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  1. Driver licensing? on Flying Car Passes First Flight Test · · Score: 1

    It seems like a cool idea, but I bet the licensing requirements are prohibitive.

  2. Such a useful tool on Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional 2nd Ed · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's really interesting how professionals pretty much ignore the GIMP in favor of Photoshop.

    Both toolkits have plenty of features, and GIMP certainly has many of the necessary features the Photoshop has provided for a while. Layers, filters, etc, GIMP has many of them. And support for plug-ins also helps make the case for the image editor.

    But in the end, professionals use Photoshop. It would be a pleasant surprise to hear that the last chapter of the book "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional" was dedicated to the purchasing of Photoshop.

  3. She's a girl on What Filters Are Right For Kids? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Her interest in sex is pretty much limited to looking at cute guys in her class and in teen magazines.

    Girls aren't as affected by the visual stimulation from porn ads. At least not to the extent that boys are.

    She's not going to be any better off because you start filtering her internet. It's like wrestling a pig. It's dirty and tiresome and just pisses the pig off.

  4. And it sucks more for Australians on Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At least in Denmark, you can drive a little ways and get your Internet uncensored.

    For those unlucky souls in Australia who can't access their favorite aberrent websites don't really have any good recourse.

  5. Who's surprised it was the Indians who found this? on UV-Resistant Micro-Organisms Discovered In the Stratosphere · · Score: -1, Troll

    If anyone is expert at outsourcing work, it'd be the Indians.

    First callcenters. Next, diseases.

    A good ol' boy just can't catch a break.

  6. Take the stairs? Take the elevator? on Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless · · Score: 4, Funny

    When we look at how far behind the American wireless industry is compared to the overseas systems, it's not always correct to simply look at the current status. It's much more important to look at the growth over time, because it is only when you do that do you realize that the American system is keeping pace with European and Asian cellular systems.

    Yes, at any particular moment in time the American system may seem far behind, but at some point we do upgrade to the latest and greatest. It just takes a lot more time to decide which version of the latest and greatest we will implement.

    So it's much more like taking an elevator to go from one floor to another here in the US. We don't bother with every individual step in between and we get to the same place as the stair-climbers eventually too.

  7. What's in a value? on Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That which we call a portrait from any other time period would look as similar.

    So this portrait would, were it painted later, retain that dear perfection which it holds without that title.

  8. With all due respect to our Canadian neighbors on Court Demands Private Facebook Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like harrassment, it really isn't up to the perpetrator to determine just how victimized a victim feels.

    It is unclear to everyone but the victim just how much loss of enjoyment of life he sustained. Using something as innocuous and meaningless as tweets on Facebook to determine someone's state of mind is like trying to determine the intelligence of someone from their postings on Slashdot.

  9. Volunteer? on Scientists Use fMRI To (Sort of) Read Minds · · Score: 3, Funny

    How can a hippopotamus give consent?

  10. Re:Great! on 3-D Light System May Revolutionize Fingerprinting · · Score: 2, Funny

    Balanced on the head of a pin is also an equilibrium state. But it is inherently unstable.

  11. Touchless fingerprinting? on 3-D Light System May Revolutionize Fingerprinting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like RFID-loaded passports and cameras at sports arenas, this technology only seems useful at violating our privacy remotely.

    We are talking about Chinese Democracy a few stories below. What scares me more than Chinese Democracy (and Axl's hairplugs) is American Fascism.

  12. The real lesson on Public Bug Tracking and Open-Source Policy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real lesson here is that not all developers are good.

    Open Source means that anyone can make changes to code. It doesn't mean that they should.

  13. Re:Target a standard on Site Compatibility and IE8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't ever seen a fast Java applet

    This is a temporary problem. As computers get faster, this problem will go away.

  14. Target a standard on Site Compatibility and IE8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    HTML as a standard has been so bastardized over the years that the kind of incompatibilities that the article discusses exist not only across different browsers but also between browser versions.

    Maybe it's time to start over. Flash and Java applets seem like a good place to start.

  15. Big news for Symbian developers! on Symbian Introduces Open Source Release Plan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    int CoolNews(HBufC aNews)
      {
    // TODO: Source code won't help you
    // learn how to use these freaking
    // Symbian buffer types...
      return static_cast<TBoolC>(1);
      }

  16. Too bad about the performance, though on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    IE8 and Chrome seem to beat it handily.

    Like most of you losers.

  17. Re:Ice ice baby on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I have the bass line from Ice Ice Baby going through my head!

    Could be worse.

    You could be sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. Waiting at the corner for the man to pour the coffee, and he fills it only halfway and before you can even argue he is looking out the window at somebody coming in.

    Du du du du, du du-du du, du du du-du, du du du du.

  18. Re:Nice link, not on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 4, Funny

    We try not to use that kind of insensitive wording anymore.

    You mean "words of ethnic descent".

  19. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 1

    Put some ramen on your Visa, slick. Gray matter back got perform us down I take TCB'in, man.

  20. Ice ice baby on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Theirs goes, 'ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.' Ours goes, 'ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'

    The future of entertainment seems so old (so old).

  21. I met Bobby Fischer once on Dealing With Fairness and Balance In Video Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had the chance to play Bobby Fischer at chess once. He kicked my ass around the block.

    Then he called me a fucking dirty Jew.

    Which was weird, because I'm not Jewish.

    Thinking about it now, I probably shouldn't have thought I could play chess with him.

    Back in the real world where playing video games cost a quarter or two, sometimes you only got to play 3 rounds of Street Fighter 2 because the other guy was master of Guile's Sonic Boom/Spinning upside-down kick combo. These days, you just disconnect and go find another game to join. Back then you risked cold hard cash every time you went in to play.

  22. Re:que 500 stupid M$ sux0rs posts on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DHS is the over-arching agency containing the previously separate agencies you listed above.

    Prior to the creation of the DHS, communication between agencies like the CIA and FBI was legally difficult because of the lack of transparency. But now that they are under the same umbrella agency, they can share information much more easily.

  23. Re:que 500 stupid M$ sux0rs posts on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    eliminate the whole DHS nonense and just fund the FBI,NSA,CIA and police properly. if those 4 agencies can't get it done wtf is the DHS going to add?

    Inter-agency communication.

    The lack of it, coupled with an administration that was ignoring the messages from all sides led directly to 9/11. Since we can't always trust that our President will be aware of all the right information, we can at least implement the bureaucracy in such a way that as long as someone is paying attention we can act.

  24. Re:Microsoft and Security in the same sentence? on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What do you mean, "you people"?

  25. Microsoft and Security in the same sentence? on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 1, Funny

    Boy oh boy. Obama seems to be turning into a big disappointment with some of these appointments.

    What'll he do next? Appoint Mike Tyson as head of Department of Heath and Human Services?