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  1. Re:who cares on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    There's no way in hell this card will have dropped down to $150-200 in a year. I own a 560 Ti and that's still going for about $250, as a reference.

  2. Re:A semi-Marxist state with voter ID? on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 2

    This is about Brazil, not Cuba. There isn't an inch of Marxism in our government system.

  3. Re:Ok, you nerds need to get a clue. on Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard · · Score: 1

    I did, and I get the same damn message. That "best viewed" disclaimer precedes the actual demo. Did you actually click "view demo" on Firefox or Chrome?

  4. Re:Lame Gov on $33 Million In Poker Winnings Seized By US Govt · · Score: 1

    Man, you're right... It's a shame the government can't ever do more than one thing at a time :-(

  5. Re:Jerks. on Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion · · Score: 1

    What progress? It's just a catchy name.

  6. Re:-450who? on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    Duh, it's the temperature at which books freeze.

  7. Re:Did anyone actually *watch* Seinfeld? on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Boy, you sure *love* them *asterisks*, don't *you*?

  8. Re:Real writeable NTFS? on Linux 2.6.26 Out · · Score: 1

    This is an user space driver, but it works perfectly.

    http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

  9. Re:Won't this eventually end up like usenet? on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    If by "these days" you mean "the past decade", then yes. These are just people using glue records to promote their domains or to poke fun at major companies.

  10. Re:True Story on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    Now some people, being paranoid on a VERY hostile network, turned down this certificate and promptly created\used the WEB site sans SSL - exposing their creds clear text.

    What? No seriously, what does this mean in English? That you got someone's passwords because there was a HTTP version of the HTTPS site?
  11. Re:submitter gets a fail on Multitasking Considered Detrimental · · Score: 1

    Wow, this is really funny and not dated at all.

  12. Re:Better the US than some backwater hole on ICANN Wants To End Commerce Dept. Oversight In 2009 · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I think lots of countries, or the European Union, qualify for the job. Why not Canada? Switzerland? Brazil?

  13. Re:Paulo Coelho ... on Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see where you went wrong.

    "In a keynote speech (embedded below) at the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich he talked about how uploading the Russian translation of "The Alchemist" made his sales in Russia go from around 1,000 per year to 100,000, then a million and more."

  14. Re:Paulo Coelho ... on Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller · · Score: 1

    As you can all see, I've been using phpBB-ish forums too much lately...

  15. Re:Paulo Coelho ... on Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller · · Score: 2, Informative

    [quote]ure, I thought the same thing when I read the summary....but it turns out in 2001 he had only sold 10000 copies.[/quote]

    Says who? That's blatantly untrue. He was already a huge best seller in Brazil [b]before[/b] becoming one worldwide.

  16. Re:SRV Records? Why POP and not IMAP? on Sky's Botched Google Migration In the UK · · Score: 1

    Your post doesn't make a lot of sense. MX and SRV are entirely different records. Could you give a real world example of how you'd configure DNS so that the clients were migrated transparently without causing chaos? Moreover, how can any of this impact things like Outlook?

  17. Re:Portal Praise on The Orange Box Review · · Score: 1

    My favorite is probably "If you become light-headed from thirst, feel free to pass out."

  18. Re:35 developers in China on IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community · · Score: 1
  19. Re:And on Neutral Net Needs Twice the Bandwidth of Tiered · · Score: 1

    Why in the world would someone rely on a computer to dial emergency services? Think about how many things factor into placing a phone call over the internet versus a landline.

  20. Re:How many are really wonders? on Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders? · · Score: 1

    The Cristo Redentor? Yes, a basic 38mt concrete statue. But built upon an almost vertical, 700m tall granite dome, reachable only with a twisting trail, or a tiny railroad, that overlooks a 10 million inhabitants city. Building the statue was trivial, even in 1930. Building the statue THERE was an engineering nightmare. Remember: there were NO helicopters in 1930. But the value of that piece of concrete is not the difficulty to build it. Is the image of a big guy "hugging" every citizen in the city from his tall pedestal. The statue can be seen from almost any part of the huge city, and the sense of "he's protecting me" is the awe you were referring to. Not just the trivial block of soapstone.


    I've been living in Rio de Janeiro all my life, and although I think the vote was unnecessarily rigged towards the statue by the media, your points are valid. All things considered, the effort of building it atop the Corcovado mountain with rudimentary access almost 80 years ago must have been immense, and the statue is visible from a very long distance across the entire city.
  21. Re:These are pretty dumb on Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders? · · Score: 1

    Well, brazilians did spam the fuck out of the vote. I didn't, but there was a lot of media pressure for everyone to vote however possible.

    The good news is, this is only a tourist trap thing anyway.

  22. Re:Ok. You read it, now extrapolate on CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels" · · Score: 1

    *woooooooooooooooooshhhh*

  23. Re:Do no evil, despite a monopoly? on Newspapers Reconsidering Google News · · Score: 1

    1. The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity;
                    the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in
                    some article, or of trading in some market; sole command
                    of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the
                    proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of
                    its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies
                    have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote
                    regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a
                    particular product.
                    [1913 Webster]

  24. Re:I'm a server admin, and I bet you'd like to see on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    apparently some of them are also desperate attention whores

  25. Re:Brazil on The iPod International Currency Index · · Score: 1

    It's fucking robbery considering what we get for what we pay.