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  1. Didn't you RTFA? on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 1

    The court awarded ligitation and damage expenses to the plaintiff, which Diebold has to pay in the six figures.

  2. Re:Anakin's Redemption Diminished? on 11,000 Words on the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs · · Score: 0
    When I saw the original ROTJ film in the movie theater, I distinctly remember the ghost of Anakin appearing with Yoda and Obiwan at the end of ROTJ (episode VI).

    When the same scene was shown on television, Anakin was cropped off. I always remembered the missing Anakin ghost.

    The ghost was in the original film, folks. Don't panic.

  3. Re:Bleh - we all know the outcome of that! on Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important? · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates shoots first.

  4. Why aren't customers buying LCD TVs? on Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Because the more channels the cable companies shove into our homes, the less there is to watch.

    Because the more crap that Hollywood puts out (Gigli anyone?) the less there is to watch on HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/et al.

    What's the point of spending four digits when there isn't anything on worth watching?

    Is there marketspeak for "DUUUH"?

  5. ANSWER on Yahoo Plans Its Own Music Player, Download Service · · Score: 1

    Yahoo! is playing RIAA's game. They want to own the distribution channels, that's where the control is. Every utility company that sells electricity/natural gas, telecommunications, and TV entertainment knows this.

  6. You want worse? on Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology? · · Score: 1

    I give you M$ Crack Monkey Steve Ballmer yelling "Developers Developers DEVELOPERS!!! "

  7. "Open source freezes innovation" on Microsoft's Lobbying Priorities: Limiting Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative
    Says the convicted monopolist whose "innovation stifling" activities included:

    1. Justice Department blocks M$'s acquisition of Intuit Quicken in 1994, fearing it would raise software prices and diminish innovation
    2. embracing Sun's Java into their own Windows-specific API which resulted in a lawsuit that ended in Sun's favor
    3. the infamous Halloween memos that outlined M$ strategy to blocking Linux from the market
    4. The web browser war against Netscape now Mozilla
    5. M$ was found to be bankrolling the SCO/IBM/Linux debacle against the open source movement
    6. neutralizing w3c compliance by distributing Windows-eccentric webpage API libraries that lock Internet webpages into IE
    7. ITEF rejecting M$ patent pending proprietary Sender-ID as too restrictive and puts too much control into M$'s hands
    8. A list of M$ innovations^W plagliarisms
  8. What is it, Obi-Wan? on George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I sense a great disturbance in the force, as if a million SW fans cried out all at once.

  9. Déjà vu? on AOL Will Not Support Sender-ID · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the IETF wisely wants to avoid a repeat of the Rambus debacle.

  10. OB Star Trek quote on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 1

    "It's dead, Jim."

  11. Re:VCRs on Jack Valenti: The Exit Interview · · Score: 1
    However, if you are an advertiser who has paid $280,000 a minute to advertise, he feels a very large pain in his stomach as well as in his checkbook

    Jack neglected to mention that the media cartels also feel the large pain in their checkbook.

    Let's do some math.

    Hmmm, when I was watching TV in 1982 there were at least 24 half minute commercials per hour. That's $3,360,000 in advertising revenue in one hour alone in 1982 dollars. Now I know that the average TV show in 1982 didn't command a $280,000/minute advertising rate, but that's the number that Valenti presented.

    So I'm supposed to feel compassion for the poor media cartels losing millions of dollars in advertising revenue to help fund their opulent lifestyles and their lobbying warchests to buy laws to perpetuate their outdated business model?

    Watch me not care. Thanks for reminding me why I quit watching TV long ago.

  12. Re:Whoops on Grow Your Own Replacement Bones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't feel bad - I read it as "Grow Your Own Replacement Boner"

  13. Re:Neitzche on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1

    You have no chance to survive make your time. --SCO

  14. Pinball Machines on In-Game Advertising Breaks Out · · Score: 1
    Game Advertising "breaks out"? They've been around for years.

    Take a look at advertising used on pinball machines sporting images from major movies, music groups, and TV shows.

