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  1. Re:Mr. Fusion on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1
    I suggest you watch Part I again.

    Marty: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
    Doc: No, this sucker's electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of electricity. ^ That of course is paraphrased since my DVR's hard drive that I had the trilogy on died several months ago.
  2. Re:They already had their break on Video Games Are Launching Rock-n-Roll Careers · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but I have to ask: why hasn't Harmonix released a soundtrack for the Guitar Hero games? Yes, Guitar Hero 3 offers one, but I'm more interested in the playlist of the first two.

  3. Re:While servers are meltin... on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 1

    Is this TDK the media ID or TDK the brand? Did you buy these discs recently? I remember buying TDK discs a few weeks ago and finding out the media ID was actually CMC.

  4. Re:While servers are meltin... on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 1

    You might just be buying bad media. Buy Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden discs and stay away from Memorex.

  5. Re:Ah Good on Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy · · Score: 1

    Really? Red Hat's revenues beg to differ.

  6. Re:Ah Good on Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The amazing thing is that many students are learning occupations that are dependent on IP and yet continue to ignore it. I wonder who they expect to provide them a paycheck once they become producers? Or would they rather go the inefficient route of millions of one-offs? For all you know they might work out business models for themselves that don't conflict with file sharing.
  7. JavaScript, huh. on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    So does this mean that NoScript users such as myself have already been browsing at this speed, if not faster?

  8. Not to worry. on Killer Military Robot Arms Race Underway? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Killbots have a preset kill limit. Send wave after wave of your men at them until they shut down.

  9. Re:No, no, a thousand times no. on Australian Internet Filter Enters Trial Phase · · Score: 1

    Does anyone really use that though? PICS has been in IE since version 4 and it seems that I'm the only one who's ever noticed it.

  10. Re:ATT does it as well on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Considering that much of the joy I get in life is from the companionship of others, then yes.

  11. Re:And? on RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Care to point to this help page? I'd like to disable my redirects too.

  12. Re:obvious answer on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So does this mean that we can call the "think of the children" groups terrorists now?

  13. I disagree on What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think Comcast will get a slap on the wrist, and throttling will resume. That's how the government has been operating for the past 7 years. Why should I expect them to change now?

  14. Re:OpenMoko, coreboot, and ATI video drivers on Google Announces Summer of Code 2008 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. I really need new ATI drivers. Neither the free drivers nor fglrx will allow me to suspend my laptop.

  15. Re:I had no idea... on Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe Windows has been copyrighted for quite some time.

  16. Re:I guess I dodged a bullet on Internet Pranks in Schools · · Score: 1

    I remember 3 distinct pranks from my high school days. Sadly I was only involved with the 3rd, so I never saw the outcome of the first two.

    1. All of our school's newer machines were Dells with Intel video cards, which of course had that fun but useless feature of allowing one to rotate the desktop to different 90-degree angles. When the kids enrolled in the VB6 class the year before I signed up for the course found this out, they quickly switched every other desktop in the lab so that everything was upside-down.
    2. Those same kids later found out about net send, and in the process of sending each other messages one of them accidentally forgot to type the computer name, sending the message out to the whole school. I heard the IT guy had to pay the class a visit because of that.
    3. Sometime junior year I found that the page redirects from our school's filtering system stored the variables (particularly the forbidden URL and blocked category) in the web address. I remember alerting several of my classmates that my machine was blocking google.com or some other benign address for outrageous reasons.

  17. Re:A different analysis on Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? · · Score: 1

    Having "friends" that pay attention to you is a huge plus for geeks. "Friends" is nice.

    Women would be nicer.
  18. Re:Sounds good... on Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes · · Score: 1

    Next step: self-shrinking sleeves and self-tying shoes.

    I know my life would dramatically improve when these reach production.

  19. Re:kinda dumb on Judge Rejects RIAA 'Making Available' Theory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not quite. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm guessing your tactic would constitute commercial infringement and thus fall into criminal law (or at the very least a different set of laws), whereas small-scale sharing without any money being made would fall under civil law, which is what this case is interpreting.

  20. That's great and all on Wii Homebrew Takes Several Leaps Forward · · Score: 1

    But does it run ...

    It does? Sweet.

  21. Re:I think I speak for everyone... on DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 · · Score: 1

    I'd say "We still have Revver," but Revver as of late has been whoring its ads, making them pop up over the video and requiring the viewer to close them. This is just an annoyance, but where I draw the line is the inappropriate 10-second video ads occasionally appearing before and after the video. I'd like to watch a clip without worrying whether the inevitable shoulder-watcher thinks I'm willingly looking at an ad for Girls Gone Wild.

  22. Re:Translation: on DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or they just couldn't compete with YouTube.

  23. Re:MS selling hardware? on "Vista Capable" Lawsuit Is Now a Class Action · · Score: 1

    Ah. I'd never heard about this so I assumed that you were really talking about the 16th Amendment.

  24. Re:Easy Answer on An Epidemic of Snooping · · Score: 2, Funny

    So then what do you say if the response is "Sure. I trust the police."?

  25. Misread the title on An Epidemic of Snooping · · Score: 1

    I misread the title as "An Epidemic of Spoofing" and, seeing the binoculars, assumed that this was some hyped up article about how privacy advocates are destroying the credibility of the Internet.