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  1. Re:Why on Spammers Using Soft Hyphen To Hide Malicious URLs · · Score: 1

    agglomerative

    Thanks-- I'm going to try to use this word in a sentence today.

  2. Re:Why on Spammers Using Soft Hyphen To Hide Malicious URLs · · Score: 1

    Since URLs are not formatted data, browsers should render EVERY character, whether it's with a special code (just as some older word processors and modern text editors show control characters). This could have been avoided. It should be considered a defect and treated as such.

  3. Re:inspiration on Software Evolution Storylines, Inspired By XKCD · · Score: 1

    XKCD comics created some of those memes. Like the "Bobby Tables" joke you don't seem to like.

  4. Re:WTF? on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1, Insightful

    America, you are in decline, and about two elections from being ran by drooling idealogues with no interest in facts.

    Too late. Those two elections were in 2006 and 2008.

    Between the Tea Party and the Social Conservatives, you are being controlled by people who are too fucking stupid to do anything but shout louder than anybody they disagree with.

    Look at the morons in Congress who claim their opponents want people to "die quickly", start a screaming match when they don't get the votes they were expecting, and claim the Republicans are "blocking" legislation when they have a majority in both houses and a progressive President. Of course, there are the always-entertaining left-wing protesters who destroy property and attack police. Now look at a Tea party demonstration.

  5. Re:time for a union? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it did work. The auto workers got to keep their pensions and benefits, and the bond holders and taxpayers got the shaft.

  6. Re:What kind of moron on Would-Be Akamai Spy Busted By Feds · · Score: 1

    Most people have known this for years that entering the United states is identical to leaving a fascist dictatorship country.

    FTFY

  7. Re:Get your units right on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    Your eggs are shaped strangely in Europe. No wonder your dispositions are so foul and sports so low scoring.

  8. Re:The question is on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    Congress. Give them a rod, they take a furlong.

  9. Re:Farewell traveler on Final Space Shuttle External Tank Ready For Its Closeup · · Score: 1

    On top of this the Vikings and many others had already been to the new world.

    Obviously we know this, but Columbus headed a wave of exploration.

  10. Re:I know how they feel on Final Space Shuttle External Tank Ready For Its Closeup · · Score: 1

    I know! Without the handy collar snaps, now I have to wear an ascot to keep my neck warm. The ascot is fashionable, to be sure, but not as convenient or CLASSIC.

  11. Re:800 people to make one tank on Final Space Shuttle External Tank Ready For Its Closeup · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sounds like one of these stimulus programs. They would spend $10 million to give 5 people a job.

  12. Re:It's simple survival tactics... on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    She'd just like to have what Harry Reid has-- the media in his pocket.

  13. Re:Newspapers? Pshaw. on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    Scouring the street view to catch a glimpse of McGrew heading for the bar now... :-P

  14. Re:Not Odd on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, and he thinks that losing "only" 36,000 jobs in one day is good. He declared the Iraq war "lost" in 2007, and that the surge would be a failure. He made prejudiced statements about President Obama. That's just the nonpartisan stuff, because obviously his voting record is debatable based on whatever your opinions are.

  15. Re:For only $500 Billion up front! on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    OK... so green technologies are only OK if they come from one of Al Gore or George Soros's companies?

  16. Re:For only $500 Billion up front! on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    It's not the GOP-- it's the progressives (of any party) who want to de-industrialize the USA so that it is on par with the current third-world. Why else would the President unlawfully shut down our offshore drilling, only to subsidize offshore drilling for Mexico and Brazil?

    By the way, nearly every state has a minimum wage that is higher than the federal one. Removing the federal minimum would have the effect of placing the power back in the hands of the states, where it belongs for reasons both financial and liberal.

  17. Re:What OS? And how annoying? on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    The payload probably isn't as important as the means of propagation, or the other elements such as polymorphism.

  18. Re:Broken News... on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if you think all there is to baroque music is "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", you need to listen to the above link. Prepare for goosebumps.

  19. Re:Why do Americans have problems with solar power on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    Sub-prime mortgages came about because of Fannie Mae, a GSO. Try searching Google for "Fannie Mae eases credit to aid mortgage lending". Derivatives based on sub-prime mortgages wouldn't have existed without Fannie Mae creating them. By the way, there are many kinds of derivatives, and they aren't all inherently "evil". For example, calls and puts on stocks are derivatives. I mention this because Joe Sestak's lackeys are running ads about his opponent Pat Toomey "creating" derivatives, banking on our ignorance. Toomey dealt in interest and currency derivatives, not credit default swaps.

  20. Re:Why do Americans have problems with solar power on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    No, the free market does that quite well. It's called "supply and demand".

  21. Re:Why do Americans have problems with solar power on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    but wait, more efficient Pentium IV

    Netburst was decidedly NOT efficient.

  22. Re:Reagan also didn't plan to remove the solar on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    Those were 1970s solar panels. It is unlikely they were providing any meaningful amount of power. Try thinking before posting next time, Congressman Grayson.

  23. Re:Bright lights and warmth.... on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reagan likely took down the panel because it was crappy 1970s technology. You know, the kind that could barely power an LCD calculator when held directly under a 60W lamp. It is highly unlikely that the primitive 1970s amorphous silicon technology-- about 1% efficient-- provided any meaningful amount of power. It's possible they used another technology, but even the best produced at the time was perhaps 6% efficient. Jimmy Carter's sweater was far more sensible. If that's not enough for you, please note that Reagan commended the Coast Guard for converting their buoys to solar power.

  24. Re:They have a headstart on The Encryption Pioneer Who Was Written Out of History · · Score: 1

    Actually, I rather thought they were Cocks about it.

  25. Re:The Picture in Question on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 1

    I think the problem is in America, women like their swimwear to STAY ON when they get in the water. Men don't mind one way or another :-)