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  1. Re:Saying no on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    Yeah really what's with charging money to family? If they did the honest value-for-services they'd get hosed.

    All you have to do is lock down their systems kinda tight and release a setting or two when they get upset it doesn't do X.

    Spend 18 min fixing some crazy edge case problem. Then off you go.

    The people who wanna charge $30 for tech services are gonna get denied the $1000 loan when their car breaks.

  2. Re:Magic the Gathering on A Letter On Behalf of the World's PC Fixers · · Score: 1

    Oh good, for once a MTG player I can respond to so the mods don't sink me.

    Run a Type One analysis on the recent news trends and be horrified. The last time I tried I was accused of bad Perl.

    The general formula, converted to MTG, is GoldCard - Negated-Limitation.

    So we have PutPeopleInJail -NegateZimbabwe, "Pretend To Track Anonymous Emails" - Negate FalseResults, etc.

    Once one random jurisdiction puts an unholy measure into play, the entire rest of the world goes "oh cool, let's do that".

    For anyone whoever built any of the 100 MTG decks that later became banned, this reasoning is a cinch. For everyone else the mods call it -1.

  3. Re:Clearer vs. More Interesting on Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations · · Score: 1

    You might have found the successor to Fair and Balanced!

    It would be more clear if it said 7.6% of the apps they looked at were in violation, but it's "more interesting" to state totally wild obfuscations because the most inaccurate writing seems to be winning lately. And those other stories a day or three ago were wondering what happened to our state of science education.

  4. Re:encoding on Wikipedia Moves To Delete the Free Speech Flag · · Score: 2

    Godel's Revenge! Come on kids, let's encode!

    Take the 100 million digits of Pi - I bet somewhere in there is the decimal version of the key. Then all you need is a marker and off you go!

    Convert it to Base 4 and I garner it's in our genetic code! Can they stop you from having a copy of your genetic code? Or will they make "placeholders" illegal?

    Go to a grocery store and buy stuff in a certain order! Can they stop you from shopping for food?

  5. Re:Pathological Code on Adobe Releases Flash To HTML 5 Converter · · Score: 0

    (Complete Font Specs Here) &nbsp Auto (/Font) &nbsp (More Complete Font Specs) generating (/Font) &nbsp (Because one font spec) programs (isn't enough) &nbsp do (Facebook Hook) LikeThis.(/Facebook Hook)

  6. Re:no God on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Hi AC.

    I am careful only to object to the classic fundamentalist literal interpretation, where answering prayers was very nearly the point of purpose of God. That, and doing Final Judgements.

    Since we agree to discard that narrow view, all kinds of interesting modern interpretations show up from the more balanced weaker Myth-Gods, to Norman Mailer's limited deity idea, etc.

  7. Re:1 minute on Nokia Has a Billion Reasons To Love WP7 · · Score: 1

    The truly scary question is which is better for the entire discussion thread, a MS AstroPost, or the improved Russian Goatse guy?

  8. Beta 12 vs RC on Firefox 4 RC Vs. IE9 RC: the First Duel · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Beta 12 introduced a crazy printing glitch on my local setup, so I hope by the RC they put enough stuff in order to make it go away again. I rolled back to Beta 11 and sent them a Feedback.

  9. Re:no God on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    IAmNotAPhilosophyMajor, but here goes.

    It's a variation of the Limits concept that opened the way to Calculus. "There is no spoon" either, because it's just a quantum swirl of stuff all the way down. However, for that reasonable approximation of reality that moves life along, it's a spoon.

    The problem get far worse when God comes up. I can't recall the third entry after Moebius-Klein Bottle-____, but an Infinite Force that a person can simultaneously pray to, yet cannot affect the world (free will) *and* is undetectible by any measurement process (including prayer!) creates a paradox of such proportions that all rational thought just melts completely.

    So sidestep "cannot claim to know", and replace it with "the limit of approaching the knowledge" - there is no God, which works for all but logic loops.

  10. Re:It had to be Florida on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 0

    Fark Florida tag Likes This.

  11. Re:Ow Squared on IBM Patenting HAL-Like Stuffed Animal Toys · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the repost, but I found a better one.

      Lasse Gjertsen vs the Angry German Kid

    This is the future of being raised by IBM Teddy!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93dHye9ic4&feature=related

  12. Re:ow on IBM Patenting HAL-Like Stuffed Animal Toys · · Score: 1

    We might need Lasse Gjertsen to put this in proper perspective and save us from it. Either him, or the remixer behind Developers.

  13. Re:Minimize on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    I guess I don't understand the lack of both a window bar and minimize combo as you work with stuff. It takes you say 5 clicks and maybe a login to get to each window you want to work with, what are you supposed to do with it when it's on hold?

