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  1. Re:Let me be the first to say... on 100/1 Odds On 'First Contact' Within a Year · · Score: 1

    Progress doesn't really work that way. No civilisation is going to invent a BMW 5-series before inventing cutlery. And no, Jatravartids don't count :)

  2. Re:Just wait... on Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag · · Score: 1

    I had a baby. My dick still hurts.

  3. Re:I'd like to see the itemized medical bill on Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag · · Score: 2, Informative

    50%? Ha! What the fuck are you smoking? 30%-35% is what I was on when I was still in the UK, and lots of people pay a lot less than that.

    Give it a rest, fucknut.

  4. Re:So? on Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs As Heating Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Edison" bulbs? Really? You should read a book on the subject, or even glance over the wikipedia article, as you clearly are unaware of some rather basic facts about the bulbs you seem to love so much.

  5. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ha! Nice response, dickhole.

  6. Re:Two Wrongs. . . on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1

    Are you this dumb on purpose? It must take a lot of effort.

  7. Re:Two Wrongs. . . on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have to think how the removal of such things will affect everyone else, as again, you are not existing in a vacuum. If oil prices go up, you might indeed be fine, but the people you rely on for every facet of your life that involves dealing with anyone who earns less than you, could face great difficulty, which in turn causes you great difficulty, and then the next year your earnings plummet. There is more than just you and the government, you realise?

  8. Re:Two Wrongs. . . on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly, and the government has a right to the money it's earned from providing a protected, safe setting for business to flourish. Why do they not get their cut? It's like not wanting to pay the rent for your shop, even though you earn a shit-tonne of money from that very shop. No one earns money in a vacuum. We have to pay for what's in that vacuum, that allowed us to make that money. Basic fucking logic - you should look it up.

  9. Re:Remember kids: When you steal something it's wr on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 1

    Taxes are not theft.

  10. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    How often has a new state been carved out of Israel, against the wishes of Israel?

  11. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    Are you still learning English? That statement is about as far from inflammatory as possible. It's poetic if anything, conjuring up a future time when the current bullshit Israeli regime is a long-distant memory, and not at all important.

  12. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He didn't say he wanted to wipe Israel off the map. That was a clumsy translation that has been frequently pointed out as such, but it seems some people just don't want to listen.

    The rest of your bullshit is just childish.

  13. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1

    He never said he wanted to wipe Israel off the map. That is a much-repeated bad translation, which people loved because it sounded so dangerous. He was merely hoping for the end of the Zionist Israeli government.

  14. Re:A trivial problem on In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day · · Score: 1

    ISPs often run massively complicated networks, sometimes from different companies they've bought over time. Knowing who was using an IP address at any given point in the last month is a very difficult thing to achieve, especially over complicated networks of different systems.

  15. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    You're also a conceited asshole. Nicely done. Get a grip, Sparky. No one gives a shit about your gardener buddies, or how you hate Facebook and love SMS, or how much you whore yourself out for. Seriously. Give it a rest.

  16. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    Luddite.

  17. Re:How do you get offenders to stop? on Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell? · · Score: 1

    Or for people to simply stop visiting sites with content/adverts/colours they find unacceptable on a website. I've never had to use noscript or adblock, as I generally don't go to sites that have things on them I don't want. If I do, I don't mind the adverts and redirects, as it pays for the site's content which I clearly want (as I'm on the site).

  18. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Lots of folks in Iraq and Afghanistan have them for protection, and it's perfectly legal. You really don't read much news, do you?

  19. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Talk about validating his argument. Nicely done, Sparky.

  20. Re:Kudos on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    Wow. And with a Maggie quote in your sig, too. Why does being a conservative rot the brain? Thatcher, Bush, Reagan - not pretty. You might want to go see a doctor.

  21. Re:Kudos on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    Which of the many ideologies that are called "libertarian" are you talking about? Because I think you are thinking of "conservative libertarianism" which is just one. "Libertarian" is a rather useless word on its own when it comes to describing someone's ideology. Kind of like how "person" is.

  22. Re:virus scanner on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it really difficult to understand?

    Rootkit = software installed on a machine to serve some unsavoury purpose.
    Backdoor = A method of accessing a system, generally hidden from the user and/or administrator of a machine

    A rootkit can open a backdoor, but then so can poorly-configured machines, or kernel vulnerabilities. They are not the same.

  23. Re:The wall, and the end of the world. on Is SSD Density About To Hit a Wall? · · Score: 1

    And when all these stop-gap measures are being implemented, research teams around the world are working on ways to shrink the size, and increase the performance of the components themselves, meaning there are gaps of relatively-limited improvement, followed by times of great breakthroughs.

  24. Re:The wall, and the end of the world. on Is SSD Density About To Hit a Wall? · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit. Chip manufacturers have always been looking to make their products faster/more capacious. It's not to do with what's needed today, but in the future, as that's when today's blueprint chips will reach market. Chip development isn't like making hotdogs to order, where you can switch up the recipe in an instant to satisfy today's penchant. We got the 3D games because chip design had reached a level where it was possible. All the technology that went in to the first 3D accelerators wasn't discovered and developed to make 3D accelerators, but was simply the culmination of the level of technology at the time. OS monopoly? Hardly. Not even close.

  25. Re:So... on Is SSD Density About To Hit a Wall? · · Score: 1

    If hard disks have their own RAID controller and each platter is serviced by its own independently-moving head, you'd have a point. But they don't, so you don't.