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  1. Re:Ron Paul on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I just want to extend a big "fuck you" to the individual who moderated the above message 'Troll'.

  2. Re:Ron Paul on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: 1

    You're right. An actual advertisement might have been more convincing, rather than seeming like a misplaced answer to a question no one asked...

  3. Ron Paul on What Did You Change Your Mind About in 2007? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Before 2007, I was doubtful about whether this country had any hope for change. Whether or not he wins, he represents what this country needs.

    If you don't already know about him, his website is helpful: http://ronpaul2008.com/

  4. Re:Is Facebook the new AOL? on Facebook Removes Firewall from Applications · · Score: 1

    Me too.

    -kihjin

  5. Surprising on New York's Slap to the Facebook · · Score: 1

    Study shows that bad things happen when parents neglect monitoring their (young) children's internet activities.

    From what I can discern, Facebook offers users the ability of removing one's own account from all searching. You may opt to only be contacted by your friends. To everyone else, you shouldn't even exist. Therefore, if you do NOT want that "local NYC" man contacting you then do NOT make him your friend (despite the fact that he may have poked you a couple dozen times).

    I would not consider it necessary for Facebook's to actively police its users. If a user is blantantly engaged in a criminal activity, contact your local law enforcement. They will PROPERLY contact Facebook, or simply find and arrest the person.

    Oh and when your kids go off to college, I think the least of your worries would be their internet activities...

  6. Prince? on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Printable version: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3777651

    A well-placed source directly involved in the situation confirmed to ABC News that Prince was directly involved in seeking the takedown of Lenz's video.

    Anyone know how true is this? It seems like he might have better things to do... such as serving us pancakes.

  7. Re:Having a lack of belief versus its application on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 1

    That is precisely what I mean.

    I just didn't intend to follow the typical pattern as the "other side" which shouts "EVOLUTION BAD! RUN!"

  8. Re:Evolution is fact on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would argue that you are incorrect. Intelligent design is not a scientific theory or fact.

    Evolution is scientific fact. Here, a theory is scientific fact. I believe what you are thinking of is the term "hypothesis." Evolution is not a hypothesis anymore.

    Our body's blue print is DNA. This blueprint is copied from generation to generation. This results in errors which can either assist us or degrade us depending on the environment we have chosen to live in.

  9. Having a lack of belief versus its application on Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I honestly don't give two craps whether a person believes or doesn't believe that evolution is concrete fact. What matters to me is whether the belief or lack of belief results in a regressive, narrow minded, receptiveness to scientific research and inquiry.

    Candidates which don't "believe in evolution" may be in the habit to reject other scientific evidence which conflicts with whatever goes on in their minds.

  10. Re:Good in theory on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    Given that the true purpose of the project has taken more than a year to be realized, anything beyond "getting it to work NOW" is not going to float well with management.

  11. Re:Good in theory on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    It will never see the light of day outside of the company. Its use soley for internal purposes. I think Java was selected because that was the original developer's preferred language.

  12. Good in theory on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been using Linux (LFS) on my home box since 2003.

    However, at work I use Windows XP. The office I work in relies heavily on Nortel VPN + Outlook + Exchange for e-mail and calendar/scheduling access. Not to mention the application I'm working on is strictly for Windows (despite being written in Java, go figure). Most of the GUI code is WORA but there's some middle layer issues that will come up if not run on a win32 machine.

    Too bad, I guess.

  13. Re:I'd rather... on Farscape (Kinda) Returns · · Score: 1

    Dead Like Me is great. Definitely could have gone on longer than two seasons!

  14. Word compression on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My eyes find great displeasure in seeing the "word" wat.

    This is one abbreviation that I feel needs to "gtfo."

    For those unaware linguists out there: wat tends to be the abbreviated form of what

  15. Web traffic? on P2P Networks Supplement Botnets · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you mean P2P over port 80?

  16. Re:Yes, Lots of Administrative Overhead on Microsoft Too Busy To Name Linux Patents? · · Score: 1

    While I agree with you in most cases, Microsoft has quantified just how many of their patents FOSS infringes upon.

    Either they know exactly which patents are involved, or they pulled the number 235 out of some dark and smelly place.

  17. And the password is... on TiVo Awarded Patent For Password You Can't Hack · · Score: 4, Funny

    MDlGOTExMDI5RDc0RTM1QkQ4NDE1NkM1NjM1Njg4QzA=

    Don't tell anyone.

  18. Such happy news... on AACS Cracked Again · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG SMILIES! :) :) :)

  19. Love Triangle on SCO Relies On IBM-donated Servers With Groklaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone else getting that old-junior-high-school drama vibe?


    Did you hear about Becky? She's been with Dave.
    Dave! But Dave's been seeing Sarah.
    Dude that's my sister.
    Well she's hot.
    Shut up.


    Cue the collective sigh from the rest of /.

  20. Dream Job Dream? on A Dream Job - CTO of the OLPC Project · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe next year, CmdrTaco, next year...

    FP?

  21. Re:Only if.. on UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In · · Score: 1

    HAHAHA

    Thanks, I needed a noon laugh attack.

  22. Re:I'm from Houghton, Michigan... on 2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever · · Score: 1

    OCT 1 2006 to JAN 9 2007: 4.90 in / 12.52 cm
    source

    OCT 1 2005 to JAN 9 2006: 8.43 in / 21.49 cm
    source

    OK so we're not too far off from last year's precipitation amount.

    Also, for good measure. 219.5" snow fall was recorded for 2005-2006. This seems to translate to 15.63 in / 39.86 cm.

    Expanding from there... (219.5" / 15.63") * 4.90" = 68.8" approximated for 2006-2007 so far. 40.5" fallen so far.

  23. Re:I'm from Houghton, Michigan... on 2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever · · Score: 1

    You're neglecting to remember that the context of this thread is within the discussion of the article. The claim is that 2006 was the warmest year on record. If this is true, then there must be more than one location in the "immensely complex system" of the Earth that has experienced drastic climate change. My intent was not to suggest that the conditions where I live offer a global perspective, but rather to point out how abnormal those conditions have been.

  24. I'm from Houghton, Michigan... on 2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know, Michigan's upper peninsula. "Normally" we get about 200" of snow in a winter season. So far this season we've had one major snow storm, leaving us with approximiately 18". That's all. In December 2005, 77.5" fell. I would be surprised if we got a 1/10 of that in 2006.

  25. Re:GUI for D language on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Technically it isn't. You could bind all the functions yourself.

    DUI and other "wrapper/binder" libraries bring functions (such as those in GTK+, OpenGL, SDL) into D's scope so you may use them just as you would in C. bound.