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  1. Re:Why wait? on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about lobbying your congressman to get the monopoly given to Time Warner / AT&T / Comcast / Sprint or whatever split up as anti-competitive and not just taking a big rubbery one up the wrong'un?

  2. Why wait? on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Install your own patch right now by cancelling your Time Warner contract, throwing the router in the trash, and getting a new ISP with better hardware. Hell, fork out $50 for a tried and tested model from Newegg. Be sure to tell Time Warner to "Abragofuckyourself" when they say you're tied into a contract by using the words "unfit for purpose" "gross criminal negligence" and "class action"

    Yeah, my utopian world of consumer power is better than this one of "Please, Mr Corporation, harder and deeper!"

  3. Re:Spotify not ITunes will be the big competitor on Google To Take On iTunes? · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, yes, but recently not so much. As good as the music is, I'm a little tired of the pseudo-philisophy. AEnima is still a great album, though.

    I was referring more to 80's rock and metal, some nu-metal, some thrash... Hell, I've been known to put on grindcore if I'm in a particularly foul mood (Or there's a chav with his car stereo playing too loud outside. You'd be amazed how effective playing The Berzerker is at clearing out ne'er-do-wells).

  4. Re:Just let me turn it off. on Google Partners With Twitter For Search · · Score: 4, Informative

    If in doubt, GiveMeBackMyGoogle.com has succeeded in stripping out results from many "sponsored" domains and aggregating sites for a good long time. I expect they'll list twitter as one of the blocks before long.

  5. "Experimental" 3D support? on Fedora 12 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Tthe R600 is two generations out of date. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it's taken 3 years to get experimental 3D support? Am I missing something fundamental? If I'm not, that's pretty appalling turnaround regardless of development model.

  6. Re:Spotify not ITunes will be the big competitor on Google To Take On iTunes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spotify doesn't have good business model.

    I had a paid account for a month, then switched back to free as the intrusion of the advertisements was next to nill. I simply don't notice. They hardly ever advertise for products I'd even want anyway; I listen to heavy metal and other alternative music; The amount of times I've had mobile phones (I already have a great phone), pop music (can't stand it) and other useless chod pushed into my ears would be amusing if it didn't cost Spotify every time it happened.

    I'd probably go back to the paid subscription if their "Music you may like" feature worked. At the moment, however, after listening to Alestorm, Korpiklaani, Dream Theatre, Prodigy, and Radiohead, I'm being presented with Kanye West, and other mainstream pop artists.

    In short, they've made their "free" (ad-supported) service too good.

  7. Re:It's a music search feature on Google To Take On iTunes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, it's more of a rival to Spotify, then? Stream music, offer links to purchase.

  8. Send a message on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 0

    Get Anonymous outside the PRS offices, singing chart hits of the 90's.

    I recommend the Macarena, all day long...

  9. Re:Something is wrong with Win7 power management on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 1

    Latest = "most recently released", not "released recently."

  10. Re:Sounds good to me on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Need to test your UI responsiveness while under high load?

    There's an app for that.

  11. Re:Sounds good to me on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1

    CCCP: 5.9mb

    I always knew free software was linked to communism...

  12. Re:That's not an excuse on Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Something is wrong with Win7 power management on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Latest ABIT BIOS resolves a lot of issues with the temperature sensor on IP35 boards. Check the ABIT forums.

    And work on your Google-fu.

  14. Re:Doom's gameplay on A Look At How Far PC Gaming Has Come · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know about a movie without a plot... I'm not going to joke about films like Die Hard 4.0 or xXx etc... I wouldn't mind seeing a film about Lobo, for instance.

    Sometimes, entertainment doesn't need a purpose. It can just "be" entertaining!

    Apparently, Guy Ritchie is going to direct a film featuring Lobo. Seems I have all of the good ideas just a little too late...

  15. Re:Attention Humans on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 1

    To conclude your theory, no universe will ever discover time travel. Its discovery will preclude its own discovery, according to your model, therefore there can be no discovery.

    If we're considering time travel, though, how about this "Novikov Self-Consistency Conjecture." What if the universe allowed time travel to the point of time travel being discovered only, and travel prior to that point impossible?

    How would we know that the machine worked?

  16. I for one... on Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... welcome out new object-avoiding human-brain-controlled robotic overlords.

    If they can manage to avoid avoiding things for long enough to usurp control from those who can recognise the seat of power... And sit in it.

  17. Re:Wait a minute here on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    Or, they didn't vote at all.

    Sincerely,

    Phil Hibbs ( snarks@@g_m_a_il.c&om )

  18. Re:Mirror it. on What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? · · Score: 1

    Or checksum database.

  19. Re:Pfff.... on Windows 7 Released Early In UK · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It would be like 9/11 times 100."
    "You mean..."
    "Yes. Ninenty-one thousand, one hundred."

    Disclaimer: Yes, the geek in me wanted to say 81.812 as well. Don't feel bad.

  20. Re:Sorry, but wrong. on Microsoft May Be Inflating SharePoint Stats · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The Site License I have has a number of users which fluctuates almost daily, with illnesses, industrial action, how many complaints I get regarding user space...

  21. Re:cue the bad superhero jokes ... on Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Less of that! Now, please leaf.

  22. Re:User action? on Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure that, even at 8.64 seconds, the uptime wouldn't be high enough to complete the input of the cal[NO CARRIER]

  23. Re:User action? on Google Voice Mails Found In Public Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I would love for that to be a private voicemail message hosted on their servers from the CTO to the CEO...

  24. Re:Ministry of Everything on Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy · · Score: 1

    Ugh... Every time I read this bullshit statement, I die a little inside. Come up with some valid, fact-based, well researched arguments or shut up. You achieve nothing by providing an easily contradicted statement ("1984 was a work of fiction. It's allegory. Nobody is going to create Thought Police or torture you with a rat in a cage. Grow up."). All that happens is the guys you are fighting against get an easy target for their spin.

    Hush now, the adults are talking.

  25. I spent 15 seconds watching the background load on Surfacescapes D&D Demo · · Score: 1

    then I just closed the window. I hope their D&D table isn't as horridly optimised.