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  1. Re:GoogleOS on GmailFS - The Google File System · · Score: 0

    Yes, obviously, since Google made this addon and all

  2. Re:Reminds me of several previous MS efforts on Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS · · Score: 3, Informative

    What was it - Cairo? Chicago? They ended up dumping them, and putting the "doable" stuff into their next "mainstream" product.

    Cairo and Chicago both became mainstream products.

    Neptune (WinME successor, for consumers) and Odyssey (2000 successor, for business) were merged together to create Whistler, which wound up becoming Windows XP.

  3. Re:Only out of politeness... on JibJab Wins - 'This Land' is Public Domain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imagine that huh? The most primitive people around actually give their kids choice of their beliefs.

  4. puberty on Happy 13th Birthday Linux! · · Score: 4, Funny

    soon its voice will be cracking and hair will be apearing in places it never appeared befeore

  5. Re:Wooohooo! on Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what, if you do something I didn't ask you to do, and do it for me on your own time, I'm required to be grateful, even if I don't like it?

    "What the hell do you mean you dont want the manual shifting car and want your automatic back? it's better man! can't you see that! god you're so ungrateful!"

  6. Re:Matchmaker Dating Services on Virtual Girlfriend · · Score: 1, Funny

    The ones who had parents who took thalidomyde

  7. Re:And punish legitimate users? on Controversial StarForce Copy Protection Creators Quizzed · · Score: 1

    Actually, if it came with a GPS then wouldn't that make it OEM software, and therefore illegal to move the license without moving the hardware?

  8. Re:And punish legitimate users? on Controversial StarForce Copy Protection Creators Quizzed · · Score: 1

    The article writer is clearly a moran. (Yes, I spelled it that way on purpose.)

    Why?


    Because it's a running joke on fark.com that stems from a photo of an anti-war protest with a guy holding a sign that says GET A BRAIN, MORANS

  9. Re:To *really* fix tivo... on The Programmer Who Could Save Tivo · · Score: 1

    than regular Tivo + digital cable box, in my experience (which is what I currently have)

    i havent heard any first hand experience, what is tivo like with a cable box? is it like using a cable box on a vcr, IE only the currently active channel can be recorded, or can you record one thing and watch another

  10. Re:Very long list on Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is why $diety invented the home directory. It's there, I don't understand why app developers refuse to use it. Especially on nix based systems like Linux and OS X, where you just put a .appname folder and put the config files in there and the user doesn't see it unless they want to.

    Life would be much easier (especially in the way windows installs programs. On the mac you can juts copy your apps folder over to a new install and they'll all work, try doing that with Program Files)

  11. Re:Um... on Netscape 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Either time travellers from the future (just to mess with our heads) or there was a glitch in the matrix?

    Dey took er code!!!!

  12. omgwtfbbq on Survival Time for Unpatched Systems Cut by Half · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i think we all know by now that windows is insecure and should stop paying people to study this

  13. Re:This IS news! on Apple Patents 'Chameleon' Computer Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last time I checked Dell is making the machines running Windows XP

    mac is built on that little thing... ah crap whats it called... its really big with all those computer science nerds. eu---eu.... eunuchs?

  14. Re:pathetic on Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar. · · Score: 1

    Advertising Mozilla on slashdot is preaching to the choir man

  15. successor? on Apple's Motion Now Shipping · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So is this considered a successor to LiveType which is bundled with FCP and FCP:HD, or is it a totally separate product. As in, is LT going to stop coming with FCP?

  16. Stupid question on Emergency Alert System Insecure · · Score: 1

    But why are these problems being brought to light NOW instead of the ~7 years ago when the EAS replaced the EBS?

    In the age of terrorism suddenly every fucking thing is exploitable, yet none of this was brought to light when whatever legacy app was implemented 10 years ago.

  17. Re:tornado sirens too? on Emergency Alert System Insecure · · Score: 1

    That's why you get a screwdriver and pry/pop the trigger off the wall. There's a simple switch behind it to trigger the alarm, no dye.

    I learned this this summer while seeing them test the fire alarm at my old HS.

  18. Re:Dear FCC on Emergency Alert System Insecure · · Score: 1

    I think everyone had figured it out when the only thing on every news^H^H^H^Htelevision station was the crashing planes and collapsing towers

  19. Re:eBay you say? on Ebay Buys Into Craiglist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, the interweb rocks, I downloaded it last night.

    I already beat it
    the end guy is hard

  20. Re:Are they reading my mind? on Speculation About An Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    That's hardly a prototype photo, more like a pencil sketch
    it could be a picture frame for all we know from that

  21. AOL service on You've Got PC · · Score: 1

    I must say, even though a majority of it is still crap and bloat, AOL's service HAS improved since Steve Case stepped down as CEO. Any time I have to use it at a friend's house I always get on in the first try, and it's usually a 52000bps conneciton. Not to mention you can now get AOL email over standard IMAP, and there's rumors that standard Dialup Networking connecting is on the way.

  22. Re:Yes, But.... on On the Possible Handtop Paradigm Shift · · Score: 1

    And can it run Linux?

  23. Re:Input on On the Possible Handtop Paradigm Shift · · Score: 1

    Have you considered a Cappuccino PC? Most are about the size of your average CDROM drive.

  24. Re:The reason I chose the PC over Apple... on Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If opening the case voided your warranty, I seriously doubt Apple would put a fucking hinged door on the side of the case.

    I can get a serial ATA hard drive from CompUSA. Where the fuck did you come up with sending it back to Apple?

    And if you're going to screw up the mobo and CPU by disconnecting and reconnecting a hard drive, maybe you should take up a new hobby other than computers. Like sitting in the corner and drooling.

  25. Re:The reason I chose the PC over Apple... on Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited · · Score: 1

    Yes, Apple has certainly never provided any free, major updates via Software Update. (And I do mean 'major' for previous owners of OS X. New features and all. If somebody knows which versions it was -- since OS X updates tend to go free/pay/free/pay, etc., help me out.)


    10.1 was a free update. Kind of Apple's way of saying "Sorry" for 10.0