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  1. Re:Regardless of political affiliation... on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now if we could just get mandatory picture IDs for voting, we'd eliminate nearly all of the election rigging.

    And make sure those pesky homeless don't try to vote.

  2. Re:I am split on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    It's closer to saying accepting AMEX is not worth the cost.

    A certain number of people will not be able to use your site (MAC/Unix users) a certain will begrudge having to use a non-optimal situation (PC Firefox users), but the vast majority won't even notice.

    You can argue about the cost of using AMEX (about 1 or 2 percent) vs the cost of multi-platform support, but I think it is a better analogy.

  3. Re:Why Safari? on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Doesn't FF bring Mozilla.org $10,000,000/year?

    I bet re-writing the interface is worth it. Also, if they are going to come out with a .mac type thing that is heavily web based and ties into Safari, they could do so. If they can get people thinking of Apple as their computer vendor (like they did with the iPod and iTunes) they will sell more computers.

    Everytime they emphasize the "cool" parts of your computer are Apple products they win. It worked with iPd, and it will probably work if they come up with something like google apps, but less sucky. If they add to Safari the goods to make this happen it will even better emphasize the point of who is in charge of the "fun" of computing. Since Apple focuses on "fun" cfar more than business (from my advertizing recolection at about a 6:1 ratio).

    Unlike google, Apple does not need to support IE, that frees them to do some cool stuff on the web.

  4. Re:Typo on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I bet there is a mod troll.

    Or were you flaming so subtly I missed it?

  5. Re:bang bang on Church Threatens Legal Action Over Sony Game · · Score: 1

    Inronically, by delcaring his/herself a Christian I am assuming the have less synpathy to the Church.

    Most people I know that identify as "Cristian" are strongly against organzed religion. Of course the Church of England is probably higher on their list of acceptable than the Catholics though.

  6. Anonymous Reader? on USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon's 1-Click Patent · · Score: 1

    I bet it was theodp

    link to evidence.

  7. Re:No FF on Xbox360 on Fallout 3, RE 5 in 2008, Final Fantasy 360 Never · · Score: 1

    And yes, while FFXIII will certainly HELP convince people to buy a PS3, I don't think that it'll be a system seller by itself. Think about it. Would you spend nearly US$700 for just one game? Ok, so say Sony dropped the price of the PS3 to US$500. Would you spend nearly US$600 for just one game?

    Wouldn't you be spending $200.00 (price difference from 360 to PS3? The PS3 is going to have a lot of great cross platform games. And lets not forget God of War.

    Note, I currently only own a Wii, but will be getting a PS2 soon. No plans on PS3 or 360 at all.

  8. Re:Will any smart phone measure up to the iPhone? on Computex and Gigabyte's Slick UMPC, Linux SmartPhone · · Score: 1

    Let's see:

    Buttons, Check

    My phone lives up to the iPhone in the way that is most important to me.

  9. Re:Please... on RIAA Accused of Extortion & Conspiracy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe it was Australia where attempts to re-write the tax-code in plain English expande things, not shrunk.

    And writing ambiguous laws and having judges decide the intent is pretty dangerous too.

    Since this thread goes back to mentioning early laws legel system as the standard to achieve I am courious what the intent of each ammendment to the constitution is.

  10. Re:god? on Search for Higgs "God Particle" Gets Interesing · · Score: 1

    Grand Parent forgot that you can't hear tone in writing.

    Grand Parent thinks all those that you list are stupid for government to provide.

  11. IA64 on Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I remember when IA64 was the next huge supercomputer on a chip 5 years off.

    It didn't work out too well for Intel.

  12. Re:Original NES on What is the Best Console Controller of All Time? · · Score: 1



    I really liked the Amiga/C64 Joysticks we had at school.

    There was something very satisfying about the click the made when you moved the stick,and only 1 button.

    I would love to play original Wario Ware with one.

  13. Re:Because... on Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? · · Score: 1

    In the USA you would not be liable.

  14. Chuch and State? on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 1

    DISCLAIMER:
    Since the below is too far down in discussion to be read,it is not even slightly proofread,proceed at your own risk.

