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  1. Re:Speedbump? on Microsoft Hit With 280m Euro Fine · · Score: 1

    Hell, from the way some people drive those monsters, you'd think a bug hitting the windshield would cause an earth shattering explosion.

  2. Re:ACID passed, real world? on Opera 9.0 Fully Passes ACID2 Test · · Score: 1

    My Treo 650 can use the Exchange 2003 web interface. It's not perfect, but I can read and respond to email, check appointments and contacts, and manage the todo list from it.

  3. Re:Have build several... on Build a Homemade Media Center PC · · Score: 1

    The damn Asus motherboard has 7.1 output on the board itself. It's honestly not something that needs to get upgraded.

  4. Re:do it yourself... on Build a Homemade Media Center PC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any good tuner is going to have MPEG2 encoding support in hardware, so that's not too big a hit on the processor or memory. If you want to transcode live or something then you might need more horsepower, but MythTV can be configured to wait until there's not that much load on the system to do transcoding jobs or commercial removal jobs.

  5. Re:You can buy it... on Build a Homemade Media Center PC · · Score: 1

    A lot of sires will sell you an OEM copy if you buy something like a motherboard and cpu in the same purchase, just because they assume that you are building a new computer with them.

  6. Re:No Sir on A Conversation with Alan Lightman · · Score: 1
    scientists like these that say the Sun may be just as, if not more responsible for, Global Warming, if it exists, than CO2 emissions
    This does not matter. In fact, global warming is a problem, and whether or not we can control the largest source of the problem is immaterial. CO2 and ozone pollution via burning fossil fuels is a significant source of global warming, and coincidentally, it is something that we can control. So, let's control that, sun be damned.

    I had a professor in college that didn't give any A marks as a rule, and mapped grades to a curve, pretty unfair. But I didn't say, "hell, he's not going to give me an A, so I'm not going to do anything towards the goal that I can do", e.g., study lots and make a B. No, I studied and made the highest grade in the class, and got my B. Studying and learning was something that I was in control of, and I did it, in order to solve that problem. Waving hands in front of prof and making threats to get the administration involved were not going to solve the problem, and so I left them alone.

  7. Re:Bankrupcy? on Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine · · Score: 1

    The law is not quite that blunt now. Debtors now must go through counseling with an accredited counseling agency and attempt to repay the debts on a program that the creditors, debtors, and agency agree on. If the debtor is still not able to repay the debts, then bankruptcy may be filed. That's glossing over some details, surely, but it's not as cut and dry as "now the law is exactly backwards as before".

    --xantho

  8. Re:Every Story has a Moral on Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity · · Score: 1

    cause they're fucking boring!

  9. Re:Grammar alert! on MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman · · Score: 1
    .. Because this group was comprised of conspiracy theorists, and

    It's either "composed of" or "comprised", but not "comprised of". But who's counting?

    :P

    --Xantho

  10. Re:Cheers! on KaZaA Collapses · · Score: 1

    Gnucleus does. I have 1.7.7.0.

    --Xantho

  11. Re:voice recognition on Alphanumeric Phone Keypad - Fastap · · Score: 1

    "Domino's Pizza, this is Julian. Our special today is California Pizza..."

  12. Re:Alternative to a lawyer on Worst Buy · · Score: 1

    Like Clark Howard. That guy's on the ball. He'd have a field day with this.

    --Xantho

  13. Re:So? on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    Not only that, if you don't have the opportunity to talk to a professor or TA, the student's bitch so much on the newsgroups that they usually extend the deadline, or otherwise go out of their way to make the situation more equitable. For example, in CS1312 two semesters ago, the first exam was written about ten minutes too long, and once they realized that the last couple of problems were so infrequently attempted, they applied the first curve in the history of the course. So put that in your pipe and smoke it. (not you, Gary Yngve, all the other people)

    --Xantho

  14. Re:Oh please on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph!

  15. Re:Ok this is retarded on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1
    I will never go there.


    You may not have that choice, my friend.

    --Xantho
  16. it must be a benevolent donation, then... on CIPA Trial Comes to a Close · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Even if you assume that libraries have a right to provide unfettered access to the Internet, they don't have a right to do so with a federal subsidy," she added. "The crux of this matter is whether or not Congress has the power to decide how to use its money."


    Wait, whose money? Perhaps I have the wrong idea about government, but every other quote I've seen like this one at least calls it the taxpayer's money. Or maybe I've had my head in the sand for a while.

  17. Re:Get the terms right on Review of pressplay and RealOne · · Score: 1

    He also sold all the cds and kept the mp3s. Now, when someone buys the cds, who has the right to listen to the music? Certainly not both of them.

    --Xantho

  18. Re:Freedom of Speech is an absolute. on Raisethefist.com Update · · Score: 1

    In an otherwise ideal world, where it takes more than the number to make a transaction, that would be acceptable. After all, if a highschooler tries to buy beer by telling the clerk, "Yeah, I'm 24", the transaction usually does not take place.

  19. Re:Freedom of Speech is an absolute. on Raisethefist.com Update · · Score: 1

    I believe the intent of the statement "Freedom of Speech is an absolute" was not an attempt to define our current state. Perhaps an apt translation would be "if your freedom [of speech] isn't absolute, than it's not good enough." Good troll, though.

  20. Re:You're missing the critical point. on Raisethefist.com Update · · Score: 1
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    Hey, take your pick. I know what side I'm on.

  21. Re:Human Rights on Surveillance in Washington DC And At Bookstores · · Score: 1

    If you really want to be safe, why don't we bind all people so that they can't move? I mean, in the interest of security and safety, of course... pretty hard to be a terrorist when you can't move, right?

  22. Re:Think the RIAA has it tough... on BT Pushing Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 1
    Neither am I, check her out...

    Aren't I a stud?

    Note: this is a joke...

  23. Re:This has nothing to do with the web on Vermont Goes Opt-In, Corps Unhappy · · Score: 1

    And then if you fall and injure yourself because of a big water puddle in the middle of an aisle, they'll threaten to bring up your beer buying preferences in court to scare you out of suing. Kroger can suck it, I say.

    --xantho

  24. Re:This is all fine if you are the OWNER on NY AG Sues Network Associates Over License Terms · · Score: 1

    If I only had a dollar for each post I've seen today that started with "you are wrong" or "you idiot, you're wrong" or some other combination of "you" and "wrong" within the first ten words, like "pardon me, chap, but you're an imbecile, and you're wrong".

    --xantho

  25. Re:Every government.... on Campaign for Free Software in the Bundestag · · Score: 1

    Tex? Postscript? Both of those seem pretty good, and they're supported on windows, mac, and unix. Plus, I love the academic paper look of the font and layout.