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  1. Re:Minutes? on Food Bloggers Giving Restaurant Owners Heartburn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude. High dynamic range entrées take time.

  2. Re:More worse? on Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't inflate its impact so much. They just accidentally thousands of barrels of oil.

  3. Re:So... on A Playable PAC-MAN On Google Doodle · · Score: 1

    Certainly annoyed me (slightly, thanks to my keen knowledge of clipboard-fu). I guess they didn't want to force the GIGANTIC user base to click the ad to start play.

    Incidentally, the playable doodle doesn't actually link to a relevant search (like others), and I think people will interpret that (combined with the WASD thing) as a conspiracy to prevent searching for Neave's Flash version, or other free ones. I think Google just didn't care. :)

  4. Re:Link to subpoena? on Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's simple, really: All your account holder are belong to @TCorbett. You are on your way to #arrest. You have no chance to escape law make your time #hahaha

  5. Re:WTF? on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 1

    They're obviously scared of spreading a Chris Tucker meme.

  6. Re:No way! on Microsoft Warns of Windows 7 Graphics Flaw · · Score: 1

    But Areos are yummy cookies!

  7. Re:WHAT on Chrome Private Mode Not Quite Private · · Score: 1

    The Chocolate Factory knows your entire browsing history ... Why shouldn't it keep track of your favourite kinds of porn ...

    Wait, is this a fudge-packing joke?

  8. Re:Sounds like... on Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding? · · Score: 1

    It'll xoom to great heights!

  9. Alternate translation on CoD: Black Ops To Get Dedicated Game Servers · · Score: 1

    Big game franchise regresses, then tries to catch up to better games.

  10. Re:... Hear no evil. See no evil. on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    For BP, "response effort" means "when the fuck can we start pumping again?" Things like "calculating a level of effort for the cleanup, possibly quantity of cleanup materials, or potential ocean chemistry changes" are not relevant to their business. (Those are good things to do, yes, but their business is not "doing good things", its "selling the black gold".)

  11. Re:Incredible? Really? on Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Psst, not too loud. The puppy-eyed IE-spiting fanboys might deflate and cry!

    I agree that HTML5 is unexciting hype. Base the next HTML on XHTML 1.0 and I'll care.

  12. Re:First of all.... on Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification · · Score: 1

    It's catchy theme song goes something like "dundundundun DUUUUN dRights error, cannot verify content authenticity or license of display device. Stop 0xCAFEBABE"

  13. Re:MTX client sucks. on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have to agree on the "sucks". .net apps can be slow (to load the requisite libs and such) but mtx takes a long time to start up and get active, and there are GUI hangs that happen more than half the time, neither with actual processor jump. Both suggest failed connects (or some other background messes) that aren't getting multithreaded right.

    Good luck to MekTek, but I'll be trying this method for now.

  14. Re:HTML5 will be a screw job. on Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 · · Score: 1

    Now that WHATWG's efforts have been accepted by W3C and the superior standard of XHTML2 has been shelved, what can we do to try and make the web work properly?

    Reject the accepted efforts and use HTML4 or XHTML 1.0 until they learn how to write valid DTDs. (I haven't read the XHTML2 standard enough to judge it, but if that works for you then even better.)

    Divorcing HTML from SGML seems more concession than improvement.

  15. Re:If it's that predictable, is it really news? on FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter · · Score: 1

    The video tag works very much like the img tag and thus can support multiple codecs.

    That's the problem. video is a lot like good ol' object, which already determines video type based on the server or the MIME type in attribute type , and has the same wrong-MIME-related problems. From there (assuming the right MIME), the browser can just use a default player (as Chrome, Firefox, and even IE are sometimes smart enough to do). If said player can't figure out the exact codecs, then some combination of (a) the player isn't smart enough (really, exact-codec-hunting should be the player's job), (b) the video's some old, busted, or old and busted format, and (c) the video is not a video and no amount of "dieflashdie" will save its ass or the user's.

    Other than some issues of how default object players would do the whole controls and poster thing, I remain unconvinced that video is not redundant or even bad. With the failed one-format effort, I keep blinking and thinking "Meet the new HTML" and so forth. *sighs* just hoped that we'd all drop img and any other format-specific object tags now that Acid2 checks some object images and stuff. Rant over, do continue.

  16. Re:Palm? on The PalmPilots That Never Were · · Score: 2, Funny

    In an attempt to keep the Personal Systems Group viable, HP will bundle it with its new HeadDesk.

    The total cost will be bruising. :(

  17. Re:Copying on India, China Try Import Regulations As Security Tools · · Score: 4, Funny

    That one sucks. I prefer "Ginuwine Sisqó Router" because its Web interface has lots of thongs and double entendres.

  18. Re:Coming from the Terminator on Supreme Court To Rule On State Video Game Regulation · · Score: 1

    I've changed over deh years. No moah voilence or machinegun or liquid robots for me, only Abadah and deh econamy and the govuhment and so on.

  19. Re:Big name = other people on Best Alternatives To the Big Name Social Media? · · Score: 1

    I read the FAQ and wondered how John Boehner would answer them.

  20. Re:Done on IEEE Introduces Mario Level-Generation Competition · · Score: 3, Funny

    Diablo II (and possibly the original Diablo) does this as well in single player.

    Quoth the 'pedia,

    Diablo is highly re-playable due to its randomly generated level layouts, monsters, and items. In addition, in single-player mode there are only three core quests as the rest of them are drawn from several pools, making it impossible to complete every quest in one playthrough of the game. Either way, only the last two quests are compulsory. Given this arrangement, no two playthroughs of the game are ever exactly alike.

    So it's possibly not "possibly". The quoted section is unsourced, though, so it possibly is "possibly". I'll possibly never know unless I play the game or study modal logic.

  21. Re:The detail is amazing on NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images · · Score: 1

    The area is too gravelly for me to make it out, though. :(

  22. Re:So fast, so dangerous on Shuttle Reentry Over the Continental US · · Score: 1

    Depends on her surface area to mass ration

    Indeed, all those rations have taken a toll on her curves. :(

  23. Re:Oracle on Sun Pushes Emergency Java Patch · · Score: 1

    Rarely are "mergers" destructive of corporate entities (especially so early in an acquisition)

    Don't worry, they'll find a way.

  24. Re:Notability on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 1

    The problem is, if something is not notable in the USA, then it is not notable for Wikipedia at all.

    Bullshit.

  25. Re:tired of this crap on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1

    He thinks about them aaaaall the tiiiiime. (to paraphrase every R&B song and new boyfriend ever)