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  1. Re:I doubt it will work on Microsoft and Yahoo Discussing Search Partnership · · Score: 1

    That is also true of Firefox and IE, with the "Search Bar"
    I have 8 sites I can switch between in that bar right now.

  2. Re:I doubt it will work on Microsoft and Yahoo Discussing Search Partnership · · Score: 1

    "Let me Cuil that for you" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

  3. Re:Very promising! on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    Impressive, though I consider Miles Per Dollar* more important than Miles Per Tank. After all, what is so groundbreaking about a 750 mile range if your car has a 100 gallon tank in the back seat?

    *Not that Telsa wins in this category, if one factors in retail price.

  4. Re:Kinda reminds me of a Chumby on Leaked Pics of CrunchPad Elicit Progress Update · · Score: 1

    (As an aside, does anyone else think this looks like something Rodney McKay should be toting around? :-P)

    If Apple had provided the tablet computers, yeah.
    Although I haven't seen a logo on the tablets, every laptop I've identified has been a Dell.

  5. Re:aesthetics on Robot Body Suit To Be Marketed In Japan · · Score: 1

    looks kinda neat

    All I see is a cheezy generic robot, a DNA double helix, and a heart. And lots of green.

    Maybe I'd see something different If I relented this one time and read the article...

  6. Re:Seems like a lot of work on Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection · · Score: 4, Funny

    my Windows NT 4.0 workstation box running on a Pentium 166Mhz machine would never skip playing an MP3 no matter what I threw at it.

    Try throwing bricks.

  7. Re:This needs to get press. on EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush · · Score: 1

    IF you ignore all the people illegally turned away from the polls because of the over-zealous anti-felon enforcement.

    How can enforcement of the rules be illegal? Unless the rules were unconstitutional...

  8. Re:april fools? on Conficker Downloads Payload · · Score: 1

    And Japan, Mongolia, Taiwan, both Koreas, and the previously mentioned European countries.

  9. Re:april fools on Conficker Downloads Payload · · Score: 1

    Does Spybot even detect conficker? I haven't found any data in this.

  10. Re:One can dream on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $388 Million In Patent Case · · Score: 1

    So the perfect copy protection is hard to break using normal methods, but is still breakable: It shows the breaker had an INTENTION to illegally make copies.

    My DVD backups disagree with you. Now my discs can sit in a dark corner of a cabinet while I use and abuse the duplicates.

  11. Re:XP Sucks, Vista is Better on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    Netbooks are shipping with XP and only XP right now.

    Dell's cheapest netbook ships with Ubuntu ($20 less than the XP version)

  12. Re:XP Sucks, Vista is Better on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    Dell was rather slow to switch from Ubuntu 7.x to the LTS (8.04).

  13. Re: Is XP a cash cow? on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    "How many computers is this product installed on?"

    Uhh...
    2.5 * $vista_market_share
    ;-)

  14. Re:not really 350$... on DIY Multi-Touch Tabletop "Surface PC" · · Score: 1

    PC price can be quite variable, from my low-to-mid range $350 whitebox, to a everything-but-the-kitchen-sink Mac Pro (~$30,000). I wouldn't want to put a hard number on that, either.

  15. Re:$350 huh? on DIY Multi-Touch Tabletop "Surface PC" · · Score: 1

    Wow. When I saw the $2 I thought it would be fingerpaint and paper.

  16. Re:Are we TRYING to destroy the Union? on US Gov. Releases Six Pages On Secret ACTA Pact · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the taxes they were objecting to so much as the fact they had no say in the matter. Taxation without representation. Now, ostensibly, we do have representation.

  17. Re:Are we TRYING to destroy the Union? on US Gov. Releases Six Pages On Secret ACTA Pact · · Score: 1

    So the money they take out of your paycheck to house our standing army is a voluntary contribution then? :)

    I get the impression that Britain's army was a standing one. Paid by the king. Where did the king get his money from?

  18. Re:The inevitable result... on Scientists Begin Mapping the Brain · · Score: 1

    Worked for the Asgard.

  19. Re:without interruption of its primary function... on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 1

    You can patent various technologies integrated into vehicles, but you can't patent "car".

  20. Re:Filtering on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Good Game, "old media", it was mediocre... on 97 of Top 100 Classified Sites Are Craigslist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
    —Antoine de St. Exupery

  22. Re:Test on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    Perfect! Thanks!

  23. Re:Test on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu has it too, but it's no key combo.

  24. Re:Test on Achievements and Optimizations · · Score: 1

    Or in my case, cut-n-paste them literally. I know that in Windows you can hold down Alt and type the proper number code into the keypad to get a Unicode character. How can I do that in Linux?

  25. Re:Not that it matters ... on Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    It is, but in the way a toddler does it: using the water already in the tub.