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  1. Re:You're screwed... on Satellite Internet Providers · · Score: 1

    Inukshuk wireless? Apache Chief is in IT now?

  2. Re:Amazing on Satellite Internet Providers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or even better, use satellite phones instead of rigging up a more expensive and less reliable facsimile of satellite phones.

  3. Re:Linus... on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    There are more hardware drivers for Linux than there are for Windows. Just not more x86 platform drivers.

  4. Re:Obama - go figure on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    You act as though Obama is the exception to the rule.

    No, Obama's supporters do. In fact, every 4 years the supporters of both candidates act that way.

  5. Re:The Goods on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 2, Informative

    So he updated his policy position when the facts changed? No wonder the Republicans see this as a bad thing!

  6. Re:SANS on Thwarting New JavaScript Malware Obfuscation · · Score: 1

    Agreed, only because with Windows normal means you're running anti-virus from behind a firewall.

  7. Re:What ever... on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    "And you have 3 video cards and 2 processors, but no power supply, case, RAM, hard drive, monitor, keyboard, mouse, OS, DVD drive.." You can swap the CPU and Video card out and keep all your old parts. My power supply is 12 years old.

  8. Re:I've been expecting this for years on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Who cares if it's first part or third party? A game is a game.

  9. Re:Bye Bye Sony on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    25-50GB downloads are the future? Do you know the average broadband speed in the US, let aloe the broadband penetration rate? There might be a few titles offered here and there, but there isn't going to be a HD download Blockbuster or Netflix type service for a decade, minimum.

  10. Re:I've never been a Sony fanboy.... BUT on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 3, Informative

    During the format wars, Sony updated the Blu-Ray version by adding new features; new features that made new Blu-Ray discs incompatible with older players.

    Uh, no. No, they didn't. The spec was published before the PS3 was even released. The interim specification with missing features was published at the request of the other Blu-Ray manufactures, not Sony, and the new disks are still 100% compatible with those old players.

  11. Re:I have always been a Sony fanboy... on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 4, Informative

    30 years of stifling innovation and screwing over consumers VS a rootkit. Hmm, yeah, Microsoft sucks worse. Not to mention it was their insecure OS that got rootkited when a CD was inserted.

  12. Re:Heh... on Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips · · Score: 2, Funny

    You haven't used UPS, FedEx or DHL recently, have you?

  13. Re:Heh... on Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, if you run the host computer with an AMD chip. But that would be silly.

  14. Re:EBays Focus is Terrible on EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers · · Score: 1

    That's what my company did. We got fed up with FeePay, built a shopping cart and never looked back. Sales dropped off initially, but the lack of listing fees more than made up to it, even with PPC ads factored in.

  15. Re:Pointless... on Viacom Looks For Google Staff Uploads in YouTube Logs · · Score: 1

    Then Viacom needs to push for video on demand, because that's the only thing that can save TV. Even then, you've basically got the Int

  16. Re:Interesting... on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gentlemen we must all hang together or we shall most assuredly all hang separately

  17. Re:your technical requirements eliminate candidate on The Web Development Skills Crisis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you're equating A fiberglass hammer vs a wooden hammer with Ruby on Rails vs Django? Maybe if using the fiberglass hammer required that the user speak English while the wooden one required Spanish. A better analogy would be asking Kanye West to write you a hit rap song in Sanskrit. Not. Gonna. Happen.

  18. Re:EA, most likely on Warhammer Online Sees Massive Content Removal To Make Launch · · Score: 1

    That's a Will Wright game, though. He has a bit of clout given the popularity of his previous games. Even if Spore sucks, it's a guaranteed blockbuster.

  19. Re:Maybe possibly potentially... on Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think · · Score: 1

    Oh, the imaginary type?

  20. Re:Obligatory... on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "And for the record, our DeepFreeze'd machines along with hard-disk images results in one machine out of 50 going bad in about a 6 month period." I have 0 of 50 Linux machines go bad, and I didn't pay a dime in licensing.

  21. KDE's footsteps? on Release Team Proposes Gnome 3.0 Plans · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luckily for Gnome, when 3.0 ships missing a lot of features, nobody will notice.

  22. It's much simpler than that actually. on Google Lively Review · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Porn gets blocked by web filters. Google's business goals for Google Video and YouTube are to generate ad revenue. What content generates that revenue is irrelevant.

  23. Re:You admire a politician? on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    He did turn around on this issue.

  24. Re:The king is dead! Long live the king! on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 1

    As for efficiency, anything that isn't run by the government is inherently more efficient because of it.

    Other than health care.

  25. Re:Seems foolish on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 1

    Where do you plan on building interplanetary ships, if not in orbit?