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  1. Re:Another 'standard' to contend with? on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 1

    If you will read the "Field Guide" you will discover that it is all based on HTML5 which is a standard that all browsers should support.

    All I see is 2 circles and a compass... WTF, I supposed this was about giving advice how to set up a web site, rather than advice on how to draw a circle...

  2. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    family of such jokes is about a geek who answers a question of the form "Would you like X or Y?" with a plain "Yes."

    The joke works independently of whether you interpret "or" as "inclusive or" or "exclusive or".
    This is not a joke about inclusive vs. exclusive, but about a confusion between "please make a choice" and "is this sentence true?"

  3. Re:Roundabouts on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    Maybe it helps that the local ones were laid out intelligently

    Maybe it also helps that your traffic engineers don't smoke pot...

  4. Re:Roundabouts on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    Half of all the roundabouts in the world are in France.

    So, "la perfide Albion" finally won? Next challenge: convince the French to learn English...

  5. Re:Roundabouts on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1
    Although the UK had a huge head start as far as roundabouts are concerned, nowadays they're popping up all over Europe, and there isn't that much a difference any more in frequency.

    Of course, the UK still have the more wonky stuff.

  6. Re:Roundabouts on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    You said it: powerpoint. It's reasonable to assume that the author committed more mistakes than just the obvious one...

  7. Re:What happens when people change their minds.. on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be entrapment?

  8. and he's not blackmailing anyone over it, nor is he intending to

    open to interpretation. After all, he did manage, somehow, to convince Yahoo that it was a good idea to pay him $7000...

    Yes, that's puny as ransoms go, but the smart extortionist makes sure his ransom is not more expensive than other alternatives that the victim may have at its disposal (... such as lawyers...)

  9. I mean, you might get more out of buying one share of stock and suing the CEO than you'd get out of the reselling the actual stock.

    Wouldn't the award be proportional to the amount of stock you actually held? So all you'd be doing is do the other shareholders a favor (who would collect most of the award, whereas you fronted the court costs...)

  10. And then you get arrested for the $200 dollars of damage that they have to repair now that they are aware of the giant gaping hole in the wall.

    Cheap masonry workers you've got there :-) No wonder your walls are full of holes...

  11. Re:Uhh on UK Student Jailed For Facebook Hack Despite 'Ethical Hacking' Defense · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Look asshole, it's 2012. Whether you like it or not, the Mayors of 3 large European Capitals are very happy with their sexual orientation. Take your homophobic "cock-smoking faggot" bullshit back to the 1800s you unnamed Italian captain.

  12. Re:What's the problem? on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 1

    Who are the fucktards who came up with an idea that this should be under an NDA?!

    Well, then make the information available:

    1. register a domain
    2. set up a website on it pretending to be some kind of business
    3. as Yttrium suggested, send a mail from domain to Konica asking for docs
    4. "sign" the NDA
    5. receive document
    6. post it to wherever you like
    7. let domain lapse

    How difficult really is this? Chances are, Konica won't even bother to run a whois on the domain, and if you're concerned that they will, there are enough ways to register domains by proxy or anonymously.

  13. Re:Parent is right on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 1

    Of course, if I were interested in stealing devices, I'd definitely monitor network traffic and if I saw the S/N was being read by something like PrintAudit, I'd just spoof some replies to mess things up for a while before taking the machine (and maybe even leave behind a small box running somewhere giving MIB replies as if the device was still there just to make pinpointing the moment of theft more difficult when it was discovered).

    A, so that's what those delicious raspberry pies are made for :-)

  14. Re:lol on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's not entirely worthless - it makes good kindling, and bad toilet paper. (or very bad kindling if you use it as toilet paper first)

    You have to let it dry first, obviously.

    Case in point: many rural populations use dried animal dung as fuel

  15. Re:The USA is dying on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? · · Score: 0
    Great pun, hehe...

    Folks, Santorum can be avoided if you observe basic hygiene!

  16. Re:FUD. on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 1

    Can you please explain that statement with a car analogy?

    Two people smoke a joint in their small red Toyota IQ while being parked sideways in a forbidden spot.

    Police notice, and ticket all red Toyota IQ's of the county!

  17. Re:FUD. on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 1

    You do not just take a factory away because someone might have smoked some weed in the parking lott.

    But you do limit bars' opening hours because a couple of people, who might have been patrons, fought in the parking lott...

  18. Re:Site that you've never heard of is shut down on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 1

    And they came for Union Carbide. I don't leak toxic gas so I didn't speak up.

    You mean, you never enjoy a nice serving of tacos and beans?

  19. Re:Site that you've never heard of is shut down on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 1

    So what you want to see is news reports of someone shooting government officials for cutting off the DNS for his website?

    Yes! That might finally make some of those narrow-minded censors thinks about their actions.

  20. And I thought... on $6 Trillion In Fake US Treasury Bonds Seized In Switzerland · · Score: 1

    ... that the MAFIAA was against counterfeiting?

  21. Re:No, seriously. on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the inspector just wanted a turkey sandwich.

    Except he didn't eat it, as the kid brought it back home.

    A more reasonable explanation: maybe the kid preferred chicken nuggets rather than turkey sandwich, and was looking for a suitable excuse...

  22. Re:Article is BS. on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: 1

    Bananas good? WTF? It's all starch with a bit of sweet-tasting sugars and some potassium.

    Worse than that: radioactive potassium. The school was completely in their right to prevent that kid from eating what essentially is nucular waste!

  23. Re:Despicable on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: 1
    From your own link:

    Barnes believes there was likely a misunderstanding between the child and the staff.

  24. Re: Collateral damage on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    I know some of the people involved.

  25. Re: Collateral damage on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    A vague assertion that it's possible to see fraud if you look in balance sheets hardly cuts it as evidence.

    Fraud does happen, are you really so naive to believe that they would be so brazen as to label it as such in their balance sheet?