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  1. Re:Not like it's going to make a difference on Craigslist Kills Erotic Services Ads, Will Launch Adult Section · · Score: 1

    Of course *in theory* the government is the tax payer. Although I do agree that its absurd to be spending money to fight something where the fighting only makes the crime more un-regulated.

    While with drugs I believe in taxing it and regulating it, regulation on this would be just weird. Registering Prostitutes? Of course this is the government.

  2. Re:Cult #1 on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only difference between a cult and religion is one has political power. And that's why Apple is also a religion as it has commercials.

  3. Re:Pretty absurd Apple is absent on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1

    Yeah I find it very strange that they would go and focus on mostly older tech relics. Why not include a gaming console?

    Name: XBox
    Established: 2001
    Gathering of the Tribe: E3, Xbox Live
    Major Deity: Master Chief
    Sacred Relic: Halo 3 Discs
    The Antichrist: Red Ring of Death

  4. Re:meh on "Good Enough" Computers Are the Future · · Score: 1
    And thus the race between software developers and hardware manufacturers continues. As long as both sides continue to beef up their gear, both sides need to continue treadmilling. So until both Hardware and Software change will we reach "Good Enough".

    Thus we need the OS to stop doubling its requirements every 4 years and to get flash off the internet and then maybe Netbooks can stabilize away from their current feature creep (EEE 1000H).

  5. XKCD is Oblig on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 1

    Ballmer Peak
    So it would be consistent with Microsoft depending on what year were talking.

  6. Re:I've seen the future of Search, and it's name i on Microsoft and Yahoo Discussing Search Partnership · · Score: 1
    Sorry but I want to find out about the use of dry erase markers on laminated material.

    Google Returned a semi useful article that I could actually gleam some info from.

    Twitter on the other hand returned no results. Even after simplifying my terms to "drawing on laminated material" I still didn't find anything. Twitter is just another fad for the hive minders.

    PS: Does anyone know of what type of material I can use dry erase markers on? I was looking at laminate and foam board as the white boards are too heavy for my purposes.

  7. Re:Goo? on Stardock, Microsoft Unveil Their Own New Anti-Piracy Methods · · Score: 1
    GOO and CUM. DUke NuKUM Forever is being released! Hooray!

    Sorry I didn't know whether anyone else had made the syllable connection...

  8. Re:First questions first on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    How is this informative? I mean if you've never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail then I guess... you've been warned.

  9. Re:just silly on Microsoft Sued Over Vista-To-XP Downgrade Fees · · Score: 1
    However she is not being 'forced' to buy this year's model. It's that the dealership is forcing her to pay a premium to buy an older model (aren't car analogy's fun?).

    Of course it is very difficult to find a clean install or a non-premium xp install. But that goes more into the whole "You have to sell the OS we want you to" thing, which DOES need to be investigated.

  10. Re:Wait a pain... on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 1
    I also had personal experience with this specific malware. It was on a computer I had even put Avast! on and when I went to troubleshoot it lo and behold avast was gone. However the stupid thing seemed to come of easily as I just killed the process (which was "restarting" the comp for having a unlicensed version every couple minutes) and then deleted the auto start entry. After that it was just a matter of deleting as many files as possible and running a ccleaner scan.

    Of course it doesn't matter since I suspect the user of taking avast! off the computer and they wouldn't understand safe computing practices.

  11. Re:Depends on the options on Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids · · Score: 1

    I agree that it will have to be a complimentary option rather than the one choice. I could just use Open Office and then pack it into MSFT Office to put the finishing touches on it with all their *wonderful* features.

  12. Not OpenArena on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Open Arena would not be my pick of Quake 3 fork. For one this is going to kids and the game even tells you on the homepage that it is more of an adults only game. Warsow on the other hand is not very gory and uses some very nice graphics. I think its a bit more intensive than Open Arena but it wont illicit unwanted legal attention.

  13. Re:C# is the best alternative... on Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    I was looking into C# but after coding in VB (yeah that's what my HS taught) I had learned that Microsoft documentation is large and confusing. The school had been using VB 6 and going to VB 2005 had me constantly looking up how to do things. This meant I spent 20 min in MSDN every time something broke (a lot). Python however has the best tutorial I have ever seen to come with a compiler and as long as you can get over the no Screencast advantage that MSFT has then Python is beautiful.
    With their experience Syntactical whitespace is as strange as Java's Semi-Colons. (And don't get me started with String [] args)

  14. Yeah lets go with Yahoo... on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Of course they are doing this because Google is the biggest and now they're adding more HD content to Youtube so users can use a higher % of their PAID bandwidth but still. Google is one of the cleanest sites out there. If everyone got their content from a site that had flash adverts everywhere and an ungodly amount of pictures then we would have a serious problem from wasted bandwidth.

    I'm sure Google pays to connect to the Backbone and I pay to connect to the backbone. Why should Google pay to allow me to pay to connect to the Google section of the Backbone (wow that was confusing).

  15. Re:I can see why people would be skeptical on Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 · · Score: 1

    My friend also purchased the game. He even sprung for the "Galactic Edition". He was completely caught up with the marketing hype (he owns a mac see:Mac Lover). I kept telling him I didn't believe it would achieve its potential but was secretly looking forward to it (almost pirated but my computer just sucks). In the end he played it for at most 2 weeks before reverting back to a WoW addict. My playtesting of it only proved to me that the game starts out strong (Cell Phase) and just detiorates from their into a childs version of the history of life. Really dissapointed in how much they screwed up such an ambitious project.

  16. Re:Well, One Thing is for Sure .... on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    Wow that's a really good point or Blizzard could mark it up as a win against Gold farming. Of course it's not South Korea so I doubt Blizzard is THAT worried. (Although a billion people is nothing to sneeze at in target market).

  17. OS/2 on MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU · · Score: 1

    Yeah Microsoft's going to start working with IBM again! Oh wait... This should refresh some memories Seriously Engadget got the Irony before /. whats wrong here?