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Comment Re:Prediction: (Score 1) 206

by thrillseeker on Saturday December 27, 2014 @01:20PM (#48680327) Attached to: N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey"

What kind of Bizarro world do you live in?

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Comment Re:Up next, tulip bulbs from Mars (Score 1) 65

by thrillseeker on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:17PM (#48460669) Attached to: Conglomerate Rock From Mars: (Much) More Precious Than Gold

Get the bidding high enough and I'll go fetch them so fresh rocks.

Comment Re:Congressional funding (Score -1, Flamebait) 163

by thrillseeker on Sunday November 09, 2014 @04:14PM (#48346163) Attached to: The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change

It will be interesting to see the Republican controlled Congress debate military funding for a problem made up for political gain by the Democratic controlled Pentagon.

Fixed that for you.

Comment Re:Yep (Score 1) 450

by thrillseeker on Saturday November 08, 2014 @07:23PM (#48342505) Attached to: Joey Hess Resigns From Debian

... and the winner writes in the history books that their way was the better technical choice.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 201

by thrillseeker on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @05:29PM (#48154287) Attached to: Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9

You may now feel less pissed. https://code.google.com/p/chro...

Comment Re:Debian GNOME needs some attention (Score 1) 403

by thrillseeker on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @09:59PM (#47979979) Attached to: Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop

It took me a few weeks to get used to Unity on Ubuntu. It's quite second nature now.

Comment What failures? (Score 3, Insightful) 392

by thrillseeker on Saturday September 20, 2014 @07:55PM (#47956233) Attached to: Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout

There is no failure to see here - move (on) along - the websites have brilliantly served their purposes - they've managed to transfer $5 billion so far from taxpayers to the carefully selected chosen ones - who will carefully contribute to the next group of chosen ones. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/...

Comment Re:If you want to earn big bucks... (Score 1) 315

by thrillseeker on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @08:55PM (#47562417) Attached to: Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond)

90% of businesses are equivalent to selling scented candles from a strip mall.

Comment Re:The cast (Score 1) 90

by thrillseeker on Saturday July 26, 2014 @09:28AM (#47537939) Attached to: How Stanford Engineers Created a Fictitious Compression For HBO

It doesn't have to be totally accurate - only humorous to a sufficiently large audience.

Comment Re:didn't they decline H264 on Windows a while ago (Score 5, Interesting) 403

by thrillseeker on Saturday May 17, 2014 @08:45PM (#47028895) Attached to: Free Software Foundation Condemns Mozilla's Move To Support DRM In Firefox

I wonder if anyone technically competent and influential has recently left the company...

Comment Re:Statute of limitations (Score 2, Insightful) 467

by thrillseeker on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:36PM (#46263545) Attached to: South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago

They always have a choice.

Comment Re:I find it interesting (Score 1) 223

by thrillseeker on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:58AM (#46259561) Attached to: Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2

No permissions.

Comment Re:good (Score -1, Flamebait) 393

by thrillseeker on Sunday January 26, 2014 @07:28PM (#46076069) Attached to: Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed

I think you are being a bit optimistic if you expect to find actual scientists having proper scientific discussions with each other when government funding is involved.

FTFY.

Comment Re:The original poster didn't read even the abstra (Score 1) 148

by thrillseeker on Friday January 10, 2014 @06:59PM (#45922107) Attached to: Physicists Claim First Observation of a Quantum Cheshire Cat

Sounds like it was both observed and not observed ...

Comment Re:join the group. I did. Most work done via maili (Score 1) 80

by thrillseeker on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:25AM (#45695055) Attached to: IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications

damn it - fat fingered the informative upvote.

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