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  1. Re:forget police on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    Police don't care about stolen property. Its of little interest to them. Even if you car was stolen the cops will be around in a few hours to do some paperwork that gets thrown into a file cabinet somewhere.

    Now, if you said the laptops contained an once of marijuana then things would go slightly different.

  2. you mean SGI on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SGI and or Cray were using NUMA a decade ago.

  3. Re:Sigh on Pimp My Datacenter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Around the same time we started seeing "wiggers"

  4. hasn't affected piracy? on Corporate Behemoth Keeps Ripping "Real" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Realplayer has not had any effect on piracy because nobody in the right mind uses it. VLC plays pretty much anything you throw at it and for something stubborn theres "Real Alternative"

  5. BitNabber is nice on Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy · · Score: 1

    If you enjoy paying an extra fee for their access. Since Verizon is going to save all that money in bandwidth and disk space, will the savings be reflected to the customers? Probably not. Remember when the feds finally dropped the FUSF tax? Well verizon tried to introduce some new fee with the same price as the old FUSF. Well they got slapped down in a hurry.

  6. oh no an appeal.... on Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK · · Score: -1, Troll

    A powerless standards body and a handful of european countries plan to appeal something against microsoft. Yeah you make that appeal while every windows box ships with Office 07. If microsoft wanted to play hardball they would halt sales and imports of their software to those countries and see how well they do with a free alternative.

  7. Time for google to step up on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They have a payment system and the technical capabilities, time for Google Auctions. Fuck ebay.

  8. More like "Brazil" on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1984 assumes the government is competent and really out to get everyone. In reality its more like the movie Brazil. Everyone mindlessly doing their job without any critical thought. Watching Brazil and comparing it to current events is truly horrifying.

  9. Don't forget on British "X-files" Released to Public · · Score: 4, Informative

    That UFO does not automatically make it alien.

  10. How about? on EA Loosens Spore, Mass Effect DRM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't like their policies or practices then don't fucking buy it. Thats the loudest thing you can say.

  11. its not bastardized on Slackware 12.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Some distros started moving config files around and going more towards GUI programs (redhat). At least with Slackware you can still expect to find stuff in the right places, inetd.conf in /etc. Stuff like that.

  12. Mod parent up! on Open-Source Multitouch Display · · Score: 1

    If you've been to a Bjork show recently you've seen one of those. Check out the reactrix demos on youtube.

  13. Re:Anyone else on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML · · Score: 1

    So far it sounds about as efficient as the UN. Wake me when all the member countries stop bickering and all agree on something.

  14. Anyone else on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML · · Score: 1

    Not really give a shit about OOXML? I mean just reading the wikipedia page makes me sleepy. Countries are actually arguing over this? This has to be last on my list of things that need sorted out.

  15. He was guilty as fuck on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    The jury found him guilty. Gone are the days of no body no conviction trials. Do you know how many dumb wishy washy idiots they stack juries with? For him to be found guilty must have meant he was REALLY guilty.

  16. Good luck with that on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    You do realize the cops are going to do the absolute minimum possible even with video evidence? They will come out, maybe watch your tape and file some papers and thats about it. Don't expect CSI to come out and swab for saliva or prints.

  17. Never used VMS on Spam Is 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Guess you never used VMS apparently...

  18. WGA? on Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Will it need WGA to install?

  19. What? on Psychologists Don't Know Math · · Score: 1

    Hey janitors erm "editors" how about doing some editing and cleaning up that summary?

  20. Gladly on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents · · Score: 1

    They were bought at Home Depot about 6 months ago. Its a GE FLE26HT3/2/D. 26 Watt cool white.

  21. Good, CFLs suck anyhow on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents · · Score: 1

    I honestly tried to like CFL bulbs. My first thought was how they take a full minute to achieve maximum brightness. Unacceptable. My vacuum tube amplifier only takes 10 seconds to heat up. The biggest gripe is the color temperature. you have a choice of sickly yellow and pure LED white. Neither look like sunlight or GE Reveal bulbs. I bought a two pack of "instant on" CFL bulbs for my bathroom and one went bad days later. It would only flicker and never fully light. 8 bucks wasted right there.

  22. thats the reason for the block on Comcast Says FCC Powerless to Stop P2P Blocking · · Score: 1

    to cover their ass because they are not a common carrier.

  23. Re:Don't forget to wear sunglasses. on MIT Student Gets Artistic With LED Art · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but what is the point of using UV leds? Is it not called Ultra Violet because its above the spectrum of visible light?

  24. you fail it! on A New Concept in Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the word "concept" design has been lost on you.

  25. Because on Mozilla Hitting 'Brick Walls' Getting Firefox on Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    companies think that free=no good.