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  1. I was tier 2 on Consumer Reports Discovers Tech Support Sucks · · Score: 1

    I was Tier 2 for @Home. You bastards never did your job. You'd just blindly transfer everything to Tier 2 without even bothering to do the piddly shit you were supposed to, making us have to do our jobs and yours. Thanks, asshole.

  2. Re:Fixie! on Bamboo Bike A Reality · · Score: 1

    In many states, you still need to put a working handbrake on a fixie to make it street legal. Oregon is one of those states. You're not required to use it, but have it there just in case.

  3. Re:A portland resident speaks... on The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park · · Score: 1
    The whole need for a new stadium is nonexistant even going up to MLB. The whole need for a stadium was invented by the Expos (who sell only 5,000 seats per home game, one fifth PGE Park's capacity). That's right folks: The Portland Beavers sell four to five times as many seats as the Montreal Expos, and the Beavers are AAA.

    Oh, yeah, and since Portland's just going to condemn PGE instead of letting it get sold, does that mean we can go back to calling it Portland Civic Stadium again?

  4. No, this is MY stadium on The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park · · Score: 1
    "This is our stadium, and we run the communications for it" --Chris Metz

    Nice try, dickhead. Who do you think built that stadium, Portland Family Entertainment or the City of Portland? You know who that stadium belongs to? Me. And anybody else paying taxes in the region. Last I checked, PGE paid only $10 in taxes for 2002, so if you're going to try and claim who puts more money into it, I still own more of it than you.

  5. Re:Lesser of two Evils? on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1
    in a battle between Microsoft and Trivial Software Patents 'r' Us, the bad guys will DEFINITELY lose.

    Which one's the bad one again?

  6. Re:It doesn't work that way on Emergency Cooling with Limited Power? · · Score: 1

    Heh, I wish. A downtown apartment would mean I'm near a server room to begin with, I just have a shitty, overpriced suburban apartment.

  7. It doesn't work that way on Emergency Cooling with Limited Power? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Assuming you live in a subarctic climate like Portland, OR, consider this: You come home from work in the middle of winter, you turned the heat off before you left. You live in a cheap rental apartment downtown in the basement. You get home, and the apartment is cold. You've got snow up over your windows. You go into the kitchen. Electric stove (turned off), fridge (on). You open the kitchen door. It's warm. Why? That big coil under or behind the fridge is the exhaust end of the cooling system. The fridge heated the room.

  8. Lies! on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When good spammers go bad? Isn't that kind of pretentious thinking there are good spammers?

  9. Wait, Microsoft pays? on Instant Messaging Giveaway · · Score: 1

    When did Microsoft start cutting checks at all? I mean, honestly, how do you end up with that much money selling crap that everybody complains about and make money while still cutting checks? If I get one of these checks, do I keep it and frame it, cash it, or eBay it?

  10. Isn't it obvious? on Customer Service Jeopardizes Online Gaming? · · Score: 1

    I mean, honestly, how many times does news of a game coming out happen and people start asking when the Linux or Mac version is going to come out and gets met with silence? Gives you a real warm feeling about wanting to do business with that publisher in the future.

  11. Re:Architectures on eMac Video Upgrade · · Score: 1
    Just because it comes from the same manufacturer does not mean it will work across architectures. It's kind of like expecting a IBM BladeCenter HS20 to work in a Mac because IBM makes the PowerPC processors. Totally different architectures, same manufacturer.

    Nit picked: i386 was the first architecture to support PCI.

  12. Architectures on eMac Video Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Just because they both have PCI doesn't mean that i386 and PPC are the same in every respect. This is obvious to anybody who has sat down and thought about this for a minute.

  13. Re:Simple test on Repel Bugs With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Any kind of smoke works. However, most people don't like standing in smoke for the same reasons mosquitoes don't.

  14. Re:Simple test on Repel Bugs With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not at all. Inaudable beepers supposedly designed to repel mosquitoes are a relatively long-running case of modern snake oil. Any Boy Scout can tell you about the only thing that actually is effective against mosquitoes: Bug spray containing DEET.

  15. Re:heh on Those Amazing Antigravity Machines? · · Score: 1

    Someone find this man the "after" photograph of the fat man who cooked to death in the electric chair instead of electrocuting...I thought ir was on rotten.com but I can't find it now...

  16. Goliath running at a swarm of Davids on SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan · · Score: 1

    OK, if Microsoft is Goliath, and considering the timing of CELF practically in response to both Microsoft and SCO simultaneously, wouldn't trying to lie to Toshiba and Sony to be sort of running at a swarm of Davids?

  17. What do you mean, bad idea? on Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right · · Score: 1

    What's the point in having a government supposedly by the people, for the people if you can't use it to harness economies of scale? The British commonwealths have been relatively socialist for decades now without taking it to the extreme the Soviets did.

  18. Re:The Roads Must Roll on High Speed Travelator · · Score: 1

    So don't treat your DOT folks like crap and they don't go on strike. 8:o) Labor at it's finest, really.

  19. Ayttm gives prior art on Microsoft Patenting IM Translation? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ayttm does this already...does the patent office not know about Google?

  20. Re:Linux reference system on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 1
    You know, I think a good counterargument to all this Debian is dying nonsense is Why We Need Debian. Back when I was starting to use Linux back when Red Hat 5.2 and Debian bo were current, all the howtos matched Debian, not Red Hat. This is still, for the most part, true today. Debian's packages always made sense. Even if they were from a third party (or later from a different Debian based distro) they made damn sure that all the package names matched up between Debian and themselves.

    It seems to me like the LSB was really looking for a problem Debian already solved better.

  21. Re:Linux reference system on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 1

    Why should Debian drop .deb when Red Hat's answer is the one that sucks?

  22. Re:You called the wrong people on Why Are We on E-mail Blacklists? · · Score: 1

    One word: SpamAssassin.

  23. You called the wrong people on Why Are We on E-mail Blacklists? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't a customer support issue as much as it is a your-server-is-being-over-anal-and-you-probably-wa nt-to-know-about-it issue. Email postmaster@host, if that doesn't work, submit them to postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org and call their NOC.

  24. Wait a minute... on (When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Didn't this already happen last winter?

  25. Teamwork, people! on Flight Simulator 2002 With 13 Monitors And 9 PCs · · Score: 1

    We need to get the guy who did the Xinerama-like Flight Sim setup together with this guy, and then we'll be getting somewhere.