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  1. Re:Dr. Seuss on Scientists Offer New Way to Read Online Text · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    According to TALFTFS:

    It breaks complex syntax into simpler syntax, which makes it easier for the brain to absorb the material.
    The example shown (about cells) doesn't change the syntax at all. It just changes the formatting.

    What might help with reading long lines - and be much simpler - is to print the alternate lines on a slightly different shaded background. But that would never catch on.
  2. ob on Microsoft is Screwing Up Live on Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, right now? Which channel is it on?

  3. Re:"as well as the creator of the SCUMM engine" on Ron Gilbert Working on Penny Arcade Game · · Score: 1

    Take a car for example. There's the guy that designed the car, and there's the hundreds or thousands who put it together. Which one would you say 'created' it? Most people would choose the designer.
    Bang on, writing software is so the same as working on a production line.
  4. Re:C3PO as a work companion on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    Only if you'd already, umm, expended Jar-Jar Binks.

  5. Re:Which company researched the bomb? on Privatization Limiting Access To Information · · Score: 1

    Would you deny physics doctorates to anyone from a foreign country that might want to make nukes or support terrorists?
    Yes, if they were caught drinking while wearing a silly hat.
  6. Re:little truth ... on Traffic Fraud Inflates Video Site Popularity · · Score: 1

    I think that's part of the problem though. there are hundreds of relatively shotty websites.
    I call bullet. Anyway, this isn't the place to discus them.
  7. Re:Party over. on Traffic Fraud Inflates Video Site Popularity · · Score: 1

    And don't think you can get away from it in the cinema. First they advertised before the movie. Then they advertised the tie-in merchandise for weeks after the movie. Nowadays the whole movie is one long advert!
    This is true, right after seeing LoTR I felt a huge desire to buy a dwarfish battleaxe & some mithril. And don't get me started about the product placement by Feänmù the bowwright - blatant or what?
  8. Re:So what they're saying here is... on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    It's completely relevant, you can't compare apples and oranges and you can 'prove' anything by cherry-picking specific cases.

  9. Re:the finger on Proposed Legislation Is Mooninite Fallout · · Score: 1

    It's clearly about Boston. The title is "Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act", and if ever there was a piss-poor D- effort at a terrorist hoax, it was the Boston LED Party.

  10. Re:Proof of identity... on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    If not, and the certificate prohibition still stands, then I think that a new Fark contest could be photoshopping the administrators who took steps to relieve her of the teaching certificate into, um, "compromising positions."
    Good idea - better yet, give bonus points for including the King of Thailand.
  11. Re:26% nothing??!? on Social Computing and Badger's Paws · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quite a few of those kind of fables/fairytales are well-known over here.
    True, but they're all copyrighted by Disney.
  12. Re:So what they're saying here is... on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah, but is it over the national average for people with a Master's? Compare like with like.

  13. Re:She was not denied her degree on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    If the teacher thought underage drinking was cool at 25,
    A fairly big if, since there's absolutelely no evidence for that at all.
  14. Re:Define "promoting"? on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    It was a few years back, but basically depicting or mentioning are now synonymous with promoting. I probably have the memo somewhere...

  15. Re:No way. on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 1

    I keep mine in my luggage.

  16. Re:Why are people opposed to copyright? on You Can Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    The Arthurian legends - about King Arthur - are already public-domain. So there's no need to try and protect yourself with all the wierd spellings.

  17. Re:web 2.0 is a buzz word on Social Computing and Badger's Paws · · Score: 1

    To do that you need to leverage best-of-breed apps into a seamlessly service-oriented framework using an open XML-based protocol.

  18. Re:Democracy Sucks. on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    The democracy aspect is where people vote on proposals.
    That's a direct democracy. An indirect or representative democracy is still a democracy.
  19. Re:Hey! on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    I might know a guy who knows somebody that knows.

  20. Re:Same as in Linux on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Even so a strong 8 char password is still a strong password (eg: *_Jilt3d)
    It isn't if you're relying on the part after the eighth character to make it strong and the system is silently ignoring that part.
  21. Re:No way. on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... thus pretty much ensuring that you write it down.

  22. Re:Ah yes... on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    He was released from a contract position that he can be released from at any time
    How can you possibly know that? IANAL but I suspect it depends on the terms of the contract, which I haven't read. Have you?
  23. Re:*smack*! on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    we have a hundred + billion dollar trade deficit with china, ie they are in a position to screw us much more than the other way around.
    If you owe the bank a hundren grand, you should be worried.

    When you owe the bank a hundred million, the bank should be worried.
  24. Re:Does not sound so cool to me. on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    The point he's trying to make is that if management has done its job properly - choosing the right people, training them, setting up the policies & processes etc - then this kind of heroic intervention is unnecessary as the problem would be solved before it got near that stage.

  25. Re:Did I miss something? on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    You mean they aren't one and the same?