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  1. Re:Yes but... on Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Don't try to be snarky
    Seems to me like you are doing the exact same thing. You can't defeat the argument that Exxon sponsored the linked-to website, so you launched an ad-hominem attack on the poster who is only being informative and not judgmental.
  2. Re:Brute force and ignorance on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Units are probably irrelevant, if you have a shitload and I have a shitload, we put them together and it's still a shitload. I think one fills the empty spaces in the other, it's funny like that.

  3. Pirate Bay on Cringely Looks at the WikiLeaks Debacle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd be surprised if Pirate Bay has "squirreled away" copies of the leaked docs which would be just asking for trouble. It is my understanding that they don't manage content, only links to torrents providing content from elsewhere.

  4. Re:OK That's it on Steve Fossett Declared Dead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No man is an island, entire of itself
    every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
    if a clod be washed away by the sea,
    Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
    as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
    any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
    and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
    it tolls for thee.

    -- John Donne

  5. Re:XXX domain names. on 'Porn King' Says Google Should Block Porn Access · · Score: 1

    So, if porn slowly migrated over to .xxx and google "safe search" filter ignored .xxx sites it would be possible by fairly simple technical means to do exacly what TFA wants.


    Sounds good, but what exactly is "porn"?
  6. Re:It ain't news. on Multifunction Printers — The Forgotten Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    Man, in a big shop you could loiter by a printer quite easily (hey I'm waiting for a top secret doc) and snarf anything that printed there to read at your leisure later. Those "lost" printouts would simply be resubmitted because Windows/the printer fouled up again.

    On mainframes, you don't even have to stand next to the printer - you can see big jobs (payroll?) if you have SDSF access to the print spooler.

  7. Re:A $2100 email machine? on Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label · · Score: 1

    Oh, I dunno. Probably more than for Vista?

  8. Re:A $2100 email machine? on Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label · · Score: 1

    Man that would probably be a sweet Linux box, too!

  9. Ever since playing Doom on Gartner Sees Virtual Interaction as the Future of IT · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've wanted to be able to delete users from the database with a shotgun.

  10. Easier Solution on Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Recognize the privacy problem up front and don't join in the first place.

  11. Dude, seriously on Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert" · · Score: 1

    If you're gonna spell shit wrong, don't hi-light it and draw attention to it.

    Sheesh.

    That aside, I think you have to realise that the internet makes lots of things easier - including both pedophilia and making people more aware of pedophilia - one negative, the other positive. I don't think you're ever going to get to the stage where the entire internet is "safe for your and my child", You are just gonna have to train your child not to go to certain places - just like in real life.

  12. Re: What MS wants to own on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they hate their customers

    they hate their licensees

    There, fixed it for ya. The term "customer" leaves me with the impression that you've actually bought something and you can do want you want with it. I don't think this is how M$ sees it. Bill lets you use his s/w for a while if you behave and follow the rules.
  13. There's an abundant source of power here on Knee Brace Generates Electricity From Walking · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you could develop a smaller one that fits over a beer-drinker's elbow.

    Or how about a micro one that works off a woman's jaw muscles? No, wait, that means their cellphone batteries would never quit. Yikes!

  14. Re:BA announcement on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know what you mean.

    I've had that very same experience getting off a flight from Kathmandu in Dubai.

  15. Re:Ok, I'll bite on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    It's a bit like the thinking behind the Burka. Cover the women from head to foot so that the fellas won't get turned on. what I'd like to know is what about those muslim blokes who get an almighty hard-on when seeing women in Burkas. I mean, there has to be at least a _few_ of them around. Kinda defeats the object of the Burka in the first place.

  16. Re:Ok, I'll bite on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But you can't explain religion, it's correct by axiom and any proof is superfluous.

  17. BA announcement on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm reminded of a (legendary) announcement from a British Airways cabin crew member on arrival somewhere in Saudi Arabia.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Riyadh (or wherever) please set your clocks back five hundred years.

  18. I know it's nice to be on the bleeding edge... on Fedora 9 "Sulphur" Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    ...but can anyone give some good reasons as to why a Fedora 4,5,6,7 and 8 user might migrate to F9 instead of maybe waiting and checking out F10?

    I was checking out the F9 Features only last night and it didn't seem that there was a lot in there that had me salivating like F8 did. There was mention of Firefox 3 but I couldn't ascertain the status of it.

    It's a certain amount of trouble to do the upgrade (I usually do it as a new install), just wondering if it's worth it for me this time round.

  19. One attribute missing. on The Life of a Software Engineer · · Score: 1

    A software developer must be part writer and poet, part salesperson and public speaker, part artist and designer, and always equal parts logic and empathy.

    You forgot to mention "Mindreader" - I just knew you would.
  20. OK, I didn't read the FA yet.... on Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals · · Score: -1, Redundant

    But are you telling me that the butterflies now have fricken Laser Beams!!

  21. Re:At last! on Scientists Build Possibly The First Man-Made Genome · · Score: 1

    Yes, but have you tried catching the buggers?

  22. The trouble with Journalists... on News Of SETI Signal Just Bad Reporting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is that they aren't likely to let the facts get in the way of a good story.

    It also pisses me off greatly when newsreaders append their own opinion to the end of a news story. You are a newsreader dammit. Just supply the facts and let people make up their own mind - that is if it is possible for you to supply the facts without your personal bias in the first place.

  23. Re:What consumers really want to know... on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    No, but you can clone your money to pay for it.

  24. Re:Linux installer? on Sears Installs Spyware · · Score: 1

    Not windows it's an IE problem USE FIREFOX in windows DUH

    there, fixed it for you.

  25. Linux installer? on Sears Installs Spyware · · Score: 1

    Say, where's the Linux installer? What? You mean this is only for windows users? Sweet!