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  1. Re:Also from the article... on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Uhhh, New Orleans?

  2. Re:Also from the article... on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1

    > Someone please try to justify evicting one and a half million people for the Olympics.

    By the numbers YOU quoted, that's 1/10th of 1% of their population.

  3. Re:10 years ago, in Byte on Why OldTech Keeps Kicking · · Score: 2, Funny

    The same issue had an article on "DLL disasters - DLL conflicts are a common cause of crashes".

    Ten years gone, and still relevant.

  4. Re:Digital Presidency? more like FARKING SPAMMER on The Coming Digital Presidency · · Score: 1

    The first article was a post from a single whiner, complaining about receiving TWO additional e-mails. A Google search for similar ("barack obama unsubscribe") returned that article as #4, and nothing else similar in the next four pages. You titled that link "Barack's Take on Honoring Unsubscribe Requests", as though your single whiner had gotten some kind of "we refuse to remove you from the list" message. Next, you posted a link to a Google search for "barack obama" on a newsgroup world renowned for kooks, nutters, foamers and name-callers.

    Now, you come back with
    1) a newsgroup discussion (from the afore-mentioned group) of people receiving OBVIOUS prank spam (To: SpamLovingWhore, SlutFace; From: Barack Obama).
    2) a news story titled "Prankster Pollutes Obama's E-mail List" about how Obama's inferior sign-up process has been pwned, and
    3) a news story entitled " E-Mail Spam Startles Some Anti-Spammers" which doesn't even mention Obama.

    This, you call "Legitimate information". I said it before, I'll say it again, you're just a troll.

  5. Re:Digital Presidency? more like FARKING SPAMMER on The Coming Digital Presidency · · Score: 4, Informative

    You have GOT to be kidding. You're actually using a Google search of news.admin.net-abuse.email for "barack obama" as some kind of "evidence" of something? news.admin.net-abuse.email is the preferred home newsfroup of every k00k, forger, impostor, sock-puppet and whack-job on Usenet. It's the home of countless flame-wars, ridiculous accusations and general raving stupidity. My god, I wear a tinfoil hat AND a condom when I read that group. If that's the best you've got, then you should just go back under your bridge, troll.

  6. Re:Added bonus on The Coming Digital Presidency · · Score: 1

    ...on the Internet, one rarely has to flee under sniper fire.
    You must not spend a lot of time on Usenet.
  7. Re:True but... on Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm suddenly beginning to realize why married men live longer...

  8. Sorry on Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't give "world's first computer programmer" to Ada Lovelace - I have to give it to Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard Loom. Babbage's Analytical Engine was to use cards - based on Jacquard's idea.

  9. Re:Huh. on Calculating the Date of Easter · · Score: 1

    Of course, you are correct. The (Greek) Orthodox get this - the Last Supper was a Passover feast - case closed.

    Meanwhile, I prefer the Flying Spagetti Monster

  10. Re:Science of Political Agenda? on How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience · · Score: 1

    Too bad there's no "+5 Wry" mod.

  11. Re:Warning: Spoilers on A Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series on the Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed.HUGE spoilers. Don't RTFA, really.

    The problem with BSG has always been that if you miss even one episode, you're screwed trying to re-establish continuity; and now this new news that Optimus Prime is a Cylon is just the last straw.

  12. Re:Bad Summary on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. The GP was saying "no harm, no foul". Indeed there was - this potentially changed the outcome of the election.

  13. Re:Bad Summary on Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year · · Score: 1
    BZZZZZT. Try again.

    Perez withdrew one day after Franklin County had finalized its ballots. He had hoped to avoid playing spoiler in fellow Democrat Patsy Thomas' race to retain her appointment to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
    Instead, Perez's name remained on the ballots -- or allegedly, most ballots -- and Republican David Tyack won.
  14. Re:Tell that to Niels Bohr on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 1

    That's OK, I'll take the beer and the Nobel Prize FTW.

  15. Tell that to Niels Bohr on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 2, Funny

    He had a house with a faucet that gave fresh beer - just next door to the Carlsberg brewery.

  16. Re:Blame it on Torchwood on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 1, Funny

    They have too many hands in the British government.
    Yeah. "Informative". What if "he" returns? Heh.
  17. Coming soon on MST3K... on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Bad teeth in outer space".

  18. Re:Okay... on The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Natalie Portman" + Linux
    Why operator overloading and templates are a bad idea...
  19. Re:So what's the Gregorian music website? on The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 · · Score: 1

    According to Google, this and the current /. thread are the only hits for "Gregorian music collection".

  20. Re:"stuck with a ...serial programming model" on Wintel, Universities Team On Parallel Programming · · Score: 1

    There is sometimes no way around doing something sequentially.
    Like I always say (sometimes): "A process blocked on I/O is blocked, no matter how many processors you throw at it."
  21. Re:Quantum Wikipedia on Physics Journal May Reconsider Wikipedia Ban · · Score: 4, Funny

    So: the article could either be correct or incorrect, until someone reads it?

  22. Re:What?! on Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Netscape should have died years ago.
    I.d be willing to bet that there are WAY more users of IE 5.x than there are users of Netscape.
  23. Re:Chief Dyer? on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 1

    I don't really think we want policemen who are petarded.

  24. Re:Chief Dyer? on GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com · · Score: 3, Informative

    Chief Jerry Dyer, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, voices what sounds like a more honest concern: that officers will face "unfair maligning" by the citizens they serve.
  25. Hmmm - who to believe, who to believe?? on NVIDIA Doubts Ray Tracing Is the Future of Games · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Intel says to do it with the CPU, and nVidia says to do it with the GPU. What a surprise.