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  1. Time to Dump IE? on Redmondmag on Dumping IE · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Yeah like, two years ago.

    The darned thing still does not have tabbed browsing for god's sake. How long does it take MSFT to copy that one.

  2. Re:Comparisions to Gmail on .Mac Storage Now 250MB · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I think you are right and might add that with .mac you can run a site, which could be more bandwidth intensive than say a Google email account. Bandwidth does cost money, and most hosting packages have limits on it.

    Now I can put up larger sized videos on my site.

  3. What I would like to see... on The Perfect Online Music Store? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    To be up front I like Apple's music store, but it needs vast improvement:

    • Create magazines by genre. Example, a punk page with weekly news album reviews highlights etc. Tour dates. Could have one for Classical etc...
    • More indy music, most stores do not have the more esoteric independant stuff that I want.
    • Allow bands to set up their own bootleg store page, where they can upload and sell live albums or singles - all to be billed thorugh the main store
    • Set up store preferences, like the landing page by music genre etc...

    That is it off the top of my head.

  4. Does it handle Gamma Correction? on Adobe Releasing New Photo Format · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Does the new format handle Gamma correction when viewing over the web? PNG was supposed to do this, but does not do a great job.

  5. Re:Sadly, this is necessary on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    Invade us with what?

  6. Re:For President Bush on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    6. A friend of mine feels that, even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there "degrees" of abomination? See my sig baby.

  7. Re:Interesting on California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    ...and the people in charge should be sued for not doing better due diligence.

  8. Re:vote with your wallet - WORD UP on Verizon Crippled Bluetooth Features in Motorola V710 · · Score: 1

    Word Up, Verizon has excellent coverage with crap phones. One or two lame models that work with Apple's iSync in my area. Once the contratc is up, I'll be a switcher.

  9. Re:Walt Mossberg's review on Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store · · Score: 1

    They have had 18 months to copy them. Maybe the MSFT copy cycle is more along the lines of 28 months.

  10. Re:Take off your... on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 0
    That is your OPINION. People can look at the evidence, and judge for themselves. We don't know what transpired in those various contacts - do we? Further, I did not misread anything, nor did I say it was a reason to go to war. You misread my post, which was to simply provide balance to counter statements, which through innuendo claim there were no connections.

    Here are som more troubling connections:

    -Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade Center bomb to remain at large in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a house and monthly salary.

    -A key figure,Ramzi Yousef, responsible in the 1993 Trade Center bombing entered the United Stares on an Iraqi passport.

  11. Re:Take off your... on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 2, Informative
    You could just read the recent report of the bipartisan September 11 commission, which records a number of contacts between al Qaeda and Saddam's Iraq.

    In a revealing sidelight, the report quotes Richard C. Clarke -- yes, the former counterterrorism chief who has been claiming Osama bin Laden had no connection with Saddam's regime.

    Yet Mr. Clarke opposed a U-2 flight to track down Osama in Afghanistan because the Pakistanis would need to be apprised of it and they, in turn, might let Osama know the Americans were about to bomb him. "Armed with that knowledge," Mr. Clarke warned, "old wily Osama will likely boogie to Baghdad." Once there, warned Clarke, he would put his terrorist network at Saddam's service, and it would be "virtually impossible" to track him down. It's all there on Page 134 of the commission's report. (Osama's actual meeting with one of Saddam Hussein's senior intelligence officers in late 1994 or early 1995 is mentioned earlier, on Page 61.)

    If that's not enough to establish a Saddam-Osama connection, Mrs. Lincoln could take up the matter with Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the September 11 Commission.

  12. Re:HST cost $2.2B on Canadian Robot Could Rescue Hubble · · Score: 1

    Is that Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars?

  13. Re:This is what... on Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    You make some good points. Here is a good article on Kerry, the Patriot Act, and civil liberties. Not meant to bash Kerry, but just put things into perspective.

  14. Re:VOTE LIBERTARIAN on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1
    Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the last president attack a country that did not attack us? President Clinton bombed or attacked Baghdad, Afghanistan, the Sudan, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and sent troops to Haiti, Nigeria, and Columbia, and Kosovo.

    Senator Kerry voted for S.CON.RES.21 (Title: A concurrent resolution authorizing the President of the United States to conduct military air operations and missile strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).

  15. Re:Goebbels protests against media power? on Ted Turner's Beef With Big Media · · Score: 1

    Here is the answer to your question: "How the president didn't win the last election?"

  16. The should confiscate the following... on Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat? · · Score: 1
    To help improve security the following items should be confiscated as people enter the convention:

    • Pants
    • Socks
    • Ethernet cables
    • Wireless cards
  17. What about Mac users? on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1

    New Age?

  18. Re:Easy choice.... on Which Digital Video Camera for Amateur Video? · · Score: 1

    Here is some additional info comparing Canon XL2 and Panasonic AG-DVX100 Comparison.

  19. Re:I'm moving there on North Korea Opens Official Website · · Score: 1

    Bible camp is not run by the government.

  20. Re:Korea makes me proud to be an American. on North Korea Opens Official Website · · Score: 1

    The UN is full of a bunch of kleptocrats. UNSCAM is but one example.

  21. Re:I'm moving there on North Korea Opens Official Website · · Score: 1

    A network of cultural facilities for "reprogramming".

  22. Re:Not surprising... on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please, listen to Rush Limbaugh every day. Give him a chance.

  23. Here is the list: on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1
  24. Robots Don't Grumble on Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC · · Score: 1
    This is an automated Slashdot post -

    "Apple Rules"

    - Automator

  25. Re:What's Jello doing there? on HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra · · Score: 1

    Be funny if Jello showed up in a "Too Drunk To Hack" t-shirt.