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  1. Just buddies on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    There are a few more countries ahead of us for the title of BEST buddies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_sales_to_Iraq. We would barely count as acquaintances.

  2. Re:By November for the US? on Drug Reverses Retardation In Mice · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a rather poor opinion of Obama supporters.

  3. Wine 2.0 on Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, what are your plans for Wine 2.0?

  4. Re:Perfect windows compatibility? on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: 1

    Office 2000 is suffering due to a regression. Hopefully that will get fixed soon.

  5. Re:What is that? on Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts · · Score: 1

    Please write your complete answers in the blue examination book

  6. Re:Unlikely argument, SW skills are easily develop on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, that probably applies to both

  7. Re:Unlikely argument, SW skills are easily develop on China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems · · Score: 1

    And unlike ICBM technology, you can't buy cracking skills from Russians.

  8. Re:Haven't on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    The cloth gliders I've flown use it on the fuselage. But it's resin impregnated. Feels about halfway between a raincoat and fiberglass.

  9. Re:This is not capitalism on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your sig adds a nice touch of surrealism to your post. Thank you for the laugh.

  10. Re:2012 on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Hey, they will not let my kid in on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1

    Something of a paradox. But easily solved: http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/4192

  12. Re:Quick! on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The bitter aftertaste of the Kool-Aid.

  13. Installing Silverlight on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Makes me think of drug pushing: the first sample is free. Nancy Reagan, don't fail me now!

  14. If you see this guy: on How To Spot E-Vote Tampering? · · Score: 1

    If you see any of these guys, you might want to be suspicious:

    McCain (not a TX resident)
    Obama (not a TX resident either)
    Clinton (not a TX resident, pissed at both of above)
    Ahmadinejad, Casto (either), Chavez, etc (not TX residents, but like to joke around with the US)
    and of course anyone who looks like this:
    http://www.april.org/association/documents/alan-cox-sticker-drm.jpg

  15. Re:Lathes on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    I'd heard the same and started to say lathe instead. But I've had more luck using a milling machine as a lathe than the other way around. The extra axis and all. So my personal bias to to think of milling machines as better at replicating themselves. Then again, lathes are a bit simpler, so maybe self replication is easier.

  16. Re:Ultimaitely... on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 1

    Not if they use Google. Too many choices for a politician. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Technology&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&z=4

  17. Re:I... on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Kind of like those new fangled milling machines! Word is by 1870 they will be building parts for duplicate milling machines. Fussing that milling machines are not 'perfectly self-replicating' yet is an extremely common criticism. This pedantic but factually true statement glosses over the fact that it's a machine that cheaply and easily makes its own parts*, using inexpensive feedstock.

    Oh, and I forget if it was 3D Systems or Stratasys or whoever (don't remember, because it's not important) has built some of their machine's parts on existing rapid prototyping systems for years.

  18. Acid3 on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1

    Still only getting 71 on the Acid3 test (your mileage may vary). As this is the RC, that's probably where it'll stick for the foreseeable future.

  19. Re:Truecrypt on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    Now that's just crazy talk. Can't get below 2 bits. 1 for file header, the other for the data.

    You do know I was joking, right?

  20. Re:Truecrypt on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    .zip

  21. Re:Stability concerns on Wearable Motorcycle Design · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure this applies, but this particular arrangement of wheels has problems for planes (scroll down a bit): http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0200.shtml. This motorcycle doesn't use a swivel caster, but could steering with the rear wheel cause the same problem at times?

  22. Re:DARPA and open source on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not going to follow your links. You're probably just hyping some older woman/younger man dating service. Through agents no less.

  23. Paradox on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard.
    So buy Leopard before you even consider ever using it? Now that's marketing!
  24. Not so. on Government Efficiency and Network Theory · · Score: 1

    He's so weak, he doesn't even have an office or title! He's just some unpaid guy in the basement trying his best to hold onto his stapler.

  25. Re:The Chinese People Are Responsible on Google's Shareholders Vote Against Human Rights · · Score: 1

    And the Communist Party there is all too aware of that. So they make an effort to disrupt dissident communication. 1.3 billion people grumbling is different than a crowd of 1.3 billion grumbling.

    Interesting fact that might have Chinese leaders nervous: wealth disparity is greater in China now than during their revolution. Oops! Ok, so on average, people may be doing better. But people don't compare themselves to 50 years ago, they compare themselves to their neighbors and their expectations. You've got a lot of people with very high expectations. So now you have the majority of Chinese wondering when they will get their turn, and if China hits economic turbulence, a big chunk of the remainder are going to be pissed they didn't get rich like their boss. No wonder there is such tight control.

    Not excusing it, just trying to look at causes and effects.