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  1. zombies on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1

    the zombies are here and they are texting

  2. Re:sounds pretty libelous to me on Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    You quote the article but apparently still haven't read it. I sure hope you won't sue me for saying your comment is stupid.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the submitter plans on not using it, and most likely submitted the story to inform others, should they wish to not use it as well.

    I think the submitter should elaborate on what this "wrong" way of rubbing is. Just to inform other, should they wish to be rubbed in that way.

    I for one welcome our new wrong-rubbing overlords

  4. Re:For Once a Good Use of the Web on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    He was quoted saying: "That's it baby, that's the spot. Just move nice and slow. Getting a bit shy now? Oh, you're such a tease. I like it when you go down like that. Oh baby, are you coming? Yeah you're coming. Almost there... Hold on I'm getting there... Oh there it is!... It's a girl! A cute little girl!"

  5. Good news on AbleGamers Reviews Games From a Disability Standpoint · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know a game for people with a handicap: golfing

    On a serious note: this is good news, gaming/entertainment could get really mature

  6. Re:Nanny cam of sorts on MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The iSight/mic holes in the front panel are hard to see and this could be used as a nanny cam of sorts."

    Make sure you load it with porn that "happens" to appear when you touch any button at all, and send me the tapes.

    There's An App For That

  7. Re:You can't steal *published* data on Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data · · Score: 1

    albums, because everybody wants to buy a bundle of crap songs to get one they like

  8. Re:"100,000 times as much as your computer has" on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1

    If you imagine that the human brain is about 100 times better than a cat brain, your computer equivalent would have millions of processors and xenobytes of memory! ...but would also really suck at math

  9. Re:Release cycles? on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    For me KK is awesome, because I finally have accelerated graphics on my Dell Mini 9. I tried setting it up on jaunty a couple of times before but just assumed that my netbook didn't have the right chipset or enough graphics memory to run compiz. Now my netbook has all the benefits of the Ubuntu installation on my MBP (avant window navigator being one of my favourite things about it, 3D desktop cube and wibbly windows next), and more.

    Same here. On previous versions my Toshiba laptop needed at least 25% of CPU for X alone, everything was stuttering. With the Koala it's all silk and smooth and it looks nice. It's slower in comparison to XP, but I had a lot more trouble getting XP to work right on the laptop. Koala works out of the box, even with the crappy atheros wlan card that never worked on previous versions.

  10. first urls, then slashdot on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    ï höpé thãt slâshðõt wìll dö thís töø wìth ÜRLs!

    www.íçáñn.örg

    ìt wörkéð!

  11. Re:Cannot parse title on Los Angeles Goes Google Apps With Microsoft Cash · · Score: 1

    When has that ever happened?

    Windows 95.

    3 7 95 98 2000

    This scientific method proves that your precious Windows 95 is actually pretty mediocre and Windows 7 is a piece of crap

  12. Re:Microsoft's updated advisory on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    That's still a question

  13. Re:Microsoft's updated advisory on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    The core of the whole thing and what has pissed most people off on both sides is that both MS and Mozilla took action without customer consent, effectively choosing for us. First MS for installing it, then Mozilla for disabling it.

    MS installed it without asking

    Mozilla asked if you wanted to disable it

  14. Re:Havok on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a new record for a Microsoft product. Lesser of two evils? Okay, occasionally. But a lesser of three!? There's hope for them yet!

    Microsoft <3

    you mean like this?

  15. Re:Hmmm on Happiness May Be Catching · · Score: 2, Funny

    monkey C, monkey sudo!

  16. Re:Excellent on TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology · · Score: 1

    There is a growing problem in the UK from truck drivers using domestic GPS units and not units meant for the haulage industry, which are more expensive. The industry specific units avoid small lanes and villages, as well as height clearances, but the domestic ones do not. I shall leave the thought of what occurs up to your imaginations.

    My imagination? Just a parallelized system of autonomic vehicles, with OpenGPS knowing where everybody is, information about your vehicle, OpenLR to know what routes are available for your vehicle, smart distributed anti-congestion technology to avoid traffic jams, and ssh to monitor and control your vehicle...

