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  1. So that's the Microsoft mentality on Microsoft's IE Team Leader Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The temptation to get "just one more feature in" is so strong... one more CSS fix

    So fixing CSS bugs is a feature? They threw in lots of features, like tabbed browsing, yet they consider actual bugs to be extra features that will have to wait.
  2. Re:Summary? on Hirai Expects One Million PS3s By End of Year · · Score: 2, Funny

    What it really means is that there will be about 20 games available.

    That's even worse. I can just see the 200,000 initial PS3 owners fighting over the 20 games available, with 199,980 owners looking at the pretty brick in their livingrooms until more are produced. :)

  3. More on Hirai Expects One Million PS3s By End of Year · · Score: 1

    That is the conservative number. Reports based on parts shipped to Nintendo indicate a possible six million by the end of the year.

  4. We're all here on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wonder how the previous generations managed to make it this far, allowing their kids to play tag, not locking up kids who taunt others, etc..

    If this trend keeps going we are truly going to raise a generation of fat wimps.

  5. Awesome! on Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox · · Score: 1

    I can see it now, "Joe, the network's down, can you go check..."

    walks outside, "Crap, it's gone!"

    And some teenage geek across town who had access to his dad's flatbed is now running the most powerful torrent porn site known to man out of his driveway.

  6. Re:So its' a youth oriented (liberal) site. on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    "Carville" is to "liberal" as "fish" is to "bicycle".

    Technically correct, as Carville doesn't ride a liberal. He rides a conservative (Mary Matalin).

    Rim shot!

    Aside from that, if you don't think Carville qualifies as a "liberal," then you are way off the deep end on the left side of the pool, probably the exact opposite of Pat Buchannan.

  7. Re:So its' a youth oriented (liberal) site. on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1
    So lets get this straight. Right wing talk radio will not give time to 'liberal' ideas



    They do it all the time. James Carville makes the rounds quite often.

  8. Re:Numbers lie on How Steve Jobs Got Green Overnight · · Score: 1
    The heaviest part of a nano package is the nano itself. I don't own a nano, but my shuffle (a gift from an employer) came with an overgrown instruction manual, which was actually the heaviest part of that package

    My new nano came with a small fold-out flyer with the basic instructions, cable, earphones and adapter. It's also missing the CD for the software. It is a smaller, lighter package.

    Everytime I see that commercial, I just want to call them up and ask how they arrived at that $0.13/gallon figure.

    It's a generalization that is most likely not correct for you. The actual optimum speed for fuel efficiency for any car is a complex calculation of many factors, including engine and drivetrain efficiency, accessories using power, aerodynamics, tires, road surface, air density, etc., and therefore any number given must be for one exact model of car driven in a specific manner in a specific environment.

    A simple factor: Air conditioning ups the optimum speed of the car a bit. It helps to drive faster to get where you're going because the A/C is a constant drain on your power (thus using fuel), and getting there faster will have this drain going for a shorter amount of time.

    Since they were trying to get your speed down, they probably picked a car with the worst possible results.

  9. Great Joke? on Indian ISPs Taxed for Generating "Light Energy" · · Score: 1

    I want to say "Haha, great joke, should've posted it on Aril 1," but this is a government we're talking about, so I'll believe anything is possible. I know most people in government have an above room-temperature IQ, so it never ceases to amaze me how such idiocy can be put forth by otherwise moderately intelligent people.

  10. Re:Nothing the Muslims do is propaganda. on A Gaming War Between Islam and the West? · · Score: 1

    Palestinian Arabs started the organized murder of Jews in the area not long after WWI. Remember the 1929 Hebron massacre? In WWII, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem worked with Hitler, exhorting Muslims to aid in the extermination of the Jews, help Nazi Germany with their "problem." And of course the Jews dared to accept the UN mandate for their country, resulting in the immediate murder of Jewish civilians, and an invasion a year later by Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon and Iraq.

    Yes, the Palestinians are completely innocent victims. We're all seeing this wrong.

