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  1. IPV6 is BROCCOLI!? on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a terrible metaphor. Everyone knows that IPv6 is closer to a Brussels Sprout.

  2. Re:Implications on Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code · · Score: 1

    If that were the case, don't you think the stalling, demolitions, and earthwork are out of proportion?

  3. Re:Implications on Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code · · Score: 2

    Yep. I'm supposed to know the name of every company, so when one of them happens to have the same name as something totally unrelated I can clarify that I'm NOT talking about them. Sure, that's how it works. Yep.

  4. Re:Karma on More Court Trouble For Oracle: Now HP Is Suing Them · · Score: 2

    I personally feel Google is the lesser evil of the three being talked about. HP's in the middle, hence more tolerable than Oracle, which I wish would go away and stop fucking up perfectly good technologies.

  5. Re:Implications on Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code · · Score: 2

    I was talking about intelligence satellites, and not some company or organization called intelsat. This should have been obvious.

  6. Re:Karma on More Court Trouble For Oracle: Now HP Is Suing Them · · Score: 2

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

    Go get em, HP!

  7. Re:Implications on Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code · · Score: 2

    There's been plenty of proof of them hiding something. If they are merely developing a power plant, why would they be working so hard to cover their tracks?

    (via intelsat we can see them doing extensive demolitions and earthwork prior to inspectors coming in, meanwhile they are executing stalling tactics. just for example.)

  8. Re:Quick question on Fighting Counterfeiters With Quantum Money · · Score: 1

    So why not issue credit "chits" that contain the bits describing the money, and not individual notes?

    Kind of like the debit cards we have now. But instead of a relatively short ID number, they have a quantum fingerprint?

  9. Re:Quick question on Fighting Counterfeiters With Quantum Money · · Score: 2

    Lets be fair: it could be possible this is because it's so much easier to break in and steal them, then work out how to fake them. This doesn't mean it's impossible to do.

  10. Re:Blame the Unions on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    The theory is that you are put into a position where you can influence the policies of the teachers below you. So long as you don't fall victim to the Peter Principle and can actually do the job (see the other guy's reply for a link) this is supposed to be optimum.

  11. Re:Blame the Unions on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    Blame the teachers unions.

    You do what you're told - nothing more and nothing less.

    False. My sister has consistently been doing more, and as a reward they are paying her for the additional education requested to make her an Assistant Principal, where they want to keep her for a year before making her a full-on Principal of a whole school.

    The problem here is that the members of the teacher's unions behave as if the guideline is exactly what you want to do, and not just the minimum.

  12. Re:Standardized testing has always been there on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 1

    No child left behind: lower the bar far enough, and nobody can slip underneath.

  13. Re:a: because it breaks the message flow on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a joke. It was a point. Points are not required to be funny.

  14. There are ways to alter orbits that do not require fuel beyond solar energy. Not that I'm saying it's being used here, I'm just pointing it out.

  15. a: because it breaks the message flow on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    q: why shouldn't you put body text in the subject?

  16. Re:Given that this is slashdot... on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    You win the internet. That was more funny than any individual post has any right to be.

    as an aside: Your sig is broken. (or did you intend to cut it off mid sentence?)

  17. Re:Still pretty alpha on Mozilla's Open Source Project Shumway To Translate SWF To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Does your browser actually support HTML5 completely?

  18. Re:Developers, developers, developers on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Really good soundtrack. Some love went into that.

  19. Re:Developers, developers, developers on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Amnesia wasn't a port. That studio has been coding cross-platform for a while (penumbra series)

  20. Re:heavy on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    I'd say laziness or just ignorance. Getting a good looking well fitting enclosure is kind of annoying if one doesn't know where to look.

  21. Re:Not like the USA on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I already was, for other reasons. Curiosity makes one look up some interesting subjects within a short time frame, and if that DIDN'T flag me, I'd be concerned.

  22. Re:"You can guess what happened next." on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 1

    ... are you insane? You should consider that a real possibility.

  23. Re:Is that the correct date format? on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 2

    the YY[YY]MMDD form is actually much more sensible. It numerically sorts in chronological order. MMDDYY[YY] is just dumb.

    You know, kind of like how metric is superior to any other system.

  24. Re:Not like the USA on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's a dose of perspective:

    "Fuck the US, and fuck the US government."

    Hey look, not only am I still alive and unharmed, I still have all my rights!

    Try that in China, and see what happens.

  25. Re:I can't decide... on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    For the record, I'm in your camp. Perhaps because I worked for a time in a butcher.

    I was merely pointing out that there is a difference to a large number of people, that I would have expected you to see yourself (that's why the sarcastic tone).