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  1. Re:No Spin Zone... on Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" · · Score: 1

    Well, you could tag it as such.

  2. Re:Bender vs Apu on SpinVox "Recognition" Is Often Expensive Human Transcription · · Score: 1

    However I find [Indians] in general to be very motivated workers and rather quite intelligent and willing to learn new things. They became the american ideal while we [Americans] have gotten fat lazy and feeling entitled.

    Isn't this stereotyping?

  3. Re:Draconian Laws on Facebook Violates Canadian Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    If you're not a Facebook member and someone "tags" you in a photo, the result is an unsearchable tag. Besides, on what website do you have the privilege of pre-emptively removing photos of yourself? This is not a problem with Facebook: it is a problem with the Internet. Tough luck.

  4. Massachusetts doesn't affect me on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    That's fine if you live in Massachusetts, but most of us don't. Massachusetts' SC rules on Massachusetts' constitution and laws, not California's or Iowa's. Post something when the US Supremes say something about gay marriage and it will be relevant for a whole lot more people.

  5. Re:Obama and Copyright on How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold · · Score: 1

    And you think these lawyers don't know the weaknesses in their own arguments?

  6. Re:FTD is a plague on Usenet on Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA · · Score: 1

    It took you quite a few words just to say that- "Usenet is experiencing an Eternal September (v2) because of FTD."

  7. Re:Is this for real? on The Electronic Police State · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why are you so surprised that one of kdawson's posts don't make sense logically?

  8. Re:Yes, I'm old on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's what real programmers do to make 64 gig of RAM enough for anyone.

    I would really love 64gig of RAM in my PC. Surely you mean 64MB?

  9. Re:Still can't run Crysis! on AMD Overclocks New Phenom II X4 To 7 GHz · · Score: 1

    Well, if it can't run Crysis, then it definitely can't run Vista!

  10. What is a USC Santa Barbara? on Visualizing Data Inside the 30-ft Allosphere · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've heard of a UC Santa Barbara and a USC, but I've never heard of a USC Santa Barbara.

  11. Re:So who gets rationed? on ISP Capping Is Becoming the New DRM · · Score: 1

    Isn't this basically what banks do? Loan out money they don't have and hope that their depositors won't withdraw their money at the same time? (Not that it's right for banks to do that, but just a note.)

  12. Re:Actually more like $650... on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Watching the man in Redmond throw a chair across the office: priceless

  13. Re:Here's the sum total of the knowledge gained... on Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or rather, short sell them.

  14. How Many More "Oops"... on DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War · · Score: 1

    How many more of these mistakes will people tolerate before they turn in disgust from buying a $20+ POS that stops working randomly? I know that if I bought this game (and was foolish enough to install it, DRM and all) and the DRM kicked in like this, my first stop would be to The Pirate Bay.

  15. Re:Define slowing on Google and Friends Release Net Neutrality Measuring Tools · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The ISPs have large areas where they are the only high-speed Internet providers, besides expensive and high-ping satellite connections. You know just as well as I that there's no feasible way to build your own ISP. Caps are only possible because of the ISPs' anti-competitive behavior. What you're saying is, "Hey, DeBeers has a business model of 'managing costs'. They can do what they want. If you don't like it, find another player (never mind that DeBeers controls 90%+ of the market) or make your own diamond mining corporation."

  16. Incentive on Despite Gates' Prediction, Spam Far From a Thing of the Past · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where there is an financial incentive to spam (there are those dumb people that click on the v1@9r@ ads, believe it or not), there will be spam.

  17. It Will Help The Big Three on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Regardless, encouraging sale of old vehicles to scrapyard means that people will buy new cars. A portion of this will go to the domestic manufacturers, who at this point are not as worried about selling more cars than their foreign competitors, but rather just selling more cars.

  18. Re:Is it must me, or is that sum peanuts? on Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right. Compared to the size of the recent bailout, 600k is a drop in the bucket. Even 100x this would still be almost trivial for the government.

  19. Re:Power Savings!! on NVIDIA's 55nm GeForce GTX 285 Launched · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What enthusiast that spends big dollars on the latest cards uses their card for more than a year?

    Most people that rush out to buy these type of cutting-edge hardware replace them every few months or so. The savings realized by power conservation will never cover the difference between the two with the crowd these new cards (indeed, all new cards) are targeted at.

  20. Re:wow on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    Statistically, African Americans are more likely to kill than those of other races. So the ones that don't go around killing people need to police the ones that do? Sounds like suicide.

  21. Re:Well.... on Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Just a computer running Vista, 'tis all.

  22. Sounds like this. on SOE Allows Purchase of In-Game Items In Everquest I, II · · Score: 1
  23. What was I going to post? on The Unforgettable Amnesiac · · Score: 4, Funny

    I forgot.

  24. Re:How will this be funded? on UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework · · Score: 1

    Realistically, we can't ask developing countries to shoulder much of the burden of this cost, if any. However, it is true that the EU (among others, such as Japan and China) should probably also contribute along with the US.

  25. Re:What a tool... on Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict · · Score: 1

    What's an eggshell skull?