  11. An election must be coming up on Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel · · Score: 1

    People who have "known stuff" about a politician for 20 years are suddenly "getting a conscience" and telling all, people are starting to "remember" stuff about politicians that they've "forgotten" about long ago, and embarrassing bits of documents that have been around for a long time are now getting leaked.

    This couldn't have anything to do with an upcoming election, could it? Nah...

  12. Tetrisphere on The Decade of the N64 · · Score: 1

    That should be enough to put the N64 on a pedestal forever. I haven't seen anything like it since.

  13. Re:it is possible on Running a Non-Partisan Political Forum? · · Score: 1
    they virtually all openly support drug use and gay marriage and abortion and indulge in "elitist contempt for those of deep faith".



    Not all conservatives are Christian social conservatives. Others are the more libertarian wing of conservatism, just get the government out of where it doesn't belong and return to the plan laid out by the Constitution. This view pisses off both social conservatives and leftists since it's against the grand design of both.

  14. Re:The perfect storm on IBM Asks Court to Toss SCO's Entire Case · · Score: 1

    The major question left will be in the IBM/Novell fight for who has first claim to SCO's assets -- mainly the UNIX business. Then who gets to drop Autozone and make peace with Red Hat? I don't think those actions just disappear when SCO goes bankrupt and is dissolved.

  15. Re:The American Rule and legal extortion on IBM Asks Court to Toss SCO's Entire Case · · Score: 1

    The situation is different in Europe, where the losing party pays for all legal costs

    There are many cases in the US where the winner can ask for court costs. The is especially true for SLAPP suits (strategic lawsuits against public participation).

  16. Re:it is possible on Running a Non-Partisan Political Forum? · · Score: 1

    The US Political Right 0wns talk radio. The US political left 0wns comedy TV.

    Consider that "0wns" means the vast majority of Americans listening to those media formats prefers listening to those views. The left-wing Air America got into talk radio with major financial backing, and is now floundering due to lack of listeners.

    And although the Daily Show appears to slant left, I've noticed it pulls no punches when the left does stupid things. I'm actually wondering whether it would appear to slant right if a leftist president were in office due to their jokes on him.

  17. Re:Not gonna work on Running a Non-Partisan Political Forum? · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... in response to rabid Democrats. I have seen the drivel posted on Democratic Underground, including conspiracy theories that get posts of support all the way through. Seriously, these people would believe Bush planned 9/11 every step, they personally, venomously hate him so much. It's worse than than the worst that's posted on its conservative counterpart, Free Republic.

    FTR, I'm not a Republican, nor a Bush fan.

  18. Core Graphics? on ATI's Stream Computing on the Way · · Score: 1
    GPGPU backers just want to take graphics chips from the likes of ATI and Nvidia and tweak them to handle software that normally runs on mainstream server and desktop processors.

    This sounds like the GPU-based programs that OS X uses to perform Core Graphics and Core Video operations.
  19. Re:This is a BIG reason for virtual machines on How a Wiring Rack Should Look · · Score: 1

    I could never get the cables on my virtual machines to look this good either.

  20. Re:I still do not believe in Global Warming ! on Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages · · Score: 1

    Now you're in for it. The believers must now flame the infidel.

  21. Who needs encryption? on Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just say "Mohammed was a murdering pedophile" and they'll be so hopping, bleeding-out-the-ears mad over the next several hours that they won't be listening to anything, especially not logic.

  22. Re:Airplanes on Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery · · Score: 1

    Like they'd ever allow you to bring the fuel on board these days anyway.

  23. Habitual on An Interview with a Cheater · · Score: 1

    "us modders are just making it more funner."

    It's obvious he cheats on his English tests, too. Most foreigners I know speak English better than he does.

  24. Don't come to America on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1

    Steve Linford should be careful of his travels to America. Who knows what could happen if he ever sets foot in this country. There is a difference between civil and criminal, but people operating perfectly legal online casinos in foreign countries have been arrested when visiting the US.

  25. Malfunctions? Bugs? on Programmed Sentencing in China · · Score: 1

    "Honestly, it says it right here, you get 1,250 years in hard labor for illegally parking your bicycle."