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  1. Re:user analytics on What Open Source Can Learn From Apple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But would user analysts spend their spare time analysing users like hackers spend their spare time hacking?

  2. Re:Crazy old witch on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free · · Score: 1

    Like for instance being alert and open to the fact that there's a lottery each week, having the courage to buy a ticket, and having the intelligence to have previously time-travelled into the future to determine which numbers are going to come up. Who needs luck?

  3. Google on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google doesn't live by free. It lives by selling advertising.

  4. Re:I agree, (And have reasons) on Apple and Microsoft Release Critical Patches · · Score: -1, Troll

    Being 0wn3d has nothing to do with the platform

    Two decades in the field has left you with the impression that all platforms are equally secure? You must not have been paying much attention.

  5. Re:Oh dear on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    Unless you happen to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. Then no amount of accepting Jesus into your life can save you. Thanks be to God!

  6. Re:While I agree... on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Field of windmills stretching along 100 miles of coastline

    That's great and everything, but have you ever done the maths for the yield of such windmills?

    This guy has. He leaves you to draw your own conclusions.

  7. Re:While I agree... on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    You could have just as easily mentioned that the sun is eventually going to kill off all life on the planet. Neither fact is relevant.

    The timescales most certainly are relevant. We're currently in a pretty serious situation with respect to global carbon emissions. Given that we selfish humans won't sacrifice our power requirements, fission almost certainly needs to provide some of our power in the short to medium term future. I don't know of any "renewable" resource that fits with your "inexhaustible over a timescale of centuries" requirement -- land is required to capture wind, coast to capture tide, etc. and the numbers don't add up (see e.g. http://www.withouthotair.com/).

  8. Re:Actually, it would take 6 windmills on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Not having air condtitioning working is a MAJOR emergency here come august, a house with closed windows and no ac can easily reach 95 degrees in August.

    The emergency services in DFW must be sick and tired of having to go to people's houses simply to open their windows for them.

  9. Re:3rd party in background means malware... on iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    Once they decide not to bother with the app store or with vetting new apps you are stuck with a dead device.

    -1, Heard it all before about DRM and Apple didn't just abandon us.

  10. Re:Apple suck on iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, sounds like "Some company" just need to read the documentation:

    http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/library/documentation/Audio/Conceptual/AudioSessionProgrammingGuide/AudioSessionCategories/AudioSessionCategories.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007875-CH4-SW1

    Clearly, kAudioSessionCategory_UserInterfaceSoundEffects and kAudioSessionCategory_AmbientSound allow for music to continue playing.

  11. Re:Security and Radioactivity on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    "Informed by Prof. Santilli" is not necessarily the same as "informed".

  12. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Over the years your mother has also admitted to such wrongdoing.

    See what I did there?!

    In case it escaped you the first time: CITATION NEEDED.

  13. Re:This Doesn't Make a Whole Lot of Sense on Working Toward a Patent-Agnostic Open Source License · · Score: 1

    +1, Exactamundo

  14. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Of course it's not documented.

    I know that; it's just a more polite way of calling bullshit (I'm British, you see).

  15. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 2, Informative

    The FBI will pass up chances to infiltrate (or put less effort into) VIOLENT groups like the KKK, fringe anti-abortion groups which equate bombing of clinics with freeing Nazi concentration cam prisoners, and militias and para-military groups which flout federal law.

    Is that documented too? Could you please post the link?

  16. Re:An unfair fight is the point of war on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the bit I quoted from tjstork in my reply. He'd already created the dichomoty.

    Of course America doesn't want its soldiers to die. The best way to avoid that is to put them out of harm's way rather than sending them on imperialist oil wars.

    tjstork's perspective is pragmatic, but morally subterranean. Hence "fuck you" rather than "you're incorrect".

  17. Re:Oh man... on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Okay, fair enough. The OP's analogy was pretty far-fetched.

  18. Re:It's always the same 90% on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1

    Tell me, what do YOU think will need more than 444 Mb/s?

    444Mb/s is the sync speed; 400Mb/s is the theoretical maximum usable speed, but contention will bring that down to the equivalent of a handful of concurrent HDTV streams. I think it might be worth aiming a bit higher than that!

  19. Re:Oh man... on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Genocide is defined as the systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

    Highlighted that for ya.

  20. Re:Well that's war for you... on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    In my mind, that's a declaration of war sufficient for the other side to understand that trouble was coming.

    I think you missed my point. Formally declaring war binds you to certain standards of behaviour arising from international treaty obligations. Of course the other side knew that trouble was coming; that's neither here nor there.

  21. Re:An unfair fight is the point of war on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA.

    Be subjugated or be dead? Fuck you.

  22. Re:Well that's war for you... on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Um, it's not war, because you never declared war, precisely so that you could do things like break weapons treaties.

  23. Re:Oh man... on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    So genocide is about numbers, not actions? Take your own fucking break.

  24. Re:Entertaining horrors of war on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Way I see it, they're upholding the finest traditions that made the free world what it is today.

    Are you being sardonic, or do you really think the free world is better off for being run by Halliburton?

  25. Re:It's always the same 90% on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1

    DOCSIS 3 really is fast enough for just about all home applications I can think of for the next 5 or so years

    Wow, the industry could really do with more forward thinkers like you!

    </sarcasm>