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  1. The Real Answer on The 23 Toughest Math Questions · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's over 9000!

  2. Required... on Researchers Identify Wi-Fi Dead Zones Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Spelling Nazism

    Obligatory*

  3. Rocks and __ on World's Oldest Rocks Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now all we have to find is the world's oldest hard places.

  4. Added an entry for you on Remembering 50 Years of (and Leading Up To) the Internet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    APR 1973: Al Gore invents Internet

    Al Gore, with the aid of certain unimportant organizations like DARPA and certain unimportant people, invented the TCP/IP standard. He is also credited with invention of email, instant messaging, IRC chatrooms, Usenet, the Gopher browser, the World Wide Web, search engines, and web 2.0.

  5. Um they missed something important.... on Remembering 50 Years of (and Leading Up To) the Internet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    4chan

  6. Think about the poor companies! on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    The tech companies not making enough money. Poor, poor Apple with its money problems.

  7. Zoobuh on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you have the passwords to their email accounts, you can monitor what they do, and that's completely free, obviously. But if you want to filter incoming messages, a quick Google search turns up Zoobuh, and there didn't seem to be negative feedback about it when I tried another Google search. The website says it costs $1/month/child.

  8. Too bad that... on MySpace Digital Music Service Is DRM-Free · · Score: 1

    .. Myspace only tracks everything you do on their site and use it to target advertisements.

  9. Re:Charge her $24 on RIAA Loses $222K Verdict · · Score: 1

    Legally, statutory damages for copyright infringement (see here for more information) can be a lot more than the actual cost of theft. The original reason was that pirate businesses (the target of this legislation) could hide the number of copies that they made. The effect is a deterrent effect on all copyright infringers, but only if the legislation has teeth. With this trial, the RIAA intended to show the financial consequences of file sharing. That is more valuable than if they received the $222k, which I doubt the woman can pay anyways. They don't want it to be over with.

    That being said, the RIAA may win this battle (by means of the retrial), but it will ultimately lose the war because it is sticking to its antiquated business model.

  10. The real problem on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The real problem is that many Americans don't usually educate themselves about the issues, but rely on misinformation. You would be surprised at how many Americans still think Republicans are in control of Congress, or where Iraq is (even after all these years), or even that Obama is a Muslim.

    Also, the other thing is that people tend to make opinions based on emotion, and then use facts to back these opinions up, not the other way around.

  11. Why don't they just... on Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name · · Score: 1

    ... redirect their link to somewhere to make that link not work?

  12. Hey I got an error trying to access TFA on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. ___ Please try the following: If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. Open the asdf.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Click the Back button to try another link. Click Search to look for information on the Internet. HTTP 404 - File not found Internet Explorer

  13. Re:Your site is padded with ads. Continue? on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    It's just inconvenient to click through, but all the ad content is blocked, for those of you that are smart enough to do so...

  14. Re:UAC on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    Copying files? Hm...

  15. Re:Great! on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    If I do half the homework assignments* (sorry, clarification), then I get 50% for the part I didn't do, and perfects on the assignments I did do (assuming I get credit for doing them, not having to get them correct necessarily).

  16. Great! on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    Well, it would be if I lived in Pittsburgh. Even if I only do half of my homework, I get 75% credit! And tests? If I don't feel like taking it that day, I won't! It won't make that big of a dent anyways.

  17. Microsoft figured that... on Ensemble Studios' Canceled Project Was Halo MMO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We didn't need another WoW clone. They're right.

  18. And we thought the ISPs were bad enough already. on Google Pushes Back Against US Copyright Treaty · · Score: 2

    A leaked draft of the deal showed that the treaty could force Internet service providers to cooperate with copyright holders.

    We don't need another RIAA or MPAA.

  19. Confused on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    And we ask why Vista bothers people with UAC.

  20. Can we have some specifics? on New Speed Record For Magnetic Memory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How fast is "as fast as permitted according to the fundamental laws of physics' limit"?

  21. I have a question on The Mobile Internet You'll Be Using In 10 Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did Al Gore invent this?

  22. Good luck... on Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube · · Score: 1

    ... blocking all the proxies and other video sites. Do they realize videos can be cross-posted to different sites, not just YouTube?

  23. Don't they realize that... on Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... to a certain extent, anything that's not free (free as in beer) and has utility will become free to certain users?

    Enlightenment

    Of course, then the commercial vendors will turn to DRM. Then the freely obtained product will become superior to the one obtained by buying it from the vendor. With the vendors focused on the loss of sales, FOSS will continue to innovate.

    Good luck, even with that "embrace, extend, extinguish" in effect.

  24. Links on T-Mobile May Offer Free Gmail Data Access On G1 Phone · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Source

    Your email message should look like this:

    TO: www4mail@kabissa.org
    CC:
    BCC:
    SUBJECT:

    GET http://ictupdate.cta.int/


    Simply replace http://ictupdate.cta.int/ with the address of the web page you want to read.

    Web-to-email servers

    The email addresses of the most popular web-to-email servers are listed below.

    www4mail@kabissa.org
    www4mail@access.bellanet.org
    www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it
    www4mail@unganisha.idrc.ca
    text@PageGetter.com
    page@grabpage.org
    www@web2mail.com

  25. Is it really that much of a risk? on T-Mobile May Offer Free Gmail Data Access On G1 Phone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to Fortune, such a plan would not come without risks to T-Mobile. T-Mobile currently charges for data access, and data access fees have been becoming an increasingly large part of T-Mobileâ(TM)s quarterly revenues.

    How much of the cut would they get for the advertising? I suspect that they might be better off overall by the attraction of providing a free service and also getting revenue to cover at least part of the costs.

    Good luck competing against the iPhone though... the world is held in awe by Steve Job's line of shiny products, never mind the monopolistic policy of banning apps that "compete" with its own services.