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  1. Re:WTF? on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: 1

    Sorry, are you equating a slip-of-the-tongue with education? Let me guess - you didn't go to Harvard either.

  2. Re:Apple does it their way again on Schema.org — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree On Markup Vocabulary · · Score: 1

    Metadata like this is not intended for browsers. It's intended for webmasters to indicate to search engines what exactly is in their pages. Sure, you could write a plugin for a browser which used this data for some purpose, but the real purpose is improved indexing by search engines. And Apple doesn't have a search engine. Being "invested in metadata" is such a vague, pointless claim. Who the fuck cares? This metadata in particular is describing websites to search engines. Apple is entirely not invested in that, short of the markup on their own sites, which makes them a user just as much as anyone else with a website.

  3. Re:How is this different than the MetaData tag? on Schema.org — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree On Markup Vocabulary · · Score: 1

    Nice try - Google's crawler detects whether text is hidden on a page, and doesn't index said content. You think they haven't thought of that?

  4. Re:It's not just Bitcoin. on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 1

    Use them somehow - either sell them for actual cash, or use them to buy what they want. The whole point of this is that it's a great way to launder money.

  5. Re:It's not just Bitcoin. on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 1

    That's why the root causes should be addressed. This pathetic notion of just trying to cover up the symptoms while leaving the causes unaddressed only serves to make things worse. Legalise the drugs, but make damn-well sure that people are not left behind by society. Poor people should be cared for, the sick should be treated, and society as a whole should do everything it can to make every member as productive as possible. Yes, the toll of drug abuse on society can be horrific, but it doesn't always have to be that way. Most of the damaging aspects of drug abuse arise simply because drugs are illegal - people feel they can't get treatment for addiction (at least at a price they can afford), and due to the nature of the black market prices are blown all out of proportion, and standards of quality are never maintained. Prohibition does not work. It just gives power to criminals, and throws normal people to the mercy of those same criminals. Surely society should be there to help people.

  6. Re:hey editor guy! on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But that was not the purpose of his ride, which Palin claimed. She's retarded. Absolutely retarded.

  7. Re:Link to Wikipedia on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not about describing what you did, it's about how silly what you did was. All the information you want is in the discussion page, obviously. That's what it's there for.

  8. Re:Minister? on UK Launches 'Peer To Patent' Pilot Project · · Score: 2

    It's not taught as fact. It's simply taught as "this is what some Christians believe". In science classes it is nowhere to be found. RE is comparative religious education, and in no way indoctrination of any kind.

  9. Re:Overkill on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    Or in the rest of the world (where this kid is from), he can pick up a cheap mobile, pay-as-you-go with automatic top-up, and just hook that up. It'll cost him about $30 in total.

  10. Re:Windows problem! on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That was the problem with the password storage on Blackberries. It iterated the HMAC once, whereas iOS 4 does it 10,000 times. Clearly an implementation fault.

  11. Re:20th anniversary of... on Linux Video Tutorials From 1995 · · Score: 1

    You forgot Windows NT, which didn't have either, and was released in 1993.

  12. Re:First in a long line I hope! on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    You do realise designs and operating procedures like Chernobyl's would never be adopted for either regulatory or financial reasons. You are showing your ignorance of nuclear power if you bring up crap like Chernobyl. By your logic skyscrapers shouldn't be built because thousands of people died in some on 9/11. You are merely skimming the surface of what happened at Chernobyl, conflating several incredibly-different concepts and technologies, and vomiting up your ignorance for everyone to see.

  13. Re:Wouldn't underground nuclear plants be safer? on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    So put it 500m down. It's not rocket science.

  14. Re:Like father like son on Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage · · Score: 1

    So you have shitty drivers. Excellent. Damn you, Microsoft, for someone else writing shitty drivers! DAMN YOU!!! My Windows machines are up until I want to restart them, not when I'm forced to by either Microsoft or any driver manufacturer. I guess you're having bad luck.

  15. Re:Like father like son on Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage · · Score: 1

    And Germany has a colourful history of invading France - what bearing does that have on what's happening today? Windows has, for the last 3 years, been stable as a fucking rock. Stop living in the past, or at least update your jokes. Either way, your little tirade brought nothing to the discussion but even more FUD. Nicely done.

  16. Re:works in NYC on Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage · · Score: 1

    I had issues in Germany, but I deleted the "shares.xml" file in my Skype directory, and it worked again instantly.

  17. Re:KIT on New Laser Data Transfer Rate Record Set At 26 Tbps · · Score: 1

    Do you drink at Scruffy's? If you don't, maybe you should :)

  18. Re:Strong enough to make cables for Space elevator on Will Graphene Revolutionize the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of satellites, numb-nuts?

  19. Re:Fragmented much? on CyanogenMod: the History of an Android Hack · · Score: 1

    Vista had some teething problems everyone latched on to, but quickly became a rock-solid, fast OS.

  20. Re:Really? on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    And gives you an analogue video signal, which is susceptible to all sorts of interference.

    Digital is better than analogue.

  21. Re:Fucking Awesome on EU Demands Explicit Geo-Location Permissions · · Score: 1

    All of the EU has decent data protection laws, as it's required by an EU directive.

  22. Re:The main reason on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    Or you can just start to type the server name in the address bar and press Enter when Chrome autocompletes the rest. It's even quicker than looking around on a list. Or you can click to collapse the thumbnail view, and you get a list of the sites, next to their favicon. Scary! Confusing! nooooo!!!

  23. Re:I will miss the bar on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    Or Ctrl+Shift+B to toggle it.

  24. Re:Belly up to the URL Bar on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    Even simpler - don't choose the option to hide the URL bar. Problem solved.

  25. Re:And all for what? on Google Is Serious, Chrome 13 Hides URL Bar · · Score: 1

    So don't enable the new option. Is it really that hard to figure this out?