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  1. Benchmarks on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 2

    if not better performing in some benchmarks

    ...some of which could perhaps be better described as"benchmarketing"

  2. Re:Weather Alert on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I never thought of that.

  3. if i were taxed on France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax? · · Score: 1

    all this tax would tell me is that it's A-OK to pirate as much music as I want, as long as i put it onto the taxed media.

  4. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    to paraphrase and rip out of proportion a quote from winston churchill... our university system is the worst...except for all the other ones.

  5. i will on Hands-on With Pixel Qi Screens In Full Sunlight · · Score: 1

    i will buy one when they come out with a netbook like that standard. not because i want to replace the screen, but because of the cost. after a few months of competition, the sunlight screen netbooks will become reasonably priced.

    also, it would be nice if it had one of those fancy middle hinges so you can truly read it like an ebook reader. and, of course, a touch screen version of this would be too awesome for words.

  6. oblig on File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life · · Score: 1

    i'd rather have trololotalk

  7. but... on Ubuntu One Gets iPhone App For Contact Sync · · Score: -1, Redundant

    but not for Android? open source much?

  8. Re:still useless on International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries · · Score: 1

    your jewish mother?

  9. oh, that on Apple Forced To Clean Up Its Fine Print · · Score: 5, Funny

    you mean, the iTunes clause:

    You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

    ??

  10. Re:dont overthink on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Unless you want some time off from computer, take your laptop with you. It's still a lot easier than always going to a Internet Kiosk and can use it otherwise than just quickly uploading images off.

    It depends on what you need it for. Think what you will be using it for--if it's just for simple email, slashdot-checking, or facebook, just bring a small device. You're a geek.. so what do you have? An iPod touch will do the trick--at the same times as a laptop-where there's a wi-fi signal (Okay, no ethernet). If you have an iPhone, then that works as well (watch out for charges). Of course, Verizon's CDMA-only phones don't work.

    I would just keep the pictures on the card. When I went to Europe for 12 days over the past summer, I brought along my Nikon D40 with 2 8gb cards. I took somewhere around 4460 pictures and don't think I completely filled the first one (Normal Quality jpg).

    So, maybe it's just because I have a 17-inch MBP so it's a pain to carry around, but I think you may be able to get by quite well without one. Enjoy the trip!

  11. next time... on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    ...they should check under the mousepad

  12. Re:Carmakers lie on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    yeah... even the airplanes?

  13. Damn on Laptop Fires On Airplanes · · Score: 4, Funny

    i knew there was something wrong with buying a macbook pro with a non-removable battery...

  14. Re:Don't forget: on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 4, Funny

    the onion?

  15. Re:Does that mean... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    Nawp, djew/

    I don't think the Texans have anything else against the Jews nowadays... or do they?

  16. Re:Does that mean... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    How about a South Carolina version of the program, which realizes that you're writing a love letter to your Argentinian mistress and automatically forwards it to your wife?

    Disclaimer: I'm from SC

  17. Re:Ouch. Torturous. on Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching · · Score: 1

    yes, i had it covered on the infinite amount of monkeys and infinite amount of typewriters, but i must have neglected to get the infinite amount of ink. at least they're not using computers with windows, because then they'd have an infinite number of BSOD

  18. uh on DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" · · Score: 1

    for the money it better be tornado-proof... or at least tornado-resistant.

  19. sanity on The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    if Sanity was money, microsoft products would cost even more

  20. Re:Summary?! on Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" · · Score: 5, Funny

    or my mother's / sister's definition:

    summary (also summery), adj.: of or relating to the summer, esp. with clothes, e.g. yellow cotton dresses.

  21. what?!? on Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's not even a male artist?

  22. Re:Tor on Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US · · Score: 1

    *sigh*
    I see similar posts frequently.
    Okay, here's how its done:

    You have to bypass the Heisenberg Compensaters to create an inertial sump, then reverse the polarity on the Warp Field Generators, then combine the streams(yes, this time you do!) and reroute the output to the deflector dish to emit a focused tachyon pulse that has to be synchronized and modulated with the inertia compensator's artificial gravity generator, pipe your Tor proxy through that and Lynx then flies at near light speeds down the 'tubes'!

    *disclaimer:you can exceed ISP 'bandwidth' caps in milliseconds this way, so type FAST!*
    [end sarcasm]

    I feel your pain.
    Tor is handy, but is far from 'the Silver Bullet' it is claimed to be.

    I also see streaming something like Pandora over Tor as problematic at best.

    I hear that's what they have to do in Iran.

  23. don't forget on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the plane crash was during a thunderstorm in a dark night. Yes, it's possible that it got hit by a meteor, but it isn't probable.

  24. Re:glad they took it down..... on Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the people who built the building didn't do it right, and the building itself is blurry.

  25. Re:Targets! on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 3, Funny

    [insert 640k joke here]