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  1. So, system requirements-wise... on Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honeycomb's big, yeah yeah yeah, it's not small, no no no?

  2. Re:R'ing TFA? Heresy! on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    We uploaded our brains into computers after we finished reverse engineering them. A-doy.

  3. Re:Another fine example of government in action on Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    This game is an example of when you give a government institution (with no reason to stay in business) loads of cash.

    Did... you just refer to NASA as a government institution that gets loads of cash? :D

  4. Re:It's not Russia, but... on Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Has Erupted · · Score: 1

    Well, she would be able to see it from her house, but Jindal convinced her that volcano monitoring was a waste of time and money, so she doesn't look that way.

  5. Re:Three options on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    You missed a fourth option.

    Move to Alberta, Canada. We haven't had rats for decades. =D

    (I'm serious, BTW. No wild rats, and private ownership of rats is illegal.)

  6. Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya.... on Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... necessary introduction of Javascript and AJAX.

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

  7. Re:Cloverfield 2 on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    Best check your math---this one appears to be travelling Eastward. =)

  8. Re:is it April 1? on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    This pretty much ends the false dichotomy between Science and Faith .
    Anyone who honestly believes there is no contradiction between science (the application of critical thinking, the challenging of assumptions, and the use of an ever-expanding body of evidence to understand the universe) and religion (the demonization of critical thinking, the elevation of dogma and preservation of ignorance, and the use of iron-age superstition and irrationality to 'understand' the universe) is either ignorant, stupid, fucntionally schizophrenic (as I said in my first post) or all of the above.
    I See What You Did There. And aside from the obligatory "get past the filters" text, that's really all that I think needs to be said.
  9. Re:The web was invented in 1989 on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 1

    Well, they did say they were a web developer. =)

  10. Re:Could someone please explain... on KDE and KOffice Rebuke OOXML, GNOME Dithers · · Score: 1

    Actually, after working with C# for a while, I've come to realize that there's a lot to like in the CLR/CLI, from the perspective of large-scale software development. Unfortunately, the majority of the "standard" library isn't standardized, so I'm still hard-pressed to recommend it as a solution.

    Now, the OOXML support, that I can't figure out. =)

  11. Re:In case we forget. on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming you were trying to be sarcastic with your link, in which case you failed miserably.

    Everything that's standardized in ISO 3103 has an effect on the perceived appearance and taste of tea, so it should be done in a standard manner when the tea manufacturers mix blends after each harvest.

  12. Re:Start of a patent war? on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    This got mentioned in the Ars Technica article. The problem is, MAD operates on the assumption that your opponent has something to destroy. The company launching these lawsuits has no products, and therefore doesn't have anything that could be infringing on any patents.

  13. Re:What the hell is wrong with these people? on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1

    Oh, so all us plebians can work on your OS kernel, but you're too good for that? Asshole. ;)



  14. Re:A "fuck you" from GW... on Games Workshop Forbids Warhammer Fan Films · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're funny.

    Seriously, based on the players I see in the two GW stores in town, I doubt more than 10% of GW's base these days knows there's a story behind the minis, let alone that some people in the other 10% were making a fan film about it. This is going to be a ripple, at best.

    And if it gets any bigger, we'll just feed the God-Emperor of Mankind a few hundred more souls today, and he'll smooth it right out.

  15. Re:I wonder... on Groklaw No Front for IBM · · Score: 1

    IANAP (I am not a pedant), but there sure as shootin' is an 's' in quash. It's that squiggly letter in the penultimate spot.

  16. Re:...has yet to succeed... on Bosworth On Why AJAX Failed, Then Succeeded · · Score: 1

    X.

    (Alas, the purity of the answer must be diluted with sufficient text to subvert the system.)

  17. Re:SEC? on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 1

    They can't make Martha Stewart's life hell for a couple thousand shares of stock. They're making her life hell because she lied to investigators.

  18. Re:Fraud on IBM Puts Pressure On SCO · · Score: 1

    Well, given that the charges in that case aren't for securities fraud, they're for lying to the investigators, yes.

    Nice troll, though. Supple, green skin, nice rubbery warts...

