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  1. Such a shame. on Tennessee Bans Posting 'Offensive' Images Online · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Not a matter of caring on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Ditto. Those videos are awesome.

  3. Wrong. on Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? · · Score: 1

    Money, power and greed at the top of the economic food chain is what gives the appearance of stupidity. In short, (and here comes the sweeping over-generalization) there's little hope for 90% of the world's population as the top 10% horde everything for themselves using astronomically high prices to starve everyone else.

  4. Re:Morons! on A Brief Sony Password Analysis · · Score: 1

    Why would someone post a message containing just 7 asterisks? Weird.

  5. It's been done. on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    Already exists, a friend of mine in Ottawa has an identically functioning system (code at door calls his cell phone, he presses a button on it to open the door).

  6. Re:Wow. It's posts like this that is making me on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 1

    I don't usually stand for criminal shit as you put it, but Sony has been begging for comeuppance for a long time. Is that more acceptable to you?

  7. Re:The hackers will be punished. Severely. on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sony has been begging to be smacked around by mob justice for a LONG time. Now it's finally happening. I say good.

  8. Maybe they'll get the joke? on Inside the DOJ's Domain Name Graveyard · · Score: 1

    Any volunteers want to add gov't domain names to the gov't's own list of seized domains? I'm sure they'll have a great laugh about it! Note to law enforcement, I'm not volunteering!

  9. Re:spolier:The sonic screwdriver seems to be gone on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    Ah. I never followed the show that closely.

  10. Re:spolier:The sonic screwdriver seems to be gone on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    it just provides a useful conduit to make it happen without minutes of exposition and digging around in computer banks.

    All the doctor needs to do is learn to program like the folks in The Matrix learned how to pilot helicopters and shit. Then he can whip up a GUI in Visual Basic, so all his problems will just be a mouse click away from resolution.

  11. Re:And we care why? on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    I'm running XP at home (thus no IE9), and I'll definitely try as you suggest. Thanks for the heads-up!

  12. Re:And we care why? on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    Visual Studio 2010's Intellisense can handle boost's TMP? :O What about when you combine that with the Preprocessor library? I genuinely want to know. Intellisense is so bad with 2008 that the UI is only bearable without it.

  13. Re:And we care why? on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    I've been using VS2008, yeah. I tried VS2010 but it crashes constantly. Even if it's the first program I open from a fresh boot and then I DON'T TOUCH IT overnight, it's guaranteed to have crashed by the next morning every single time. It crashes without my even using it? Wtf? Having it rely on DirectX was such a retarded idea. I know DirectX is the cause because 95% (the rest being OpenGL) of my games crash extremely often (read: literally every 5-20 minutes, an hour if I'm lucky) due to a (now known) underlying unfixed bug related to the motherboard. I tried fixing it years ago by buying a brand new graphics card in the hopes that the old one was the problem... No dice. I was too disheartened after having thrown $450 on that graphics card that I just put up with the problem for... 5(?) years now? Now that I can't even run the latest Visual Studio because of this dumb bug problem I have little choice left but to upgrade (mind you it'd be a relief at this point to get something that doesn't crash constantly when gaming... or developing, now).

  14. Re:And we care why? on Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried using Intellisense with C++ & the boost library? It becomes useless and molasses slow to update. I ended up disabling it so that I could actually get work done.

  15. Re:Great Idea on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    That was my point. Apathy wins because "someone else will do it".

  16. Re:Windows on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1
    I think you might have misread me. This is what I was referring to:

    Shit, you can shill free stuff you developed for ego gratification if you really want.

  17. Flaw on Six Cities Named For Vehicle2Vehicle Communications Trial · · Score: 1

    Hey you.Yes, you. I'm talking to you, blue Mazda. The road continues ahead smoothly for the next 2 kilometers. The sharp turn you see in 200 meters doesn't exist. Ignore it.

  18. Re:Windows on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    +1 if you follow your beliefs instead of $, the $ will follow, potentially in greater numbers.

  19. Re:Windows on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    If you developed it it's hardly being a shill. It's called promotion.

  20. Re:Great Idea on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    Good point. Simplify first. I just hope that they run the simplification program again if they ever come up with a civil servant position that allows the people to be represented in government instead of just corporate interests.

  21. Great Idea on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a great idea as long as it also makes the system more fair by optimizing out the tax cuts for the rich.

  22. Re:The second monitor is pretty vital to me. on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    Might this help? Add some scripting on top of that and you can automate yourself out of the job, get more responsibilities, a pay increase and feel good about not being a waste of taxpayer money caused by that other agency. :)

  23. Re:I think it's kinda silly on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    so
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  24. I hope Stephen Harper dies violently. Soon. on Canadian Music Industry Seeks Copy Tax On Memory Cards · · Score: 1

    Fuck you Stephen Harper. Fucking brown-nosing American-wannabe.

  25. Re: switch to xfce on Nokia Announces Qt 5 Plans · · Score: 1

    Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Xfce is a dark horse, just that it itself is a safe bet. :)