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  1. Re:I still don't like IPv6 on Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010 · · Score: 1

    While I agree with you, any user running an os with a /etc directory should hopefully know how to navigate the file structure...

  2. Re:Binding Contracts. on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: 2, Funny

    And, on an unrelated note, could anyone tell me why the HTML "li" code now works erratically? Is there another code that just gives me a simple new paragraph?

    On a similarly unrelated note, can anyone tell me why throwing candles lit by matches at my Stouffer's frozen meal isn't warming it up? Is there a proper industry standard for doing something simple that I have completely missed out on?

  3. Re:Carriers != Manufacturers on Senators To Examine Exclusive Handset Deals · · Score: 1

    Trains and cars? Minimal changes need to be made to the cellular systems to support new models (that are similar to existing models) and monitor usage. This isn't 1993.

    You are talking more about forcing a CDMA network into allowing my 802.11a adapter on, because hell, they both provide data. I get your analogy now. As soon as UP starts allowing GM cars on their tracks and not Toyota, then you would make sense.

    It's less of a forcing GM onto UP, but if they'll allow GM on UP rails only if GM won't also sell to Southern Pacific, then that's why SP would call foul (any sort of rail spacing aside, I'm not a train enthusiast).

  4. Re:evidence was accepted on RIAA Case, Capitol vs. Thomas #2, Starts Monday · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your clarification. Obviously I'm just a layman and misunderstood.

  5. evidence was accepted on RIAA Case, Capitol vs. Thomas #2, Starts Monday · · Score: 3, Informative
    Ars posted a story days ago with better information than what the summary contains. The judge has already allowed the MediaSentry evidence and isn't buying most of the defense's excuses. I like NYCL a lot, but I am surprised he wasn't aware of that.

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/thomas-judge-bars-fair-use-defense-oks-mediasentry-evidence.ars

  6. Re:ActiveX on Mozilla To Launch "Build Your Own Browser" · · Score: 1

    Haha you said accurately. Oh wait, are you serious? No it doesn't.

  7. Re:Classes on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Wait... Your had 8 courses that required you to use a third party blogging system (off your edu domain) and you couldn't even get full credit for those assignments? Please forward your resume to /dev/null

  8. Re:They're all on Facebook now on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    What is MySpace? Is that like Friendster?

  9. Re:Patches.. on Swedish Anti-Piracy Lawyer Gets New Name 'Pirate' · · Score: 1

    Dude, GP is a Neanderthal, be easy on him... He can't even sign up properly for Geico

  10. Re:The Mysterious Reoccurrence of Mr. Freckles on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    well AP style is still Web site.

  11. Re:The Mysterious Reoccurrence of Mr. Freckles on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    thank you.

  12. ESRB? on Japanese ESRB Bans Rape Depiction In Games · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't the headline use EOCS? There is no Japanese ESRB.

  13. Re:Search results that don't include search terms on Google Outlines the Role of Its Human Evaluators · · Score: 1

    What has started pissing me off is the text at the bottom that basically says "you recently searched for 'foo' and are now searching for 'bar', so we combined the two, click here to get your real results for only 'bar'"

    Perhaps the reason for my second search was that I wasn't satisfied with my original search terms, so fuck you for adding them on covertly. This was done while not signed into any Google sites...

  14. Re:Blimps maybe? on Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains · · Score: 1

    Thats what I was thinking, so why the hell did he refer to cargo planes and then mention a $150k plane?

  15. Re:Blimps maybe? on Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains · · Score: 0

    A cargo plane could haul a lot more than half a cord of wood, where a pickup truck cannot. While I am not sure what kind of plane $150k will get you, I imagine something deemed a cargo plane will carry a lot more than even a full-size extended bed pickup.

  16. Re:Confirmation on Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, it was a pain in the ass to try to tell the CSR how to get to Slashdot.

    really? sure hope you don't deal with end users very often.

  17. Re:Using the data for good purposes on Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guys, busting up AT&T was the *best* thing that ever happened to American telecommunications.

    So the baby bells could reform their monopoly as SBC? Oh and then change back to AT&T and rebuy the spun-off AT&T Wireless? Yeah that worked out well.

  18. Re:Pigeon Rank on Google Outlines the Role of Its Human Evaluators · · Score: 1

    The humans aren't nearly adept at carrying out RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers

  19. Re:Guilty as charged on Detailed Privacy Study Finds Loopholes Galore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Stop spamming us with your Web site. Many of us browse with sigs turned off for a reason. The day that I start being responsible for organizing the county fair, I'll check out your fair software site, but only if you give me the cotton candy upgrade for free.

  20. Re:So, who makes HumVees? on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    While GM doesn't produce the H2 directly, it's still their design and based off of GM truck chassis. All AM General does it build it for them...

  21. Re:Early adopters on US DTV Patent Royalties Are $24–$40 · · Score: 2, Informative

    These are fees on new televisions, so your cable subscription reference isn't relevant. Next you're gonna claim that an Electronic Waste Disposal fee that many municipalities charge on new TVs doesn't affect using your old TV with cable. No shit it doesn't...

  22. Re:Guest account with Fast User Switching. on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    While renting it would be effective, it's a dick move. If these classmates are ones that you share other classes with and you've been progressing through a program together there is probably some sort of camaraderie, even if it's pretty casual.

    If it's people you'll never see again, rent it out, but it could burn some bridges with people that you'll need in the future. Group projects are fun when the participants dislike each other and don't have a common goal, but fragmented "look out for only myself and not John" attitudes. Similar to if a roommate asks to use your idle laptop sitting on the coffee table, just show them the guest account and restrict the hell outta it. It'll be better on you in the long-run.

  23. Re:(Mostly) Americans misunderstanding Japanese. on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 1

    I had some cunt professors that required attendance. One even told the class that they had all been marked absent for the first 2 months because we sat one seat to the right of her damned seating chart.

    Felt like elementary school, not higher education.

  24. Re:This is sure to boost attendance. on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 1

    Sure apps can run in the background, they get cute little badges too. It's called Backgrounder app and is available on Cydia. Admittedly it takes the crappy battery life and makes it worse, but that is what makes it a useful platform (compared to win mobile phones).

  25. Re:Not hard to circumvent. on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're jail broken?