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  1. Re:Vendor Name? on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    what intellitxt ads?

  2. Re:authority figure is a moron on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Debating anything causes both sides to see the arguments of the other. Why did the teacher try to prevent the student from using a better browser? Because he it was some alien software program - he didn't trust it because it's different. People don't generally stand up for something unless it seems logical to at least them.

    Too bad if the GP had the unfortunate side effect of breaking down your preconceptions.

  3. Re:Possible deterrent? on MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit · · Score: 1

    [...]for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work, for which any one infringer is liable individually, or for which any two or more infringers are liable jointly and severally, in a sum of not less than $750 or more than $30,000[...]
    Except for the "any one work" part, I'm pretty sure that it means $30,000 total. Maybe you can say that different binaries in the distro are different works, but isn't the takedown for the one distro? Maybe it's just late.
  4. Re:People are forgetting something on Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable · · Score: 1

    You are looking at this from the wrong direction. I'm thinking the best place for this security measure would be a local setting. You could draw your pass on a PDA you own, or show it off as a cool way to get root on your new desktop linux. Anyway, I thought blind people can draw. And even if they can't, they wouldn't be looking for any PDA, now would they? They'd look for one tailored for blind people. Finally, if it's local, the language doesn't matter anymore. I thought it would be obvious this isn't useful as a login method for websites. I don't have mod points today, but I think you're flamebait. If you don't think you're flamebait, you're an idiot.

  5. Re:OT: need help upgrading Vista to XP on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that if you go to the drivers page for nvidia in IE, it'll install an activex thingy. It's up to you to decide whether or not that's ok. I can't remember, but it will either install the driver for you, give you a link to download the right driver, or tell you which manufacturer's site to go to.

    Can't say if it'll just say go to hp, or a more useful page. At least worth a look

  6. Re:The problem with digital.... on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    They already spend tons of money on power for the broadcast. Why would they want to increase expenditure when the mass amounts of people close to the station already get plenty good reception?

    Just because they can increase the signal strength doesn't mean they will.

  7. Re:The music wasn't hers to share on Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial · · Score: 1

    You are stupid. In this very story, see this

  8. Re:The music wasn't hers to share on Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial · · Score: 2, Informative

    At the low end, a song might be 2 megs? So she'd have had to share nearly half a terrabyte to accomplish this. That's a lot of data for 24 songs!
    The entire point of P2P is to side-step theis limitation. This is probably their rationalization.
    In case you didn't know, if she uploaded the song to 3 people, and they each uploaded it to 3 people, blah blah blah you get the picture. Most of the time, you don't even get the whole song from any one person if it's popular enough. This should be known...

    Also, it's terabyte. Who's fault is it I keep seeing "terrabyte" everywere? What a pain.
  9. Shouldn't there be a sign somewhere? on AMD-ATI Ships Radeon 2900 XT With 1GB Memory · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Note to self: do not feed trolls; more come over to see what's up...

  10. I'm not feeding the trolls... on AMD-ATI Ships Radeon 2900 XT With 1GB Memory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It was my understanding that ATI hardware was fine- it was the drivers that made it inferior to nVidia for performance gaming. Which would mean that if ATI and nVidia drivers were equal, ATI would win with hardware. On a side note, is it Nvidia, nVidia, or safely nVIDIA like on the website?

  11. Re:Aspirational on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 1

    party pooper
    =(



    I was enjoying that thread.

  12. Re:more info in the summary on Intel Releases Mashups for the Masses · · Score: 1

    n/t

  13. Re:Bizarre? No. Logical on RIAA Complaint Dismissed as "Boilerplate" · · Score: 2, Funny

    >And I think that was one of the longest and most incomprehensible sentences I ever wrote.

    That tends to happen when you talk about stuff relating to the legal system.

  14. Re:Car Insurance on US Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for Nissan 350Z · · Score: 1

    What do you think the other iPhones are for?

  15. You can't do that: on Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six · · Score: 2, Funny

    Math doesn't work the same way in canada...

