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  1. Re:This is why... on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    my logitech mx518 (two mouse buttons, clickable scroll wheel, two mouse sensitivity buttons, back/forward buttons) works under XP without any sort of extra logitech drivers.

    honestly, i can see installing drivers for a joystick or something, but a mouse?

  2. Re:do it mozilla. on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    Be-zinga?

  3. Finally, i cracked step 3!! on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    1) sell underwater reactor to japan
    2) GOJIRAAAA!!!!!!
    3) make reality TV show called "I am Gojira, you are japan"
    4) profit!!!!

  4. LEO? on Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service · · Score: 1

    sure, putting these things in LEO rather then GEO has some advantages, lower launch cost, lower latency, but that means each satelite will be traveling in and out of your view, so you will be switching satelite connections every x minutes... i wonder what that will do to SSL sessions etc...

  5. Re:First handheld to be fully region locked on Nintendo 3DS Launching On March 27 For $250 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OTOH, I've got a console and a DS at home, and usually play with the DS. I can just open and shut the lid whenever I need to without having to wait. To me, the DS is much more about playing WHEN I want rather then WHERE. Then again, I don't have a hardcore gamer mentality; I play games for fun, not for a challenge; I don't play for hours on end.

    Same here, my DS has fallen into disuse the last few years, but i have my PSP on my nightstand in sleep-mode, so i can play a level of little-big-planet / race in gran turismo during the commercial breaks when i'm watching TV, which is something i couldnt/wouldnt really do with the 360/wii/gaming pc

  6. Re:Australian Price? on Nintendo 3DS Launching On March 27 For $250 · · Score: 1

    there have been some rumors about the 3ds having region locking, and i seem to remember from the gamecube days, isnt australia in the same region as europe? (nintendo wise anyway?)

  7. Re:Playboy isn't Porn on The iPad Will Get Playboy In March · · Score: 1

    oh yeah, well i live 40 minutes from Amsterdam! (sorry, i'm in a rather odd mood today)

    and i agree, playboy isnt porn, anyone buying playboy for a wank session will only do that once

  8. Re:I only want to subscribe.... on The iPad Will Get Playboy In March · · Score: 1

    Sadly, some of us are at work... without a private office

  9. Re:But then what kind of asshole on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    sometimes you dont really have a choice,

    last august i signed on buying a house, but since the previous owners didnt have anything new yet, they would only agree on hand-over in november (or i didnt want to pay lots and lots extra for earlier handover), moreover, my first child is due in may, so having the moving in the spring would have been worse then it already was (girlfriend being unable to do just about anything). Not to mention we really hated our crappy rental-house we previously lived in, and once you chose a new place, you just want to move already.

    Autumn/winter did bring some shitty stuff though, one week after we got the key it started snowing, which limited us to using one car (the other one is an old dog without any sort of safety measures, i dont drive it in sub-zero conditions), lots of family help couldnt make it due to winter-weather...

    We did make it OK enough, but there is still a lot of left over work to be done in the new house, and the move was more stressfull on me than it could have been, but postponing it just wasnt an option

  10. Re:Responding professionally to bad customer reque on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    You sir, are a credit to your job and i hope the installers i meet in the future are even half as dedicated as you.

  11. Re:Firefox just got slower and slower on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    or even F6

  12. Re:Who cares about bugs? on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    web 2.0? isnt that a little bit... 2003? with all this cloud nonsense i would have guessed we are up to 3.0 or even 4.0 by now...

  13. Re:The question is... on Google Releases Software To Iran · · Score: 1

    Well, i guess somebody accidentally the whole thing.

  14. Re:You see? They *are* changing their business mod on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 1

    do note that i didnt say anything about *buying* full discographies, and happily enough, for now that is legal here in holland

    Bands that i do really like, do get my money, i do own for instance, every judas priest CD i was able to find in stories (okay, only distinct CDs, not every copy i ever saw)

  15. Re:You see? They *are* changing their business mod on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 1

    and oddly enough, even my much more pop-inclined GF only buys full albums, even if she just heard the one interesting single

    I dont use itunes myself, but i also shun singles, for me it is full album or nothing (sometimes a few good songs trigger me to just go full discography on a band)

  16. Re:Oh for the love of crap.. on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Goodna ....... Toowoomba

    Ah now you're just making stuff up!

    (cant help myself, those aussie names look ridiculous)

  17. Re:I call movie rights. on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Sharks in the park?

    Better get Samuel L. Jackson on the phone!

  18. Re:Wow on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 1, Informative

    laugh all you want, but here in holland, most cities give people who are on government support 400 euros every so many years to buy a new TV, because god knows there is no way those people could survive without a 32 inch flatscreen!

    I am all for stuff like universal healthcare, but things like this makes me feel like im living in commie country..

  19. Re:Change that into windows on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 2

    Dont forget about the hardware cost, They cant possibly offer windows XP, with it being EOL (only extended support for businesses), so these system would need the hardware to run windows 7, which would cost more then a system capable of running XP/ubuntu

  20. Re:Energy requirements? on The Prospects For Lunar Mining · · Score: 1

    nice idea, but given that gravity is lower on the moon, the counterweight of the trebuchet would only hold 1/6th of the energy it would on earth, so you would need the same size treb as you would on earth, save for less sturdy construction.

    Now a mangonel on the other hand....

  21. Re:Energy requirements? on The Prospects For Lunar Mining · · Score: 1

    make it a gauss-gun instead and you are set

  22. Re:Easy Legal Fix. on The Prospects For Lunar Mining · · Score: 1

    how about moon.mn, moon.ln, moon.moo or some other luna specific TLD?

  23. Re:Robots in the office - not on Office Robots of the Near Future, Gearing Up · · Score: 1

    01010100011010000 11001010111100100100
    00001110100011011 11011011110110101100
    10000001101101011 00001011010000010000
    00110101001101111 0110001000100001

    (added spaces/linebreaks for lameness filter)

  24. Re: Real poison in leaflets? Really? on North Korean Domain Names Return To the Internet · · Score: 1

    that is how i understand it

    As for the gloves, i doubt the average north korean has the knowledge on biological/chemical agents to dare take a chance like that

  25. Re:Not a troll on North Korean Domain Names Return To the Internet · · Score: 1

    *goes to register mud.kp*

    Comming soon, meme-central!! at http://moar.mud.kp/