  14. Re:viewers on Judge Allows Subpoenas For GeoHot YouTube Viewers, Blog Visitors · · Score: 1

    Let's hope you're not being snarky on to get a +1 Funny.

    Consider this sentence:

    "a judge approved multiple subpoenas which seek logs of all viewers and commenters to his YouTube video".

    Are we happy that anyone who gets grumpy can supoena all *viewers* of a youtube video?!
    Example: "Someone threatens Justin Bieber". JB's lawyers, "Thinking of the 17 year old" (kid), decides to supoena *all viewers of any Justin Bieber Video* because gosh gasp, there might be someone there who threatened him!

    The prime minister in Egypt supoena all viewers of certain Egyptian Revolutionary Videos. Or Libya. Or Zimbabwe. Hell, let's just look for terrorists and supoena every view of Youtube ever made! Why stop at Youtube? Let's supoena the *entire internet*. Then let's lose it to a hacker because of bad security. You know, managed by HBGary's successor. Then we can count throughtcrimes committed by every person on the planet. That's how the old wold ends.

    By making this post I gain +1 Prophet-Martyr. ETA is 7 months. This post is recorded.

  15. Re:Long Url Please Mod on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 1

    Good try, though the pity is that it does't work for the Firefox 4 Betas.
    For now I made a fast and dirty note of the tinyurl to the goatse. I'm pretty sure there's more than tinyurl, but there can't be that many.

  16. Re:viewers on Judge Allows Subpoenas For GeoHot YouTube Viewers, Blog Visitors · · Score: 2

    Dammit, did everyone miss the scary point? Now I know why we face the threat of the end of the world in 20 months in Dec 2012 - because we might have destroyed the internet by then and we can't go back to the land before internet-time now.

    View this either as multiplication, or set theory -

    (Huge Disastrous Precedent) * (Temporary Artificial Narrowing of Scope) = "Yesterday's News".
    Then because we are Dopamine-Junkies, "Yesterday's News" is never good enough! So then the (Temporary Artificial Boundaries on Scope) vanish and we are left with (Huge Disastrous Precedent).

    (Judge Approved (Random Company's) multiple supoenas which seek logs of all viewers and commenters to (Any_Citizen's) (YouTube video)).

    For as little reason as some hardware hacking? Really?! Then there was that other one from Indiana a few days ago that was also a collage of (Something Hideous) * (Temporary Limit of Scope).

    The real problem is we are also moving towards Guilty Until Proven Innocent because the media isstill hooked on a news model of "Let's Embarass People!"

  17. Re: next one on Germany Builds Encrypted, Identity-Confirmed Email · · Score: 1

    No, the next one after gmail would be HeMail, pronounced

    Ahee-Mayal.

    Homestarrunner FTW!

    http://www.homestarrunner.com/main8.html
    "Email" tab

  18. Re:But it's Google... on Google Cars Drive Themselves, In Traffic · · Score: 1

    ELIZA, is that you?

  19. Re:"Shadow" on Old Man Murray Entry Deleted From Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    At its rawest, notability was a stab against the basest of astroturf trolls. Theory case: You have this totally random article on some product & company absolutely no one has heard of. Or just plain troll swearing on a page.

    Much more recently have we hit the problem "1 million youtube views = notable".

    As for those links, You'd have the Shadow version that *stays put.* Then if the politics work and it shows up on Min Wiki, it gets a new copy with new links. Maybe smart users would never leave Shadow, having developed the defensive skills to survive random astroturfing and trolls.

    Wiki needs to be smart, to survive. There's too many e-how type sites out there with dumbed down stuff.

    As for the scabs, maybe the shadow could host an "easy" copy. That's what that's for, EVERYTHING except pure abuse.

  20. Re:Interesting link on the history of HTML5 on Firefox 4 Web Demos: Web O' Wonder · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That has a really weird font though, like a badly scanned book from 1910.

  21. Re:Too much time on his hands on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    +1 Styx

  22. Re:2012 on Timezone Maintainer Retiring · · Score: 1

    It's looking like a better guess than time ending in 2012.

    Figure the confluence of Wikileaks/Successors, Anonymous/Successors, Facebook gets hacked/sells their entire database of real people's names and info, everyone into hypertracking, and on.

    We're only at March 2011 and the Day is somewhere in December 2012... 20 months to go at this pace?

  23. Re:TiniUrl has a nice preview feature as well on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a general firefox addon that expands short urls?

    Meanwhile, trivia of the day is that the prior copy of "real goatse" was the French .fr copy. However someone apparently got to it to take it down, so the new one is the .ru Russian one.

  24. Re:waiting on Hands On With Apple IPad 2 · · Score: 1

    In the Hermaphrodite Edition it comes with iBalls

  25. Re:Expedited Process on 'Spam King' Released From Prison, Now Lives In Seattle · · Score: 1

    You mean like the judge blasting him with 11 trillion 1 day sentences?