  17. Re:Interesting, but rather expensive. on Vast Malware Repository Dedicated To R&D · · Score: 1

    i can picture his black hat, but the feather?

  18. Re:I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex. on Will You Stream Or Download Your Mobile Music? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget DRM, that's a sure winner!

  19. Re:Function before form on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

    RMS, 2007

    Why bother with useless junk like browsers?

  20. Re:That is impressive on Opera 10.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    But does it run on Linux?

    It runs on these OSs:

    • Windows
    • Mac OS X
    • Linux x86 64
    • Linux PowerPC
    • Linux i386
    • FreeBSD i386
    • FreeBSD AMD64
    • Solaris Sparc
    • Solaris Intel
    • QNX
    • OS/2
    • BeOS

    You can also see specialized versions for your distro of choice on their site

  21. Re:Maybe the measurements are wrong or incomplete on Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet · · Score: 0

    At a distance of 330 light years from Earth... an error of only a few millions km isn't impossible...
    Perhaps the light got dis

    ...what?

    distorted?
    disrupted?
    disarmed?
    disturbed?
    disambiguated?
    disapointed?
    disassemble?
    distilled?
    dismissed?
    dissed?

    I think you accidentally the whole

  22. Re:What's the Big Deal on US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft · · Score: 0

    "That's theft."

    I'd like a shirt of that...

  23. Re:As non-hardware geek, why would I want this? on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 0

    the ladies will love you for it, if you know what i'm saying...

  24. Re:They're not big. on Google Claims They "Just Aren't That Big" · · Score: 0

    in short:
    google uses open standards for their services, so you can still use the service if you don't use google
    microsoft uses their own protocols, so you cannot go completely without their technology

    Using the google service via a standard protocol isn't abandoning google in any meaningful way.

    Especially because google is a services company that doesn't derive revenue from the actual software any way. If you want to stop feeding google you have to stop using their services. Using their services with different software is meaningless.

    what i meant to add to my google argument is the following:

    if you want to stop with gtalk or gmail BUT still want to chat and mail with your friends, it's possible to do that without any software or protocols by google. you can open another jabber account or other pop3/imap account anywhere and use them to chat or mail your friends...

    my comparison with moving houses: you can live in another house (or basement) and you can still send and receive snailmail, because that protocol is still available (even in remote areas)

    if you use an msn account to chat and you want to move away from microsoft, it's NOT possible to chat with your msn-friends without the use of microsoft-protocols.

  25. Re:They're not big. on Google Claims They "Just Aren't That Big" · · Score: 0

    GTalk uses Jabber, a stardard protocol NOT developed by them, and has a pagee dedicated to other clients that can use Jabber and talk to GTalk users.

    -facepalm-

    Hint: If you are talking to other gtalk users, you are connecting to googles server with your google username and password. How does that constitute 'abandoning google'?

    abandoning your current email address or im name is like moving house or changing phone number... you can leave the google service, get a jabber account from somewhere else and connect to the same friends you had before... you don't need google, and that was the point that the gp was making

    As for GMail, I would say... IMAP! Again, a stardard protocol.

    Sure you access your gmail via IMAP. So what? You lose out on a lot of the nifty gmail features that make people like gmail in the first place. And you again haven't abandoned google if you are still connecting to their services, whether its via IMAP or something else.

    this same applies to gmail and all other email... we now have a standard protocol of sending and receiving email which isn't tied to someones platform or else require you to use someones

    By your logic abandoning microsoft is just as easy. Download linux and setup pidgin with your msn account... and yee haw... no more microsoft. Oh... your on exchange too? No problem, just fire up firefox and connect to exchange's outlook web access. Or you could fool around with imap (exchange supports imap too) or you could fool around with evolution's mapi/rpc support too. But at the end of the day you still haven't meaningfully abandoned microsoft. You still depend on them.

    your examples are poorly chosen because they don't use standard protocols... windows live messenger uses a microsoft made protocol and exchange is a microsoft product

    in short:
    google uses open standards for their services, so you can still use the service if you don't use google
    microsoft uses their own protocols, so you cannot go completely without their technology