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  1. Re:Die Emo Die on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Imagine your whole life is changed because you met one girl. Everything you thought mattered is irrelevant, and the only thing you want is to be with her, and take care of her. You get comfortable, it looks like you can make it happen, you work so hard, she smiles, she laughs. You start to realize you never really knew joy or happiness, and that you truly understand what life is about now.

    Next day. She hates you. End of story.

    So, the typical high school romance?

  2. Re:Please vote on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    Or just research the candidates and throw the bad ones out. That's still 99%, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't going to help anyone. A non-incumbent is still a politician, after all.

  3. Re:It's called speculation... on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    That stilla considerable abbount of money, and when it doesn't cost you a dime more to refine $2 gas than it does to refine $4 gas, people get kind of pissed about the price.

  4. Re:How about the CNN source? on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/09/news/economy/oil_cuba/index.htm

    US companies didn't bother to submit a bid because legally they couldn't drill that close to US shore. China has no such limitation.

    I think they didn't submit bids because they didn't want to go to prison for violating trade sanctions against Cuba.

  5. Re:It's called speculation... on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the US has so little oil worth drilling, why is China (dealing with Cuba) drilling 50 miles off the coast of Florida.

    If the world has so few whales, why do the Japanese hunt them? Because scarcity breeds profits.

  6. Re:Wait on NASA Shakes, Bakes, and Rattles Lunar Spaceship · · Score: 2, Funny

    It'll be released sometime between the release of Playstation Home and Duke Nukem Forever.

  7. Re:Bots on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 1

    That's why I like EVE Online. PvP is everywhere. Whether you're a botter or just AFK, if you just sit there, especially in the more valuable mining areas, I'll kill you and take your ore.

  8. Re:I have a solution.... on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: -1, Troll

    Except, it's not legal if MDY claims this happens in court, when in reality the story is a bit fabricated.

    It's only illegal if you get caught.

  9. Re:DRM? on Spore Almost Ready for Production, Complete With "Sporn" · · Score: 1

    So in other words, I can still only install it as long as EA agrees that the game should be playable?

    Yeah, sort of like the operating system you're running the game on.

  10. Re:What is the R4? on Nintendo Battles Makers of the R4 · · Score: 1

    The only way to allow home brew would be to drastically increase the price of the console. Other than the Wii, consoles/handhelds operate on the Gilette business model. The console is sold at a lost in the hopes that license fees for game sales make up for the difference. Without those fees, the consoles will cost a lot more. The $600 PS3 would seem like a bargain if they did that. I'm talking Neo-Geo prices.

  11. Re:Apple meet real world on Apple Still Has Not Patched the DNS Hole · · Score: 1

    If I leave my front door unlocked and no body walks through it I don't automatically assume it is secure and safe pratise to do so

    If I did it for decades and nobody walked through, I might assume it is safe.

  12. Re:Is it really so hard? on Apple Still Has Not Patched the DNS Hole · · Score: 1

    Everyone wanted to be Bill Gates back then, he was the noble knight/geek taking on the world and bringing down empires like IBM and DEC with his accessible to all consumer computers.

    Before Gates, all my home PC software was free, so no, I wasn't a fan.

  13. Re:Hmmm on FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's a right. Freedom of association in this day and age means nothing without the internet.

  14. Re:Maybe it has to do with.... on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    That must be why Mexican goods are so expensive: because the peso is weak against the dollar. Wait, that doesn't make any sense...

  15. You say potato... on SF Not an Exception In Giving IT Too Much Control · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You call it dangerous, I call it job security.

  16. Re:Real version control on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Solution: pay $200 for a terabyte hard drive. That should be enough space for a decade or two.

  17. Re:That's not fair on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Just turn your cookies off and use Experts Exchange. If answering questions is your thing, you can even get free access. 'Course turning off cookies is easier.

  18. Re:PS3 and Linux on Penny Arcade Adventures To Appear On PS3 · · Score: 1

    I wish. I'd give my left nut for a PC version of the new Civ.

  19. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, OSX runs on IBM-PC hardware.

  20. Re:What's the point? on Open Sourcing MMOs · · Score: 1

    You can't ignore the inflation it causes, or the deflation of crafting prices if the quest reward is craftable. A simple gold or item dupe can completely destroy a MMO.

  21. Re:Which part of Open Source didn't you get? on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    And told him how it uses an open source program in an easily-replicatable way.

  22. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple computers ARE PCs. They coined the damn term.

  23. Re:What I did on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    70 servers with individual gnerator backed up UPS and not a one was for your DNS? Not to mention only ONE DNS? Tisk, tisk. Multiple DNS servers geologically separated is the way to go.

  24. Re:Well no shit, Sherlock on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried one of those. You gotta keep adding food to it or it stops working after a week or two. Starts stinking, too.

  25. Re:Django or Turbogears? on Practical Django Projects · · Score: 1

    Why do you need the files in specific directories? Can't the app figure out which file belongs to which user?