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  1. Re:"opt-in" = sodomy on SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring · · Score: 1

    What, you prefer opt-out?

  2. Re:Install is not a noun on Solar Power Capacity Installs Surpass Wind and Coal For Second Year · · Score: 1

    More to the point, even if it were a noun, that headline is word salad.

  3. Re:Ride one in January on New Redesigned Citi Bikes To Hit NYC Streets This Year · · Score: 1

    How much snow do you get over there in Amsterdam? How many days per year does the temperature drop below freezing?

    Latitude is not the only factor in a city's weather.

  4. Re:Don't mess with Texas on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 2

    The Whitney and MOMA wouldn't give Pam Geller the time of day, much less a venue for an event designed solely as a provocation to religious extremists. And make no mistake, this is exactly what she wanted to happen.

  5. Re:'Stealing' on In Second Trial, Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Convicted of Code Theft · · Score: 1

    The district attorney charged Mr. Aleynikov with the unlawful use of secret scientific material and duplication of computer-related material, both felonies under New York State law.

    The overturned Federal verdict was on charges of theft, but the state charges did not involve the word.

  6. Re:It's not really about the code... on In Second Trial, Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Convicted of Code Theft · · Score: 1

    I'm having trouble understanding how this wasn't double jeopardy. He was convicted in federal court, served a bit of time, then that conviction was overturned, then the New York D.A. brought state charges against him for the same act.

  7. Re:Hologram? on Stephen Hawking Has a Message For One Direction Fans · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...

    I guess the screen is polarized so that the different camera angles appear from corresponding audience viewpoints? Nifty, but not a "hologram."

  8. Re:America is finished! OVER! on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1

    I'm weeping all right -- at how stupid that article is.

  9. Re:It wasn't better. on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You don't know me, but I thought circles were... well, compelling is a little strong, but the whole G+ UX is vastly superior to Facebook's. Everything pretty much makes sense. OTOH, on the rare occasions I'm forced to interact with FB, I get that exact same throbbing headache I remember from troubleshooting other people's Win95 machines, which leaves me in a sour mood the rest of the day.

  10. Re:Ah the Z-80 on When Exxon Wanted To Be a Personal Computing Revolutionary · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Z80s are still being manufactured and still in use all over the place, just not so's you'd see them.

  11. Re:My Packard Bell was invaluable on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 2

    Aren't all turds "used?"

  12. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    Rack servers aren't in the "personal computer" segment though, otherwise IBM would still be considered a "PC manufacturer."

  13. Re: Ann Droid to the Rescue! on iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area · · Score: 1

    Herp derp. You could take the same approach to literally every security vulnerability ever. Remote exploit in the Linux kernel? Workaround: don’t use Linux! Malicious web pages? Workaround: don’t use the WWW!

  14. Re:Time is money on $56,000 Speeding Ticket Issued Under Finland's System of Fines Based On Income · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lower-income people can lose their jobs if they have to be away from work for even a few days, especially if it’s due to incarceration. Even if they don’t get fired, hourly workers will lose income, whereas salaried employees and people who live off of investment income won’t. And someone like Martha Stewart can go away for five months and have her media empire (which has been running profitably the whole time) waiting for her when she gets out.

    So no, not equal at all. (This is also why a flat tax is unequal despite being equally applied.)

  15. Re:This is a bug not a feature on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    When there aren’t other temperature lights for comparison the human eye/brain adjusts. A fully tungsten-lit room looks just as normal as a fully daylight-lit room after a minute or two. In darker rooms, warmer lights don't kill night vision like cooler lights, so you can see dimmer areas better. (That's why astronomers and soldiers in the field use red lights to illuminate their maps.) Also warmer lights resemble a fireplace or candles. Both those factors are comforting -- the former for practical reasons, the latter psychological.

  16. Re:a "COUNTRY that absolutely loves to censor stuf on Turkish Ministry Recommends Banning Minecraft -- Over Violence · · Score: 2

    Oh come on. It's a synecdoche. Are you... not a frequent user of human language?

    Obviously the calls for censorship are not coming from the unanimous entirety of the population, nor from Turkey's inanimate infrastructure and buildings, nor from Turkey's actual soil and rocks and trees.

    When the news reports that the White House said such-and-such, do you express surprise that a 200 year old edifice has achieved sentience and begun meddling in politics?

  17. Re:...letmegetthisstraight on Samsung Takes On Apple Pay By Acquiring Mobile Wallet Startup LoopPay · · Score: 1

    Wait, does it not encrypt the magstripe data before transmission?

  18. Re:Worm:Win32/Dorkbot.A Description .. on Jamie Oliver's Website Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    (in a non-Dune related context that is)

  19. Re:Worm:Win32/Dorkbot.A Description .. on Jamie Oliver's Website Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    Pretty rude to name malware after a well-established series of tinker meetings/presentations (that's been going on since before anyone started using the word "maker.")

  20. Acronym on Advice on How to Start an IT Business (Video) · · Score: 1

    Our company name is OS-Cubed, which stands for Optimal Stable Secure Solutions.

    That's not how exponents work...

  21. Re:Coal power cars make little sense on Tesla Factory Racing To Retool For New Models · · Score: 1

    The Challenger SRT Hellcat claims 707 hp. Got schooled at the dragstrip by a Model S P85D, but the driver was inexperienced and running stock rear tires. Still, that’s a lot of horses for some $60K.

    http://www.roadandtrack.com/mo...

  22. Re:Bad idea with current laws on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    The license could be the lock screen wallpaper. Handing a locked phone to the cop doesn’t give him permission to crack it. (I think.)

  23. Re:Ridiculous on The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition · · Score: 1

    And why wouldn’t you just say “Nixon” instead of trying to trip up the parser?

  24. Re:Trademarking is cheap on Microsoft Trademarks "Windows 365" · · Score: 1

    Since they already have a trademark on “Windows,” I don’t understand what’s to gain from a separate one for “Windows 365,” which is already covered under the base TM. It’s not like a competitor can put out any "Windows [suffix]" operating system, regardless of what that suffix is. It’s sort of like Coca-Cola registering “Diet Coca-Cola."

  25. Re:A shame. Arduino kits and a better parts select on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm wondering if the variance in reported RS experiences reflects a difference in management between the company-owned outlets and the franchise stores. Maybe the one you went to was a franchise, where the owner is invested and thus takes an active interest in making a go of it, instead of simply following edicts from corporate.