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  1. Re:good on Stargate Universe Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Those are good rules (though I think I disagree with #3. Serialized story lines make a lot of good ideas possible.)

    My main rule would be:

    4) No supernatural bullshit.

    This includes wormhole aliens (DS9), ascended beings/o'ri (SG1), angelic guides (BG), and the limbo/afterlife state of attaining illumination (LOST).

  2. Re:It's not a claim anymore it's a fact. on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 1

    What, specifically, will make war much more likely? Certainly, there are several pieces of inflammatory information, but what's going to cause war? I'm not disagreeing with you, I just don't see what you're referring to.

    The world now knows that we know that Saudi Arabia is the main financial supporter of Al Qaeda. So?

    The world now knows that Saudi Arabia begged the US to attack Iran. Not particularly shocking.

    China hates Pelosi. Honestly, who doesn't?

    HRC told people to spy on UN diplomats. Are any of the member nations going to be surprised by this? Is this unprecedented? Doubtful. ... ?

  3. Re:Well... on Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US? · · Score: 1

    They know they're re-entering a brutal market with a lot of very good products and very strong competitors.

    ...Along with a long and distinguished history of poor performance and infuriating bugs. I owned a WinCE 3 (Dell Axim) and WinMo 6.5 (T-Mo Wing) device, so I know all about this.

  4. Re:At last! on Skype Officially Available For Android · · Score: 1

    No, but the engineers do... unless it's a vaporware situation.

  5. Re:At last! on Skype Officially Available For Android · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you get caught... between the moon and NYC?

  6. Wierd on Geolocation XSS Tracker Proof of Concept · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have two Wireless APs -- one of which is only active occasionally for guests. Here's what I got when I entered my MACs:

    Everyday (always on) router: It found my city, but the address was about two miles away.

    Guest router: It pinpointed my father-in-law's address. This is strange, because my router has never been located at his house. But, HE HAS CONNECTED TO MY ROUTER. Interesting.

    I checked the first address again, and this would be a friend's house, who I once connected his laptop to my network when I was fixing it.

    I'm not completely familiar with 802.11, but it would appear that computers that had previously connected to my MAC are regularly pinging this MAC in such a way as to be received by the Google drive-by's and recorded as actual MACs of actual APs. Is there another explanation?

  7. Re:Viva La Libre Office! on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    And, what do we put on those freedom fries?

  8. I thought:

    Laughing out... laughing out... laughing out... laughing out loud.

    Kind of like,
    driving me... driving me... driving me... driving me crazy.
    So CRAY-ZAY, yeah yeah baby.
    (Neer neer neer, woka neer neer, woka woka...)

    No?

  9. Re:The "choice is bad" argument on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Damn! I meant THIS LINK.

  10. Re:The "choice is bad" argument on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 1

    ...and, if and when the update finally happens, it will already be obsolete. I guess this is what I get for buying Moto's lower-tier phone -- they seem quite capable of keeping the Droid up to date.

    Luckily, there seems to be a solution forthcoming as long as a new ROM becomes available.

  11. Re:The "choice is bad" argument on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 1

    Yep, I'm a Cliq XT owner too. I bought it with the understanding (as promised by the T-Mobile goon that sold it to me) that 2.1 was a month away. That was in May. Still waiting...

  12. Re:Times voltage times session time on Low Energy Supercomputing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only programmers are allowed to be wrong all the time. Make one mistake in hardware, and you'll get heat. Make ten thousand mistakes in software, eh, people shrug their shoulders.

    *Cough* Um, unless you're an embedded programmer. Then, you're expected to fix hardware guy's mistakes by making changes to the firmware.

  13. Re:Timeless saying applies here... on 1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack · · Score: 1

    Still a young'n. Heh, n00b!

  14. Buncha whiner babies on Apple To Hold iPhone 4 Press Conference · · Score: 1

    What's the big deal? Just hold the phone with an oven mit... or plastic salad tongs.

  15. Re:Full quote on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Expertise != arrogance.

  16. Re:Savory on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 1

    I actually considered fat-enriched, or fat-fortified. Fat-embiggened would have been another possibility.

  17. Re:Savory on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 1

    Unami is umami, along with edamame.

  18. Re:Savory on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 1

    WHAT did you say about my mommy?!

    Ok, I had to look it up. I see what you mean, now. I saw umami in the summary, admittedly didn't RTFA, and thought I'd comment on what I thought was an oversight.

  19. Savory on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 1

    The PopSci article I read a couple of years ago named "savory" as one of the taste buds' senses. Maybe this is the same as fat sense, since nothing fat-free tastes as good as its fat-...not free counterpart.

  20. RU-486 on Woman Live-Tweets Her Abortion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ask your doctor if RU-486 is right for you.*

    *Side effects may include freaky, hoochy mamma eyelid discoloration.

  21. Re:Not really. on Can You Trust Chinese Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    Really? It says "Check Republic". If it says Check instead of Czech... probably a counterfeit. And then, most probably Chinese.

  22. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 1

    How many of the major linux distros still support versions that old?

    How many of the major Linux distros' later releases suffer from a performance downgrade?

  23. Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! on VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works · · Score: 1

    Ardour looks really cool, and I installed it just last week. I got as far as getting an error message about not being able to load/connect to the Jack audio server (??) before I gave up.

    I'll have to look into it more during the holiday break -- may have something to do with the fact that I'm a Fedora user, and we suffer from the PulseAudio affliction

  24. Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! on VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works · · Score: 1

    That's a tired, old argument that was laid to rest long ago. Nobody uses sox any more, and even command line editors like mencoder and ffmpeg take an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to functionality. Emacs is a great example (and arguably went overboard) of a popular app with many functions. I struggle to think of any modern-day Linux apps that hold true to the little app that could mentality. Maybe vi? But, then there's vim, so...

    On a command line basis, your argument may hold some merit. But, in a GUI environment, it's ridiculous -- GUIs are the interface to pull all the little tools together. And in Audacity's case, it falls short. Not to mention it's really ugly.

  25. Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! on VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works · · Score: 1

    I will definitely give Kdenlive another look. It's been since 2007 since I looked at it, and I have to say I don't even remember what I didn't like about it.