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  1. Re:PC? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 0

    you imagine a slur and hatred because someone makes up a light-hearted jingle about a non-traditional version of comic book hero, nearly all of which for decades have been "straight" in dress and orientation? . I could have made a silly rhyme about SpiderPlayah, a philandering black dude, that doesn't mean I hate people of african descent who uses vernacular english and who like to date many women. Maybe, I am just mocking the lack of variety in comic book traditional heroes.

  2. Re:PC? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 5, Funny

    SpiderTranny is more catchy.

    SpiderTranny, SpiderTranny,
    butt implants for a woman's fanny,
    wears a bra, any size,
    can't you see, he likes guys,
    look out, here cums the Spider Tranny.

  3. Re:Some folks will have trouble accepting this on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    interesting, but they would not see contradiction as this tiny moon became part of The Moon while our earth was still being formed, 10 to 100 million years after whatever caused our present moon to get scooped out of the Earth, long before life appeared. So just a part of creation of our Moon, really.

  4. Re:Question for those more knowledgable than I on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    But the real situation is different. Objects in orbit around the sun go in the same direction. Things get disturbed in outer orbit and get thrown inward, or are in orbits that go far out then back around sun. For things moving the same direction around sun, the Earth forms large shield covering small remote Moon almost half the time , and the other half the time the same face of moon, opposite the earth-facing side, is open to impacts.

  5. Re:reliability? on eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half · · Score: 1

    The big iron vendors have been selling them to enterprises, failure just means rip and replace under warranty with no impact from users point of view, just occasionally replenishes the pool hot spares from the provided pile), data gets transparently restored from the redundant copies.

  6. Re:I'm all for this on Get Cyber-Mercenaries Suggests Ex NSA, CIA Director · · Score: 1

    soon we'll be in one of a few groups:

    1. mega-corporation drone or soldier
    2. drone of government, owned by the mega-corporations
    3. on welfare
    4. in prison, maybe combined with #3


    You probably will not be in group #0, elite who control mega-corporations, high barrier to entry what with either needing billions in net worth or incredible political power and influence due to being bitch of one with billions in net worth.

  7. Re:Not in the U.S. on Get Cyber-Mercenaries Suggests Ex NSA, CIA Director · · Score: 1

    when a country is ruled by meta-corporations with the government in their pockets, of course over time the amount of government services handled by contractors must increase. The end game is a few mega-corporations owning everything, everyone not imprisoned or on welfare (and we can combine those two groups for efficiency) paying rent to them and a government contractor. The direction of most countries, the global dystopia is being put together right now, some may call it The New World Order.

  8. Re:Help me here - on Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors · · Score: 2

    haha, "friends" are another matter, but I'm specifically talking about the type of woman who so desires to be popular, she goes down on everything but the Titanic.

    Also, you remind me of 19th century toast, "to our wives and sweethearts.......may they never meet!"

  9. Re:Missed the point on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 1

    http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/27xx/GA27-3005-3-2780_Data_Terminal_Description_Aug71.pdf

    all the meaningful combinations are on pages 10-13. EBCDIC had various combinations involving zero to six punches, you'd have to backspace and overpunch for many of them.

    My university got rid of the keypunches, readers, verifiers and sorters my sophomore year, 1983; I had used them to help my roommate who was poor typist, he had an intro to computer class of some sort as a requirement for his Business Management degree and had to write some COBOL programs of a few dozen lines. Funny to check his logic he would lay the card in a line on the floor, with "branches" and "loops" looking like spurs on a model railroad.

  10. Re:Help me here - on Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors · · Score: 1

    who'd want one of those whore-bags for girlfriend or wife?, not the majority of men I know. That's a niche market, those who want the "public rag" type of woman

  11. Re:Another milestone not mentioned on Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors · · Score: 5, Funny

    ah, so it's a Release Candidate now

  12. Re:Tap Tap Tap on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    what happens if mariaDB implements something simliar to what Oracle has offers under different license, then Oracle says that thing infringes its IP? I think anything related to or forked from Oracle wares should be shunned and marginalized.

  13. Re:Or... on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    but you can make a single piece of code that does that (or update on insert) for any DBMS, and never worry about it again. I'm not seeing the issue.

  14. Re:Not understanding the concern... on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    there is reason to fear using Oracle's products, if I make my some of my own libraries for parts of their API I think are implemented poorly, Oracle might claim I've implemented something compatible but not quite their product. Oracle might sue a customer for a buck. that's the SCO Group mentality

  15. Re:Honest question: on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 1

    with the detected increase in i-131 levels of about an atom per cubic meter on the west coast of the USA from Fukushima Diachi, I'd say no.

  16. Re:So what. on AptiQuant Browser/IQ Study Was Likely a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Surely only IE users were fooled by this story, they're always getting tricked into downloading malware after all. And maybe old Opera users, they can't think outside the frame.

  17. Re:... like Apple's App Store model on Living In an Unsecured World · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it disconnects sellers from their market, losing feedback and communication. I've had better luck security-wise with the bazaar than any store.

  18. Re:Easy one. on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 2

    I went to a BSD conference and didn't see either one. Those stupid geeks were even running open source BSD on laptops with wireless and multimedia; anyone with proper upbringing knows you don't do that! I suppose the 30 million GNU/Linux users haven't bought their macs yet, but soon will. And experts predict IOS will dominate the mobile market, right? Oh no wait, it's to be two-thirds Linux by 2013

  19. Re:Honest question: on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 1

    The Buggles were wrong, of course, many Radio Stars are on the air. Radio grew 6% this year while media in general only 3%. Radio is still growing

  20. Re:Honest question: on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 1

    nope, telegraph evolved. so has the telephone. Many technologies we still use like Frequency Division Multiplexing on a wire came from telegraphy. Our internet is the evolved telegraph and telephone system.

  21. Re:Simple on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    there are solutions to all the issues you raise. Radiate heat in more than one direction, and thrust will cancel out. Mine and refine in space, not adding to earth's heat budget. Genetically engineer humans to possess naturally what we require technology for now; means of heating and cooling, computation, communication, even transportation, all built into our bodies. Or as alternative to that just grow our equipment, transport and shelter biologically, energy needs drop. We already know prosperous people have negative population growth in the absence of idiotic religious ideologies against birth control, make more people prosperous and many problems go away (this is the opposite of what the small elite that control our politicians are currently striving to achieve)

  22. Re:Biophysical Economics on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 0

    All rubbish, as we have not even begun to tap the vast energy reserves of Earth. Thorium breeder reactors alone could fuel the growth of civilization for centuries. We live in a universe of plentiful energy.

  23. Re:Malthus on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    indeed, prosperous peoples have negative population growth. be happy, live happy and let's engineer solutions to problems rather than navel-gazing and whining. Most of the word's problems already have solutions, but for parasites and politicians in their pockets holding us back.

  24. Easy Solution via Biology on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Soon we'll grow everything we need, we'll feed our equipment and housing rather than fuel it, let stuff grow rather than mine and refine.. Problem solved, population of ten or twelve billion humans living wealthy and prosperous lifetyles, energy needs go through the floor. As to the "Monsanto Type Personalty" problem that might arise with this, we use the time honored French Revolution solution.

  25. Re:Breaking my infinite loops would be easy... on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    You should love Unix exit codes then