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  1. Re:Serving the summons? on Internet Defamation Suit Tests Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    You forgot Poland!

    Republican then != Republican now

  2. Re:Sure its not exclusive on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 1

    Add a jaunty tune to that idea, and you might have something like this
    http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/NoFX/The-Man-I-Ki lled.html

  3. Re:Those Lucky A Developers! on A Developers Security Bugs Primer · · Score: 1

    If that's true then once you get as low as C Developers, then they don't stand a snowballs chance in hell of avoiding Security Bugs.

  4. Re:Welcome on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll send you an internet soon detailing our collective response.

  5. Re:Holy grammar batman! on Some European Moves Towards Linux · · Score: 1

    I think it means "Some moves that are European", not "A move by a European".
    Clarity is a virtue in headline writing though.

  6. Citing an encyclopedia on A Wikipedia WIthout Graffiti · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The rules regarding non-citation of material gathered from an encyclopedia isn't arbitrary. It's because encyclopedias are not authoritative, in that they do not research information but merely collate it. As such, they are not sources of information in and of themselves. Hence, you cannot reasonably question the logic of what is said there, just question the source of it. It is vital in any reasonable paper to be able to question and argue with the findings.

  7. Re:OT: Reply to your sig on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 1

    A has property P
    B has property P

    does not logically imply that A is B.

  8. Re:AJAX is a silly acronym on Bosworth On Why AJAX Failed, Then Succeeded · · Score: 1

    AJAX is a silly name even now. The XML portion is being replaced more and more by JSON (Javascript object notation). So yes, AJAX is an umbrella term even now.

  9. Re:Will not lose as much per console at least on PlayStation 3 Still Set For March in EU, Price Revealed · · Score: 1

    Well, I got it. Apparently your humour is too subtle for some.

  10. Re:No HOLES barred? on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1

    "Every hole's a goal" is how it's normally phrased though.

  11. Re:Imagine... on Movies Delivered Via Television Signal · · Score: 1

    At $2 a pop, seeing everything can't have been cheap.

  12. Re:another favorite example... unintended semantic on Why Emails Are Misunderstood · · Score: 1

    Either:
    It is impossible to add too much coolant to the chamber or
    You should never add too much coolant to the chamber

  13. Re:Will it change my neighbor's mind? on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1

    That's not begging the question.
    What it is, is assuming legal infallibility, which is quite different.

  14. Re:Viral Fashion i18n pack on MIT Media Lab Fashions · · Score: 1

    Stone De Croze?
    Wow, what a blast from the past.
    Are you just someone who knows of Stone De Croze, or are you a genuine (tm) Channel Islander?

  15. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    I think part of the point might be that they could spend the time just walking. Spend an hour walking and you'll have saved time, and possibly money too.

  16. Re:suprise :( on Seven Mobile ATA Hard Drives Compared · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a country!

  17. Re:I knocked something together... on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    urgh, realised I screwed up a bit.
    How about we all forget what I said above and aim for smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv instead?

  18. I knocked something together... on Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    To grab single italicized letters from the document.
    As far as I can see the letter list is:

    smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzviMi

  19. Re:money on New MythTV Based PVR Available · · Score: 1

    Nope. You can sell GPL software, but just like when you give it away for free, you must provide machine-readable source code for free (or possibly for the cost of the medium it's provided on).

  20. Re:GNU/Linux? on A Mind Map of Linux Distributions · · Score: 1

    He was asking about using the BSD userland with the Linux kernel. BSD/Linux. As opposed to the GNU userland/BSD kernel thing that Gentoo are attempting.

    Unfortunately, GP, I don't know.

  21. Re:51st State on Iraq TLD In Legal Limbo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Something I can speak in relative experience on for once!
    Jersey is one of the Channel Islands, which are a group of islands in the English Channel, more or less.
    Jersey is the largest island of the group, followed by Guernsey (where I am from), and then Alderney (where I was born), and then some other smaller islands, such as Sark and Herm.
    I'm sure wikipedia has plenty of information if you actually want to look. It must be said, it is refreshing to see a New Jersey resident even consider the existence of the "old" Jersey.

  22. Re:legality != morallity on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point is that while the law tends to be based on morality, and so breaking some laws constitutes immorality, the fact that they are law doesn't make them implicitly moral.

  23. Re:Great news... but does it sync with PocketPC? on Evolution 2.0 Released, Screenshots · · Score: 1

    I am having problems locating an EDS (evolution data server) plugin for multisync, which is a real shame.
    If anyone feels like pointing me in the right direction though, feel free!

  24. Re:So, still NTFS??? on Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet · · Score: 1

    Heh, that's what I meant, but thanks for clearing it up to anyone else who thinks WinFS was the filesystem :)

  25. Re:So, still NTFS??? on Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was always going to be NTFS, WinFS (Windows Future Storage) was a layer on top of NTFS used solely for items in "My Documents"