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  1. Refusing to feed the beast is not mindless on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last Microsoft product I bought was Windows 98, so I have mercifully missed the whole disaster since then. All my clients are just now starting to switch from XP to Windows 7, because I advised against Vista. And in all these years of supporting dozens of computers I have never heard of PowerShell until this article. It's nice to hear that Microsoft is starting to do what I did on Unix in 1980. Too bad they did not build on Xenix, and save everyone much grief. Imagine where Apple could have been in the 90s, had they switched to Unix a decade earlier.

  2. Profanity on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 0, Troll

    Where's the -1 Profanity Ruins Perfectly Good Argument moderation?

  3. They still work better on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    My 1955 Western Electric Model 500 black desk set works wonderfully in my living room, and is the only one in the house I let ring, for its wonderful sound.

  4. Fewer waters on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    Uncountables can be counted, when you mean collectively. Arizona has fewer waters than Minnesota; "waters" used thus means "lakes, rivers, and so on." Wal-Mart has fewer catsups than my local grocery (Wal-Mart has Heinz, Hunt's and the store brand; the local grocer carries six).

  5. Traditionallly called brain-damaged thinking on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 1
    It seems they are confusing specifications with code.

    Code you can copyright; specifications are a different matter entirely.

    Clearly someone needs to write a competing system with the same APIs and blow their argument clear out of the water.

  6. If themes are derivatives, then all C programs are on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Themes contain code that works to a certain API. If a theme contains no lines of Wordpress code, then by definition it could work with any program that used the same theme API.

    How then can Wordpress say that its licensing is required?

  7. Abandonware on MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Assuming the source code is still kept in useful form by a company that is not ashamed of it, there is little to lose and much goodwill to be gained by releasing "abandonware" -- but those are two large assumptions, aren't they?

    I have released my HDOS, CP/M, and MS-DOS product source code from the 1980s; there were a few other software packages I sold back then, but I no longer have readable floppies with enough bits of source to release them.

  8. Re:People are online in the morning on Twitter Says Americans Are Happier In the Morning · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself; I have. Both times.

  9. Enlarges the market on Getty's Flickr Sales, Money Spinner Or Ripoff? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a good thing. The whole market for commercial photography is enlarged when a huge number of images ranging from good to excellent becomes available at affordable prices. A few photographers may make less money now, but a far vaster number will make a little money they never would have had. Nobody will mourn most of yesterday's canned, overpriced "stock" images.

  10. Cellphone numbers *should* be in the directory on Canada's Largest Cities Seeing the End of the Phone Book · · Score: 1

    I would like to have my mobile number listed in the directory, yet no such option exists at any price. This is absurd.

  11. Re:WRT160NL? on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 1

    Two sets of firmware, you mean; you don't have "two firmwares" unless you have "two softwares, two hardwares, and two clothings." Those words are collective nouns.

  12. For the truly anti-punctuation on Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nonsense, there is still punctuation -- and capital letters! -- in that. What you want is http://antipunctuation.com/ for no spaces, no lower-case, truly zero punctuation.

  13. Re:Article Contents on Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Browsers · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you are going to make a cogent argument, you should omit the profanity; by resorting to vulgarities you torpedo yourself. What a shame, you probably had a valid point.

  14. Re:uname on XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface · · Score: 1

    $ light lamp
    You set your lamp ablaze.

  15. Plainview, Texas on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 1

    Having driven across Texas from Texarkana to El Paso several times, I knew it was big, but I never imagined Plainview was that large. Still, I've found plenty of things in Plainview before.

  16. You'd have to redraw property lines, move roads on DR Congo Ring May Be Giant Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    GP presumably meant, pack the circles into hexagons instead of squares. Property lines and roads, however, tend to have been drawn in squares and rectangles in the American West, being based on Thomas Jefferson's ideal revival of the Roman Empire who fixated on right angles.

  17. Purple and Orange... like a PDP-11! on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    If it's purple and orange á la Digital Equipment Corporation 1970s PDP-11's, then where's the matching "outline" font and where's my front panel? Will it be available on DECtape?

  18. Re:Your own Disk controller chipset? on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    Hard to believe parent -- the only technically accurate post for miles around -- got modded down.

  19. Re:What a lot of work. on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1
    Indeed -- at the box office, sell tickets
    • First hour of sale, $1,000 ($500 goes to a charity)
    • Second hour, $500 ($100 goes to a charity)
    • Third hour, $300 ($50 goes to a charity)
    • Second day, $50
    • Day before the concert, $10
    • Day of the concert, $50
    • After the concert starts, $1
  20. Re:Why is it illegal? on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Horsefeathers.

    All the parties have already made their money on the tickets.

    The "scalper" only makes money by selling a scarce item at what the market will bear. Had the tickets been priced higher, he could only lose money. Besides, it's a dicey business because if as a "scalper," you set your price too high, you're gonna lose everything.

    Pure supply and demand. "Scalping" is the best proof of free markets anywhere.

  21. Re:Nitpicking on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 1, Informative

    so many softwares

    Urrgh... it's "so many programs" or "so many software packages" ... you don't have "one software" -- you have a piece of software. It's a collective noun like "hardware" and "clothing." There is no word, "softwares."

  22. It's not "a software" on Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others · · Score: 1

    This is a scaling performed by a correct software...

    I see this error more frequently lately. Do you wear "a clothing" or buy "a hardware" ? It's a piece of software, or a software program or package. I can haz grammar nitpick point?

  23. Re:Rules 1 through 7 of using a Cell Phone on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 1

    You're still using Borland Sidekick? The world's first million-selling TSR (Terminate Stay Resident) DOS program?

  24. Re:Missing critical information... on 75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers · · Score: 2, Funny

    How much does a line ... cost?

    First one's free?

  25. Just say 24/7 on Tech Tools Fostering "Mini Generation Gaps" · · Score: 1

    Only 365 days a year? Hope nothing breaks on 29 February.