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  1. Re:Patrick McGoohan Dead at 80 on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 1

    The question remains: Who is number 3?

  2. Re:$400 a month? on Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later · · Score: 1

    I live in an apartment. A designated historical site, at that. No balcony, No porch = no dish. Sux to be me.

  3. Re:Flash, Word, Excel are Mac apps on Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone · · Score: 1

    Checking my facts:

    Flash has always been Mac and Windows.

    Word for Mac was released in 1985.
    The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989.

    Redmond released the first version of Excel for the Mac in 1985, and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the Mac and bundled with a run-time Windows environment) in November 1987.

  4. Flash, Word, Excel are Mac apps on Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In fact I bet they were on Mac long before they were on Windows.

  5. Mod parent up! on "See-Through" Touchscreen Solves Fat Finger Problem · · Score: 1

    Would have mentioned it myself that Apple already has the patent.

  6. UK? Text in English? on Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn! Sure I can buy it on Ebay, but I speak American.

  7. No Internet and Hitler lost anyway on Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler · · Score: 1

    So there.

  8. Safari mode on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 1

    Since Safari has had the privacy mode feature for years.

  9. Re:I've seen the trailers on 30 Minutes of Frank Miller's The Spirit Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or it might be somewhere in between.

  10. As Wendy Carlos would say on A Computer Composing and Playing Jazz · · Score: 1

    "Random music is randomly boring"

  11. So what? on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    It's pretty much been common knowledge for the past 2 years that this race would belong to someone from the Democratic party. The article should have compared Hillary Clinton's coverage up until the time Obama got the nomination.

  12. Re:I shudder to think on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Bill Nelson youtube reference (warning, kid of loud)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmmhyrvRsE

  13. Re:Greens on Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says · · Score: 1

    IOW a green does not vote democrat, they vote GREEN PARTY.

  14. Re:Greens on Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says · · Score: 1

    Hint: Green != Democrat

  15. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Obama has already started changing his position on the topic.
    Then denied it.
    http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/techies-keep-an.html [wired.com]
    Keep a close eye on this one.

    Whoa, Nellie! I did take a close look at the archive of Obama's Technology page and compared the only part where "network neutrality" is mentioned on each version.

    Before
    First version fetched at
    2008 Jul 28 19:23 PT

    Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.

    After
    Second version fetched at
    2008 Sep 17 18:54 PT

    Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.

  16. And what's up with /. and google analytics???? on Google Profiling Social Network Users · · Score: 1

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  17. Re:Greens on Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says · · Score: 1

    CrazyJim1: "The greens don't seem like they have any specific leader they follow"

    you: "They may not follow a specific leader, but I drew up a Venn diagram, ..."

    me: "No, you described me, a typical liberal."

    you again: "Hint: I was describing the typical liberal."

    Hint: that's what I said, and not what you were saying.

  18. Greens on Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says · · Score: 1

    They may not follow a specific leader, but I drew up a Venn diagram, and the overlap across "Obama", "Starbucks", "Apple", "Al Gore", and "Trendy fucking hipster" is overwhelming.

    No, you described me, a typical liberal. My brother is a Green and the only thing on that list he favors is "Apple". He's voting Green party, not Obama; doesn't patronize evil Starbucks; once warned me against Al Gore's efforts to destroy freedom of speech; and is stuck in the late '60s as far as trends go.

  19. Re:konfabulator on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Well, I had a real world calculator on my real world desktop long before that silly Sidekick program came to be. So there!

    arrrrrrrrrrr.

  20. Please, it's "Native American" on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sorry to be the PC police here, but "Indian" is a derogatory term for Native Americans.

  21. Re:Bull fucking shit on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    Gee, they managed to make a toy car that can extract hydrogen from water using solar power.

    If a toy car company can do it, Ford can probably manage the task.

  22. Make money slowly on Successful Moonlighting For Geeks? · · Score: 1

    It took a while, but now I make about $20/month with Dreamhost rewards/referrals. It's free to get an ID, and once set up takes virtually no effort on my part. This explains how the rewards program works.

  23. The obvious solution on Childless Adults In Park To Be Interrogated · · Score: 1

    is to just grab a random kid.

  24. Re:More than scientific learning on LHC Success! · · Score: 3, Funny

    We await the results of the test with couched enthusiasm!

  25. Re:Monty Python? on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    "I never wanted to be president. I always wanted to be... ....a LUMBERJACK!"