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  1. Re:wikipedia's got the wrong name on Atlantic Crossing By Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon · · Score: 1

    ... I love it when people rename things.

    My mistake.

  2. Re:Bloat on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    ... and I remember when people used to read.

    It's not the completed application exceeding the limit, it's the resource usage of the build environment.

  3. Re:Last paragraph in the TFA is... confusing on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 0

    So? The compiler/linker isn't (or it shouldn't be) a 32-bit process.

  4. Re:Time to move on, perhaps? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    This is during compilation. Meaning, a 32-bit machine can no longer compile it. A 64-bit machine can produce a working 32-bit build just fine.

    It's the build environment, not the project itself.

  5. Re:No they haven't on NVIDIA Releases Source To CUDA Compiler · · Score: 1
  6. wikipedia's got the wrong name on Atlantic Crossing By Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon · · Score: 3, Informative

    APRS is "Automatic Position Reporting System" per the creator. Wikipedia has the name wrong.

    Why yes, I am a HAM. I hold a General ticket.

  7. Re:Visual editor? About damned time on Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA · · Score: 1

    Oh. Just in case you want to look at what Wikipedia's doing: Extension:VisualEditor.

  8. Re:Visual editor? About damned time on Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA · · Score: 1

    Funny, you must not have looked very hard. There was also FCKeditor before that.

  9. Re:Good! on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    No, you wouldn't get off "scot-free" (a stupid term, go look it up :P) - at best you'd get involuntary manslaughter, I would expect.

  10. Re:They can see a photon??? on MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    Of course, that's assuming the photon is converted into a photoelectron by the photocathode

    ... which in turn alters the object/system under observation?

  11. Re:Oblig. Futurama (paraphrased) on MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    So? Photons start striking an object. There's a "front" moving across that object as the photons hit it, assuming it wasn't perpendicular to the emitter.

    There's no reason you shouldn't be able to see this... as you would see those photons moving across that front that reflected back towards the sensing device (camera)

  12. Re:My Pet Rock Is Better on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Yea, and you've never fired a weapon in an enclosed space have you? Stop talking about shit you know nothing about.

  13. Re:My Pet Rock Is Better on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Robin Williams said it best: "I've got a nail file! I can be irritating!"

  14. Re:My Pet Rock Is Better on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Can't tell if should get back to 4chan.

    No, wait. I can. Go back to 4chan.

  15. Re:My Pet Rock Is Better on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but I'd rather be bathed in baseball-bat bludgeon-blood than have my eardrums blown out.

    Firearms do not belong on planes, and a good club can maim someone just as well.

  16. Re:Oh look, the pendulum. It swings back. on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 2

    Good luck with that. The moment you propose such a thing the "true red-blooded patriots" come running.

  17. Re:I see... on Why Android Upgrades Take So Long · · Score: 1

    Well, you can unfuck hardware with software (see the last paragraph of the linked section).

  18. Re:Verizon's rationale on Why Android Upgrades Take So Long · · Score: 1

    ...I eventually flashed it ... a really weird filesystem on that phone that had to be dealt with first...

    Then you weren't flashing it, you were just dumping an archive into a filesystem.

  19. Re:Said it before and I'll say it again ... on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 1

    Blocked and/or the browser is configured not to animate them.

    This isn't 1998, animated GIFs don't have a place here anymore.

  20. Re:"Empathy Tests" on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    I think you are putting the chicken before the egg.

    Religion didn't just spontaneously appear - it's our capacity to even conceptualize it that marks us out.

  21. Re:"Empathy Tests" on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    Er... that should read "from A to C without first obtaining B"

  22. Re:"Empathy Tests" on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying that the pursuit of understanding isn't valid? That's quite short-sighted. You can't get from A to C without first obtaining C, and there might be a D that you can't see until you get to C.

  23. Re:"Empathy Tests" on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that the 'distress' these rats face is merely the fact that it is in a small compartment ("tube"). It's hardly being tortured.

  24. Re:Strange names on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 1

    Funny how much of a pain it is to learn something new when you fail to do any sort of research before diving in...

  25. Re:Who? What? on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 2

    So, why would I read a book about motorcycle maintenance when I have little interest in motorcycles or the maintenance of internal combustion engines (and associated machinery)?