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  1. Re:Bing vs Google on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as Bing keeps sorting the results based on the website's popularity rather than the page's relevance I don't see myself ever using Bing.

  2. Stones and rocks on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 4, Funny

    They also make stones obsolete. I don't long have to throw rocks at a window, I can just throw my phone.

  3. Desktop on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    I'm going to use this as wallpaper for my desktop. Does that now make my computer bomb-proof?

  4. Buy your insurance now on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    I'm selling insurance for 2012. You can get it now for the limited low fee of $1,000 a year. When the world ends in 2012 you'll receive $10,000,000. Buy now, before it's too late.

  5. Re:A fresh start on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Yes. If you murder two people, then I have the right to know about it.

    No you don't have right. You want that right.

    That you served your time and have set out in the world to start over is your right once released. But people have the right to know the guy down the street is a convicted murderer.

    What happens if somebody is released for sexual predation of children? Should their names be stricken from any record of the crime? Does the young mother living next door to this released predator have no right to know of a potential danger?

    I am all for giving ex-cons a fair deal. I really do understand how badly they are treated by society and would never treat them as such myself. But I do have the right to know about these crimes. If you are talking about stealing beer at age 19, then fine, whatever. I really don't care. But murder? Come on.

    Maybe we should go back to branding people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_branding#As_punishment

  6. crontab on Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently Madoff's fraud was too large and too complex to be foisted entirely by hand

    And that's why we have cellscripts and conjobs

  7. Nothing to see here on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the report.

    Popular vendors including Sun, IBM, and Apache continue to be among the top 10 most vulnerable Web applications named.

    Wait... so vendors and now applications?
    They continue to say that Java and PHP are very vulnerable, but it's actually applications written in Java and PHP, not the language+runtime itself. In that case you could say that C++ has the most vulnerabilities.

  8. Re:Dear Brittish friends, why do you want Stasi? on In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not just the Brits, it's the whole EU. It's an EU regulation that pretty much all countries accepted.
    And it's for our protection, it's to stop terrorists. Erm... or what is to stop child pornography. Maybe it was to catch copyright infringes. Well, it was to stop something anyway, I think.
    Anyway, the people will be more safe.

  9. Re:hmm military using OSS on New DoD Memo On Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Did he abuse Private Memory again?

  10. Re:What law? on Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents · · Score: 1

    But copyright infringement is not a crime in the Netherlands, it's just an infraction. Copyright is part of civil law.

  11. Brainwashing on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess it is time to sue the music industry for putting songs in our head.

  12. Re:Windows Upgrades on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 0, Troll

    But why does this have to be the case with MS Windows?
    I never had this problem on my GNU/Linux system. Nor have I ever heard anyone about this issue on Mac OSX.

  13. If it's out there on Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like everything on the internet, if it's public, a web-spider will find it (eventually). But I'm seriously impressed by the speech-to-text engine Google uses, quite nice.

  14. Re:In other news on 1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps · · Score: 1

    Freezing them is the trick.

  15. Re:Microsoft's updated advisory on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    If I use Firefox, which Internet Explorer update do I need to install?

    Now that's just plain funny. It's like saying that I need to make sure my car doors are locked when I'm using public transport.

  16. Extra information on FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd like to give them even more information, like a fresh stool sample

  17. Re:Coding in your spare time shows an interest.. on Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" · · Score: 1

    A book about programming?

  18. Re:...but Beyonce... on In-Game Advertising Makes Games Better? · · Score: 1

    So games like GTA, or some F1 Racing game might benefit

    GTA is a spoof of real world and fiction. Having real products in GTA will ruin part of its game world.
    Instead of the following in Vice City: A deadly curse. A deranged killer. A small town in tears. "Knife After Dark". Rated "R", for "Retarded".
    You get: First, the Mayan calendar predicted it...Now, science has confirmed it...but we never imagined it could really happen. "2012". Rated PG-13.

  19. Re:Norwegian sell-out for celebrities and stars on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    this is one of the greatest awards a man can receive, and it's wording is distinctly results oriented.

    And with this action, it no longer is.

    Actually, I think they (Nobel committee) already made that mistake by giving Al Gore a peace price for work that isn't really peace related.

  20. Re:Copyright? on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Trademarks are not the same thing as copyright. Copyright covers creative, intellectual, scientific, or artistic forms, or "works". Names are generally not considered to be part of that. Even if there was a possibility of having a copyright on a name, this guy wouldn't own the copyright, but his parents do. They "created" the name.

  21. Re:So, does the Duct Tape Programmer... on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    What!? You can have multiple lines in a perl script?

  22. No shit Sherlock on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: -1, Troll

    what tipped you off?

  23. Re:weird on CA City Mulls Evading the Law On Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe it's because it's not just Microsoft who's working on that project. The other half of the team is from ETH Zurich Systems Group: http://www.systems.ethz.ch/ .

  24. Enlighten me on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (Certain) RAID (levels) address the issue of potential dataloss due to hardware malfunction. How does moving to an Object-Based Storage Device address this issue better? Actually, I don't see how RAID and OSD are mutually exclusive.

  25. $33.000 in damages? on Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    How did they get to that number? Removing spyware isn't that expensive. For that money you could even replace a bunch of machines and trash the old ones.