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Re: FOX 40 WICZ TV - Cynthia McKinney [11/10/2009] - News, Sports, Weather, Contests and More - Binghamton, NY

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:09:16 -0000

You neglect to mention that McKinney would not allow attendees to have opinions that differed from her own. The moderator threatened to escort people out, and confiscated handouts that questioned her integrity. This event was not an example of free speech, it was a travesty of it.

Re: The Incompetence of American Airlines and the Fate of Mr. X

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:07:25 -0000

Does Mr. X have any kind of portfolio from past work?

Re: NY-23: Watertown Mayor: ‘It’s Over’

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:11:05 -0000

This is what happens when you put teabaggers on the ballot.

Re: Making re-creatable random data files really fast in python.

Anonymous — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:25:37 -0000

The easiest way to eliminate the getsize call would be something like:

for chunk in fdata:
fh.write(chunk)
size -= len(chunk)
if size < 0:
break

Re: Making re-creatable random data files really fast in python.

Anonymous — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:58:26 -0000

Hmm. Let's see if this works better:

for chunk in fdata():
fh.write(chunk)
size -= len(chunk)
if size < 0:
break

Re: Does anyone know what this error is? (Segfault)

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:14:19 -0000

Pure python code should *never* segfault! Every segfault should be considered a bug and get fixed.

Re: Brian Beck's Text Adventure - Speeding up dateutil: Python's heapq module turns minutes into seconds

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:32:35 -0000

Note that a sorted list is a proper heap, so if the lists really are sorted before you enter the loop, you can leave out the initial calls to heapify.

Re: Brian Beck's Text Adventure

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:18:38 -0000

If you owe the bank $10,000 and can't pay, you have a problem.
If you owe the bank $10,000,000,000 and can't pay, the bank has a problem.

Re: Franken picked up 37 votes from machine with uncounted ballots. This one is far from over.

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:43:13 -0000

Seems to me that anything this close should be considered a tie and a new election should be called. A difference of a few dozen votes just isn't meaningful.

But, right, I understand that new legislation would be required for that to become policy.

Re: Satisfaction, the Web 2.0 customer service site, raises $1.3M

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:32:10 -0000

Looks like spiffy, Ajax-driven forums focused on products. They implemented discussion boards.

Is that really new or exciting? Is there something more here?

Re: What’s next: Signatures as a Service?

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:19:58 -0000

This just seems profoundly idiotic. I'd be inclined to reconsider further communication with anyone who subscribed to this service.

Re: Smithsonian taps virtual world technology to take us to Blue Mars

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:32:45 -0000

There is absolutely no chance of making an atmosphere on Mars using any known or predictable technology by 2150. Crashing ice asteroids into the planet is the only conceivable basic approach, as the water mass on the planet is too diffuse and thin to vaporize, and would just fall out and freeze again even if you could do it. The kinetic energy requirements for moving asteroids around are just too high unless someone comes up with energy and propulsion technologies that are vastly more effective than any plausible systems.

Earth, has 1,360,000,000 cubic kilometers of water, and you'd think at least 1% of that would be needed to give Mars something resembling a terrestrial atmosphere. But certainly some very large number of cubic kilometers of water would be required, whatever the precise requirement. A cubic kilometer of water weighs, um, one billion metric tons. Good luck coming up with that from space.

Re: Starlight Analytics program tackles challenge of massive amounts of data

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:11:47 -0000

Do you guys not believe in links? You forgot to provide any in the article. This is the web, you know.

And yeah, I guess the writer must have heard the word "Tablo" over the phone or something, it's Tableau, of course.

If this firm focuses on visualization, by the way, then Oracle and Autonomy are not competitors, either, as visualization per se is just a front end to a Business Intelligence or other analytic system.

Re: Take-Two pays $20 million to settle litigation that sprang from game’s hidden sex scenes

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:44:18 -0000

It's just bizarre that this is an issue for a company whose game makes it easy for players to do wholesome things like beating prostitutes to death in the street, slaughtering police responding to the scene, stealing their cars, running down pedestrians all over the city in the stolen vehicle, and then returning to their homes having successfully evaded the law with no consequences.

