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  1. Oohh...I can see where this is heading on $70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    You're replacing your trackpad with a mouse, with a TRACKPAD on it!

    Next stop, a tiny mouse that you maneuver around on the trackpad of the mouse....

  2. Re:Upgrade? on Upgrade Your G4 Cube to a Pentium M Processor · · Score: 1

    Dude, it still only runs Windows or Linux.

    Any way you look at it it's a step down. Running crap faster does not make crap more useful or palatable

  3. Re:Working Nights and Weekends on Mars Rover Breaks Free · · Score: 1

    Because they want to get as much science done as long as the rover is operational.

    As it is, they're operating on 'free' time; the rovers were only expected to be at full operational capacity for 90 days...

  4. Re:From the source on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    Of which something like 99.99% is industrial grade, destined for drill bits and other machine tools.

    Trust me, she would not appreciate a muddy brown inclusion-ridden pebble in her ring.

  5. Re:Blood diamonds on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    Because DeBeers doesn't own them.

  6. Re:Something is fishy on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    "Also, the Constitution Party's decidedly Christian stance on morality is troubling to many Secularists and non-Christians even though they do not advocate the dictation of morality at a national level but merely support states in deciding what is abhorrent behavior in the social context."

    Why the hell should the STATE have any more say in determining 'abhorrent behavior in the social context' than the Federal Government?

  7. Re:No AntiVirus for Tiger on Apple to Release first Tiger Update · · Score: 1

    If you want to stem the viral tide as net citizen *stop* forwarding the damn viruses.

    No one make a virus that affects me. Besides, the mail server is the point that viruses should be stopped at.

  8. Re:crappy cable options ... on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 1

    AAAAAuuuuuugggggghhhhhh! That EVIL EVIL centris case.

    They put the power switch right where the flopy eject button would go. Since this was sold as a Mac/DOS hybrid in lots of places *lots* of people learned quickly that Macs crashed when you ejected floppies ;-)

    You would be a lot better off getting an LC case instead, smaller, just as expandable. http://www.greenpeanut.com/galleries/electronics/e lectronics-Images/6.jpg

    It'll take a little more Dremel-fu to set up the slotload optical drive to work properly, though.

  9. Re:The curve of binding energy on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oppenheimer never 'reveled in the thrills' of working on the Manhattan project.

    Moreover, he never said 'how bad nukes were' What he said (and what got him in hot water, thanks to that maniac Teller) was that we did not need to go on and develop the Super (aka the hydrogen bomb) because this was the unecessary step into an arms race.

  10. Re:Exercise on The Cure for Cancer Might be: HIV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of the risks of what?

    Contracting myocarditis, which they can't say how she got, where she got, and which little or nothing can be done for?

    how s her example supposed to help, other than illustrate that horrible things can happen to people without warning.

    I'm sorry for her, but her case is just not the norm.

    The vast majority of heart disease in this country is brought on by a sedentary lifestyle, poor diet and smoking.

    All three of these factors are readily curable without the intervention of a health organization, pricey pharmaceuticals or endless doctors visits.

  11. Re:Thy don't understand tech, they use metaphors on Precedent for Warrantless Net Monitoring Set · · Score: 1

    Well, then you need Velociraptography.

    Your stegograph will just stop to nibble on the houseplants...

  12. Re:Apple ///, anyone? on Top 10 Apple Flops · · Score: 1

    Only the original Apple ][ and ][+ used the brackets.

    All the rest of the Apple 2 line used the two slashes: //e, //c and //gs.

  13. Re:Just go for it....soon on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple? · · Score: 1

    $20 CDN? Jeez Louise the exchange rate is bad right now! A simple froogle search found 'em for $2.49 US apiece a few days back...

  14. Re:I might actually buy a mac now on Interview With Mac Co-Creator Andy Hertzfeld · · Score: 1

    Nah, the qualifiers are more like "Steve Jobs, reeking of crack smoke, will come out on stage cackling insanely, announce a $499 Mac and then strip naked and do his Steve Ballmer 'Developers Developers Developers' imitation.

    It's about as likely...

  15. Re:such a waste... on Interview of the Windows XP SP2 Dev Team · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The Mac OS was PPC-only from V 8.5 on.

    It was v 7.something ("the craptacular years") where you had the hybrid systems dependent on the 68K emulation.

    Which, btw, gave them a huge leg up on the Classic vm. They'd done it before, to accomodate 68K aps on PPC chips.

  16. Re:Fossils on the Bench on Federal Judge: Keystroke Logging Isn't Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Except you're gonna need a looong extension cord. The Four Corners monument is quite a ways from an outlet, or a phone line.

    Of course, since the actual four corners is a brass circle with a cross on it marking the actual point, I suppose you could connect a cellular-enabled laptop right on top.

    Q qould be in Utah. Z in Arizona, Delete in Colorado and well, ./ would be in New Mexico with the rest of the loons...

  17. Re:I would get it just to mess with my cat on Automated Sentry Robots · · Score: 1

    You're supposed to use the little microwatt pointers, not the 33 megawatt "Acme Planetary Defense" models, silly...

  18. Re:For those who don't know ... what is this? on Netatalk 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Samba doesn't preserve resource forks, netatalk does, so it really depends on what you're storing.

  19. Re:easy algorhythms for thwarting scams on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase · · Score: 1

    Nah, they'll likely just think "Oh, there's another bunch of laid off workers whose jobs got outsourced."

  20. Re:design... on Virgin's New iPod Rival · · Score: 1

    DAMN! DON'T do that while I'm eating lunch! Now there's blueberry pie all over the monitor...

  21. Re:Oh Boy! on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    So long as it's a laserwriter II or better; OS X doesn't support the original Laserwriter or Laserwriter Plus.

  22. Re:People still READ Computershopper? on Hard Goodbye to Alice and Bill · · Score: 1

    "Next you'll tell me that there are still people reading Byte!"

    Alas, Byte is long long gone.

    CMP swallowed it up, then trashed it and offered me 6 months of "Windows Magazine" or something equally useless to me in return for my remaining subscription.

    Ah, but Byte went downhill after they dropped Circuit Cellar, anyway.

    Subscribed to the big CompShop back in the day, too...

  23. Re:One of the most underrated technological device on The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, as a matter of fact : http://www.40hz.org/MADNewton/

  24. Re:If you repeat a lie often enough... on Wikipedia != Authoritative? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Precisely.

    In news reporting it's known as the "Enquirer Effect"

    The National Enquirer, Matt Drudge, or Faux News reports some half-baked erroneous bullshit.

    The 'legitimate' news organizations pick it up and report it from there.

    A week later it's common knowledge and accepted as absolute fact that Al Gore said he "invented the Internet."

    After all, it's quoted in all those news stories, isn't it?

  25. Re:Remember Kids... on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because Apple "eats their own dog food"?

    None of this crap targets Macs, or Mac browsers, so it's entirely possible that they haven't even noticed how much of a problem it is, or ever heard of the company.

    The only reason I ever notice spyware is when I have to clean it out of yet another luser's system.

    Spyware Schmyware. I use Firefox on OS X.

    Problem solved.