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  1. Re:battery cost on GM Working on Feasible Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Nope, not here. Here the power is nuclear.

  2. Re:Does Dark Matter exist? on Hubble Telescope Maps Dark Matter in 3D · · Score: 1

    Personally I think the simplest solution is that dark matter is made up of neutrinos. Although I don't know whether that would be possible or not.

  3. Re:Yeah, right on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Almost nobody uses IIS and yet it's still the most insecure webserver used. Perhaps non-Microsoft products are just better designed.

  4. Re:Think about it on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 4, Informative

    In addition, in server space the numbers are much more even, and Apache/Unix servers outnumber Windows/IIS servers. Yet all the server malware is for Windows NT-based servers and not Apache/Unix based servers.

  5. Re:obscure, like published source code? on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd say that post wasn't very eloquent but it's true. If you're not smart enough to realize that modern Unices are more secure by design you haven't actually looked into things. They're not optimal(a capability system would be better) but they're better than that of any Microsoft solution. Nimda attacked Microsoft Windows servers. There is no equivalent to Nimda for Apache/Unix servers even though Apache/Unix servers are more common than Windows servers.

  6. Re:Mod up!! on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    What about fucking CP/M, even? Microsoft got lucky.

  7. Re:jesus on GM Working on Feasible Electric Car · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, duh. Everybody who's seen Dogma knows that.

  8. Re:same topic, from Salon.com on ABC/Disney Shuts Down Blog Exercising Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of the mainstream media(controlled by Rupert Murdoch and the military-industrial complex) but those people make the MSM look like fucking angels.

  9. Re:Disgusting radio commentary... on ABC/Disney Shuts Down Blog Exercising Fair Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm ashamed that my nation picks leaders such as George W. Bush, who thinks selling lives for oil is a less heinous crime than two men loving each other.

  10. Re:But Opera is perfect! on Opera Security Patched In Secret · · Score: 1

    Just because I don't agree with your ridiculous little crusade doesn't make me a twitter-worshipper.

  11. Re:The developers fault to begin with... on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, there's the fact that they barely improved actual W3C compatibility while making itself incompatible with previous versions.

  12. Re:-1 million "Troll" on Resolutions for 2007? · · Score: 1

    When was The Divine Comedy written? When is this "comic book" written?

  13. Re:Easy Solution on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    "He said Nietzsche there, you fool!"-Oscar Wilde

  14. Re:But Opera is perfect! on Opera Security Patched In Secret · · Score: 1

    Troll? I can see the evil Firefox fanboy army is attacking...

  15. Re:But Opera is perfect! on Opera Security Patched In Secret · · Score: 1

    I haven't dated at all, you insensitive clod, but I know it's not a security hole if you're using condoms.

  16. Re: vaccines are a nightmare on Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, we all know that the Aschen vaccines are making everybody infertile.

  17. Re:uh oh, there goes wikipedia on Wikipedia Used for Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't think there are hundreds of thousands of zombifiable computers in the United States? And what about people with business connections in China or Korea?

  18. Re:So let the flame wars begin! on The Birth of vi · · Score: 1

    gvim is more usable and intuitive than any editor actually created for the GUI. The only reason I'd use something like gedit nowadays is as a copy+paste buffer.

  19. Re:Too bad vi sucks on The Birth of vi · · Score: 1

    That is a really good idea. I plan on doing that if I create an editor.

  20. Re:Just remember... VI is power on The Birth of vi · · Score: 1

    It also means "with force" in Latin, as the ablative of the word vis meaning force or strength. vim is also a form of the same word but the accusative of a word like vis makes no sense out of context.

  21. Re:So let the flame wars begin! on The Birth of vi · · Score: 3, Funny

    :%s/Ctrl+X Ctrl+S/:w/
    'Nuff said.

  22. Re:Is Wikipedia really that bad? on Will OLPC's 'Sugar' Have an Effect on Other OSes? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He sounds like an arch-conservative lamenting that his biased textbooks won't be the cornerstone of people learning history anymore.

  23. But Opera is perfect! on Opera Security Patched In Secret · · Score: -1, Troll

    It can't have holes!

  24. Re:OO Cobol since 1989! on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse OO with C++'s braindead implementation of such. Good OO such as that in Smalltalk can be used to make good programs. But Stroustrup's belief that an ugly language can be used to make a pretty program screws things up very well.

  25. Re:Easy Solution on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    "A witty saying proves nothing"-Voltaire