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  1. Re:Support on Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile? · · Score: 1

    nice try i have 3 words for you

    Bootable Diagnostics CD

  2. Re:Support on Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile? · · Score: 1

    okay heres the funny thing
    Completecare is a its all covered (except theft) program

    Somebody uses a patent infringed AK47 on your laptop - COVERED
    You splatter your laptop on the Washington Beltway - COVERED
    While in NewYork a "Family Member" decides to make your laptop Sleep With the fishes - COVERED (if you can get it from the bottom of the harbour)
    You insult a "man of the cloth" and you get Zotted -COVERED

    it does not matter if you have the pieces its covered this has exactly ZERO NADA NIET to do with the installed OS

  3. Re:Big ole UPS on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    and in this line of thought 867-5309 (jenny rator) and enough quarters to last you for a couple/few days (all though i would have a panic switch to cut off the extra stuff in this case)

  4. Re:Normal for anything with real power. on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 1

    is the touch soft enough to be activated via a paintball?? (im not sure i would want to have to get near a car thats gone nuts)

  5. Re:Computer, enable copy editor on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 1

    psst some folks say that you should also make sure that linked info has a few "dead characters" in between different links (in this case i would have made the word including a dead word in the phrase "in his blog, including all"

  6. Re:This is not the free we know about on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 1

    Okay I hereby propose a modest set of names to work out the differences in licenses

    Proprietary: No source Pay for use No distribution
    NonPayware: No source free for use No Distribution
    Broadcastware:No Source free for use distibution enabled
    Fungalware: No source no charge for use distribution enabled/required personal data required for use/monitoring subprograms
    Drugware: any program that causes your system to become infected/impaired (think Magic Mushroom ware)

    any source enabled program should classed according to which of the GNU or BSD type licenses it has

    if you think this is nifty please email with comments / bribes /insults /ect

  7. Re:What the...? on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 1

    on the whole "underclocking faster processors" thing the truth is when they do the Q&A on a batch of chips they will often sell some of the chips as X gigahertz some of them as 90%X chips some as 80%X chips and on down the line the way they do this is during testing they may find a chip that chokes at one speed but if you bin it down a notch it works fine. So you may be able to overclock a chip because it is actually a higher speed chip (just "stability impaired") but you have every right as Intel/AMD to not service the chip if it got smoked due to being run at the higher speed (or being put in a box with cooling that had more bling than fling).

  8. Re:Same name ... and kinda the same birthday ... on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    depending on the exact type of "sex offender" these registries are "needed" because certain sex offenses are "quad damage" type things.

    1 some of the victims live
    2 some of the victims land up becoming offenders
    3 most of the offenders are Not exactly sane
    4 some of the offenders just about break every not related to "GOD HIMSELF" law/commandment each day by lunch time

  9. Re:Standard response to concern about privacy issu on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    personally i think in these cases the government should pay TAX FREE the wages of the person at the maximum rate for the time they were in jail (include minimum time x 1.5 and don't forget you are "on the clock" unless you are asleep)

  10. Re:Reminds me of The Island... on Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display · · Score: 1

    it shouldn't matter if you get some sort of clear shelf paper and then cover the table (think Big honking PDA)

  11. Re:BART users on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    that would be Bay Area Rapid Transit (a similar Fresno Area Rapid Transit never go going)

  12. Re:Lies... on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    make that reprogrammed with a valid sequence (perhaps the key gets a fail(un)safe bit flipped?

  13. Re:C-14? on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (for details from my viewpoints talk with any of the AIG team)
    the big problem with Radio-X dating is that if you have a chunk of rock and then date it using [method] you will get a number pick another [method] and you will get another number. Chain this out for a bit and you may land up with X methods and X+Y numbers all from the same chunk of rock

    carbon dating has the problem that a sample drawn from a guy said he had been dead for x thousand( or was it million) years , when he was informed the man in question was surprised.

    Radio-X dating is about as reliable as statistics for the time frame in question (BC 5000 and earlier)

  14. direct urls for your convience on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 1
  15. Re:On the other hand, they also make great Bourbon on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 0

    adaption/mutation can be proved but can you go from your yeast to say a funky fish?? decent jellyfish??? anything mutlicellular?

  16. Re:When? on Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward · · Score: 4, Informative

    what you are missing is
    1 the sqllite engine is already present
    2 they are yanking out the older crusty Mork/Xml/Vhatever code
    3 they are using this to simplify things and enable cool things like throwing your bookmarks online (obsoleting the 12 bazillion bookmark sync extensions)

  17. Re:OK fanboys... on Dell Ships Ubuntu 7.04 PCs Today · · Score: 1

    the big swing is that you are calling business support for the home user you would have to include

    1 30-45 minutes of hold time
    2 a rep that does not understand what a service tag is (and or has only a feeble grasp of english)
    3 2 hours of running checks
    4 a claim that you need to do a full system restore
    5 static from the highly compressed VOIP lines used (and the cross ocean datalinks)
    6 being hung up on at least twice
    7 a claim that the problem is due to abusing the system (your warranty is now void)

  18. Re:Macs for artists on Apple Sued Over 'Lacking' Macbook Display · · Score: 1

    so the difference is between output for viewing on a Never The Same Color twice monitor and a PanTone(r) HexaChrome(r) i want all my crayons!! printout

    (but neither of them get their glass from walmart)

  19. Re:Fishing for Drivers on Update On Free Linux Driver Development · · Score: 1

    doc you may want pipe the output of lspci to a file and see what chips it has (your driver may be included in X.org 6.9/7.0) for example
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]
    is my card and i think that there is a couple rage drivers in the gatos project

  20. Re:Bullshit. on MySpace Agrees to Share Sex Offender Data · · Score: 1

    i would say it depends on the details
    Maim/Kill the kid= you die S L O W
    if the kid lives = you get certain parts removed (includes certain tendons in the foot)

    bonk a bunch of kids before you get caught= Pinhead wouldn't go that slow (or cause that much pain)

  21. Re:Wait... on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 1

    okay so in a twon that has 99.999% coverage you just find the 00.001% of area that isn't covered and then do your crimes there cleanup exit the town and then dump the evidence (off the grid) no corpus no crime right????

  22. Re:Two words: on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    and in a significant number of kids giving them a Mountain Dew and OJ "cocktail" on a regular basis will work just as well (trick does not work in Canada)

  23. Re:Kids these days (?) on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    so exactly how small of a cell phone jammer do you have access to?? (say one with a 7 meter range??)

  24. Re:Copyright is Public Protection on The Case For Perpetual Copyright · · Score: 1

    even then i would have some sort of paper to gate around the theme (personally i would use a different home country to start with) of course i would pay for the rights to use certain themes as context (i would have the book set on my main characters bookshelf).

  25. Re:Copyright is Public Protection on The Case For Perpetual Copyright · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a guy makes pancakes that are 3 circles in a rough triangle and starts selling them
    Disney finds out about the guy and then sues the guy into oblivion (mickey mouse pancakes sold at any disney theme park)

    as it is currently any time you sell or distribute anything that comes close to some companies "iP" you will get sued