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  1. Re:The UK should do something about this on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 1

    More CCTV coverage would have saved his life, surely.

  2. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm a subscriber, and this is easier said than done. My only other choice in this locality is AT&T, who are infamous for bending over and spreading for Bush's illegal wiretapping.

  3. When will Yahoo start policing their ads? on Google Sues Dodgy Advertisers · · Score: 1

    I've seen a ton of dodgy ads for penny stocks and the like on their service lately.

  4. Re:UFOs !=aliens on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I admit I was wrong. kdawson no longer being here hasn't made the quality of /. submissions go up all that much.

  5. Re:Disagree on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    As someone else observed, liberals tend not to listen to talk shows because we're not interested in being spoon-fed talking points, and would rather think for ourselves.

  6. Re:ZoneAlarm users get what they deserve on ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users · · Score: 1

    Not always. It was pretty decent back in the 2.x Windows 98 days.

  7. Re:I find it annoying on Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? · · Score: 1

    The most frequent one would have to be the various misspellings of "ridiculous", usually with the first i swapped for an e.

  8. Re:Wait... on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    Or to tell them what they should be outraged about or afraid of this week.

  9. Re:I find it annoying on Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nimey's Internet Observation #1: People who write a word in CAPS to emphasize it nearly always mis-spell it.

  10. Re:Good News! on Return To Castle Wolfenstein Source Code Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I bought RTCW on Steam a couple months ago and it's buggy junk on a modern 64-bit system. I had to copy a certain file from an older ATI video driver and put it into RTCW's program folder before it would even run.

    Similar problems with at least some of id's older Windows games as well, such as WinQuake and Quake 2.

  11. Re:Free to leave on WikiLeaks Founder 'Free To Leave Sweden' · · Score: 1

    How secure does he feel about leaving Sweden, though? If I were him, I'd think hard about going to another country who might roll over if the US came in and demanded he be turned over.

  12. Re:486sx on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    I looked at the 487 back in '94 or so, but went with the DX2-50 Overdrive because it was actually cheaper.

  13. Re:Is this some kind of flash update or os based? on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    I'd hope there's a tiny amount of non-volatile memory inside the CPU for this, otherwise the unlock is only going to be good for one system. This would, of course, suck if your motherboard fails but the rest of the machine is OK.

  14. Re:Similar experience at bestbuy on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    The retailers don't want crap-free computers because:

    1) The price of each machine would go up a few tens of dollars, because the crapware purveyors pay the manufacturers to include it. Unless all the other retailers did it too, it'd be a death sentence.

    2) They couldn't offer very profitable services to remove the crapware.

  15. Re:I hope this doesn't fly ... on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    One hopes that Intel will have the price track the actual MSRP differences between models, at least. It'd be asinine to pay $50 for an upgrade when your machine's a couple years old and the parts are either EOL'd or the delta has fallen to $20.

  16. Re:Confirmation ? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Netcraft.

  17. Re:A serious question on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    Because it's there. Also, everyone with a third-grade education knows what pi is, so it's useful for popularization of science.

  18. Don't forget... on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.

  19. Re:Original article is from the Sun, and not true. on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's wild that the Washington Post, considered one of the USA's two papers of record (along with the NY Times) has lower Google-fu than Murdoch's propaganda mouthpiece.

    I wonder what his secret is.

  20. Re:WOAH WOAH WOAH on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    That's god-fearing American jobs, mind you.

  21. Re:More importantly on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1, Troll

    You'd never know it from watching their talking heads.

  22. Re:Original article is from the Sun, and not true. on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the New York Post that's owned by Murdoch.

  23. Re:The Sun has no credibility on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 1

    And your uninformed opinion at the top of this discussion marks you as a moron. Congratulations, I guess.

  24. The Sun has no credibility on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not saying that this *didn't* happen, but the Sun is gutter trash with as much credibility as the National Enquirer.

    The Sun is also owned by Rupert Murdoch of Fox News fame.

    I'll need to have a report from a trustworthy source to believe this one, especially around election time.

  25. Re:Waiting for the Classist Anti-Walmart Hipsters. on Wal-Mart To Launch Unlimited Wireless Family Plan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Glenn Beck fan spotted.