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  1. Re:The Illinois experience on "Cumulative Voting" Method Gaining Attention · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because they'll vote for Sarah Palin.

  2. Pirate Bay opponents never watched Star Wars on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "If you kill me now I will be more powerful then you ever will be."

  3. Re:huh? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm -->

    You

  4. It's not poorly crafted... on The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's crafted exactly like Microsoft wants it to look and behave.

  5. The Books Darl Missed on SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX" · · Score: 1

    New Riders - Advanced Linux Programming
    No Starch Press - Programming Linux Games
    OReilly - Linux System Programming
    Prentice Hall - A Practical Guide to Linux Commands Editors and Shell Programming
    Prentice Hall - Linux for Programmers and Users
    Prentice Hall - The Linux Programmer's Toolbox
    Que - Linux Programming by Example
    Sams - Linux Programming 2007 UnLeashed
    Springer - Guide To Assembly Language Programming In Linux
    Wiley - Assembly Language Step-By-Step - Programming With DOS And Linux
    Wordware - Advanced Linux 3D Graphics Programming
    Wordware - Linux 3D Graphics Programming
    Wrox - Beginning Linux Programming
    Wrox - Professional Linux Programming

  6. Re:But I Don't Want To Be In The Boardroom on Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    See, that's the difference between you and them. You think this article was meant to be humorous. They don't.

  7. Re:Still a reason not to buy on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 1

    But the Geek Squad does exist and there is proof that they do steal music from their customers and share it.

  8. 3 Choices on Better Communication with Non-Technical People? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Give your manager 3 choices. The first choice won't quite solve the problem. The second choice costs way too much. The third choice is the one you want him to pick.

  9. Re:Huh? on Fruit Flies Show Spark of Free Will · · Score: 1

    >> ...atheism has 'determinism'.

    No, atheism has no god. That's all.

  10. Re:thats better than on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    *You* may think so, but do they?

  11. Once again.. on Hilf Claims Free Software Movement Dead · · Score: 1

    Once again, why does anyone care what an employee of company says about a competitor?

    It'd be news if he said something like "Hey, open source will eat our lunch."

  12. Why do we care what he says? on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain why we care what CEO of Company B says about the products of Company A?

    If they are partners they say "Greatest thing since sliced bread.".

    If they are competitors they say "It'll be a bust, terrible.....".

  13. Re:Danger... on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    The Pinto was named after the horse (meaning painted, piebald, mottled). It was the smallest/slowest/cheapest in the line of Pony Cars: Mustang, Maverick, Pinto.

  14. Re:fuck the military on Military System Offers Worldwide Cell Access · · Score: 1

    Oooohh, bitter much?

    The next change possible is scheduled for November 2008.

  15. Re:oh good on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought Lost was just a re-hash of Gilligan's Island with just enough 90210 brooding and staring thrown in to make you think something is actually going to, eventually, advance the plot (assuming there is one, which I doubt).

  16. Re:For Internal Consumption Only on China - We Don't Censor the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Almost everyone will be in Beijing for the Olympics and only in Beijing. Any number of visitors you think are "LARGE" (I assume you're a US citizen, CAlifornia?) are not really large for them. The margin of error in their population count is about the same as the entire population of the US. Even 200,000 new visitors at any one time to Beijing is only about a 1.3% increase in population, not such a big deal. Most of the city wouldn't even notice because these visitors won't be using the same facilities as the locals.

    The Chinese government isn't concerned about minor leakage around the Great Firewall, they know it happens. Heck, I was just involved with a project that needed a faster connection with lower latency to the Beijing office and we bought/leased a private fast connection from Malaysia or Hong Kong or some such place that entirely bypassed the government firewall. Totally legal, totally legit.

    What the Chinese government seems to be concerned about is managing the volume of information influx so as to manage the rate of change that is occurring. It seems they see and accept change, they just want to manage the rate of change to forestall any catastrophic problems. Now, I'm not an apologist for the government of China, I think they're generally a bunch of despotic asses. But they do have a problem "upgrading" 1.4 billion people who have almost no concept of laissez faire economics.

  17. Re:For Internal Consumption Only on China - We Don't Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    No, in 2008 they'll either just open up the Great Firewall or open it to those connections used by foreigners. Then afterward it'll go back to normal. They already accommodate visitors so gratuitously that it's almost embarrassing. The locals know and understand the arbitrariness of the enforcement of laws and the deference shown foreigners even they know this will happen.

  18. Damn on Graphics Coming to Google Ads · · Score: 1

    Just damn.

  19. I've been in wrecks in BOTH on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    As probably one of the few people who've been in wrecks in both a Corvair and a Pinto I've go to tell you that neither car was as bad as people who've never driven them made them out to be.

  20. RSTS/E on What Are Your Favorite Computing Memories? · · Score: 1

    Hcked across the local community college PDP-11 running RSTS/E back in 1977. (From the terminal at my high school!)

    80's, 90's, bah, young kids.

  21. Slashvertisement on Blank Keyboard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can an ad submitted as an article get any more obvious?

  22. Re:"Buy the beer first...", famous last words on Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC · · Score: 1

    Maybe that should be: The distance between "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and a Darwin award can be measured in six-packs.

  23. "Buy the beer first...", famous last words on Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't they know that the difference between "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and a Darwin award is a couple of six-packs.

  24. Your "facts" aren't fact on Google Steps Up Fight for the China Market · · Score: 1

    The cotton gin actually made the production of cotton profitable. ...and it was invented in 1793, there were no cars then.

    Your sentiments might have been good but your facts aren't, sort of like what Dan Rather claimed. Does this mean you have to resign? :)

  25. Actuall it would be... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    That would be the "Red Win@Shield Of Death"