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  1. S.M. Stirlsing;'s Peshawar Lancers on Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What distribution left for developers? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Suse, Crunchbang, any of a dozen others?

  3. Re:Without remorse there is no rehabilitation. on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 2

    So he adequately answered your question, and you have nothing to do but bitch? What contrition or remorse should he show, since you are unable to show you that he hurt you or any of his other supposed "victims" in any way? He clearly shows remorse for the people he DID hurt (family and some corporations), as well as a clear understanding that the best way to learn this security stuff is in the white hat area.

  4. Re:Why is this surprising? on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    Yes. Ooops. Must be motor memory messing up my typing.

  5. Why is this surprising? on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    We can fit 64MB on a microSD card, so why it it surprising that something much larger can fit 2TB?

  6. Re:Great idea on Apple Now Offering Free Recycling For PCs · · Score: 2

    You make Apple-related hats?

  7. Re:Taxation is unethical on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't use any public services or infrastructure, then.

  8. "dropbox" on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dropbox is a generic term which predates either of those companies and I've frequently heard network shares named or referred to as "dropbox" or "drop box."

  9. Govt.? on Franken Bill Would Protect Consumers Location Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does "third parties" include the government?

  10. Re:Competitive? on Wisconsin Public Internet Struggles Against Telecom, Legislature · · Score: 2

    Good thing AT&T never took any tax dollars or used public infrastructure, then.

  11. Bass-ackwards on Google Sued Over Chromebook Name · · Score: 1

    Wait, wasn't THEIR name specifically trading off of Google's trademark to begin with? How does that even work?

  12. Re:What about Linux? on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    0.1% more?

  13. Re:Netflix on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    Wow. Right over your head, huh?

  14. Re:Perception of value on Dollar Apps Killing Traditional Gaming? · · Score: 1

    If you are spending a full workday per chicken to raise chickens, you probably aren't a very good farmer.

  15. Re:Battery on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. You have 3 more cores shut down and not doing anything at all, unless your task is nicely multithreaded, in which case they are all working on the task to get it done faster so all the cores can go to sleep and save you battery life.

  16. I didn't learn by memorizing.... on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    "We don't learn science by doing science, we learn science by reading and memorizing." Or, you know, BOTH. We did a lot of experimental stuff in the classroom throughout HS and grade school. We still had to memorize the big stuff, but anything we could verify in the lab we generally did.

  17. Re:Radioactive releases Could Last Months on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't forget that they don't ever discuss the levels of radiation released, because then they might have to admit they are minimal.

  18. Re:Someone needs to lay down the legal smack down on Gamer Banned From Dragon Age II Over Forum Post · · Score: 1

    No, that would be a totally irrelevant analogy, because there is no physical space for him to violate, nor any risk to them that he will be able to badmouth them on their "property" simply by downloading and installing the game that they accepted his money for.

  19. Many of them are apps on App — the Most Abused Word In Tech? · · Score: 2

    "Except, these aren't 'apps' at all. They're websites." Except many of them are "apps" as much as any application has ever been. Fully running programs written in a programming language, which just happens to be HTML5. Also the abbreviation "app" predates the iPhone by approximately as long as I have used computers.

  20. Re:KIll switch alternatives on No Internet “kill Switch” For Australia · · Score: 1

    " cut power, stop water , turn all the traffic lights red - you've seen the movies." There is no reason for ANY of those things to be connected to the internet.

  21. Re:Look up the definition. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly, the open source movement doesn't get to define words for the rest of the world.

  22. Re:Use what the standard is. Stop trying to usurp on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 · · Score: 1

    Ogg Vorbis is pretty common standard for video game audio because you don't have to pay royalties for implementation. So in that way it's pretty damn successful. Speex (their voice chat codec) is also fairly commonly used for VoIP, presumably for the same reason.

  23. Re:Sending e-mails is easy on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    And a terrible size for a sustainable colony.

  24. Sending e-mails is easy on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    It's easy to write up an e-mail and send it, especially knowing this is unlikely to ever happen. I'd say less than 2% of those volunteers are actually people who would go through with it if asked.

  25. Re:New cover on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 1

    I laughed so hard. I'm going to hell.