What the hell is wrong with the country that a simple sex scene, depicting something that most people do all the time, costs the company money, but creating a game that makes it easy to roleplay a run-amok bloodthirsty killer is perfectly fine and has no consequences whatsoever?

Honestly, I think having a game in which players can be bloodthirsty killers is not a real problem either, but even if you think sex *should* be forbidden, surely gruesome heedless and bloodthirsty violence is far worse?

Re: 4-car crash on Route 128 causes injuries

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:45:24 -0000

"and someone may have been placed on a board as precaution"

So.... was someone actually placed on a backboard or is the reporter just guessing?

Re: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:12:31 -0000

Why is the OLPC XO missing? It started this whole thing, after all.

Re: Search Y Combinator - Feedback

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:19:50 -0000

Hey guys, thanks for the awesome service!

Btw, the text field on your front page isn't getting auto-focused, as intended. Looks like your js trying to focus/select 'search_query' but the input has id='search_id'.

Thanks again for maintaining this website!!

Re: 4chan /b/ in the spotlight over Palin email hacking

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:27:26 -0000

The site itself will be perfectly fine. I highly doubt that there's any legal ground to shut it down, unless the administrators let them plan the hacking on the site itself or in their IRC chat. If McCain gets elected though, expect it to be under a pretty damn big microscope though.

Re: Do girls really want that hymen intactus feeling back?

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:34:30 -0000

Actually that extremely useful technology for young women, especially of muslim descent. (And I have witnessed the hooplah first-hand so don't call me xenophobic or something)

Re: baratunde.com - Blog - Please backup your hard drive now... twice!

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:06:33 -0000

Get in touch with a college with an advanced IT program, and see if they have any students who would have an interest in attempting an abnormal data recovery. It's not impossible, just really difficult.

Of course, if two recovery agencies failed to retrieve any data, then it's quite likely that at least one head started scraping it's the platter. Some of the data is going to be unrecoverable, but with any luck you'll get back the data that you value the most.

Also, Ontrack DOES have the reputation of being the best in their field. If you can afford it, give them a try.

Re: 7 words

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:19:58 -0000

Wee motherfuckers
Forget the role of free speech
With piss-poor judgement.

Re: Sunday is a funday!

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:38:46 -0000

Thanks for sharing your progress!!!!
But whats a "Nucleus OS task list" for?
Greets

Re: My browser needs 16 exabytes

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:57:33 -0000

I came googling for a rant about this and was not disappointed.

Re: Anonymous vs Scientology

Anonymous — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:38:53 -0000

OMFG THAT REPORTER IS SO ANNOYING LET ANON TALK GOODNESS GRACIOUS
She isn't even funny.

Re: Exxon Mobil’s Income Falls To $10.26 Billion! Tears Flow At Headquarters

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:48:25 -0000

Well, John, it's good to know everything in America is so black or white. I can't believe I never saw it so clearly before:

Earning money = Selfishness
Starting a business = Torturing poor innocents
Personal responsibility = Killing children
Government control = good

It's also good to know that when Obama or Hillary are elected, that they will do something to reign in these evil corporations that make too much money. Because, those companies didn't make that much profit when the last Democratic president was in power, no sir.

If you really believe that the right-wing is the only group interested in corporate profits, I suggest you do some investigation into the lobbyist contributions to the current Democratic Presidential nominees - tell me they don't have corporate interests at the top of their lists when a 90+% majority of their fundraising comes from corporate lobbies.

I can hardly wait four years to hear the cries for impeachment for the next president as well. With the country split 50/50, there will always be half the population calling out to remove the opposite party and institute theirs instead.

Re: Reflections of a Y Combinator Dropout: Lessons Learned

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:28:19 -0000

All your arguments sound like everyone else was wrong.

Your "mistakes" sound more like what people say during an interview when they get asked about their "faults".

From reading the series the only failure seems to be you.

