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  1. Re:Sloppy programming on Yahoo Faces Questions After Discovery Of Comment Replication · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's pretty common in newspapers (and AP) to recycle slugs. A slug is the internal identifier that's used for a story since the title is often the last thing written. The slug is typically only unique for a specific day. Also, Yahoo is fairly incompetent when it comes to technology for a company its size.

  2. What about AP? on NYTimes Confirms It Will Start Charging For Online News In 2011 · · Score: 1

    As far as I know you need to give all your content to AP to be able to use the AP wire feed. Doesn't this mean that content from NYT will show up as wire feed on the sites of all other AP members? And if so, doesn't this mean that they pretty much have to withdraw from AP to keep their content to themselves?

  3. Location on Iceland's Data Center Push Finally Gets Traction · · Score: 2, Funny

    I prefer my data-center to be further away from active volcanoes.

  4. Re:Say goodbye for XML on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    As far as I can remember this was right after 9/11 and the US government needed help to parse a lot of text better. i4i was more or less strong-armed into co-operating with Microsoft for National Security Reasons.

  5. Re:great for publi$her$? on Hearst Launching Kindle Competitor and Platform "By Publishers, For Publishers" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe if the gave it away like the CueCat? My hope is that it will be possible to use this device in ways that weren't foreseen.

  6. Re:No ethical problem at all on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right. And what does the constitution say about black people again?

  7. Re:And? on P2P Network Exposes Obama's Safehouse Location · · Score: 3, Informative

    Years after BBC broadcast it to the world.

  8. Re:2012 now in the US? on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    I'm with you.

    As a proud owned of a $2000 hybrid Laserdisc/DVD player I wow to never be on the cutting edge again.

  9. Re:Sweden just killed the analogue network on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    I don't. It's well known fact that surstroemming rots your brain. And lingonberries. BORK BORK BORK

  10. Re:Steady March of Progress on Beyond Nobel, Hard Drives Get Smart · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's what I need too when I find the kinks that turn me on.

  11. Re:my feelings on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    Yes, someone dying would be awesome. Trust the computer, the computer is your friend. WTF is it with people blindingly trusting systems they know nothing about?

  12. Re:Um, the only thing you proved was OP's point on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    The polar bears are drowning because there are more of them and they have spread out to marginal areas.

  13. Re:I've Seen Worse Than that Even.... on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 1

    Snowcrash, right?

  14. Re:Oh it's driving demand all right on PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller · · Score: 1

    And USB support. Don't forget how it was in W2000.

  15. Re:More power to them! on WHO Bid To Regulate Health Sites · · Score: 1

    Nothing stops you from faking the information. What makes you trust any doctor?

  16. Re:More power to them! on WHO Bid To Regulate Health Sites · · Score: 1

    Since you have to be licensed doctor/registered nurse to practice medicine, a certification system already exist.

    The websites that presents medical information should have a page where they tell which doctor that has certified that the information on the website is correct.

  17. Re:IR and cell phones ... on Where Can I Find Cell Phone Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Motorola Timeport and Nokia 8890 both have built in modems and work in the US. They also work in the rest of the world because they can do 900/1800/1900 GSM.