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  1. Re:where have I heard this before? on Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897 · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this has gotten that far, but SimCity 2000? How 'bout 1849? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Karr

  2. Re:Attention all personnel on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    Wait, so did he build the whole thing with fully referenced paths on his machine, or is someone building that site live on the box? Either way, awesome work.

  3. Re:goodhe on Microsoft Goes After "Career Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Right, because the price of a good is simply reflective of the cost of the inputs and not what people are willing to pay for it. Wait, that's not right.

  4. Re:I'd rather live elsewhere... on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 1

    Which is just as well. We are talking about the Deity who created VD.

  5. Re:PHP and Industry on Building Scalable Web Sites · · Score: 1

    This may be the greatest troll of all times. Here's an object you have in most sites: User.

  6. Re:Literally on The Xbox 360 Uncloaked · · Score: 1

    That's literally the figurative definition. I am floored.

  7. Re:static_analysis++ on Programmers Learn to Check Code Earlier for Holes · · Score: 1
    You can PROVE something by exhaustive case.

    No, you cannot. Prove a negative that way.

  8. Re:Duly Noted on Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates · · Score: 3, Funny

    He did say "struggling to remain". I'm in the same trapper boat.

  9. Re:I haven't heard much on Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1 · · Score: 1
    As someone who works in C#, PHP and ASP at work and has barely played with Rails, it's the strict enforcement of MVC that is such a time saver. It's not enforcement like "You have to do things our way" to slow you down, but "We're going to make it easy to do things right so you don't cheat as often". It pays off in things like consistency and ease of refactoring.

    He said, without having built anything of note in the Ruby or Rails.

  10. Re:Wonderful. on Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught · · Score: 1

    What kind of a name is "Poon", anyway?

  11. Re:Well DUH on Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't get the thing off until you unbuckle the 0th clasp.

  12. Re:ActiveState considered worthless on ActiveState Returns to Open Source Roots · · Score: 1

    You could make good money in Sudan with that theory.

  13. Re:yeah, but those aren't all bugs in IE on IE7 Bug Reports Flooding In · · Score: 1
    Exactly. I'm sure the bug reports are coming in, but it's tough to fix userAgenet.indexOf("MSIE6") or whatever.

    Not that I'm switching to IE anytime soon. IE7's currently consuming all the memory on one of our test machines.

  14. Re:I suggest the Free Software Foundation on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 2, Funny

    The rest of the world called. I tried to forward them to you, but this damn rotary phone, y'know?

  15. Re:Nothing to do with Star Trek? on Google's GTalk Supports XMPP · · Score: 1

    Does it make you feel any better that the "joke" is actually cribed from the linked article? He managed to keep the stilted feel and everything.

  16. Re:So many clueless Apple users. on Give Mac Explorer to the People? · · Score: 1
    Not sure why you replied to me, but A. How did you know I was an Apple user? I just switched (and I run FF on my Powerbook, my PCs at home and my machines at work). However, how do you think IE6 has a better rendering engine than Firefox (not that it's relevant since the codebase has nothing to do with Mac IE5)? There's a reason IE has a Quirks mode and it's not because it's so smart. It's a legacy of their busted (though understandable) CSS parsing from IE5. AFAIK, only Safari passes the ACID test. IE still lags behind Firefox in CSS support.

    I spent years of my life making CSS consistent across browsers. Please don't tell me about Java in IE4 to justify your claims about IE's rendering engine.

  17. Re:I've never used it, but.. on Give Mac Explorer to the People? · · Score: 1

    They were well ahead of Windows' IE for a long time. Back when IE for Windows was at 5 and 5.5. The things Mac IE did well have long since been done by Safari, Firefox/ Camino and Opera. There's no reason (in my mind) to try to catch the Mac IE codebase up to present day. Why not hack on some open-source browser?

  18. Re:Team System is overkill bloat on Inside Visual Studio 2005 Team System · · Score: 1

    Are you using a Berkley back-end or FSFS? Switching to FSFS made a big difference for us (I'd say "no more corruptions", but that would be inviting a disaster). The only remaining problem is that VisualStudio hates the .svn folders and the alternate version of the Tortoise Windows client isn't a good enough solution.

  19. Re:Only 5 minutes?? on Faster DNA Testing · · Score: 4, Funny
    As they move along, you take a blood, hair, or semen sample.

    It takes 5 minutes? Must require two semen samples.

  20. Re:OK on Prepping For The 360 · · Score: 1

    Basic X-Box Live is now free. Seems like less than a big deal.

  21. Re:Doubt it's a mistake on Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? Isn't this a good way to drive people to buy AdWords? It seems more likely this is a concerted effort that came out of the realization people who actively track their web statistics in a meaningful way are people who spend more money on ads. Which is the chicken and which is the egg is a question left to Google in this case.

  22. Re:They are giving away DVD's of Rome on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    most HDTV shows don't look hugely better at their native resolution

    Should have gone with the extended warranty this time around, then you could get your set fixed.

  23. Re:Yuck on Flock, the New Browser on the Block · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the new cool stylee among kids who are all ripping off Flickr in this incestuous circle jerk called "Web 2.0". Your talent is directly proportional to the size of your email input for the beta list.

  24. Re:Linus Taken to Task on Linus Says No to 'Specs' · · Score: 1

    While I completely agree with the spirit of your message, the reality is there needs to be some agreed-upon contract. What would you subsitute, since code won't help (as evidence of agreement) in a court case.

  25. Re:They BROKE crash mode. on Review: Burnout - Revenge · · Score: 1
    Oh thank you. I bought the game yesterday and played for about an hour. In Burnout 3 I thought both modes were equally enjoyable. I'm not feeling the new crash mode. It's slow and boring (though there's a good chance I don't know what I'm doing yet). The start meter is a nice idea, but it sucks to sit through the stall or the blowout. I didn't like the load time when we first got to the level; why do I need to enjoy it again?

    Again, this is based on an hour's playing. Opinions expressed may not have any relationship to reality.