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  1. Re:Can't Possibly Be Worse Than Wii Music on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    I am already dead, you insensitive clod!

    Additionally, what do you think I had planned?

    *dramatically turns around his chair, while stroking a white fluffy cat with an iron glove* MUHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!

  2. Re:Your freedom stops when you hit my nose on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 1

    actually, your address, phone number, names of children and family pets, etc. are all free-to-grab bits of data floating around in public record land./quote>

    To imitate your style: NO!
    Try to find them. Go on. Grab them, and show me them.
    You can't? Oooohhh... I'm sorry (NOT).

    NONE of that info is an any way personal or private.

    This statement does not follow from that previous argument either.
    Using this kind of argumentation on rape would mean, that raping a person who was already raped, would be Gk. Which it is not. (Just because I'm not sure you know that).
    Personal/private information still is personal/private, even if someone takes it and spreads it trough the world. This is, because this spreading is not accepted in our society. Its an attach on another person's privacy. And while it can be illegal, it certainly always is illegitimate.

    You do not have any rights whatsoever when it comes to these things.

    Oh yeah? Because you say so?
    Because you, and some crooks, are pretty much the only people who think this way.

    All in all, you are putting the rules of society on its head, to support your crooky views. Get some help. Please.

  3. Re:Oops on Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you call the people using the Google servers "not enough"? And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

    The good thing about Linux is,its diversity, which makes it very hard for virus developers, to find a generic "solution". Unfortunately, this is a bit true for all Linux development. (Except that you have real access to the system when you're doing normal software.)

  4. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    Seamonkey = Gecko = Firefox = Flock

    Avant = Maxthon = Triton = not a real browser = Internet Explorer

    Amaya = ... well... don't ask... you don't really want to use Amaya... ever...

    -----

    I think forcing MS to put other browsers in its OS, is on so many ways retarded and wrong, that I can't even count them.
    What Windows needs, is a package manager with a repository manager (with an official, an unofficial, and some overlay repositories available).

    Then on installation, one could choose a browser, or leave the default (whatever MS thinks is best).
    This would be no different than what Linux distributions are doing. And I for one like it more than endlessly searching for software on the net.
    Of course, if they would be wise, they would add payment functionality to it, so big companies (like Adobe for example) could add their stuff too.

  5. Re:Zomg on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 1

    Not without liquid nitrogenium.

    Or do you mean all the cores together.

    Well, I think GP did mean single-core speed without such tricks.

  6. Re:Can't Possibly Be Worse Than Wii Music on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is far worse!

    If you have no strong heart, do not try watching the Songsmith Infomercial.
    I REPEAT: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WATCH THE SONGSMITH INFOMERCIAL!

  7. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I bet some strips of isolation for $50 would make that bill go way down. Sounds like a good deal. How about it?

  8. Re:Fracking Halleluja on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 1

    nothing can be proven.

    Tell that to mathematicians.

  9. Re:Notes? on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. They are pro-student. But they have so power whatsoever. They ask. They get denied. End of story.

    At least that was the case on my schools. And I was on seven different schools. (Don't ask. Long story.)

  10. In my school... on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    ...we would have beaten than sucker of a teacher down if he even would have done so much as touched us. Needless to say, it was a pretty rough school.

    The teachers had not much power over us. Except for the nicer (and normally more educated) ones, that we respected. But they would never asked for bullshit like that, because they were too intelligent for this.

  11. Re:Cue... on BotPrize — A Turing Test For Bots · · Score: 1

    No. It can only be the ASSDOZER (and hit two friends Assblaster and Dildozer) from Idiocracy!

  12. Re:"Most of the time, I'm somebody else's problem" on "Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy · · Score: 1

    Well... until you realize that you have no way of launching it, and that there is nobody else living in your area (all evacuated for example).

  13. Re:Will there be no wiki truths? on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sorry, but Jimmy must have been in a delusion, when coming up with the concept of "Anyone can edit it. It will work! Trust me! The elite will work most on it! And vandalism does not happen because normally, people are good." ;)

    Who do you think are those bureaucrats that control Wikipedia?
    Hint: They earn no money from it, but have all the time of the day to work on Wikipedia.

    The optimal person for this, is a jobless person, getting money from social security. Or someone else with too much time on their hands.
    The elite is working on something important and earns money with this job. That's what makes them the elite.

    Next, what is the reason someone would do this instead of something more fun? (Like playing games)
    He has a personal interest in putting the "truth" out there. Which by definition is not the truth (except maybe from physics laws there is no such thing), but his truth.

    Now it becomes very clear, why Wikipedia became, what it is today.

    Wikipedia is dead. Long live Wikipedia.

    By the way: If you have an open mind, a big web server, and some free programming time on your hands: I have a concept for something in my digital drawer, which would solve those problems. I tend to thing things to the end. :)

  14. How about... on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...keeping those people that are the most competent?

    Makes more sense than keeping incompetent lazy Americans or incompetent lazy foreigners.

