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  1. Re:It's obvious on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On Windows, only admins can install.

    So only 99% of users?

  2. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps they're just hitting people with them?

  3. Bloody colonials on Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ok, which kind of English would you pick? Canadian? Australian? Caribbean? Ghanaese? Indian? Scots?

    Proper English, the one that doesn't have any kind of qualifier, description or ($deity forbid) hyphenation bolted onto it.

  4. Adam Smith - heard of him? on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to think that one of the biggest problems with patents is being able to sell them and hold them with out making products based on them.

    So you'd like to prevent specialisation? A company that's good at R&D probably won't be good at manufacturing, selling and distribution.

    The problem in this case, like many others, is the breadth & vagueness of the patent.

  5. Re:Big deal on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Personally, I trust in the mercy of God and that whatever He does is just. There's not much else you can do.

    You mean apart from getting a clue and becoming an atheist?

  6. Re:! surprising on Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA · · Score: 1

    If they have the money to buy shares in the first place, yes.

  7. Re:sony rootkit on Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's So'ny rootkit. The apostrophe has branched out from warning of an imminently approaching s; it also serves to say "hey, you just missed an o".

  8. hang on on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    long winters and cool summers which caused trees to grow slowly and uniformly ideal conditions in fact for producing wood with excellent acoustic qualities.

    So it was the trees that created the conditions?

  9. How poor on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    How poor? Did they use slashcode?

    (I see taggings borked again)

  10. stating the obvious on The Battle Between Purists and Pragmatists · · Score: 1

    Like anything he writes, it's both original and non-obvious. However the non-obvious bits are not original, and the original bits are obvious.

    Obviously, I didn't read it.

  11. Re:Anyone Give A Shit What That Clown Says? Anyone on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 1

    Of course, that's nearly un-enforcable and way too complicated.

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

  12. Re:Correction on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Stallman hurts Pirate Party!!!!!!

  13. Re:Rebuttal quote on What Open Source Can Learn From Apple · · Score: 1

    Report that spellchecking in Firefox doesn't work under win XP. You'll be told to enable it in the settings. Yeah, thanks Poindexter, that hadn't occurred to me, nor anyone else.

    I'd say that falls under "works for me".

  14. Re:This looks like an Anagran ad on New Router Manages Flows, Not Packets · · Score: 1

    You won't get many answers, since that would require somebody else to be:
    a) foolish enough to read it
    b) even more foolish to admit tt

  15. Re:Rebuttal quote on What Open Source Can Learn From Apple · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'm not saying you're wrong, but a much more likely response will be:
    • None.
    • Works for me.
    • That's a feature not a bug.
    • If you're so smart, fixit yourself and submit a patch.
      (so you submit a patch)...
      • your patch is teh sux0rz - rejected.
  16. Re:One word on What Open Source Can Learn From Apple · · Score: 1

    One more: Hungarian.

  17. Re:Deconstruct on Study Deconstructs Canadian Copyright Lobby Deception · · Score: 1

    I bet you don't know what it means either. It certainly doesn't mean "refute" or "disagree with" like 99% of cretins who use it seem to think.

  18. Re:Of Course on Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict · · Score: 1

    The civil judgment isn't a fine.

    Not in name. But it's so far from any sensible concept of damages (i.e repairing/replacing a loss) that in actuality, it is a fine.

  19. Re:It was impossible to cause that much damage on Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict · · Score: 1

    Of course. USA is number one ! NUM BER ONE!

    This is one of the reasons extradition, even dor serious crimes, is a one way street. The second is that the other governments are too stupid to say no.

  20. Re:It needs some method of data entry on CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' · · Score: 1

    the only problem is that you can't see it and need to actually know where the keys are

    Just stand in front of a mirror. And, er, learn to read miror writing or hack the screen driver to reverse the image.

  21. Re:It needs some method of data entry on CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure I've nevr seen anything like that!

  22. Re:Yet another IT company gets to live my dream! on Oracle Kills Virtual Iron · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure what you mean by your second comment, but to be clear, they *lost* $17M net of their $3.4M - so their gross expenses were $20m.

    Hi Bernie, how are you able to post from your cell?

  23. Deconstruct on Study Deconstructs Canadian Copyright Lobby Deception · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The word "deconstruct" is the new "mashup".

  24. Re:Mung on Has Google Broken JavaScript Spam Munging? · · Score: 1

    He meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munge, which seems like it would conjugate to munging following the normal rules.

    What, just like sing does?

  25. Re:Several Proxies on A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education · · Score: 1

    The only reason it can't be construed in that way is because it's physically impossible.

    Take this mallet. I'll hold the fencepost, and when I nod my head, you hit it. Subtly different, and requires a bit of common sense. But I've seen written instructions so full of pronouns, subordinate clauses and run-on sentences that it was impossible to tell which "it" it was referring to.