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  1. They'll need more than search on Yet More Google Gazing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much of your time do you spend searching anyway?

  2. Re:Yahoo silent player on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    dude, how many adblockers do you need to be developed before you figure out how to use one?

  3. Re:Agreed, no right to airline travel on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1
    Except that the airlines are monopolies.

    ???????????????

  4. Agreed, there is no case here on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    The government is in no way required to provide you with the "right" to travel on a commercial airliner on your terms. Its amazing I had to come this far down in the comments to find this....this case won't last ten minutes.

  5. Agreed, no right to airline travel on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1
    This is an open-and-shut case. You have a constitutional right to anonymous travel, but you do not have a constitutional right to fly on a commercial airliner.

    The duration of this case will be measured in minutes.

  6. Mono has come very far in a short period of time on Mono's Cocoa# Underway, GTK# Takes on Windows.Forms · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Congrats to the Mono crew - from announcement to 1.0, they have covered a lot of ground in a short period of time and if they are perceived to be encumbered by patent issues (note I say perceived), they are not encumbered by bad-source-practices that is still keeping Java locked out of some domains.

    You can use real apps right now with Gtk# - the Muine music player and the Blam RSS reader are functional and mostly stable...there are many other examples.

  7. Yahoo already owned some of Google on Google and Yahoo Settle Overture Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yahoo was an early funder of Google and alreay had I think 2% of the company. This number may be off but Yahoo did have ownership before this settlement.

    Things get worse and worse everyday for Google, and to think they had months when the hype was absolutely unreal, yet they failed to capitalize. To quote Richard Russell, the guru market timer: "Google may know the web, but they know nothing about markets".

  8. No, economics is not a science on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 1

    A science is a field that is pursued using the scientific method, not just something that "uses math".

  9. Agreed, they let Yahoo close the gap on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 1

    Search, contextual ads, bigger mailboxes...Google could have beat all of these to the IPO. No matter how you slice it, they waited too long.

  10. Dutch IPO and opening price favor insiders on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do no evil? Get real, its Google.com, not Google.org. Insiders at Google want the highest price possible, and many aspects of the Dutch auction system and the high price Google has set in fact favor fully vested insiders.

  11. Bah, Yahoo Finance far more useful on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 1

    Which is probably why Google crawls Yahoo Finance pages for much of its related data.

  12. Re:Google's IPO has already failed on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 1
    If Google had done that, then the stock would have started high and then crased as time moved forward to today.You have no proof of that. I offer that it would have tracked it competitors Ebay and Yahoo, which would have implied six months of even greater gains.

    Forget the Dutch auction crap, thats just on the IPO itself. The real trading takes place when you can go into your ETrade account and daytrade GOOG. Getting in on the IPO itself. If they would have gone out six months ago they would have burst out in a huge .com bubble that would have put gains in the pockets of practically everyone buying the stock over the period, not just the IPO.

    As for "crashing" - why do you presume the Dutch auction model precludes this?

  13. Google's IPO has already failed on Why Wall Street Wants Google to Fail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They could have gone out in an IPO six months ago, when the market was literally ready to pay anything to hold Google shares, but they let it get stale in the public mindset, the cover stopped, and the market slipped below its 200 DMA. Now Google goes out in what may be a new bear market. Congrats guys!

  14. Robbing Peter to pay Paul on Mass Migration/Bughunt For Thunderbird Tuesday · · Score: 1

    When you migrate Mozilla Mail users to Thunderbird.

  15. Penguin knows it is screwed on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Penguin knows it is in deep caca here - this is why they are resorting to threat and scare tactics often and early. They know that if the real Katie retains a competent attorney, they are in big trouble and may even have to pull the book.

    Thankfully it looks like the ruse has failed and the true domain owner is not being scared off. A decent attorny would probably love the chance to tear into Penguin on this one.

  16. TOS are also re-displayed as changed on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 2, Informative
    Note that Yahoo will force you to once again go through the TOS screen if they change it, so he can't claim the TOS were changed from an earlier time when he may have consented to a different TOS.

    Yahoo has been in court literally hundreds of times for all sorts of issues, and the TOS is probably airtight with regards to this case. The only major concession I think the firm has made was to the Yahoo Cake Co of Texas - Yahoo agreed not to enter the cake business, ever.

  17. DOA on Disney Enters PC Market · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kids hate using things that are purposefully crippled for kids. Adults seem to forget that at the same time they are buying the same basketball shoes Shaq wears and the same skis the US Olympic team wears. People want to use the gear they envision themselves using in the best of all worlds. For kids that means using what adults use.

  18. Aunt Millie does not run mount on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 1
    That is exactly my point, you cannot tell me that the mount command is part of the process. What if the mount point does not exist (like in the case of /mtn/ipod, used by the music apps gtkpod and rhythmbox) ?? So now Aunt Millie has to has to understand /dev...which means she may have to use dmesg...okay you are on shaky ground here if you are telling me this is easy to do for common users.

  19. Devices are still a clear stickiing point on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I still cannot expect to plug in a popular digital camera and get a uniform response on the desktop. Same for most music players etc.

    Other than that I think it is true that most of the FUD is just that - I use BSD and linux on the desktop exclusively

  20. It worked for over five centuries on More on Next-Generation Army Gear · · Score: 1

    Your claim that the Roman model of incorporating conquered peoples into the Legions was a failure is false. For literally centuries the Legions operated as a multicultural organization. Yes the Roman Empire ended but it isn't because the Legions had Gauls and Britons in the ranks.

  21. Private armies already happening in Iraq on More on Next-Generation Army Gear · · Score: 4, Informative
    Private security firms are operating as de facto soldiers in Iraq. Bet it makes the ground troops feel good to know the people work for Blackwater Security are earning 5x what they are.

    I like the fine staff these firms bring to the operation - like Apartheid-era South Africans with warrants in their own country for crimes against humanity.

  22. Nice fantasy, now try some reality on More on Next-Generation Army Gear · · Score: 1

    US soldiers in Iraq are being picked off by teeangers with thirty year old semi-functioning Soviet era tech. The fear factor hasn't worked - no one seems to be backing down from the US soldiers in the street.

  23. Beat it on the cheap on More on Next-Generation Army Gear · · Score: 1
    USS Cole: taken out for the cost of a used dingy.

    WTC: taken out for the cost of flying lessons and twenty box cutters.

    US Embassies in Africa: taken out for basically $0.

    Why attack the soldier when you can just as easily attack what he is trying to defend? This is why terrorism is the future of warfare. The local police are closer to the front lines than the US Army, by a long shot.

    All of the military-porn articles also fail to mention how often all of these tech toys break and put the forces in "tech support".

  24. GtkPod is not a music store on iTunes For Linux, Thanks To CodeWeavers · · Score: 2, Informative

    GtkPod is an excellent program for managing the iPod but the authors make no claims regarding iTunes, which of course they would never be granted access to in any case. Apple controls the iTunes commerce channel.

  25. But many of us do own iPods on iTunes For Linux, Thanks To CodeWeavers · · Score: 1

    Why did you even post this comment? Well golly, if you don't own an iPod, this means nothing to you! What an astounding conclusion. And of course you are right that CodeWeavers should wait for you and you alone to jump on the bandwagon before they start work. My God, why didn't I think of that?