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  1. Re:more great editing on Throwable WiFi Camera · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tell me how "proceed" in "designed to proceed police" can possibly be intransitive, given that it's taking a direct object.

  2. Re:Tips according to the article... on Depressed Hamsters Help Researchers · · Score: 1
    It is just wrong to assume that all the diseases adults get, including depression, could be cured by operating our bodies the way they were "designed."

    True. That's why instead of assuming it, scientists are performing experiments.

  3. Re:There's no such thing.... on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1
    In the 1960s, 53 percent of the Usage Panel found this usage unacceptable; in 1996, only 35 percent objected.

    In 2005, over 50% of Americans surveyed believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

  4. Re:There's no such thing.... on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1

    I second your comment. It's an error of logic on the same order as writing '=' in your program when you mean '=='.

  5. Re:What the... on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, since win32 codecs are not free software, they don't compile on my system.

    I understand. They might get grotesque quantities of Unfreedom all over your compiler. Who wants that to happen? :-/

  6. Re:this is VERY serious! on Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award · · Score: 1
    Christmas. It's the freaking winter solstice celebration

    Then maybe it shouldn't have the same freakin' name as a certain Messianic figure who has nothing to do with the changing of the seasons. Not to mention the "Mass" in the name. In short, if what you say is true, then there's absolutely no reason to call it Christmas.

  7. Re:this is VERY serious! on Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award · · Score: 1

    "Fevered" politically-correct "delusions" such as "some Americans are Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or atheists"? Check your own damned fever.

  8. Re:this is VERY serious! on Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award · · Score: 1

    People in the U.S. are "generally" Christian (=~ 85%). So whenever you see an American on Dec. 26th or soon after, I'm sure you'd think it's appropriate to say "How was your Christmas?"

  9. Re:one thing's for sure... on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    Well, you're certainly failing to sound like you know anything about anything, so I guess you belong here, too.

  10. 4-5-4-1-oh-oh-oh on Security Flaws Allow Wiretaps to be Evaded · · Score: 1

    Call Mr. Lee.
    He'll know the code is broken.
    Tell him the dog is turning red.

  11. Idiots on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 1

    You know what else teens hate? If you spread a thick layer of fresh pig manure all over the parking lot of your establishment. You see, their noses respond to the smell. Can't stand it. You know for sure that Satan laughed the day that leaf-blowers were invented. This, while evil, probably only gave him a slight chuckle.

  12. Re:It'd suck... on Dotless Top Level Domains? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Refreshing the whole page would take a long time. That's why you use AJAX with SSH wormhole tunneling for distances in the parsec range.

  13. 3. Profit! on Dotless Top Level Domains? · · Score: 1

    I imagine that http://porn/ could be worth a lot.

  14. Re:Will change nothing on Microsoft to Open up Office Formats · · Score: 1
    In related news, the cyborg collective known as the Borg announced that they will open up the proprietary format used to convert biological entities to subcomponents of their organomechanical hive mind.

    "Organo-mechanical" needs a hyphen. Otherwise, this is ready for publication.

  15. Re:It doesn't matter how much evidence is found. on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1
    This is modded Insightful?

    By your reasoning, there's no point in trying to defend yourself if someone is trying to kill you because, you know, you're just gonna die anyway.

  16. Re:Hmm on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1
    Las Vegas keeps on growing though.

    Oh, yeah? How do you explain that one casino that lost some money that one time? Well? Is that data too inconvenient to fit into your precious hypothesis?

    </global-warming-denier>

  17. I call "bullshit" on you. on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    There's that 0.27% number again. You like to cook your statistics, don't you?

    the plateau and dip in temperatures in the graph, which refutes the idea that it's been a very steady increase in gases since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

    ROFL! That's some good reasoning. Let me see if I understand this: since temperature has not been on a steady rise since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, there has not been a steady increase of "greenhouse gases." God, that's funny.

    Penn calls "Bullshit" on what most of the rest of the intelligent world recognizes because it gives him a big old stiffy to pretend that his "superior" perspective comes from his being more of a man. What moral deficiency is your excuse for this shoddy thinking?

  18. Re:My previous post on this subject on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 1
    The fact that reviews are blind means that they are also unaccountable, which fosters even more bias.

    Not true. Maybe you don't understand what blind reviews are.

    Reviews are "blind" in the sense that the identity of the reviewer is not revealed to the author of the article. The editor, by contrast, knows who the reviewers are and what they've written, so there is accountability.

  19. dangling modifier on The Prodigy Puzzle · · Score: 1
    Once neglected, the NY Times reports that ...

    The New York Times? Neglected?

  20. Re:Internet freedom isn't going anywhere. on Flushing the Net Down the Tubes · · Score: 1

    It's easy to block individual sites, but not so easy to block particular content.

  21. Re:Flipsides [Unix boy] on The Man Behind Apple And Pixar · · Score: 1

    Some people have already mentioned application bundles as a kind of descendant of the resource fork (to which we might add "Frameworks" and "Components"). Let me just add one more plus. One very good thing about .app bundles is that they make installation so much easier; all the app's libraries can live in the bundle, which helps avoid .dll or dependency hell.

  22. Re:I host my own blog. on Data Center Move Goes Awry for TypePad · · Score: 4, Funny
    a dairy: a blog that no one else reads.

    That's a pretty cheesy quote, son, but then again, you have to milk these things for all they're worth.

  23. d'oh! on iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Re-reading my own comment, I see that it could be construed as recommending that humans have sex with many bonobos, which is not what I was trying to say. Oh, well.

  24. Re:Fscking Scumbag Ambulance Chasers on iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bonobos have the very good moral sense to have sex with numerous other bonobos. Humans could learn from their example.

  25. Vendors or Developers To Blame? on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1
    Vendors or Developers To Blame?

    I don't know anything about what causes buggy software, but years of training by the press, television, and movies have meticulously prepared my brain to accept the oversimplifying fiction that it must be one of them and not the other.