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  1. Re:Is this a great idea with banking? on Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3 · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry about bypassing artificial restrictions like this for the sake of accessibility. This sort of strategy is going to blow up in these company's faces when a blind user gets upset enough about being forced to use IE over their preferred browser. These are the sort of poor CYA decisions made by management: Since we can't thoroughly test our site on all browsers we'll lock out all but the one we want to support to minimize our hassles.

  2. Re:Remote images? on User Not Found, Email Drops Silently · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you run all your porn through an ASCII filter so you can still live in the good old days. Nobody likes the gratuitous use of HTML to make busy, difficult to read e-mails but there is value in a limited amount of formatting to provide a more natural reading experience than plain text.

  3. Re:Similar to R2D2? on Conference Robot Connects Offices in Different Countries · · Score: 1

    It looks more like Robocop 2.

  4. Explains Jason Jr. on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    This explains why they developed the Jason Jr. robot which they didn't really need for a purely civilian mission to find the Titanic.

  5. Re:Black and White Ice on Phoenix Mars Lander Deploys Robotic Arm, Possibly Finds Ice · · Score: 1

    Your attitute is what's killing America.

  6. Re:Patented A href? on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 1

    I read Slashdot on a teletype you insensitive clod.

  7. Re:Two systems? on Space Station Toilets Poop Out · · Score: 1

    More specifically, the urine is used as a coolant for various equipment in the station.

  8. Re:i recently saw "the hidden fortress" on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    George Lucas has a commentary track on the Hidden Fortress DVD. He basically explains everything he lifted from that film for Star Wars. It's worth listening to straight from the horse's mouth.

  9. Re:Whats the difference? on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    There are more than two branches of Christianity. The Copts, Assyrians, Nestorians, Eastern rite, and others all have significant differences in their interpretation of Christian doctrine. There is much more variance within Christianity than what is experienced by those living in the Western bubble.

  10. Re:Wow on VBA Will Return To Mac Office · · Score: 1

    The Windows API has already been ported to *nix environments in the form of Mainwin. It isn't a big stretch to adapt it to OSX.

  11. Re:Inevitably.. on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Preach it brother. The Nestorian's and the Copts are the only real Christians in the world. All the infidel imposters will burn in hell for eternity for their willful defiance of God's teaching.

  12. Datastorm 2.0 on DataStorm V1.0, a Full-Auto Floppy Disk Cannon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't lose hope. I'm sure you can find a way to amuse your wife with the second revision.

  13. Will Forte is a natural fit on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 1

    He's been auditioning for the role for some time on http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8433640887694062971&q=macgruber+snl&ei=2UMeSJrVIorQ4gL-h6TFAQ&hl=en>SNL.

  14. Bully 2 on Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think for Bully 2 they need to have a hot coffee mode where a young Zelnick beats up on a young JT. That would be sweet justice.

  15. Yes Virginia on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Yes Virginia. The world really is run amok by idiots. We have an SI standard for this nomenclature now. No matter what idiot lawayers want to argue they can't deny the fact that GB is defined for base-10 usage and GiB is base-2. It isn't that difficult to get a grip on by anyone except the hordes of innumerate Americans. The days of being able to lazily apply base-2 counting because "it's only off by 1024KB or 1024MB" are long gone when the difference can be hundreds of MB nowadays. It's unfortunate that the storage industry is being punished for doing the right thing and properly declaring capacities in conventional units in accordance to international standards which the US has ratified as the official means for measurement.

  16. Re:yes, but with conditions on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    This was actually lifted from a SNL commercial.

  17. Re:Two models on Negroponte Says Windows 'Runs Well' On XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    The XO doesn't need more processing power. There is plenty of power in the current incarnation. It's sad that a 386 running Windows 3.1 or a classic Palm Pilot can run circles around Sugar on the XO in terms of responsiveness. It's sad that today's programmers don't have the chops to code efficiently. They just throw together a crufty, heavyweight OOP framework and wait for their crappy implementations to be deployed on faster hardware to cover up their design mistakes. The core of Windows is heavily optimized with some of it in assembly. This is what makes it run so well on limited hardware. Sugar is too heavily burdened with inefficient components like Gecko that wastes a lot of cycles churning through XUL. Factor that stuff out and the XO will be the slick, responsive machine it should have been from the get go.

  18. Re:I Wonder on Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border · · Score: 1

    Just boot into a *nix command line. The TSA drones won't know what to do with that. However, they may mistake this as something only a terrorist would do and move you over to the cavity search line.

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

    So for those of us who opted out of installing WGA will we be able to make use of SP3 without installing unnecessary trojans from MS?

  20. How Microsoft corrupts the world... on The Inside Story on Norway's Yes to OOXML · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...SegFaultLikeWord95DoesIt

    In this case, a meatspace seg fault. The MCP is getting more powerful. We need a heroic Program to save us all.

  21. Retarded CEOs on EBay Mulling Skype Sale · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's get this straight. You have a thriving subsidiary with strong growth but it isn't sufficiently enmeshed with your core business to make you happy as the CEO or eBay. Your options are to:

    1) Keep the business unit and enjoy sleeping in even larger piles of Franklins
    2) Sell it off to hide some nasty financials in the core business with some Jedi accounting tricks
    3) Hand the reins over to CowboyNeal and let him run the show

    It seems to me like this guy is looking to bail out on eBay in the next couple of years and wants to have a successful divestiture to feather his cap. This is typical of the sort of short sighted bullshit that publicly traded American companies go through nowadays because the overpaid people running them don't care about anything other than their own career track.

  22. Re:I had a 20MB SSD from 1996 on Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Sandisk was also making IDE flash drives even earlier when they were still Sundisk.

  23. Tonight we're gonna party... on OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...DoinItLikeWord95DoesIt.

  24. Brittney on Mainstream Media Finally Catching On To How News Propagates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somehow news of Brittney's latest pecadillo always manages to find me despite my struggle to be ignorant of her existence. I don't even have to use her full name for you to know who I'm talking about. With mainstream media there is still the problem that they play to the lowest common denominator of consumers. The type who buy Star magazine.

  25. Re:3 questions... on ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does · · Score: 1

    That's right. In this post-Columbine world we can't afford *not* to have OOXML rammed down our gullets, taking it like a porn star.