Re: Retail Therapy

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:33:48 -0000

I'm pretty sure she's trying to make him feel better about not being well endowed, at least that's what I got from this :)

Re: Pish Posh! - mb wantz some muffs

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:48:09 -0000

those are cute, mby.
loooveee-
anonymousssss (guess who? to find out venture down the hall...)

Re: Pish Posh! - via EmRoz.

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:14:53 -0000

OMG YOUR BLOG RULES! and this emroz sounds like quite the gal...

Re: 2007/08/02/ebaumsworld/

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:52:22 -0000

$17.5 Million for a site whos only claim to fame is stealing other people's content and being host to ANONYMOUS HACKER GANGS.

Ebaumsworld.com must be shut down! These hackers on steroids are domestic terrorists!

Re: Wikipedia to Church of Scientology: You’re Banned!

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:17:21 -0000

If only the US Government would follow the German lead on this matter....

Re: Legendary Arkanoid Comes to the iPhone

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:07:49 -0000

Didn't Breakout come first? I mean, Arkanoid is better, but it is from a more recent age of raster graphics.

Re: man, summer hatin' on me - Up In Smoke: GOOD looks at smoking in America

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:34:57 -0000

broken link.

Re: Exxon Mobil’s Income Falls To $10.26 Billion! Tears Flow At Headquarters

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:48:25 -0000

Re: Siliconera » Square Enix Packing Kuroshitsuji: Phantom and Ghost With Limited Edition Goods

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:49:48 -0000

I guess the poor sales of their previous anime->game translations have caused desperate measures to be taken ;)

Re: It's time for Dodgers Baseblog - heykata: It’s cold. At the WBC game tonight....

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:02:40 -0000

Hey there,

I used to have a Tumblr-blog at Dodgers.Tumblr.Com - but I deleted it due to inactivity.

Fantastic blog and beautiful skin/theme/design.

Re: TOP 10 Shirts To Get Arrested In

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:16:12 -0000

last one is a `shop

Re: Библия веб-разработки

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:08:31 -0000

ну уж раз посадили на расшифровку человека, совсем не секущего в теме, так хоть бы корректора пригласили.

а так получилось очень забавно: "Радикс3", "send-файл", "в фронтайме " %))

если уж хотите вебдваноля, чтобы читатели вычитали - ставьте вики. диффами кидаться по почте влом по определению.

Re: RSS drives Reuters lobby’s screen

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:10:50 -0000

You need to put a * by the uptime:

*Results not typical.

Re: Privacy concerns raised (and answered) about Live Local

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:49:43 -0000

The TOS says that Microsoft stores location information and will provide it to third parties if required to do so by law. The blog post says that location information is not shared with third parties. There seems to be a contradiction.

Mike Liebhold points out that Placelab can provide location information without disclosing the users location to a service. Why didn't Microsoft use this approach?

The blog post says that "Locate Me" sends standard HTTP header information to the service. Does this include cookies? Can these cookies be tied back to personal information in an MSN account?

Re: The coolest companies under the tree use .NET

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:51:11 -0000

Funny; show me a single open-source .NET appserver. Can't find any, right? Now look for open-source J2EE appservers. There are several that I can name off the top of my head: JBoss, Glassfish, and Geronimo/Gluecode to name three.

There are startups using .NET, but they aren't the majority, and those who chose to do so are buying themselves into a trap with expensive licenses and a locked-in platform.

Re: The coolest companies under the tree use .NET

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:29:26 -0000

You're working at a large bank. A large, established bank would presumably have enough funds to purchase Windows licenses for servers and the necessary VS copies (yes, there are free Expresses, but no one's going to use those for professional development stuff). A startup needs funding to begin with; why waste precious VC money on Windows licenses unless one must?

Re: Is Apple copying Microsoft?

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:34:00 -0000

Diego,

At least Xerox had PARC.

Re: Misreading Scoble on Microsoft cry

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:35:55 -0000

Whatever it is...

I AM NOT INSTALLING SILVERSHIT!!1!

period.

