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  1. Re:What the article doesn't specify... on Canadian ISP to Name Music Swappers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget that Quebecor also owns two of the biggest newspapers in the province. Media concentration at its best !

  2. Re:Better performance depends on your metric on Dell Still Intel Only · · Score: 1

    The burden of selecting a stable chipset would be on Dell, not the purchaser.


    And that's what they do... And they chose Intel all the way.
  3. Re:We have ways of making you do things. on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    I for one would not want to be on the end of the help desk phones. "What do you mean you installed SP2?!!? Our company policy specifically prohibits that Service Pack because of incompatibility X"


    I'm not sure how it works where you work but around here, the normal user has no right to install anything, auto-update is disabled and the IT department decides what is installed and what is not installed on the computers. So that announcement is not really a problem.
  4. Re:Aw hell... on Microsoft Offers New Data-Security Scheme · · Score: 1

    Then again windows has no ability (AFAIK) to switch users while still logged in, so that certain tasks can be done with higher privileges.


    In Windows XP, you can use either of two methods to do this. Use the fast user switching to log into another account without logging out of the first one. Or use the right button on any executable file and use the Run As... option to run the program with the priviledges of another user.
  5. Re:"English" on "English" Not Threatened By Webspeak · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is a word for upload, it's : téléversement. I never use it anyway, i think it sounds bad.

  6. Next task on X-prize Award paid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make the thing fly with the trophy in it...

  7. Re:The problem with biometrics on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The real problem is that it's pretty hard to know the real intent of someone breaking in your house. Maybe he's not after your property after all, but it will be too late when you learn it.

  8. Re:or on SGI & NASA Build World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Maybe the curse had the Y2K bug...

  9. Re:This time there really is a turbo button! on SGI & NASA Build World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    He wrote NSA, not NASA.

  10. Re:Can it cut things? on World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric · · Score: 2, Informative

    The AI controlled woman used this kind of monofilament in Book 3 and 4 of Dan Simmon's Hyperion serie.

  11. Re:This is known on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 1

    My point is a browser that runs bad HTML code implies bad programing methods.

    Bad implementation of the standards maybe, but it has nothing to do with the programming methods.

  12. Re:Sign me up... on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 1

    the multi-lingual hookers

    That opens some strange possibilities...

  13. Re:All you need to know .... on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    1 trillion dollars? The author seems to think that's not enough. From the picture, you see that you could couple that super-grid with a high-speed long-distance underground train... i guess that's 1 trillion more

  14. Re:Gee - if only I used MS products.... on Google Launches Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    I wonder why everyone would want to search his browser cache. I always thought the cache was wasted space on my hard drive and i always empty it up as soon as i close my browser in IE, and as often as possible in Firefox.

  15. Re:Laser pointers not a risk to aircraft on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    Haven't read Debt of honor sorry.

    But from reading the description, i guess Executive orders is the follow-up to it since it's start with a 747 crashing on the white-house... So I guess we were both right.

  16. Re:Laser pointers not a risk to aircraft on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's Executive Orders. Not Debt of honor.

  17. Re:Local, eh? on Google Local Launched In Canada · · Score: 1

    Two words for you : Chez Ashton

    But then, you got to live near Quebec city.

  18. Re:Radio Stations Playing the same stuff on Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature · · Score: 2, Funny

    (odds are I'm misspelling it. Oh well, it's like 6AM, and I haven't finished my coffee)

    Is the correct spelling written on the bottom of your cup?