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  1. Re:Google on Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing · · Score: 1

    funny thing is, I don't have an option to select bing as my default search provider the firefox search bar. So this recommendation isn't very strongly backed by action.

  2. Re:Animals eat other animals.... on UK Celebs Charged For Eating Rat · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    BTW, if the image of the white rat is the actual rat in question, it really does look like a feed stock rat as nearly all of them are white.

  3. Re:Animals eat other animals.... on UK Celebs Charged For Eating Rat · · Score: 1

    they are bred in even larger numbers to be fed live to snakes and lizards.

  4. Re:Severe Crash? on NASA Tests Flying Airbag · · Score: 1

    wrong.

    Unless the rotors are blown off somehow, they will continue to rotate and generate lift at any speed. Meanwhile, a fixed wing aircraft will stall at sufficiently low speeds and the only way to regain lift is to dive towards the ground at high speed, this places a high minimum velocity for fixed wing air crashes under most circumstances.

  5. Re:Netflix on D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix · · Score: 1

    That could be part of the "eventual" aspect. It may be implemented in moonlight at some point.

  6. Re:Half a game? on Pirates as a Marketplace · · Score: 1

    tell me about it. Right now, the only games I am playing are Lords of Magic special edition from the win95 era and dwarf fortress (a modern independent game with ASCII graphics).

  7. Re:Netflix on D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix · · Score: 1

    moonlight is a linux implementation of silverlight. It has at least some support from microsoft.

  8. Re:No on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 1

    I've had cause to use some iron (not nearly that big, but a 100+ node HADOOP cluster and the aforementioned 16 core video remixer) at work myself. But the GP was using that as a reference for a modern pc for use in displaying a browser, and it is completely inappropriate to assume that the average high end user is going to have a $10000-$20000 machine sitting on their desk.

  9. Re:Hold on, Hold on... on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 1

    on the first count: yes, if you type it into the chrome url bar.
    no if you are talking about anything else.

    on the second count: yes, it does.

    Not sure if there is a way to turn it off, you would have to fiddle around with it.

  10. Re:No on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 1

    What the hell are your developers doing to require that much horsepower? Thats almost as big of a horse as the live streaming HD video decoder/encoder/remixer we had at my last job. We had exactly one of these machines.

  11. crap on Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now the ecozealots will decry our spoiling of the natural martial environment, and will protest any attempt at colonization or terraformation as the destruction of a precious natural world.

  12. Re:*yawn* on The Struggle For Private Game Servers · · Score: 1

    It has its perks though. If you can unlock the girlfriend achievement, it puts the "hot coffee" exploit in GTA4 to shame.

    Just be careful about upgrading to Wife 1.0, it can seg fault and an uninstall typically means you loose half your item inventory.

  13. Re:Curious choice of analogies on Yale Researchers Find New RNA Structures · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its like this. There are trucks, and there are station wagons. Then all of a sudden you discover a new type of vehicle called an SUV that is a station wagon, but it looks like truck.

  14. Re:But... on Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Discussion of the inconsistencies of the bible, the nature of evolution, the age and origin of the universe, why its wrong to kill all infidels, anything rational. All of these things are deemed "not appropriate" by someone.

  15. Re:Good to see game developers put their foot down on New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board · · Score: 2, Insightful

    nukes are not a valid tool for removing rebellious citizens on your own soil.

  16. Re:Also announced... on Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49% · · Score: 1

    Actually, perhaps not. At a previous apartment serviced by COX, I hooked my tv up to the cable and they transmitted a handful of local channels, but not the rest of their basic package. It was not very useful as I could get the same channels clearer and in HD over the air, but it was there. I have no idea how common this is.

  17. Re:The most important sentence in the article: on Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music · · Score: 1

    movie coompany? pay back investors? hahahaha. Even the worlds biggest blockbusters with hundreds of millions of ticket sales and tens of millions of dvds sold will never make a profit sufficient to repay investors or writers. Its called hollywood accounting.

  18. Re:Prevent. on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    ahahaa. I actually do have a pile of printer guts in my crate of outdated computer parts. I've been to busy to actually build anything with them. I was planning on tacking them onto my boe-bot somehow but never got around to it.

  19. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    The upfront cost isn't even that significant. I've been looking around and there are quite a few black and white laser printers at or below the $100 mark. Though I am not certain about the quality.

  20. Re:Why? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    And when I ordered my internet service from the only provider in town (comcast) I specifically asked the operator about DNS redirects, download caps and forged RST packets. They lied. These verbal terms were what I agreed to, and they violated those terms.

  21. Re:Why? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know what? If I did what comcast has done with intercepting DNS requests and corrupting DNS responses, I would be committing 2 or more federal felonies, for profit no less. I would like some justice.

  22. Re:I'll admit... on Service Oriented Architecture With Java · · Score: 1

    I will certainly cede that .NET is the best language for windows GUI apps, in no small part to a well built drag and drop IDE (still has a few problems, why did they stop displaying keyboard shortcuts for common actions in VS2008?) And by advanced, I take that to mean, still evolving and not completely defined?

    C# is not a bad language, I actually prefer some of its reduced restrictions compared to java. But its still evolving and its starting to suffer from "to many ways to do something less efficiently".

  23. Re:I'll admit... on Service Oriented Architecture With Java · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have seen side by side performance comparisons of the same algorithms in java and c#. Java is at least twice as fast as c# and often as much as 2^3 times faster. The .NET architecture footprint, both in terms of disk space is also larger. In what way is .Net categorically superior?

  24. Re:So ... on Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor · · Score: 2, Funny

    All of them except windows.

  25. Re:Code Name is Offensive on Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor · · Score: 1

    I thought a bangalore was a man portable explosive, telescoping lance used to take out pill boxes in WW2?