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  1. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could be worse, imagine if it was "fuck you, stupid customs official"

  2. Re:Forgotten Silver? on New Zealand To Launch First Private Space Rocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    My Image of the New Zealand space program is a group drunk of sheep farmers trying to hit the moon with a tin can catapulted by a pair of braces tied to a forked tree.

  3. Re:Fortunately on Apple Patents "Enforceable" Ad Viewing On Devices · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they had any sense they would have patented adverts that don't force user interaction, and thereby force all other companies to make their devices too annoying to use.

  4. Well, it got this one right on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 1
  5. The Brazilian power grid on How Vulnerable Is Our Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    The Brazilian power grid is *our* power grid to many posters

  6. Re:How does he know MS isn't doing anything else? on Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they had any sense they would have anticipated the Streisand affect. It would have been much more effective to tell him the situation, ask him to remove the post and offer him whatever they paid their lawyers to issue the injunction as a "good will" gesture. That way if he did release it then he'd look like an @sshole rather than a victim.

  7. How does this integrate with GWT on Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GWT is a great Java to Javascript environment, but falls down in that to produce new components (ouside the toolbox provided) is difficult and requires raw javascript. Does anyone know if these products integrate or work together, because what would be really nice would be to be able to use closure to produce GWT components

  8. Re:Whoa on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    Careful, being labeled "special" is very much a double-edged sword. I'd rather be respected than pitied, unless I truly thought I had no shot at being respectable.

    But if you had the aggression gene you would just look forward to punching the lights out of anyone who pitied you. "Respect" would only be understood in the nigger sense of "watch out that guy's violent".

  9. It makes sense on Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that in any third-world country access to "open source" text books on any subject at zero extra cost would be more important than the actual "educational computer" functionality. It makes sense that the primary design goal should be that it is a good ebook reader. It looks neat and at $75 it is a fraction of the cost of current readers ... I want one!

  10. Re:Scam coming in your inbox today! on Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean · · Score: 1

    And look forward to sitting on the ocean-front and using a laptop running the stable release version of HURD.

  11. Does WOFF support complex positioning, etc? on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Does WOFF support complex positioning, etc, like graphite? If not it won't be a lot of help for minority languages as the OS or browser will have to know their layout rules to display them properly. Remember the devanagari error in the Wikipedia logo.

  12. Re:Dam on Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've certainly found that my superior spelling abilities have given me great success with the ladies! Not.

    As long as all you want to do is play scrabble your superior spelling skills will do fine.

  13. Re:Dam on Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan · · Score: 1

    Even fiber optic cable is getting laid...

    Never mind. Your turn will come someday.

  14. You know how these things go on Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You know how these things go. They will wake Godzilla by laying the cable, but later run into a mysterious mist cover island with a giant ape who will defeat the monster.

  15. interesting for dedicated e-book manufacturers on For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This could mean that people will become more used to reading books in electronic form and more likely to buy a dedicated e-book reader for the improved contrast, battery life, etc. On the other hand it could mean that people will find the advantage of "one device" means that they will go with phones rather than dedicated readers. It will be interesting anyway.

  16. Re:Braking on Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Probably because hybrid cars coas just fine. You can accelerate, using energy, coast not using or regaining energy or break regaining energy.

  17. Re:It's sad... on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're vastly overcompensating for lost revenues.

    Too right, how many people would say "I was going to buy that music but now I can just go and listen to the guy stacking shelves in the grocery store to sing it instead"?

  18. Re:What's next? on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to say "bollocks to that", but I'd probably have to pay royalties to the Sex Pistols.

  19. Re:What I'm not clear about on Deadline Scheduling Proposed For the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Somewhere there's a 57 year old grad student waiting for his job to finish running.

    And then the server shut down.

    Ouch.

    He's probably in the bar and not going to budge until it finishes.

  20. What I'm not clear about on Deadline Scheduling Proposed For the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this suitable as a general purpose scheduler or is it just for real-time systems?

  21. What she should have done.. on Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law · · Score: 1

    What she should have done is get her victim to sign up to some app with small print in the "Accept" opting in to the harassment emails. After all it worked for Toyota.

  22. Re:Outdated? on The Sad State of the Mobile Web · · Score: 1
    I find it specially ironic that one of the links provided in the summary says

    It's also the engine found in both Apple's iPhone and Google Android, arguably the two most important mobile Web platforms today.

    That means Google Chrome isn't yet another browser to support,

    Which in fact contradicts the whole assertion of the article

  23. Well, if I ever want to stalk someone for real.. on Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking · · Score: 1

    Well, if I ever want to stalk someone for real I will send them some survey or something with a link to an obscure terms and conditions document where they "opt in". Nobody can complain then.

  24. Re:Innovation on EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    in the best tradition of American innovation

    But how can this be innovation if no-one is making any money from it?

    Innovation != profit, though it might seem like that today. Historically Universities used to produce a lot of research and innovation without profit. Certain inventors didn't patent safety-critical innovations (Sir Humphrey Davy's safety lamp for example.

  25. Re:The have fought and lost on 100 Years of Copyright Hysteria · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good thing we have sheetmusictorrent.

    Actually it looks like John Philip Sousa's prediction was correct. We Don't sit-around home pianos in our parlors listening to somebody music

    No we do it in Karaoke bars.