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  1. Spiders creep me the hell out on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 1

    Warning: the below may creep you the hell out http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

  2. Re:Has to be asked... on DB Query Becomes Browseable In Virtual World · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes... I mean no

  3. Re:statistics... on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    If not enough data is collected, anything may be supported by stastical methods.

    There, fixed that for myself.

  4. Re:statistics... on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    If not enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.

    There, fixed that for you.

  5. Re:Vaporware technology on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Their web site just screams "vaporware".

    Pun not intended?

  6. Carbon Nanotubes? on Samsung's New Carbon Nanotube Color E-Paper · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be more impressed if they made them out of Copper Nanotubes (CuNT).

  7. Re:This pretty much fixes Spaces on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    Well I feel like an idiot! I misinterpreted that. Thanks.

  8. Re:This pretty much fixes Spaces on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    I still have a minor grievance. Suppose you havea Safari window open on space 1. Then you change to space 2, which has no Safari windows open. If you want to open a Safari window in this space, you need to right-click on the Dock icon and hit "New Window". I would much prefer it if there are no windows open in the current space but the application is running, Command+Tab gives the app focus but not any windows (same as if there are no windows open and you C+T to it). That way you can open a new window without moving your hands off the keyboard.

  9. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    I really want to know too, but nobody has posted it here, so I guess I'll die wondering

  10. IMAP on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I will use GMail when they implement IMAP. Webmail is a pile of shit, and POP is an even bigger pile.

  11. Re:Torvalds is an opportunist on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    ^A ^F ^F [spacebar] -lh

  12. Re:iTunes for Ubuntu on Ubuntu Linux vs. Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I actually much prefer Amarok to iTunes, especially for managing the music on my iPod. For instance, right clicking on an album in the side-bar and clicking "transfer to media device," instead of shift-clicking all of the songs and dragging them to the iPod icon, is more convenient for me (especially when I'm wiping my iPod and transferring 4GB of stuff over). Although, I haven't used iTunes extensively, so there may be some way to emulate that functionality.

    Also, being able to copy music from my iPod is extremely useful. I am aware you can download some third-party iTunes lookalike to do the same, but then that's hardly making a comparison to iTunes.

  13. Unbalanced? on Ubuntu Linux vs. Mac OS X · · Score: 1, Interesting

    To me that seemed like "Genuine, Honest Evaluation of Ubuntu" vs "Mac is Awesome." For one thing, in the 'Installation' section the Mac guy failed to mention the necessary re-install of OS X when you buy the mac. Unless you like 15GB of crap you don't need on your computer (>1GB of printer drivers!!!). The Ubuntu guy focussed on the concerns for a new user, whereas the Mac guy focussed on how much he liked certain things, and all the cool stuff you could buy for it. Not worth reading

  14. Re:Like Amarok? on Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Even the with latest iTunes? I admit I haven't tried in quite a while, I was under the impression the encryption wasn't cracked.

  15. Re:iTunes on Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? · · Score: 0

    None that can stream other people's shared iTunes library over a network

  16. Re:Its a cracking tool on KisMAC Developer Discontinues Project · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're wrong: rights are a privilege, not a right.

  17. Re:He can still think! on Brian May, Rock Legend, Soon-To-Be Astrophysicist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you kidding? How else can you get through a PhD in physics?

  18. About the beer thing on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Beer does not make you fat, although the results of these sorts of studies tend to change every couple of years. Of course, if you do go out drinking, you probably eat a few packets of chips and a kebab or two, but drinking low carb beer isn't really going to change that (and it tastes like shit).

  19. Re:One finger keyboard on Five Finger Keyboards · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I grow my right hand thumbnail long, file it down so I have a bit of an edge leaning left

    Dude. Seek help.

  20. What? on Do "Illegal" Codecs Actually Scare Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    Other than media I personally encode (basically ripped CDs and DVDs, which I own and have the right to format-shift) and Creative Commons material - Both of which would use an open codec anyway - I don't think I've ever encountered a legally-obtained sound and/or video file. Not even indirectly as a request to help someone else play something.

    Translation: Other than all of the legally-obtained sound/video files I've encountered, I've never encountered a legally-obtained sound/video file.

  21. Re:What are the chances? on Roswell UFO Festival · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd say pretty close to the chances that they read the Washington Post. Unless you can think of a reason a non-English speaker would read it.

  22. Re:mini-discs on The History of the CD-ROM · · Score: 1, Informative

    I wouldn't be surprised to see a graph with the CD-R market booming, and the mini-disc market failing.

    Your wish is my command

  23. Re:Put up or shut up. on Ubuntu Dell $50 Cheaper Than Vista Dell · · Score: 1

    Who modded this insightful?
    "Buy this Ubuntu computer for $50 cheaper than this Windows computer which has better parts" is not "Ubuntu is cheaper than Windows." Therefore, TFA is a complete load. Hence, complaint. Unless you're okay with being misled and lied to.

    Of course, it could just be a printing error.

  24. Re:Blame Creative. on Slackware 12.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Sorry, didn't see end calendar Q3 at the bottom of your post.

  25. Re:Blame Creative. on Slackware 12.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Q3 2007 at earliest.

    So, any time after 2 days ago, then?