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  1. TRANSLATION on The Perl 6 Advent Calendar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I, Toby Haynes, am a genius. You are not. Go away."

    So -- Perl 6, the language for stuck-up assholes.

  2. RTFA .. or even the story excerpt on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 1

    and then go learn what "web services" are.

  3. Re:automated tool for locating cells? on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 1

    So HE'S responsible for pumping up the jam.

  4. I CAN BE PLAYED ON RECORD PLAYER X on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let the T-C wars continue!

  5. Watching the proles on parade on Astro Boy Director Speaks · · Score: 1

    Will the Buggles song be on the soundtrack?

  6. Re:Dictionary on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    Oh boy. I fail it. The first link is the fucking metal band "Amoral" as described on Wikipedia. Google laughs at me.

  7. Re:Dictionary on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=define+amoral

    Not only is the CORRECT answer the FIRST link on the page, the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is the fourth link AND CONTAINS THE COMPLETE DEFINITION IN THE SNIPPET.

    YFI. HTH. HAND.

  8. Dictionary on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    Using google to learn something is superior to using a dictionary. It should be your first choice. Only if google does not supply an acceptable answer (or if the answer you get proves you to be a fool who believes everything he reads online) should you consult dead trees.

  9. MOD PARENT FUNNY!!! on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Best. Seinfeld reference. Evar.

  10. Re:Dark Tan? on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    Did you look at the results? They did not "slap a black guy in white face". They replaced the entire black guy (except for his hand) with a totally different white guy.

  11. Re:No African-Americans in Poland doncha know on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    There was an America in 1650 -- in fact, there were two of them (North and South). There just wasn't a United States of America.

  12. Invoke Project Mayhem on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    This is clearly 100%, indisputably the fault of the credit bureaus. Why the FUCK would you enter a number that ISN'T an SSN in a form that could match a valid SSN? It's as if they said, "Our database can only handle 15 character last names, so anybody named Souphanousinphone should just be entered as Johnson."

  13. Re:If they go through with this on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 1

    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Pirate Bay Stockholm wgah'nagl fhtagn!

  14. Re:Model on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 1

    Take a moment and think about how much the rights-holders would pay a company to eliminate the most popular torrent tracker and search engine on the planet. Giving the guys with money exactly what they want sounds like an excellent business model.

  15. stego + java web app + incognito browser = WIN on Encryption? What Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Use a web-based stegonographic program on a file-by-file basis. Use it only in an incognito browser, and do not keep a bookmark other than in your noggin. Deniability achieved.

  16. Re:Story link to DailyFinance.com article on Murdoch Demands Kindle Users' Info · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Murdoch: "These people are subscribing to our paper. They're OUR subscribers."
    Kindle: "No, they're just customers in our bookstore. We sell them the same thing every day, it's true, but their relationship is with us, not you."

    They're both tetched in the head.

  17. Re:August on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    If you can honestly contemplate living with (not just fucking) someone for years on end and NOT listening to them, you don't want a wife, you want a RealDoll.

    Marriage is for people who get lonely by themselves. Relating to another human being is the whole goddamned point.

  18. Re:What about public domain music? on Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    They don't have any claim on YOUR money, since you're the copyright holder. BUT if another radio station starts exclusively playing your music and can't prove it has a contract with you, that radio station owes THEM money and they owe YOU money (but good luck collecting).

  19. Re:Clouds? on Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? · · Score: 1

    Ironic considering cosmic rays were discovered by the use of Wilson cloud chambers.

  20. Re:Free markets on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    And the city's credit rating goes down, and it has to pay higher interest next time it needs to borrow. And it ends up raising taxes to meet its interest payments on the next loan.

  21. Re:DMCA ??? on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 1

    They are circumventing the (very poorly conceived and implemented) technology that enforces the rule that only iPods can connect to iTunes. Circumvention = DMCA violation.

  22. Re:The scariest words in the English language on Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Yiddish started as 4th century German written with Hebrew letters instead of in the Roman alphabet. This is a common pattern throughout history for Jews living in foreign lands: they assimilate the local language but write it with their own orthography. Ladino, Yiddish, even the Aramaic of the Second Temple era. As the Jews of Eastern Europe migrated (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) they continued to speak this language, gradually adding loan words from Hebrew, Russian, Polish, and many other languages.

    I don't know why you consider Yiddish to be harsher sounding than other Germanic tongues, however. Maybe it's just the prevalance of the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (the "ch" sound in the Hebrew word "baruch") that you're not used to?

  23. Re:"for civilian use" on Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released · · Score: 1

    Of course, I don't happen to *know* of any terrorist groups whose main agenda is against the nuclear power industry.

    Is this sarcasm or something?

    It's not that long ago that anti-nuke demonstrations were frequent and highly visible. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement#Events . I'm certain that the possibility of anti-nuke terrorism is very high in the minds of nuke management.

  24. Re:Yeah, umm, good luck with that. on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    ...IE6 and 7 will probably break. I don't test in them any more. How would I? All of the computers have been upgraded to IE8.

    If there's the faintest possibility of you changing your mind and wanting to test in IE7 at least, check out Xenocode browser sandboxes.

  25. Re:Holy Crap! Calm down on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're going to redefine "the original problem" at will, then you can make any claim and sit back with a self-satisfied air.

    "What the original poster really needs is a way of getting rid of this troublesome child before his life is ruined. Just ring: three-six-two-four-three-six, hey.