  19. Re:Locutus would disagree.... on The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the act of translating their reference for the location from Borgtugese into Federation Standard would result in "Sector 001". Imagine the conversation otherwise:

    "Take us to sector ZZ9 plural Z alpha."
    "Where?"
    "ZZ9 plural Z alpha."
    "And where would that be?"

  20. Re:You would be surprised... on State of the Onion 7 · · Score: 1

    Not really, since I read the article.

  21. Hint: If they talk like that, they're not experts. on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 2, Informative

    (Cleaning up the text a bit)

    According to a rapid Google search, the experts say:
    1. HTTP is slower and less reliable than FTP; and
    2. HTTP is amateur and will make you look a wimp; but
    3. FTP is full of security holes; and
    4. FTP is a crumbling legacy protocol and will make you look a dinosaur.

    Well, 2 and 4 are nothing more than acephalic punditry, unworthy of our attention, which leaves 1 and 3.

    The fact that HTTP doesn't use a binary connection to transfer binary files means that, yes, it is frequently slower than FTP. Especially since your listed file sizes imply that you're not offering text files for download.

    While FTP doesn't have any security holes (Yay for false generalisations!), many of the readily available ftp daemons have had shaky track records in the security area.

    I don't really have an answer for you, I just wanted to say acephalic. :-) Acephalic acephalic acephalic...

  22. Re:I'm sorry, but on Dennis Ritchie Interviewed · · Score: 1
    My own environment (on PC hardware) actually runs Windows NT, but it is used mainly as a graphics terminal connected to a Plan 9 server, in a way approximately analogous to an X windows client.
    The person who invented Unix is doing what the rest of the world does---use a desktop computer and desktop software that actually works---to be productive instead of to feel technically and morally "superior" (whatever that means).
    (Emphasis mine) Well, I suppose that's one way to use Windows NT to be productive.
  23. Re:Oh BooHoo on Voters News Service: What Went Wrong · · Score: 1
    In the UK, there are laws about broadcasting political material during (and I believe immediately preceding?) an election. Additionally, I seem to remember that you are not allowed to report on the progress of that election whilst the voting booths are still open. I'm open to correction on that last point though - I'm sure some news programmes broadcast latest exit polls during the last few General Elections. However, it's a rule I definitely recall from somewhere.

    Well, I can't speak for the Mother Country, but in Canada, both of those hold. No political ads during election day, and NO BROADCASTING OF RESULTS TO TIME ZONES THAT HAVEN'T FINISHED VOTING YET! Oh, and we use paper ballots that you mark an X on with a pencil. That's why it only took us a day to count our election results. :-)

  24. Re:Ooooh boy... on David Brin On LOTR · · Score: 1
    This yearning makes sense if you remember that arbitrary lords and chiefs did rule us for 99.44 percent of human existence. It's only been 200 years or so -- an eye blink -- that "scientific enlightenment" began waging its rebellion against the nearly universal pattern called feudalism
    Not to break it to you Einstein, but democracy was invented in ancient Greece. That's not a couple of hundred years, it's a couple of thousand years... just about as old as christianity itself.

    Ah, yes, Athenian Democracy... Or, as the 90+% of the population who weren't citizens referred to it, ``arbitrary lords and chiefs ruling over us, but they bicker a lot first.'' The idea of democracy for all people, instead of a genetically selected ruling elite, is indeed only a few hundred years old.

  25. Re:The more things change ..... on Porting Linux Software to the IA64 Platform · · Score: 1
    Now, you might question how it deals with load-value dependencies (ie. load a value into a register, use that register). Obviously, the load and use must be on different sides of a stop bit, but that would still not guarantee correctness. I'm not sure how IA64 actually works (and someone should reply with the real answer) but I imagine that either: a) loads have a fixed max latency, and the compiler is required to insert as many stop bits between the load and the use to ensure correctness, or b) the machine will stall (like current machines).

    According to the documentation, it would be b. The machine stalls until it's retrieved. Of course, according to the documentation at the time, floating-point division worked fine on the first Pentiums. :-)