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  1. Re:Exactly! on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's not as if GWB's administration can be said to be competently covering up anything, it's that the majority, (~75%) judging by Bush's approval rating, are not inclined to act upon their disapproval of the government.

  2. Re:Wacky Race on Cart Locking System Released as Open Source · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unfortunately, your cart would be locked too, would it not. Rather kills the point, I think...

  3. Re:Errors in post? on Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, nobody implied that the video was of a 787 load test. I took "they have come a long way in wing design" to mean that the video was of the old technology, and that the 787 is the new deal.
    Oh, wait. The 777 also has carbon fiber wings doesn't it? A conundrum, to be sure.

  4. Re:What a load of toss on Pimp Your XP · · Score: 1

    WFT??

  5. Oh on Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox · · Score: 0

    Therefore it's a whitebox.

  6. Yuck. "Shareware" on Pimp Your XP · · Score: 1

    This is why I switched to Fedora in the first place. It seems that the majority of software author on the Windows side, no matter how basic their product, releases an absolutely crippled shareware edition, and charges 29.95+ for the full edition. Looking for a simple utility to do something basic was painful, forcing one to trawl through badly designed pages, and be frustrated by yet another problem. This got exponentially worse on Vista, with the few freeware products being incompatible/really buggy. I go to Fedora, and it's as simple as searching the repository for some keyword with yumex or something, and downloading what I need. There's a multitude of completely free programs for every task. Some may not be fully functional, but that's not due to a decision by the authors.

  7. Re:Quick responses... on The 10 "Inconvienient Truths" of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    1) PirateBay has ads. So what? So does Slashdot. What's more, I really doubt that the ads on PirateBay make a profit for them. What with their bandwidth expenditures and server costs (to replace the seized ones :P), PirateBay is a loss generator. Hardly a profitable business. That's why they ask for donations.
  8. Re:PIII on Google et al. Want 700 MHz Auction Opened Up · · Score: 1

    Actually, I did too. I thought they were trying to pressure intel into some kind of charity auction. Heh.

  9. Re:Probably true. but... on A Million Zunes Sold · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how a Sansa player is not "genuine" because it is not an iPod. Granted, the iPod is the best, yet they are not the entire mp3 player market, nor the pinnacle of design forever. Mind you, quite a few of these companies seem to be trying to emulate the iPod as close as possible without incurring the wrath of Steve Jobs.

  10. Re:Things working against them. on Only 244 Genuine Windows Vista's Sold in China · · Score: 1

    You are in fact describing my high school. (not me, of course. I'm not rich)

  11. Re:A big strike against Net Neutrality on Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's more geeky to do it _that_ way.

  12. Boo hoo on States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying · · Score: 1

    Oh, Nanny (state). Protect me from those mean mean mean meanmean people on the internets.

  13. Borg? on Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux · · Score: 1

    We need a new icon for these. Perhaps one of Ballmer throwing a chair at Tux?

  14. Re:Informal Poll on Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom? · · Score: 1

    o all of the above?

  15. Laziness? on Finding New Code · · Score: 1

    So what if a particular solution has been implemented before? Continuously writing code should keep people on their feet, and ready for when they have to respond to a unique situation, right?

  16. Oh yeah, those things on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    I have a big stack somewhere of at least 50 of em. Only computer that will read them now is my mom's 7 year old laptop, after the last internal floppy drive lying around for emergency prposes broke. They've just been completely obliterated by the advent of cheap flash memory.

  17. Ummm on Vista Upgrades Require Presence of Old OS · · Score: 1

    I could have sworn this was the point of the upgrade version.

  18. Re:The webmaster is alive and well on Who Killed the Webmaster? · · Score: 1

    No no no! Use your quotes in your search engine box and all the "nose picker" results go away. At the expense of the humor in the post.

  19. Re:11.38 petabits? on Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter · · Score: 1

    And of course, the article makes the same speculation.

  20. Hmm? on Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter · · Score: 1

    I'll just assume it runs linux. Did it say in TFA?

  21. :P on Dell Sells Open Source Computers · · Score: 1

    You had me excited there for a while. Right now, DELL and co. only sell clean PC's stashed in a maze of links for a good reason: Microsoft is leaning threateningly on the "raise MS tax" button...and any attempt to leave the fold will lead to painful rate hikes.

  22. Re:A thought.... on One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine · · Score: 1

    Well, personally, I have reinstalled the same copy of windows on the same machine more times than the activation allows (~20?). So, no, I don't try to activate either.

  23. Yeah... on One In Five Windows Installs Is Non-Genuine · · Score: 1

    And sir, what percentage of that 22% are false positives, hmm?

  24. Re:Define Vista then... on Apple to Charge for Boot Camp? · · Score: 1

    What happens when they reach 10.9.9?

  25. Says a lot about this debate... on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista, The Rematch · · Score: 1

    when this article is tagged "flamebait" and "troll" simultaneously.