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  1. Re:The best on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    in france, 100Mbps is pretty common in urban areas

    What the hell do you do with a 100Mbps residential connection? (Besides "share" terabytes of files via bittorrent and Usenet?)

    8-10Mbps is more than adequate for watching skipless video, loading complex web pages in a snap, and quickly downloading the occasional Linux ISO.

  2. Re:A load of BS on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    TFA claims that phones will "catch up" - well phones aren't going to catch up in size, unless they turn into a netbook (in which case, it's stupid to say it's a phone, and not a netbook). And they show no signs of becoming more open, either.

    I'm hoping that someone will create a Futurama-like forearm netbook.

  3. Re:How can xterm be improved? on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's really useful! Thanks.

    (I thought it was just a little window where you had to type in the complete pathname.)

  4. Re:Censorship depends on the country. on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    two liberal arts programs at three different public liberal-arts colleges without detecting a hint of this pervasive relativism that people talk about

    PLEASE tell us what schools those were, so that I might send my children there!!!

  5. Re:Yu left out one #ifdef on Platform Independent C++ OS Library? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    #ifdef __BSD__

    Of course he left it out. BSD is dead, and Netcraft confirmed it...

  6. Re:Awesome. on London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source · · Score: 1

    Scarlett as the daughter, Lexi, who has a 'deer-in the-headlights, ...' look

    And cheap looking. Very, very cheap looking, in a bad way. Reminds me of New Jersey.

  7. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1

    the Gaydar may read having no friends as 'paedophile'.

    But pedophiles do have friends...

  8. Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready.... on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a Windows web server. In that case, Administrator incompetence always proves how insecure Windows/IIS are.

    Sure, because point-n-drool makes it so easy to pretend to be competent.

    OTOH, requiring knowledge of the CLI is a nice little bit of security-by-obscurity.

  9. Re:Can we put one of these factories on a ship? on Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel · · Score: 1

    The name of the TV show obviates the host's bias

    "Obviate" doesn't mean what you think it means.

  10. Re:Build a Backblaze Storage Pod. on Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station? · · Score: 1

    Remote storage at a provider like Backblace, Mozy, or Carbonite is a good tertiary level backup

    For 12TB data?

  11. Re:Surprise? on Study Finds Tomatoes Thrive On Urine · · Score: 1

    Urine contains ... salts that a plant needs.

    Ummm, don't think so.

    In the ancient world, spreading salt into the fields was one form of genocide.

  12. Re:Oops! on Study Finds Tomatoes Thrive On Urine · · Score: 1

    By pissing on the leaves and stalks, you probably did hurt the plants.

    Roots, though, are different from leaves.

  13. Re:Surprise? on Study Finds Tomatoes Thrive On Urine · · Score: 1

    Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!

  14. Re:Remove Hydrocarbons from Plastic???!!!! on Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel · · Score: 1

    Well, it didn't say that.

    Some people are intelligent enough to figure these things out by themselves.

  15. Re:Can we put one of these factories on a ship? on Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel · · Score: 5, Funny

    And dolphins.

    But they're intelligent!

    Except for the ones that spend all their money on instant lottery tickets. They're stupid, so it's ok to eat them...

  16. Re:UK Scouting refutes knife ban claims on Scouts No Longer Allowed To Have Knives On Camping Trips · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you actually read the article, and the linked PDF file?

    From http://scouts.org.uk/documents/News/080909/Pages%20from%20scouting.pdf

    Knives should be carried to and
    from meetings by an adult.
      Knives should be stowed in the
    middle of a bag/rucksack
    when transporting.
      Knives should be stored away until there is
    a need for them to be used.
      Campsites are considered public places (when
    used for a camp) and so knives are not to be carried.

    As bad as the US is, Britain has not just "crossed the line", but leaped head-first into outright nanny-state stupidity.

  17. Re:Star Wars Gets "More Later"? Really? on In Praise of the Sci-fi Corridor · · Score: 1

    Yes really.

    When I read his post, I instantly thought he was referring to the lack of need to keep the engines constantly running.

    You are correct, though, regarding bigger ships needing lots more fuel only if the engines are conventionally fueled. The dilithium crystals used in STdon't take up very much mass...

  18. Re:Put a fork in it... on Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval · · Score: 1

    Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt the Younger

    Blah blah blah.

    If more people had more guilt (yay, Catholicism!!), they'd behave better because they'd be concerned with shaming their families, and we wouldn't need so many laws...

  19. Re:Put a fork in it... on Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The control freaks have won, again.

    Don't be stupid. This wouldn't have been necessary if jackasses didn't constantly toss unsubstantiated crap onto peoples' pages.

  20. Re:Pwnage on N00b Boyfriend · · Score: 1

    I thought the whiteout at the end was funny though.

    But he's not blonde...

  21. Re:"Tattoos have always been very chic" on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    I think we are both correct, each expressing part of the problem.

  22. Re:"Tattoos have always been very chic" on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    Nah. They can always be guilted by their kids.

  23. Re:"Tattoos have always been very chic" on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a generation that grew up thinking Jerry Springer was normal and acceptable behavior.

    Because their parents suck, politically-correct panty-waisted fools who "feel" their children won't love them if a parent say, means, and enforces:

    No, you can not watch South Park! It's rated MA for a reason! Now go outside and practice with that Savage Model 40 we bought you last year, and don't be greedy when it's your sister's turn...

  24. Re:And I'll be the first to say: on Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA Evidence · · Score: 1

    YET AGAIN that the PTB (Powers That Be) have yet again let me down and failed to stand/live up to my expectations.

    I'd be less worried about underfunded, overworked police than I would be by the criminal who wants to frame someone else. It would make a good episode of L&O:CI...

  25. Re:Um - No, not yet at least on Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M · · Score: 1

    They're to busy pushing ... to actually be of any use to their constituents!

    Maybe I didn't make myself clear: what might benefit OP is Democrat fear of Republicans making hay about constituent getting screwed by illegal aliens.