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  1. Eh? wannabegeek2 has a ways to go on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 1

    33 bits = 8 hex digits + 1 bit.

  2. Re:Seeing patterns in the random on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 1

    I hope not, if that's the best you can do. There's *33* digits to cut in half.

    Well, maybe it's floating point.

  3. Re:Joy, another app store... on Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market? · · Score: 1

    "Things"? What do you mean? They are going to lock my account to their store? Or my Android phone that I didn't buy from them?

  4. That's the wrong question on US Banks That Offer Transaction History? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The right question is, "What can I do to remember to download it every month?"

    What if you find a bank that has a current policy of letting you download 5 years' of history, you forget for 4 years, and they change policy to three months?

    Or what if you do nothing for four years, decide to switch banks for some other equally trivial reason, forget to download even then, and then a year later need it?

    You need some idiotic little reminder, a cron job if nothing else, to do it once a month. That's the real solution.

    Or maybe you need to decide the data isn't really very important after all, if you can't oblige yourself by downloading once a month and don't actually use it.

  5. Re:Yes on Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices? · · Score: 1

    I like the way you think. Please forward details on how to subscribe to your newsletter.

  6. Rush University?!? on Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer's · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is THAT what the big fat idiot is funding? Too late!

  7. Re:stating the obvious... on Are Desktop Firewalls Overkill? · · Score: 1

    So the proper car analogy is to lock your glove box inside your locked car inside your locked garage in your gated community with the locked gate?

  8. Re:I guess the trick is you have to ask? on Pope's Astronomer Would Love To Baptize an Alien · · Score: 1

    Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.

    Please, no. Brevity is the soul of wit. Don't let the sole of my shoe hit you on the way out the door.

  9. Re:I guess the trick is you have to ask? on Pope's Astronomer Would Love To Baptize an Alien · · Score: 3, Funny

    How would you baptise an octopus? Raise it out of the water? Sprinkle holy air on it?

  10. Who is this "Anonymous Coward Doyle"? on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    It is not insignificant, those two first initials, methinks. Are you perchance leaving a clue for us, hmmm?

  11. Re:Who put you in charge? on M2Z's Free, Wireless Broadband Killed In Advance · · Score: 1

    That's pretty funny, saying that it's ok for you to tell other people how to spend their money but not ok for me to tell you that isn't any of your business. Tell me when the great Eurasion war is over, will ya?

  12. Re:The more the better on Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll · · Score: 2, Informative

    The funniest aspect is how she was a birther and possibly a truther, and had many other kook positions, during the primary, but when she won that, those parts of her campaign disappeared from her website ... until Harry Reid posted them on *his* website, and she objected that he was distorting her positions. I think she actually sued or filed a complaint with the FEC. A real nutter. I think she'd be pretty harmless in the Senate, being much too kooky to be effective and trustworthy. She's good at making noise, not much else.

  13. Who put you in charge? on M2Z's Free, Wireless Broadband Killed In Advance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did you RTFA? No, of course not. They claim they have a good business plan. What's more, it's none of your or the damned government's business to judge their business plan, it is their investors' money, and if they want to throw it away, it is, literally, THEIR business.

    And if you don't like watching ads, don't. But it's none of your business, again literally, if others do, or even whether others do.

  14. Re:Haven't heard of this one on HP Backs Memristor Mass Production · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do not RC. MRAM is magnetic, nothing like memresistors.

  15. How do you put out a hydrogen fire? on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 1

    If the byproduct of a hydrogen fire is water, does it put itself out?

    Does water do any good? The spray can both cool fire and reduce oxygen, but how does that work on a hydrogen fire?

    Only half :-)

  16. Feed him some cat food on 1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.

  17. Rather than millions of people changing names to please society, society will change because those millions of people *are* the next society.

  18. Re:Source please on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is stimulating conversation. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Do you have a stimulating contact address?

  19. Re:Wikipedia and Wikileaks confusion? on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    Oh hell, I left the page loaded too long before adding my comment and didn't see the 17 minute earlier comment.

  20. Wikipedia and Wikileaks confusion? on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    Did Someone In Authority(tm) tell his minions to crack down on Wikileaks, and one of the minions confused them with Wikipedia?

  21. A little social engineering there? on Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon · · Score: 1

    Nice example that you wanted him to use -- the one that was shown to NOT be what the news made it out to be. Are you trying to trick him into making a false anecdote to buttress his claim, thereby giving you reason to laugh at him for that?

  22. Re:WTF on GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Net neutrality has nothing in common with deregulation other than that bogey word "regulate".

    Net neutrality is common carrier status, you can't discriminate on who uses your service, etc.

    Airline deregulation meant the government no longer had much say over business plans, pricing, scheduling, etc.

  23. Re:WTF on GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the old phone system was a government granted monopoly because they (the government) felt it was a waste to have multiple companies running lines in parallel, right? Competition was alive and well until the government handed AT&T a monopoly and said "It's all yours"

    Uhh, no. AT&T gobbled up all the competition thru jackassery and then begged the government to regulate it to keep it from having to pay the piper. Please learn history before you spout it wrongly.

    Bah. The rights wingers want big business to control big government, and the left wing wants big government to control big business. Neither of them has any faith in individual power.

    The "right wingers" want nothing of the sort. What we want is for the government to get the hell out of the way and stop taxing and regulating business to the point that makes it impossible to even run a business unless you're a huge corporation. We want the federal government to be as small as possible.

    Thank you for proving my point.

  24. Re:WTF on GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder what the old phone system would be like if it hadn't had common carrier net neutrality status, or roads, or railroads, or airplanes. In fact, I wonder about so-called business-friendly conservatives who think it's perfectly hunky dory to have racism in publicly accessible businesses. Can they even imagine a world where every single place you went, every single thing you did, was subject to a zillion different whims? Oh, no, don't shop there, the owner hates left handed people, red headed people, people taller than him ....

    The whole point of all these laws, from anti-racism to net neutrality, is to level the playing ground. These so-called business-friendly nincompoops can't think past the end of their noses, that fragmenting life like that would send the economy back to the stone ages.

    Aside from the basic fairness of it all, of course. But from the pragmatic point of view, they are short sighted beyond belief.

    Bah. The rights wingers want big business to control big government, and the left wing wants big government to control big business. Neither of them has any faith in individual power.

  25. Re:Clippy lives! on Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check · · Score: 1

    You appear to be making a defamatory pun on the word defenestraion". Our lawyers will be getting in touch.