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  1. Re:Yes, and yes. on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On Microsoft's Knowledge Base.

  2. Re:Faceboogle isn't that bad. on How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It · · Score: 1

    At least "digital diary" had alliteration going for it.

  3. Re:Possibly on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses? · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's hard to do when OEMs are forbidden from advertising anything but Windows.

  4. Faceboogle isn't that bad. on How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It · · Score: 1

    What's REALLY annoying, is "blog". Did weblog really need to be abbreviated?

  5. I know what they were thinking.. on ISO Releases OOXML FAQ · · Score: 1

    They were thinking they could buy off the ISO. Were they wrong?

  6. Re:Nonsence... on "Secure Elections Act" Coming Up For Vote · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A fair election? You mean this ends automatic ballot access for Democrats and Republicans, as well as matching funds?

  7. Re:The Issue with the George Bush Cyber Initiative on Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every single email in the white house's email system is backed up and available for congressional auditors. The problem is Bush (and at least 88 other officials) broke the law and used the RNC and Bush/Cheney '04 accounts for official business.

  8. Re:$30 billion? on Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network · · Score: 1

    It's not just privacy and security we're lax on, but economics, defence, energy policy, education, pretty much anything that doesn't involve people with a skin color that is different than ours (terrorism and immigration).

  9. Re:$30 billion? on Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network · · Score: 1

    That's not much of a markup.

  10. Re:$30 billion? on Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network · · Score: 1

    There are planty of no-jackasses to vote for, and they're easy to find. Look on the ballot for a name without a D or and R behind it.

  11. Re:Pre-loaded apps on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 1

    Bundling apps is just fine, unless they're a convicted monopoly that bundles only it's own apps.

  12. Re:Open Source CD on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Monopoloes abusing their power is never a shock. It's generally how they became monopolies in the first place.

  13. Re:Hmmm.. on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    Once whale oil supplies were low enough, there was nothing but a ban on whaling that stopped it's use. We kept on using every last bit that was produced. I'd imagine oil will be the same way.

  14. Re:The WRONG kind of solar power on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    There is less heat wasted from dissipation than there is with a 20% efficient photovoltaic setup.

  15. Re:Hmmm.. on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    They can always use whale oil, too. The demand for that is WAY down from it's peak.

  16. Re:Really? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 1

    I've got Enlightenment e16 with all the eye candy (sans composite) running on my 128MB 300mhz laptop. The thing came with Windows 98. It won't even Run XP, yet here I am, surfing Slashdot with Firefox3.

  17. Re:Stop Traffic Jams on MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    How do you accidentally spill a soda out the window? At best that's reckless endangerment, and that's if you can convince the jury your drank mysteriously flew out the window. Do that to a cop, and it would be attempted murder.

  18. Re:Movement sensors on Movement Sensors a Less Invasive Alternative To CCTV · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    movement = poop motion != poop

  19. Re:Please help me out here on Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints [Warning] · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not funny, that's insightful.

  20. Re:Unlike fuel on Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry · · Score: 2, Informative

    The police have never made a dent in the illegal drug market.

  21. Re:Gravel! Turn back! on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 1

    Google paid them to go on private property?

  22. Re:You mean like this on Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move · · Score: 1

    OOXML to ODF converters are a bit premature to think about, since no program exists to create OOXML in the first place.

  23. Am I too late? on Concept Computer Based on a Tea Cup Design · · Score: 1

    Am I too late to make a 2 Girls 1 Cup joke?

  24. Re:You mean like this on Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's nice of them. When will Office have native ODF support? Or OOXML support for that matter?

  25. Re:Oww I broke a finger... on Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type · · Score: 1

    Biometric data /= biometric authentication. If you're horribly disfifgured in an accident, they can still access your data and change it. Not so if the only way to access it was with biometric data.