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  1. Re:Great.. on Cell Phones Could Sniff Out Deadly Chemicals · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now I have to turn off my cellphone when I cook meth.

    You should do that anyway.

  2. Re:Advantage? on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you ever tried to create or edit articles in Wikipedia?

    I've had dentist visits which were less painful.
    I've dealt with powerhungry asshole admins in fps games who were more understanding.
    I've dealt with complex series of rules (i.e. United States Tax Code) which are easier to circumnavigate than Wikipedia's ego-driven drivel.

    And my edits were on non-mainstream articles.

    I concur, we need a wikipedia like tool dumb down to a myspace/geocites level

  3. Australia? on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: -1, Troll

    um.... judging by the number of entries, can i conclude there is only a small tech sector down under?

  4. Re:FUD on Android Gets Carrier-Operated European App Store · · Score: 1

    Especially when different stores have different pay out rules. If android has umpteen different stores where you have make X in sales before they pay you vs. Apple's model of one place where we at least know the rules....we'll take apple.

    But even with our current apps, the download ratio is about 300:1, iphone:android versions. Even blackberry to android is 22:1.

    How do you know that? you can measure the apps that I installed from the web? Oh apple doesn't let you install apps from the web? maybe that's why the store has more purchases.

  5. Re:Schools vs. Killing brown people on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    Daley's probably just making this statement to hide the public outrage over the Gerrymandering charges.

    For those who haven't heard about this issue, renovations at O'Hare airport are necessitating the move of graves at a nearby cemetery. Apparently a couple of the tombstones might be crossing the dividing line between voting wards.

    If you have people voting from their graves, you might have a bigger problem then where the district line is drawn?

    or am i missing something?

  6. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D on Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment · · Score: 1

    IIS?

    ok I give, even windows people use apache.

  7. Re:I'll follow them here too. :D on Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least you can diff a config file. Try that with a gui.

    I do that that all the time, screenshot + OCR only takes me 30 secs to pop the data into excel.

    office/windows is a pretty stable work platform, Linux I'm always spending 15 minutes getting a screenshot app working.

  8. Re:interesting concept on Wake Forest Researchers Swap Skin Grafts For Cell Spraying · · Score: 1

    Does it make me tree hugger to feel bad for the rats they must have used to test this.

    I mean you'ld have to be a bit sadistic to want to burn living animals for a living.

  9. Re:Sadly on Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid · · Score: 1

    sudo passwd root and you are good to go

    Your desire for a GUI that sets file permissions by octal expression seems... odd.

    Setting the execute permission through the GUI is odd?

  10. Re:Sadly on Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I tried Ubuntu, But I just can't.

    I wanted to install my favorite niche physics package. I couldn't even figure out how to set the files to 777 through the GUI, I had to 'sudo chmod' them.

    Oh and no 'su'? really? I mean 'sudo bash' isn't that hard but jeez I don't know if this is more secure, but it sure is harder to use. I think I'll install centos before going back to fedora.

  11. Re:"Once 4:30 rolls around..." on Wall St. Trading Servers To Power Off-Hour Clouds? · · Score: 1

    Said the CTO who is now looking for a job.

    NYSE closes at 4:30. But there are other markets. And the data flows 24/7.

    There is no reason for these systems to have spare cycles.

    So your going to try to make high frequency trades that require ultra low latency in Japan with your servers that are in new york?

  12. Re:Is This Secure? on Wall St. Trading Servers To Power Off-Hour Clouds? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is letting 'cloud users' access the servers that run out financial markets really a good idea?

    No.

    Citation needed.

    The NAS and compute cores just need to be separate systems

  13. Re:If not China, why US? on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    I think the State Legislatures, acting on behalf of the people, should be given the power to nullify acts of congress. i.e. If 25 States declare a U.S. Law unconstitutional, it has the same effect as if the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. It's nullified. State Legislatures tend to more democratic than the national legislature (which ignored the ~80% of Americans who did NOT want Pelosicare or TARP/bailout bills to pass). The State governments are the proper organ for nullification, not 9 old people who are unelected oligarchs

    We have a system to do this already, but our founding fathers understood the wisdom of minority rights, which is why it takes more then 50% of the states(your 25 example). Actually it only take 38 states.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution

    also I think 80% is a little high for opposition to the the healthcare bill , maybe 80% of texans didn't want the bill to pass

  14. Re:Skills on Japanese Astronaut Gets Designer "Space Suit" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry -- I hear stilts are all the rage among astronauts these days.

    Fashion ... I still don't understand it.

    Also popular among astronauts, Standing?

  15. Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago? on The Apple Two · · Score: 1

    King Tut!

  16. Re:Par for the course? on Sony Update Bricks Playstations · · Score: 2, Funny

    that interest in hacking the PS3 was near nonexistent before the Slim came out (sans Other OS), except for a couple Linux folks trying to poke holes in the hypercall interface to get access to the GPU.

    someone donate this guy a mod point.

  17. Re:Par for the course? on Sony Update Bricks Playstations · · Score: 2, Informative

    All PS3 games that ship on disc ship on Blu-ray.

    Yes but all PS3 owners, have a Bluray Reader.

    Dump the thing across the network if you have to

  18. Enforcement? on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    How in the world do you enforce this? RIAA style dragnets?

  19. Re:Pretty naive on Facebook Crawler Speaks Back · · Score: 1

    Donating is NOT speech

    I disagree Money Talks.

  20. Re:Pretty naive on Facebook Crawler Speaks Back · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Only People (persons, not legal entities)who are eligible to vote can donate to political campaigns.

    So no first amendment rights til you turn 18 then?

  21. Re:When does it stop? on Toshiba To Test Sub-25nm NAND Flash · · Score: 1

    Well, there’s always the Planck length, as as the ultimate size limitation. As there need to be some structures, it always have to be a multiple of that.
    But everything else depends on of we can overcome the difficulties of constructing working *tronics out of structures that small.

    The Planck length? that's like 25 orders of magnitude smaller then what we are looking at now. I'd be surprised if there is a way to scale below the width of a single walled nano tube(~1nm)

  22. Re:Give me an f-ing break on AMD Readies "Lottery-Core" CPUs · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Stop with the April fools posts already!

    This one isn't even funny

  23. Re:Easy solution on Yale Delays Move To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Google a list of countries... remove those 15, and there you go.

    There is no fucking way there are google servers in 190 some odd countries.

    I mean you really think they keep a server in the Vatican or Swaziland?

  24. Re:Zelda - Ocarina of Time (N64) on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    The first 3D Zelda game did that same 4D deal, where you had to do a task in the Garoudo desert, travel backwards in time, and then finish the task. (Sorry I can't be more specific but it's been a while since I last played.)

    Yes, But it's nothing like chronotrigger!

  25. Re:xkcd on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually i think the poster stole it from him.