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  1. Re:Kicking themselves yet? on Nokia Issues Profit Warning · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When they finally do, they'll be discovering that the other big manufacturers have Windows phones, too. I'll bet that'll be a big shock to them.

  2. Re:Occams Razor. on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 1

    I prefer this thought experiment: FRY: You're a bender, right? We can get outta here if you just bend the bars! BENDER: Dream on, skin tube. I'm only programmed to bend for constructive purposes. What do I look like, a de-bender? FRY: Who cares what you're programmed for! If someone programmed you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? BENDER: I'll have to check my program. (short pause) Yep! Like us, Bender is unable to escape his programming (until electrocution changes his programming).

  3. Rob Enderle on Intel Shifts Might To Mobile · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Rob Enderle of "SCO's gonna win!" fame.

  4. Re:preaching to the choir on HDMI Brands Don't Matter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they could give a competent answer to your question, they would have a better job.

  5. Digital signal on HDMI Brands Don't Matter · · Score: 0

    Duh. It's a digital signal, so either the cable works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, take it back.

  6. Beware still on Wikileaks Says Public Forced Canadian DMCA Delay · · Score: 4, Informative

    They still need to be worried about this. The Conservatives won't be getting my vote next week specifically because of DMCA 2.0 (and the Internet snooping and censoring that is certain to follow).

  7. Re:canada overage costs on AT&T Lowers Data Access To Just $500/GB · · Score: 3

    Rogers has a pay-as-you-go data plan where you pay $45/month for 500 MB plus 5 cents per KILObyte for overage, or **$50,000.00** per gigabyte. This has to be a world record!

  8. Re:Legit. on Students Claim New Paper Folding Record · · Score: 1

    I have them all beat. Just take their 8192 layers and repeat that an infinite number of times, taping one layer at the end of each to the next bundle of 8192 layers. Infinite-ply toilet paper -- for the really tough jobs!

  9. Re:wait a minute on Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm · · Score: 1

    What? It has words inside??

  10. Re:What's the goal of it? on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the resolution says no such thing. The resolution merely seeks to stop the fighting. If Gadhafi isn't a moron, he will stop fighting shortly and negotiate with the goal of keeping all the territory he is occupying right now. This would keep him in power indefinitely and keep the $billions of oil money flowing into his Swiss bank accounts. The dithering UN bureaucrats are indeed stupid enough to go along with this. If he is stupid enough to fight the coalition, this will lead to his demise.

  11. Re:Similar Revolts on UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi · · Score: 1

    It'll take many years/decades to tap all that oil.

  12. Extended warranties on Lobbyists Attack UK Open Standards Policy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds a bit like extended warranties on consumer electronics. If the deal is really a benefit to you and not some money-grubbing scheme, then why do they try SOO hard to sell them to you?

  13. Re:Bullshit! on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Java is the fastest programming language ever invented

    That's why it's used to implement all video codecs!

  14. About face! on Java Floating Point Bug Can Lock Up Servers · · Score: 0

    Sun/Oracle has known about the bug for something like 10 years, but it's still not fixed.

    Betcha it'll be fixed tomorrow!

  15. I eats me spinach on Spinach Could Be Used For Hydrogen Fuel · · Score: 1

    Where are all the Popeye jokes?

  16. Election season on Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded · · Score: 2

    ... because the Conservatives can't risk having 350,000 disgruntled voters in an election season.

  17. Nokia on Android Passes Symbian As Most-Shipped Mobile Platform · · Score: 1

    When is Nokia going to come to its senses and switch to Android? Then, they'll be the biggest manufacturer with the most popular OS.

  18. Re:Life is not fair on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    You deserve precisely the maximum salary you are able to individually negotiate. This is exactly "fair".

  19. Re:Winner: US Patent Office on 30% More Patents Issued in 2010 · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of people bashing the USPTO, but I can't think of a way to manage them any better given the resources they do have.

    Open the patent documents to public scrutiny as soon as they are submitted. The public will point out the obviousness, triviality, and huge pile of prior art for each of them. This requires NO resources beyond a web site.

  20. Re:Heh on Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam · · Score: 1

    Empowerment, noun: Doing whatever Oprah tells you to.

  21. Unclassified on Air Force Blocks NY Times, WaPo, Other Media · · Score: 2

    in order to keep classified material off unclassified computer systems.

    Perhaps the need to realize that material on a major newspaper's web site cannot by any stretch of the imagination still be considered to be "classified". Or is this just some pencil pusher trying to follow the rules are written?

  22. pwned! on Torrent Users Fight Back · · Score: 0

    law'd!

  23. Re:could be dangerous on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    I'll put my money on him committing suicide in a locked cell by shooting himself in the back of the head with a shotgun.

  24. Cha-ching! on When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone · · Score: 1

    Tell them to pay you $10,000 for your troubles or you will be suing them and pressing criminal charges for hacking your phone.

  25. Re:funny and ironic on Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists · · Score: 1

    My compact camera has 14 megapixels and a 14x zoom. This ought to get decent photos of sensitive installations.