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  1. Re:No Name Change? on Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release Candidates Out · · Score: 1

    Oh, you can just install Firesomething and you can have different name every single time you start the browser.

  2. Re:The actual question on Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release Candidates Out · · Score: 1

    Mine is currently Gundam Watermonkey. firesomething of course.

  3. Re:It's this kinda shit that pisses me off on Text Messages in the Courts · · Score: 4, Insightful
    He claimed the sex is consential. She claimed otherwise. If the text message to her ex-boyfriend reads:
    You'll never believe who I just screwed. Kobe Bryant is going to pay through his nose.
    Will that change your mind?
  4. I cannot see how that's going to fly on What Might Have Been: Microsoft Almost Bought SAP · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with the German anti-trust law, which are a wee bit more strigent than the US anti-trust law.

  5. Re:And to celebrate on A New Look For Firefox · · Score: 1

    Yet another part of my daily entertainment is to see what combination firesomething will throw up. I'm currently typing this from Gundam Webyak...

  6. Re:Examples of some sneakier popup methods on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: 1
    In my case, I enable javascript, but in my user.js, I turn off:

    Move or resize existing windows

    Raise or lower windows

    Hide the status bar

    change status bar text

  7. Re:The wonderful program that is Proxomitron. on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Simple. I use the same laptop between home and work. The Proxomitron serves as a simple proxy switcher that changes settings for both of my browser at once, though I don't use IE unless I'm required to.

  8. All Your Code Are Belong to Us on Ken Brown Responds to His Critics · · Score: 1

    Not if Ken Brown subscribes to SCOX/Caldera's legal theory of All Your Code Are Belong to Us. If Linus even heard of the word Minix, and then writes Linux, he's guilty of ripping off Minix.

  9. Re:This won't happen. on Japanese Anime Industry In Danger Of Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    Voices of A Distant Star was made in about 8 months. His current project (well funded for a change) should be much longer.

  10. Re:Does anybody else find ESR's writing style odd? on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: 1, Troll

    In Blogsphere, it's known as Fisking in honor of Rober Fisk, a clueless moonbat. Google fisking and find out why.

  11. Where is the Open Source Virus? on First IA64 Windows Virus Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting for the fabled Open Source Cross Platform Virus that can be deliever to all mail system. Sure it require the recipient to uncompress and compile the virus, but it can hit ALL platforms.

  12. Pentagon contingency plan on Pentagon Climate Change Author Interviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pentagon has contingency plan for every possible scenerio, upto and including alien invasion and divine intervention. It is their job to be ready for everything.

  13. Re:Multiply WHAT? on More From Tanenbaum · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ken Brown claimed that Tanenbaum's publisher lost about 500 books of sale per year due to the advent of Linux. And at $100 a pop, that comes to $1,000,000 (Ken Brown's figure)...

    Well, given that the number isn't exactly right (the book don't cost $100), here is the calculation:

    $100 x 500 x 14 (years) = $700,000. Lets round up that number.

  14. Will it be THX certified on THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the important question.

  15. Re:I can't help feeling... on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    MS cannot buy SCO. Not if they don't want any additional attention on their violation of consent decree.

  16. Re:Not good enough on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    I want my mobile suit. I want to be able to shoot target from orbits. I want a mobile suit capable of both re-entry and orbital escape velocity.

  17. Re:Privacy Concerns on Legoland Introduces Wi-Fi Tracking for Kids · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of dead spots of cell coverage in any amusement park. Besides, it can get kind of noisy to talk with all of the background noise.

  18. Re:Ok, look here on More on AT&T Wireless's Bungled System Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The WCDMA intergeration was a lot more headache inducing for the GSM operate than you let on. While they upgrade from the old GSM->WCDMA, they essentially have to operate two sets of spectrum, since GSM's carrier technology is essentially incompatable with CDMA technology. Long story short, European telco company spend billions buying new spectrum at the height of tech bubble, and didn't get WCDMA working until well after the bust.

  19. Re:Dear God: THANK YOU! on Real 'Akira' Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    None of the Gundam uses Plutonium.

    The mobile suit of Universal Century uses reactor that utilized He3 and H2, albeit with a hand-waving physic.

  20. Re:Visual design on Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    Same deal. I revert back to a previous ghost image build, and the situtation seemed to have stabalized.

  21. Re:eek on China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout · · Score: 1

    Except in CCP's China, they'll execute you for peeing on the lawn.

  22. Re:Reality check time on SCO Aims For The Feds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Darl McBride is well on his to fullfill Londo Mollari's assessment of Emperor Cartagia: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiot would fight a war on twelve fronts.

  23. Re:This part is not unusual. on Baystar Confirms Microsoft Behind SCO Investment · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is nothing new, odd, illegal, unethical or strange either. It is a common business practice of publicly traded firms

    Not when they're a couple of quarters away from insolvency. Stock buyback usually occurs when a company with low stock price have too much money on hand and no viable avanue of investement available.

    SCO qualified 2 out of 3 catagory, but they most definately do not have too much cash on hand.
  24. Re:Re-relase Totoro Please!!! on The Future of Ghibli US Releases · · Score: 1

    Jo Hisaishi was never very happy with how the score of Laputa turns out. He went through his electronic music period at the time, and that movie was used as an experiments. He was more than happy to rescore and reorchestrate the soundtrack for the R1 English dub release.

  25. Rojin Z anyone? on Robotic Bubble Baths for Japan's Elderly · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that many geeks in this forum have seen Katsuhiro Otomo's satirical masterpiece Rojin Z where an elderly man was the somewhat unwilling test subject of one of these self-contained nuclear powered nursing robot. Much property destroy...