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  1. Re:Isn't that called an... on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Cockney tends not to occur in civilized parts of Great Britain. I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you're educated, you're not likely to have a cockney accent, are you?

  2. Re:Isn't that called an... on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 1

    What part of the US? New England?

  3. Re:Isn't that called an... on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 1

    At least Cockney. About the only specific accent you can identify by name. You don't pronounce most h's.

  4. The Final Cut on Life Recorder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And they can make a great highlight video of your life to show at your funeral. Whether you were a good man or a bad man is all in the hands of the editor.

  5. Re:Really? on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 1

    And what if it's a rare mitochondrial genetic disorder? That would be eliminated for all future generations.

  6. Re:Makes no sense on Google Backs Yahoo In Privacy Fight With DoJ · · Score: 1

    As a side note, don't forget that the White House considers unopened emails to be undelivered ;-)

  7. Re:contact your clients on How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners? · · Score: 2, Funny

    archive.org - just has to look alike, doesn't have to act alike

    password resets via email, though PayPal is quite a stretch.

    You seem to make good points on the rest.

  8. Re:The entire concept is mistaken on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Not if you subtract all of the benefits they themselves receive for paying taxes.

  9. Re:The entire concept is mistaken on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    And in places without those sorts of rules, nearly 100% allow it. Or have "non-smoking" sections separated by a lattice or a 3-foot high wall.

  10. Re:Your tax dollars at work... on Library of Congress To Archive All Public Tweets · · Score: 1

    1 trillion bytes = 1TB in the words of HD manufacturers. One trillion 140 character tweets is exactly 140TB.

  11. Re:I don't like it on Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec · · Score: 1

    Yeah....I realized that hours and hours later.

  12. Re:I don't like it on Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec · · Score: 3, Informative

    On2 VP8 already is a runaway success. Video content producers with an older version of Flash have an On2 VP8 encoder already. This is the format that Flash used just before moving to H.264

  13. Re:Content-Aware Fill = Old on Review of Adobe Creative Suite 5 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can't stand the interface either. Have you tried GIMPShop?

  14. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    He'll close the big steel door on the underground dungeon and shout "Can you hear me now???" and cackle as he's walking away.

  15. Re:As someone totally ignorant in this stuff on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    You're not thinking of a big enough disaster.

  16. Re:Arachnophobia on Facebook Crawler Speaks Back · · Score: 1

    Ok. Sure. But you still illustrate the point. The "Facebook Crawler" doesn't have permission of Facebook's users to sell this copyrighted data. Facebook does.

  17. Re:Arachnophobia on Facebook Crawler Speaks Back · · Score: 1

    Because their TOS says that they own whatever you put into it. As far as I know, that would stand up in court.

  18. Re:ResEdit on System 7? on Making Closed Software Act Like It's Open · · Score: 1

    Applications don't really use them anymore, except to store icons. OS X applications are folders named with a .app extension, which the OS abstracts to a single icon. The reality is that the executable is just one file inside this folder somewhere. None of those files are in the resource fork anymore.

  19. Re:The real question is- on Making Closed Software Act Like It's Open · · Score: 1

    If a magnifying glass or keyboard can, sure.

  20. Re:Arachnophobia on Facebook Crawler Speaks Back · · Score: 1

    I may be going out on a limb, but I doubt that it matters if he operated the spider in a legal manner. Selling data from Facebook isn't the same thing as the attempt at fair use that Google engages in.

  21. Re:Monitoring yes, complete ban in this age? No. on Federal Appeals Court Says Sex Offender's Computer Ban Unfair · · Score: 1

    They have the title. I'm required to insure it by law in case it gets damaged. I'd say they own it.

  22. Re:Monitoring yes, complete ban in this age? No. on Federal Appeals Court Says Sex Offender's Computer Ban Unfair · · Score: 1

    Someone has to actually own their car for this to work. If you're paying on a loan, the bank will have something to say about their property being taken.

  23. Re:Too nerdy. on Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the old west.

  24. Re:Why they tell you to turn off your phone... on Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    I can think of two kill switches. Turning off the key, and shifting into neutral. They may not be good for the vehicle (I wouldn't know) but if my car went out of control, I'd try more than just my brakes. I'm thinking more of the Toyota situation.

  25. Re:That happens when its BOTH high-fat and high-ca on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    High Fructose Corn Syrup is a very long thing to type out. If you're not familiar with that stuff, you've been living under a rock. Or in a cave. I want to live in a cave.