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  1. Re:Payback Time! on AMD Papers Over Free Wi-Fi Network Builders · · Score: 1
    That will get them the kind of publicity they don't need.

    Especially if the typical /. crowd wears them. RUN AWAY FROM THE HOTSPOT

  2. Re:Whats this "we" stuff? on Blizzard's World of Warcraft Beta Goes Live · · Score: 0, Troll

    you're new here aren't you.

  3. Re:Disturbing mention... on Sub-atomic Particles Used To Map Pyramid · · Score: 1
    What happened to scientific inquisitiveness?

    Nothing, but you have to convince some knucklehead to give you the money and nothing hits home like a terrorist threat.

  4. Re:Verizon Super pages Map Based Search on Who Are My Neighbors, Mr.Search Engine? · · Score: 1
    within driving distances

    So like from the west coast to the east coast, and Canada to Mexico ....unless of course you are on an island....or don't have a car. ;)

  5. Re:Lie Detector on NASA Develops Tech To Hear Words Not Yet Spoken · · Score: 1

    Scary ? Only if you intend to lie. ;)

  6. Re:From the article on Searching the 'Deep Web' · · Score: 1

    however each of those patents would probably contain a link to the main page, so theoretically the main page would rank higher. and how many pages would link directly to the patent pages ? Just because it searches deep doesn't mean they are doing away with whatever page ranking algorithm they use.

  7. Re:It's obvious on Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO · · Score: 1

    What are the odds your PC has any important data left and having windows crash on it every month or so...

  8. Re:Key point on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water" · · Score: 1

    Press-release after launching a nuke at mars.

    The Good news is there was life on mars, the bad news is there WAS life on mars.

  9. Isn't this.... on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    The same company that has an exploit written for an OS that is yet to be released ??

  10. Re:You're right.. on Sony Delays PSP To 2005 · · Score: 1

    Same parents who got their kid a PS/2 last christmas. ;)

  11. Re:why pick on the Aeron? on Last Great Internet Bubble Auction · · Score: 1

    I would love to have an Aeron. As it stands (sits?) we all have Herman Miller chairs but they are ugly green circa 1980's chairs, that have no support and have succumbed to wear and tear. The vertical lift is broken so depending on how hard you sit down directly determines how fast the air leaks out and you are basically sitting on the floor. Now our cubes, thats another rant....

  12. Re:BBC huh on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    perhaps because all the U.S. news are focused on the 'shock and awe' happy time shiny news (Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and friends). Action figures now available, collect them all !

  13. Re:Opportunity costs too high on Brine on Mars? · · Score: 1

    What if it could send email too ?

  14. Re:Which Side? Re:The Uncanny Valley on A New Face For Robotics · · Score: 1

    They laughed at me when I grafted the chainsaw to my hand. Well who's laughing now funboy !!!

  15. Re:what would waterhouse say?! on Folded Newtonian Telescope · · Score: 1

    One author is fiction, and one author is completely accurate ? Now who is living in an imaginary world.

  16. Re:also covered on cnn.com on Arrest in Caridi FBI Investigation · · Score: 1

    Anymore ? I thought they just had a button they found in a cereal box that said 'respectabilicious'.

  17. Nothing was heard from spirit... on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    Until Oppurtunity landed and then a loud whooping "PEAK-A-BOO".

    Maybe Spirit didn't like the wake-up music selectiona and hit the snooze button.

  18. Re:maybe... on IBM Supporting Linux On Power Processors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't agree with the 'wants to dump AIX' comment. AIX is ridiculously stable, has a great suite for system management and program installation. IBM won't dump AIX until they can convince themselves and their customers that the same or better functionality is available on Linux. I use AIX everyday and it PAINS me to go to linux.

  19. Re:Clueless... like a fox on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    There is an alternative to a two party and a one party sysem. Here is a hint its a number greater than two.

  20. Re:probably best left on the drawing board... on 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    betamax ?

    And yet it is only now being supplanted by Digital in the Television industry. I hate people and their closed mindedness about technology.

  21. Re:What's the point? on New Sony Minidisc Players · · Score: 1

    1. Anti-skip. I have two md portable recorders and it skips so little that I often think the battery has died than I have actually managed to skip it.

    2. Quality. The MD player sounds a lot better to me than any mp3 player I have tried. The only time I run into quality problems is if I take an already poor quality mp3 and add it to the MD player as a 4x Compression.

    3. It's only Sony's stepchild in N.A., elsewhere it is exteremely popular.

    3. My most recent MD player has Sony's DRM on it, and for that reason and that reason alone I no longer tell people how good of a solution the MD recorder is. Except for concerts and whatnot that you want to record.

  22. Re:Standard batteries = better on Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus · · Score: 1

    And it rarely if ever skips depending on how bouncy-bouncy you get. I think my newest Minidisc has skipped twice, once while jogging down some stairs, and once when I fell at the bottom of the stairs...but it could have been concussion.

  23. Re:Standard batteries = better on Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus · · Score: 1

    In fact my MiniDisc does have an lcd (two if you count the remote) and a backlight on the remote. It has extremely sophisticated electronics to save battery life, as well as all the standard equilization methods.

  24. Re:Blame Canada!^WApple! on Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus · · Score: 1

    If you're buying a product with a 1 year warrenty, realize that you might just have to replace it after that time, or repair it. Hell $99 for a new iPod battery? Sounds like a good deal to me. I'd gladly pay Apple $49 to make sure I don't fuck up my iPod installing a $50 battery. This is a case of Apple finding a need of their customers that managed to get some of the shorter life batteries (and eventually the other customers) and responding.

    For the love of god. The estimated battery life, or number of charges the battery was expected to yield was not documented in the manual. The Brothers said the NEW Apple Policy of extended warranty and replacement costs was FAIR. They just didn't have it before the brothers complained. The company policy was not just from the service department it was also from the Apple Executive ?department? where the brothers had sent the IPod. But then all this content was actually in the article and the links, and what fun is it to read those since they may influence your rash and ridiculous judgements.

  25. Re:Apple doesn't make batteries on Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus · · Score: 1

    Even if you do think it's crap, don't bitch about it. Go and buy an iPod competitor, which will either be bigger, have no hard drive, take longer to upload to, have a non solid-state controls, have jaggy edges, have a crap user interface, or some combination thereof.

    Of course the reason you can't buy something similar is Apple Patents.