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  1. I got something on my mind... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: -1, Troll

    but I'll get trolled halfway around teh Intarweb for actually telling anybody. Meh.

  2. abiotic origins of petroleum on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 2, Interesting
  3. Re:Best of luck on An Update on Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 1

    1. "It's a virus." No antibotic and educate the patient as much as possible.
    2. "It's an 'infection'" and get the patient out with an antibotic.


    3. Order a placebo instead. I know that perscriptions are written in a shorthand, so there ought to be a way to encode this without the casual patient knowing.

    Or is this ethically forbidden? Then again, exactly how ethical is it to perscribe antibiotics for a knowingly viral infection in the first place?

  4. Re:Security reasons HA! on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 4, Funny
    #88575 +(3525)- [X]

    <Stormrider> I should bomb something
    <Stormrider> ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
    <Stormrider> Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
    <Elzie_Ann> I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
    *** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
    <FBI> We saw it anyway.
    *** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )
    Wrong agency, but still funny.
  5. obligatory 1337-ification on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    Big Brother is watching j00

  6. Re:ESRB? Holy Comics Code, Batman! on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1
  7. doubly idiotic on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 2, Informative

    Never mind the robots.txt.

    Isn't that what this is for in the first place?

    If they're not going to use it properly, then it should be stricken from the books ;)

  8. Re:Let me guess on Federal Judge: Keystroke Logging Isn't Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Look, this is simple. The judge was ruling acording to the law. That is his job description.

  9. No shiat. on Security Flaws In Linux SMBFS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not all of us here point and laugh every time Microsoft has an exploit.

    I think that one of the major misunderstandings that many people have is that software will be absolutely perfect. It won't be. We deal with systems with many layers of complexity, and sometimes these things fall through the cracks.

    If you want a perfectly secure system, you'll have to audit the code personally.

  10. Re:Those rat b--- on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nobody prints with green ink. That's a primary color in RGB, and surely nobody prints in RGB. The printing primary colors are CYMK: Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and blacK. No green.

  11. "Why not?" you ask. Simple. on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Such a vehicle does not fit into the automotive industry's model of planned obselescence. Your car must wear out quickly so that you will buy a new car.

  12. Re:except... on Author of Linux Patent Study Contradicts Ballmer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is there always an assumption that MS can or even want to buy their way out of trouble?

    Because the potential to buy their way out of trouble is always available to them. I don't believe that most people have the ability to resist a wad of dough thrown their way (AKA, "everybody has his price").

  13. Re:The author needs to learn how to do math ... on Author of Linux Patent Study Contradicts Ballmer · · Score: 1

    I really don't think that the numbers matter too much. If ever every software patent holder decided to sue as many violators as possible, you essentially have a situation of MAD, where entire sectors of software will be found to infringe somebody else's patent.

  14. Re:Undervolting on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    I would mind having a Linux version of CPU-Z too. /proc/cpuinfo doesn't provide nearly as much info as CPU-Z does.

  15. Re:Alchemists and Lives on Blending Mice and Men · · Score: 1

    I watched the first episode of that. I wouldn't know better, because I haven't seen the rest, but to me it seems as though the alchemy-as-science presented is unchanging.

    Does or can that alchemy expand through experimental means? If not, then it is not necessarily a good model. If so, then is the inability to restore human life an upper limit of the science? If so, then surely it is not a good model again. If not, then is it fesable that such a mark be reached and surpassed at some point in the future?

    That penultimate question is probably a yes, since creating human life is clearly taboo in that anime. However, in real science, we have more often than not met and exceeded the limits set by the imagination and mores of the time. What is to say that (and this is answering somebody else's comment) such a combination as is presented by this article can be created with the resulting creature being completely healthy? We can neither prove nor disprove the absolute imposibility of such a thing.

  16. Re:GamePC on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    Forgot to look at the chipset for the Intel board. Looked at the chipset to the Intel board. Saw that it was not nForce. Decided not to submit comment. Got distracted. For a while. Noticed the completed comment. Submitted comment. Oops.

    I think you can obviously tell which one I've been interested in all this time anyway...

  17. Re:GamePC on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1
  18. Re:GamePC on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    The more interesting thing is that the page I linked to has been up for at least two months. I didn't realize it at the time, but it foretold the recent deal between NVIDIA and Intel.

  19. Re:Athlon64 Mobile on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    If you figure out the correct OPN for exactly the part you want, searching for that can sometimes yield results.

  20. Re:GamePC on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 4, Interesting
  21. Re:On/off switch... on Innovative Uses of RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Have you seen anywhere at all that mentions anything about the ability to turn *off* an RFID switch?

    This is the only thing that prevents RFID from having my approval, for whatever that is worth.

    I mean, if everything I own had its own RFID tag, nothing would ever get lost in my room!

  22. Re:CNN will crash it on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 1

    Try compiling an unoptimized version. I've found that some errors don't happen then.

  23. no fatal problems on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 1

    I get the occasional segfault, likely from bad HTML (yes, we've been over this before), and I'm having a few problems with extensions failing to install and with the preferences dialogs reseting options every time I bring it up.

    (Disclaimer: this is my own build from CVS.)

  24. Re:lol on Half Life 2 Stuttering Bug Official · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So quit your bitching. If you don't like the DRM, then crack it, just like you do with all the RIAA and MPAA DRM.

    You see, if everybody did this, then nobody would be telling them that legitimate customers don't want DRM.

    Let me say that again, so it has a chance of sinking in: Nobody would tell them that legitimate customers have a problem with DRM.

    So to the contrary: keep bitching. You don't have to preach to the choir, and you should direct the bitching at the right people, but staying quiet is the absolute last thing that people should do regarding DRM.

  25. Oops on NVIDIA Announces Intel nForce Chipsets Coming · · Score: 1

    I need to stop posting when I first wake up...