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  1. Re:No thanks, last.fm on The Technology Behind Last.fm · · Score: 1

    Last.fm isn't exactly radio the way you describe. You give it a few seeds, not spermatozoa or those things that farmers put in the ground, and it can play related music which you might like but which isn't necessarily "the hottest new music".

  2. Re:You have an ego problem on Do You Hate Being Called an "IT Guy?" · · Score: 1

    If you really care so much about your title, and hate being called an IT guy, you're in the wrong line of work. And the wrong website.

  3. Re:Who/What is Video Professor? on Calling Video Professor a Scam · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please share any direct experiences you have with this outfit.

    Also implying that some of us here don't know how to use a computer; there's no other way we'd have any "experience" with that "outfit."

  4. 21 minutes later... on Apple Newton vs. Apple iPhone · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's been 21 minutes since this article was posted. Where's the next Apple Slashvertisement? I keep refreshing the front page but there are no new stories. /wrists

  5. Non issue on History In Video Games — a Closer Look · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a bloody video game. They have no obligation to you to be historically accurate, it's just a "standard" that we've set amongst ourselves probably out of boredom. Go cry about something else please. If you want accuracy (arguable), then read a history book.

  6. Making up? on Microsoft Research Shows Off Multi-Touch Mouse Prototypes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this to make up for those Microsoft SongSmith adverts?

  7. Re:GRRM on 50 Years of the Twilight Zone · · Score: 1

    I had to do a search to see if you were right about this. Unfortunately, Google was down at the time, so I had to use other search engines. As it turns out, there was something on the Bing... some... thing.

  8. Re:Scoble? Calling hype? Wat? on Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, he just associated 'twitter' with being productive.

  9. Cannot believe... on FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 5, Funny

    The FCC are actually proposing rules that could potentially favor us, the consumers? I've only had 1 moldy sandwich today, so I can't possibly be hallucinating.

  10. Re:oh the headache ... on IPv6 Adoption Will Grow With Smart Grid Adoption, Hopes Cisco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mean we'll have to modify the quote to "There's no place like ::1"?

  11. Re:print? on Google Offering Print Versions of Online Books · · Score: 1

    I printed that web page out, then placed it on my energy-hogging scanner, OCRd it, converted it to PDF and then read it on my Sony Reader - only to realize it was about the Kindle. What a waste.

  12. Re:Hope they put a capacitor in there on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    You do realize why the Borg are so bad at making dimmer switches don't you?
    Resistance is futile.

  13. Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would we need another Bob Dole?

  14. Re:Nelson ------- on Twitter Offline Due To DDoS · · Score: 5, Funny

    The blogosphere is buzzing about this. The amount of crap being spouted related to this incident is now causing blogal warming.

  15. Re:I am clearly missing something on Building the Sports MMO Genre · · Score: 1

    Because the graphics aren't as good.

  16. Re:Yet Another Chapter of Recession Porn on Nintendo, Sony Take Big Financial Hits · · Score: 5, Funny

    A friend of mine who works at Nintendo was fired a few days ago... he was in-console-able.

  17. TFA just did on 11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Europe's highest court held that the 11-word extracts were indeed "reproduction in part" under intellectual property laws. The court described transient acts as being "created and deleted automatically and without human intervention," such as those allowing for database browsing and caching. Such acts must also be incidental, the court said.

    They didn't say it had to be continuous...

  18. Apostrophe Overload on Inside the AP's Plan To Security-Wrap Its News Content · · Score: 1

    Just in case anyone's not interested, that post contains '18' single quotes, possibly a new record. I keep envisioning an imaginary hand lifting to do the quotes gesture everytime I see one of those, and TFP disturbed me quite a lot. I feel that a lot of it could have been said without the excessive single quotes around every other word, especially when it came to p-prefaced, which could have been written as-is. Thank you.

  19. Re:Windows 7 should be 64 Bit on Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook · · Score: 1

    Somewhere out there in the ether is a blog post or a transcript by someone at Microsoft mentioning that Windows 2008 would be the last 32 bit OS. They would then push 64-bit everywhere.

    It didn't happen. Windows 7 is coming out (I don't care if it's Vista Redux, it's another OS) and it's still available in 32-bit. Not want. As for your question, to be completely vague - I'm using Windows 2008 x64 as a primary OS. It sucks that 32-bit will continue to exist, and judging by the reviews already, it's going to be around for a long time. There go any hopes for decent support for x64 on Windows.

  20. Re:Blizzard reaction on Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts · · Score: 1

    Toggle /pvp or join a PVE server.

  21. Re:how ironic... on Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts · · Score: 1

    I've been testing this for some time now. I asked my therapist to roll a Night Elf Druid and meet me outside Orgrimmar.

  22. Re:Um, first observed in 1887 - well before shuttl on Noctilucent Clouds Likely Caused By Shuttle Launches · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. It appears that even TFAuthors don't read TFArticles. (Neither have I)

  23. Re:What happened to Cuil on Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal · · Score: 3, Funny

    They got slashdotted.

  24. Good news for Flickr on Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal · · Score: 1

    This could be good news for Flickr - hopefully they'll get rid of that godawful Yahoo Maps implementation on flickr for geotagging and searching, and use Virtual Earth Maps instead. That's right, I said Virtual Earth Maps, not what it's called currently.

  25. I've got an easier way on Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what is in effect a vast digital petri dish able to hold one million operating systems at once in an effort to study the behavior of botnets

    If they've set up this mini-internet and have set up this botnet, then the easiest way to understand its behavior would be to look at the source code