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  1. Re:Still brown... on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. It still looks like crap, only in purple now.

    Ubuntu really needs some creative people.

  2. Re:already slashdotted ? on Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't us. We don't read the articles before posting.

  3. Re:roll over, beethoven, on How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the whole celebrity-obsession thing is a direct result of society breaking up at a fundamental level. Just think about it: the way humanity evolved, you had at most 200 people in your village, everyone knew everyone, and you basically spent your life together, for better or worse. There was *always* someone in common you could talk about.

    Now, you're expected to move half a continent when you hit college, then move again when you find a job, rinse and repeat. What do you talk about with random strangers (now over 90% of all your social interactions)?

  4. Re:the drive was surgically recovered. on Man Swallows USB Flash Drive Evidence · · Score: 1

    I think I have a new job for you in law enforcement.

    You tell him that, he shits himself, and no need for expensive surgery.

  5. Re:Gah on Western Digital Launches First SSD · · Score: 1

    SSDs are still way too expensive for how much space you get.

    That's why you don't buy them for storage, you buy them for performance. Who cares about the access time of their movie collection, when the OS suddenly runs like it's supposed to in the 21st century?

  6. Re:Google V China on Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship · · Score: 1

    Yahoo and others were happy to censor their search results silently

    C'mon. Even the Chinese know better than to steal Yahoo's search algorithm.

  7. Re:march first mystery update? on Portal Update Hints At New Game · · Score: 1

    I heard Blizzard already patented that for the Cataclysm storyline.

  8. Re:the drive was surgically recovered. on Man Swallows USB Flash Drive Evidence · · Score: 4, Informative

    FTFA:

    When Necula was unable to pass the item after about four days, doctors--concerned that the drive was not compatible with the suspect's GI tract--concluded he "would be injured if they allowed the flash drive to remain inside of him," reported Borger. Necula eventually agreed to allow doctors at New York Downtown Hospital to remove the item, according to a source familiar with the incident.

  9. Re:Google V China on Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why, oh why does everyone keep telling the Chinese what to do with their country? Didn't you guys believe in freedom or something? Or does that not apply until you have troops stationed there?

    Fix your own damn country first.

  10. Re:Me thinks on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Repeat until it sinks in: you're not the only one on the road.

    I'd rather pay more and survive.

  11. Sure on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just make your own controller chip for the drive.

  12. Re:Bolting On on Over Half of Software Fails First Security Tests · · Score: 1

    That type of bug can be found through additional code review.

    Every bug can be found through enough additional code review. The problem is, it's slow and expensive.

  13. Re:Bolting On on Over Half of Software Fails First Security Tests · · Score: 1

    And nearly 90 percent of internally developed applications contained vulnerabilities in the SANS Top 25 and OWASP Top 10 lists of most common programming errors and flaws in the first round of tests, Oberg says.

    It doesn't matter how much you redesign things, if you fuck up the routine stuff.

  14. What emphasis on security? on Over Half of Software Fails First Security Tests · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought the only measure of a project was whether it makes the deadline.

  15. Physics anyone? on Tracking Water Molecules Could Unlock Secrets · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the whole point of the whole quantum mechanics thingie that you cannot measure things this precise?

  16. Re:CA must be on easy street on California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Half the words in the dictionary can "cause offense and hurt feelings or other psychological harm", if used the right way.

  17. Re:Google Scholar on Losing Google Would Hit Chinese Science Hard · · Score: 1

    Many university libraries in the USA pay for it though.

  18. So on Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years · · Score: 1

    can we have the text please? (Preferably in a human language)

  19. Re:lol, where's the iPhone? on BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking · · Score: 1

    It's not raw hate, we just don't understand why it's so fucking special it has to be mentioned every single fucking time there's a discussion about cell phones. Have you seen similar phenomena about any other phone?

  20. Re:yeah. its much better to be p0wned on Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In other countries there's so many things you need to take care of it really, really puts you off.

    If you play by the rules in Hungary, as an entrepeneur you'll be spending 95%+ of your income on various taxes, health care, retirement plan, etc. You even have to pay a significant amount if you had no income whatsoever. And people wonder why tax evasion is a national sport here.

  21. Re:Open Source Projects on Is Mozilla Ubiquity Dead? · · Score: 1

    They're mediocre at best, almost always unfinished, and otherwise pretty much shitty.

    That's probably because they don't have code monkeys to whip into 100+ hour weeks before the holidays. Also those games aren't exactly declared "complete".

    hese are long projects, taking up to 500-2000+ men work years to finish, and the quality difference in that comes from the fact that the developers are paid to have the interest to finish the product instead of jumping to their latest new idea.

    Keyword: finish. Most open source games are so huge in scope/vision that most would-be developers looking at it are scared away for good. Compare the Linux kernel: when it started out, its main feature was that it booted, and Linus explicitly stated in the announcement that it "won't become big like HURD or Minix".

  22. Re:News Flash! on Hollywood Treats Hackers Pretty Well · · Score: 1

    We've seen those so apparently no other movie about or related to the subject can ever be made.

    That might be because someone sitting and thinking is not inherently fun to watch. Make a movie about your day at work and let me know how well it sells.

  23. Re:Because it's a gay site? Or is it because... on Citibank Cancels Bank Account of Objectionable Blogger · · Score: 1

    What exactly is a compliance check anyway? "We don't like your website, so you can't have your money"?

  24. Re:Flatscreen TV on Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because then you'd be able to see the middle of the screen, and nobody wants that.

  25. Re:They physically own the box on GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As you were being paid by him

    Bullshit.