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  1. Re:Funding on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1

    Why would the lawyers have to be Linux users? Is this a religious thing?

  2. Re:Pretty high cost on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis · · Score: 5, Funny
    In my company the average per head is $140.

    So how are things in the Bangalore call center?

  3. Re:Remember how? on VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall · · Score: 1

    I can see it now. If things work the way they do around here: "Hmm, looks like the IJKLDaemon didn't start after the reboot. Now let's look in init.d.... wha?"

  4. Re:Dont like Manufact. control but Love Stabilty on Bypassing Intel's Overclock Limit Reveals DDR2-667 · · Score: 1
    Could you imagine a shovel that would stop you from moving sand too quickly ?

    I think CalTrans bought up the whole inventory in that market.

  5. Re:sounds like on THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut · · Score: 1

    Except that in THX-1138, failure to comply with these regulations resulted in forceful arrest by police. The word you're looking for is "totalitarianism," not capitalism.

  6. Worst I ever did.... on Requiem For A Motherboard · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The worst I ever did was put a 486 in the socket turned 90 degrees. But I did it because the motherboard manual had a picture showing to put it in that way.

    After smelling smoke, I reached for the plug, and turned to find the ZIF socket a smoldering mass melted into the motherboard. Removing the Bright green Cyrix heatsink from the ZIF socket revealed that I had shattered the ceramic block that encased the CPU chip.

    I took the melted motherboard, cracked CPU, and the faulty manual back to the store and they acknowledged that the manual was wrong. They gave me a new mobo, and a used but working CPU, even though I had only bought the board from that store.

  7. Re:*sigh* Here we go again... on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, cue those posts too.

  8. Re:he's a good lobbyist on MPAA Names Dan Glickman To Replace Jack Valenti · · Score: 1
    It looks like this guy knows how to lobby very effectively.

    Why, yes. In fact, according to a previous poster he's the "Lobbiest" lobbyist.

  9. Re:And if it isn't broken... on Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods · · Score: 5, Funny

    But when you sell it on ebay, how can you be sure that the buyer will recycle it? I don't think my conscience could take that kind of uncertainty, so I'm going with Dell's offer.

  10. Re:EXTRA! The magazine of FAIR on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1
    It's what they look for. Doing a frickin' keyword search is NOT the same thing as systematically looking for bias. Also, when they do search for bias, it is bias with respect to their own position, or some hypothetical "neutral" position of their own choosing.

    I imagine that one could find a serious anti-muslim bias in reporting on the ongoing Sudanese genocide if you feel it's appropriate to call a 50-50 war of attrition the "unbiased" view. Unfortunately, the intellectually lazy journalists this country has cranked out in the last several decades appear willing to make just such judgments in the name of "fairness."

  11. Re:EXTRA! The magazine of FAIR on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I love everything about what FAIR does except one thing: The way they claim that they are impartial.

    If they would just admit that they are using their "statistical analysis of LexisNexis" and such to support their biases, then they would be have much better marketplace utility.

    If you want impartial, look at StratFor, which fancies itself an "intelligence" oultet rather than "news." The difference being that people make decisions about their present and future actions based on intelligence, whereas news is simply to inform your opinion. Therefore intelligence must be impartial to be worth anything.

  12. Re:For all those that keep asking..... on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 1

    Just a thought, but the logic could be that he is knowingly and willfully subsidizing these kinds of projects at Apple. That's more than a modicum, if you ask me.

  13. Huh? on World's First Large-Scale Ogg Theora Stream · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What concept needed to be proved? Does the freeness of a codec affect its scalability?

  14. Re:The "R Prize" on A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots · · Score: 1

    YHBT. He used the word "simular."

  15. Re:Friends not appliances? on A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No kidding. Too many people today already think of friends and neighbors as being disposable or at least interchangeable in some sense. Imagine if technology deliberately blurs the line between people and tools.

  16. Re:toilet seat on A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most Advanced Bots · · Score: 1
    When did hypocrisy overtake stubborn, willful defiance of reality as the worse trait?

    MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT. DEAL WITH IT.

  17. Re:i've confirmed this. on AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, I've tried one of those crypto-hard RNG's before. What a fraud. The fist bit it gave me was a 1.

    I mean, come on, how random is that?

  18. Re:Fanless? As in no fan? on Mobo for Vertically Challenged Devices · · Score: 1

    Wow. I would have thought that the 8000MHz model would need a fan if any of them do.

  19. Re:Better than VNC through compressed ssh? on Next Knoppix Release to Feature GPL'd FreeNX · · Score: 2, Informative
    what are the other benefits from vnc,

    The compression is one very good benefit. It is not simple zip-like compression of the data stream, but a somewhat smart image compression which takes advantage of the fact that it is usually transmitting a desktop with draggable rectangular windows. Compression can be optimized on special cases like that.

    Multiple simultaneous desktops is something more to do with X11 than VNC, but VNC is a good way to realize this through multiple servers. Also, VNC is cross platform so you can view your desktop on a Mac or Windows machine with all native apps and no client-side X11 whatsoever, or view a Mac or Windows desktop on your favorite unix-like box.

  20. Re:Better than VNC through compressed ssh? on Next Knoppix Release to Feature GPL'd FreeNX · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh.... You are using X11 over a remote ssh tunnel to "locally" view a VNC session. (i.e., VNC client and server are running on the same machine.) This is not the best use of VNC, and in fact the ONLY benefit you get from using VNC in that case is reconnectability.

  21. Oh Yeah! on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I was going to get around to compiling a list of them one of these days...

  22. Re:Stupid question! on SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If by "in nature" you mean "in Yosemite and Yellowstone and on Mounts Fuji and Kilimanjaro" then no. But are there violent, high-energy events in astronomical circumstances in which these particles would be briefly found? Yes. By "discovering" the particles in the lab, they mean that they are discovering that nature works in such a way as to allow those particles to exist and have those mass/lifetime properties.

    BTW, even if there were particles which only existed in the high energies of the big bang and for 10^(-20) seconds afterwards, producing them in a hypothetical super-accelerator would still constitute a "discovery" rather than a creation or invention.

  23. Re:One wish.. on Less is More: Thunderbird 0.7 Review · · Score: 4, Funny
    fred.mertz@lucy.com?

    I imagine Ricky is getting more fed up with it than you are. Someone has some 'splaining to do.

  24. What about the lawsuit? on Less is More: Thunderbird 0.7 Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Ford Motor Co. was making them change the name to "ThunderFox."

  25. Re:Starts with 3GLs. on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    It's also interesting that Fortran has very little cross breeding. It's like a coelacanth or a cockroach today.