    I assume the UK has some type of seperation of Church and State. Shouldn't that mean they can ignore the techings of religious orginizations when teching history?

    And to say Holocust denialis a "belief" in the religious context is just stupid anyway.

    And don't the crusades give a prime opening to bridge cultures?

    They could teach a traditional lesson, then teach a Islamo-centric leson, then explain how all history has 2 sides, every winner has a looser (unles both teach victory which is even more interesting). By teaching the Islamo-centric version, and at the same time admitting the traditional Christo-centric version was also one sided they could be a reasonable option for trustworthy-ness,and hopefully the Holocust denial will work itself out in a generation or so (of couse I am way too optomistic).

  15. Re:So using this logic.... on Michigan Man Charged for Using Free WiFi · · Score: 1

    Apperently you are.

  16. Re:Design on Apple Sued Over 'Lacking' Macbook Display · · Score: 1

    Apple (LCD) displays have typically been on the high end of mediocre and not "very good".

    They have their ups and downs, but never have been consistently amongst the best.

  17. Re:Funny... on Looking Into Mozilla's Financial Success · · Score: 1

    How exactly has Mozilla innovated at all ever?

  18. Re:Low power AMD platform needed on AMD Reveals New Mobile Technologies · · Score: 1

    I remember computer I want being a lot more than $1200.00 a decade ago. Especially laptops.

  19. Re:"Your US driver's license" on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be foolish.

    They are going to implant it into our right hand.

  20. Re:Scientific American in 1992 on Deep Blue vs. Kasparov 10th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Chess isn't symetric, and it isn't simulteneous.

    It is possible that any opening for white has an optimal response from black that leads to defeat.

    Or that going first white can control the game and always win.

    Though if we use 5x5 go and Tic Tac Toe as our knowledge base you are correct, going first and playing the perfect game you can always tie at worse (playing second too, but a bad first move does not garentee player to a chance to win).

  21. Re:Eject DVD? on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    depends the size of the swap/RAM.

    It grabs half the ram + the swop as diskspace. So the 113MB distro on a computer with 2GB of ram could rip and burn CDs and read (but not rip) DVDS. When you shut down it asks you to re-insert the DVD-R and it burns your changes, if it is full (from sessions, not total storage) it asks for a blank one.

    The entire filesystem gets loaded to RAM (except for a spacial /archive folder) so you can eject the disc and use the drive (but not have access to your /archive folder without the disc).

    I personally prefer botting from USB for my portable OS, but I was just pointing out there is a 0 MB install Linux that is quite funtional off of burnable media.

  22. Re:rethink the OS on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually if I am not mistaken Opera dedicates some RAM (used to deafault to 10MB) to cache already interpereted webpages (it used to at least). This allowed for BLAZING fast back and forward buttons because most of the CPUs work was done. My guess is that this was another feature FireFox was trying to implement after being inspired by Opera's many year earlier implementation.

  23. Re:Like IE? More like Linux, I'd say! on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    PuppyLinux (on a DVD-R) takes 0MB space (though for effective use it needs lots of RAM or a swap partition). Can't get much smaller than that.

  24. Re:What's wrong about the firings, exactly? on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 1

    I really don't think it is corrupt statement to say that a "tough on crime" president should have "tough on crime" prosecuters.

    They are a key part to the enforcement of things, and as the chosen leader of enforcement by the peoplethe president is there boss.

    As long as the prosecuters are fair in their application of idealology (as these people who were fired were), justice can be served.

    I will point out I am very liberal.

  25. Re:What's wrong about the firings, exactly? on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Finally -- I DO believe that these firings were improper.


    Can you, then explain, what exactly was wrong about them? I mean, even if the entire Bush administration really did conspire to fire these prosecutors -- aren't they political appointees, whose hiring and firing is at the Executive's discretion in the first place?

    Clintons, I read, replaced 90 of those people in 1993...


    Firing them because they had a different idealology is fine, their job is to work for the president. As an extenuation the firing because they "wern't propper Bushies" could be fine depending on what it means. But firing them for investigating people is interfering with those investigations. We need to know if that was happening, and people should pay (forced resignation and public humiliation is a form of payment).