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that mean that some of the Drake Equation is SF?

  23. Ouch. on Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default · · Score: 3, Funny

    encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data

    That just hurts my brain.

  24. Lexx? on US Coast Guard Intends To Kill LORAN-C · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Kai the last of the LORAN-C?

  25. Anniversary on 400 Years Ago, Galileo Discovered Four Jovian Moons · · Score: 1

    You have no proof the moons are older than 400 years...