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  1. Re:But I don't listen to music... on EFF Lawyer Argues For Compulsory Music Licenses · · Score: 1
    I don't think "chrisseaton" was joking. "Communism" was the first word that popped into my head too.

    The suggestion is that the state forcibly take something and give it to everyone. What else are you going to call it?

  2. Re:Biggest tip of all on Tax Tips For Small Folks? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I just found that the IRS website has a "check the status of my refund" page. Yes, it's on the way. (WHEW!)

  3. Biggest tip of all on Tax Tips For Small Folks? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Send it certified mail.
    I mailed in my forms in late February and haven't gotten my Federal refund back yet. I'm biting my nails wondering if my forms even got there at all.

  4. Re:Overclocking a violation of the DMCA on Intel's Anti-Overclocking Technology Simplified · · Score: 1
    It still is illegal not to subscribe to the state TV company, if you own a TV: you're free to subscribe to other channels as well, but you have to subscribe to the BBC as well

    We have something similar here in America. It's called public education, and you don't even have to have kids to be forced to pay for it!

  5. Re:Pocket PC absurdity on HP Calcs Live On Under PalmOS · · Score: 1
    Uh, HP has nothing to do with this software, other than the fact that they relesed their ROMs when they stopped making calculators.

    Maybe it's the lameness of the pocketPC software authoring community that allowed this to come to PalmOS first. There have been offical-HP-ROM based emulators for X11 and mac for some time now.

  6. Where is Salam Pax? on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet · · Score: 1

    Anybody heard of the Iraqi blogger since the end of March?

  7. UPS prepaid stickers on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to the South Pacific, you have NO idea what sort of hardware passes for "computers" and what sort of activity passes for "computing." If repairing these things is really at a premium to you, you're better off bringing prepaid UPS or FedEx labels to ship the stuff somewhere it can be worked on.

  8. Re:Cheaters? on Deathmatch for Dollars? · · Score: 1
    That's why games don't get ported to OS X. AppleScript just makes it too easy:

    tell application "Wolfenstein"
    find and shoot all enemy soldiers with submachine
    end tell

  9. Re:Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1
    Oh, but did he mention that the hypnotic part about it is that the characters become hypnotized, not the audience.

    An artful but dragging cautionary tale of a technology that can turn the population into whithering self-abusing narcissitsts, not unlike the world wide web.

  10. Re:Groundhog Day on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1
    All kidding aside, "Groundhog Day" is on my list of the top 10 movies of all time, even above "Lawrence of Arabia."

    If you haven't seen it, see Groundhog Day. If you have seen it but didn't appreciate it, see it again. I'm serious. This is a movie that says more about human nature and morality than almost anything else I can think of, and its damn funny to boot.

    And don't get me started about Andie MacDowell. I've negotiated an easement in my marriage, where my wife can't object if I have certain indiscretions with Andie MacDowell.

  11. What we really want to know is... on Life on the Road with 3G · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Can you hear me now?

  12. "Lost tools of learning" on A New Approach to Teaching Science · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look at this article by Dorothy Sayers.

  13. Re:so you are a canadian? on Intuit Sued Over Product Activation · · Score: 1
    Voting as a non-citizen is a felony

    Ditto for voting as a dead person, but it doesn't seem to stop them.

  14. Re:P2P pricing system? on Which Price is Right? · · Score: 1
    So go form the "Anonymous Consumers Co-Op Network" and receive volume discount pricing.

    All the retailers need to know is that they are selling to the co-op, and that those guys sure do buy a lot of Manga Pr0n.

  15. Secondary Markets on Which Price is Right? · · Score: 1
    This is the kind of thing that inevitably leads to secondary markets. In this case, people who buy more are charged more so they will seek channels for buying through other peoples' identities.

    Just think, culturejammers, your identity as avowed anti-consumers will now be a marketable commodity!

  16. Re:How to COUNTER Excel? on Plotting/Graphing Programs for Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    Anyone have any tips on how to QUICKLY convince a manager that you have a credible, specific need that Excel can't handle?

    Tell him you're plotting those special numbers that Excel calls "########"

  17. 'nohter link on Dr. Pepper Tries New Astroturf Method · · Score: 1
    Over at http://www.cool-2b-real.com/, you might try "2" guess who they really "b."

    (Hint: check out that 3/4 pound burger!)

  18. CPU 90� off kilter on Your Most Damage-Resistant Hardware? · · Score: 1
    I was building my own 486-66 back in the day, and I bought a separate mobo and CPU.

    Carefully flipping through the motherboard's instruction book page by page, I read how to insert the CPU into the ZIF socket with the little dot-corner next to the IDE socket side....

    (later)
    Turned it on, looked at the monitor...
    blank.
    blank.
    blank.
    smell smoke...
    Holy crap! the mobo is burning!
    Cut the power, swish away the smoke with my hands, and I watched the CPU settling down in a nice soft bed of bubbly melted plastic from the ZIF socket.

    After it had cooled, I pried the whole thing apart, and the CPU had gotten hot enough to crack the ceramic brick it was embedded in.

    I looked again at the mobo instructions and by golly, the little dot corner was supposed to go on the other side of the socket! What the...
    (turn page back)
    This diagram shows it the way I put it in...
    (turn page forward)
    This diagram shows it a different way...

    Damn manual. Even the pictures were in Engrish.

    Oh, but this was supposed to be about hardware that still worked.... Well, the memory was OK.

  19. Re:I seem to recall something about "crypto" on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 1

    Thus the new sig();

  20. Re:The Straw Men on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 1
    Ah yes, the old "fart and leave the room" rhetorical technique.

    My wife (also an erstwhile Iraqi), and I would like to address your points, but alas, I don't have time. Let me at least discuss your first and last points:

    First, the point is not simply to disarm S. Hussein and Iraq, it is to wipe him and his regime off the face of the planet. It is to humilitate him utterly and dissuade anyone else from attempting to emulate him. The Mussolini treatment would not be inappropriate in the least. It is to put a functioning free government in place that will scare the crap out of neighboring despots. "Disarmament" comes as a corollary.

    Your last "fallacious" point is the only one you've listed that is actually false, and I know of no one who believes it. That is why the war is being carried out on dozens of fronts, from full-scale military, to special forces, to financial forensics, to conventional law enforcement, to ideological psy-ops, to signals intelligence, ...

  21. Re:This is a bunch of crap. on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It can truthfully be said that the purpose of most guns is to prevent violence by the implied or explicit threat of propelling lead at high speed toward living things in order to cause them to cease living.

    "Using" a gun as intended does not require firing it in the vast majority of cases.

  22. Re:A double-edged sword... on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 1

    Armageddon was such a rigorously accurate movie that you must be right.

  23. I seem to recall something about "crypto" on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Just remember that the hypocritical "open" zealots whining about the militarization of OSS are likely the same ones who ranted and raved that the benefits of pervasive crypto among ordinary citizens outweighed the very real danger of the use of crypto among organized crime and terror.

    What's the common thread? Anti-U.S. sentiment.

  24. Message from the NRPEWA: on The Demise of Model Rocketry? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If rocket-propelled explosive warheads are outlawed, only outlaws will have rocket-propelled explosive warheads.

  25. Re:What kind? on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1
    In contrast peroxide is storable for years, and is essentially non toxic, although you wouldn't want to drink it.

    As long as you store it in those little brown plastic bottles so that light won't decompose it.