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  1. Re:ASUS Eee PC on OEMs Looking to Ubuntu for Netbook Market · · Score: 1

    Bah! The real games worth running should be just fine on Linux. Viva la DOSBox!

  2. Re:read the interview on Games and Music, the New Book Burning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I dunno. I think rock lacked much of the "Sell my culture down the river for a buck." theme that rap seems to embrace. And don't get me started on how much basketball sucks these days.

  3. Re:Obvious on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 1

    Low g, not zero. Brain not working.

  4. Re:Obvious on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use the zero gravity to pretend to be ninjas.

  5. Re:How about *nothing at all*? on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 1

    At least you caught it.

  6. Re:Language barriers on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 1

    That said there a vocabulary quirks like "spaz" being offensive in England. So at least a little localization may always be necessary.

  7. Re:Not surprising on Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness though, I've had more than enough experience with consumer routers crashing. Personally I blame VXWorks as my one linux-based router is much more stable than any other I've ever had.

  8. Re:Typo on 1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced · · Score: 1

    Slow spindle speed to allow CLV at the time meant that it's seek latency more than made up for the bandwidth increase on larger files.

  9. Re:Typo on 1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced · · Score: 1

    They did that once. A friend bought it on my recommendation. He's still mad because it sucked.

  10. Re:Rotary telephone on Windows 7 Multitouch Demonstration · · Score: 1

    Who says you'd be using text to identify things. MS is making it pretty apparent that they want to code windows to run on real (as opposed to integrated-level) graphics hardware. We're probably talking little pictures of the windows.

  11. Re:Pie menu? on Windows 7 Multitouch Demonstration · · Score: 1

    More like Neverwinter pie.

  12. Re:..and will lose the rumored MinWin kernel. on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 1

    I doubt it. Their entire workforce skill base is organized around Microsoft products. They'd have to do a lot of hiring to approach even middling competent on another platform.

  13. Re:Guarranteed To Suck on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 1

    If you're going to assert that the insurgents fighting right now are the same people as Saddam's army you're going to have to back it up. If not then I don't think you've made a valid argument.

  14. Re:hmmmmm Vista... powershell ... winfs..... etc on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 1

    Myself I was hoping for Mt Ranier, but even though I got a drive with support I still never got it to work the way it was supposed to. Did that get axed too?

  15. Re:Is It Really A Poor Economy? on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Retail is doing abysmally. Retail merchandisers are getting payed less and work fewer hours. Stores themselves have cut hours drasticly. Petco even skimped on hours in 4th quarter and many Vons's are so understaffed the departments can't stay properly stocked before the consumables go bad because the department employees get called up to check because no-one else is available. Gas costs more than 10% of my after-tax income, and food is drastically more expensive than it was a year ago. All in all it looks pretty bad where I work.

  16. Re:Explain paintings and the history of art. on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement · · Score: 1

    You seem to have forgotten the existence of prints. Many artists in this day and age make money through prints in larger quantity and lower price. Photographers essentially make all their money this way.

  17. Re:This may be a stupid question... on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't. I'd guess they'd have to assume anything not AAC or other DRM is pirated. That's of course if they chose to enforce the law. In practice I see it more being used like adding on seat belts to a ticket.

  18. Re:The real answer on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement · · Score: 1

    Individual copyright still serves a useful purpose. A complete repeal of copyright would devastate the entire artistic industry. Unless you have copyright the only way you get art is when rich people keep a pet artist.

  19. Re:I've got a better idea. on Fasting May Fix Jet Lag · · Score: 1

    That said it's pretty easy to get a Frontier flier to then swipe their card for 6 bucks to watch TV on the flight. At a similar price point there is Southwest who forcibly pump mood music at you. I would much prefer Frontier should the decision ever be mine to make.

  20. Re:I laugh on Getting the "Free" Business Model Wrong Doesn't Mean the Model is Flawed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The trick with in house experts is they move on to other things. If your expert works for the manufacturer you have something of a guarantee that the expertise will always be at the other end of the phone line.

  21. Re:Physical Security on Gaining System-Level Access To Vista · · Score: 1

    What I find most interesting though is the fact that this is a "Physical Access" attack that can be completed quickly and relatively innocuously. No need to open the case or even add a thumb drive. Just a CD and a reboot, a few minutes in bash, and another reboot. It's almost an entire new family of attack, using modification of the filesystem to tweak the security through an external OS.

    To be honest it sounds like I could accomplish the same thing with a BartPE disc, or even just an NTFS-driver tweaked DOS-boot floppy.

  22. Palm T|X on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    Works for me. You can even buy VPN capability for it cheaply so you tunnel in and do your thing from a Panera. No carier, no contract, no airtime charges, and the connection's probably faster too with no crippleware from the phone company.

  23. Re:Oh, great..... on Cognition Enhancer Research · · Score: 1

    That said prescription level doses of Ritalin are pretty benign in most cases. Many of these drugs do little more than disrupt your appetite some when you aren't taking the massive overdoses that would be required to actually get a high. That said Adderol (sp?) scares me.

  24. Re:Worthless data... on IRS Pushes for New Reporting at Expense of Privacy · · Score: 1

    A great many people pay more than their fair share for much of their lives and have to petition the IRS to get it back every year. It's not so much a department of revenue as a government enforced protection racket.

  25. Re:Propoganda or not - Let the truth be viewed on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That said a recent court decision has just made the act of "looking" for it illegal and in the process has made drawings or renderings of it illegal too. That would arguably be a victimless crime. There's a slippery slope here and I think we're already starting to go down it.