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  1. Re:PALM PRE OMG on Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of it before.

  2. Re:Palm? on Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes · · Score: 1

    I just threw away my T2...

    I would have loved to have it.

  3. Re:and the pirates win again on Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that, or have you just not found the "Main" button on your remote?

    We're not imbeciles.

    Maybe you have a crappy dvd player that doesn't allow it?

    Sometimes, sometimes not. Depends on the DVD.

  4. Re:and the pirates win again on Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a DVD (ever) that doesn't let you skip the advertisements and previews.

    I have. Probably flagged in a manner similar to how the FBI warning is.

  5. Re:Bing? Seriously? on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 1

    I always supposed that Ogg came from Nanny Ogg.

    Word of God* says no.

    *I have lost hours of my time to that website.

  6. Re:Bing? Seriously? on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 1

    - Ogg Vorbis

    Ogg: Named after a game tactic akin to a single-unit zerg rush
    Vorbis: book character
    Theora: TV character
    Xiph (foundation developing ogg): a fish

    - Apache

    Indians, by military helicopters are cooler.

    - IceWeasel

    Pun on 'Firefox'

    - Thunderbird

    Vaguely similar in theme to Firefox, also the name of a car

    - X

    It's Unix predecessor was 'W', I believe.

    - Prefacing thousands of KDE apps with K

    Why not?

  7. Re:But What If ... on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 1

    I could imagine someone really screwing up and going bong, bang, bing.
    I wonder if it will have information on STDs...

  8. Re:But they may (sadly) have been right on Swiss Court Halts Non-Competitive Contract With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe, in this economic climate, they're going to waste their efforts to port the application for 0.05% of their installed base? Never going to happen.

    Better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond. Works for games.

  9. Re:The Internet belongs to those who use it. on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 1

    .co.uk anyone?

    What does the .co stand for, anyways?

    You will have to come up with some way to deal with breakups of stuff like the old .ussr or .sov or whatever it was...

    .su, IIRC

  10. Re:Speculation... on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 1

    What about nissan.com? Does the guy with the last name Nissan get the domain because he got it on a first come first served basis (and he has a reason to want to and rightfully own a trademarked name)? Or should someone step in and give the thing to the big multinational corporation, because that would be "fair"?

    apple.com: Apple Computers or Apple Corps?
    mikerowesoft.com: MS or Mike Rowe?

  11. Re:Pavement on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    We skipped Rain this year, unless one day counts as a whole season.

  12. Re:Funny on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    Central America is part of North America.

  13. Re:Funny on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    I could have sworn Canada was the 51st state.

    It would likely be broken up into multiple states. Along the territory borders, at the very least.

  14. Re:Funny on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    ...you peace loving...

    Is that supposed to be an insult? One can prefer peace without being a pacifist.

  15. Re:Funny on Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian, I break it down like so, if you live in the US, you are American. If you live in Canada, you are North American.

    I never hear the term North American as applied to people, just the continent. Here in central California, we always refer to the country. Canadian, Mexican, American. I would be bothered by the use of the term American to refer exclusively to citizens of the US, but AFAIK none of the other North American countries used "America" in their full official name. Mexico is the "United Mexican States", the US is the "United States of America", and I can't find a longer name for Canada on Wikipedia.

    ...if you live in the Mexico region, you are Central American

    I dunno. I've always heard the term in reference to the countries south of Mexico but north of Columbia. Latin America seems indicate all countries south of the US, including Mexico and South America.

  16. Re:Don't plug in your scanner! on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    There is a printer at work that kills all other USB ports on the computer when it's plugged in.

  17. Re:Run Linux much? on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    ...a lot less work than trying to track down unused dependencies after you remove said programs.

    In Synaptic, on the bottom left, click 'Status'. Lingering dependancies are under Installed (local or obsolete)*, and uninstalled packages that you didn't remove the config files (when you used 'Mark for Removal', instead of 'Mark for Complete Removal') are under Not Installed (residual config).

    *Careful, software not installed from a repo (Opera, Skype, libdvdcss2...) will also appear here.

  18. Re:Intelligent Design on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    I don't know of many other denominations that pray to the 'saints' or Mary, or have a pope. There is a wide division between the theology of Catholicism and the theology of Protestant-based denominations.

  19. Re:Brazilian Ethanol [Re:Don't blame me] on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, haven't basically all US market cars for the last decade or more been designed for E85?

    Rebutals from other responders to you post aside, there are still a lot of multi-decade cars on the road. My mom's car is 18 years old, and my brother's is 24.

  20. Re:Intelligent Design on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    In fact, many a forward-thinking creationist has accepted evolution through the belief that evolution was the very mechanism "god" used to "design" man.

    Eh. I categorize that as something in New Age religions. Personally, I consider evolution (Natural Selection/Breeding, not Abiogenesis) as a mechanism to allow Created creatures to cope in ever-changing environments.

  21. Re:And not entirely correct on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    A--B--C--D--E--F--G--A

    Hmm. How likely is a CB--DE pair to breed?

  22. Re:Not Dogism. Just sexual rejection. on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 1

    although a Chihuahua and a mastiff cannot PRACTICALLY breed (big peg, small hole, *cough*)

    What about small peg/big hole?

  23. Re:The secret is to not care on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have got other things to do than worry about a tin-pot emulation project.

    Microsoft is big enough that it can worry about a lot of things at once.

  24. Re:If it is still in development.... on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's a good question, but not quite the right question. What the heck is it doing in _Debian_, which is the codebase for Ubuntu?

    While Ubuntu usually draws from Debian Unstable, that isn't the case with Amarok. Debian Stable, Testing, and Unstable all have Amarok 1.4.10 *. The Experimental repository has 2.0.96. According to the Debian Wiki, Experimental "contains packages and tools which are still being developed, and are still in the alpha testing stage. Users shouldn't be using packages from here, because they can be dangerous and harmful even for the most experienced people."

  25. Re:Simple Solution. on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1

    If the only concern is that it will keep you from having a chance to explain yourself, hide it in a manner similar to what The University Daily Kansan did, and bring it up at the interview.