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  1. Re:What's with all the goddamn typoos? on Japan Launches Lunar Orbiter Mission · · Score: 1

    In my day, we didn't even have paper and pencils. We had to solve long division by carving our work into our own arms with broken shards of glass. Now get off my lawn!

  2. Re:Create the platform???? BWAHAHAHAHAHA on Gates Successor Says Microsoft Laid Foundation for Google · · Score: 1

    And unfortunately, many people will see that sort of thing on TV and believe it's true.
    Only the ones who don't get jokes.
  3. Re:Sooooo... on Wii Outsells 360, PS3 Worldwide · · Score: 1

    I am. The Wii's far too cheap. Doesn't anyone else find it rewarding to take out a second mortgage to buy your PS3?

  4. Re:The "Moon" is a ridiculous liberal myth. on Google's $30,000,000 Lunar X PRIZE · · Score: 2, Informative

    These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special!
    That's easy. One is a rock band, the other is Lando Calrissian's favorite malt liquor.
  5. Re:Um, no. on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    Well, now that's totally incorrect. WAP eliminates the two biggest problems with WEP: the fixed key (via TKIP) and the exploitable authentication code (via MIC). Even without an authentication server, it's way better.

  6. Re:Hey, DOS 5 was cool on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 1

    DOS 6 came with the MSCDEX packet driver, so all you need is the IDE device driver which was pretty much generic by 1997. Microsoft packed a boot diskette with full copies of Windows 9x on CD-ROM that contained CD-ROM device drivers.

  7. Re:News? on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's MS-DOS 5! Clearly, that's "Stuff that matters!"

  8. Re:What is this, anyway? on Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent · · Score: 1

    Some people are conditioned into believing money is evil (that is, people who have more money than they do are evil) by such things as the repeated misquoting of 1st Timothy as "money is the root of all evil" when it is really "the love of money is the root of all evil."

  9. The problem with random numbers on Ultra-low-cost True Randomness · · Score: 4, Funny
  10. Re:Bypassing keyloggers on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    A true keylogger can't capture mouse clicks. However, I have heard that there are much more sophisticated programs that can record what character are under the pointer when the button is clicked.

  11. Re:correct me if I'm wrong on Radiation Absorbing Mineral Found In the Arctic · · Score: 1

    TMI was about the lamest "disaster" in history. The situation was handled extremely poorly, yet the safeguards in place kept the casualties at 0.

  12. Re:MS Paint on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    The problem is, Paint doesn't crop. You have to paste in the screenshot, select the area you want, copy it, then open a NEW project and paste it in.

  13. Re:I don't think you need NASA to say that on Mars Rovers Return to Exploration · · Score: 1

    Dammit!

  14. Re:Major embarassment on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 0, Troll

    I live in a world where the CIA tried to kill Castro several times, simply because he took back his country from gangsters.
    Maximilien Robespierre was executed simply because he took back his country from the crown.
    Adolf Hitler was nearly assassinated and ultimately died with a bullet in his head simply because he took back his country from the bureaucrats and the Jews.

    Fidel Castro has done plenty of things to draw assassination attempts-- and few of them are good. I bet you are wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt right now.

  15. Re:Major embarassment on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 1

    Perhaps our "leaders" should not have so much security. Might make them concentrate a little more on not having policies which ruin so many lives and drive people to want to murder them, eh?
    The corpse of Abraham Lincoln would disagree with you. But if you have a time machine, feel free to go back and let him know that if he just lets those wealthy southerners secede and whip their slaves around for a few more decades, he can live.
  16. Re:FAT32 on Hynix 48-GB Flash MCP · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, Microsoft hard-coded XP and later to not format partitions larger than 32 GB with FAT32. It's always possible these will ship with FAT32 via the use of some other utility, but it seems unlikely.

  17. Re:Microsoft, Google, etc... have the right idea.. on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even a cell phone is infinitely larger than nothing (that is, just use whatever internet-attached computer is available). Nothing also doesn't have a monthly bill or require you to perform 30 cryptic key presses just to type "lol kthx bye".

  18. Re:Lookin' good thunderbird on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 1
  19. Erlang infringes on my intellectual property! on Programming Erlang · · Score: 0, Troll

    The chapter also starts us into the strange world of functional programming, where variables can only be given a value once
    I developed and patented those years ago! I call them "constants"!
  20. Re:Ignorance is not an excuse on After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates · · Score: 1

    Well, if this cellulosic ethanol production doesn't hit it off as a fuel, at least we can look forward to pig shit whisky.

  21. Re:To me, the really sad thing is... on After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates · · Score: 1

    If what you were saying [was true], farms in rural areas would simply congeal into a big mega farm.
    I don't see the correlation. Why would the farmers have to form a huge conglomerate? They can (and do) have separate, smaller farms.
  22. Re:To me, the really sad thing is... on After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates · · Score: 1

    So mankind is band for the environment-- except when he's feeding wildlife with his own food. Doesn't it strike you as ridiculous that we should be expected to hand the fruits of our labor over to the animals? Shouldn't the environmental radicals be criticizing us for allowing rabbits and deer to eat our food instead of the wild fruit and grasses? I'm sure that our genetically selected, hybrid crops are bad for them, because they're not natural.

  23. Re:To me, the really sad thing is... on After 10,000 Years, Farming No Longer Dominates · · Score: 1
    Wrong.

    By the way, your statement is begging the question in that you are presuming that farming is a superior use for land over any other. Farming becomes more efficient and productive all the time-- this is why we can reduce our farmland and not starve.

  24. Re:And.... on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    The evidence for God is a bit stronger than for underpants gnomes. The only evidence we have for them is a satire which doesn't even claim to be truthful. You've dragged out an old, tired straw man argument.

  25. Re:And.... on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We don't have photographic evidence of Thomas Jefferson; did he exist?

    Photographs can be faked, just like many other kinds of evidence.

    Your belief in the existence of Thomas Jefferson is wishful thinking, based only on easily faked paintings and texts.