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  1. Re:Lawyers are scum on Patent Office Ramps Up Patent Approvals · · Score: 1

    Why not? Then they'd grant fewer patents.

  2. Re:Easiest way to black facebook on "Dislike" Button Scam Hits Facebook Users · · Score: 1

    That user is wrong, though, as on FreeBSD at least, 0.0.0.0 goes to the local gateway. So it is not always faster.

  3. Re:ImageMagick and remove metadata on The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup, and it recompresses the image when you do so. See suggestions here for ways of stripping it without recompressing.

  4. Re:Yes on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Why aren't you asking why, when he was paid so much for what he was doing, he had to embezzle at all? It shows an absolutely astonishing lack of ethics and he doesn't deserve to be in any position of trust. Now, you're right about him being a net positive at least from a financial standpoint, but I'm just wondering why he had to be such a scumbag.

  5. Re:Bureaucracy on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes.

  6. Re:So... on Ex-SF Admin Terry Childs Gets 4-Year Sentence · · Score: 1

    There are many fundamental legal flaws, and that DOES appear to be one of them.

  7. Re:As long as the browser asks for permission on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    I couldn't. I had to switch to AMSN because Microsoft wouldn't release updates for XP-64 anymore, and Messenger refused to function without updates. Assholes.

  8. Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    A macro! Interesting. That's actually a pretty good argument in favor of always using braces. I was leaning towards them not being necessary, but that's making me reconsider.

  9. Re:I hear differently from Users on iPhone Jailbreak Uses a PDF Display Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Regarding 2), I think that would only be correct if virius was that masculine etc etc. But since everyone is talking about viruses, not viriuses, the term "virii" is pure retardation.

  10. Re:And? on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 1

    Hey, you've been caught out on your lies already. Quit spouting nonsense.

  11. Re:There's nothing wrong with what they're doing. on Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, not using your real name can cause some problems, as then someone else can create a profile that does use your name that you can't control. And then you have to get it deleted. Of course, if you can manage to get it deleted without facebook knowing that you have a profile there with a fake name, then I guess it works out, but when this happened to me, my fake name profile got killed too.

  12. Re:And this is news? on Java IO Faster Than NIO · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD doesn't.

    Mind you, that's not because they have something against Perl. It's rather that when Perl was part of the OS, it was too hard to update it independantly of the rest of the system. (I think that back then, new Perl releases were more frequent than now.) So they put it in ports to make that easier. In practice, it winds up on almost every FreeBSD installation due to so many other ports requiring it.

  13. Re:Huzzah! on Software Now Un-Patentable In New Zealand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You should take a closer look at it. The general consensus is that Bilski was as close to a crushing defeat for the anti-software-patent crowd as was possible to get.

  14. Re:Good. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    You're so full of shit, Internet Tough Guy.

  15. Re:Amnesia an option? on Getting Paid Fairly When Job Responsibilities Spiral? · · Score: 1

    He didn't say, "tell them you have an offer". In fact, I got the impression he meant for that to be kept a secret. So his advice could, in fact, work.

  16. Re:Haskell... on Six More Tech Cults · · Score: 1

    Just curious: what job did you find that was perfect for Prolog? I'd be very interested to know that.

  17. Re:Conservatists on "Canadian DMCA" Rising From the Dead · · Score: 1

    It couldn't have always been that way: that word doesn't even exist.

  18. Re:hmmm on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not exponentially! No! Something that is rising exponentially is rising as 2^x, which is like hitting a brick wall compared to something rising quadratically, which, if your math is right, is how fuel costs would rise with increasing speed. And your math seems right.

  19. Re:The real problem on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, what's complete and utter bullshit is the idea that a, say, 16 year old girl is incapable of seducing someone older than her. If she initiates it, exactly how is the adult doing anything wrong? Who is being victimized, other than the adult, by the society at large and assholes like you?

  20. Re:Ireland: In the dark ages on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1

    No, it makes those specific cases of violence not bad. Why do you think all violence must be the same? Violence is just a term covering independent acts; are all those acts identical because of that?

  21. Re:Ireland: In the dark ages on Politically Correct Zoology · · Score: 1

    Self defense. Killing a murderer who deserves it (sometimes they don't). Violence is pretty damned good in those situations.

  22. Re:Fuel economy on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    You missed out the comparison between 150 mpg and 40 mpg, which is a difference of 220 gallons per year: not insignificant. If a 150 mpg car could be made affordably, it would still be worthwhile to some people to get one.

  23. Re:Python for Scientific use on Matplotlib For Python Developers · · Score: 1

    Yes they are. Skip down to the section Changes Already Present In Python 2.6. String formatting is deprecated in favor of their new horrible way. They're going to try to get rid of the old, good way. I won't switch to 3.0 unless they give up on that, but so far they haven't.

  24. Re:It is better than a jury of Bobs on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that real attorneys, when appointed to defend someone, were paid their normal rates. That'd be the only way to get a fair defense.

  25. Re:Classic statistics problem on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would work if and ONLY if the errors in the test were independent of the individual being tested and the questions being asked. If they were not, that wouldn't work, and would strengthen the belief that ignorant people would have in the guilt of those who failed the test even though they were innocent.