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  1. Nice move. on Valve Looking to Port Games to Linux? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux is already known to have a few rootkits available, so they will save on recoding.

  2. Re:Trillion??? on Fair Use Worth More Than Copyright To Economy · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are counting the contribution of people who, by breeding, infrige the copyright that some corporations put on some of their genes.

    Honestly, I don't know myself if I wanted this post to be joke.

  3. Re:I'm sure it is on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Except that the KGB would have dreamed to have just 1% of the technical resources currently used on western citizens.

  4. Re:Gap in the market! on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    Some time ago, I saw a false ad for an anti-theth device for iPod which basically was a fake brown Zune casing, now you only have to cover the inner part with metal for full protection.

  5. Re:Reason why they are called "Lie Detectors" on Ohio Court Admits Lie Detector Tests As Evidence · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it in "The Usual Suspect" that someone says the only people capable of quietly sleeping in detention were the true criminals?

  6. Re:Meh, back in... on Ohio Court Admits Lie Detector Tests As Evidence · · Score: 1

    It contradicts what I read about which hunting. If you threw a woman in a lake and she didn't drown to death, she was protected by the devil and therefore had to be burned. But we all know christian god didn't really like women.

  7. It reminds me of college on Realtime ASCII Goggles · · Score: 1

    We had some Ultra Sparc and a few VT220 orange dummy terminals where I studied and everyone was using only the Sparcs, even to only check emails, so there were some queues to access the machine. So one day, a friend installed the ASCII version of Quake on the VT220 server to prove you could do almost anything on those craps.
    It didn't change anything but damn, that was cool.

  8. Re:Evolution on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 2, Informative

    IANMB but it seems unlikely.
    Those eels have two distinct sets of jaws with associated muscles, but the sharks only have one set with several layers of teeth (new one are grown all the time on one side of the jaw and push the older ones until they fall).

  9. Obligatory Monthy Pythons on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 1

    My Eel is full of teeth.

  10. Re:Chimeras on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    Don't worry.
    1- Most of those persons are not even aware of their particularity.
    2- Indexing 60+ million samples will already be a nightmare, so I beleive they'll simply take samples and freeze them for a few decades before they can afford to analyze more than a few percent.

  11. Re:'visitors DNA' on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    You'd also have to consider there could be a lot of good reasons to spend some vacation in the USA (national parks, good beaches, Disneyworld, Graceland... the list goes on and nearly anyone could find something he likes), but since the british prefer to spend their vacation in France or Spain, why should go there in the first place?

  12. Re:If your job requires more direct contact... on Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter · · Score: 1

    I did quite the oposite, moving to a relatively distant big city to find a job in my field.
    Working on high frequency analog electronics would make telecommuting rather difficult, but I really love that job, partly because it doesn't involve much face-to-face.

  13. Re:Why Oh Why... on Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    Let's take Al Capone as an example: policemen and procecutors knew very well he was a violent and very powerful criminal, but the only solid proofs they could provide to a court were about tax fraud.
    In that case, it was likely the same, everyone knows they extort lots of money and intimate people, but from that, investigators need to find real cases and document them with facts and witnesses, infiltrate the sect, follow the money, sometimes even fight against scientology insiders in their own hierarchy...
    Like it or not, it's slow but that's the way it works democratic countries.

  14. Re:Can a committee stop the rotation of the Earth? on ISO Says No To Microsoft's OOXML Standard · · Score: 1

    Well, the good old "you can't be fired for chosing MS" does not sound the same in "you can't be fired for chosing an ISO-rejected format"

  15. That's nothing! on Grow Your Own Heart Valves · · Score: 3, Funny

    Real geeks build their own pacemaker.

  16. Re:Sounds like a good starting point. on Effective Use of Technology In the Classroom? · · Score: 1

    No, you're wrong, you can sometimes be out of chalk.

    Blackboards work because several people can easily interact on it at the same time and its interface is simple enough for 99.9% of the potential users.
    High tech works only in a one-to-many lecture when the lecturer had spent some time learning how to properly use the device and a lot of time preparing visual material that takes advantage of it.

  17. Re:Hmmm... A reputation metric... on Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages · · Score: 0

    I think he was joking about the long-established /. karma system, Mr 7-digit ID.

  18. Re:Aren't they missing something? on NZ, Sweden, Hungary Reflect OOXML Turmoil · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not always, you could have a standard fully documenting what to do and still have a lot of room for proprietary IP and patents covering your particular implementation.

  19. Re:Why? on NZ, Sweden, Hungary Reflect OOXML Turmoil · · Score: 1

    success of the team? In what world are you living?

    I've been in the SW industry for nearly ten years and I saw a lot of success of visionary PHB, but never heard of any collective success.

  20. Re:As I sit next to my colleague... on NZ, Sweden, Hungary Reflect OOXML Turmoil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know I'm redundant, but basically, everyone who seriously digged into the 6000+ pages of their proposal saw that on several points, when they had to chose between doing things righ or doing them Office way, they chosed the later. The result is that their propsal is too flawed to be accepted as if on its own merit and they know it.

  21. Re:Sparks on Thieves Hacking Security Cameras? · · Score: 1

    How are those net-enabled security cameras working out for you?

    Fine, I just coupled a HTTP-controlled shotgun to the ones I have in my home.

  22. Re:healthy on Don't Let Your Boss Catch You Reading This · · Score: 1

    Throughout history, brilliant leaders weren't the guys who paid best, and that's not they are remembered for.

    From the very few things I remember of my history classes, brilliant leaders are people who managed to get thousands to million people die for their personal profit or vision and get away with it.

  23. Re:Obvious on Solar Powered Wi-Fi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like any other short-living snake oil startup, their marketing focus on the blogosphere instead of real potential consumers?

    Seriously, it's been decades that solar pannels are used to provide electricity in remote places, and usualy with far larger needs (a few examples: sismic/weather monitoring stations, wells, entire third world villages...).

  24. Re:Why? on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let me give you an analogy:
    When a food manufacturer makes a takeaway dish that is tasteless, he can improve the receipe or the used goods, but it will cost him, or he could simply add a lot of salt or sugger to enhance the taste, which is bad for you, but almost free for him. Playing bad music louder triggers physical reaction that might make you beleive you like it, so it is like adding too much salt.

  25. Re:Sometimes.... on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 1

    The key word is "sometimes", today, I have the feeling that half of the balads on radio sound like they were played by the Ramones. Please, play better, not only louder!