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  1. Re:Water on Mars, what's it all about on Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    Wet water? .. now that would be a discovery.

  2. Is this really news? on Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correct me if im wrong but didnt we already know there was frozen Water in mars? Isn't what we're looking for liquid water or the indication that there was once liquid water? Is this frozen water in a melted state somewhere else in the planet ..that would be interesting?

  3. How did it get here? on Martian Rock Found In Morocco · · Score: 1

    I think Beagle is now on its final communication stages. None of the conventional ones worked, now he's throwing rocks at us.

  4. sco on SCO Files Suit Against Novell Over System V Ownership · · Score: 1

    When will they stop with all this crap? I bet SCO generates as much spam and bullshit as Nigerian scammers.

  5. Re:MSN? on Microsoft Agrees to Stop Hijacking Music-Shopping · · Score: 2, Informative

    No it's not the same thing. It seems like It's not so much of an annoyance if the program uses the ie control to render html inside it the program itself ie: Media player uses the IE control to show the windows media content page. The problem is when it launches the actual ie program to view a url. That is not the same as Mozilla's mail reader using gecko to render html.

  6. Re:MS Coders Must be Dufuses on Microsoft Agrees to Stop Hijacking Music-Shopping · · Score: 1

    I think the major problem is that most windows programming documentation, tutorials and sample code on how to launch a url actually hardcodes a call to IE! so most programmers just get used ot it and accept it

  7. Re:MSN? on Microsoft Agrees to Stop Hijacking Music-Shopping · · Score: 1

    You are right, they've only fixed part of it. The inbox/new messages link still opens in IE. Arghh.

  8. Re:Electronic Music on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 1

    I think you are right, it wouldn't make sense for producers to like the free mp3 deal. The ones that are ok about it I guess are dj/producers/mixers.

  9. Re:Interesting.... on Microsoft Agrees to Stop Hijacking Music-Shopping · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm assuming they don't use that default browser launcher api call and instead hardcode a call to IE.

  10. MSN? on Microsoft Agrees to Stop Hijacking Music-Shopping · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some recent versions of MSN messenger used to do this as well. The latest version I've downloaded uses my default browser.

  11. why i dont usually upgrade on Mozilla 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Everytime i upgrade my theme stops working (orbit). From what it says on the orbit download page, It seems like this time it's compatible , we shall see.

  12. Electronic Music on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At first glance, I guess the reason Wrap Records (and most electronic music (EM) companies/artists I imagine) and artists do not complain too much about music piracy and some what embraces it, lays on the nature of the music itself. I believe most EM artists earn their salary through live shows at clubs, festivals, radio appearances, etc, rather than cd sales. By allowing the public to get to know the artist's music, if the fans like it, the more popular this artist gets, the more people at EM events, the more money for the artists. Because EM is not as big as most other genres, in most cases there is not enough budget to manufacture an image for these artists, so talent and popularity, based on the quality of the music itself is what determines the artist's success. Unlike most mainstream music, electronic music focuses on the music itself rather than the artist's image.

    Then again, it might just be because most EM comes from Europe (specially Holland, Germany) which well is very open about the whole music piracy issue :D

  13. Re:IBM won't dump windows anytime soon... on Where Will IBM Drop Windows? · · Score: 1

    " IBM has their hands in so many honey pots, there should be no worries that the next ThinkPad you will get will be Linux-only."

    Who is worrying?

  14. Bush on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm all for science advances but can't help to think he might be trying to drive attention away from some of other problems

  15. Global Warming? on Extinctions Due to Global Warming Predicted · · Score: 1

    It's freaking -25c (-40c with windchill) in Toronto! Where is my global warming!

  16. html on World Summit On The Internet And IT · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should start by banning frontpage as a tool to create webpages. Yes that would mean they'll have to recode their official website as well

  17. Frustrating on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Google has grown arrogant, making some of its executives as frustrating to deal with in negotiations as AOL's cowboy salesmen during the bubble. "

    So they're frustrating to negotiate with just because someone didn't get their way?

  18. X Windows? on NERC Releases Interim Report on Aug 14th Blackout · · Score: 1, Informative

    X Window not X Windows

  19. Most popular Stories on Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News · · Score: 1

    So 2 out of the 5 most popular stories are Microsoft related.


    # Microsoft tests Web news service ZDNet Full coverage...

    # Microsoft tests Web news service DoubleClick Full coverage...


    Seems like it's running the same "AI algorithm" engine msn search engine is using. I know I won't be using nor recommeding this news portal to anyone.

  20. Stats on Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    I would really like to see a graph on Linux Usage vs Windows usage on the Desktop for the past , 2 years.

    So many governments are embracing Linux. Will Corporate (North) America wake up and finally see its potential?

  21. Re:is this a threat to linux security? on Brazil Moves Away From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    "If Brazil remains a locus of "grayhat" activity, could this mean more resources will be put toward finding Linux exploits?"

    Well, isn't that a Good Thing (tm) ? More security testers. We should be able to fix the holes faster

  22. no question here but.. on Ask Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik · · Score: 1

    I would like to thank you for taking the time in answering questions from the community. Not many CEOs would listen to the community this close or would even attempt to answer their own customer questions.

  23. PFFT! on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim · · Score: 1

    I declare ownership on strings.

  24. Open Source on Segway-Based Robot Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    As you can see, Just like in software, in hardware you can also take existing concepts, ideas and expand on them or derive other things from them. This moves technology. Dear MS execs, It is not a cancer nor does it harm us. Learn to adapt and play with the team!

  25. FastSilicon.com on Video Card History · · Score: 2, Funny

    FastSilicon.com - not so fast anymore.