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  1. Re:Give control to Canada on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 2, Funny

    Canada is one of my favorite US States!

  2. This new BIOS on The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers · · Score: 1

    This new BIOS of the future will actually be stored on a hard disk and will also rely on on-board flash to boot it. This new OS^H^HBIOS will also have a lot of built-in features that allow for the efficient use of the applications...

  3. Re:Insightful analysis... four years late. on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 1

    You link to to this but fail to explain or postulate whether this scenario falls into the Broken Windows Fallacy. There is a mathematical formula to determine the economic benefit of "breaking stuff" to the business economy... In some cases, if the formula does not prove beneficial, it falls under the "Broken Window Fallacy".

  4. Re:2010? on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 1

    Microsoft announced that there will only be one public RC for Windows 7.

  5. Microsoft getting free QA on Windows 7 for a year on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 1

    There... fixed that for you.

  6. Re:It Is Rated R! #6 for Opening Weekend! on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1
    $180M at the box office does not equal $180M for the studio. The cinema's cut can range, but is typically around 45% (From what I've read on the intarweb)... So the studios may have broken even.

    I've heard that the estimated budget was $100 million. So they've made $80 million over that ... so what is the problem exactly?

  7. Re:It Is Rated R! #6 for Opening Weekend! on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come on... really? $180M at the box office does not mean $180M for the studio. Cinemas split the box office proceeds 50/50 with the Studio. So, 90M for the studio... they haven't broken even yet.

  8. Re:Will it work nicely with Thunderbird? on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    I've definitely used Thunderbird IMAP with Exchange 2007... Had to muck with the secure connection settings in TB to make it work.

  9. Re:What does XP SP3 provide that they want? on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Very easy... if you only officially support XP with SP3, then you don't have to QA test on SP2, SP1, and RTM... It may very well work just fine, but you get to skip the testing cycles.

  10. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    >And if you have a server, you might not want to upgrade.

    Then don't upgrade... Leave Firefox 3.0.x on there.

  11. Hidden revelations from the article.. on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The truth comes out, but was hard to find in the article...

    Colonel Hugh 'Slip' Slater, 87, was commander of the Area 51 base in the 1960s. Thornton 'T.D.' Barnes, 72, was an Area 51 special-projects engineer. Xorbz Blazzeet, 179, from the Orion system was dissected and stored in an Area 51 freezer for 16 years. And Harry Martin, 77, was one of the men in charge of the base's half-million-gallon monthly supply of spy-plane fuels.

  12. Quantum drives... on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Are they talking about Quantum Hard Drives or Tape drives? I thought they stopped making hard drives.

  13. This makes news? on Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an iPod · · Score: 0

    The president fired a CEO in private industry and we're interested in a gift exchange? Very scary...

  14. Re:Various Questions on Scientists Make Artificial Protein Mimic Blood · · Score: 1

    >And is the FDA going to foist it on the unconscious without consent, as they did PolyHeme? No.. definitely not. Next time they will say "Raise your hand if you don't want this blood substitute!"

  15. Re:New business plan on Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, they lose money on every sale, but they'll make it up in volume!

  16. Re:pirate bay on Pirate Bay To Offer VPN For $7 a Month · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure someone will come out with a license code generator so you can get this free...

  17. Re:My God! Since when does Cut-n-paste merit bulle on iPhone 3.0 Software Announced · · Score: 1

    Windows Mobile 6 Standard does not do copy/paste... essentially because WM6 Standard edition is for non-touchscreens. WM6 Pro has copy/paste and is for touchscreens.

  18. Re:My God! Since when does Cut-n-paste merit bulle on iPhone 3.0 Software Announced · · Score: 1

    The Pantech Duo (Windows Mobile 6 Standard) doesn't do copy/paste... That is a Smartphone as well.

  19. Only 2Gb? on Finnish Guy Gets Prosthetic USB Finger Storage · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why skimp and only use a 2Gb finger drive? Surely you can justify paying extra for the 32Gb model?

  20. Re:a quarter million !!! on Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data · · Score: 1

    It is the BORG!

  21. Re:How long was I in there? on Functional Neurons Created From Adult Somatic Cells · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Did anyone read the article or even summary? These are from adult cells, not embryonic stem cells. There is no controversy about this type of research.

    The only problems with this type of research is the retards that don't understand the difference and just jump at the words "stem cells" (on both sides of the issue)

  22. Re:Needless loss on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    In this case, it is the method of dump that is at issue.

    mysqlhotcopy,rync,cp of the db files are basically what he was doing... and it was just copying bad data.

    mysqldump would have worked...

    From my understanding, mysql was accessing an inode to a db file that was no longer accessible via the filesystem.

  23. Re:Needless loss on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    This was a filesystem and/or mysql data corruption... and backups were not valid because the data was bad.

  24. Two major roadblocks on Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm · · Score: 2, Informative

    The two major roadblocks were this federal report and Ted Kennedy... Ted's bloated ass is in the hospital and the federal report gives the green light.

  25. Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Also, don't compare moving to OpenOffice to Office 2000... Compare it to Office 2007.

    The same whiners that will complain about OO will also complain about MS Office 2007... the GUI change is so drastic. OO's GUI is closer to Office 2000 than Office 2007 is.