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  1. Re:Light Edition called WOFFLE on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like WOPRs better.

  2. Re:It says: 256MB RAM... on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last time I was in a thrift store, I came across a Windows 98 machine. They were asking $125.

  3. Wireless router? on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 1, Informative
    Yawn. The only semi-unique feature of this is the "Windows" part.

    Is the future that every PC should be a router?

    Absolutely not. If I wanted to share my Internet connection, I all I'd have to do is not turn on encryption.

  4. Re:NMCI on New DoD Memo On Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-+
    :-)

  5. Re:Get it in the stores on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    So? "Free" might trigger the "you get what you pay for" mentality. You could charge $50-$75 and still easily undercut Windows 7.

  6. Re:Ubuntu CD's on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why not buy them from Canonical? You get 5 discs for about half the price Amazon is asking for 8.10.

  7. Re:Assuming... on "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 · · Score: 1

    What does worshiping corn have to do with it?

  8. Re:If that is the case... on Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior · · Score: 1

    A morgue.

  9. Re:This is BS on Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior · · Score: 1

    But how do you behave? Lewd comments and gestures?

  10. Re:They pay some on Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts · · Score: 1

    Washington state has sales tax in place of income tax in other states. Currently it is 6.5% state wide, with an added 2.5% here in King county.

    Funny, the ~9% sales tax here in California doesn't ward of income taxes.

  11. Re:Win7 wtf?! on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Odd name, isn't it?

  12. It was yesterday on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Computerworld is reporting Canonical has made available the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7.

    Computerworld is wrong. The RC was released yesterday.

  13. Re:Holy vague summary batman on Android / Windows 7 Dual Boot Netbook Disappoints · · Score: 1

    Do you mean you can't connect to ebay, craigslist, or google shopping? What is a marketplace in relation to an operating system on a computer?

    App Store, I presume.

  14. Re:Development crippled by what? on Developing Nations Crippled By Broadband Costs · · Score: 1

    "Hey, Unbooboo....I'm starving, naked and wet....but, man, I'm getting like 10 Mbit download speeds!!"

    Why would someone with 10Mbits say something out loud?

  15. Re:We Listened! on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    <have yet to win a game>

    I lost it again.

  16. Re:As someone living in Canada.. on CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    You: fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

    Eliza: Please go on.

    # extra text to defeat repetition filter

  17. Re:Great! on Fedora 12 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, because release numbers actually mean something.

  18. Re:Fedora on Fedora 12 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I've never tried Red Hat but you can use disks as repositories in Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.

  19. Re:This is not new on Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip · · Score: 1

    ...there was a lot of hippie crap thrown in; things about trying to replicate every different ecosystem found on earth, and having rock pools and stuff. Thing is, the whole grow-plants-to-let-the-humans-breathe idea was well explored by the Soviets decades earlier - rather than piss around creating a Zen garden they just used boring old algae beds.

    On that note: How much CO2 can a (house)plant convert to O2 in a day?

  20. Re:Or... on Plagiarism-Detection Software Confirms Shakespeare Play · · Score: 1

    If plagiarized by Kyd from Shakespeare then I think there would be clearer similarities between this and other works by Shakespeare: complete conversations or so. Or complete sentences. If this is plagiarized it is at least seriously rewritten.

    I was speaking in jest (but don't tell the mods).

  21. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    This is an electric vehicle. I'd imagine it'd be like having the battery in your RC car die: Steering will be the last thing to go.
    There should also be enough time for you to pull over when you start to lose power.

  22. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    I agree about the rope, though. Tremendously useful stuff.

    It just can't compete with a towel though.

  23. Re:Umm on Plagiarism-Detection Software Confirms Shakespeare Play · · Score: 1

    A sentence here, a phrase there... it isn't like there is a few pages of Romeo and Juliet wedged in.

  24. Or... on Plagiarism-Detection Software Confirms Shakespeare Play · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems that the work was co-authored by Shakespeare and another playwright of the time, Thomas Kyd.

    Or Thomas Kyd plagiarized Shakespeare's work.

  25. Re:Whoa on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and the Chicago Cubs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think he's talking about a group of people that do something out in the big blue room.