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  1. Re:"PAY TV" on New Patent on TV Forces You to Watch Ads · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's not. I don't like Dell either, but it's not like they zoomed in on the "Dell" logo on Samantha Carter's computer. In fact, I didn't even know that fact until you pointed it out. And I'd suspect that, as sibling post points out, it's a military purchase. They probably wouldn't let her use her own computer on a project as secret as that.

    Wow, I'm arguing about the computer use of a sci-fi character...this is geeky, even for /.

  2. Re:Oh no! on eBay Looking for Allies Against Google · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're being sarcastic, but from what I've heard about Paypal, it is evil.

  3. Re:Embrace, extend, extinguish. on Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer · · Score: 1

    It's not extinguish. It's EX-TER-MI-NATE! (See sig.)

  4. Re:Digg Sucks... on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 1
    2) spammers are posting all over a good article, making it hard to see good comments: you filter the spamming poster
    And when the spammers make new accounts? Bayesian classification perhaps, although I think that might be a little computationally-intensive
  5. Re:Undercover marketing? on A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab · · Score: 1

    Only if you're a homophobic troglodyte(wait, the former implies the latter) who thinks that any semblance of culture is proof of homosexuality.

  6. Re:Why not improve on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Well, in that case just s/vagina/vulva in my original statement.

  7. My mood might be subjunctive ;) on Software Tracks Blogosphere Mood Swings · · Score: 1

    I guess that puts me in the smart-ass category...

  8. Re:Why not improve on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Unless I'm mistaken, the vagina releases both urine and sexual substances, like the penis.

  9. Unrelated etymology note on Microsoft Plans Gdrive Competitor · · Score: 1

    Jester and gesture both come from the Latin gestus-a-um, fourth principal part of gero, to carry(the former comes from a French corruption)

  10. Re:He SHOULD appoint head of ACLU on Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer · · Score: 1

    We're talking about Bush here. The diminishing freedom-hating(but "freedom"-loving), SUV-driving, redneck base would be in revolution if he appointed an ACLUer.

  11. Re:He is going to be incredibly effective!!!! on Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer · · Score: 2, Funny
    The Bush administration has been living in Opposite Day for years.
    You have committed thoughtcrime. Doubleplusungood.
  12. Doubleplusungood! on Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer · · Score: 1

    The word bad is doubleplusungood.

  13. Re:No, no, no! on Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer · · Score: 1

    I say that after a president's second term, we vote on whether he should be arrested or not. That would make it at least a little better...

  14. Re:My view on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 1

    Digg is K5, poorly-implemented. It can only get worse.

  15. Re:Why not improve on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    I don't think anuses were even the point here--the penis and vagina are also excretory organs.

  16. Re:Digg Sucks... on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 1

    What happens when an article only has spammers posting on it?

  17. Re:This should be fun on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 1

    Digg is a repeat of Kuro5hin, it will end up just like K5--almost forgotten.

  18. Re:I know this will be an unpopular position... on Slashback: OpenSSH, Falwell, OpenDRM · · Score: 1

    The "u" ran away from constitution and into hono(u)r.

  19. Re:eerrr on Slashback: OpenSSH, Falwell, OpenDRM · · Score: 1

    I think you said billion, not million. Although if we made antimatter, we should make sure that(SPOILER ALERT, of Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons") gur nagvznggre qbrfa'g trg fgbyra ol gur "Vyyhzvangv" juvpu jnf npghnyyl perngrq ol gur pnzreyratb va beqre gb orpbzr Cbcr.

  20. Re:DRM leads to monopolies on... everything. on FCC Commissioner Wants To Push For DRM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or even when their iPod accidentally loses their DRM keys(this has happened to me before, luckily I only have a few iTMS songs from a 15 dollar gift card) and they can't play their iTMS songs anymore.(If you're lucky, after a few seconds the next song on the list will play, if you're not, I hope you had a warranty)

  21. Re:Roti on Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption · · Score: 1

    In one universe, we have, in one universe, we lack. Everett's many-world theory is much less gibberishlike than the Copenhagen model.

  22. Re:Mods, please.... on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    Hello, MS Paint. I love how even you can be used to make a fake karma rating. Your posts start at 0, even that pic shows it, that was a really bad Paint job.

  23. Re:Updating evolution on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? · · Score: 1
    It is whether it is ethical to harvest them from a proto human who has no say in the matter.
    Why do you conservatives think testing on animals(which have fully developed nervous systems and ergo can feel pain) is okay but doing absolutely anything with a human fetus(which has no nervous system, cannot feel pain, and is as human as a tumor) is a moral abomination?
    The lack of a mathematical foundation is a severe limitation.
    Genetics is a perfectly fine mathematical foundation. The theory of evolution has undergone quite a few minor changes since Darwin's original work. The biggest one is genetics--that traits are not a continuum but discrete. Most of Newton's equations only required minor changes(mostly multiplication or division of some quantities by a square root) to the formulae with Einstein's relativity. Evolution has been demonstrated many times already(why doesn't penicillin work as well anymore? Certainly the formula hasn't magically changed).

    GWB on evolution and ID: "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
    That was a response to a direct question about teaching ID in science class. Although GWB's response is nice and vague(and hard to combat), his intent was clear--get ID, which is pseudoscience, to be taught as equal to Evolution, which is actual science.
  24. Re:Not True! on Reverse Multithreading CPUs · · Score: 1

    No, we have always been at war with HyperTransport. You have committed thoughtcrime. Doubleplusungood.

  25. Re:Alas... on Reverse Multithreading CPUs · · Score: 1

    You do realize that's based on Alexa, which is based on a spyware toolbar which 1) the "average" /.er is unlikely to use and 2) diggers installed to artificially boost their ratings.