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  1. Our users are the admins of their machines on IT Practice Within Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, that clearly explains why the OS and applications are designed for the end user being an admin. Explains why all the non-admin accounts are such a pain to setup and get working with the permissions you want.

  2. Re:Another idea on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 1

    Now your process will be snatched up by all your competitors because you can't legally protect and you end up with no economic advantage - but you DO have tighter profit margins. Congratulations, you clever communist

    Your logic here is uterly incomprehensible. A Soviet boot factory has no competitors. So which is it? fascist cog or a clever communist?

  3. Re:Mindtrap on 2004 Board Games Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    The events in question occur during the daytime.

  4. Re:Trivial Pursuit on 2004 Board Games Gift Guide · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm from Canada you insensitive clod! The American History category is crappy enough to make us take hours upon end to find one that's easy enough to answer :)

    Most Americans would say the same thing.

  5. Re:WTF is the point? on Review: World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    If monsters aren't being actively attacked, they heal pretty fast. So unless you die at a graveyard, by the time you get back to your corpse the monster(s) will be completely healed.

    Also, the walks from the nearest graveyard are usually pretty long since they are situated at towns and you probably won't be hunting 10 feet away from town. So it is penalty enough to make you want to include a priest in your hunting party.

  6. Re:Plenty of non-MS out-of-box solutions on FIA On3 Networked Multimedia System Reviewed · · Score: 1

    SLIMP does have its own display and i believe a remote as well

  7. Re:Plenty of non-MS out-of-box solutions on FIA On3 Networked Multimedia System Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I apologize for being an idiot with the html. Should've used preview.

  8. Plenty of non-MS out-of-box solutions on FIA On3 Networked Multimedia System Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful
  9. Re:Fishy? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Show me Kerry's lead in Florida's and Ohio's exit polls.

    Just because your news organization showed a Kerry lead in the polls when you were watching doesn't mean it's the final tally.

  10. Re:Why do ABC and CNN website on Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack? · · Score: 1

    CBS was always the last one making the call, repeatedly saying "We think it's important to be right instead of first"

  11. Re:What is so horrible about caddies? on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 1

    By that logic, the little metal disk in the center that is used to grip and spin the disk isn't part of the media. Nor is the housing of a HD, or any of the plastic on a CDR.

    No. It is part of the media. It is not part of the media that has storage cababilities, but it is part of the media. Is an eraser part of the pencil or its own seperate thing? Is the cap part of a pen?

    Stop trolling.

  12. Re:What is so horrible about caddies? on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 1

    When they don't come as part of the CD?

    And when you have 40-50 disks laying around at any given time, and then you randomly burn more?

    Caddies that are not a permanent fixture of the medium are more hassle then they are worth. Have you even used the ancient caddy-required CD-ROMs?

  13. Re:What is so horrible about caddies? on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are lifted, but they spin on the tray when they let go.

    I had a drive that Gateway replaced for free because it had a nick in the tray that was scratching all my CDs to the point of some become unreadable.

  14. Re:What is so horrible about caddies? on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 1

    It was to eliminate having the surface of the disc be spinning on a tray like current drives have.

    And buying a caddy for each disk you own is prohibitively expensive.

  15. Re:What is so horrible about caddies? on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's because the caddie was a part of the media, just like Zip disks.

    When the caddy sits on your desk, and you have to put the media in it in order to insert it into a drive (like early CD-ROMs and DVD-RAM) it becomes much less consumer-friendly.

  16. Re:Just curious about screen sizes (vaguely on-top on Halloween Fun · · Score: 1

    Because so many of the Apple displays are now in wide-screen proportions.

  17. Re:Eh yeah on Would You Drink This Water? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter the source of your water. If there is one little perf in the membrane the batch is contaminated.

    You aren't even supposed to drink from streams and lakes in the High Sierras without a filter because of the various bacteria in the water that are toxic to humans.

    The fact that it uses reverse osmosis already makes it better than what comes out of your tap with all the chlorine and other crap in there.

  18. Re:Curious on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 1

    No, voting irregularities is nothing new and is as old as our election process itself.

    2000 was the first time in recent memory that the margin of "victory" was smaller than the "error" of the voting irregularities.

    It's just like when polls say "such and such is split 49/51 with a 5% margin of error". When your margin of error is larger than then difference in results, the comparison is statstically almost useless.

  19. Re:Ones not made by Microsoft on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    Never took a CS class, probably never will.

    And calling it "Internets", a phrasing common to the language mistakes Bush makes, is not that big of a mistake when you realize how many people thing Google, or their current home page is the extent of the WWW. Trying to turn every forum and topic into a political debate (the original topid had nothing to do with Bush) is as bad as making fun of Gore for "inventing the internet" or Quayle for not being able to spell. It's just childish.

    I'm sick of politics spilling over into absolutely everything at the moment, and you happened to trigger a lashing.

  20. Re:I'm so sick of the lies on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm...that's the exact same thing that lead the US into the Spanish-American war.

    "Remember the Maine! Down with Spain!"

    Hearst Castle (the huge estate built by the newspaper owner that let out that cry) is the most ostentatious home I have ever been in, and I work for an architect to the rich and famous.

  21. Re:Ones not made by Microsoft on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is more than one "internet" you dolt. There is the Internet which is what we are all connecting to, but there are other networks that are just as much internets (versus intranets). For instance, DARPA maintains its own internet seperate from the Internet for the military to use, there are other classified internets as well. IBM maintains a private internet and many big corporations do for their various stores.

    "internets" is a completely valid word and should not be confused with the "Internet". Doing so and harping on it makes you sound like as much of an idiot as GWBush is.

  22. Re:Not just UCSD -- Stanford Too on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    If the university policy predates The Leaonard Law, which it probably does since it is related to their tax status, then only the "enforcement" part would apply.

    And if you read that line carefully, you'd see that if they never subject you to disciplinary sanctions soley on first-amendment reasons, then they are in the clear.

    Besides, 501(c)3 is a Federal tax status. If the CA state law conflicts with the Federal tax code, it's going to go to Federal Court where the law will probably be overturned as unconstitutional in that it limits the rights of private organizations.

  23. Re:too late! on Global Air Pollution, From Above · · Score: 1

    Amsterdam/Rotterdam is the largest seaport in the world.

    The Netherlands and Belgium are basically the valve on the pipeline that is most of Europe's heavy industry.

    Oh, and they mine a lot of natural gas.

  24. Re:Not just UCSD -- Stanford Too on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Being threatened with a judicial panel is one thing, actually facing a judicial panel is quite another.

    And its still not a disciplinary action until said judicial panel trys to administer a punishment. If the judicial panel says "we aren't/can't punish you" then they still haven't violated The Leonard Law.

  25. Re:UC's hypocritical censorship on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Odds are they banned them not because they said "Fuck Trojans" but because they had a UCBerkley trademark on them.

    USC (and probably every other college campus) has similar problems with tshirts (and other merchandise) that uses their logo without paying any royalties (let alone getting permission) from the university.

    Selling the university logo on sports apparel is the #1 funding for aethletic programs.