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  1. Re:Why are we deprived of this in North America? on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    You would have to do some sort of "decompile" of a ".chm" file to get at the HTML based files that are compiled into it.

    The only thing you would then have to do, probably through JavaScript or some browser scripting language, would be to enable a search of terms, create some sort of indexing, etc.

    A ".chm" file is just that, one file, so culling the individual HTML files would leave you with a set of files. Not a big deal really, all just dumped into a folder, which you could move around, copy, etc.

  2. Re:Okay, enough already on EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, Microsoft paying "incentives" to OEMs to load or make IE the browers on the system would be a problem for Microsoft, again in regards to EU anti-trust laws.

  3. Re:Why are we deprived of this in North America? on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    Uh, no.

    The Windows Help system is "Compiled HTML" based, ".chm" files and all that.

    It's not the same thing.

  4. Back in the day... on Senator Applauds Pirate Bay Trial, Chides Canada · · Score: 1

    ... roughly 28 years ago, when joining the U.S. military, you were asked "Are you or have you been a member of the Communist Party?"

    They should really change that, modernize it to ask:

    "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Democrat or Republican Party?"

    If so, sorry, but you could not possibly keep your oath as a member of the U.S. military to "protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic".

  5. Re:How about criticizing it for unoriginality? on Ray Ozzie Calls Google Wave "Anti-Web" · · Score: 1

    You are correct.

    But the sub-system needed to get it on the Microsoft radar is now in the planning stages.

    We should see it "Real Soon Now!" (TM)

  6. Re:What's this!? on Ray Ozzie Calls Google Wave "Anti-Web" · · Score: 2, Informative

    "...which bit sounded praisey?"

    None of it, I distinctly heard him say "paisley".

  7. Re:No rule of law in Russia on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Or, they find an unmarked shallow grave, 20 meters from a road that leads to a hospital, 2 km away, with 3000 Vista retail boxes, all with a single bullet hole in the Windows logo,

  8. Re:It's still inconvenient? on 20 Years After Tiananmen, China Stifles Online Dissent · · Score: 1

    The Vietnam War was just a cover for what was going on in Cambodia and Laos.

    But don't believe me.

    Do your own research. What you find about what was going on during that period of time, in that area, will shock you if you were unaware before.

  9. Re:Don't Forget the Lanyard on The Unexpected Patents of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    "Bill Gates isn't taking credit anymore. He's done his part, and now he leads. When he actually worked, he worked, he didn't steal shit."

    O.K., so when Bill was not working, only then did he steal shit?

  10. Re:My first thought... on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 1

    Groundhog's Day, one of my all time fave movies!

    And remember: "Don't drive angry!"

  11. Re:silly EU, that's not how you do it..... on EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    Kind of like how the U.S. federal government runs rough shod all over states rights.

    Yeap.

  12. In other news... on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: -1, Troll

    World points.
    World laughs.
    World goes on with the business at hand, chuckling quietly and smirking.

  13. Re:Funny on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    "Hockey is our national sport."

    I could have sworn it was "Curling".

    Or "Curling while getting hammered" being the national sport, and regular "Curling" being just "a sport".

  14. Re:get rid of shitty teachers on Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD · · Score: 0

    Funding **is not** the problem.

    Schools have received more and more and more money over the years, with the results either A) no improvement or B) little improvement.

    To repeat, funding is not the problem.

    It is the methods of teaching and what is being taught.

    Schools have turned into little more than indoctrination clinics compared to what they were in the 60s, prior to "New Math" and the like.

    I was in grade school in the transition period to "New Math" and the like. It always made me wonder what was wrong with "Old Math", so to speak.

    We need to teach the basics and the reason(s) why these are being taught to the people that are learning, amongst other changes. One big change, les money for school administrations (and their administrators) and more into teachers and materials to teach with, would be a good start, then tackle the rest.

    ADHD is nothing more than a voted on condition that psychiatrists and school systems (money for disabled or special education children) to be a cash cow for them. Nothing more, nothing less.

  15. Re:Why does Slashdot constantly side with PirateBa on Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I side with PirateBay in this particular instance because there **was** a biased judge hearing their case, no more, no less.

    In the interest of justice and fairness that a judicial system is supposed to have, I can only think that you would side with PirateBay also.

    If not, then there must be some other agenda.

  16. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I originally read this as:

    "release of FTW travel, zero-point lethargy, a cure for morality, replicant technology to produce hot green alien nymphomaniac bikini chicks."

    Where do I sign up?

  17. Re:Somewhere... on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    Ah, how bitter.

    The GPL, as a license, will survive, Stallman or no Stallman.

  18. Pfft, this is easy... on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 1

    ... just locate Sandy Berger and start interrogating him.

    We'll find that he stashed it in a construction site for recovery later.

    CASE SOLVED!

  19. Somewhere... on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    ... anti-GPL trolls are sobbing silently in the dark. Boo fricken hoo!

  20. Re:Games on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Shows you how long it has been since I even had my hands on a game console. :)

  21. Re:Games on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    I have three computers at home.

    If I have one tied up playing a game, there are two others (one as capable as mine) and another only slightly less capable as mine.

    And besides, I also do not have a T.V. in my house, no need for one, so a console game wouldn't work any way. I haven't had a T.V. in the house in 9 years now, don't miss it at all.

  22. I never had to do home work, at home. on Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study · · Score: 1

    I could always get my home work done at school, between classes, lunch time, during "skate" classes that didn't give home work, etc.

    Besides, I had and still have an aversion to "home work". I had things to do and people to see when I was at home.

    As far as I am concerned, school work should be just that, work you do at school.

    Home work, IMHO, is just a sly way of getting people used to the idea that their work (when they get to working age) is something you can never escape, you have to bring it (or some of it) home to do, etc.

    Which, with my 30 years in the working world now, I have had to do only twice. I have always been able to get my work done (and more) at work.

    Kids have lives, just like other people, home work should be banned for the good of society.

  23. Re:Games on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Which, is why I have never owned a console, as I have always had perfectly good computers to play games on.

    Buying a single and expensive (from my view) computer that only plays games AND investing in games to play only on it just wasn't worth the money to me.

    With a personal computer, I can play games AND do other things on/with it. Much more cost effective in the long run, IMHO.

  24. Re:Very cool... on Maddog's New Hampshire "Unix" Plate Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Friend, on a souped up turbo Jetta (yeah, what a picture right there, huh?) has:

    M3TAL

    He is guitarist of a local metal band, decent.

  25. Re:Novel idea... on NY Bill Proposes Fat Tax On Games, DVDs, Junk Food · · Score: 1

    You missed my invisible sarcasm tags. :)