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  1. Re:It's called apathy on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    And some of us are clever enough to buy Macs on which there's no price premium. Aren't we smart?

  2. Re:Hrmm on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    And anybody who chooses to express themselves in something other than the One True Dialect is not allowed to speak! PERFECT!

    Or, NOT.

  3. Politics is hard. on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Free speech is a bitch when people who disagree with you are speaking, huh?

    Get organized. Fight them. They are winning right now because they play the game better.

  4. Re:Meanwhile... on New ChromaLife 100 Canon Printer Inkset · · Score: 1

    Of course I don't trust them. They're all packs of liars.

  5. Re:Movies and Music are different on Musicians on Internet & Filesharing · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're going to grouse about over-produced, The White Stripes isn't a good place to go. How do you over-produce a guy with a guitar and a gal with a drum kit?

    It might not be to your taste, but it's not "over-produced".

  6. Re:Meanwhile... on New ChromaLife 100 Canon Printer Inkset · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my great great great grandfather gave me a pic he printed on his HP Vivera in the 1902!

    Oh wait, no he didn't.

    I don't trust HP's testing methodology. They have too much incentive to lie.

  7. Re:Closed vs. Open on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 1

    Simple question.

    Would you rather drive an old Beetle, or a BMW M5?

    I really am curious as to where these cars with no user serviceable parts come from. I'm looking at what people are doing with cars at SEMA, and I simply don't see what you're complaining about. Need a gazillion dollar shop to replace a fuse? Dude! What are you driving? The Space Shuttle?

  8. Re:Beautyfull... on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 2, Funny

    linkg

    BALEETED.

  9. Re:IMO, apple has given back 'enough' on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 1

    Rendezvous is an IETF standard. Apple just gave it a cool name. (Oh yeah, and wrote most of it, improved it immeasurably, and gave it back to all of us.)

    http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/sep/25rende zv ous.html

  10. Re:Text of joemarini.com link on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for reposting...I was curious to read the middle part of the discussion.

    Reverse engineering a feature doesn't require looking at the source code. If PageMaker had wanted to be feature-compliant with Quark, they could have replicated the features themselves. Having Quark's source code wouldn't necessarily have helped them.

  11. Re:Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OK, they skew two video feeds and put all three in a frame. I don't really see how crazy that is. I mean, it's neat and all, but it doesn't seem "magical".

    I love my Powerbook, and I'm going to buy Tiger as soon as I can get my grubby hands on it. But the iChat thing is just kinda neat, not "magic".

  12. Re:Now you needn't ask on The Future of Holograms · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except for the hard part nobody's figured out how to do yet, it's simple.

  13. Re:Holograms on The Future of Holograms · · Score: 1

    How would that scientist be not human?

  14. Re:Holograms on The Future of Holograms · · Score: 1

    You might read the Golden Transcendence trilogy by John C. Wright. It gets a little Objectivist-y in the second book, but it deals with this issue.

    Interesting stuff.

  15. Re:Flat middle states -- no vanishing on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    OK, so we zap the Mississipi basin (with the high population density cities that went blue) and the East coast.

    I'm still trying to figure out how red voters are at risk from sea levels rising. Not that it's a meaningful dichotomy...it was just a pretty silly thing to assert.

  16. Re:Different experience w/ ThinkPads on IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    All of those together are less demanding than Half Life 2.

  17. Re:murder? on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Murder requires intent. Intent requires proof. Saying that expelling CO2 is "murder" will require some pretty smooth lawyering.

  18. Re:Illegal? on Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks · · Score: 1

    Sure, fraud is illegal. Not doing what you said you were going to do is not necessarily fraud. Clicking on a link is not necessarily fraud.

  19. Re:Norway real estate on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Try it. Let me know what happens. Don't feel bad...Aristotle was wrong about what would happen if you tied a feather to an anvil and dropped them.

    The difference in volume is the ice that protrudes above the meniscus of the liquid water. So, yes, the total volume of the ice/water system does decrease as the ice melts, but the level of water in the glass does not change.

  20. Re:Evil? Re:Progress? on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uh, so you profit (get a paycheck) because somebody else does that sort of thing.

    Sure, if that helps you sleep at night, cool. Whatever.

  21. Re:Illegal? on Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks · · Score: 1

    How is violating an agreement with another company illegal?

    It might get me sued, but it's not against the law to break (most) contracts.

  22. Re:Evil? Re:Progress? on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it's that obvious, why does somebody need to pay you to do it?

    I mean, sure, there's good money in snake oil, but aren't there better uses of your time and talents?

  23. Re:OMGWTFBBQ! on IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    They jumped into the Linux services business pretty fast, and pretty successfully. I wouldn't count them out.

  24. Re:Different experience w/ ThinkPads on IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    "driving technology very hard"? Running MS Office (the backbone of corporate computing) doesn't drive anything, except the users crazy.

  25. Re:Evil? Re:Progress? on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1

    Nice proof by assertion.

    What DOES PageRank rank on?