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  1. sigh on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    <abbr title="abbreviation">abbrev.</abbr>

    There. That's a completely unambiguous way to represent an abbreviation. Technical writing? There's no shortage of options for that.

    There's no magic answer to the sentence spacing issue though. Use an em space if it bothers you that much. Go bitch at the Unicode consortium if that's not good enough; they've still got a few empty slots in the General Punctuation block.

  2. The UK already solved this one on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    Just use double-decker buses instead, you can fit more passengers into the same volume and it doesn't require digging up half the road system and shutting it off to high vehicles.

    This looks more like a way to enforce human behaviour through a batshit insane design threatening to cut your car in half than anything practical.

  3. Re:Bad news on NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the empires of the past had guarded their "intellectual" "property" so jealously as these money-grubbing little cunts, we'd all be shitting in open trenches today.

  4. Re:News for nerds? Stuff that matters? on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    This matters because it's effectively an act of persecution against the segment of the populace with above-room-temperature IQ.

  5. Re:huh? on Louisiana, Intelligent Design, and Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually read the constitution?

    I'm not even a fucking American and I can tell you it's right at the top.

  6. Re:How can you tell? on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 1

    Should be simple - tell them to delete it, wait a while, then subpoena them for the data. If they can recover it, they're obviously lying.

  7. Re:Why oh why on The Chipophone — an 8-Bit Chiptune Organ · · Score: 1

    Having trouble operating that computer, there?

  8. holding more than 50 high-quality movie titles on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    They'll be able to fit every high-quality movie title ever created into a handful of discs then. ...oh, you were talking about video compression?~

  9. What did you expect... on Microsoft Says No To Paying Bug Bounties · · Score: 1

    ...from the company that used to charge YOU a huge bill for the "privilege" of sending bug reports?

  10. Re:Great, another malware attack vector on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    What, like AJAX requests to "file.bin" on the server? Holy crap you're right this has never been thought of before!!

  11. Re:User experience trumps on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    Do you care if your truck's engine is sold as a V8 but has two cylinders missing?

  12. Re:They are just late to the party on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    At least with ATi you can be sure that a different model number will actually get you a different card. Nvidia are con artists.

  13. Re:Price drops on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    If you really were concerned about value why would you buy Intel at all?

  14. Re:Chrome does NOT have NoScript on Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock · · Score: 1

    First, NoScript does much more than just block JavaScript.

    Which is a shame. I'm still waiting half a decade later for an extension that does. If I wanted what NoScript does I'd install fucking Norton.

  15. Re:It does say something about Google on Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of companies in the same position would have made it so their browser ADDED ads.

    You think?

  16. Re:Answer to brute force attacks on OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So in your system, I could lock you out of the site simply by doing a bad login on your username three times? Nice.

  17. Re:Awesome, I will own you now. on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    If anyone's transmitting that kind of sensitive data over an unencrypted wireless link, then they're as ignorant as you.

  18. Re:Why, oh why? on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 1

    64 bit system doesn't have any of these limitations and you can address all the memory in one chunk without any work-arounds - hence the wider support for more ram there.

    My kernel disagrees.

    [ 0.000000] Node 0: aperture @ 180000000 size 32 MB
    [ 0.000000] Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring.
    [ 0.000000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
    [ 0.000000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
    [ 0.000000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM
    [ 0.000000] Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 20000000

  19. Re:"Slates," huh? on Ballmer Says Microsoft Is 'Hardcore' About Tablets · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to buy a Microsoft Stale.

    wait whoops

  20. Re:Great, another malware attack vector on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    OH NOSE! Web servers will be able to SEND DATA TO YUOR BORWROSAR!!1 HAX!!!!!1

    Seriously, are you smoking crack?

  21. Re:Horray Websockets! on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Wait, you could do that with web workers? I thought they were limited to the message passing interface for I/O.

  22. Re:WebM/VP8 support on Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I've got a quad-core desktop CPU, reasonably fast graphics card and Firefox completely chokes on 360p Youtube WebM videos, almost freezing my xserver in the process too. Waste of time, stick with chromium.

  23. Re:WebM on Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    ffmpeg -i input_file.mp4 output_file.webm

    Or, you know, you could spend 3.0 seconds typing "webm encoder" into google and skimming the first page of results.

  24. Re:Or... on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    How is that better than the built-in "right button down, nudge pointer two pixels to the bottom-right, release button"?

  25. Re:Why it was made big on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    In all these years I've figured out you can middle click menu items, but never thought to use it on the back button of all things. And it works in other browsers!