  15. Re:You've got to be kidding me?! on Virtual Girlfriend · · Score: 1
    Preparation for married life?????

    Yup - there's no uninstall option, and if you attempt to delete it then it reinstalls itself.

  16. How to remove IE from Windows for good on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1
    As long as Windows is loaded, it will thwart every attempt to delete IE - you can't use Explorer, Control Panel, or DOS prompt to remove it.

    However you can evade Windows by booting to safe mode and deleting IE manually. Here's how:

    1) start/shut down/restart
    2) after BIOS boots, press F8 repeatedly while Windows is booting
    3) you will get a table of options for safe mode
    4) select "safe mode with DOS prompt"
    5) when the DOS prompt appears (looks like C:\> ), use these commands: (without quotes)
    "cd program files\internet explorer"
    "erase/s *.*"

    The 1st command changes to the internet explorer directory; the 2nd erases all files in all subdirectories in that directory. When you reboot to Windows, you may have to manually Regedit out all references to IE.

    I did this on my WIN2K machine at home and I'm happy as a spyware-free clam.

    This also works for deleting Outlook.

    "Tightly integrated"? I don't think so.

  17. Re:Didn't Spielberg express interest in directing? on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 1
    But let speilberg take a whack.

    I agree. Let me propose that the first whack be directed squarely at Jar Jar Binks with a light saber, within the first five seconds of the movie.

    That should arouse exhilarant approval from the Star Wars fans and increase box office receipts to record levels. Who wouldn't pay to see the demise of our favorite bashing boy?

  18. Re:Turn down the damn radios! on Best Buy Sued By Ohio · · Score: 1
    I am hearing impaired and wear a hearing aid.

    There are times when a hearing impairment is a blessing

    -click-

  19. Sharing is Good! Bad! Good! Bad! on British Schoolkids Get Copyright Education · · Score: 1
    Every generation of children that selfishly hoarded their toy as "mine! mine!" is taught by their parents that it is good to share.

    Now the schoolteachers are going to teach them that it is bad to share.

    That should peg the bullshit meter.

  20. Re:Huh??? on States Threaten P2P Companies · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    5. Islam - bastard terrorists who pervert this religion
    6. Christianity - priests and children

    Please get your facts straight. Priests are members of the Roman Catholic Church, which according to this authoritative list is a cult that perverts Christianity, much like the bastard terrorists that pervert Islam.

    Not to single out the RCC but any religion is vulnerable to such abuses - the Bible warned us thousands of years ago of these "wolves" and how to deal with them.

  21. Re:Downloading 18 Gigabytes..... on FCC Says TiVo Owners Can Share Shows · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is there even ONE NFL game worth the bandwidth?

    How about the 2003 Super Bowl halftime show with the "wardrobe malfunction"?

  22. Charlatan on Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification · · Score: 1
    charlatan n. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.

    One of the most infamous charlatans was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Courts of law all over the globe are well aware of this quack and his barratrous miscreants.

    The educated world has zero tolerance for proven charlatans.

  23. "Self Regulation" of the Cable Industry on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The FCC deregulated the cable industry years ago expecting it to regulate itself.

    Time Warner bought up all the independent cable providers and created their monopoly. That is not the definition of self regulation.

    The FCC acted under the influence of corporate media interests back then; I have little doubt that the move to abolish the FCC is another conspiracy of the same.

    A major media giant now owns the broadband cable into your home. If you're not satisfied with the service, you don't have any alternatives - Time Warner owns them all, you're stuck with them.

    Replace "broadband cable" with "radio bands" and "wireless communications" and ask yourself if you really want those resources in the hands of a sole media conglomerate. If you thought popular radio was bad today, then it'll get much worse when the "self regulating" wireless industry moves to barricade the independent radio stations out of existence.

  24. Obligatory Space Balls quote on Cell Phone Jammers: Coming To An Event Near You? · · Score: 1
    They're jamming my cell phone.

    It's raspberry jam.

    I HATE raspberry!!!

  25. Re:That depends... on Microsoft Reward Leads to Arrest of Sasser Suspect · · Score: 1

    More specifically: Microsoft Money.