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  1. NetHack is way ahead on In-Game Advertising Breaks Out · · Score: 2, Funny

    NetHack's Mail Daemon has been delivering spam to me for years.

  2. Re:Not the first; not revolutionary on Revolutionary Spam Firewall Developed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't "spam firewall" just a marketing term for "filter"?

  3. Re:Auto-sense the OS? on Cherry Announces Linux keyboard · · Score: 1
    That keyboard would suck to type on without any tactile feedback.

    On the other hand, if it had actual keys that could change their labels on the fly . . .

  4. Re:Maybe because it's slow ? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    Why, are we just supposed to look the other way and ignore Java's enormous overhead now? You're not suggesting it's actually gone, are you?

  5. Re:Is there really a need? on Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like what? What is there that easily allows people to create databases that exist as a single file, which can be sent to others in email and opened without any setup at all?

  6. Re:Nature vs. Nurture relate to Free Will on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    This is a very good post; you show a remarkable understanding of both sides of these issues. Tell me, why are you a conservative? What is it in particular that makes you identify with one side, when you can clearly see the merits and shortcomings of both?

  7. Re:liberal != compassionate on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 0

    To paraphrase: conservatives believe the poor should be helped, just that they shouldn't have to be the ones doing it.

  8. Re:Do We Really Need Mandatory Insurance? on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    If you're driving a $30,000 car and don't have the wherewithal to easily absorb "several thousand dollars in medical bills", you've got personal finance problems.

  9. Re:Specific Ocean? on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 0, Troll
    And apparently 0 out of 1 National Geographic surveyors knows how to express proportions as percentages. Which is clearer: "23 out of 56", or "41%"?

    Unless they're saying they only asked 56 kids to begin with. In which case the "fact" is bunk and shouldn't have been published.

  10. Re:Specific Ocean? on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually having WMD is not a prerequisite for U.S. invasion.

  11. Re:Anti-Personnel? on Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot · · Score: 1
    Set 100 loose on a bunch of terrorists holding up in a holy-site like say, oh I don't know, a mosque in Iraq?

    Is "terrorist" now interchangeable for "enemy"?

  12. Re:Active vs Passive on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 1
    In this instance, the infantile Democrats are actively doing whatever they can to prevent the Republicans from communicating their message.

    Please submit evidence that the Democratic Party is behind this, thx.

  13. Re:Why isn't this YRO? on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 1
    In light of such actions, how can one associate "liberty" with "liberal" anymore?

    Yes, because all liberals are in favor of this and are going to be running this software, clearly.

    Logic is such a scarce commodity when political propaganda is involved. Nice one-liner, though . . . I expect I'll hear the sound bite on Fox News tonight.

  14. Re:I'm sure I'm in the minority... on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Digital != lossy compression.

    Grandparent has a point . . . a sound file produced with lossy compression is of lower quality than the same song purchased on CD. This is a fact, not a matter of opinion.

    In other words, the digital vs. analog argument is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT discussion from the compression vs. no compression argument.

  15. Re:0wnership? on Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership · · Score: 1

    Just admit you didn't get the joke the first time around. It's really quite obvious that you were teh 0wned.

  16. Re:Ironic when you consider the ethos of the origi on Gene Doping: Genetically Engineered Athletes · · Score: 1
    Why should they be ashamed? It's their bodies. It's not like I have any money riding on the outcome.

    Because it's against the rules and dishonest, duh. I sincerely hope you don't make all of your ethical decisions based on the financial outcome.

  17. Re:Corporate puppets on States Threaten P2P Companies · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what it means; the point is that the term "consumer" coming from the Attorneys General is inappropriate at best. "Constituents" would be a more proper term.

  18. Re:College Experience Worth Less? Sort of... on Northface University - Computer Science in Half the Time? · · Score: 1

    Kurt Vonnegut foresaw exactly this in Player Piano. Even the secretaries had PhD's.

  19. Re:newsflash on Time Warp Computer Pricing Revealed · · Score: 1

    RTFA; the story is about Australia. Hot snow falls up.

  20. Re:segway hard to get for Europeans on Segway Revolutionizes Polo · · Score: 0

    Your article was interesting until I got to the part where you're trying to sell some bullshit garbage, you fucking spammer.

  21. Re:Well at least it's doing something! on Segway Revolutionizes Polo · · Score: 2, Informative
    My first mac (a Mac II with a 15inch color monitor) cost $5000 too.

    However, it didn't have about a billion cheaper, better alternatives for what it did, like the Segway does.

  22. Re:Cat got your tongue Florida? on How To Lose An Election · · Score: 4, Insightful
    When you have the NAACP endorsing a white democrat over a black republican, what is going on here?

    If that candidate's policies are better for African Americans overall, the NAACP's action was right. Blindly endorsing a candidate solely based on the color of his skin would be silly.

  23. Re:Dell on Annual Customer Support Rankings · · Score: 1
    Oh, and don't forget - you can't lodge a complaint through the phone system. You have to use their website. Smells like BS to me. How many people are going to take the time to do that extra step?

    More importantly, how many people are going to take that extra step ON A BROKEN COMPUTER?!

  24. Re:It's called whistleblowing on Ted Turner's Beef With Big Media · · Score: 1
    People on the "inside" don't whistle-blow( if they have half a brain).

    Half a brain, or low ethics? I don't think ethical business behavior is tied directly to intelligence.

  25. Re:Is this kosher? on Storing Data In Cow Guts? · · Score: 1
    Well, it will definitely offend vegans such as myself.

    I guess I should tell you, then, that your computer's case already contains animal products.