  16. woosh on Stretching Crystals Promise Bendy, Full-Color Displays · · Score: 1

    goes another torch-flashlight joke over a poor British person's head! I see you did catch one earlier though...

  17. Sounds like a fire hazard to me... on Stretching Crystals Promise Bendy, Full-Color Displays · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it create even more atmosphere if you had to shine torches at the display to be able to see it? And anyone wanting to read an e-book under their covers with a torch could still do it I personally would rather not have any torches under my covers, whether to read an e-book or anything else.
  18. Re:I don't see it on NewEgg on New Idea Could Lead to Quantum RAM · · Score: 1

    How else will be I be able to add it to my gaming rig. Do you think this memory has lights on it? I hope so, and that'd look great through my case's side-windows. No windows - no windows! If you observe the memory while it's running, it loses its quantum state! So... Windows(R) probably won't support the RAM, right?
  19. Re:ATTN: Top-posting whores on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 1
    Maybe they don't mean to. You know, an accident.

    Why would anyone do that?

    Top posting is when people intentially respond to a post that is close to the top in order to achieve higher visibility.

    Here, maybe. Go back a few years and you'll find that "top-posting" was (and is) used to describe someone who, in a newsgroup post, puts his or her own answer above the quote it responds to, making the discussion hard to follow by the quotes in one single post.
    BTW anyone have that weird error where if you select text above a quote, and then try to drag the cursor down to select more, it jumps to the bottom of the page? ^^ testing area above =)
    I know it doesn't freak out like that on Firefox
    In IE, it does the opposite (selects all text above cursor)
  20. Re:Feeding the trolls on A Commonsense Proposal On Net Radio Rates · · Score: 1

    WTF flamebait? Did you mods even read the entire comment, or are you just mentally retarded? -1 to karma...

  21. Re:Rich Platform? Then port Photoshop on Adobe May Launch Office Rival · · Score: 1

    Last time i heard, photoshop was ported to Windows, not the other way around. It's OSX native. It would be easier to port it to *nix than it would be to port it to Winblows.

  22. Re:Not there. Yet? on Adobe May Launch Office Rival · · Score: 1

    OpenOffice's spreadsheet application has a lot of ground to cover before it even approaces Excell for power users.
    Well, I think all they need to do is add Asterisk, but yeah; they'd need to hire a lot of call center employees =P
  23. Feeding the trolls on A Commonsense Proposal On Net Radio Rates · · Score: 1, Funny

    I, for one, am against fucking the RIAA. Considering how many other people they themselves have fucked, it's more than probable that they've caught more than a few nasty somethings along the way...

  24. Re:Curious on Why Make a Sequel of the Napster Wars? · · Score: 1

    No points granted to me? =(
    From your reply, I don't think you understood my post completely.
    Also, I didn't say you were wrong, just that I didn't agree with that point.
    I basically said that labels and studios are the same thing, but to work for different groups.
    If a musician doesn't like his label, he can pack up and move to a different label (or finance independently blah blah).
    Second, you can't say music stores don't facilitate music listening. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would listen to a lot less music if music stores weren't around. Blah blah vending- you can listen to music at music stores too.
    Finally, theater screening isn't necessarily critical to the success of a film. Sure, tehy make wads of cash from it, but they make more from DVD sales and such. Reference, just a quick google search It alomst seems that, like listening to music at music stores, watching movies at a theater is also just sampling so you can decide to buy to keep the movie later.
    Once again, your flaw was that you said musicians hate labels, but producers love theaters. Neither of those is wrong, but it's like saying water is wet, but bricks are heavy. They don't equate, and you will confuse people who read that and think they do. (and possibly yourself)

  25. Re:Curious on Why Make a Sequel of the Napster Wars? · · Score: 1

    1. OK
    2. OK
    3. No, your analogy is flawed.
    I would contend that musicians music stores, just like directors love theaters and musicians hate labels just like directors hate studios or whatever you call those companies that give a director an assload of money to make a movie because the direcotr doesn't have enough to start. Kinda like labels give artists free recording time and distribution and all that. And then they both rape the clients for it.