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  1. Re:Lol that wasn't flamebait!! on Web Surfing Losing Its Luster · · Score: 1

    Besides, it was obvious he was no troll -- for a start, he spelled every word correctly :)

  2. Re:Money on Ebert, Gillmor on the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    Let the marketplace decide without legislation.

    My, you're naive. The legislature is out there in the marketplace, available to the highest bidder.

  3. Re:Extension Hell on Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday · · Score: 3, Informative

    MIME, or Datatypes (I'm only aware of that having been implemented on Amiga and Be, but think of Unix's file on steroids.)

  4. Re:Maybe I'm Shallow on Deep Algorithms? · · Score: 2

    Recursion may not be deep, but it is definitely elegant :)

  5. Re:Let me count the ways... on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 2

    I think she's currently a nursing mother. The father is Ethan Hawke, which makes the entire scenario very Gattaca. :)

  6. Re:memento on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 2

    Sorry, my mistake... was nominated for best original screenplay. Gosford Park won that award.

  7. Re:memento on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 2

    Tell that to the Academy -- it won best original screenplay last night.

  8. Re:Release dates say nothing at all on Neverwinter Nights Coming in June · · Score: 2

    A release date for DNF has NEVER been set. 3DRealms official date was, is, and will be: "when it's done."

    Maybe they should change that to "if it's done." :)

  9. Re:What about Ultra HLE? Interesting implementatio on Platform Independent Gaming? · · Score: 2

    HLE in this case stands for High Level Emulator. It's emulating the API (like Wine, which emulates the Windows API) rather than being a machine emulator.

    I imagine UltraHLE had to do some machine emulation, though, but maybe less than even an average SNES emulator would have to. Just enough to cover some of the games hitting the metal at times.

  10. Speaking of XBox DOA... on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 2

    apparently Jeff Minter's XBox died after a day or so.

    How could they do this to the Yak? (Of course, with his fetish for all things bovine, he refers to it as an Xb-ox :)

  11. Re:What's with scientology? on Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website · · Score: 2

    They got tax-exempt status by harassing the people working on their IRS case mercilessly, on a very personal level. An object lesson for anyone out there who feels that their tax bill is too high, obviously...

  12. mod -1 Cruel on Apple @ MacWorld Tokyo · · Score: 2

    Hey, how would you like a 23" display?
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    Nah, just kidding :)

  13. Re:Not his problem on ORBZ Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    At least in the US, the jail time for doing this to TWO sites (2 counts) is more than the average murderer gets! Is this dumb? You bet, but it is real.

    This is the free market reaching its ultimate conclusion. What is the average human life worth? What is the average corporate endeavour worth? Arrive at figures for both and work out how to punish people based purely on the financial impact of their actions.

    The idea of 'lives lost' being included in the budgets of major construction projects is another chilling reminder of how cheaply some people are prepared to price the lives of others.

  14. Re:That Movie Sucked on Resident Evil · · Score: 1

    Decent reviews...

    However, some of your reviewers may want to check the difference between "its" and "it's".

    I also noticed a number of other spelling problems: "alchol", "monthes", "H.G.'s originally message", "tecnical"... I'm sure there were others but I found the colour scheme made it hard to read on my browser.

  15. Re:OMFG I Hated this movie on Resident Evil · · Score: 2

    You call Michelle Rodriguez the worst actress; what in the holy hell do you call Cameron Diaz?!?!?

    Hey, at least Diaz was in Being John Malkovich. One mitigating point in an otherwise depressing career :)

  16. Re:7/10? POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS on Resident Evil · · Score: 2

    and among the ice chunks and various other frozen things floating around see a bottle of Evian turning end over end with the water sloshing around.

    After all, what's Evian spelt backwards? :)

  17. Re:Not all video game movies are flops on Resident Evil · · Score: 1

    Paul Anderson..not to be confused with Paul Thomas Anderson, who directs REAL movies

    ... and not to be confused with Poul Andersen, who wrote some decent SF and died recently...

  18. Re:Sure I'll be modded down for this... on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: 2

    If I can just repeat some words of wisdom:

    "Fight the powers that be!"

    People like Bakunin had it right. Fight for what you believe in, it doesn't matter if what you believe in isn't self-consistent or workable; knuckling under to the Man and living your life with a constant attitude of prepared victimhood is like a living death.

    Non serviam.

  19. Re:you reap what you sow on Morpheus Hijacks Browsers For Affiliate Links · · Score: 2

    I would have thought Morpheus users were stealing intellectual 'property' from record companies, who had already stolen it from the musicians.

    Just remember, 'Property is theft' (Proudhon).

  20. Re:Two things... on Pennsylvania Law Requires ISPs to Block Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Mod this up!

  21. Sure I'll be modded down for this... on Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail · · Score: 2

    As my friend learned, when dealing with people in authority, it is better to show respect and to play by their rules. Just a truth of life.

    Ahh, the United Police States of America. Glad to see that the rich and powerful have taken full control over there...

  22. Re:Hey on Microsoft Kicks Playstation2 out of CeBit. · · Score: 1

    How do you know? :)

  23. Re:Best password ever on Crappy Passwords Very Common · · Score: 2

    I chose the middle 4 digits of pi myself :)

  24. Re:You, too can play asteroids... for free! on Top Asteroids Scorer Gets Posthumous Award · · Score: 2

    You might want to research that illegal ROMs issue a bit more -- mame.dk has disabled downloads for legal reasons.

  25. Re:Wow... on Gravestones Advertising Video Games? · · Score: 2

    I once had my best friend tell me I was morbid and quite possibly insane when I detailed what I want done with my corpse.

    When I told my friends that I wanted to have my corpse ripped apart and eaten by wild turtles, they only referred to me as 'odd'.

    My friends must be more accepting of difference than yours :)