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  1. Re:Open source people are greedy too. on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    victory against a copyright infringer

    There, fixed that for ya. We would have also accepted 'pirate'.

  2. Re:invisibility will help? on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    o/~ Dun ... Dun Dun Dun ... o/~
    Yo Adrian!

  3. Re:Try science on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    My cousin is a RN and she'll have a week with crazy hours, but then get the next week off. Apparently they balance it out, but in IT the over-40 hours/week is every week. It's cool if the executives don't work that hard though. There's golf to be played.

  4. Re:woo! on RIAA Loses $222K Verdict · · Score: 1

    What damages can be awarded based solely on that?

    That depends on how many songs were being shared, but the $750-$150,000 adds up quickly.

  5. Re:Study confirms most popups are idiotic on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    hyperbolic. 1. having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated. 2. using hyperbole; exaggerating. Your anecdotes about common knowledge and user behavior are insufficient to support your broad conclusions.

  6. Re:Study confirms most popups are idiotic on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Your hyperbolic claims undermine your argument. Debate and statistics fail.

    I would argue that this study demonstrates that users are conditioned to dismiss such popups because this doesn't make any sense to them:

    "The instruction at '0x77f41d24 referenced memory at '0x595c2a4c.' The memory could not be 'read.' Click OK to terminate program."

    One could also argue that this proves the standard OS prompts can be duplicated closely enough to fool users online into performing bad operations.

  7. Re:Study confirms most popups are idiotic on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    I guess all those people crashing their cars don't bear any responsibility either. It must be poor design on the part of the auto makers, right?
    Disclaimer: We couldn't go without the obligatory car comparison.

  8. Re:Apple fanbois on Google Unveils First Android Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, all the Ron Paul supporters I know are more intelligent and informed than your average voter. By the GP's definition of fanboi, you'll definitely find a higher proportion supporting the two majors.

  9. Re:confusion on Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source · · Score: 1

    If you include companies that use and improve F/OSS to enable them to make money (Google fits more into this category), then there are many companies making money off of F/OSS indeed.

  10. Re:So in other words... on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That just depends on which liberties you're watching.

  11. Re:Processes on In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads · · Score: 1

    Let me read slashdot while my radar weather loop loads

    Hah. You must be using the old discussion system.

  12. Re:Apple is a niche player? on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see a Windows Mobile device come close to it.

    You'll probably be waiting to see that for quite a while...

    I have had an HTC 3125 Windows Smartphone for a couple years now and it totally sucks. It hangs at odd times, reboots itself pretty often, and arbitrarily changes the date and time to odd things like 3:10a 10/5/2002 sometimes. If I wasn't getting free mobile phone service with it, and required to use this particular phone, I would have bought something else long ago. Hell, even my old-school Moto Razr was better.

  13. Re:Everything is hackable on Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Haha, it's lose and Miami-Dade.

  14. Re:but is it fast enough on Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition · · Score: 1

    Well, AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (which is itself an acronym!), but everyone uses it generically to refer to all asynchronous server communication between page loads using JavaScript, regardless of whether any XML is involved.

    The point is, most people don't know or care what an acronym means anymore and it just becomes a term unto itself such as RADAR and PATRIOT Act.

  15. Re:No different on Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I don't trust yours and the government's definition of incriminating.

  16. Re:It recognizes *faces* on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Actress is just the feminine version of Actor, like she is the feminine version of he.

  17. Tone on Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell Phones · · Score: 0

    They make it sound like it's a bad thing that people are able to protect their privacy from authorities. It's getting to the point where every time the authorities say something supports criminals/terrorism that you can pretty much bet that's actually a Good Thing.

  18. Re:It wont even install for me on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    I think it especially beats out IE 7 Beta

    Fixed that for ya.

  19. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    3. Great debugging tools for developers built-in.

    There is actually a fairly nice developer tool built into Chrome, available when you right click and go to Inspect element. Granted the developer tools for Firefox are more mature, but this is not a bad attempt for a beta.

  20. Re:Open source mojo on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 1

    Webkit/Gecko is just used for rendering

    Which is it? They are not the same; and actually they have already said it will be WebKit.

  21. Re:What about a Comparison Matrix on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    I didn't say I had trouble, I said it allows Perl to be more cryptic. Also, comparing it to English doesn't exactly make the case for simplicity.

  22. Re:2 comments for the price of 1 on How Can Nerds Make a Difference In November? · · Score: 1

    I mean, they represent opposite sides of so many of their core issues.

    A lot of people who take that position would rather just elect someone with integrity, regardless of their ideological differences. To them, that would be preferrable to what we have now.

  23. Re:What about a Comparison Matrix on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    Perl has that weirdness with the $_ variable, which allows it to be more cryptic.

  24. Re:Loaded question on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you are worried over semantics, HTML may not be the media for you.
    If you are worried over accessibility, HTML may not be the media for you.

    Where did you come up with this? The main focus of web standards in the last 5+ years has been making the markup more semantic and more accessible—hell, that's one of the main purposes of CSS. Now please leave the web design profession.

  25. Re:Use a web server on Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Chairs were thrown—it wasn't pretty.