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  1. Re:Flies in the Face of Common Sense Too on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 1

    Cause some people do not have internet I suppose.

  2. Re:That is fucking awesome! on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    Yes, go to Hawaii. Those islands truly have a varied climte beyond the point of imagination.

  3. Re:It's almost as if on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Of course she gets calls from ultra conservatives, she voted for Joe - Hitler of the south - Arpaio

  4. Re:It's about blackmail on JPL Scientists Take NASA To the Supreme Court · · Score: 0

    NASA is the spacial wing of the military. If you are gay, you are out of luck.

  5. Re:Trust? on Google Publishes Censorship Map · · Score: 1

    I can only conclude from your hyperlink that the United States of Europe does not exists as your hyperlink simply returns a 404 Not Found HTTP status code.

  6. Re:Blurb totally misleading. on Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, it is so easy to say no when one party has immense firepower and the vail of legitimacy to make you dissapear if you do not agree.

  7. Re:Cars Don't Cause Accidents... on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    Except in New York where they have ramps on both sides of the highway.

  8. Re:Nice move on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Only the search engine is hosted by the pirate party

  9. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    No not at all, there lives aren't on stake so they do not care. Now something of theirs is on stake and hence they care. Sociopaths, that is what they are!

  10. Re:There is also a correlation on Tracking the Harm Games Do · · Score: 2, Informative

    We both know that the warming of earth is caused by the decrease in pirates. The name change from global warming to climate change was obviously needed when the number of pirates started to increase again after Somalia dedicating their GDP to combat global warming by investing in more pirates and hence the earth is now cooling.

  11. Re:Not my experience on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    I hate the single knob design of american showers I have used. Either you can have good pressure and scolding hot or no pressure and temperatures not used to cook living things in.

    A shower needs in my opinion three fundamental design solutions. One knob to regulate the pressure and one to regulate the temperature, I suppose a lever with 2 degrees of freedom is doable but clumsy as it is contantly reseted after each use or the temperature is hard to keep constant. Also a hose is definetly a requirment rather than a fixed exit fixture in order to easily reach all locations of your body.

  12. Suckers on Times Paywall Blocks 90% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    I would wager that only people who think mainstream media delivers "news" would pay for their "news" but everyone but old people who can't understand what news is because the grew up in times when access to information was severly limited and the mainstream media was the source of news and it is still so their minds.

    So the small part of old people that uses the internet for their reading of Times and are willing to pay for their "news" was 10% of Times total internet userbase.

  13. Magic Talisman on Top Secret America · · Score: 1

    I bought a magic talisman that prevents tiger attacks, it must work cause I have no been attacked by any tiger yet for the 10 years I have worn it.

  14. Re:Headline on Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI · · Score: 1

    However if you want to make a statement stand out as something a little bit more emphasized, the use of the wrong article is a commonly occuring phenomenon. At least that is how I have figured it out.

  15. Re:Cheat Detection on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 1

    Though George Washington was the first president under the Constitution of these United Stated of America. George Washington was not the first president of these United States. Peyton Randolph was the first president of the United States under the Article of Confederation.

  16. Re:What's so liberal about it? on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 1

    I am going to patent that solution and be soo rich, just you wait!

  17. Re:His equivalent of TV is publishing papers on The Hobby of Energy Secretary Steven Chu · · Score: 1

    When I came to realize that I do not find any pleasure in some things, I stopped caring that I was rather enjoying everyday pleasures such as watching entertainment, surfing the internet, writing on /. and other discussions fora and playing games instead of working on the something to make humanity better.

  18. No innovation on Colleges Stepping Up Anti-Cheating Technology · · Score: 1

    Am I suppose to believe that the school even with the considerable higher fees as of lately are unable to innovate the education and evaluation of the skills and knowledge of a student. Nay, I believe the schools do have all the means necessary to create other means of evaulation. However they do not need to do so because of their subsidized product that not only have caused higher fees but also obviously a stale product and lack of innovation. Just as expected from a subsidized industry. Instead they decide to implement a surveillence regime treating their customers as criminals. Wait I have seen that pattern before, ohh yes from other subsidized industries such as the media industries which are granted privelegial laws just for their benefit.

  19. Re:*sniff* on Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament · · Score: 1

    On the other hand unlike USA where you have to go through a process that will cost you thousands of dollars and last for a year, requires a university degree and a lot of time from the employee in order to get a work visa, if you get a job no matter what that job is in Sweden you are granted a work visa. It couldn't be easier.

  20. Re:Glad things turned out well on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    Becomming a lawyer creates no value to the society, there is no production that occurs.

  21. *Yew* on Asus Joins Tablet PC Race · · Score: 1

    The pad running a Windows Operating System, horrible. Couldn't Asus have made a sane decision and go with a Linux distribution and the ability to do whatever one wishes with the software just like a normal Computer.

  22. Re:Obviously... on Is Wired's App Really the Future of Magazines? · · Score: 1

    Just because viewing a screen isn't damaging to the eyes exclude that it can be more tiring to read on the iPad compared to the Kindle for example.

  23. What an image in the article on "Cyber-Roach" Forces Rethink On Animal Movement · · Score: 1

    Journalists, you do realize the cockroaches do not actually carry a backpack with an accelerometer in it, right? I am quite certain that the scientists simply glued the accelerometer to the cockroach and called it a day!

  24. Re:Then why not C? on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1

    In the Computer Architecture course(Which is a low level course) that is taught in Uppsala University in Sweden. You go through various hardware components and the history behind them, how they function down to the nitty gritty, how transistors works, etc. Then you are taught common transistor circuitry design as adders and whatnot, following thereafter you build simple programs out of transistor circuits in a simulator. After that you go through how CPU circuits works, registers and so on and you write some simple programs in microassmbly to understand how to create assembler instruction set and then a program in assembler.

    I do not think you can create a comprehensive understanding of computing by using any high level language, even such ones that are as low level as C or even assembler. You are abstracting away a big chunk of what is really happening by using a language to teach the hardware. Because in the end there is a black box compiler or assembler in between your text file and the metal. it doesn't matter what the black box is. All the code you write will behave different because the Java virtual machine, the PHP interpreter or the C compiler do not behave in the same way.

  25. They are so silly! on Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 · · Score: 1

    What is it with these people. Only supporting one format, it's like only supporting bmp. A browser should support as much as possibly reasonable and let the people making the website decide what they will use.