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  1. It's not a truck!! on Warhammer Online Information by the Truckload · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a series of tubes.

  2. You insensitive clod! on Crysis Sequel Announced, Still PC Only · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a PC, but as a Linux user I'm left out too! You mean it's only for Windows, not for "PC".

  3. Mod up on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    Brilliant paper; thank you for linking it.

  4. A leather glove! on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    Febtober!

  5. Re:Problems? on Wikia Search Upgrades Get Closer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, Dvorak gibberish. I'd recognize it anywhere. Lovely layout, isn't it?

  6. Of all the reasons this is dumb... on The One-Use, Self-Destructing DVD Returns · · Score: 0

    ...the submitter picks up on the worst one. There's plenty of landfill space. Really. There are plenty of other ways this is a terrible idea.

  7. Re:Can I ask a stupid question... on Brian Aker On the Future of Databases · · Score: 1

    MySQL 5 may be worth a look. I'm not saying it's at the level of the other databases, but it does now support I believe all the features you mentioned. And if you set strict SQL mode, a lot of the other gripes about data handling go away as well.

  8. Re:Can I ask a stupid question... on Brian Aker On the Future of Databases · · Score: 3, Informative

    What you say is true for MyISAM tables, but MySQL's InnoDB tables fully support row-level locking. And I believe their BDB tables support page-level locking.

  9. That's "effect", not "affect" on Twitter Not Rocket Science, but Still a Work in Progress · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is one of those cases where "effect" is a verb.

  10. OT: your sig on Brazil Appeals OOXML Decision · · Score: 1

    That appears to be a parked domain...

  11. I see what YOU did there on Jupiter's Third Red Spot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The OP succinctly and humorously made several valid points:

    1) Global warming is occurring everywhere in the solar system due to increased solar activity.

    2) This fact is completely unknown to most everybody who "believes" (as you put it) that global warming is a crisis.

    3) The fact of extraterrestrial warming is glossed over entirely by scientists and media presenting information to the public because it would "damage the cause".

    Your "unbiased" "scientific" mindset causes you to be ready to jump down the throats of anyone who voices a contrary opinion. It apparently has deleterious effects on the sense of humor as well.

  12. Re:He didn't say Ubuntu is unlicensed. on Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix · · Score: 1

    You're certainly right about that. But in a case like this where the "dictatorship" gives us an awful lot of software while oppressing nobody, I'm okay with letting the dreamers dream and letting the "temporary" system keep working.

  13. He didn't say Ubuntu is unlicensed. on Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He said the future is in unlicensed software. Which, IIRC, was the end-game goal for GPL. GPL is a temporary system to enforce freedom in an age of copyright restrictions. If software in the future becomes truly unlicensed, then there's no need for GPL.

  14. Re:This would be news... on Pirates of the Burning Sea Patch a Step in the Right Direction? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only way that POTBS is newsworthy, is if they got off their asses and added ninjas and robots to the mix. And blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the pirates, ninjas, and robots.
  15. Re:My take... on Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone should have some basic idea about how not to be seen. All I know is not to stand up. Is that the trick is this game?
  16. Shoot! on Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine what Fedora 9 would have done to UbuntuDupe's hard drive!!

  17. Correction on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, you renew for several years AND the last time you renewed was not while this bug was affecting Debian! With your method you'd be really screwed if it were.

  18. Thank you! on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    This should have been in the advisory. Under the circumstances I don't want to assume that I know what I'm doing.

  19. Re:Blacklist gmail on Gmail As Open-Relay Spam Server · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's wrong: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary


    The only time you should serve XHTML as text/html is when it's XHTML 1.0, with special care taken to keep backward compatibility in mind.


    And as for 88 errors, well, if you're not going to be valid, why declare a document type? This isn't difficult stuff. That's 88 more errors than there should be.

  20. Re:Blacklist gmail on Gmail As Open-Relay Spam Server · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, who would do business with such an entity. Probably about as many as would trust their business hosting to a company who declares its home page to be XHTML 1.1 but then serves it as text/html. Not to mention the 88 validation errors.


    The point is you can't jump straight for the "nuclear" option. Although to be honest I wouldn't use such a Web host.


  21. One of these things is not like the others on A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1
    • * recommend restaurants
    • * advise on joke appropriateness
    • * detect a stopped heart
    • * display ads
    • * stop spam

    (And the last two are somewhat at odds with each other...)

  22. Re:Mod Down! on Patent Attorney On Why We Need To Rethink Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    So after the problems with thalidomide were discovered, people would have continued to clamor for it, had it not been against the law?


    You haven't cited anything the FDA does to prevent antibiotic resistance, only asserted that it exists. I guess it's a good thing we have an FDA, or people would get antibiotics for a common cold, and antibiotics would be put in animal feeds. Oh wait.


  23. Mod up! on Patent Attorney On Why We Need To Rethink Intellectual Property · · Score: 0

    This fellow has the solution. Why can the government override me and my doctor on deciding whether it's safe for me to take a drug?

  24. Re:Anyone else remember... on Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020 · · Score: 1

    I think this calls for some field research!

  25. Re:Oh no! on Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020 · · Score: 1

    Well, I would say that carbon caps and trading would fall under category a) above. Such policies would be government artificially and arbitrarily adding costs, according to the political winds.


    Some people insist on using whatever environmentalists say as the final quantification of all things, despite the fact that there are many things they cannot measure responsibly.