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  1. Re:This is what happens... on Bell Canada Official Speaks Out On Throttling · · Score: 2, Informative

    "But the fact is the world is not responsible enough for the technology."

    I can agree with that in regard to flying cars, we have enough problems with ones limited to the ground, and with flight it only added another dimensions, and exponential problems.

    But, I dont really see how having more bandwidth would cause anymore damage... people would still use it for the same purpose, just more of it (information, music, movies, porn, maliciousness, et el)

  2. Re:unfortunately? on Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    "Unfortunetly, due to new Government regulations, drug developers will have to be more stringent about the drugs they release, so as to minimize the chance of killing their users"

    Plus, this also creates more job opportunities (especially for people familliar with 'standards'), aswell as return coding, "we need to update our website for IE8 and/or to be more standards complient"

    If any website coders (who are currently using non-standard coding practices) that are going "shit fuck damnit crap" it's there fault for not doing their job properly. They could have simply said "well, we could do that, but its not standards complient, and could create problems in the future" - "oh, hmm well maybe there is another way"... its really their own laziness.

    And anyone who really enjoys coding websites, will probably like this, a new challenge, "lets see if I can make this site 100% complient"...

  3. Re:Cue the "M$" bashing shrills on Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...I won't be caught dead while browsing your site."

    Obviously not, you could be caught alive browsing their site though, or found dead infront of a computer displaying the site.

  4. Re:traffic shaping only in peak periods? yeah righ on Bell Canada Official Speaks Out On Throttling · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, thats how my ISP (claims) to handle it to...

    DL 5MB/UL 512KB

    But it throttles that 5MB seemingly randomly, ocasionally I can get up to 600k/s download (using BT, HTTP, FTP, etc doesnt matter) other times 15k/s... noon, midnight, weekday, weekend doesnt matter... and 2 or 3 times a week, it just shuts down entirely for about 3 hours somewhere between 9PM and 9AM...

    So i assume one of two things.

    1. they don't know what they are doing.
    2. they most likely dont know what they are doing.

    They behave like an infected computer... unless their hardware is constantly dying, inwhich case see assumption 1. or 2.

  5. Excuses. on Bell Canada Official Speaks Out On Throttling · · Score: 1

    Excuses.

    Anyone else get a bunch of JavaScript errors form the CBC.ca site?... (Opera 9.27, XP, JavaJRE 6U6)

    Damn Canadians! (Note: I am one)

  6. Re:Linos... on Elonex ONE Subnotebook Shows Right Path For Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aslong as the proprietary only applies to distribution, im (somewhat) "ok" with it.

    But if we start hearing about lawsuits and crap because some kid modded his Linos so he could do [whatever], this is not going to help "Linux". Because the articles "Bob Smith sentenced to a $1,000 fine for modding his Linos" just makes people scared of touching their OS.

  7. Re:Linos... on Elonex ONE Subnotebook Shows Right Path For Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, and thanx... guess we'll have to wait till some people get there hands on one to find out what its capable of.

    Although according to that sentence at Wikipedia, its proprietary, so that kinda sucks depending on what the TOS/License allows.

  8. Re:Elonex ONE on Elonex ONE Subnotebook Shows Right Path For Linux · · Score: 1

    Indeed it does, and if I had to choose, I would choose that one, simply for the 800x480 display, which seems to be running at the same aspect ratio, if the Elonex has the same screen running at 640x480, no thanx... and because that article has pictures of it...

  9. Linos... on Elonex ONE Subnotebook Shows Right Path For Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just what exactly is Linos? I tried Google, and it gave me nothing useful. (Photphonics, and Industrial software)

    They might get even more publicity and help if they said "It uses Linos, which is based on [insert major distribution]"

    Unless its not based on anything, which would be "cool" but not very well thought through, unless they have a huge Help & Support staff/department.

  10. Re:It was a good design... on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    It was not a direct quote, just the topic of response, hence capitalisation.

    "...lower fuel costs..."

    Is what i would have used if I was directly quoting.

    and just to help you out...

    "Fuel", misspelled twice. (and will continue to be many many times in the rest of my life)
    "Carrying", misspelled once.
    "Includes", misspelled once.

    Missing Apostrophe, once.
    Uncapitalizes Name, twice.
    Other Missing Punctuation, thrice.
    Use of "like" instead of more appropriate word, once.

