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  1. Re:So... on DARPA's 'Social Puppet' · · Score: 1

    Can't we just hate Bush for American foreign and domestic policy ?

    We don't need any brainwashing.

    You'll be trying to tell me next we live in a meritocracy where we can be what we want so long as we work hard enough!

  2. Re:DARPA no! on DARPA's 'Social Puppet' · · Score: 1

    If only the Europeans had built such networks we could join them all together and talk to each other.

    Oh well, we can but dream.

  3. Re:From an x-soldier on DARPA's 'Social Puppet' · · Score: 1

    It's the X part of x-soldier that makes me feel much safer.

  4. Re:All I want from scanner manufacturers on Pen-Sized Color Scanner Reviewed · · Score: 1

    $1000 doesn't sounds like too much if you really spend that much time pissing about scanning.

    And I found it in like 2 minutes

    http://search.ebay.com/XDM2625D

    The Xerox DocuMate 262 Color Duplex Sheetfed Scanner & Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) for Windows/Windows XP is Double the speed in duplex mode @ 50 ipm and includes OneTouch scanning for up to 9 functions.
    MODEL: XDM2625D-WU VENDOR: VISIONEER

    Seems it's not just the people you think are running the show who are morons.

  5. Re:Useful to gynecologists on Pen-Sized Color Scanner Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Took me a while because in English it is spelled gynaecology =)

    Such a shame the new world eschewed proper spelling in favour of .... er .. what ?

  6. Re:Orson Scott Card's predictions on Orson Scott Card on Games, 21 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Wow, a whole book to state the bleedin' obvious

  7. Re:Today, graphics come first, gameplay second. on Orson Scott Card on Games, 21 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    What part of HL2 physics are you referring to ?

  8. Re:Meh... Color me unimpressed. on Flexible Body Armor · · Score: 1

    try re-reading the opening sentence again with my emphasis :

    A futuristic flexible material that instantly hardens into armour upon impact will protect US and Canadian skiers from injury on the slalom runs at this year's Winter Olympics.

  9. Re:Meh... Color me unimpressed. on Flexible Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Only Xtreme downhill skiiers have pistes with walls on !

    but perhaps you missed THE OPENING SENTENCE :

    A futuristic flexible material that instantly hardens into armour upon impact will protect US and Canadian skiers from injury on the slalom runs at this year's Winter Olympics.

    RTFA idiot

  10. Re:Loose more money then. on Take Two Shareholders to sue over Hot Coffee · · Score: 2, Informative

    HEY it's LOSE

    yes LOSE

  11. Lol, is that it ? on Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Eye candy and an mp3 player

    let me get my cheque book

  12. Re:Take a logic class on Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your logician can imply ignorance ?
    He should patent that, he could make a fortune.

    In the meantime ask him if what communism is and if trading with entities in a communist nation strengthens the govt. of that nation and, by extension, if that contributes to the perpetuation of whatever policies that govt. decides to implement, such as censorship.

    Funny, all I can hear is the whistling between your ears.

  13. Re:Take a logic class on Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame · · Score: 1

    lol how amusing, you should go see your Logic Professor

  14. Re:WTF? on Sony Rootkit may Lead to Regulation · · Score: 1

    Sony copy Protects CD, civilization collapses; Film at 11 !

  15. Re:Take at look at your mouse on Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame · · Score: 1

    China is communist ergo *all* trade with China furthers Chinese censorship.

  16. Take at look at your mouse on Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mr Lantos,

    Do you have *any* equipment that says "Made in China" ?

    If you do, your questions should be asked in the mirror.

  17. Re:Obvious feature missing... on Wireless Bluetooth 2.1 Speakers · · Score: 1

    A long long time ago the human race invented SWITCHES.

    Surely even *you* could make a cable selector.

  18. Re:More Stupid Censorship and Irony on Graffiti Game Banned in Australia · · Score: 1

    It's the below averyage barnyard monkeys we have to worry about.
    They might pro-create.
    Better they should be writing on walls and shooting each other.

  19. Re:But "InfoCard"'s nothing new, is it? on Slashback: Quinn, InfoCards, McKinnon · · Score: 1


    Once I have your laptop I will just connect the drive to my computer and mount it myself, thus bypassing your random bazillion charater password if you like.

    Personally I store my passwords using secstore and authorize using factoum, so my keys never need to be stored locally. I boot my laptop from a CDrom and mount my drives over the network, wherever I am. It doesn't even have local storage unless attach some via USB.

    Relying on SSH is soooo 1999

  20. Re:Not a good way to do it, however. on Google Windows Apps Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    What indication do you have that Word Perfect used a very rich set of API calls ?

    iirc it is just a canvas and some menus.

  21. It makes no difference on Can We Trust Google? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because chances are in your lifetime, ownership of that data will change hands.

    If nothing else, the current management will die.
    You cannot see into the future ergo you cannot trust it to act with benevolence toward you.

  22. Re:Yawn, we've been doing this for 15+ years on Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet · · Score: 1

    worse is better

  23. Yawn, we've been doing this for 15+ years on Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    plan9 boots across the internet since forever, the networked file system is delightful, none of this NFS idiocy.

    I was horrified when I went back to set up networking booting in Un*xville, yes, horrified. "These people are dumb, not the terminals" is about the most polite I could be about the state of "the network IS the computer".

  24. Re:Why even bother? on Halo 2 Only on Vista · · Score: 5, Informative

    > noone is going to upgrade their OS just to buy a praticular game.

    Not true, I had to up to XP to play EQ2

  25. Re:Some people lack vision on Coming Soon, Super Vision · · Score: 1

    > Shame on you for not including long distance upskirts/voyuerism in your short list of applications

    Some of us don't live down holes !