Re: Hanging out with a fast company (emphasis on fast)

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:50:34 -0000

And you were crying about a shitty telescope?

Now THIS is interesting nesw!

Re: Is Facebook doomed?

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:49:15 -0000

Sick of it, waiting for the next social

Re: How do you add value to a rubber band?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:52:27 -0000

RFID is a really great idea. Specially for kids.

Say you go to walmart with your kid, get a band at the entrance, if kid gets lost alarms will go off when leaving the store.

Kidnappers will have a hard time explaining.

Now the good part is how to stop the abuser from removing it, while letting the parents do it.

Hmm, get the numbered RFID band for the kid and a numbered card to the parent.

Hmm, complicated but worth the hassle to save a childs life?

Re: How do you add value to a rubber band?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:02:04 -0000

Ok, now for the funny one:

Instant headache reliever.

Make head-size bands 1" wide and sell them in infomercials.

Got a headache?
Get a HeadAid band!
Call now!

Re: How do you add value to a rubber band?

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:13:50 -0000

Yummy rubber bands with flavors?

Perhaps Aroma-bands?

Re: Microsoft=Success; Google Docs=Fail?

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:52:56 -0000

I've been usin google docs for more than a year and I have no complains at all. Plenty of docs and spreadsheets with basic stuff but enough for my needs.

Portability is key in my case and they do it great.

Re: “Wait until you see what Ray Ozzie is doing”

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:12:59 -0000

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can be exciting coming from M$, Evah!

Re: Has Microsoft caught up to Google in search?

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:14:56 -0000

Even if Live Search gets better than Google I will never ever evah use them.

Why? don't ask, I just hate M$ to death.

Re: Microsoft and Nokia get together on Silverlight

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:58:21 -0000

Oh god, never buying nokia again.

Sorry guys, I avoid M$ like the plague and you made the wrong decision, so now accept the consequences of market backlash.

And please don't whine, we just don't buy nokia, period.

Re: Apple stabs Adobe in the back

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:49:06 -0000

Adobe has been in bed with M$ for years getting bribes to screw flash development for linux, so fuck them!

Re: Microsoft hits multiple Internet home runs

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:36:19 -0000

"winning the hearts and minds of developers"

Oh god, M$ has been raping us in the ass for so long, don't expect us to show them some love just because they give us a candy.

Fuck em to death!

Re: Microsoft hits multiple Internet home runs

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:48:50 -0000

Web slices is a blatant rip off of WebClips in Safari. And now M$ wants to "standardize them in an open specification"???

WTF???

It has to be said, if they think this will go unnoticed.

Re: AVP & DRIC @ PARIS

Anonymous — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:01:27 -0000

Stop pretending you can read.

Re: Amazon.com veteran launches web startup with self-help focus

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:04:00 -0000

Doesn't that sound a lot like 43 Things (which also is local and run by people from Amazon.com)?

Re: With cash prospects dwindling, startups face a tough choice

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:03:00 -0000

Strange that Steve Ballmer said that at the same time Microsoft is doing layoffs. If he believes this is the best time to get talent and seize market share, shouldn't Microsoft be playing this one differently?

Re: Microsoft veteran to launch Twitter search engine CrowdEye

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:44:00 -0000

Ken is entering a very crowded field. For example, see:

http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2009/...

http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_we...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/real-time-...

Re: Bill Gates And Macs

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:33:59 -0000

I haven't seen this many stupid people in one place for a long time.

You're all just a bunch of jealous fools who are trying to justify your hopeless dependence on the worst operating system in existence with myths and lies.

Re: Sapphire Energy launches algae-powered hybrid electric car

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:07:21 -0000

I don't believe in the existence of an alga culture that will thrive in a fuel tank. Algae can't survive in such an environment. If they could, it's inconceivable they could produce enough energy density to drive a car, even a hybrid.

I suppose it's conceivable that industrial algae tanks can help produce a gasoline-replacement fuel, but there would be no living culture in the tank in that case, and the car itself would have no innovative features -- you could just use the fuel in an ordinary Prius.

