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  1. Re:Cuil Proves Nothing on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    * - yes, i know, iknow, but it's a work computer so no firefox..

    FirefoxPortable?

  2. Re:Cuil Proves Nothing on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    It gets 1,427 results now, but of course Google drowns that in 462,000 results. I have noticed that they will get results if you retry later. Not that that is acceptable to me.

  3. Re:Comcast on FCC Votes To Punish Comcast · · Score: 1

    Really? I thought the 'Underrated' mod was for jokes. My bad.

  4. Re:makes you wonder on Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" Teaser Site Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Just because 64-bit can address more RAM, that doesn't mean it'll try to even if it's not present.

  5. Re:This infringes on my 1992 patent... on trees on Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode! · · Score: 1

    I patented trees in general...

    You stabbed a high-ranking military officer with a stick?

  6. Re:Odd on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Tubal-Cain is the freemason password

    *Gasp* Am I infringing on their IP?
    All the good Greek & Norse mythology names were taken, and so I moved on to biblical names. Tubal-Cain was the first one I came across that appealed to me.

    Genesis 4:22:

    Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged a kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.

    The I like the thought of forging tools virtually (programming).

  7. Re:Odd on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I seriously debated whether I should indicate that a woosh was unnecessary.

  8. Re:Wow! Five of those are mine! Mine I tells you! on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Wow! Five of those are mine! Mine I tells you!

    Only if Google has indexed your sites.

  9. Odd on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So unless there is a screenshot showing the 1,000,000,000,000 site count, Google's index didn't reach that milestone? Even if it now shows 1,000,000,000,001?

  10. Re:Switch DNS Servers, NOT ISPs on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1

    Use 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.6. They're fast, free, don't mess with records (such as altering NXDOMAIN), and are anycast to local servers, so response times are minimal.

    Who are they?

  11. Re:Switch DNS Servers, NOT ISPs on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1

    Details?

  12. Re:RIP on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 1

    Oh, his middle name is Frederick. Nuts.

  13. Re:RIP on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 1

    Randy I????? Pausch

  14. Re:Does it run in Linux? on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 1

    No. I know of very few screens that run an OS (isn't there one that will play media from a flash drive?). Now whether Linux can run it is another story. If it can accept VGA/DVI input (CRT and LCD are two very different technologies, but they use the same interface), sure. But if it needs a new interface (or uses one whether it needs it or not), it could be a few weeks.

  15. Re:The cheapest code... on Critiquing Claims of an Open Source Jobs Boom · · Score: 2, Funny

    My last attempt at writing an app that ambitious bricked my system.

  16. Re:Oh noes! on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    I was referring to questioning whether the book had been copied accurately. Nobody seems to doubt that.

  17. Re:Excellent on Next Generation CPU Refrigerators · · Score: 2, Funny

    You removed the water.

  18. Re:Sorry on VectorLinux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Not providing a 64-bit OS for it to run on isn't helping.

  19. Re:Go Europe! on First Images of Russian-European Manned Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    That'll be fake, too. In fact, there will always be conspiracy theorists on this until they can reach the moon without the benefit of a capsule and space suit. Because even if we took them to the site, they'll claim a hi-res screen/VR system is on the inside of their helmet or some other similarly futile argument.

  20. Re:Inflation on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 1

    they pretty much break even on selling gasoline (in order to attract customers), and then make their profit on the snacks, beer, ice, etc that people buy while they're stopped.

    My mom worked at a 7-11 for a few months, and she confirms this. Although the "killer app" is lottery tickets

  21. Re:Its all CLEAR... on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can't think of a single time the cool hacker or badass spy hacked into the pentagon using a Dell,can you?

    The Atlantis expedition uses Dell XPSs.

  22. Re:Oh noes! on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    We don't question the authenticity of other ancient books...

  23. Re:You don't have to check your brain at the door. on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lee Strobel's "Case for *" books are very good.

  24. Re:Optimized? on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling that programming the coordination for the two would be a pain.

  25. Re:Unbelievable on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 1

    SanDisk, too, is coming off as incompetent: here they have a chance to drive Microsoft by offering a better product that, it seems, only Microsoft cannot take a advantage of.

    I would wager that most of their disks sold are to OEMs. OEMs that are installing Vista. So either they sell a product that Vista thrashes (but their competitor's disk handles it fine), or they cater to a 1% marketshare OS (or ~9%, if OSX will perform satisfactorily), enthusiasts, external enclosures (depending on how Vista treats those)... Basically everything except their biggest market.