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  1. Re:Not so fast on UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access · · Score: 1

    You seem to try and imply that copyright, or more specifically, the collection of royalty payment for each copy, is the primary driver for the creation of content.

    Who the hell wants "content" anyway? If I wanted "content" I'd cat /dev/random.

  2. Re:Those candidates are lame on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Okay, I guess it is working well, in turning children into fact spewing test takers with little to no capacity to manipulate or assimilate information outside the confines of a multiple choice test.

    Wait, you mean to say that's not the aim?

  3. Re:Occluded for 2 weeks??? Bull**** on Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article makes it sound like the asteroid will be hiding behind the moon for the entire period, when that can't possibly be the case.

    Intelligent asteroid?

  4. Begs the question indeed on Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company? · · Score: 1

    All of which begs the question: Just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy?

    And of course just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy? Follows. Thus, And of course just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy? Follows. Thus, And of course just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy? Follows. Ergo, And of course just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy? Follows. So it continues following: And of course just where is all this innovation going? To Clippy? Follows. You see? That's what you get for invalid logic. Infinite regression.

  5. Re:Global Warming on More Antarctic Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Actually it was predicted many, many years ago.

    Clever lot, those dinosaurs.

  6. Re:They are the Boogeymen! on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    Ahmadinejade is pretty much an idiot (see no gays in Iran comment)

    I think that comment was thoroughly ingenious. You did watch the entire talk and Q&A, didn't you? When faced with a question of which answering would stir up a lot of further, awkward questions he couldn't answer without looking bad, he came up with that. Didn't you see how much he was smiling? Granted, it took him a few seconds to come up with the answer, but seriously, what wit.

  7. Re:Nitpicking over analogies on Linux To Take Over The Low-End PC Market? · · Score: 1

    It is not users that need to recompile the kernel, which would be putting an edge on each and every blade -- it's the distro maintainers' job. ~ # emerge -pv gentoo-sources-bin

    These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

    Calculating dependencies |
    emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gentoo-sources-bin".

  8. Re:So? on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    What does Jesus have to do with this? Even if 1/2 of congress claimed Jesus was their justification, it does not make it so.

    I'm right, you're wrong. God told me so himself.

  9. Re:That's weird on China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures · · Score: 1

    Isn't there supposed to be an American flag on this side of the moon?

    Nah, the wind blew it away.

  10. Re:root listens to audio? on Multiple FLAC Vulnerabilities Affect Every OS · · Score: 1

    It seems you're writing a pro-Vista comment.

    Allow or allow?

  11. Re:I can't wait! on Court Upholds Internet Deregulation · · Score: 1

    Yes, how dare I, the consumer, use the entire amount of bandwidth that I have paid my ISP to provide to me!

    If you merely consume, what does it matter what fodder you're fed?

  12. Re:Ummm. Neat. on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    While I won't disagree that an "easy to use gui" (an oxymoron for a cli guru) is a good idea, I've get to find a way to use sed without bringing up a virtual terminal. ...Click this, click that, click this again ... what, you mean this clicky thing doesn't support regular expressions? No loops or recursion of any kind? Jeez, that's just asking for RSI. So ... wake me up when you can use, erm, a terminal, without a terminal? Until then, don't hide it from me please.

  13. Re:False perceptions on ISPs Dragged Into Swedish File Sharing Battle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who couldn't see this coming after the Social Democrats were kicked out by the theocra..., erm, fasci... I mean, centre right coalition?

  14. Not in their interests on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    Meh, I make a note of everything I see advertised and make sure I don't buy said things. Thus, it's in their interests for me to remain ignorant of their attempts at subjecting me to the exposure effect and their attempts to appeal to my emotion.

    Though I suppose that's only in the interest of the propagandists and not the website operators themselves ...

  15. Re:Why worry? on AMD Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) Tech Report · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought when I bought the first Intel quad core.

    Alas, now I don't get much sleep at all.

    I don't know whether I should be happy or sad ...

  16. Re:W00t! on Judge Deals Blow to RIAA · · Score: 1

    Only on topics as insane as the RIAA do one word comments get moderated insightful ...

  17. Re:Computing and brain insights on Forgetting May be Part of the Remembering Process · · Score: 1

    >Actually, I think computer science is a very good background for understanding the brain. If more pyschiatrists understood that, they might not still be fumbling around with the basics, and arguing that most mental conditions are is caused by brain chemistry (which is like saying that most software states are caused by an imbalance of 1s and 0s). It might be true, and it might sometimes show a hardware fault, but 99% of the time, it's backwards -- the software changes cause the binary state, not vice versa.

    Good job we have psychologists then. It's called cue dependent memory/forgetting/remembering fyi. Just don't do your thesis on it.

  18. Don't use the installer on New Gentoo 2007.0 Release Gets Mixed Review · · Score: 1

    I tried using the 2007.0 installer and it crapped out. I tried updating to the latest build, and that crapped out. I then decided to fall back to a stage three install, and that worked perfectly. Don't use the installer.

  19. Eccles, 2011 on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    We are the dead.
    We are the dead.
    You are the dead.
    Remain exactly where you are.
    Make no move until you are ordered.
    Now they can see us.
    Now we can see you.
    Clasp your hands behind your heads.
    Stand out in the middle of the room. Stand back-to-back.
    Do not touch one another.
    The house is surrounded.
    The house is surrounded.
    I suppose we may as well say goodbye.
    You may as well say goodbye.

  20. Re:What's Different on Intel Launches New Chipset · · Score: 1

    >Voltage is lower. Existing (pre-P35) boards won't support the Penryn. Great, so that means my Asus Striker Extreme (which allows one to set the voltage in 0.01v increments from 0.5v to 3.0v, or something very similar to that) will support Penryn with a simple vdrop. Excellent. ... Yeah, right.

  21. Re:You can oppose copyright ... and support BSD on You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    "No no no, I don't do Open Source, Open Source is an entirely different movement. I do Free Software". I'll leave you to derive the intended meaning from that (and indeed, who that was).

  22. Re:Obvious comment on Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight · · Score: 0

    ...

    In Soviet Russia ...

    this happens!

  23. Re:This is very insulting, but is it true? on Digital Watchdogs Widen Anti-Piracy War · · Score: 1

    "I think it is ok for authors (please let's not call them "creators", they are not gods) to ask for money for copies of their works (please let's not devalue these works by calling them "content" ..."

  24. Re:The crucial signing key is for Windows Update on DHS Wants Master Key for DNS · · Score: 1

    A serious question here: is Portage vulnerable in the same way? Pardon my ignorance, perhaps I've missed something obvious, but this is a serious question.

  25. Re:Big Brother alive and well in the UK on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. No. Freedom in this context is freedom of the executive. The population must give up their freedoms in order to preserve the freedom of the executive.