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  1. Products? on Napster and Best Buy Joining Forces · · Score: 1

    The retail chain will feature Napster products in its brick-and-mortar stores

    What products? A company that doesn't sell anything shouldn't have a problem fitting into Best Buy's product lineup.

  2. music from the Far Side on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't we have expected something like this with Gary Larson handling the prosecution?

    Or maybe something with singing cows or singing cavemen?

  3. Re:Quick note.. on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Amazingly, you're speaking and writing English. So use the logically correct spelling, or change the way you pronounce it to match how you spell it. You fucking idiot.

    You think maybe it's called English for a reason? Learn how to speak it the way it was designed. None of this American English bullshit, please. There can only be one English, and only one American (thank God for that one).

  4. Re:Don't risk your life. on Networking in the Danger Zone? · · Score: 1

    So what exactly are you if you are not an American, but even if you are, then you were there as a traveler? Are you an American or not? And if so, then why would you try to tell them you aren't unless you're afraid of admitting it?

    By pushing someone in the water, I tend to think you are an American.

  5. Re:Congratulations, idiots on Spokane Gets Unwired · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why do I want net access in an airport? To check flight times when I'm picking someone up.

    Why don't you just look up from your laptop to the big screens on the wall with all the flight info? Yeah, those are the ones.

  6. costs on Rendering Shrek@Home? · · Score: 1

    I can only guess that for the cost of supplying free movie passes to 1 million people (ultra unreal estimate, I'm sure) who helped render the movie, the studios could buy several clusters to do it for them. For the next movie, the cost is negligible since they already own the cluster.

  7. Too bad he can't use it for Halflife II on Water-Cooled Half-Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    It's a shame that by the time HL II ships, this machine will be too obsolete to play it.

  8. security issues? on Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure this site has the best security out there. Enter a 7 digit number (for example, starts with 1 and ends with 7, hint, hint) to see someone elses marks. Not good.

  9. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Sure, if everyone pays $3000/year that's great. You think a family of 4 wants to shell out $12000/year in addition to their regular taxes? If they did you know what you'd have? Canada.

  10. Re:"New" rule? on IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules · · Score: 1

    Name a job that wouldn't want you working 60 hours a week? Employers always want more for less. But then again, so do employees.

    IT workers are no more slave workers than any other worker out there. Don't believe me? How many hours a day do you read /.? Do you think I was able to read /. when I used to work on an assembly line floor working 12 hour shifts?

  11. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    This is a sticky question and one that I'm not sure has a good answer. The whole notion of long waiting lists in Canada is a myth propogated by people who have no inside information. The simple fact is that if you have the real need for an MRI or CT (and no, tennis elbow does not qualify), the wait will be minimal (ie, a few days).

    I guess what it comes down to is if you have enough money to buy an MRI machine, donate the money to a local hospital so they can buy one. I'm sure you'll get your scan done right away if you did that. Plus, for the next 10 years, you'll be doing a great service to the rest of the community who has tennis elbow.

  12. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Man,

    If you really think the grass is greener, then move. You'll soon find the same 8 hour waits in American emergency rooms (ask me, I know firsthand), the same shit on endoscopes, and the same wastes in terms of costs. Doctors on the US are business people. They make more money dispensing 6 doses of chemotherapy, than one dose of radionuclide therapy. Know how I know, I work in the health industry in Canada, and used to in the US. Canada's health care system isn't perfect by any means (ie, lack of PET imaging), but if you think the US is any better, you're extremely naive.

    Oh yeah, and the tax situation in the US is not a whole lot better than in Canada either. You have to count more than just Federal or State taxes when you calculate the tax burden. There are so many more fees for other services in the US that people take for granted and don't include in their texes.

  13. Re:Surprizing on Review Of Serenity Virtual Station · · Score: 1

    Even more surprizing is that some people still don't know how to spell SURPRISING.

  14. Dr Butch? on Playing Video Games Makes For Better Surgeons · · Score: 2, Funny

    DrButch gonna frag yo ass.

  15. The sad part on Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    You know, the real sad part is that given the current Bush administration, this is not such a far-fetched idea. Based on prior Bush policy, it had me going.

    You know, had the message said "Bush to invade Iraq, even though no WMD's found" people might also have thought it was April's Fools.

  16. Re:I for one look forward to this on Corel To Test WordPerfect For Linux · · Score: 1

    WP 8 will still run with current Linux. Just install the libc5 libraries. I regularly use WP 8 for Linux with RedHat 7.3. No problems other than the ugly fonts on screen. There's a howto somewhere on the web that will tell you how to run it.

  17. Great question. on Homemade Subliminal CDs · · Score: 1

    I (This) think (is) this (a) is (stupid) a (question) great question.

  18. Time to change hobbies ... on Hacker Indicted In France For Publishing Exploits · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe try stamp collecting.

  19. This is the problem with open source on CSS for the LDP? · · Score: 1

    I love open source software. I use it everyday and wouldn't want to use anything else. BUT, I think that free speech can be too much of a good thing sometimes. Case in point. Let's argue about how to make a website better, instead of actually making it better. Everyone gets a voice, but because everyone is talking, nothing gets done. Just do it one way or the other. People, get over it.

  20. Chech out the PDF Document Properties Summary on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Creator: QuarkXPress(tm) 4.11
    Producer: Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh

    Hilarious.

  21. surprising it is on Passport to Nowhere · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Turns out, high licensing fees, lack of simple implementation, security leaks and server downtime, were not acceptable to most of potential clients out there."

    It's strange that this didn't appeal to most users who already use Windows. I would think people would tend to use things they are already familiar with.

  22. Cancel out Darl's noise on Cancelling Out CPU Fan Noise · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Being from Utah, it'd be nice to get something to cancel out Darl's noise.

  23. Re:Looks more like a govt messup... on Did HP Defraud the Canadian Government? · · Score: 1

    Ya think the fact that the population is bigger in California has anything to do with it? I hear France has a bigger government budget than Rhode Island too. What's your point?

  24. Re:Cheaper prices on ATI PCI-Express Devices Revealed · · Score: 1

    Hey, want to buy my VESA bus videocard? Only $400. They're getting pretty rare? Just between us, I've also got a MCA bus card too, but I doubt you can afford it.

  25. Re:Large CRTs are cheaper. on Display Format Technologies Comparison · · Score: 1

    I don't where you live, man, but here, a 19" CRT is only &50 and !17. I can buy a whole house for #150!