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  1. Re:Some possible problems, here? on Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just got thinking. So let's say Microsoft doesn't include the new IE in it's next Operating System -- how do you get it? "Sorry, you do not have Internet Explorer installed. To download, please visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/"

    You don't need a web browser to transfer files from the internet, even via http.

  2. Re:Why is there a browser in the music player? on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    Anyway, what I really would like to know is why the fuck they thought it was a good idea to put a browser in the application by using mozilla code?!! To show the lyrics or what?

    To go to last.fm or pandora, or shoutcast, etc, etc.

  3. Re:Oh really? on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    The earliest use was in in "Flen Flyys and Freris", a poem in Latin and English written in 1475. "non sunt in coeli, quia fvccant vvivys of heli" Both Latin AND from the 1500s (almost). 0/2

  4. I doubt it. on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    Most iTunes users run it on Windows where there are plenty of alternatives. This hasn't forced apple to make any changes. Why would the availability of these alternatives on a much smaller subset of iTunes users make any difference?

  5. Re:Oh really? on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    Fuck is a Latin word, too.

  6. Re:hilarious on Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users · · Score: 1

    Punch card computing. They fed data about prisoners into the computers to see who went to jail, who went to work camps and who went to death camps. IBM calculated the Holocaust.

  7. Oh really? on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The words in question begin with the letters "F" and "S." The Associated Press typically does not use them. "The reason these words shock is because of their association with a literal meaning," Chief Justice John Roberts said, suggesting his support for the policy

    Then why are we allowed to say copulation and feces on TV?

  8. Re:Disconnect on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Companies have tried and failed for years to mold the Internet in their own image. Companies with billions and billions of dollars to throw at the matter. Companies who were once powerful juggernauts and 800 lb. gorillas finding themselves becoming increasingly irrelevant...

    How many of those companies had JDAMs?

  9. Re:One of the better ideas to fix health care... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1

    Minimum wage jobs are like stepping stones and place holders.

    And here I thought they were the last resort of desperate people.

  10. Re:Wireless = less secure on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll put a team of detectives on it looking through everyone with robbery convictions. You stolen TV is a top priority!

  11. Re:hilarious on Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But Hitler did use IBM products.

  12. Re:So will the coins be open source? on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would you store your money on somebody else's computer when you can do a better job protecting it in your own system? ;)

    Because the FDIC won't replace my money if I spill beer on my server.

  13. Re:Wireless = less secure on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    And he'll still get robbed blind in 90 seconds with nothing to show for it but a nameless face.

  14. Re:Err, no. on Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering · · Score: 1

    Traffic didn't route around this, it was just dropped.

  15. Re:XP is closer to "just works" for most on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 1

    But for the your average person, what makes a computer valuable to them is their favorite software.

    Which for the vast majority of computer users is the only software they ever use: IE, Outlook Express, and Minesweeper.

  16. Re:One of the better ideas to fix health care... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you believe that everyone should have access to a minimum level of health care, should they not have access to a minimum level of food?

    You mean food stamps?

  17. Re:One of the better ideas to fix health care... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1

    When you say private system, do you mean that insurers pay for all tests no questions askked, or that you can pay for the tests yourself? Because I find it unlikely that Spanish insurers behave differently that insurers from every other country. In the US, if such an insurer were publicly traded, they'd be breaking the law by not maximizing profits for shareholders.

  18. Re:money? on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when does the internet community pay for porn?

  19. Re:What's a gamer to do? on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 1

    Multitasking has nothing to do with the desktop environment. You just open those programs in another terminal.

  20. Re:What's a gamer to do? on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 1

    Go to another terminal and run your web browser.

  21. Re:What's a gamer to do? on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You joke, but what good is the desktop environment to me when I'm playing a game? I liked the days of DOS games much better.

  22. Re:Nothing to worry about on Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    Don't fear the inevitable, it's a waste of time.

  23. Re:Like wires? on Brains Work Best At Age of 39 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, that analogy fails.

    Yeah, that was kind of my point.

  24. Like wires? on Brains Work Best At Age of 39 · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has touched an uninsulated wire can attest that it still conducts electricity just as well as with insulation.

  25. Re:Parallax, touch screens, stupidity, and conspir on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 1

    Yep a bunch of people with no connection to each other decided on the spot to form a spontaneous conspiracy. That's much more plausible than hardware/software glitches. Afteral, that's what happened to OJ!