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  1. Re:Whatever on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 1

    They all say, don't do anything wrong or we'll sue. Okay, I won't do anything wrong, so they won't sue
    I know you haven't read the corresponding part in the windows "supplemental" EULA (that comes with every single patch), but how is disclosing benchmark results wrong????

  2. Re:Nay, archetypal... on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 1

    I've heard about the mutant ninja teenage turtle thing (japanese comic strip thing, right ?) I can't say I've ever watched/read it, and I don't really get the reference to MichaelAngelo
    They're called Raphaelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo

  3. Re:Nay, archetypal... on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 1

    A modern version of the renaissance scientist, the michaelangelo of his day.
    I guess you mean Leonardo Da Vinci.
    Guess you shouldn't watch that much Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and read history books instead). FYI Michaelangelo was a painter (Sistine chapel, notably) and sculptor (David, in Firenze, is his most well-known work).

  4. Re:Google is snobby.. I hope this wakes them up on Google Code Jam Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    Ph.D. at Stanford is par for the course
    Ph.D. which founder Larry Page never got...

  5. Re:Real posting... on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    Are a lot of these postings for positions they've already filled?
    Goooood night ding ding ding ding ding!

  6. Re:There are getting to be too many complaints... on HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material · · Score: 1

    And where's my Dick Tracy watch?

  7. Re:A long way on HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material · · Score: 1

    Is there a known limitation that makes us never being able to build a system that can simulate interaction on the necessary sub-atomic level for such a manufacturing / simulation device to work?
    Heisenberg's incertainty principle, in a way (though usually it disappears when size grows bigger (say a hundreds of atoms), in a way that's not yet clearly understood).
    But basically, the problem is that we don't know how to solve the equations that describe interatomic interactions (e.g. Schrodinger's equation), and using numeric simulations is very imprecise (or computationally intensive, or both).

  8. Re:What a shock on OSNews Rates Fedora Core 1 Mild Disappointment · · Score: 2, Funny

    This was supposed to be a distribution review, and yet the first thing that the reviewer did was circumvent the included packaging system. Fedora uses yum by default, not apt-get and synaptic.
    cirumvent? Fire up the DMCA!

  9. Re:Funny on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    Note that it is in no way whatsoever immoral, unethical, harmful, or wrong.
    Well, it is harmful to the company which would like you to pay for this (which is why they bought this kind of law)

  10. Re:What he said on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you've got a linux box, dd's the way to go
    If you don't, you can use a Linux LiveCD

  11. Re:Apples to Oranges comparison on Microsoft's Next Virtual PC Will Run Linux · · Score: 1

    run 32 bit x86 code on Itanium without the performance penalty of using Itanium's 32 bit compatibility mode
    And having the penalty of running an emulator instead?

  12. Re:Kernel oops. on Microsoft's Next Virtual PC Will Run Linux · · Score: 1

    is a bit like complaining a C++ compiler written in 1997 doesn't support the latest ISO C++ standards.
    Did Microsoft stop producing software in 1997?

  13. Re:Ng?? on Aussie Students Face Jail Over Music Sharing Site · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Obvious on Aussie Students Face Jail Over Music Sharing Site · · Score: 2, Funny

    their anti-privacy measures
    Is that on purpose? Freudian slip?

  15. Re:Pixar on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 1

    Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The original title being Notre Dame de Paris

  16. Re:virus-con on The Psychology of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    The article didn't mention anything about even the possibility of someone writing viruses for some ill purpose
    As opposed to?

  17. Re:Also strict compiler settings... on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1

    If you change that to if((c=1));, the error will be supressed - the extra parenthesis show that the assignment was intentional. Which it was, in a way.
    Although, since the variable is assigned a constant, this is a bit stupid (except for some weird overloading of =)

  18. Re:Is an unfinished story better than a poor one? on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In a trilogy, the second film is usually the worst
    Strange... I always thought "The Empire strikes back" was the best Star Wars movie

  19. Not so deadly on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    Leaves and most likely the fruit (yes, tomato is a fruit technically) contain nicotine. Delicious AND deadly!
    I read somewhere that eggplants contained nearly as much nicotine as tobacco. Still, they aren't deadly.

  20. Re:Not neccessarily on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you that 2kPro is very very viable for home use
    It's also very very expensive for home use (that is, if you buy it)

  21. Re:Oh, crap on Lemming Population Flux Solved: Mass Suicide Not to Blame · · Score: 1

    the original Lemmings in your browser
    Or how to make crawl on a P IV 2GHz a game that was fast on a 386 16MHz...

  22. Re:Ben Franklin quote on Deconstructing the Patriot Act PR Campaign · · Score: 1

    but please tell me how we can not make that trade in light of 3000 deaths?
    How many murders per year in the US? At least three times that...

  23. Re:My take on Deconstructing the Patriot Act PR Campaign · · Score: 1

    Maybe not murder, but if you could link your boss to financially backing that mugger, and other muggers like him, and with support of a significant portion of your office, then yes, being mugged on your way to the store would be an excuse to go after everybody in your office.
    I don't see the analogy with Iraq / 9/11 attacks

  24. Re:Pity on Yet Another Big Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    It's a pity that more people don't get to view these phenomena, because of modern light pollution. How many people are losing awe-inspiring sights, such as this and the milky-way?
    And how, tell me, do you expect to "see" a solar flare, during the NIGHT? (or even during the day for that matter, unless you have a coronograph).
    Unless you're talking about an aurora borealis, which is not said to be going to happen.

  25. Re:RealOne on Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    quicktime is a far better choice in my eyes
    Except that the quicktime player is not much better than Real Player IIRC (with popups telling you to go "pro" or somesuch).
    Anyway along with Real Alternative goes Quicktime Alternative, but I haven't had much luck with these (I haven't tried a lot though, since I mainly use GNU/Linux)