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  1. Re:RMS on the same subject. on ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management · · Score: 5, Funny

    when did stallman become an expert on everything? Your question implies that he - at some point - was not.
  2. Re:hey on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only · · Score: 1
    When I want to make a huge working image (bigger than 3GB in RAM) on a mac, I'll have to do it with something other than PS (or make a ramdrive and put the "HDD cache" on the ramdrive).

    Bad move by Adobe, but Apple will suffer for it more than Adobe will.

  3. Re:It's terrible on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why can't they investigate these cases *discretely*, so that if the investigated party is innocent, his life isn't ruined? Because it's one step away from discretely disappearing someone. I'd rather have everything nice and public, but have a government "insurance" fund that pays out huge sums to the wrongly-accused, even without them having to file suit for malicious prosecution.
  4. Re:And a criminal organization with patience ... on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SSNs are unique, but some people have more than one SSN. Cases where more than one name relates to the same SSN are either name changes or fraud.

  5. Re:Widespread? on Boot Sector Viruses & Rootkits Poised For Comeback · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Imagine an MBR virus shipping from the factory on floppies, USB sticks, USB HDDs, or a BIOS or MBR virus/rootkit on new Lenovo machines (sorry, China's an easy target these days).

  6. Re:The wonders of rationalization on Upgrade Trick Still Present In Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    In many states, if you improve a portion of your neighbors' property and use it, but your neighbor does nothing, you eventually can sue for ownership of the property.

  7. Re:mixed feelings on Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs? · · Score: 1

    Give someone root, and they'll download and install a binary blob from a 3rd party more likely than not. Keep them with standard user privs, and they'll compile something in their own directory (preferable).

  8. Re:Ahh, the days.. on The Original mcom.com Revived · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was using a 2400baud modem in 1995-1996 too, but I didn't have to select "don't load images" I was using lynx on a unix server I dialed into. My computer was an IBM 8086 with TWO 5.25 floppy drives. I could copy floppies like a mad man!

  9. Re:The Brand on Photoshop Express Terms of Use Cause Stir, Will Be Revised · · Score: 1

    And why not Photoshop Online Storage (or something slightly snappier, but still descriptive)? I would have assumed this was a fast, light version of Photoshop, and not bothered. It's kind of like McDonalds naming the fries and drink from a bigmac value meal "BigMac Less Tasty".

  10. Re:Just use the GIMP on Photoshop Express Terms of Use Cause Stir, Will Be Revised · · Score: 5, Funny

    7. Change the name. Agreed... Suggestions anyone? Photo
    Image
    Manipulation
    Program
    ?
  11. Re:Sample bias on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 0, Troll
    Seems you've never been to Bloomington (the town IU is housed within). It's an island of blue in a sea of red (and is a local magnet for blue as a result). So, there needs to be some revision:

    1)men think blowing up foreigners is wrong, even if the foreigners in question have every intention of blowing them up
    2) men reached puberty within past 10 years [no change there because I don't understand the connotation].
    3) men are caucasian[northern-europeanand hispanic], african, indian, native-american, other-asian and often run around screaming in protest rallies
    4) men do not remember any American president before Bush jr. and he is like, old - you know. [again, no change, these are still youngsters we're talking about]
    5) men never held hands with a girl, but each have 14 zettabytes of pron [I'm leaving this one here because it's hilarious. You think IU is backwater, then come to this conclusion? What do you think kids in small towns do for fun with the utter dearth of places to go? Oh wait, you're thinking of CS students; carry on.]
    6) all men know about the man-o-centric male-ocracy is what they learn in their required modern-feminism course[s].
    7) men speak only English, and not well, especially if they live in the international student housing. The indian guys speak english okay, but the grad students from china have issues sometimes, but still refuse to speak chinese.

  12. Re:Prostheses on The Squid's Beak May Revolutionize Engineering · · Score: 2, Funny

    Prosthetic beaks? Seriously? Haven't you ever wanted to bite into a nautilus just like an apple? Mmm, nautilus.
  13. Re:What is a barista smile? on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1
    A barista smile is the smile a barista/waitress gives you that really does look like "I find you attractive", often done with a lingering touch while handing back change. It's usually done as an attempt to get a [bigger] tip. In almost 100%* of the cases, asking the barista out on a date results in her saying (with a sudden change in look, "My {boyfriend,husband[where's your ring?]} wouldn't like that". Then she gives the same smile to the next guy in line.

    She may not know she's sending out "I want sex" signals, she just knows she gets more in tips when she's "nice" like that.

    *Rarely, the unmarried ones will hand out their _real_ phone numbers, so it's always good to follow up. And to any baristas/waitresses reading this, I tip all servers 20%-25% unless service was piss poor because I worked a restaurant once. Your "sex appeal" is not a factor.

  14. Re:Wouldn't breeding licenses be more effective? on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 1

    This is like trying to clean up pollution while hawking hummers to every soccer mom.
    Wow. It's officially spring. I read this as "hawking hummers from every soccer mom."
  15. Re:UK Government has Multiple Personalities on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 1

    husky

  16. Re:AwesomeBar on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 1

    Why can't they be both things?

  17. Re:How could a tiny black hole ... on Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Atmosphere? Space balls?

  18. Re:There is NO justification for banning nerf guns on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    The people who need or enforce a nerf gun ban are insane. What they need is a mental institution. You bring that case before any shrink and they'll recommend a long stay at a mental health clinic.
    ... Where people are routinely provided with Nerf weaponry to work out aggression...
  19. Re:Help me out here on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    In the U.S., children are so coddled that they don't mentally and emotionally mature until years after being physically separated from the parents (so, until about 21-23). Some of the kids ("adults") I see on my nearby campus are 19-20, but act like pre-teens.

  20. Re:University in the US? on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    In the U.S., children are so coddled that they don't mentally and emotionally mature until years after being physically separated from the parents (so, until about 21-23). Some of the kids ("adults") I see on my nearby campus are 19-20, but act like pre-teens.

  21. Re:Wow... on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    Then came the entertech guns... I knew some older kids that spray painted their entertech barettas with chrome.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99UPQEFSGVQ

  22. Re:Also: How does this make the front page? on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    As such a student, I'd think I had mistakenly entered an IT cubicle farm.

  23. Re:also LEDs are weapons of mass destruction... on Roleplayers Seek Removal of Nerf Gun Ban · · Score: 1

    Taking away the weapons from the Martial arts clubs... I hope they give the martial artists pain killers first.

  24. Re:Really, really creepy on Comcast Makes Nice with BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Think of it as the two main characters in a romantic comedy-drama. They hate each other so much that they lean in too close while shouting, then they start making out, possibly while still whispering hateful things.

  25. Re:dual screen... on Meet the Laptop of 2015 · · Score: 1