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  1. Re:"Impersonate" is probably too strong on Did Apple Impersonate Police To Recover the Lost iPhone 5? · · Score: 1

    In this day and age, who is smart enough to pick up a lost phone in a bar and then try to sell it superstitiously and is still to dumb to tell a real cop from a rent-a-cop?

    Only someone *dumb enough* to pick up a lost phone and try to sell it, wouldn't be able to tell the difference....

  2. Re:$100 is an impulse buy, $500 is not on What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the ipad makes more sense if you don't have a laptop or have some reason to not carry one around...

    Actually my iPad *is* my reason for not carrying my laptop around.

  3. Re:ho hum, personal jet propulsion on 'Jetman' Rossy Flies Above the Grand Canyon · · Score: 1

    Do show us the youtubez of that. I'm Ford administration vintage and I never saw this until Rossy started doing it.

    Silly. Everybody knows YouTube wasn't invented back then.

  4. Re:Indeed.... on TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA · · Score: 1

    Can someone make a fucking goatse blocker firefox plugin please? This is pissing me off now.

  5. Re:Function re-ordering inside the image? wow on Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's actually common practice in profile guided optimization, put commonly used code close together in the image to minimize the number of pages loaded.

  6. Re:The Business Glass Alliance Announces on BSA's Latest Piracy Claims 'Shockingly Misleading,' Says Geist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Despite my efforts, my hole had no value. In fact, it had negitave value, as the city came in one day to fill it

    Au contraire!
    It sounds like you digging a hole like that created more work for the city who had to fill it in.
    So if everybody did that, lots of jobs would have to be created to fill them in.

  7. Ginger? on Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this time he'll have red hair...

  8. Re:Encouraging disrespect for authority figures... on Education Official Says Bad Teachers Can Be Good For Students · · Score: 1

    William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.

    Gee thanks. Now I have coffee dripping out of my nose and a yucky monitor.
    Hysterical sig.

  9. Re:speaking of knuth on IEEE Supports Software Patents In Wake of Bilski · · Score: 1

    Come on - someone with mod points mod parent informative please - the only reply that gives the answer has 0 points?

  10. Ron Burgundy on AT&T Breach May Be Worse Than Initially Thought · · Score: 1

    "I'm somewhat of an authority on GSM security,

    That may very well be, but when I read that I see Anchorman Ron Burgundy saying: "I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal."...

  11. Re:Maybe it's the pin striping... on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    but I see a lot of Star Trek in that car. Especially TNG style.

    Indeed it does. Amusingly, the logo on the front fender looks kind of like the Klingon logo...

  12. Better off using xor on Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I usually use xor to encrypt my data, and to be really sure I run the encryption twice. ^C

  13. damn you! on 15 Vintage Tech Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm going to have that 'OooooohhOohOohOohOoh, Pole Position" jingle in my head for the rest of the day.

  14. Re:Location on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    My iPod Touch (1st gen) is able to locate me within about 50-100 meters of my actual location just from wifi information. It's actually quite impressive.

    Yeah, but in case it's not able to find your location using the wifi, the feature is just annoying.

  15. Re:It happened on Patch Tuesday. on Time Bomb May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs' Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if there is any correlation between the number of PCs that crashed and the number of PCs set to automatically download and install patches

    Sounds like it happened on reboot of these machines, which could imply that patch installation is responsible for the timing (if it mandated a reboot), but not necessarily for the cause.

  16. Re:It's Easy on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is very true as far as the delivery date for the application/component. However, estimation is not used for determining the ship date of your software, dates and such comes from marketing.
    Estimation is used to determine how many subtasks/features that can be done within the given time so that you can scope out features that won't make from the very beginning.

    ^C

  17. Re:Atheists Unite... as a religion on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Amen!

  18. Re:god damn self driving cars on Ford's New Cars To Be Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, decaf.

  19. Re:Meh. Call me when they've stopped keyword spam on Yes, Google Does De-List Pages; But When? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and experts-exchange please. I would pay hard cash to have them removed from any future search result.

  20. Re:Pro-tip: Shoot them dead. on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    Someone with mod points like pirates...

  21. Re:Love to use it, but... on Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost · · Score: 1

    ...I use a Mac. How is it possible that it is in its 4th version, but there's still no Mac version of the browser?

    In the immortal words of Nelson:
    Haha!

  22. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    You can't start a sentence with "The thing that annoyed me the most about Star Trek" and not finish it with "Wesley Crusher".

  23. Re:Ambigious Emotions on Court of Appeals Rejects FCC's Cable Subscriber Cap · · Score: 1

    Hahaha - I can't believe your got a +5 Informative for telling everybody you just crapped you pants.

  24. Male with large BMI? on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 1

    >>Specifically, female video game players tended towards depression, while males tended towards large BMIs.

    Large BMI? That's totally me.
    But only if it means Big Massive Intellect.

  25. Re:Obligatory Star Trek Reference on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    Funny the first thing I was thinking was - Oh crap. Praxis blew up.