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  1. Re:Microsoft has been changing on Microsoft Reportedly Ends Zune Hardware Development · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Agreed. I'm actually happy with Win7, which is a first for a Microsoft product since Win2000.

  2. Re:Rights commonly require actions on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 2

    Negative - you're simply inverting the questions. Rights may very well include restraints on the actions of others - they don't *require* that others act.

    Restated:
    You may not drive your car in a manner that puts others in immediate danger.
    You may not use physical force to control the actions of others.
    You may not trespass on the property of others.

  3. Re:Not 4G. on How AT&T Totally Flubbed 4G · · Score: 2

    Even as a marketer, I agree. This is fraud, pure and simple.

    It was questionable before there was a published spec, but no longer.

  4. Re:It's a search technology on Book Review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server · · Score: 1

    Excuse me. I meant "drop the e" as a surrogate from "remove the last vowel in the word, preceeding the letter r, which must end the word."

    See also: Flickr

  5. Re:Public Forum. Get used to it. on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 2

    How was the information obtained? Did you give it to them without stipulation? Public. Did they uncover it by breaking the law, or publish it with the explicit, demonstrable intent of harming the individual? That's another story.

  6. Re:It's a search technology on Book Review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server · · Score: 1

    Well crap, that sounds useful. Why on Earth did they do the stupid trendy "drop the e" thing with the name?

    I'm interested enough now that I'm going to go read about it - but I'm still not going to read the summary, out of spite.

  7. Re:Public Forum. Get used to it. on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 1

    Just because it's on the Internet doesn't make it special.

    What if someone out there knows your home address, and published it in a newpaper. Could you sue them or the paper for publishing it?

    Take the emotionally charged Internet topic out, and lay it simply -- should you be able to forcibly censor someone from stating a fact? I don't.

  8. Re:Going to be expensive! on ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers · · Score: 1

    Your approval is enough for me. Consider me modded appropriately.

  9. Re:Highly personal? on 41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Well, I'm still around, after partaken in several of them.

  10. How about a title that says WTF it is? on Book Review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server · · Score: 1

    "Solr"? Sounds Web 2.0, I don't think I'd be interested. Web 2.0 shouldn't require a book to explain it - in fact, the summary of the book is a bit too long for a proper Web 2.0 application.

  11. Public Forum. Get used to it. on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A right, by definition, does not require action on the part of another.

    You have every right to remove what you've posted to your own servers - but once you post to someone else's server, you've relinquished control of that information, permanently.

  12. Re:Problem is people on The Life of a Cybercrime Investigator · · Score: 1

    As a geek who gets a call every time a family member's PC so much as has a popup - YES!. Locked consoles for everyone, please.

  13. Re:Highly personal? on 41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Why would you fear pride?

  14. Re:Going to be expensive! on ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers · · Score: 1

    Nice. I was thinking "My God... It's full of cores!"

  15. Re:Sounds like an iPhone 4 and Macbook Air on IPad 2 Teardown Shows Tablet's Guts · · Score: 1

    I was attemping a gentle *whoosh*, but I see it didn't work.

    The point of putting the iPad in the microwave was to "fix" it by destroying it. See? It's not nearly so funny when it's spelled out like that ;(

  16. Re:Highly personal? on 41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info · · Score: 1

    I've long ago given up the concept of keeping my anonymous online. I know how to *go* anonymous, and protect myself where appropriate, but I do not do so in my day-to-day browser.

    Being in Internet marketing, my name is my brand. It's just part of it.

  17. Re:Again? on 41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info · · Score: 0

    Agreed. I don't particularly like Facebook, but I use it with full knowledge that it is a public forum.

    This isn't a Facebook issue - it's an issue of users not valuing the things that nerds - as a rule - value.

  18. Re:What's so ample about 512 Mb? on IPad 2 Teardown Shows Tablet's Guts · · Score: 1

    I never thought of it like that - maybe that's my wife's problem. What I see as 10.1 inches, she says is 3.5.

  19. Re:Sounds like an iPhone 4 and Macbook Air on IPad 2 Teardown Shows Tablet's Guts · · Score: 1

    No, he was right, but you're missing the part where he talks about making it safe to put in the microwave. Press Alt+F4 to show that part, then it will make sense.

  20. Re:Explosions on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the explosion was not directly caused by the meltdown, nor did it breach containment. That's not really what I meant.

  21. Re:So much for the safety of nuclear energy on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reactors won't impact the global economy appreciably - it's *highly* unlikely that anything is going to blow up, anyhow. It's sounding like they had a partial scram, with primary coolant system failure afterwards.

    Nuclear power *is* safe. You're seeing a disaster the scale of which is nearly unimaginable, and appropriate action is being taken. You don't fix these things overnight.

  22. Re:How is this possible? on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    The reactor came online in 1971.

    As for an 8.9 - 8.9 would make it like the 7th most powerful earthquake recorded.

    You also have to realize - meltdown is very very bad, but we're not talking Chernobyl here - a bit worse than Three Mile Island, but the reactors are properly designed and the worst of it should remain contained until other action can be taken.

  23. Re:Oh, sure ... on Improving Nature's Top Recyclers · · Score: 1

    I'm quite familiar with CJD, and its relative in the US whitetail deer population.

    Prions don't reproduce either - they just don't go away. Like enzymes :)

  24. Re:Oh, sure ... on Improving Nature's Top Recyclers · · Score: 1

    Um.. enzymes are just proteins, they don't reproduce. There is no more danger of that occurring than there is of my spilling a vial of muriatic acid and it dissolving the whole Earth.

  25. Re:Heh... on Google Introduces Domain Blocking To Search · · Score: 2

    It's called "cloaking", and I've had sites de-indexed because of it.