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  1. NAFTA on IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, as a Canadian I sincerely dislike NAFTA too, eh. All these American IT workers steal our jobs and we are forced to sell our oil for cheap to the USA, eh. We should be kick all these Yanks out, eh and we should charge them yankees CAD110 for oil, which is more like USD220 a barrel, eh...

  2. Re:hum on Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    Well, you must prescient, just like NetSol. Nobody has seen the film yet. Maybe god told you what it is in a vision?

  3. Re:Anyone with tagging power? on Calculating the Date of Easter · · Score: 1

    Well, I do care deeply. I had at least 4 chocolate bunnies this year.

    Damn, got to go and get more before they are all sold out...

  4. Re:Why would on Calculating the Date of Easter · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't care about the myths - the chocolate bunnies and eggs are good enough for me.

    Save the earth! It is the *only* planet with chocolate!

  5. Re:Why would on Calculating the Date of Easter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Denying that religion is irrational, doesn't make it any less irrational - on the contrary...

    Pi will never be equal to three, even though the holy bible says so.

  6. Re:Perhaps Even Older on Astronomers Find Oldest Known Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Free planets would be very cold and very dead.

  7. Re:what a bloody coincidence !!! on White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is called 'good management'.

  8. Re:Commercial use on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Actually, lighting is only about 1% of total electricity consumption. So switching bulbs to more efficient designs make sweet blue all difference in the greater scheme of things.

  9. Re:Interesting, but how useful? on The World's Biggest Undersea Robot · · Score: 1

    Yup, even the robot home base ship will be several orders of magnitude more powerful than this little robot.

  10. Get a part time job, lazy ass... on Scholarships From FOSS Organizations? · · Score: 1

    There are lots of part time work opportunities out there: Security guard, bus driver, waiter...

    My son thinks he'll finish university with a positive bank balance.

  11. crudware.com == Microsoft on What Happens To Bounced @Donotreply.com E-Mails · · Score: 0, Troll

    An interesting trick: Type crudware.com into the Firefox address bar. It will do a Google 'I'm Feeling Lucky search and send you to Microsoft! Honest! Try it!

  12. Re:PC Decrapifyer will not work? on Sony Offers Bloatware Removal Service — For a Fee [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I can second PC Decrapifyer. It works like a charm on Dells.

  13. Why throw good money away on Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold · · Score: -1, Troll

    but I guess that sentiment applies to all Microsoft products...

    Years ago, I told people: Yes, you can use Microsoft software, it is a little buggy, but it sure is cheap.

    Nowadays I tell people: Yes, you can use Microsoft software, but it is very buggy and very expensive.

  14. Re:Couldn't we send a rover? on Cassini Finds Evidence For Ocean Inside Titan · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, it will sure make a big splash...

  15. Re-inventing the disk cache wheel on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Geez, I wrote a floppy disk cache driver as a programming homework exercise in the 1980s. Talk of re-inventing the wheel...

  16. Re:Is this really the answer? on Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Nearly 30% of all fatal accidents involving large trucks in the US happen during the hours of darkness"

    Hmm, I think they should rather work on the 70% of accidents that happen during the day.

  17. Efficiency on Silent Microchip 'Fan' Has No Moving Parts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm, what they are not saying is that they are likely using 30W of power to cool a 25W chip...

  18. Random DF value on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Yup, and another problem is that there are instructions that leave the direction flag undefined, a random value of either 0 or 1. Therefore one has to always explicitly set the direction flag before using it.

  19. I fixed this bug in 1989 too on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I fixed this bug in 1989 in an Intel C compiler. That was some years before the GCC project was started. Some people never learn...

  20. Re:ughh.. what happened to programming... on Visualizing the .NET Framework · · Score: 1

    Heh, I do that all the time: Regular black coffee please! and then I turn half away and talk to someone else forcing the barista to use his imagination and they usually manage just fine.

  21. Re:Proofread? on Archive Formats Kill Antivirus Products · · Score: 1

    Yeah well no fine...

  22. Re:'social engineering' on Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites · · Score: 1

    Just think how easy it would be to identify the spammers from the logs on that system.

  23. Tried and true FOSS business model on Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit · · Score: 1

    It is exactly the same as the SCO business model, except that these guys actually *do* own the copyright.

  24. What's with the Hebrewlish? on Intel Details Nehalem CPU and Larrabee GPU · · Score: 1

    These Intel Hewbrewlish names are getting really hard to pronounce.

    "Hebrew English is to be helpings and not to be laughings at."

  25. OOo better than Office 2007 on Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    I have quite a few clients who bought PCs with Office 2007 installed and the ones that didn't have Office 2003 CDs, are all over the moon with OpenOffice.org.