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  1. Re:Step back a bit... on Portables Without Cameras? · · Score: 1

    they might be able to press a button and have all cameras jamed in the courtroom, who knows?)

    A button that switches the lights off?

  2. Re:Shakespeare said something about this... on Trademarks Considered Harmful To Open Source · · Score: 2, Funny

    if I give you a non-functional crappy piece of software, and called it MS Windows - you wouldn't be too keen to try the *real* windows, would you?

    I don't see the difference.

  3. Re:That's how science works on MN Supreme Court Backs Reasoned Requests For Breathalyzer Source Code · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you think driving while drunk is OK? If not, how would you test for it?

  4. Re:Its called a half-lap-top on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    Offtpic used to mean "I don't agree with this post, but I'm too lazy, dumb or inarticulate to refute it". Since flamebait took over that role, it now scrapes a living as "I'm not interested in this".

  5. Re:screenshots? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    4th September 1924?

  6. Re:Where there's a will... on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most people think an apostrophe means "look out, here comes an S". You seem to to think it means "oops, you just missed one".

  7. Re:A matter of the environment? on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    bright moonlit night outside, but I'm stuffed in a windowless basement

    Perhaps my neck elevation angle is insufficient, but if I was in a windowless basement how would I know what the lunar illumination situation was?

  8. Re:Thermodynamics on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 2, Informative

    It depends on the temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink; the higher the difference, the more efficient the conversion.

    P.S. Ever heard of google?

  9. Re:but is it cost effective? on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 1

    At least in automotive applications, it begs the question, is it worth the effort?

    Let me assure you that in grammatical application it does nothing of the kind.

  10. Re:Missing from summary on The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The FBI got a warrant first. It's not an extension of illegal wiretapping.

    Well that's no fun.

    Can't we just pretend they didn't so all the ill-informed clowns can rant about the constitution this, entrapment that, yada yada ad nauseam like they usually do?

  11. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 2, Insightful

    like "f**k", because many search interfaces will search for any words starting with a "w" and ending with a "k"

    Why would they censor "wuck"? It's not even a word.

  12. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    How is any comparison where the fonts are in different colours supposed to prove anything?

  13. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And who first realized that all caps make for efficiency? Stone masons. Ever seen a Greco-Roman building?

    Uppercase are mostly straight lines and hence easier to carve.

  14. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're just the kind of pedantic purist he was complaining about. Expecting people to use words with their actual meanings is totally unreasonable.

  15. Re:Isn't that ironic, don't ya think? on Philosophies and Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Beg the question" and "Beg for a question" are two very different things. There's nothing wrong with how the author used the latter.

    Nothing apart from the fact that it's completely unidiomatic, clumsy, and no educated native speaker would ever use it?

  16. Re:Cost $250 Retail for $300? on Leaked Pics of CrunchPad Elicit Progress Update · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if you sell at a loss, you can make up for it with volume.

  17. Did you on Leaked Pics of CrunchPad Elicit Progress Update · · Score: 1

    Did you want something you couldn't buy, or was what you wanted not available to buy?

  18. Re:MOD parent up. on German Wikileaks Domain Suspended Without Warning · · Score: 1

    If they've done nothing wrong they've got nothing to hide.

  19. Re:WHAT? on Asperger Syndrome Tied To Low Cortisol Levels · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In other words, "I've got X" (where X is something that basically makes you a 'tard) but I'm brilliant because 1% of brilliant people possibly have X.

    Well I'm left handed!

  20. Re:If only on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    how long do you think it's going to be until someone starts selling cell phone sized devices that do nothing but wifi communication?

    I'd say about minus 2 years.

  21. Ob on Pro Video Game Leagues — Another Economic Casualty · · Score: 1

    We kan haz baylowt?

  22. Re:RTFA on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    That's why those folks who say RTFA are a bunch of fucking pedantic assholes! I don't need to Read The Fucking Article because it is bullshit anyway!

    The point is that the summary ipso facto faeces tauri est, and is so it's not necessary to RTFA.

    Therefore, I just post with some two bit opinion based on the title - alright, even then, I don't read the title.

    I did reasd the title. And it was bullshit. Just like everything you write.

    By the way, is there some part of "or" your having trouble with?

  23. Re:If only people would on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    'nt start a sentence in the subject line and continue in the body of the post.

  24. Re:freedom fries? on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: 1

    And he still has them all.

  25. It's like trying to not think about elephants on Attempting To Reframe "KDE Vs. GNOME" · · Score: 1

    If there's anything guaranteed to get people talking about X (no, not that X) it's to say "Setting aside X", "Leaving X out of consideration" "For purposes of simplication, ignore X".

    It's like trying to not think about elephants.