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  1. (-1 Uninformed american idiot) on Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London · · Score: 1

    if they want fireworks, they should celebrate the fourth of july like the rest of the world! on a serious note, halloween's commercialism has little to do with pumpkins and everything to do with candy.

  2. Re:Future on Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's only a "negative if", under the assumption that everything since then would have ended up worse than it did now... and you can't make that conclusion unless you _do_ consider what might have happened.

  3. Re:How do they know? on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 1

    uric acid is bird poop.

  4. Re:"Fairly Recently?" on Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth · · Score: 1

    there are fundamental concepts that are not possible to implement in an obvious/sensible way if both ends are behind NAT... anything that involves negotiating a connection on a dynamically allocated port via an already-open (on a static port that's translated through) communications channel, is impossible without lots of extra overhead. (correct me if i'm wrong)

  5. Re:"Fairly Recently?" on Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth · · Score: 1

    could you FTP when both you and the ftpd were behind NAT? even if so, many things don't work with double-end NAT (AIM file transfer, DCC, VoIP (i think))

  6. Re:I love getting calls from AT&T! on FCC Proposes Fining AT&T Over DNC Violation · · Score: 1

    whenever i get calls asking "is the homeowner present" i say "this is a dorm phone" and they hang up

  7. Re:Protect Personal Privacy! on FCC Proposes Fining AT&T Over DNC Violation · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they went out of business.

    Gee, I wonder why...

  8. Re:Astronomical? on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    yes, but it doesn't necessarily mean that, so your point is still made weaker... it would be weaker still had you said "scores" or "dozens"...

  9. Re:Astronomical? on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    but how much is that in libraries of congress?

  10. Re:1400kph? on Videogame Injuries - The Ugly Truth · · Score: 1

    only the relative speed has any difference... the 1400kph motion is (largely) perpendicular to the plane of the screen.

  11. Re:What to do if your kids won't eat their vegetab on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    are you _actually_ siding with lusers who say "oh, i have 20 gigabytes of ram, 2.4 ghz hard disk, and a 256 megabyte processor?" that's likely the kind of behavior the computer salesman you criticize was correcting. props to whoever it was for being clueful enough to know that, rather than BEING the salesman who sells a computer with "20 gigabytes of ram", etc

  12. Re:Tomatos aren't fruits. on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    from what i can tell That page is badly designed... the "empty category" "Fruit Vegetables" actually refers to all rows below it... similarly, "Herbage vegetables" refers to all rows below it and the FV header, and "Earth Vegetables" is intended to be on its own line as a header above "Roots"

  13. Is it still going to be X86? on IBM To Design Technology For XBox 2 CPU · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is Microsoft abandoning its "Intel compatibility" policy? I remember the original reason was to make it easy to port between PC and X-box, to attract developers

  14. Re:Bah! on Videogame Injuries - The Ugly Truth · · Score: 1
    2) Survival. If the dead ever rise from their graves, let's face it folks, the average man is fucked six ways from Sunday. He'll be snackfood in fifty-nine minutes shy of an hour. But not you, mighty gamer. You'll know exactly what to do. If there's a gun shop, you'll loot it. If there's a window, you'll avoid it. If something looks like it has a pair of impossibly silky, sexy legs, you'll run like a scared little girl because you know exactly what's above that hideous, evil beast's waistline. And if you happen to encounter a diminutive young medic on a train bound for Hell, you'll know exactly how she can help you: by being a pretty little pack mule to hold your crap for you.

    I'm ashamed to say i did not get a single one of these references... can someone explain them?

  15. Think carefully about this on Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    think about the definition of a "joe job"... it's intended to get someone in particular to be blamed for something... perhaps this is a two-layer joe-job, with the second layer (which fooled you all) being aimed at Todino?

  16. Re:Translated for the America-Impaired on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    isn't "killing others" is implied in the word "bomber", and the 'suicide' part is there just to clarify that they wear the bomb rather than planting it and running like hell?

  17. Re: heavy duty cases on Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue · · Score: 1

    if it weren't for the fact that it was built like a tank, though, would it still look like new?

  18. Re:FBI uses AOL on Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    High UID, n othing of value in the history.

    one possible translation: Long-time reader, recent poster.

  19. Re:Social Engineering on Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    given the IP a.b.c.d

    the dotless form is a*16777216 + b*65536 + c*256 + d

  20. Re:Oxymoron alert! on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 1

    except in 16-bit color, there are no true greys... 15-bit color has 32, 16-bit has none... or maybe there's one, i'm not sure

  21. Re:Spelling Error... on Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons" · · Score: 1

    you confuse "liberal" with "libertarian". "libertarian" is the opposite of "authoritarian", "liberal" is the opposite of "conservative". However, your statement that bush is radical (the opposite of "reactionary", for those keeping score) is interesting, and i'd like to hear further explanation

  22. Re:The difference: on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 1

    OK, looks like you understand enough about linux to tell me quite what "unix-like file aliases" is supposed to mean.

    marketspeak. you need a BS-filter upgrade, you're supposed to skip over that kind of crap rather than bail out

    that said, my first guess would be hardlinks, but with a distinction between the "original file" and the aliases (better than symlinks because if you move the original file it still works) - just an uninformed guess, though

  23. Re:Spelling Error... on Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons" · · Score: 1

    furthermore, the meaning in this case is "generous", meaning that laws are to be 'generously' applied to the problem. liberal historically just means for bigger government (actually, more change in government in the direction in which change has already occured, "conservative" means less change in said direction, "reactionary" means they want change in the opposite direction from which there has already been changed)

  24. 1400kph? on Videogame Injuries - The Ugly Truth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Those [real-life] finger tendons and neck muscles can suffer when your game of choice involves efforts to overtake a craft travelling at 1,400kph."

    because we all know the speed number on the screen has such a huge influence on how much stress we put on our hands

  25. i call bullshit. on Apple to Fix Security Holes in Jaguar · · Score: 2, Informative

    machine(1)

    Description

    The machine command displays the machine type.

    double bullshit for "i386"