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  1. I don't see the problem on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While it would be nice if it were otherwise, sometimes you need to break with the past to develop solutions to problems. It's an ugly, but very real truth. Thats not to say that my I will be rewriting my code to 3.0 immediately, but sometime in the next year or two I probably will.

  2. I already... on More Federal Workers are Telecommuting · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already do Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms at home, often all at once. They could just hire me and boost their numbers accordingly.

  3. Nice and all but on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have one render mode that actually works.

  4. A future scene..... on Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Though the original stock comes from Scandinavia the terroir of this particular batch came from Shanghai. You can smell the rich, earthy aroma of circuits left on the assembly line until they were perfectly ripe. Taste high-impact plastic exterior, make sure you taste it on the back of your tongue. As you can tell it's quite a balanced flavor. Quite correct sir, vintage 2002. It takes time to bring a phone to that level of complexity.

  5. The problem is... on A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers · · Score: 1

    The problem is that when other unions go on strike they're trying to make life more difficult, not less so.

  6. I don't see the problem on PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all PI's get to drive around in their employer's red Ferrari and have witty repartee with the English Estate manager (who may or may not be ghostwriting the employer's books) while having casual sexual relationships with clients. In Hawaii. Am I right here folks?

  7. Further Proof on Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is further proof that everyone should just speak English.

  8. E-mail growth... on 27 Billion Gigabytes to be Archived by 2010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    E-mail growth accounts for much of that figure.

    They should have that looked at. A good dermatologist could remove it.
  9. As a Geographer and 5 generation New Yorker on The City of the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No. The New York City of tomorrow is here right now. Most of the building that will be here then are built already. More then you may think were already there in 1908. New York is physically highly resistant to change. There will be some differences yes. Fresh Kills is well on the way to being a major park. (No really) If anything the radical changes will be occurring in Hoboken and Jersey City. They are the natural extensions of the city and with the Access to Regions Core project, future PATH tunnels, Cross Harbor Tunnel and likely increased ferry service the west shore of the Hudson will become just another borough except that they'll be independent cities in another state. Oh and the Mets may have won a World Series by then (We can't give up hope!)

  10. As long as... on i-Snake, a New Robotic Surgeon · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as they don't call it McSnaky I'll be fine.

  11. Re:In Communist America.. on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It isn't fascism when we do it.
    Remember it.
    Make it your mantra.
    Keeping repeating it enough and maybe it'll be true but I wouldn't hold my breath.

  12. Re:But but but! on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worse!
    Liberals!

  13. 3d Viewer on Mars Rover Technology Used to Make Better Maps · · Score: 0

    It'd be interesting if I can import this data into ESRI 3D analyst. Combining this with other layers could make for some VERY interesting goofing off err... spatial analysis in support of core projects (or at least thats what my time sheet will say.)

  14. Re:Subpoena Windows Source Code on Opera Tells EU That Microsoft's IE Hurts the Web · · Score: 0

    1) What makes you think that they will subpena MS's code?
    2) What makes you think that even if they were to get that code that it would ever be seen anywhere but a lawyers office?

  15. Last Post on Zotob and Mytob Worm Authors Arrested · · Score: 0

    End

  16. I'd install but... on Mapping the Internet Evolution · · Score: 0

    From the website:
    "Currently, the DIMES agent is available for Windows platforms only" -- yes, but I'm running Linux you insensitive clod.

  17. This from a company... on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 0

    This from a company that choose to use people in dinosaur costumes for thier new add campaign?

  18. Re:Are you open enough? on We're Open enough, Says Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Please, us weird people under the bridge run BSD

  19. Yes... on Humanoid Robot KHR-1 SDK Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...but if I stick a magnet on it's head does it want to become Folk singer?

  20. Gilligan's Comet on NASA's Deep Impact Moved Into Cruise Phase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this space port, aboard this tiny probe. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the skipper brave and sure. Five experiments set sail that day, for a sixty day tour, a sixty day tour......... The weather started getting rough, the tiny probe was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, Deep Impace would be lost; Deep Impace would be lost. The probe smashed in to the shore of this uncharted space rock, with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire, and his Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's Comet.

  21. Netcraft confirms.... on Has Mass-Mailed Malware Peaked? · · Score: 1

    death of Virus's internet. So if there is not internet then there are no virus's. Woohoo!

  22. There are 3 kinds of lies... on Nielsen Report Says Internet Usage Flattening · · Score: 1

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American author, humorist

  23. I'm not so certain about this on Game Industry Opinion Continues to Burn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While it is true that an indy developer can (and do) create great games, with excellent play and graphics and the whole whatnot, it is also true that you need big developers to bankroll games. I doubt that ,say, GTA:San Andreas, could have been created without the huge investment that was made in it.

  24. Re:Google = Echelon? on No Secret Plan at Google? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Use Scroogle then if your afraid of Google's cookies.

  25. Re:The Pacebo effect is controversial on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Much like U.S. law in the Bush Administration.