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  1. Re:What about power? on How Neuros Built Their Nearly Silent HTPC · · Score: 1

    I would love to capture shows on my HTPC but TimeWarner encrypts everything.

  2. Re:What happened... on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1

    Media depicts murder as a rather common event but I don't think that it has made murder acceptable.

    No but it is no longer shocking

  3. Re:What happened... on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It makes it more common and the more common something is, the more people find it acceptable.

    I am not big on the knee-jerk "think of the children," but if we do not, who will?

    Some things should not be made more common nor more acceptable.

  4. Re:Gotta be that guy from the Buy More on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is the post under yours refers to "flash" which is what Chuck does as a spy.

  5. Re:I can beat that ... on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 1
  6. Re:I can beat that ... on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Looks like people won against the computer

  7. Re:NOT THREE DAYS on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I think you are missing the joke. The summary states 72 hours (3 days) minus half a day (12 hours.)

    So the punch line is the summary states 60 hours which is close enough to 58 for you to just let it go.

  8. Re:The New Tardis on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Rumor and the 5 minute preview after the episode...

  9. Re:The New Tardis on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    That was during Peter Davison's time in "The Visitation"

  10. Re:Watched it, impressed! on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    donna noble is now part time lord, hence why she didn't become a "master" in the end of last season

    Her special power is fainting (judging by End of Time)

  11. Re:Pretty cool... on Pumping Sunlight Into Homes · · Score: 2

    A tornado can wreck any roof.

  12. Re:No Way on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    That could be the difference. For the most part, if I am going to purchase something online, it is from newegg or ebay. I do not do many product searches for purchase. The product searches I usually do are for manuals of products I already own, but that is not the context I think you are using when you refer to product searches.

  13. Re:No Way on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    I usually click the Google sponsor link to give a little back to Google versus the sponsor's link directly below.

    It involves almost no effort on my part and benefits a company whose products I freely use.

    Google won me back in the dial up ages where I could load up the search engine in seconds versus yahoo and msn that loaded up everything I did not need. Now we are in the broadband age and I load up igoogle since bandwidth is quick but have never had any reason to go back to yahoo or msn.

    Every now and then I use bing since my work defaults to that but it does not compare in terms of search results.

  14. Re:Background channels on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    I lost interest when it became clear that the BBC was using the good doctor to push homosexual tendencies and politics onto children.

    Do you think that was more BBC or more Davies? I don't watch any other BBC show so I really have no clue.

    I have hope that Moffat focuses more on scifi adventure stories than creating a Doctor Who Messiah (even though the prayer to Santa being answered by the Doctor worries me on that front.)

    End of Time (Part 1) felt like an Obama promotion. It amazes me to see a British show showing such hero-worship (to the point of Obama going to save the Britain's economy - until the evil white master foiled him) of an American president. It felt out of place considering that the previous American presidents and British Prime Ministers in Doctor Who and the last Torchwood series were clearly not current presidents / Prime Ministers.

  15. Re:The New Tardis on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    It was the Easter special. The holiday ones always seem to be more child-friendly.

    Compare Water of Mars to End of Time (which really should have been the darker one.) In my mind, WoW was the last Tennant episode with an small re-write of the astronaut shooting him instead of herself during his awesome power-mad speech.

  16. Re:You insensitice clod... on OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not going for flaimbait but I guess you also forbid Ubuntu as well?

    And security bugs caused you to drop OS's, I am sure you dropped Windows as well.

    Actually, what do you allow for production servers? I guess it is a BSD only enviroment - assuming they have never had any security bugs.

    Or do the other linux distrubtions hold a perfect secrity bug track record now?

  17. Re:Fishy. on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    You missed the weeks (months?) Gentoo spent building up their "We are going to switch to the NT kernel due to all the issues we had with the 2.6 series."

  18. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    I got one on Thursday and work Fri-Mon. I was really looking forward to intalling linux on it.

    I still will on the off chance that they will reconsider and allow the bootloader and just disable new installs.

  19. Re:On April 1? on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    It's the perfect day. When people start complaining, everyone will dismiss it as an April Fool's joke.

    And if the baclash before then is too much, they they can say the whole thing was an elaborate April Fool's joke.

  20. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    That said, you can surf the web right on the PS3 w/out linux at all.

    Oh cool. I guessed I missed in the article where they stated they were updating to flash 10 and that I could use a real browser.

  21. Google Fights Back on Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem · · Score: 4, Funny

    It had to happen sooner or later...

  22. Re:What games? on Study Finds That Video Games Hinder Learning In Young Boys · · Score: 1

    Well, RPG's use to involve reading. Now the games talk to you.

  23. Re:When will people learn on One Year Later, Zer01 Web Site Disappears · · Score: 1

    It's only 2010. We haven't had half a century yet :)

  24. Re:XML vs iPhone on XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone · · Score: 1

    The context made sense though since the one I linked to home page states

    Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.

  25. Re:XML vs iPhone on XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well that explains why proprietary alternatives to XML like JSON or YAML are so much better!

    JSON is not propietary.
    http://www.json.org/license.html

    Nor is YAML
    http://www.yaml.de/en/license/license-conditions.html

    Or is there a woosh here that I am missing?