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  1. Re:Too bad for IE9... on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    Who cares about Linux, we're talking about Windows, when the 93% of the world talks, the other 1% should shut the fuck up.

    a) Firefox is also faster on Mac than IE8, and I suspect IE9.

    b) Then maybe that 93% should "talk" by not simply accepting the OS that comes with Their PCs.

  2. Re:Smelly code! on Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    an if statement is a goto

    Except that an if statement only goes to the line after the condition. A goto can go to anywhere. An if statement may be a particular case of a goto, but it is a very narrow one.

  3. Re:Too bad for IE9... on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    however I really don't think FireFox will ever be faster in this area exactly because of the overhead of its cross platform nature, IE on the other hand, can utilize DirectX & Windows API

    How is utilizing DirectX and the Windows API going to make IE9 faster than FF on Linux?

    Or doesn't that count?

  4. Re:NOT great news on EU Plans To Make Apple, Adobe and Others Open Up · · Score: 1

    These people might disagree Wine.

  5. Re:The wave of the future on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    Something like the scene in Real Genius where after having more and more students leave tape recorders in class to record the lecture, the instructor just plays a tape to a classroom of tape recorders, with neither professor nor students present.

  6. Re:Plagiarism? or Ghost writing? Outsourcing? on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    If the "author" of a ghostwritten work attempts to submit the work for academic credit, it is misrepresentation and desrving of academic rejection.

  7. Re:Encryption on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    Spanish has 28 letters (although k and w may be used in foreign words), so perhaps they used ROT 14 twice.

  8. Re:Encryption on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    Except that Cyrillic has thirty-three letters, not twenty-six. Therefore, they did ROT11 three times.

  9. On the other hand on IEEE Supports Software Patents In Wake of Bilski · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is the part that precedes your quote

    "We are generally pleased that the Supreme Court did not introduce rules that would limit the scope of ideas available for patent protection in our current information age," IEEE-USA Intellectual Property Committee Chair Keith Grzelak said.

  10. Re:I don't get it... on Adobe Finally Fixes Remote Launch 0-Day · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any MathML tests, and Firefox supports MathML rather well.

  11. Re:Does he tech Klingon? on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 1

    I don't believe so, or else he would have a "thermodynamics is a topic best served cold" lecture.

  12. Re:Wget syntax? on ICANN Approves .xxx Suffix For Porn Websites · · Score: 4, Funny

    The shell is swallowing the *.

    Try wget -r "*.xxx"

  13. Re:Women should stick with what they're good at on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 2, Informative

    Getting the insulation off of cat 5? Seems like a narrow career.

  14. Re:Does Not Work with Most IDEs! on Finance, Scientific Users Get ActivePython Updates · · Score: 1

    unbzipped2

    Isn't that bunzip2?

  15. Physics trumps politics on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 1

    No, I am not saying that Congress has the authority to close off the electromagnetic spectrum. Even if Congress has that authority, it would not have the capacity. The laws of physics don't subscribe to the Congressional Record.

  16. Re:habeus corpus on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The power to suspend habeas corpus is stated in Article I of the Constitution, which mean that Congress, not the President, has that authority. Lincoln simply ignored the ruling.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman

  17. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on How HTML5 Will Change the Web · · Score: 1

    Indeed, where is the system folder on Ubuntu 9.10?

  18. Eliot Carver on Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Eliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies.

    I just hope they don't try to start a war between Britain and China.

  19. Re:Sure he can... on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    And Shatner is a good actor?

  20. Re:Actors make good politicians on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the operative word here is "good".

  21. Re:As a Canadian on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    Her Majesty is what, 84? She isn't going to live forever *although her mother lived to be 100). How do Canadians feel about Prince Charles?

  22. Re:Surprise? on Verizon Makes Offering Service Blocks a Fireable Offense · · Score: 1

    I can't dump Verizon, as I do not use them in the first place.

  23. Re:Well, no shit on Home Computers Equal Lower Test Scores · · Score: 1

    Doesn't proof presuppose that facts are different from our claims about them?

  24. Surprise? on Verizon Makes Offering Service Blocks a Fireable Offense · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this really such a surprise?

  25. Re:Well, no shit on Home Computers Equal Lower Test Scores · · Score: 1

    My claim that my laptop is a fact is a claim, which can only be expressed as a sentence.

    Perhaps it is the existence of of my laptop rather than is the fact.

    Also, you said that facts were ideas. What are the sources of such ideas? And you also said that facts are not physical objects. How do you know that ideas are are not physical objects?