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  1. Re:All but ? on European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had to look it up to, it seems to be correct English:

    http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/all+but

  2. Re:Contribution to society? on Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading · · Score: 1

    It helps investors to quickly buy and sell securities for a fair price. Of course most members of society don't invest themselves but somebody else does for them. For example: your pension fund invests your money in securities for you. Another example: Corporations that sell commodities and want to hedge their income stream. If they can secure a good price for their products they can focus on what they do best: produce.

  3. Re:Contribution to society? on Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading · · Score: 1

    Could you elaborate? Word doesn't think 'liquidity' was spelled wrong.

  4. Re:Contribution to society? on Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading · · Score: 5, Informative

    Day traders create and provide liquidity.

  5. Re:Possible work-around on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    The thing that is really amazing about this hack: Human readable perl!

  6. Re:BeOS Haiku on BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith · · Score: 1

    Because we can... You must be new here ;)

  7. Re:public domain on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    If you are going to install dosbox install Supaplex too. I have had so much fun with it it is the first thing I'm going to install _after_ my exams.

  8. Re:Morocco tried to block YouTube once... on Pakistan Blocks YouTube · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm pretty sure no one insulted the Turkish king because Turkey is a republic. I think it is quite possible both countries blocked Youtube at some moment. (and of course stopped blocking after realizing this is a bad idea)

  9. Re:Bush's foreign policy is awesome on Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This gets modded Insightful?

    Well, look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq A lot of European countries have troops in Afghanistan.
    Sorry for not fighting all your ill-concieved wars.

  10. Re:Oh noes, some other country may pull its weight on US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics · · Score: 1

    Everything is easy with the right gear:

    Bike + Woman + 2 kids + bags

  11. Re:Dumb speculations on Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the Web-developer extension for firefox.

  12. Re:Oh noes, some other country may pull its weight on US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics · · Score: 1

    How many American families have 3 small children and live 5 miles from a grocerie store?

    I have never been to the States but I know that in Western Europe:
    Cars are _not_ a necissity
    People are amazed by the short distances cars are used for in the States.

  13. Re:Oh noes, some other country may pull its weight on US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics · · Score: 1

    Well, I have never been there but I have a strong feeling that a grocerie store is never far away in San Jose. Combine this with decent public transportation and you _won't_ need to use your car often.

  14. Re:Oh noes, some other country may pull its weight on US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics · · Score: 1

    Could buying bikes for the rest of the family help?

  15. Re:The More they add, the less I like on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    For HTML 5 there is nothing yet only the draft and the draft is in HTML 4.01 strict. My guess: They fscked up. P.S. I have learned my languages using a teacher, a textbook and immersion (except for latin ;) ).

  16. Re:The More they add, the less I like on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. To be honest I didn't read the spec (yet) but it appears the page is following HTML 4.01 strict but the doctype is incorrectly specified.

    Maybe I'm missing something very important but using HTML 5 to describe HTML 5 seems _stupid_ to me. Like learning an adult French using only French.

  17. Re:The More they add, the less I like on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Console gaming on More Advertising in Your Next Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    I don't hope you didn't get into PC-gaming because Valve has added ads* to Counterstrike 1.6. *Obnoxious, out of place ads.

  19. Bootvis' Theorem on Could Open Source Lead to a Meritocratic Search Engine? · · Score: 2

    Bootvis' Theorem states:
    It is not possible to create an algoritm that takes as input any dataset and a search query and outputs the results 'best' matching the query.

    I have truly marvellous proof but ...

  20. Re:ugh on Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Trust me, I speak from first hand experience."

    Urgh! ... Must ... Not ... Make ... Joke

  21. Re:Define "Broad" on Germany Searches Credit Cards For Child Porn Payments · · Score: 1

    The quality of the 'narrowness' can be measured by the amount of false positives. If this number is low (0) then the search criteria are imo defined well because nobody innocent suffered. My guess is that in this case the number of false positves is _low_ . So job wel done, Siska!

  22. Re: Not present on my Aspire 5024 on Acer May Be Bugging Computers · · Score: 1

    It's not present on the Aspire 5024 WLMI. Disclaimer: Could be because I removed some Acer-stuff.

  23. Re:Is KDE 4 really based on Qt 4.0? on A Sneak Preview of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    From TFA: > But the biggest change is going to be inside the hood so to speak. KDE 4.0 will be using Qt 4.2 library which brings with it its own extensive set of improvements.

  24. Re:Not just true for humans on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is odd:
    0.001 euro's and you get: You're in the TOP 68.98% richest people in the world!
    Now try 0 euro and the result is: You're in the TOP 68.98% richest people in the world!
    Amazing 31.02% procent of the world population has an income of less than nothing!
    It's the same for negative numbers.

  25. Re:Microsoft would have fixed this in 3 days on Zero-Day Team Launches with Emergency IE Patch · · Score: 1

    You can be pretty sure that patch was already made and added some extra obfuscation.