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  1. Re:How about the following: on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Or change your profile picture to a giant erect penis and start uploading full frontal nudity/porn. Your account will be banished shortly, I think.

  2. god wrote in Lisp code. on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obligatory xkcd link.

    And of course "Eternal Flame".

    Yes, the capitalisation of my comment's subject is deliberate.

  3. Re:Use a local clock? on Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent up. Leap seconds are a big part of why the timezone database needs to contain historic information.

  4. Re:This is far more important that it seems: on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    "ooh I know this" — was it a Unix system? ;-)

  5. VB.NET on Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, VB.NET is a successor to VB6 in name only, i.e. it's more like C# with a BASIC-y syntax. Or am I completely off-base?

  6. GN Fail on China's 5-Year Cyberwar Met With Western Silence · · Score: 1

    "open it's door"? Way to fail at a grammar nazi post there. http://www.angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg

  7. That's Quite Interesting... on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    But Stephen Fry had told us that there are two moons right now! The Moon and Cruithne... of course in a later episode he claimed there's 4 or 5...

  8. Re:Good luck with that. on British ISP Ordered To Block Links to Pirate Site · · Score: 1
    They won't do that. That of course means they can't have a consistent policy on what should be outlawed, but that doesn't matter since the blocked sites will be outlaws.

    Nice and arbitrary. And of course Working As Intended.

  9. Hardly surprising on 'The Code Has Already Been Written' · · Score: 1

    This is hardly unexpected. The code needed to process data from science experiments can be years in the making by one or few persons sculpting it to do the job they need done. It might be a bit much to say that it's throw-away code, but once the paper is out the door it probably won't see much use again.

    All of this combined with the fact that the coders are scientists and thus aren't concerned with UI issues and whatnot make it so it may take a lot of manual intervention at various steps to use the software, but in the end the science gets done... and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive </portalroll>.

  10. Good call on Online Call To Shoot President Ruled Free Speech · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of course he's still going to be on every single government watch list for the rest of his life. And if he ever does anything you can bet they will throw the book at him.

  11. Re:Surprisingly senisble, unexpected source on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    Yes, you know that. But Joe Average doesn't. Any strategy aimed at defeating botnets that use rootkit techniques has to be aimed at the net itself. Fighting against individual infections is too inefficient and is a losing strategy.

  12. "I'll work harder to afford one" on Sony Won't Invest As Heavily In PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    Maybe it won't cost FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS then? No, I will not stop harping on that epic fail of an E3 presentation.

  13. More on books on Book Review: Scribus Beginners Guide · · Score: 1

    If you're in the position of having to typeset a book or give an opinion on the typesetting of one, you should read the documentation for the `memoir' package for LaTeX. (WARNING: It is huge)

  14. Obligatory on Is the Gaming Industry Moving Online Too Fast? · · Score: 1
  15. Obligatory snopes link on Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81 · · Score: 1

    http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.asp — apparently it is unknown whether the audio CD was designed specifically to fit Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

  16. DA2 on The Awesome Button · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else think of this video when they saw the words "awesome" and "button" connected?

  17. Orbital wobble on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    And even if it at first looked like a planetary alignment, that could just be orbital wobble.

  18. Re:An interesting question. on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    It's long been my opintion that one of the primary motivators at Apple is to show that MS is second rate in everything they do. User experience, design, quality, and of course evil and monopoly abuse.

  19. Re:Sad ... on Linux.conf.au Talks Available Online · · Score: 2

    You know you can download the videos from blip.tv, right? And they play perfectly fine in mplayer or vlc.

  20. Re:Our molten core is shifting on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 2

    Who cares about Molten Core?! You're three expansions late, dude.

  21. Trust model on Two Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malware · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The trust model of online advertising is in my opinion fundamentally broken. A big part of the security model of the web is domain-based - e.g. the same origin policy - but this goes down the drain with third party ads hosted on yet another third party's server.

    With online advertising it was for the first time possible to measure the effect of ad campaigns better than "how many saw it and did we sell more after it?" What did this bring us? "PUNCH THE MONKEY!", "LOOK AT THE BLINKING LIGHTS!", "BEEP BLOOP BEEEEEP!!!" and perhaps most insidiously it broke the domain-based model of trust on the web since everything had to be put on the advertising hosters' servers to deter click fraud and whatnot.

    AdBlock doesn't just save you bandwidth and reduces the annoyance of browsing the web, it is also one of the best tools for avoiding drive-by malware from ads.

  22. How much do you want to bet... on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... that a company that manufactures cameras is on a lobbying spending spree?

  23. Re:Typo on 'Hulu For Magazines' Relies On Users' Data · · Score: 1

    What? And magazines do have good typography? Every magazine or newspaper I've ever read has had terribly narrow columns and wonky margins. It's as if the lessons learned by book publishers (66-70 characters per line and all that) have completely passed that part of the printing business by.

  24. Minor nitpick on Firefox 4 Regains Speed Mojo With No. 2 Placing · · Score: 1

    It's "JaegerMonkey" or "JägerMonkey" if your keyboard has umlaut available. But certainly not "JagerMonkey" - q.v. https://wiki.mozilla.org/JaegerMonkey

  25. Re:This is just faulty math on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    The first line should obviously be "potential vs actual infinity".