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  1. Re:This is not about competing to provide books on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 1

    Uuum... if they're not selling them, it's not their market, is it?

    You can't have it both ways. Either they are getting a slice of their market. Or they are not selling these books.

  2. Re:I think ... on Scientists Find Way To Combat Forged DNA · · Score: 1

    Yo momma?

    (Sorry, that was a dead giveway. ^^)

  3. Re:Plausible denability? on Scientists Find Way To Combat Forged DNA · · Score: 1

    Luckily "REASONABLE" is a unknown variable, so you still can use it however you like. Isn't ambiguity great...

  4. Ten ways to ruin your reputation. on Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    This was the first one. And the second one follows now:

  5. Re:That's flares, not bombs on New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    Man, did you have to word it like this, shortly after I was flooded by a whole tread of toilet humor based on this image:
    http://failblog.org/2009/08/21/privacy-fail-4/

  6. Re:Multi-Page = Horrible on Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase · · Score: 0

    You mean AdBlock Plus, of course. Or how does your NoScript block text ads? :)

  7. There's a big problem with this: on Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays · · Score: 1

    It does not really help you. Because when it says it will probably be delayed, then what does this change for you? You still have to sit there and wait. Because when it's not delayed, and you're not there, then what?

  8. Re:Lack of story comments so far on Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays · · Score: 0

    In the summary? You must be new here... (Did you buy your ID?)
    Nobody reads the summary anymore. ^^

  9. Re:What is this, Harry Potter? on New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really?

    Protip: In most parts of the world, nobody cares what you English-speakers think something sounds like.

    Really.

    I think I am a fairly good English speaker, for it being my third language. And I still don't see what you object to.
    So it is you rather than them, who has that specific mindset, isn't it? ;)

  10. It's not a bomb! It's a DECOY! on New Species of Worms Found To Release "Bombs" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like with fighter jets.

    It lights. It does not explode!

    But how are you going to get the hype machine going, to for once in your desperate life get some attention, right caffiend666?

  11. Re:Two rival factions on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    It's OK. Please leave now. You have already done enough damage by creating this false dichotomy. ;)

    I bet it's really a Gaussian distribution in-between your two extremes.

  12. Re:And here I was, thinking that... on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    Or in other words: You let them ignore you. Or do you think they could even defend themselves against 10% of you, rushing into the building and ripping them into pieces? :P

  13. Re:Shell apps? on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    Well, even old Nokia phones based on Symbian could do this: http://maddox.xmission.com/putty3.gif
    And Linux is *much* better at this. (As I know from installing it on my PDA.)
    So you can bet on it!

    Unfortunately it's all dependent on how good the keyboard is. Touchscreens and even numeric keyboard are out of the question.

  14. Re:GPS? on Taiwan University Students Build Tour-Guide Robot · · Score: 1

    Could you explain this, or provide some links? The only search result I get, is this very post:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Synthetic+indoor+GPS%22&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.gentoo:en-US:official&filter=0

  15. Re:I bet it doesn't work! on Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs · · Score: 1

    A simple heat camera will suffice. The front of a face has a distinct pattern, as opposed to the back. Also a sleeping person has a different temperature pattern.

    It can also tell where you are looking (that is old tech already).

    And the large dog definitely does not look like a small child. :)

    But I agree with what you're getting at: That system is far from the abilities of a human. And it will be for a long time.
    But as long as the error rate is below a certain level, it does not matter, does it?

    Ok, in reality, I'd never accept such a system anyway. But I didn't have a TV in my home for nearly a decade now, so I can't relate anyway. In 10 years nobody will watch TV anyway. Or it will be like BSD. Constantly dying for decades. ;)

  16. Re:Porn that learns what you like. on Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs · · Score: 1

    How can you get "caught"? I mean it's not something bad or forbidden.

    If someone would walk in on me masturbating, (or having sex for that matter) I'd tell him to "give me some privacy, would ya?", and all is good. Ok, except if I like that person being with me. ^^

  17. Re:I thought this was resolved LONG ago on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    Well, nature's just trying to invent better idiots. And some of them become lawyers.

  18. And here I was, thinking that... on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...the MTA is owned by the people of New York, and therefore any copyright would mean, that they got the ultimate right... and could maybe even revoke the MTA's right to use it.

    Yay for a "free market". :/

  19. Re:fun hacking? Er..no. Imagine the annoyance... on A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wait for Goatse to appear on those ads!

    I'm stunned it didn't already happened on one of those screens at Times Square in New York. But I'll get right to it. Just a sec... ;)

  20. Re:Website? on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    I heard they couldn't get the YouTube videos to appear on the top of their MySpace page, because it contained a link to a 4chan wiki.

  21. Re:U R Doing It Wrong on Marine Corps Wants a Throwable Robot · · Score: 1

    Oh, I heard they're called the "heliums" and they live in a large "sunny" agglomeration near the "center". :P

  22. Re:Are you telling me ... on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you were not very exact in what you expected to get back.
    To we applied our world-famous loopy loophole lube, and now it's a nice mess where you get nothing back.

    Also, I want to add: HAA-HAAA!

    Sincerely yours,

    Nelson Muntz
    CEO (Chief Evilness Oberst)
    U.S. "Food" and Drug Administration (FDA)

  23. Re:what? on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    You are confusing the stated aim with the actual aim. :)
    Learn your professional social engineering. The human brain is the machine that is hacked most, nowadays.

    Also, even when they give them "health care" it's not actual health care. The idea is for you to buy as much of it as possible, with giving you just what you need, to buy even more. And to make you die instantly if you stop buying it.
    This works best, when actual prevention and learning from your failures is never mentioned, especially when you're at your doctor. Instead one simply prescribes painkillers (should be called "warning sign ignorers" similar to those who click the warning boxes of their security software away), other things that only remove the symptoms, and placebos (like those candies "against" a sore throat).

    Yay. I hope those who actively plan and execute that system, will live forever, wishing they could only die. Because if they get what they deserve, they will have only that one wish.
    Hell? Bah. That's for noobs! :P

    ___
    P.S.: The simplest and most basic trick that nobody want to tell you, about how to stay healthy, is to live species-appropriate. Food, air, home, social life, sleep, and food (doubly important!). Live like they did, long, long times ago. But mix it with the *good* things of today. You will sleep best, when you have no artificial light available. But of course, you can use it where it helps you. Just be prepared to pay the price when you're doing it wrong. You will grow old without all those diseases that "normal people" get, when you eat properly, and do not expose your body to toxic substances (especially those sneaky long-term ones, like the mercury that might be in your teeth). But of course, you can make your food taste much greater, with the knowledge we got today. Just be prepared to pay the price, when you're doing it wrong. (Hint: The more it is processed, the worse it is. Preparations like very pure stuff, eg sugar, starch, etc, and strangely modified stuff, like artificially saturated fats [as opposed to natural and especially unsaturated fats], are the worst.)

  24. Re:Not quite a myth. on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    OMG. The filter is only 63% on! We're doomed! DOOOMED I say!

    Oh wait, apparently, according to some twitter feed, we're only 63% doomed! What a coincidence!

  25. Re:Death Star on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    and lots of dead ewoks

    How is that a bad thing? ;)