  11. Re:Tech on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, that they both have websites, thats all.

  12. Re:It was a good design... on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    "Lower Feul Costs"

    But about a third of the total weight is the Pringle Can, so you might be able to fit more in the same space, that same space weighs more, adding to the cost of feul needed. Takes more energy to move a Pringles can with 200 chips, than a fluffy bag with 200 chips.

    As for boxes, if you have a 3x3 foot box with 300 fluffy bags, that same box wouldnt be able to carry 600 pringles cans unless it was made thicker, used more tape, etc. So you might have to use 2 smaller boxes carryign 300 each, which is actually more carboard than the single larger box, plus the carboard in the pringles can.

    Plus the additional costs of manufacturing (which inclues shipping the carboard and metal used in the can, aswell as its pre-processing)

    There is a reason why Pringles are like $1.50, when you can get twice the amount of chips for the same price in a fluffy bag. (albeit broken and such)

  13. Re:always, Always, ALWAYS, talk to a lawyer... on Moving Between Countries? · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's probably a lawyer, looking for work.

  14. Re:Huh? on Moving Between Countries? · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a very vague comment about broads...

  15. Re:Prince "Owns" A Copyright on Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song · · Score: 1

    uh... pertaining to sound: "(Which it usually can be)" ... changed the sentence but not what was in parenthesis.

  16. Re:Prince "Owns" A Copyright on Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song · · Score: 1

    If the sound can't be heard off the property where the event takes place (which it never is) and it cant be seen from anywhere outside of the designated area (which it usually can be) then it could be a "Private" event.

    Even if there was an audience of a billion people. It's private, and exclusive, to those billion people.

    Although, with camera phones, et al, it becomes a problem (hence the story).

  17. Re:Accidentents. on Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so do I, I have a hard drive thats entire purpose is to hold recent downloads (until they are tested/scanned/used)

    But, from what I deduce, it seems that Safari, at least on the Windows Platform, defaults to the users desktop (directory) until it has been set otherwise.

    Similar to IE, and many other programs that default to the "My Documents" directory. A lot of people dont bother to set the default download location, then just browse somewhere else with the save as dialog.

  18. Re:Brazier on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    Actually, thats a curious thought, I wonder what the ratio is between proprietary coders, and open source coders donating their body/organs for science/medical uses.

  19. Re:It was a good design... on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    The can is definitly a better use of space.

    But the bag, uses about the same amount of plastic as the cap of a pringles can, so there is much less waste, and is cheaper to produce.

    Although the can can be used again, it rarely is, especially by people who eat Pringles often.

  20. Re:The whole point is that it makes Mac look good on Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari · · Score: 1

    lol, fine... "Something that affects Safari users on OSX"

  21. Re:first post? on FCC To Hold Hearings On Early Termination Fees · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It can be either, including "Brer", or just "Buh".

    Brier = Br'er
    Briar = Bri'r
    Brier = Briar

  22. Re:The whole point is that it makes Mac look good on Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari · · Score: 1

    Something that also effects OSX...

  23. Re:Best part about this? on MIT Develops "Paper Towel" For Oil Spills · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah there are quite a few products like that, but most of them are really complex and cancel eachother out (making both ineffective for their original use), at least with respect to something as simple as a piece of fabric being able to seperate them.

    But you could combine a fuel with another liquid that releases fumes that cancels out the feuls fumes, so that if there was a leak an ignition would be far less or completely impossible.

    But a simple piece of this cloth in a feul filter, could seperate the feul from the liquid, use the feul, and then use the liquid to say cool the engine.

    A better version of: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4158551.html

  24. Re:Good. on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and this just helps the case for people who were already protesting against it. Publicity.

    If Google had just outright said "We Here At Google Don't Like The Idea", no one would have cared, not news-worthy, but trying to cover it up... "hmm"... intrigue.

  25. Well... on Is 'Corporate Citizen' an Oxymoron? · · Score: 0, Troll

    the United States of American, is technically a Corporation aswell, so a United States of America Citizen, is also a citizen of a corporation.

    However, an "American Citizen" is not.

    http://www.jusbelli.com/usofa_is_corp.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVsMUpPgdT0

    http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/creator/federalgovernment.htm

    yadda yadda...