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  1. Re:Norman Mailer "remembers" 9/11! on BBC Hails "fair" Microsoft XP SP1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's Norman Mailer. Who cares?

  2. Electorial Votes on Upcoming Cyberwars · · Score: 1

    'The rest of the world' has zero electorial votes, zero members of the US House of Representatives and zero Senators. The opinion of 'the rest of the world' is interesting but has zero impact on the policies of the USA. Aside from a very few euro-wannabes in the press and academia, Americans don't really think 'the rest of the world' has room to talk and that we would all be better off if 'the rest of the world' would shut it's collective pie-hole.

  3. Re:The more things changed ... on Upcoming Cyberwars · · Score: 0

    That's certainly a disgusting bit of propaganda.

  4. the code necessary to control the launch on Houston, We Have a Software Problem · · Score: 1

    Launching rockets into space is more of an engineering problem than a software problem. Newton figured out how to do it 500 years ago.

  5. they always ... on The Casimir Effect · · Score: 1

    they always what?

  6. Re:Personal Achievement on Public vs. Private Sector? · · Score: 1

    All of the people I've known who wanted to work for the government wanted nothing to do with personal achievement. They all wanted an easy secure job.

  7. Mets Online is online at Fox Sports on Baseball Cracks Down on Fan Sites · · Score: 1

    Bryan Hoch, the guy who operated metsonline before the clueless fucktards at MLB closed it down is now being paid to write a column called METS ONLINE for Fox Sports.

  8. A pleasent looking young lady on Faith Returns to Buffy · · Score: 1

    Having never seen this Buffy show that you speak of I had to do some research. I discovered that Eliza Dushku is an attractive woman.

  9. Re:Sigh... on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    Give him a break. It wasn't original or funny but it was neccessary.

  10. Re:pretty straightforward on Recommendations for Computer Repair Kits? · · Score: 1

    You should carry some spare little jumper thingys and a knife. And a shovel and a gun. And TUMS and aspirin.

  11. Re:bzzzt on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 1

    You're right. Microsoft has long been blessed with incompetent competitors. Novell had it in thier hands and dropped it.

  12. What can MP3 do for me that Ogg Vorbis can't? on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not trolling (this time). I really want to know.

  13. Re:It can't be... on Teachers College's for Educational Techology? · · Score: 1

    All things are possible with Techology.

  14. Re:Seems "minority report" is not far from reality on Police Database Lists 'Future Criminals' · · Score: 1

    We've done that before. We'll do it again.

  15. It is entirely correct on Liquid Audio: Better off dead? · · Score: 1

    A corporation is owned by the shareholders and operated for their benefit. The board is has no other obligations except to operate legally.

    And that, BTW, is how it should be.

  16. Success is only measured in $$$ on Web Profits in the Gutter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Every other measure is subjective and it would be supremely arrogant to assume that your subjective measurement is any better than the next guys.

  17. M1 ownz the battlefield on Electric Armor · · Score: 1

    The 68 tons is it's only real vulnerabilty. It's take an enormous amount of effort to get it to the battlefield. Most of the R&D going forward is going to be directed toward efforts to replace mass with technology.

  18. talk shows? on The Square Kilometer Array · · Score: 1

    We have Jerry Springer. We don't need no damn alien talk show.

  19. Re:Communist Manifesto not scary on Copyright Infringement In the News · · Score: 1

    Which part?

    In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

    I think you might be reading the Bible by mistake.

    Having read the Bible as well as the works of the many communist philosophers, I am unlikely to make that mistake.

  20. Stupid journalists on Recycling The First World, in the Third · · Score: 1

    "For money, people have made a mess of this good farming village"

    A starving village is a good village? Is it a rule in journalism that editors know nothing of economics?

  21. Communist Manifesto not scary on Copyright Infringement In the News · · Score: 1

    Yes it is.

  22. Re:Linking vs Spam on Restrictive Linking Policies & The Net · · Score: 1

    You're correct. And the technical solutions are similar, e.g; don't publish it, restrict the people that you will accept mail from.

  23. Re:Barry Goldwater on Debunking (some) DMCA Myths · · Score: 1

    +1 Quick

    You beat me to it

  24. Re:To be fair... on MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors? · · Score: 1

    That's why the Big Db companies fear it. They won't lose sales to customers who need the functionality they provide, they lose sales to customers who don't need the functionality they provide.

  25. Re:could be a good thing on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 1

    Yes and Yes. AT&T was buying congressmen before the recording industry was born.

    They are also aware of all of the potential lawsuits that could follow if they let this one slide. It's that concern, rather than the love of musical choice that will motivate them to fight.

    IIRC, the big ISPs have always held that they were not responsible for what traverses their wires.