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  1. More... on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... stupid intellectual property bullshit.

  2. Re:! science on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 3, Informative

    " mere names of places...are not geography... know by heart a whole gazetteer full of them would not, in itself, constitute anyone a geographer. Geography has higher aims than this: it seeks to classify phenomena (alike of the natural and of the political world, in so far as it treats of the latter), to compare, to generalize, to ascend from effects to causes, and, in doing so, to trace out the great laws of nature and to mark their influences upon man. This is 'a description of the world' -that is Geography. In a word Geography is a Science -a thing not of mere names but of argument and reason, of cause and effect. "

    -William Hughes, 1863

  3. Re:culture on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Actually this is entirely true. I had a couple of very inspiring teachers growing up & they were inspiring not just to me, but had a profound, positive effect on the entire class.

  4. Re:What the hell? on Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status · · Score: 1

    More, usually. Nothing wrong with being polite.

  5. Re:Do you really need to ask? on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Fallout Tactics for $6. After you cracked the DRM, patched it & prayed, that game was about the most fun you can have with a semi-modern squad strategy game.

  6. Re:W/Regards to layoffs: on RIAA Sued For Fraud, Abuse, & "Sham Litigation" · · Score: 1

    I read that as Obama's chauffeur. Caused one hell of a mental disconnect.

  7. Re:What? on Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Yes, just like every other company in the prison business.

  8. Re:annoyed on The Future of Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    At least only two of our dialects sound retarded.

  9. Re:*sigh* on Google Joins EU Antitrust Case Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yet another person who doesn't understand why we regulate monopolies.

  10. Re:Representatives of the People on Australian Internet Censorship Plan Torpedoed · · Score: 1

    I'd say voting them out would be a good way of accounting for it. Lynchings are good too.

  11. Re:With RedHat. on Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    In Kubuntu I just open the System Monitor. :D

  12. Re:Am I missing something? on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    Yes, did you forget the question you asked?

    "What about Ubuntu? Does it have to offer a choice as well?"

  13. Re:Am I missing something? on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu offers about 100 choices, it's called Synaptic.

  14. Re:Facebook appears to have fixed it already. on Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout · · Score: 1

    Facebook does not have a monopoly on anything at all.

  15. Re:People Against the new Terms of Service on Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's called MySpace.

  16. Re:End Copyright on Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday · · Score: 1

    You are a total fucking moron if you think incarcerating pot smokers has a benefit to society.

  17. Moth Balls on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    Moth balls will keep most vermin away from an area for a couple of months or until the dissolve.

  18. Re:Commercial apps are in for REAL trouble. on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 1

    Well AutoDesk *used* to make a version of AutoCAD for Unix, so I'm sure it wouldn't take a whole lot for them to get rolling on that ball again if it was worth it to them.

  19. Re:The big deal on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 1

    Which makes me wonder what happens when a government willfully violates the GPL. How do you sue Cuba or South Korea for violations?

  20. Re:Replace Microsoft? on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 1

    Then why don't they have newer cars there? From everything I've read & seen they are still driving around patchwork American antiques.

  21. Re:Universal Remote on Euro Parliament Wants "Red Button" For Shutting Down Games · · Score: 1

    Here you go, a remote for your computer. I have one of these & it works just fine. Does everything you just asked for basically, even has a big red button on the top of it.

    It even works on Linux as an X10 device.

    http://www.snapstream.com/Products/Firefly/

    Problem solved :D

  22. Re:I was expecting a hamster wheel... on Scientists Harvest Nano-Power From Hamsters · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but what happens when you get caught out in the rain in this stuff?

  23. Re:Uh oh... on Scientists Harvest Nano-Power From Hamsters · · Score: 1

    Well go play it. It's not like it won't run on WINE. Even better, play BG1 in the BG2 Engine.

    http://www.pocketplane.net/mambo/index.php?option=content&task=blogcategory&id=143&Itemid=98

  24. Uh oh... on Scientists Harvest Nano-Power From Hamsters · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope no one tells Minsc!

  25. Re:Ummm... on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I had the same concerns so I did what you did & wrote a letter. I swear I got almost the exact same form letter from my *republican* senator & I'm in Florida.