    Oh well... why do I expect business decisions of a big company to make sense?

  15. Re:mafia enforcers on Televised RIAA Hearing Adjourned, Briefs Scheduled · · Score: 1

    The problem is that we are not all thinking that way. After all, it's our law and our country.
    But we leave it for those to decide, who are asking for it hard enough, and then rant about the laws being wrong.
    Sorry. That's your own fault.

  16. Re:Sounds neat, but I'm confused... on Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart · · Score: 1

    Wrong. In Vienna they are transmitting entangled particles trough the air of half the city (between two towers) right now, and then when they reached the target, they can change the local entangled particle. Thereby instantly changing the remote particle.

    So please stop trolling and inform yourself

    Here's how it works, in simple words.

  17. Re:Sounds neat, but I'm confused... on Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart · · Score: 1

    You would not violate causality. If you transmit the information about some bet from yesterday from A to B, and it reaches B yesterday, and B would instantly send it back, then it would reach A instantly after A transmitted the information.

    But I also wrote above, how you could actually transmit information with it. I remember this from a "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (German version of the "Scientific American") special issue.

  18. Mod patent up. on Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah. I will try to give a simplified explanation to non-experts (I'm just a curious guy myself):

    First you entangle two particles. Then you let one travel somewhere. (If at bumps into another particle on that way, the particle loses the entanglement.)
    Now if you "measure" the first particle, the "wavefunction" (the entanglement) of both particles collapses in a specific way.

    By measuring that traveled particle, you can get the information on how the other particle got manipulated when it lost the entanglement.
    The nice thing about this is, that it is instantly. There is no measurable delay.

    So you could theoretically entangle a ton of material with another ton of material, and then send the first ton up to some remote planet. (Which of course would take very long. But you could send it at very high speeds which no human could survive too. For example by using a rocket that uses nuclear explosions as propulsion.)
    Say you have defined, that you can use 0.5 kg of material every year for each side, and split the ton in such "blocks". Then you just write the outgoing 0.5 kg block (you collapse the entanglement) over the year, and read the incoming 0.5 kg block at the end of every year. By using a special encoding, you can detect where the data ends, and where the data collapsed trough your measurement. Or you just pipeline the to-be-written data on both sides, and read at the end of every month, week, day, hour, minute, second... whatever is most reasonable. (Making it a buffered transfer of blocks.)

    This would give you a thousand years of infinite-speed (depending on your read rate) communication with the bandwidth of 0.5 kg of material per year (~1,37 g per day). (The amount of bits depends on the material.)

  19. Re:How much will this new ink cost? on Ink Breakthrough Heralds Bendy PC Screens · · Score: 1

    Hey, you can buy color laser printers starting at 99€ ($128,54) here in Germany! They are not great, but you can always go a little bit up in price. You'd still be in a good price range. (Like the first HP, coming up on the list,) And they can't be worse than ink printers, can they? ;)

  20. Re:c-derived languages? on Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects · · Score: 1

    Bah. Give me my GWBasic over QuickBasic any time.

    Ok, I'd still rather being raped vicously that to choose Basic over Haskell, OCaml or Python... or the J2SE libraries.

  21. Re:FAIL fail! on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    It's either just you thinking it's out of place (which is pretty pathetic in my eyes),
    or you thinking I'm totally completely serious. ;)

    The thing with the fat is still true, though.

  22. Re:Good on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have to agree... in a more calm manner.

    Since when has it become Ok to sell (or give away) our data, that we have a contract on, that says that they will not give that data away?

    Sure, if it's really the police, that police has the same policy of privacy (which they have, at least on paper), and the police has a search warrant or some other court order... then there's fair reason that it must be investigated.

    But everything else is not only a breach a contract (requiring compensation for damages), but -- if it really is the police -- also an illegally acting police. (Which should result in the boss of those cops going to jail, because breaking the law is worse when you're a cop... that's the price of having special rights.)

  23. Re:The Money Quote on Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests · · Score: 1

    You have to realize, what TCPA means. It means that *everything* is encrypted, all the time. Your HD? Encrypted. Bus transfers to the graphics card? Encrypted. And re-encrypted. For output over HDMI and DVI, to reach your display and be decrypted again. Sound card? Sure.

    So I bet even inter-process-communication is.

  24. Re:Coming to a disaster near you. on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    Then he would have to have told us about those statistics. I think it is quite obvious, that with

    because their failure rate has consistently been lower than that of the competition

    he meant his own experience(s).

    Additionally, calling someone an idiot -- against popular belief -- does not make that person an idiot, but you. Ad hominem is always a fail.

  25. Re:Stop right there! on 17,000 Downloads Does Not Equal 17,000 Lost Sales · · Score: 1

    Hmm... can't remember his last name. I can give you more information via mail. But I doubt, the guy would be happy if you called him, asking if what I told the world would be right.

    He would agree to the claims tough. He had not much shame. :D

    I guess, you just have to believe me.

    If I'm wrong, my dick shall fall off right now and rape me to death.