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  1. Re:less functional than netbook at same price on Arrington's Web Tablet Nearly Ready For Launch? · · Score: 1

    That's a good way to put it... that list fixes everything wrong with the Kindle, and makes it cheaper.

  2. Re:The "understood" security risks on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's a definite no-win, and it is in fact time to scrap that app.

    And when they start their next one, realize that there's no web app on earth that requires thousands of ASP or PHP pages. If you're looking at a possibility of that many pages, someone has done something horribly wrong.

  3. Re:Activator on Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3 · · Score: 1

    Newfangled "Activator" doohickeys... bring back my U-Force. Then maybe my laserscope.

    Oh right, then get off my lawn.

  4. Re:High-efficeiency incandescent bulbs on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 1

    I think there are a good handful of assumptions in what you just stated as fact.

    Not least of which is the idea that all of our power would always come from coal burning plants.

  5. Re:This is sure to boost attendance. on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 1

    That's correct. Apps are not allowed to run in the background. It sucks, mostly... but it's also part of what makes it a very stable platform (compared to win mobile phones) and helps prolong battery life.

  6. Re:Put honest links in the @#$@ summary on Mozilla and Google's "Don't-Be-Evil" Bulldozer · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's version 2.Oh, man... get with the program. We're fuckin' synergizin' here.

  7. Re:Fear of the computer on Mozilla and Google's "Don't-Be-Evil" Bulldozer · · Score: 1

    I blame the bulk of this on our regular pissings on how "stupid people" have installed malware on their own systems.

    If they don't trust that they'll know a good program from a bad one, they'd rather just leave the computer as it is.

  8. Re:Books on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Uhg... Scrooge.

  9. Re:Put a on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right? ...Funny, not Interesting.

  10. Re:We still have them in some parts of Romania on Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument · · Score: 2, Informative

    That Bucium does does indeed look like the lituus and various sorts of alphorn.

    Per the wiki article, there's some suspicion of a direct relation:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpenhorn

  11. Re:Let sleeping dogs lie on Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It really, really sounds like a trumpet being played by someone who can't manage notes that high. It's hard to acclimate to a mouthpiece and develop the ambrochure necessary to play a horn properly.

  12. Re:Why is Verbosity Bad? on Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It didn't seem to me like being concise or verbose was a help or hindrance aside from his comment. Per those graphs I could say I want something as fast as Java (how often have you heard that on /.), but a little less verbose... "oh, csharp might be worth a look".

    I found it interesting.

  13. Re:Fine by me on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Lemme just hop over there and edit that real quick...

    Kidding!

  14. Re:Hyperbole? on Hackers Breached US Army Servers · · Score: 1

    Seems we don't have to know much about the situation to know one thing... a "major Army security lapse" is more like, say, strategic radio comm in the clear, close enough to be intercepted by the enemy, and results in casualties.

    A public facing website that gets script-kiddied by some asshat from Turkey that thinks exploiting a site by SQL injection is Uber-L33t is not a major lapse. I'm pretty sure this is not weighing heavily on some 5-star's mind.

  15. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    Detention. Jail. Who knows... you're not out of the country yet.

    Whatever it is, I'm willing to be it ain't good.

  16. Re:Odd... on Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter · · Score: 1

    First, it wouldn't necessarily be common sense. My electric does not cost significantly more during the winter. For the others and their fun with speculation, my heat is paid for out of my monthly association fees, and it's a gas bill, not electric.

    The point, however, is that I did read the article (it was in the summary too smartass), and I'm surprised that the LHC wouldn't run during the winter even if the power is more expensive. We're talking about, what, a 9 billion dollar facility? They're worried about the power bill? I can't imagine that they're smashing atoms all day, every day, and when you commit to building something like that you usually don't shut the lights off at night.

    But you're right, sometimes I do forget I'm on /. too, where old assumptions rule and I shouldn't expect reasonable discourse.

  17. Re:Oblig... on Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll welcome them when they're two-assed monkeys. Those are so obviously more useful for research in human diseases.

  18. Odd... on Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They were normally going to be closed during the winter?

  19. Re:Strange on Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers' · · Score: 1

    Well I hope you work for Sonicwall. All the rest did terribly.

  20. Re:And CE isn't popular? on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    That's very true, except they have removed the mobile development from VS Standard and lower. I have no idea why MS did that.

  21. Re:HD, yeah.. on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    Wow man, you know only a handful of us understood that.

  22. Re:Communal != Communism on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    I'll oblige.

    "God damned hippies."

    - Eric Cartman

  23. Re:And Google doesn't get Sued? on Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I think that was over MS putting a non-compatible VM in the OS and calling it Java.

    I get the impression that this has more to do with having the libs stripped and replaced.

  24. Re:Vice laws. on A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban · · Score: 2, Funny


    Yeah, we'll sponsor our own vice bill!
    With blackjack!
    And hookers!

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  25. Re:Captain Oxymoron to the Rescue! on A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    If that's really the case, my guess is that they've run the odds of that happening. I hear they have a few people who know how to do that, 'round them parts. ;)