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  1. Re:Why surprising? on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Southwest.com allows you to create a password with non alpha-numeric characters, but then you can't log in with your password!

  2. Re:My first question would be... on Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework · · Score: 1

    Right, it has different icons.

  3. Re:Why does user data make a difference? on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, 'move' commands don't actually move the files on your hard disk. 'Moving' a large directory of images shouldn't take any longer than it takes to rename it.

  4. Re:Even worse stuff! on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with that?

    At least it wasn't:
    if (some condition)
    i /= 0;
    else
    i /= 1;

  5. Re:Or may not have on Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. Care to cite your out-gassing?

    See what a few minutes of Googling turned up:
    Catalogue of Comet Discoveries
    Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery Statistics

  6. Re:Most records are worthless anyway on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 1

    Some of our things, such as records, are very ephemeral. Others, such as space debris and nuclear waste, are very durable.

    Fixed.

  7. Re:Totally wrong approach to multitouch! on Windows 7 Touchscreen Details Emerging · · Score: 1

    How do you "directly manipulate" something that only exists as pixels on the screen?

  8. Re:Intense Rant: Don't fucking write it there on Did the Netbook Improve Windows 7's Performance? · · Score: 1

    Is it a user related setting then save it to the user profile.

    As long as we are ranting, can I add that [under Windows] you should be writing to the user's 'AppData' folder, not the 'Documents' folder?
    I'm sick of app data munging up my document organization.

  9. Re:purell on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 2, Informative
    I can just imagine:

    Purell this week announces that it is suing Amazon and E-Ink for disrupting their hand sanitizer <del>racket</del>business.

  10. Re:WTF? on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. Dig UP stupid!

  11. Re:Let Joy Be Unconfined on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 2, Informative

    Trolltech are total rubbish at the support game

    As a commercial licensee, I've found Trolltech's support to be very good. Actually, they are one of the best I've dealt with.

    So which is better "free code and no support"; free code and expensive support; or no code and no support (e.g. the way MS does it)?

  12. Re:Large uptick in Qt usage? on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Long start-up times have been fixed ever since Qt4 was released quite a while ago.

    That's a joke, right?

  13. Re:"Muddy the crispness"? on Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays · · Score: 4, Funny

    For just $49.99 (+S&H) I will send you my patented green felt-tip pen pixel alignment tool. It's alcohol-free ink is designed maximize the pixel aligning properties associated with green felt-tip pens.

  14. Re:The Invisible Hand on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So the invisible hand was Adam Smith's belief that an Englishman would buy English products produced in England, or start a manufacturing company in England for English consumers.

    That is not what is implied by Adam Smith's statement that you quoted. His statement implies that when a person makes business decisions based on whats best for him or his company, rather than his country, he will likely be benefiting his country in the long term. Conversely, if you make decisions based primarily on what you think is best for your country you will likely not be benefiting you or your country. This is due to the "invisible hand."

  15. Re:This one always surprises people for some reaso on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    • Optimized version of that: find / | grep -i $SOMETHING
    • Even more optimized: find / -iname $SOMETHING
    • However, most systems support locate/updatedb already, and that's much faster.

    apropos is apropos to this discussion.

  16. Cogent on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting
  17. Re:Oh I do hope... on XKCD Invited To New Yorker "Cartoon-Off" · · Score: 1

    Anyway, step back, I voted republican. We cool now? Wait a second. I'm confused. So are you saying that you are racist?!? (relax, it's a joke)

    He's not racist. There are Christians of all colors.

  18. Re:OSS is evil. on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who is a public school teacher and I can assure you that teachers do not decide what is in the classroom regarding computers. If the Teachers want something, either the local Principal or the School District IT most likely says NO. If by some amazing magical coincidence both the Principal and the School District IT says yes, they are usually too busy or they assign someone too inept to install it correctly. IT is not accountable for IT failures at his school.

  19. Re:Out of creative juice.. become an IP vulture. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    But isn't "Harry Potter" a trademark?

  20. Mod Article -1 (Author doesn't get it) on Are Relational Databases Obsolete? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Relational databases aren't being obsoleted. Some schema design heuristics are.

  21. Re:Do you smell that? on iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know about Epson, but Lexmark didn't get away with it.

  22. Re:It's all marketing... on iPod Casualties Offer New-In-Box Bargains · · Score: 1

    I always thought Marketing was about getting people's attention, not communicating with them.

    That's why lying is very effective for marketers.

  23. Yes on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 1

    And killing someone in Quake should be considered murder.

  24. Re:I'm skeptical... on Sport Is Unrelated To Obesity In Children · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA, but when food labels in the U.S. refer to Calories they are actually talking about Kilo-Calories. She was probably actually eating 300,000 Cal daily.

  25. Re:Now wait a minute.. on Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns" · · Score: 1

    ...But Evolution is provable. Just ask God.

    Doesn't the bible say: ...and god created atom...

    Thus beginning the Hydrogen fusion cycle from which all heavier elements formed.