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  1. Re:Computer expert? on Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me allay any doubts.

    Besides all you need to get a name without numbers is be good at mispelling things.

  2. Re:OK. I'll speak the truth and take the hit. on The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is an extremely insightful comment. I would add his ability to market vaporware. Remember...He didn't even have DOS when he sold it to IBM.

  3. Re:OS/2 on The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depends on what you call a failure. Considering government and banks depended on it heavily for almost 20 years sounds like somewhat of a success to me.

  4. Re:Entirely new! on Review of Dell Inspiron Tablet/Laptop Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Do you still have it? That series has a thermal issue with the GPU and can usually be fixed rather easily.

  5. Sounds good to me on Cellphone Carriers Try To Control Signal Boosters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let them get the law but have it regulate all femtocels such that third parties can provide them to end users and carriers cannot charge extra for their use.

  6. Biologist? on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about this guy?

  7. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the classic example of a bureaucracy run amok and it's time for the politicians to do their jobs and regain control over it.

    Bureaucracy run amok is the very definition of a politician. What we need is a government for the people by the people and we haven't had that in a couple of generations...or we have and the people are very dumb.

  8. Re:Aren't the pipes already being paid for? on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 4, Informative

    That would in fact be fairer than what they are trying to do. Take comcast as a good example. They just purchased NBC. Now let's say you are a comcast customer and you want to stream an episode of Chuck and then an episode of NCIS. Chuck streams great no lag or stuttering but NCIS coughs and sputters and buffers all the way through and you just think CBS.com sucks compared to NBC.com but in fact comcast saw you were streaming a show from a competitors web site and flagged your packets with a low priority so all other traffic gets to go first. Then CBS cries foul and comcast tells them if they want their content to get delivered without interruption they'll have to pay a "protection" fee to ensure on-time delivery. Now imagine they are doing this to ABC.com, Google, Yahoo, etc., etc. If they can get this practice federally labeled legal they stand to add billions to their bottom line for relatively no extra work.

  9. Re:Unfortunately, no. on Microsoft Finally Certifies an Open Source Web App · · Score: 1

    Remember, there were people who insisted on buying IBM computers even after the Lenovo deal

    And why shouldn't they? Lenovo was always doing the building of IBM ThinkPads. When they purchased the rights from IBM they just changed the IBM logo to the Lenovo logo.

    For the record Microsoft has had BSD licensed code in Windows before (early TCP/IP stack).

  10. Are they still looking on Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are they finally expanding their search for Bin Laden?

  11. Re:Crossover on Court Returns Stolen Stargate MMO To Founder · · Score: 1

    Actually it was never disclosed but I believe the ring around DS9 was...in fact...A stargate. Sisko just never had Daniel Jackson to identify the last chevron. That and they already had a bad taste in their mouth from the things that came out of that darned wormhole.

  12. Re:really? on Pee On Your Phone STD Test · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would you have even looked at the article if the headline had been different? The headline is perfect and my entire office just laughed their asses of at cooking their testicles and then peeing on their phone.

  13. Re:Not Worth It Yet on Hulu Plus Now Available To All — But Be Warned · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should provide a link to PlayOn since you mentioned it. Been using PlayOn for almost two years and having HULU on my Wii/360/PS3/BD/Ipod Touch has been great. But I find I'm actually using some of the community created plug-ins even more than the baked in ones. It's not without it's gotcha's but when problems are identified the PlayOn team has been quick to patch and improve the service. Now we just need an updated DLNA protocol to improve the experience.

  14. Re:another Obama disappointment... on EPIC Files Lawsuit To Suspend Airport Body Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    I fully support the two party system. One on Friday and one on Saturday.

  15. Just make payments like Microsoft does on Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict · · Score: 2, Interesting

    She just needs to author 24 songs and perform them. Record the performances and give the RIAA or individual studio the rights to the songs she wrote. Since the jury said 24 songs are worth 1.5 million her debt is paid. I see an opportunity to retire early here. Where is that sheet music pad I got at the swap meet last year...

  16. Re:Don't mess with Larry on HP CEO Goes On the Lam As Oracle Hunts Him Down · · Score: 1

    You go around telling children there is no Santa Clause or Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy don't you?

  17. Re:Its the USERAGENT string on Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans? · · Score: 1

    So either deliberate or incredibly bad coding for a financial site.

    Or incredibly deliberate bad coding.

  18. Re:Oh, come on on Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I work at IHOP you insensitive clod!

  19. WiFi? on With the Jack PC, the Computer's In the Wall! · · Score: 1

    I saw "supports wireless connectivity" and wondered why a device that is POE would need WiFi. Need more caffeine.

  20. Re:so much for being open on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    Do current wire tapping laws cover texting? Serious inquiry as we all know laws tend to lag technology.

  21. Re:no on Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TROLL? SERIOUSLY? damn there are some script kiddies with mod points.

  22. Re:no on Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Moonlight works ok.

  23. Re:Memory hogging, CPU hogging. on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    I finally got tired of FF 3.6 causing my entire windows 7 Pro x64 PC to slow to a crawl after running a few hours so this last weekend I looked to see if they had released a 64 bit version and sure enough...they haven't. Fortunately Vector 64 took the time to recompile the source and I was able to download and install it. Getting the Beta Flash (Square) drivers from Adobe wasn't too hard. They work well but YMMV. I run Greasemonkey with numerous scripts and all seem to be working as expected. I have had it running for several days and now when I go check memory usage it is sitting at ~450MB right where it was when I launched it. The whole browsing experience is more fluid. Of course with all that beta code there are hiccups but they are much less frustrating than constantly fighting for control of my machine.

  24. The year of Linux on Everything HOORAY!!! on The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile? · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the year of Linux on Everything! *

    * Everything excludes the desktop

  25. Trick or Trick on Windows 8 To Be Released In October 2012 · · Score: 1

    October you say? How apropos.