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  1. Re:What if your name doesn't come up? on British Airways Plans To Google Passengers · · Score: 1

    So it's a bunch of dead people are in charge of constructing a really, really tall tower in Jeddah? Tower of the damned I guess.

  2. Re:Kill Patents on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 2

    as the entire concept of the smart+touch phone was still being hammered out

    Is this what Palm had been doing for a while?

  3. Re:These are *software* patents? on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    I still consider it a lick of linux. The 2 pieces of software can often be found in the same ISO image.

  4. Re:These are *software* patents? on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    So then why do you get bash if you open up a terminal on OSX?

  5. Re:A foul subject. on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    And cities around the great lakes get their water from the great lakes.

  6. Re:A foul subject. on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Well nobody I know has gotten cholera, so whatever they're doing to the water works.

  7. Re:60% of all wiretaps are in NJ, NY and californi on Wiretap Requests From Federal and State Authorities Fell 14% In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Well being the dictator of cornfields isn't much fun.

  8. Re:Wrong area of focus. on Fedora Introduces Offline Updates · · Score: 2

    Fedora has never been aimed at the general public. I've always seen it as aimed at power users who don't want to tweak things to get a working desktop. A middle ground between Ubuntu and Arch.

    As far the rebootin, that's just silly. If the Fedora devs think the user should reboot after applying an update, then they can present that as a message to user after they apply updates. Then the user can reboot if they want to.

  9. Re:TSA misses stuff all the time! on The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners - Now With Surveillance Camera Footage · · Score: 1

    Not sure how much damage you could do with fireworks, but I'm thinking that razor blades are benign. If by spare blades you mean cartridges, then yeah you can remove the blade. But there's hardly anything to hold onto as it's a thin strip of steel a fraction of a cm wide. If you meant double edge blades, then that gives you a bit more to hold onto, but it seems like an unwieldy weapon to use. I'd probably be more scared of a terrorist with a well sharpened pencil.

  10. Re:W.C. Fields on Rudimentary Liver Grown In a Dish · · Score: 1

    Tell me of an over the counter anti-anxiety drug - other than alcohol. Tell me.

    Anti-histamines are somewhat effective.

  11. An old pal on Romanian Prime Minister Accused of Plagiarism · · Score: 3, Informative

    How could you forget Pal Schmitt? Getting elected is all about lying to the electorate. Who would have thunk they'd have any problems lying when in school?

  12. Re:They better not do the mistake of Hushmail... on Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription · · Score: 1

    Or you could just open source it. Given enough eyes, and barring any backdoors in the compiler, it should be secure.

  13. Re:price much? on 12-Core ARM Cluster Beats Intel Atom, AMD Fusion · · Score: 1

    Is this a niche product that is made in small quantities?

  14. Re:Guarantee you they aren't... on Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet · · Score: 1

    Because users where criticizing hardware "manufactured" by microsoft.

  15. Re:price much? on 12-Core ARM Cluster Beats Intel Atom, AMD Fusion · · Score: 1

    How is that board worth $182?

  16. Re:Huh? on Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet · · Score: 2

    Why would microsoft actually manufacturer the tablet when they could contract one of many OEMs to make it?

  17. Re:ah, the free lunch on London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Informative

    How were they paid?

    I'm guessing they get to plaster their name all of the place. Connect to the network and your browser will be redirected to a page with Virgin's logo, where you have to click a button indicating that you agree to the TOS.

  18. so it can be shut off on London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So they're putting in Wi-Fi so that they can have something to shut off in order to make people feel secure? Sounds great!

  19. Re:2004 called they want their news back! on MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe · · Score: 0

    This isn't an attack on the hash function. This is a dictionary attack which has been known about for even longer than that.

  20. Re:then open wifi = easy frame up on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    then open wifi = easy defense

    FTFY

  21. Re:Atinum on More Court Trouble For Oracle: Now HP Is Suing Them · · Score: 1

    Did intel ever attempt to target the IA64 chips at PCs and small servers? It seem odd to compare the 2 architectures.

  22. Re:What's next? on Microsoft To Run Linux On Azure · · Score: 1

    Payment is something you give to someone that provided you with something. The word you are looking for is protection money.

  23. Re:Artist really do suck on Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales · · Score: 2

    Err, thank god for artists that can fill an album with 40-50 minutes of music that we want to listen too.

  24. Re:kubuntu? on KDE Announces 4.9 Beta1 and Testing Initiative · · Score: 2

    So far with Fedora 16 on my laptop I've seen a kernel update that didn't like my wifi nic. By enabling the updates repo on fedora you get many of the disadvantages of a rolling release like the possibility of things breaking, without advantages like not having to reinstall.

  25. Re:Ironic her sight disables right clicking... on Copyright Infringer Tries To Shut Down Reporting On Her Infringement · · Score: 1

    are nothing but a nuisance that makes me clicking a few extra times to add their domain to my JavaScript blacklist.

    I'm using a whitelist, so I don't have to add annoying websites to any list.