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  1. Re:Ok, on 'Gamercize' Cardio at Our Desk · · Score: 1

    I live in Austin, and we're a huge bike town, and STILL I'll have assholes come into the bike lane and stop suddenly assuming it's a shoulder, or just start edging over into my lane when I'm running parallel to them. Usually I think it's pretty proper to kick dents in their door. If they complain, I can always claim they were attempting to murder me, and I have a right to self defence. That having been said, run for a half hour, and do calisthenics for a half hour, three times a week. That way you're not making awkward workout sounds in the middle of an otherwise quiet office.

  2. Re:Good Point, but... on Half a Million Database Servers 'Have no Firewall' · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't DB - Webapp - {internet} work? Why can't you have a DB on your local subnet?
    This is particularly relevant since you could just as easily roll a couple virtual machines on the same subnet and just castrate the DB for internet access.

  3. Re:How are they going to claim... on Plagiarizing Wikipedia For Profit · · Score: 1
    Lack of diligence is not an excuse for plagiarism. I don't know what university you've attended, but at mine, if you copy a source verbatim and do not cite it, you'll fail the paper. Likewise, if you copy a source verbatim in the "real world", you get sued. It is most fucking reasonable for the author to be sued for his carelessness.

    Anyway, this is also relevant: (GFDL section 2)

    You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.

    You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and you may publicly display copies.

    Which, at the risk of being hypocritical, is licensed under the GFDL
  4. Re:S.E.T.I on Is SETI Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone considered the benefit we receive simply by watching the universe? I mean, it seems pretty reasonable to assume that the more we look, the more we're able to postulate about theoretical physics and such. SETI's undertakings will never be completely without benefit.

  5. Re:Easy on School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog · · Score: 1

    A teacher in a position of power hitting on his/her students period is a bad thing- much worse when said advances are towards students who are minors.

  6. Re:How about on US Voting Machines Standards Open To Public · · Score: 1

    Or how about... a paper ballot?

  7. Re:Could be something good on FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments · · Score: 1

    I have free cable and internet from Time Warner included in my rent. Issue is both are shit. I can't do a damn thing about it because my second option is getting an exclusive connection from Time Warner which would chalk me up to $90/month.
    Highway fucking robbery in my opinion. All I want is news, weather, and comedy central. Maybe Adult Swim.

  8. Re:Why? on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    If only stoned losers stand behind the bill of rights, I should stop being sober right now.

  9. Re:Republican answer on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 2

    Implying that the republicans are radically religious is hateful? More like statistically accurate.
    Now, if you want to argue that not all republicans are neocons, I would agree- but the republican party isn't conservative like it used to be; it's not just liberals that are pissed off at the bible-thumping face of the GOP right now...

  10. Re:It happened before on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I think you and everyone else is overlooking the fact that it could, in fact, be a best buy store employee.
    Just a thought.

  11. Re:Gotta Love It on In Some Places, Local Search Beating Google · · Score: 1

    Do you make the same criticism of your Cockney? There are urban Americans who blow Cockney out of the water in terms of grammatical correctness.

  12. Re:Portman on Geek Stars From Atkinson to Zappa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I seem to remember something about Vin Diesel and D&D- and Asia Carrera playing Counterstrike.

  13. Re:perks of the job on YouTube Filtering Is On-Line · · Score: 0

    I'm sorry, is it just me, or does Australia have different rules of grammar and punctuation that allows them to print a sentence like this?

    It's still too early to tell how YouTube's new filtering system will affect the seven-month-old Viacom suit, said Mike Fricklas, Viacom's general counsel. "We are delighted that Google appears to be stepping up to its responsibility and end the practice of infringement," he said.

    Quotes around Fricklas's first statement? "Google appears to be stepping and end" rather than "Google appears to be stepping and ending"?
    The article looks like it was written by a damn five-year-old.

    In before joke about convicts.

  14. Re:Almost right. on Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages · · Score: 1

    For fuck sake people, this is money, not physics.
    All USD values have two sigdigs to the right plus all digits to the left because they are *exact monetary values*. You can't express $42,000 as four point two times ten to the fourth dollars, so you can't quantify it in terms of "relevant significant digits"
    It's people like you that caused that thing in Superman 3 to be possible ;[

  15. Re:It's A Shame They Won't Take the Offer on YouTube Filtering Is On-Line · · Score: 1
    Don't be so sure.

    "It's still too early to tell how YouTube's new filtering system will affect the seven-month-old Viacom suit", said Mike Fricklas, Viacom's general counsel. "We are delighted that Google appears to be stepping up to its responsibility and end the practice of infringement," he said.


    *sound of cash register ringing* Who wants to sing the corporate greed song with me?
  16. Re:Tired of this goddamn label on SAS CEO Blasts Old-School Schooling · · Score: 1

    Uh, I designed my first website in 3rd grade, and I'm 21. :)

  17. Re:Why the License on Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Creative Commons has deep pockets since when? I'd say it's pretty likely that any camp counselor is going to possess more assets. Often these hard-for-RMS copyleft organizations are run by college students as a side project to growing Purple Haze for food.

  18. Re:Bypasses drug trade? on Cybercrime Now Worth $105 Billion, Bypasses Drug Trade · · Score: 1

    I really wish news organizations would stop using the prefix "Cyber-". They are Online Criminals, or Internet Criminals, but they sure as fuck aren't Cybercriminals. Same BS as SUPERHACKERS IN CYBERSPACE. or HACKERS ON STEROIDS.

  19. Re:Shame it's stuck to the FP on Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Hey Cosgrove how's it going?"
    "Hey Freakazoid, you wanna go to the gum fair?"
    "DO I?! YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!"

  20. Re:Because we all know on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Jesus Christ, I'm a libertarian and my economic and social philosophy don't have shit to do with Objectivism.
    Objectivism is like Communism 2.0, yet another utopian system whose means are justified through some fucked-up social darwinism.

    in before "OMG BUT ARENT U UTOPIAN"

  21. Re:your a queer on Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Furthermore skype will try to install the firefox extension if you want it to, so reading your firefox profile isn't "unnecessary" as the article title claims...

  22. Re:Evil on Google Launches First YouTube Ads · · Score: 1, Interesting

    God forbid someone make a profit. I suppose Google should just survive off of funds from the People's Republic of America while promoting peace and love along with open source software.
    If you'd crane your head out of the bong smoke once in a while, you might actually consider a world in which people have a right to invest and produce capitol. Furthermore, people with ideas like yours kill open source- "Oh hey Google supports open source that means they have to adhere to these strict anarcho-communist guidelines or I call them evil", why don't you call out someone who deserves it for once?

  23. Re:cue the whiners... on Google Launches First YouTube Ads · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're no strangers to ads
    you use youtube and so do I
    large-scale advertising's what I'm thinking of
    you wouldn't get this service from any other guy
    I just want to tell you about expedia
    gotta make you understand

  24. Re:talk about density on New Idea Could Lead to Quantum RAM · · Score: 3, Funny
  25. Re:Yeah... So? on NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD · · Score: 2, Funny

    NYT confirms? Is that like the Netcraft York Times?