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  1. Re: Not a conflict on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've just used "himself" exclusively, four times, as the generic pronoun referring to people of either sex.

    Although this is correct, you have blasted anyone using it as sexist. What are we to conclude?

  2. Dwight Schrute? on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is that you?

  3. Re:Competition on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 1

    Thank you for telling me what you've been lead to believe. I'll tell you that somebody making an argument like that, or using words like "chairperson", "spokesperson", "person-hours", or "he/she", will lead me to believe that the speaker wets his bed every night fretting about supposed chauvinism.

  4. Re:Competition on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would say the irrational thing is to draw a female fireman, whatever the reason.

  5. Re:Competition on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only that, "person-hours" is one of the stupidest phrases I've run across in a while.

    Look, there's nothing wrong with "man". It referred to "human" long before it referred to "male human". Just live with it: the word is man-hours!

  6. Re:obligatory on Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need to use the vocative case there, not the nominative.

  7. Re:Scalia and Thomas Dissented! on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Irony? The two who are most often right are right about this one as well. That's not even surprising.

  8. Re:(facepalm) on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    What amendment is that violating exactly? Not that I disagree....

    9th and 10th.

  9. Re:Not so simple on Mac OS X Problem Puts Up a Block To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    ...Why? Certainly from the end-user perspective, it could still be quite smooth, if not for an issue like this.

  10. Re:Not so simple on Mac OS X Problem Puts Up a Block To IPv6 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No. If I'm hosting a Web site, for example, this is a reason to avoid IPv6 entirely, since I can't expect all my n00b users to turn off 6to4 on their Macs.

  11. Not so simple on Mac OS X Problem Puts Up a Block To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    This presents a reason to avoid IPv6 entirely until it's fixed. We'd like the transition to be smooth, such that it's already complete, before IPv4 addresses run out or become rare...

  12. Re:More crazy US laws. on Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader · · Score: 1

    Why is that strange? Wouldn't you expect the electric utility to be much more efficient at producing electricity?

  13. Reading comprehension fail on Apple Raises E-book Prices For Everyone · · Score: 1

    Try it again.

  14. Mod up, mod up, mod up on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    This is a major check on the power of government which has been all but ignored.

    If you are on a jury, you may acquit for any reason. The judge won't tell you that, but it's true.

  15. Art Bell? on NASA Expands Role of International Space Station · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell me we're not doing remote sensing experiments on the ISS!

  16. Volatile on ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers · · Score: 2, Informative

    You really should use the volatile repository. It provides updated versions of packages that are required to change (like antivirus), compiled for stable. You end up with stable + required updates.

  17. Certainly could be the users on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A library archiving your work does not necessarily imply that you don't own the copyright on it.

  18. Hurrah! on Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're all very quick to hit Google when they do something wrong. This one pretty clearly is "do no evil". Thanks Google!

  19. I use it on Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    It's pretty much the only option for printing from a browser without requiring a prompt. (And printing in text mode, too.)

    This part of the project isn't for general consumption, though; it's only for customers who need this particular functionality.

  20. Re:Interesting on The Economist Weighs In For Shorter Copyright Terms · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A creative work is not something naturally owned. It's not a tangible item that you have. Only a social contract allows you to simulate ownership, and to use words like "my", on something as vaporous as a creative work.

    The default is for creative works to not be ownable.

  21. Re:Not surprising on Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad · · Score: 1

    Just recently, not a single Republican voted for the most massive freedom->"security" bill ever.

  22. Re:you're being intellectually dishonest on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Then your fight is to amend the Constitution. I'm not saying you're right about your blind corporation hatred, but then I'll at least listen.

    At the moment, though, you're endorsing judicial activism, at the same time claiming that your opponents are.

    How shall I sum up your position... Ah yes:

    in short, be intellectually honest or shut the fuck up

  23. Re:a corporation on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Can you describe what the "activism" is that you deride?

    Side A is saying "The Constitution says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, so the law that Congress made abridging the freedom of speech is unconstitutional".

    Side B is coming up with all manner of hand-wringing, bed-wetting reasons, as usual, to simply ignore what the law says and rule some other way, because they feel like it.

    You seem to be accusing Side A of activism. That's stupid.

  24. Re:when you convince me on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    First, calm down.

    Second, have you observed what the case in question was actually about? It was a group of concerned citizens who got together to produce and run a commercial describing their views.

    Your position is that making that illegal is not a violation of free speech. Your position is wrong.

  25. Re:conservatives whine about activist judges on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Congress is forbidden from making laws restricting the freedom of speech.

    Despite this, it's currently okay to place "time and place" restrictions on it.

    SCOTUS determined that it's definitely crossing the line to include restrictions based on who is doing the speaking.

    Would you prefer that the government be allowed to determine who may speak and who may not? If you would, then you may attempt to amend the Constitution.