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  1. Re:Password aging isn't in touch with the real wor on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    Your purpose is to allow the organization to function more efficiently and effectively.

    Allowing lax security is easy, but it isn't effective or efficient.

  2. Re:I'm looking for an mp3 editing graphics suite on Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? · · Score: 1

    What is "traffic jackass"? Now "jackass traffic", as in lots of onagers moving about, that might make sense.

  3. Re:Subject-verb agreement on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    Neither "user" nor "they" is a verb or a subject

    Really? It appears that "they" is the person who did the receiving. Perhaps in whatever language you speak that isn;t a subject, but in English it is. Moron.

  4. Re:Subject-verb agreement on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    So sentence fragments can't have errors? Or a sentence fragment that contains the error is somehow insufficient to show it? How much should I quote? Everything he ever wrote in his life, would that be enough? Which spastic started this sentence fragment meme? I hope they die soon, but slowly.

  5. I'm looking for an mp3 editing graphics suite on Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am looking for a content and/or project management solution for a marketing research team using both Macs and PCs.

    Funny that, I'm looking for a seven seat minivan moped submarine. That can fly. Seriously, the two tasks you asked for are so different that the request doesn't even make sense.

    It may be tricky to configure (since I will be doing that)

    Yes, you've already proven that you're a genius.

  6. Re:Tom Lehrer +1 on 25th Anniversary of Hackers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what the holy bastard fuck "its'" is supposed to be. Is it perhaps the possessive of the plural of an it?

  7. Re:Password aging isn't in touch with the real wor on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    If the lusers deserve it, is it sadistic to torture them?

  8. Subject-verb agreement on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that user's rejection of the security advice they receive

    Subject-verb agreement. Look it up.

  9. Re:BeOS! on Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale · · Score: 4, Funny

    set themselves up piece-meal

    Don't spell piecemeal in a piecemeal way.

  10. WTF? Buzz'ed? on Ex-Googler Obama Appointee Gets Buzz'ed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this some new rule about apostrophe usage? I tell you what, I'll be pretty piss'ed if there was a memo and I miss'ed it or it whizz'ed over my head.

  11. WTF on Game Devs On the Future of PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    What's a niched product? Seems I spend too much time mainstreaming...

  12. Re:Foundation on Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    At least we'd have the choice to see it or not. Second thoughts. We'll let you decide for us - you're so much better than we are, right?

  13. Re:Semicolon splice on Apple iPad Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It would be OK to use "little official comment".

  14. Secicolon splice on Apple iPad Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even though the in-house-designed 1GHz A4 chip got little official comments from Apple; touch screen's instantaneous responses prove that it is outstandingly fast.

    A semicolon splice? You don't see many of those around.

  15. Re:Public schools on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers." - John D. Rockefeller

    He's still calling the shots, is he? Plutocrats are bad enough, but zombie plutocrats is just going too far.

  16. Re:Foundation on Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    It might be better that it's made by him than not made at all.

  17. Re:Why? on Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Queue the continued nerd rage in 3...2...1...

    Righto. Should we form the line to the left or the right?

  18. Re:Oh great... on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It looks like you're trying to get a first post. Would you like me to:

    * Help you with a template

    * Waste your time so you fail it

    * Just bugger off

  19. Re:as it is on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    And then, a passenger uses his cell phone, the car mis-detects it as you holding it and shuts down ignition just before reaching a railroad crossing. Due to the missing ignition, power braking now fails

    The "pressure" (actually it's a vacuum, but you can think of it as negative pressure) is stored in a reservoir. There will be enough to stop the car even with the engine off.

  20. Re:Have they shown that hands-free devices help? on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    Ermmm ... ummm ... No. Absolutely not. I don't even possess a coat that color, and it wouldn't fit me anyway.

  21. Re:So the staff can safely observe when... on Boy Left Stranded In Tree Because of Health and Safety Policy · · Score: 1

    Of course no one can hear him if there's no one there.

    Indeed - there'd be nothing to hear. Nonexistent people are very quiet, even when plummeting from arboreal vegetation.

  22. Re:Have they shown that hands-free devices help? on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    Ya, it's a terrible distraction, when they're trying to smoke a cigarette, hold a drink, fix their makeup, beat the kids in the back seat, AND use the phone.

    That's ridiculous. Nobody would ever try to do more than three of those at the same time.

  23. Quick, call the department of redundancy dept! on Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Cosmic ray radiation? Better get some radiation shielding shields!

  24. Am I missing something? on It's Time To Split Up NSA Between Spooks and Geeks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    'The problem is, their goals are often in opposition,' writes Shachtman. 'One team wants to exploit software holes; the other wants to repair them.

    How are they in opposition? Isn't the aim to exploit the ones in their systems, and plug the holes in ours.

  25. Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 1

    Original? I'd settle for true.

    If Marines were that clumsy we'd all be speaking German or Japanese now.