But in the event this fuel is even real at all, it's almost certainly much more expensive fuel than gasoline, ethyl alcohol, propane, LNG, and other gas replacements, so unless its price point is almost magically low, it will not be used for any serious purpose.

Re: CARRIER PIGEONS: Still Faster Than ADSL

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:55:45 -0000

Ha. But the point of the RFC is to implement a protocol, not to carry a memory stick with a lot of data. The protocol requires handshaking, so pigeons have to fly back and forth.

Re: Western Digital introduces smarter, more intuitive backup drives

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:05:00 -0000

Why use an external hard drive when the vast majority of people can back up all critical data on a thumb drive? Most people don't have large image or video archives, after all.

I agree most people are probably slack about backing stuff up, but I think using an expensive product like this is overkill for a preponderance of the consumer market.

Re: Western Digital introduces smarter, more intuitive backup drives

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:08:07 -0000

Triggs, yeah, I understand that must be tough, but shouldn't you be telling them not that their data is definitely irrevocably lost, but suggesting that they go to a data recovery firm and probably get most or all of their data back?

Re: Back to School: 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Students

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:58:39 -0000

Reminderfox is pretty good if you otherwise wouldn't have a calendar app on your machine. Doesn't help you much if you do have one, though.

Re: baratunde.com - Blog - Please backup your hard drive now... twice!

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:46:08 -0000

Don't power-up the drive. If an (alleged) trip to a clean room failed, then spinrite will do NOTHING but give the drive more physical damage.

Rule number one of hardware failure related data recovery: KEEP THE DEVICE OFF!

Re: 10 Must-Have Apps for the Mac Using Solo Practitioner

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:01:11 -0000

Please do a follow-up and continue the list beyond the Top 10. How about the Top 20 or 25? Thanks much.

Re: 3 Reasons Why Twitter’s New Retweet Function Is Tremendous.

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:38:15 -0000

enough with the twitter/facebook talk already.. =/

Re: MSM Navel-Gazing On The Bias Question

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:08:12 -0000

To teach journalists why they're reporting in Iraq is faulty, someone should put a tv camera in a journalist's bathroom and make a video about how the most important part of this person's life is sitting on the toilet. If the journalist tries to explain that his life is more than sitting on the toilet he should be answered, "but this film is real, it's about real life how can you say it is inaccurate?"

Re: Rae Ann Knopf appointed Vermont Deputy Commissioner of Education | Vermont Business Magazine

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:27:14 -0000

This is probably the worst possible choice Vermont DoE could have possibly made.

Aspen Education Group is one of the leading producers of child abuse. They killed a kid at Sagewalk one day after he arrived, just two months ago. Before that, they killed a boy at Youth Care by completely ignoring him as he died of an extremely painful bowel infarction.

Hiring someone from this organization smacks of stupidity if not graft.

Re: DATALAGRINGSDIREKTIVET - - Dette er p�selig galt - Nettavisen

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:54:08 -0000

Hvis du ikke er så veldig åpen for prinsipp-argmentene, hva synes du om denne? Denne informasjonen skal lagres hos nettleverandørene - hvor det i dag ofte er liten kontroll på hvem som faktisk har tilgang. /Politiet/ må kanskje ha skjellig grunn til mistanke, men de ansatte som jobber med systemene må ikke ha noe slikt, og kan slå opp hva venner og bekjente driver med. Ja det er lover mot slikt, men disse blir ikke (etter min erfaring - jeg har vært ansatt i to slike bedrifter) fulgt!

Og hvis vi beveger oss utenfor hva som er sikkert at vil skje, og ser på hva som /kan/ skje, hva synes du om pengeutpressing? Eller data som lekker ut til skrupuløse firmaer (iam.no befinner seg tross alt i Norge og datatilsyner m.a. har virkemidler ovenfor de - det finnes adskillig værre), enten via illojale medarbeidere, eller rett og slett datatabber hos nettleverandørene?