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  1. Re:purell on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you listen closely at the border, you can hear them sharpening their ice skates, biding their time.

  2. Re:awww poor casinos on Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Harrison Bergeron?

  3. Re:awww poor casinos on Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal · · Score: 1

    A hooker? Have you priced those for the whole night? Pole dancers are definitely the way to go.

  4. Re:MS deliberately releases buggy software. on The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a fun afternoon to me.

  5. Re:Hardware works on The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could say the same thing about old Windows applications

    No, you misunderstand. The iMac would be running OSX, not OS9. It's Intel chips that are not compatible, not OSX.

  6. Re:crazy on The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Both viewpoints are valid and not necessarily mutually exclusive. Backwards compatibility can both not work, AND hobble the OS at the same time.

  7. Re:I managed to survive 10 years without a TV... on Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown · · Score: 1

    I currently have satellite TV and a large-screen HD TV. On the other hand, I watch very little TV -- maybe 2-3 shows/week, if that much.

    Sounds like a waste of money. You should cancel the satellite and just rent from Amazon.

  8. Re:The confusion is part of the Stimulus on Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But how will they know what to buy?

  9. Re:awww poor casinos on Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you have something better than pole dancers to spend it on? I doubt it.

  10. Re:Good work. on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd very much like a sentry gun that would squirt the @#$%@#@ deer with water (at least) when they come to eat the plants on the front porch.

    Like this?

  11. Re:Someone call the wambulance on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Venezuela

  12. Re:Possibly... on Norfolk Town's Schools First To Be Heated By Burning Cattle · · Score: 4, Informative

    Burning fat for heat is traditional. The Inuit have been doing it for millennia.

  13. Re:How, exactly?!? on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Joe User used to ask the same thing about web browsers and before that file browsers and before that those new fangled directories.

  14. Re:How, exactly?!? on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ftp.exe

  15. Re:Everyone focuses on the negative on Privacy Group Calls Google Latitude a Real 'Danger' · · Score: 3, Informative
  16. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    They were given much more access and much better equipment than the previous round of inspections. The previous round actually found WMD despite this. If the previous inspectors could do their job effectively despite worse access and worse equipment, so could the second round.

  17. Re:So what happened to that "for free" one? on EA Unveils Two New Battlefield Games · · Score: 1

    I can't recall any open beta I've participated in that wasn't preceded by a closed beta.

  18. Re:They work well too on WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices · · Score: 1

    I envision a future with no channels, just websites streaming media. This goes for the airwaves as well.

  19. Re:They work well too on WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices · · Score: 1

    Fiber is better, but in most cases the coax is already run to the home. The cost difference is huge where the coax line is already run.

  20. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    You have a plan to defeat the millions of troops each country has at it's disposal hiding in jungles and mountainous terrain?

  21. Re:They work well too on WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: make it illegal for cable providers to elevate their own video traffic above the likes of Youtube. Let the users decide what gets the bandwidth.

  22. Re:I had a little glimmer of hope on Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    More granular? You mean like Posix ACLs and NFS ACLs?

  23. I like Google Updater... on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    I like the Google Updater. It's one less thing I have to remember to update. Until Microsoft and Apple gets it's shit together and provide a unified software update mechanism for all software on the system, you're going to have to get used to this kind of thing. Either that or use Linux.

  24. Re:Hello from Meatspace! on Massive EVE Online Alliance Disbanded · · Score: 1

    I play games, but I don't let them interfere with my real life. I choose to make my life better.

    Games do make my real life better, because it adds fun to my real life. Maybe if you stopped trying to make your life better and tried to enjoy it you'd find your life is, in fact, better because of it.

  25. Re:Hello from Meatspace! on Massive EVE Online Alliance Disbanded · · Score: 1

    There's no reason not to try it out now. As hardcore as it sounds, you don't need to actually play to keep improving your skills. They train over time, even if you are not logged in. You never fall behind your friends, except economically. But you can give other people money, you can't give skills.