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  1. Re:Government roads on We Don't Need More Highways · · Score: 2

    The article to which you linked doesn't include Japan, China, Hong Kong, or South Korea as being in southeast Asia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia#Countries

  2. Re:Win8 on Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 1
  3. Re:stop attacking the thinking, attack the source on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    And if you're voting for the party with your 'lessor of two evils' bullshit

    Yeah, it's hard enough to get tenants for one evil, let alone two.

  4. Re:freedom of speech on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    Ethics may be extralegal, but is it arbitrary?

  5. Re:US military doctrine is simple to understand... on Stanford-NYU Report: Drone Attacks Illegal, Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    Then why can't Tiger stop the sun so that he can finish his round in daylight?

  6. Re:US military doctrine is simple to understand... on Stanford-NYU Report: Drone Attacks Illegal, Counterproductive · · Score: 2

    In rgb.text, brown is 165 42 42, which is #A52A2A in hexadecimal. It would appear to require red, green, and blue.

  7. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    The mine layers and aircraft would presumably also be restricted to this narrow passage. The Russians should have little problem toasting the mine layers. The aircraft might be a bit harder.

    And when I said that the Russians should be able to defend the Gulf, I meant that they should be able to defend it from attempts to lay mines in it.

  8. Re:the java plugin? on New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE · · Score: 1

    Today I finally got Aleks (an online learning system that uses Java) to work in Linux (I had the jar file in the wrong directory).

  9. Re:Report exploits to Debian and Red Hat too on New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE · · Score: 1

    Does one need to be root to install relocatable packages in a user's directory? That depends on the package.

  10. Re:Every big SW package has bugs on New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE · · Score: 1

    instead of the disclosed-to-the-vendor-only bug

    And if other parties (black hats) are also aware the problem?

  11. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    Lay mines with what? The Russians should be able to defend the Gulf of Finland.

  12. Re:"created during World War I" ??? on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    So, if we say "first aircraft launched from a ship" that would be 1903, not from 1914 through 1918.

    Professor Langley would like a word with you. Hint, try 1896.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pierpont_Langley#Aviation_work

  13. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    There's Baltic Sea, but Russia only has direct access to it from Kaliningrad,

    What about St. Petersburg?

  14. Re:People Judge By Looks on Can Microsoft Really Convince People To Subscribe To Software? · · Score: 1

    I much prefer the appearance of LaTeX to Microsoft Word.

  15. Re:Slashdot has a limit to on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    * the first three characters of your password must not equal sap or pass

    How can the first three characters be "pass"?

  16. Re:When this happens... on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    I'd pay $300 a month to be telepathic. Or does "telepath" not mean what I believe it means?

  17. Re:Hah! Take that, my bank! on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Especially since user names are often guessable from real names, such as first initial last name..

  18. Re:What did I tell you? on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Except that with respect to my reference frame, the fast-moving object received both messages from me.

  19. Re:Javascript IS Serious Code. on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 1

    It lacks the verbosity of more rigorous languages

    Does verbosity help? Do Javascript programs have fewer lines than their equivalents in other languages?

  20. Re:Appreciation Exercise on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 1

    The US Navy is a large organization. How many submariners have been naval attaches? Carrier COs? Purchasers of weapons systems? A submariner might have to know how to do most jobs on a submariner, but an individual submarine isn't that large.

  21. Re:Appreciation Exercise on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 2

    That might explain Lenin's death at the age of 54, from stroke I believe.

  22. Re:I'm sick of these articles on UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the only drawback.

  23. Re:I'm sick of these articles on UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale · · Score: 1

    Why, for instance, would NOT using NAT be better? Would my network be faster or better or more secure?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#Drawbacks

  24. Re:Enlighten me please on UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale · · Score: 1

    But even adding two bytes to IPv4 addresses would probably requiring extensive modifications of current hardware.

  25. Re:Real People Needs on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Because the Republicans are so respectful of facts.