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  1. Re:I hope they win on Apple Sues HTC Again Over Patents · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Abstract != Claims

  2. Re:You Do Realize You Are Reporting on a Facebook on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    ...suppose there was a group "I don't want our troops overseas" that had say... 3 Million + members. Think that might send a message?

    A message that 1% of the US population supports something? I don't think that would be a very meaningful message.

  3. Re:Search on Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux · · Score: 1

    Too bad it doesn't support Google Search.

    While a Google-produced tool might do something nice as far as the format of the data, there's already a command line program for Google search called wget.

  4. Re:Wealth won't help on Afghan Tech Minerals — Cure, Curse, Or Hype? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think the idea is that giving one poor religious fanatic a lot of money will suddenly make them not fanatic. The idea is supposed to be that if you get enough wealth into the society as a whole (i.e. not concentrated in a small, elite class), the standard of living rises enough that the people value their own lives over the chance to kill foreigners. We saw this happening in Iran's last election, when the growing merchant class wanted a government that was more likely to leave them alone than execute them or provoke a dozen other countries into attacking them. Obviously this doesn't hold true for every individual, but it is true for a majority of typical people.

  5. Re: It comes down to... on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Best not to judge all by the behavior of some, just as with skin color, nationality, hairstyle, or anything else.

    I dunno, I think it's safe to assume that anyone with a mullet has a tendency to beat people with a hockey stick.

  6. Re:They would only be hurting themselves on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    Islamic countries tend to stick together for no other reason than they happen to be islamic.

    Not really. Iraq and Iran haven't exactly been friendly to each other for a while. I don't believe that Saudi Arabia and Iran are too fond of each other, either. The split is pretty much between Sunni and Shi'ite countries, though, so it's still a religious issue.

  7. Re:I love moderates on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Judaism's history was a very violent one, though they were/are not particularly interested in spreading the religion, because it is a racial religion.

    No more violent than most of the other tribes/nations of the time. Judaism is unique from Christianity and Islam in that it didn't start solely as a religion, but also as a political unit, complete with a legal system (I don't mean the laws about who you can sleep with and which animals you can eat, but the laws about how much money you owe your neighbor when your ox kills one of his goats) and conflicts with neighboring tribes. With the separation of politics and civil law from religion that we have in Europe and the Americas now, a lot of people forget that Judaism had no such separation 3,000 years ago.

  8. Re:They're all proprietary pieces of shit. on Microsoft To Add Yet Another Smartphone OS This Year · · Score: 1

    N900's Maemo OS is already outdated, and the N900 along with it.

    I got an updated version about a month ago.

  9. Re:They're all proprietary pieces of shit. on Microsoft To Add Yet Another Smartphone OS This Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they're such pieces of shit, where are the open standard wondrous operating systems?

    Perhaps here? Or maybe even here?

  10. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A database MUST treat all of these names the same: McClean, MacClean, MCLean, Mc Clean, Mac Clean. McCleen, ...

    I assume you left out a "not" in that sentence? I think there are quite a few people that will kindly (or maybe not-so-kindly) explain why "Mc" and "Mac" are not the same.

  11. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Supreme Court Says Gov't Employee Texts Not Private · · Score: 1

    I'm having some trouble understanding how this even got to the Supreme Court.

    From an AP article I read earlier, it was because the officer in the case was told when he received the device that as long as he paid any extra costs, his activity wouldn't be examined. This wasn't a formal policy, though. The 9th Circuit court said that the informal policy was enough to give the officer an expectation of privacy, and the Supreme Court disagreed.

  12. Re:Wow on Iceland Votes "Já" To Proposed News Haven · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't get it mods, why is this funny?

    Commonly called absurdist humor

  13. Re:Privacy Concerns Abound on X Prize Foundation Wants AI Physician On Every Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I think if Google would look at all health-related search terms they'd have a good base for that even now... and maybe they already do.

    There's no "maybe" about it. Google tracked flu-related searches this year.

  14. Re:bad apple policies on Australian Buyers Say They Were Told "No iPad Without Accessories" · · Score: 1

    Blah, I swear I didn't select "Redundant". Stupid UI.

  15. Re:If it is platform independent on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS · · Score: 1

    That link only refers to a specific style of injection attack, not SQL injection in general. I said nothing about "all code" being equally vulnerable, because well written code won't be vulnerable, no matter what language it's in. Poorly written code, however, will be vulnerable, no matter what language it's written in. The fact that you claim that the statement "SQL injection is completely independent of web server" is false demonstrates quite clearly that you don't know what you're talking about, since the web server is in no way involved in what queries are sent from the programming language to the database.

  16. Re:A Better Target on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    Actually, a bunch of rabbis decided almost 2000 years ago that they had the authority to reinterpret the scripture and change the laws. Amusingly enough, they used a couple verses of scripture to justify their authority.

  17. Re:If it is platform independent on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SQL injection is completely independent of web server, programming language, and database system. An idiot can write vulnerable code in any language, using any database system, and run it on any web server. My guess about why this is only targeting IIS is that the attack is against some specific ASP.NET code, so the vulnerability isn't in IIS, but the vulnerable code only runs on IIS.

  18. Re:Here we go again on Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update · · Score: 1

    Of course you can delete it. It's just files on a disk. You can't delete files on a disk?

    It's Windows, so the answer to that question may very well be "No, I can't."

  19. Re:I disagree on Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Have you ever used a mac? or pretty much any Linux distro? OS X updates occur much more often than windows updates, and linux updates occur daily.

    That's because Apple and Linux distributors don't wait for a month to make updates available just to avoid forcing users to reboot twice a day.

  20. Re:Microsoft's Business on Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Not many companies tell their shareholders that they `just want enough to get by`.

    Not every company has shareholders.

  21. Re:3 people in 2 don't know math. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Yes, "whoosh" would be a good way to describe that sound you just heard.

  22. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 1

    I live near a facility that manufactures food flavorings and scented additives, most notably ALL the scented oils that are used in the production of a well-known national candle store. At times, depending on the temperature and density of air and the speed and direction of wind, the heavy combination of scents can linger. It's not too bad actually; it almost smells like incense, however I can see how some people could be irritated by it.

    I'd much rather live there than living a few miles from a paper mill when I was a kid.

  23. Re:Pfff... on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    How did you get through ~8 years of college level education on computers and still have a user interface confuse you??

    By trying to work with a user interface that isn't arranged in any kind of logical fashion. If you didn't know where it was, would you look for program settings under the "Edit" menu?

  24. Re:The question is still absurd... on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, there are millions of people who really do need a larger vehicle.

    Okay, let's say that "millions" is 10 million people. That's approximately 3% of the population. Are SUV's only 3% of the vehicles on the road?

  25. Re:3 people in 2 don't know math. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 3 people in 2 don't know math

    Wow that's scary. That's nearly half!

    Seriously? Are you really that stupid? 3 divided by 2 is 1.5, which isn't even close to 50. What the hell do they teach kids in school these days?