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  1. Re:What else did we expect? on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    So because she didn't go back to the abusive husband after he went through AA she's being intolerant?

  2. Re:They said the same about XP on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Why would you compare XP and 98? XP and 2000 would be a far more apt comparison (with the same results) since XP is a bloated evolution of the 2000 kernel.

  3. Re:Oh, jeez, not more CRA-blaming on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 2, Insightful
  4. Re:At the risk of being redundant on First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Ubuntu is not up to scratch on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    Why not just right click on the network manager tray icon, go to "Manual configuration.." (Which gives you a gui to create said file and doesn't run the risk of goofing formatting), click "Unlock" and authenticate, click the interface, click properties, click the radio button on static ip, click close, click close? Perhaps you need to go to a terminal and type "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" when done to bring the interface up with the new config cleanly.
     

  6. Re:Better for the environment, but on Natural Gas "Cleaning" Extracts Valuable Waste Carbon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's wrong with Biodiesel if you don't mind me asking? Honest question.

  7. Re:At the risk of being redundant on First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook · · Score: 1

    There's no place like loopback?

    I think you mean there's no place like 192.168.0.1, sir.

  8. Re:Slashdot has that feature now. It's bad ad code on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 1

    Strange, loads just fine for me :) (Adblock plus does have uses)

  9. Re:Too expensive on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 1

    I used to take an even more conservative approach before I stopped using Windows. I would wait for the beta of the next OS to come out before moving to the last one. Generally that signaled that the old release was actually stable. I was actually fairly happy w/Win2k, but I'm a lot happier with Ubuntu.

  10. I've been considering this on Cross-Distro Remote Package Administration? · · Score: 1

    as a good python project. Just simply forward the x session and have a nice gui round it. get a uname to see the kernel running and you're off to the races.

  11. Re:A lot of geeks are libertarian leaning on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Use taxes unfairly burden those starting from the bottom, which you'd realize if you were there faced with them. Why do you think most civilized countries rely on income taxes rather than use taxes? Because its the most equitable means of maintaining infrastructure. Same reason there's not sales tax on food and necessities in most states (mine excluded sadly).

    Regressive taxes keep those that are struggling down. Trust me, I'm on the winning side of the equation, I'd just rather give up a few more dollars a year than see those on the edge of desperation and criminality pushed over that edge. Mainly because I'm not a self righteous, blame the victim douche (read libertarian in educated circles).

  12. Re:A lot of geeks are libertarian leaning on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    We call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution.

    You missed the sentence that was important. Are public roads laid out in the U.S. Constitution? But to play to your strawman, how, exactly, would you fund road construction without income taxes? Plan on paying a toll every time you set out on the road? That would be an awesome system for someone starting from the bottom (ie everyone who hasn't yet become a rich self-righteous asshole like you).

  13. Re:Bad user experience, piracy or Linux will win o on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: 1

    So all a developer needs to do is make it such that its a backgrounded process that still has a window (not sure how possible this is btw) and you've worked around the limit and can sell/give away apps that will run...

  14. Re:Downside... and Upside... on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    Not to rain on the parade, but the brownouts were thin energy market abuses by Enron.

  15. Re:Whoop de doo on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    They don't have to try too hard to discredit those guys:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8

    Good lord.

  16. Re:There's a Clinical Name for It on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Its because she escaped at a young age from a really screwed up USSR where Labor Union == Socialist Party (which isn't THAT far from the truth in the root of UNSKILLED labor unions in the US [see wikipedia on the UAW for some interesting reading]).

  17. Re:There's a Clinical Name for It on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Oy vey. Grow up and realize that the good of society is your own personal good as well. Stop living in your gated community and all of a sudden, the rest of the community doesn't look so scary.

  18. Re:Tennis? on Hands-on With the Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the input is just as inconsistent as you make it. I can (on good nights) bowl in the 250 range, but if I start losing my form, I degrade down into the 190's. An inexperienced player (with the same Wiimote) tends to throw below 100.

  19. Re:Troll? Really? on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    So tax money should be handed out to pay for the educations of a few select "talented" individuals? Most scholarships are funded by your tax dollars at public universities. Oh yeah, they better not go to the State University or Land Grant University system either, since that's 30% tax funded.

    Its a pretty tough thing to get an education in a Libertarian world.

  20. Re:Troll? Really? on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    lulz!

  21. Re:A lot of geeks are libertarian leaning on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, but the banks are subsidized and guaranteed to make those loans in the first place. That money is "unfairly taxed" from the citizens on this country. You think the bank makes any money on the $22k they loaned me at 2.6% fixed interest for 20 years? I can't very well call myself a Libertarian and accept that kind of aid at the same time, now can I?

  22. Re:Troll? Really? on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Hey bud, I'm a middle class white kid who went to school on academic scholarships. Im just not a dickhead about it like you :)

  23. Troll? Really? on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this a troll? Its kind of a tough position for someone living on either a) Mommy and Daddy's money, b) Subsidized student loans, or c) Scholarships to be truly libertarian. Yet middle class white kids do take that hypocritical position while undergrads fairly often. Seems like a fair thing to point out.

  24. Re:And all the admins ask... on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    Roger that for the same reasons above!

  25. Re:Not new on The Real Story Behind Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1, Redundant

    strategy != tactics. Strategy == long term plans, Tactics == short term reactive plans. That's what chess teaches you that WoW or Counterstrike doesn't.