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  1. Re:Apples moves into VM on Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax · · Score: 1

    The software still belongs to Microsoft, when you buy one of their CDs you are just licensing the use of it. Which sucks, but they can afford lawyers, so what can you do?

  2. Re:Culture is a commodity on Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does copyright exist?

  3. Re:Join the bandwagon on Vista Indicates A Shift in Microsoft's Priorities · · Score: 1

    Dude, get Reiser

  4. Re:In other words on Vista Indicates A Shift in Microsoft's Priorities · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.allsorthost.com/is_ie7_ment_to_kill_my_ cpu/ This image has been doctored. I will not trust it.

  5. Re:Really? on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1

    No.

  6. Re:Only? on Fedora Core and Fedora Extras To Merge · · Score: 1

    I ONLY had sex 9 times last night With another?
  7. Re:Competition for the Last Mile on A Case for Non-Net-Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Market concentration is higher where there are fewer participants. "To be practically useful, a market concentration measure should be decreasing in the number of firms in the market. Additionally, it should also be decreasing (or at least nonincreasing) with the degree of symmetry between the firms' shares." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_concentration

  8. Re:WMV on Blue Origin Release Flight Videos · · Score: 1, Insightful

    MPlayer handles it fine.

  9. Re:Karl Marx was right. (sigh) on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    The Puritants were a group of Anglicans who wished to reform the Church of England down more Protestant lines. The Pilgrim fathers were NOT Puritans, but Seperatists -- they wanted to break with the Church of England. Fundamentalism only really began at the turn of last Century, as a reaction to modernity. They have been rather successful in the past hundred or so years in turning the US into a "Christian nation," rather than a secular country overwhelmingly inhabited by Christians.