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  1. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, in conclusion, satellites are melting the ice.

    Darn, I thought the ice was causing the satellites.

  2. Re:Full SD slot? Really? on Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone · · Score: 1

    Is anyone really complaining that they don't have a full SD slot in their phone? Cause I'm not.

    What! Are you assuming that Nokia hasn't heard of the Micro SD?

  3. Re:Call the lawyers on Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone · · Score: 1

    my friend [...] she or he

    It must be a very close friend if you haven't yet discovered its gender. You are truly a master of implausible lies.

    You wouldn't say that if you'd seen his friend.

  4. Re:Call the lawyers on Nokia Claims a Memory Card Slot Would Have "Defiled" New Phone · · Score: 1

    And nowadays it's getting hard to even find a phone that will fit in a pocket. Half the office has smart phones, and they all use it as a regular desk phone. It stays on the desk, and if they hear it ring, they will run through the office to get to it.

    When I dropped my old phone (which fits perfectly in my pocket at half the size of an iPhone), I ended up buying the tools to repair it, because I couldn't find anywhere I could buy a good, small phone. For a month or so, I had a crappy Samsung phone, but even that was bigger than my normal phone, even at half the features.

    On the other hand since we have gone "smart casual" I wear combat pants to work. I could put a 7" tablet in my pocket if I wanted to.

  5. Re:Couldn't have happened to a nicer company. on Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case · · Score: 2

    Do you fools really think any man is going to be motivated by "good"?

    Some undoubtedly are, but you will find them on cruise ships operating on kids in third world countries, not running companies

  6. 35 years form now on 35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars · · Score: 2

    35 years form now we won't have any similar legacy from what we are doing now.

  7. Re:Can anyone explain to me why this is worse than on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    Fine for denial of service or such, but for harvesting it still has to get back to you somehow

  8. gusess what on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not surprised to see IE ranking well.

    I have a piece of shit in my toilet bowl that ranks just as well in this case. It too is incapable of opening data URLs

  9. Can anyone explain to me why this is worse than on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 2

    Can anyone explain to me why this is worse than serving up the same "malware" on a web page instead of a data URL? The screenshot in the paper clearly shows the url starting "data:text/hml;" instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/ so surely it is just doing the same thing as if I hosted a mock wikipedia login on "mysite.com" - and is a lot less likely to fool people than if I used a domain like wikipediaLogin.com

  10. Re:Hmm... on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 1

    Ya I think driving Iran and North Korea into having stronger bonds is an unintended consequence. I also am not looking forward to the political mud slinging over this.

    I bet they don't trust each other though.

  11. Re:Jo Walton? Dr. Who? on Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel · · Score: 1

    read what I said again ... no more so than other stories where people fall in love and live in reverse order.

  12. Re:Jo Walton? Dr. Who? on Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel · · Score: 1

    Sorry, my mistake. The title made me think of the episode where The Doctor marries that that woman from ER.

    Even that did not have much in common ... no more than either have in common with Slaughterhouse-Five or Time and Time Again.

  13. Re:I'm not saying its aliens on Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found · · Score: 2

    But it could be aliens.

    That would explain why they speak English in all the films

  14. I think "found" should be in quotes on Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found · · Score: 5, Informative
    As the article acknowledges "The majority view in historical linguistics is that the homeland of Indo-European is located in the Pontic steppes (present day Ukraine)" ... and "The minority view links the origins of Indo-European with the spread of farming from Anatolia 8,000 to 9,500 years ago. The minority view is decisively supported by the present analysis in this week's Science."

    While being very plausible I think it is to early to say found for certain yet - this is a theory that sounds plausible and nothing more

  15. Re:OS X is THE superior OS on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    The software you need to use is the real reason you use a computer, not because you want to use an OS.

    I'm a kernel hacker, you insensitive clod.

  16. Re:Linux Mint on Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 Arrives For Testing · · Score: 1

    I enjoy molesting young women.

    If you work for HP just make sure you have an Oracle job lined up for when you get caught.

  17. Re:Jo Walton? Dr. Who? on Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel · · Score: 2

    (part of a lame ripoff of The Time Traveler's Wife)

    Really? Let me remind you. "The Doctor's wife" was the Tardis, embodied in idris when the Tardis was captured by "the House". I fail to see any similarity with "The Time Traveller's wife", except for "wife" appearing in the title.

  18. Re:I can't wait on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yes, it brings to mind these questions:

    Are you an Islamophobe?

    Do you favor equal rights and treatment of women and men?
    Do you oppose stoning of women accused of adultery?
    Do you favor mandatory education of girls everywhere?
    Do you oppose slavery and child prostitution?
    Do you support complete freedom of expression and the press?
    Do you support the right of an individual to worship in her chosen religion?
    Do you oppose government- and mosque-supported anti-Semitic publications, radio, TV and textbooks?
    Do you oppose the wearing of burqas in public places, schools and courts?
    Do you oppose segregation of the sexes in public places and houses of worship?
    Do you oppose the death penalty for nonMuslims and Muslims who convert to another religion?
    Do you oppose "honor" killings?
    Do you oppose female genital mutilation?
    Do you oppose forced sexual relations?
    Do you oppose discrimination against homosexuals?
    Do you support the right to criticize religion?
    Do you oppose polygamy?
    Do you oppose child marriage, forced or otherwise?
    Do you oppose the qu-ranic mandate to kill nonMuslims and apostates?
    Do you oppose the addition of sharia courts to your country's legal system?
    Do you disagree with the qu-ran which asserts the superiority of Islam to all other religions?

    If you answered most or all of these affirmatively, you are a vile Islamophobe and deserve to be beheaded as the qu-ran instructs.

    If you answered one third or more of them affirmatively, you are a borderline Islamophobe and need to receive brainwashing to become a full-fledged dhimmi.

    If you answered a quarter or fewer affirmatively, you need a few private lessons in dhimmitude to scrub yourself clean of those remnants of Islamophobia.

    If you answered affirmatively to NONE of these, Congratulations! you are a worthy observant Muslim and have a bright future vilifying Jews, torturing women or inshallah, becoming a suicide bomber.

  19. I can't wait on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Muzzies will have to 'detain' rats for colaberating with the enemy (civilised world) as well as vultures and sharks. With any luck this will distract them from persecuting non-Muslims, raping under-age girls (OK so according to them 9 isn't over age, I mean by civilised standards), and from honour killings

  20. Great - now we have a choice on Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great - now we have a choice. We can trust Google and the US government or we can trust the Russian government .. Oh wait!

  21. Re:Research is no dick-contest on US Particle Colliders In Need of Funding · · Score: 1

    like he said... it's not competitive, therefore also non-duplicative. just because it can be done in two places does not mean it *will* be done in both places. LHC is concerned with a whole lot that the RHIC isn't capable of. So, a lot of work the RHIC can do just fine will not be done at the LHC as it's got "better" things to do.

    Exactly. Its the different installations and methodologies that are important when someone has as "I'm not sure if this is something real or a problem with our instruments" moment.

  22. Not so fast on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 3, Funny

    I here apple has a patent on round edible things.

  23. Re:Unmanageable on The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told,

    No disrespect, but we developers also have a name for people that describe developers the way you do :-)

    Let me guess: "Sir".

  24. Re:Gyrobee, anyone? on Makerplane Aims To Create the First Open Source Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!

    You forgot "Nae Underpants".

  25. Re:The big peroblem on Makerplane Aims To Create the First Open Source Aircraft · · Score: 1

    How are we going to keep this open technology away from the Muzzies?

    Realistically the Muzzies are more likely to steal a light aircraft if they need one or hijack an airliner than spend hours building an open source one.