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  1. Re:I don't believe it on Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store · · Score: 3, Insightful

    not a single cede/seed joke in a story about apple.. what has happened to my slashdot

  2. Re:Is Kirk hinting to us? on Ambassador Claims ACTA Secrecy Necessary · · Score: 1

    >>The irony of your last comments is that the income tax started out as only a tax on the exteremly wealthy

    Irony indeed:

    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005921.html

  3. Re:the real threat will be government intervention on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 0

    >> (yes [forbes.com], even Fox News [journalism.org]... numbers don't lie)

    So you believe that letters can lie but not numbers?

    I guess a less indirect way of saying this is, neither numbers not letters can lie. It is their context that matters. No form of communication is immune to deception.

    Ironically , the fact that you present a link to proof that Fox news was biased towards Obama proves your theory about numbers incorrect.

  4. Re:Expected on MS Finds Security Flaw In Google Chrome Frame · · Score: 1

    want to borrow one of my tinfoil hats?

  5. Re:Is it trickery? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    right, but how can one person hold both views without skitzophrenia being involved.

    in psudogeek, evil is subset of wrong. so evil IS inherently wrong while wrong is not inherently evil.

  6. Re:Is it trickery? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    no doubt, but what the op claimed was that something could be designated evil but somehow not be wrong. one caveat to the my 'no doubt'. there is no compelling reason to believe that all right/wrong tagging is done from the top down. In fact this is almost never the case in a society that has meaningful voting rights.

  7. Re:Is it trickery? on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >> Nothing wrong inherently with evil, ya know. If there is nothing wrong with evil then what is "wrong"?

  8. Re:Asian style gaming on On Transitioning To an Asian-Style MMO, Such As Aion · · Score: 1

    Grue: 3, 1 hour windows beginning 25 hours after previous death. Always pops claimed. Grue Goo cannot be listed on Auction House, only in player Bazaars. (just to make it exactly like FFXI)

  9. Re:Bede bede bede on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Actually, using distance as a measure of performance for superluminal travel is quite clever. All the other pirates would know that the Kessel run is say, 13 parsecs and to contract space to 12 parsecs means you are really moving. Of course this would be lost on Luke (and you :p) being that you don't usually travel near the speed of light. Obi Wan gets it though. Always thought of this as one of the more well written pieces of character dialog in the film.

  10. Re:Acronym expansion confusion on Cisco Barges Into the Server Market · · Score: 1

    actually, goes a little further than that. if you are comparing two measurements with the same units, not only does the denominator of those units not matter.. the entire units stop mattering. your result will always be a dimensionless ration.

  11. Re:If in doubt, read this article! on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 1

    No, the prices from something like yahoo don't work that way. Dell never traded at $.06, the jan 1 1990 close was in fact $5.63. The price you are looking at is both split and dividend adjusted. That is how the keep the graphs so continuous, else you would see gaps down in price on split dates.

    this is the price stream if you care:
    Date Open High Low Close Volume Adj Close*

    5-Jan-90 5.38 5.63 5.38 5.50 1,382,400 0.06
    4-Jan-90 5.63 5.63 5.38 5.38 3,225,600 0.06
    3-Jan-90 5.63 5.63 5.50 5.50 1,651,200 0.06
    2-Jan-90 5.75 5.75 5.38 5.63 2,284,800 0.06

  12. Re:I missed the boat on Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted · · Score: 1

    he is correct. I work for a hedge fund with a real prime brokerage account and we cannot borrow it. If we cant get it, no chance an individual account can.

  13. Re:Waaaaa. on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is NOT an issue of linux integrating into an BUSINESS environment. It is an issue of linux not integrating into a MICROSOFT environment. Although often the same thing, NOT the same thing.

  14. Re:they won't on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    whats vista?

  15. Re:Large groups of employers on .Net Programmers Fall in CNN's Top 5 In-Demand · · Score: 1

    whats an enterprise level application? No, really I mean that. Everyone says it all the time and I just don't know what that means.

  16. Re:Correctness isn't negotiable on MySQL Beats Commercial Databases in Labs Test · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have a sneaking suspicion that you don't use heavily loaded databases often.

    count(*) against a table that is under heavy load and you get:
    1) the count when you issued the command, via a lock (table) and scan
    2) a secondary table/counter that gets updated automagicaly with each insert/delete commit

    mysql chooses number 2. why? Well by the time you can do anything with the results, the lock will be gone. The table will no longer be in the state it was when you asked. Good for you, you just wasted DB cycles because you want 'accurate' data.

  17. Re:Revent case of that in Japan on The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password · · Score: 1

    calling BS. Property in Tokyo is never "bargain basement", changing an EEPROM in security system, cheap! Oh, and just to be a richard, perhaps jesus will save your critical thinking next? PS sorry, bit tipsy, low tolerance for nutters

  18. Re:Have you tried Microsoft's experimental start.c on Microsoft Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    >The change between the old and new versions is pretty strong proof that the designers know why people like Google Not for me at least. The interface is everything I hate. It reminds me of the difference between ./ and fark. I hate the fact that ever time I follow a link on fark it opens a new window... I am so used to using the Backspace key when I navigate that anything else is budensome. If you backspace from the search results it takes you to the previous page (where every you came from to get to start.com) Why not a results page? Are they trying to prove that they can make search results appear in a frame? Good for them, I am glad they are getting a chance to stroke their egos (the programers). How about simple?! SBT

  19. Re:Economical? on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    Actually, if this were the only source of petro we used we would eventually run into dooms day scenarios of global cooling. The reason is that this process isn't perfect, it produces carbon black (pure carbon) as one of it by products. Unless you can find a way of making C02 without C then we will eventually deplete the atmosphere!

  20. Re:Booooring... on 13 New Windows Security Vunerabilities · · Score: 1

    > but frankly I'm getting tired of all the wasted space on /.

    set font-size=0, thats what I do

  21. Re:Maintenance on John Barlow Pushes Open Source in Brazil · · Score: 1

    shouldn't the sig be
    chown -R us ~/base?

  22. ASVAB on U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking · · Score: 2, Funny

    so people that find the ASVAB challenging are supposed to read and understand this? I sure hope there are some civilians in the mix somewhere.

  23. Re:Dumbest. Editor. Evar. on Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin · · Score: 1

    [rational IRE]
    All I can say is wow. If you believe that this: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/adurfee/calculus/ shroud-pos.jpg hunk of shit couldn't have been "painted" at any point in the last 5000 years you are pretty delusional.
    [/rational IRE]

  24. Re:Book to movie? on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Screening Reviews · · Score: 1

    fight club

  25. weather or not on Oregon's Governor Backs Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    you know there are places in the US where the weather dosn't suck AND there are OS jobs... /move along, there is nothing to see here