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  1. Re:Good. on Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites · · Score: 1

    How the hell is that freedom of speech?

    Is freedom to visit whatever website we choose now also covered under the First Ammendment?

  2. Re:Trojans? on MacResearch Introduces OpenMacGrid · · Score: 1

    Do Macs support loopback devices?

    Just make a file of whatever size you want to limit the jobs to, format it HFS+, mount it and chroot to it. Problem solved?

  3. Re:ugh on Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Duke of Normandy? How can any member of the British nobility hold that title when Normandy is owned by the French?

  4. Re:Bravo on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    It could be that spending per capita is less in countries like the UK because you have to wait so damn long for treatment - I don't know what the state of waiting lists is in the USA, but I suspect it's better - so more people get treated, per day, per capita, resulting in the higher expenditure.

  5. Re:"Why didn't I think of that?" on Upside Down Phone Patent · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like an accident waiting to happen.

    Health & Safety, anyone?

  6. Re:"Why didn't I think of that?" on Upside Down Phone Patent · · Score: 1

    You had to enter data into phones while riding a bike? What kind of crazy job was that?

  7. Re:Branding: "Ogg" vs. "Vorbis" on Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support · · Score: 1

    iPods support mp3. I sync mine via Amarok, and most of my collection is mp3 - it plays them fine.

    If you look at the "Legal" screen under Settings you'll see that familiar "licenced from Fraunhofer IIS and THOMPSON multimedia" message.

  8. Re:Not to take potshots, but on Why Software is Hard · · Score: 1

    No, they were diverted into an internal project to design automated launch and in-flight guidance systems for the chairs. Ballmer's only one man, and he has a busy schedule - he can't devote all of his time to furniture-lobbing duties.

  9. Re:I hope they do it for PostgreSQL, too. on Oracle Lines Up Unbreakable MySQL · · Score: 1

    Haha, fair point - but I don't see you doing it!

  10. Re:I hope they do it for PostgreSQL, too. on Oracle Lines Up Unbreakable MySQL · · Score: 1

    Heh, you're new, right?

    Just hang around here for a while and (if you can bear it) participate in the discussions.

    Soon enough you'll see the little drop-down boxes under every post and the "moderate" button right at the bottom of the page. (It took me *ages* to figure out how to submit my moderation when I first got points). In the meantime, you can find out about it HERE.

    Hey, someone's gotta take care of the newbies :)

  11. Re:Get a clue retard on Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter · · Score: 1

    Goddammit, as soon as I post in this topic I see something like this.

    Someone mod this troll down, please.

  12. Re:Hmm? on Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're certainly living a long, long time ago.

  13. Re:Stock scam spams - 3n14rge yur SC0X ... on Spam is Back With A Vengence · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A spam message in 20 bytes, email headers and all?

    That's impressive.

  14. Energy on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    Is there any particular reason why these (proposed) guns are all rated at powers of two?

    Surely that system has no use outside binary computing...?

  15. Re:x64_86 on x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final · · Score: 1

    Who actually uses Alpha?

    (I'm not trying to imply anything, I'm just curious)

  16. Re:Strictly business on Novell/Microsoft Deal Punishment for SCO? · · Score: 1

    That only worked because it was the guy's prizewinning racehorse.

    I'd say it's more likely he'll wake up next to a headless terminal :)

  17. Re:Err, testing?? on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 1

    Ahhhhhk! The science!

    I have been blinded!
     
    ;)

  18. Re:Err, testing?? on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 1

    How is it linear? We live in 3 dimensions, not two, hence any surface receiving broadcast waves will be 2-dimensional. You need a square law for that.
     
    ...unless you're talking about some other sort of of "linear" whose meaning I'm not familiar with?

  19. Re:Ultrawideband on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 1


    You can't have infinity plus one!
    </whineykidvoice>

  20. Re:Ian Wright on The Wii Hits the UK · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a piss-take of that favourite word of the trash-mags, "celeb".

    I'll have to remember to use it more often :)

  21. Re:They don't have time to patch on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 1
    Nintendo Power said their campus is within spitting distance of Microsoft

    How handy!
  22. Re:why should they care abotu security, it's... on Would You Trust RFID-Enabled ATM Cards? · · Score: 1

    Oh, mod parent up - I don't recall hearing such a concise and punchy way of putting that.

    I'll have to remember it.

    /not sarcasm

  23. Re:Edit: Bad Idea. on Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill · · Score: 1

    Would using another variable not take up more memory and hence cause the program to be less efficient?

    If I'm wrong, please correct me: C scares me ;)

  24. Re:utility? on Computer Monitor In Eyeglasses · · Score: 1

    He may have been an optometrist - I wasn't aware of the distinction.

    He sounded like he knew what he was talking about though, and I can't think of any reason why he'd make something like that up.

  25. Re:utility? on Computer Monitor In Eyeglasses · · Score: 1

    Our two explanations are not mutually exclusive - you're just coming at the problem from the other end. Muscle strength and eye length should be in sync. If they aren't, focussing problems occur:
    - With a constant muscle strength, there is an optimum eye length. An eye of a different length will have trouble focussing at certain distances.
    - With a constant eye length, there is an optimum muscle strength. An lens muscle of a different strength will have trouble focussing at certain distances.