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  1. Re:They think... on Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems like a Pyrrhic victory.

  2. Re:what? on Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber · · Score: 1

    That didn't happen though, and in fact it seems like the city has no problem with letting another corporation dig their own fiber. Why would they?

    They're providing a public service with their fiber, and if another ISP wants to compete, let them.

  3. Re:Not open source! on Examining Chrome's Source Code · · Score: 1

    So download and install Chromium.

  4. Re:What I don't get... on Examining Chrome's Source Code · · Score: 1

    *hurk*

    Wait, what? You think Qt does a very cross-platform good job? Is that different from a very good cross-platform job? I'm confused because I think you just said there's a cross platform UI kit that doesn't look like another OS just regurgitated its UI quirks into another OS. Please, do go on.

  5. Re:what? on Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the people there voted to spend the money to do it.

    Let's see, shareholders say they want something, company appeases shareholders... OH GOD LET'S CRY WOLF!

  6. Re:But still... on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    I've got a pretty good idea where the crash is. Every time I plug in my iPhone, I get "Xerxes "

    Usually it's Chinese or maybe Japanese characters, but it definitely requires Asian font rendering. After that popup to import pictures, the phone correctly identifies itself in Computer and also under iTunes, it's only that initial popup that contains basically jibberish.

    I'm guessing it's reading from memory and trying to force characters to be rendered that don't exist on most people's operating systems. I opted to install the Asian language support pack.

  7. Re:LHC Cannon on LHC Success! · · Score: 1

    I was making a joke.

  8. Re:Well on Researcher Publishes Industrial Complex Hack · · Score: 1

    You don't see many firewalls do you? If I have a machine inside the firewall and it's not communicating with the outside world, as far as you, and a properly configured firewall is concerned, it doesn't exist. There's no established route from the firewall to the computer because the firewall doesn't need to talk to it.

    Pretty sure this is an easy configuration.

  9. Re:Top of the line? on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    If you know any people who complain about their computers, you can give the Geek Squad and Firedog and whatever the heck else is out there the finger and offer to do it for $5 plus cost. Let's face it, you only need to see their computer for a minute to figure out what RAM they need, then you need access to it for a minute when they get it back.

    And just for the sake of argument we'll... quadruple both times. Four minutes just to check the model number of the computer or the RAM speed/type and four minutes to install. That's eight minutes of time and it got you $5. That's $37.50 an hour. That's not bad for just a cheap job for your friend. You could ask all your friends to do it and actually make $40. Tell them to run the memory test overnight. Done!

  10. Re:LHC Cannon on LHC Success! · · Score: 1

    Argument ad difficult explanation...um.

  11. Re:Why?! on Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ · · Score: 1

    Bless you.

  12. Re:Actually, he missed on that point on Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ · · Score: 1

    When an iPhone is off, it really is truly off and won't receive calls.

    You're just a troll.

    Also, you're a troll who uses Steve Jobs' language, which is funny. Steve Jobs acts like you should never call it "an" or "the" or "a" iPhone, but... it's always, "Make calls with iPhone." Replace iPhone with just phone and you can see that the sentence doesn't make sense.

  13. Re:Slightly OT: Earth Rotations? on US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and quarters are used because the edge makes it less slippery, but I still can't get it to work.

  14. Re:Using Microsoft for a 5-nines SLA? Is that a jo on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why modded troll? It is possible to get high uptime figures with a lone system. You can't take it offline, but hell, I could probably run my PC for a year end to end without issue. The problem occurs when I try to scale that and make, say, 200 PCs all run for a whole year without issue.

  15. Re:Slightly OT: Earth Rotations? on US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    That's honestly the hardest experiment I've ever been asked to perform in order to teach me something. I can't even get the number to be a simple rational, let alone an even "2."

    Coincidentally, I can't get the the second coin to have two noons.

  16. Re:http://thepiratebay.org/search/Spore/0/99/0 on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 1

    It seems like the rating system is working fine, with people stating their dislike of DRM and how they view the game in that light.

    And it's a public service, educating both EA and potential customers on the despicable practice of DRM.

  17. Re:Gears and the storage API on Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome · · Score: 2

    The webkit implementation in Chrome right now is over a year out of date, due to Google using it internally while writing Chrome and not changing the subsystem. So, for example, webkit can do Acid 3 to 100/100, but Google Chrome can't.

    No conspiracy theory here. Wait for Google to update the current webkit version.

  18. Re:People use Google because... on Google Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    That's a trademark issue. If they act like they're totally OK with it, then Microsoft and Yahoo can use google as a verb anywhere they like. Google doesn't want that to happen, so they defend it anyway, despite it being impossible. Putting it in dictionaries, as mentioned above and below I believe, is a new tactic for trademark defense. At least, it is to me. I am not a lawyer. :)

  19. Re:I particularly enjoyed Oblivion... on The State of Game Audio · · Score: 1

    Oh, I understand the difficulty. But a project of Oblivion's size, and with Bethesda backing it as a sequel to Morrowind... it deserved a better music system.

  20. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh?

  21. Re:Well that sounds reasonable. on Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    gschwim, calm down. It was entirely unenforceable and unintentional.

    If they intended to make sure they perpetually owned YOU, they wouldn't have made Google Chrome's source available under a BSD license. Nor would they let you download said entirely free alternative, Chromium (no google trademarks or branding) without an EULA.

    That's right, if you download any of the automated builds for Chromium, it comes EULA-free.

  22. Re:Portal on The State of Game Audio · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Portal was great for music because the situation was always the same, "solve the puzzle." For games where the character can get into varied situations and very quickly change them into one another, it works less well and the designer has to figure out how to do the transition without it being jarring.

    Sometimes the need for decent transitions is swept under the rug, as in my post below, and the game suffers for it.

  23. I particularly enjoyed Oblivion... on The State of Game Audio · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where the battle music would follow you into towns and other safe areas for sometimes several minutes before abating. Or if you were still being chased after using fast travel, it would continue until you had saved and exited or cued a cinematic with its own music or entered a dungeon that would cause certain music to play.

    That was probably one of the big turn-offs, I enjoyed the world, but even if it was just a crab that attacked me I felt like I should be participating in an epic battle. It was like the game was mocking itself.

  24. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    And no professors have PhDs, obviously.

  25. Re:Firefox on Chrome Vs. IE 8 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chrome is what you call the User Interface of an application, or the area around the primary browser window of a web browser.

    The normal 'chrome' of Firefox is it's normal theme, Strata.

    The name Chrome was chosen because it was ironic, their intent was to reduce the chrome that surrounds what you really want to look at in a browser, the actual webpages.