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  1. Re:Spam got decimated yet people here thinks spam on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    because /. has become a place for M$ astroturfing fanbois. Dudes, trash Hotmail

    I'd hardly consider myself a Microsoft fanboi, but Hotmail does a decent job of placing junk email in the Junk folder.

  2. Re:You misread something on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was less than zero. I was saying it might be as many as all of them, but that doesn't matter to still have a negative impact on California finances from the law.

    Still not sure where you got "less than zero" from any part of my message...

     

    How many of those 25k affiliates "forgot" to include their affiliate income?

    Substantially less than the new number of affiliates, 0, which will no longer have affiliate income to tax,

  3. Re:Why are Libs so enamored with taxes? on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    the military is required by the US Constitution

    The US Constitution authorizes the government to have a military, but where does it say that the government must have a military?

  4. Re:Answer: All on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    How could the number of "forgetful" affiliates be less than zero, let alone subsatntially less?

  5. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, the Malthusian liberal line is out in force today.

    Malthus was a conservative parson.

  6. Re:I don't get it on Who Killed the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    So your saying that while an optical drive is not an absolute disadvantage, it just isn't worth the space/cost.

  7. Re:Niche trade mags aren't any better on Who Killed the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Would that be mousse (not moose) shit?

  8. Re:I don't get it on Who Killed the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    You consider the lack of a built-in optical drive to be an advantage? Could you explain?

  9. Re:Why not? on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    And how many programmers do we need? At what salary?

  10. Re:It is simple on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    make hot women

    Error: No target for hot women

  11. Re:More work for plugin developers on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. As a web developer, you already know that we do all our coding for the lowest common denominator, which is currently IE 8 for most devs.

    Does that mean I shouldn't use MathML in my web pages?

  12. Re:I think LulzSec trolling. on LulzSec Offers to Take Revenge On Sega Hackers · · Score: 1

    Hey, I like brunettes, and she hasn't joined Suzanne Somers on the woo train.

  13. Re:Is it just me... on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    How much were they in charge of industry? And even if their motives are as you say, do they retain power only by force, or do they use such concepts as "General Will" to condition their subjects? And is my desire to not be subject to tyranny as much of a private interest as a dictator's desire to enslave me? There may be a generic desire among a population to not be tyrannized, but is this a General Will?

  14. Re:Is it just me... on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    Much of Rousseau's politics presupposes the existence of a General Will. OK, what if there is no General Will? Or what if it is the concept of General Will is so vague that a Hitler or Stalin could use it for their own purposes? Did Rousseau (or can you) make it specific? And actually how would I argue against Rousseau's claims? What would count as evidence for or against the existence of a General Will?

  15. Re:Sigh on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    A point is zero dimensional

  16. Re:Is it just me... on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    And if there wasn't a General Will in the first place?

  17. Re:Is it just me... on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    I don't recall German industry demanding the Holocaust any more than many other Germans. Sure, they went along, but were they particularly pushing it?

  18. Re:Is it just me... on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    I think that the millions of victims of state-sponsored murder would disagree.

  19. Re:Guns. on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    What about Blackwater/XE? I'm pretty sure that they will fire back.

  20. Re:Is it just me... on US Funding Stealth Internets to Circumvent Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    Sure, dopeheads are idiots

    Paul Erdos was a heavy Benzedrine user. Was he an idiot?

  21. My bad on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Higher frequencies of light correspond to shorter wavelengths. The only way to lower the fuzziness is to use higher frequencies, which has a greater effect on changing the momentum.

  22. Re:What I never understood about the uncertainty p on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that it has its own mathematical formalism (commutativity of operators) It's the commutators that matter. Let u and v be the operators for position and momentum in the same direction (plus or minus). Then the commutator is uv-vu. As the operators do not commute, the difference is not zero. Hence, we get the uncertainty principle.

  23. Re:What I never understood about the uncertainty p on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    The wavelength of the light is a lower bound on the error of detecting the particle's position. Higher frequencies of light correspond to longer wavelengths, which yield higher lower bounds of error.

  24. Macs at Best Buy on Asus To Ship Ubuntu 10.10 On Three Eee PC Netbooks · · Score: 1

    The last time I was in Best Buy, they were selling Macs. I suspect that management would be upset if an employee was pulling them out of customers' hands.

  25. Re:Bill Gates on Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Did Microsoft pick IBM, or did IBM pick Microsoft?