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  1. Re:What does ISP get out of this? on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    the ISP is most likely the cable TV provider and in the case of comcast and time warner they both produce content its all the same blob

  2. Re:Remember it like it was yesterday. on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    you can still write in in a dead language it doesn't make it any less dead and I dont understand your confusion HFS and HFS+ are two different things, by 1996 they were giving it away cause no one used it anymore except for apple macintosh floppies, hard disks were in HFS+, but by this time no one cares cause every fucking manufacture in the world accepted the same drive specs years before and they weren't apple's cutesy hack locked in propitiatory bullshit.

  3. Re:Remember it like it was yesterday. on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 2

    they only used the variable speed motors on the 800k format, 1.44 meg "superdisks" dropped that and outside of software they work the same way as your pc drive via standard speed and mfm.

    Thanks for playing

  4. Re:Remember it like it was yesterday. on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    no I am looking at no one in 1998 owned a mac so no one cared angle, its one of the reasons I still own a 603e machine, simply so I can make mac floppy disk's and HFS+ was never used on floppy's which is what were talking about here

  5. Re:Remember it like it was yesterday. on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 2

    its not that windows was being ignorant, they just didn't want to pay the licensing fee for a damn near dead propitiatory format that even apple had dropped by then

  6. Re:AOL on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    14.4 was like my 6th modem hehe come back with AOL on a 2400baud in DOS

  7. About the same time for me too on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    really big in the local bbs's someone tipped us off that the public library had hooked up their card catalog bbs service to the internet and was offering web access though lynx ... it was fucking awesome

  8. Re:Doesn't look good on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    you know they still move after the grass is cut right?

    mowing to the center causes a big problem though as your constantly re-chopping the same grass and pushing it in the center

  9. Re:If only Americans had heard of parks. on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    I have had both and its much nicer to sit on your back porch and not have to deal with the 100 shit head kids on the entire block all fighting over what equates to an acre across everyones back yard, or listening to your next door neighbor take a dump

    I presume your in a city in a city, you guys would rather be touching total strangers that haven't bathed in a month, all day every day for your entire lives while living in a shoe-box that cost more than all than you have listed, its amazing

    its not socialist, or communist, we have tons of parks in America, we just don't worship them as the last chunk of unpaved land in our entire country as you obviously do

  10. Re:um... on Defcon Hacks Defeat Card-And-Code Locks In Seconds · · Score: 1

    um yea if your liquor lock issue had a big squishy silicone window to a "opps reset to unlock mode" that you could trip with a key-chain swiss army knife, cost a grand doing it, while being marketed to our dumb government, then you would have a point.

  11. Re:go for the faster hardware on What Today's Coders Don't Know and Why It Matters · · Score: 1

    chances are, faster hardware means something faster than a P4, so if your budget is less than a couple bills you really need to focus elsewhere

  12. I saw something interesting while shopping on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 1

    My kia has more horsepower, more torque, better gas mileage, something like 10 or 12 fucking airbags, scored better on every crash test and COST LESS than a competing GM product.

    So I might ask, do we really want to start waving this flag at our precious dumbass auto liability?

  13. go for the faster hardware on What Today's Coders Don't Know and Why It Matters · · Score: 1

    it will last longer and be less hassle

  14. It makes you too comfortable on Google's Self Driving Car Crashes · · Score: 1

    ah the computer will take care of it, I have rear view tv why should I bother turning my hea..bump

    I like safety but I cant expect humons to do anything right as a whole, a great example would be a coworker of mine, focused so hard on his little tv screen he didn't notice me standing inches away from the side of his car as he backed out, I knocked on his window, throughly scaring him and pointed to my eyes.

  15. Re:Here We Go Again ... on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 0

    yea and people wrote software for Amiga and Atari, mac user cant even close a program when they are done

    (snare drum rimshot)

  16. Re:V&V was a hell of a system - for its time on Villains & Vigilantes Creators Sue Publisher · · Score: 2

    I have often wondered how does a book based on pure fantasy become "outdated"

  17. Re:How About ... on Villains & Vigilantes Creators Sue Publisher · · Score: 1

    ha where did you get that chunk of fantasy

  18. Re:There's still time to send Obama instead! on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    yea thats what we need, more politics in nasa

  19. Re:$5000 per figure??? WTF? on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    yea nasa would never chuck useless crap like legos on a rocket ... oh wait

  20. Thanks? on Xamarin's First Mono Release - Proof of Life! · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am sure someone here cares.

  21. Re:Great on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    So fuck it lets remove every chunk of scientific equipment and send a fucking garbage can of higest bidders trinkets and toys, there was room to put metal legos there was room for 1 more fucking sensor that could have done something other than go along for the ride

  22. Re:Great on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    thats fine but where is the scientific equipment we paid to fill this thing. obviously its not filled

    its like this, if you paid for a full dump truck of gravel and later found out it was cut a little short so it can be topped off with mulch and your still paying full price of the delivery, you would be asking questions.

  23. Re:Great on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yea and we as taxpayers paid to have that thing loaded with scientific equipment, where the fuck is my refund?

  24. Re:Great on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 0

    god you people are so gullible, here it is again the OLDEST RIP OFF IN THE FUCKING BOOK

    oh don't worry we paid full price for X payload to go from point A to point B, and the lego deal was just a little extra on the side, its a common thing for moving companies

  25. Re:Great on NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter · · Score: 1

    or add some more scientific equipment so every ounce of space is used effectively and not "for fun for the children who probably wont even be told about this" bullshit