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  1. Other Important News on Napster To Abandon MP3 For .NAP · · Score: 5
    In a similar story, Netscape creates proprietary .nscp format to replace .html and clinch a come-from-behind-victory in the browser wars.

    Also in the news: Amiga Q2 gross profits up 40% to $39.50.

  2. Re:How can we help? on Fallout From Def Con: Ebook Hacker Arrested by FBI · · Score: 3
    It's my legal right to bypass any and all restrictions on an eBook I've bought myself. It's his legal right to tell other people how to bypass any and all of these restrictions.

    Right on! Just like it's MY legal right to grow or purchase whatever mind-altering drugs I wan.... Oh wait. No it's not.

  3. Re:Wait a second! on Lossy Music Formats Compared · · Score: 1
    methinks if you encoded Britney's "music" w/ PGP, it wouldn't sound just as good. it would sound better.

    But technically couldn't they both be called "white noise"?

  4. Not good news for M$ Bloatware.. on Disk Storage Limits Loom 3-5 Years From Now · · Score: 2
    Good Lord! We'll all have to buy RAID arrays just to install Windows 2010!

  5. Re:I'm a little confused here... on MySQL.com vs. MySQL.org? · · Score: 1
    You raise interesting point. What kind of draconian forms can I force a user to fill out (and of course later sell to information brokers) and still claim to be within the limits of the GPL?

    It seems to be me that providing your personal information is akin to a form of micropayment.

  6. Re:I tried... on Computer Faces Human Psychological Test · · Score: 1
    well it's gone from broken to slashdotted. Oh that's much better.

  7. Re:Give me a break! on Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name · · Score: 1
    Hmm, lets see if your argument holds water...

    Dictionary.com search on miata...
    No entry found for miata in the dictionary.

    And now lets try illustrator
    illustrate (l-strt, -lstrt) v. illustrated, illustrating, illustrates v. tr. To clarify, as by use of examples or comparisons: The editor illustrated the definition with an example sentence. To clarify by serving as an example or comparison: The example sentence illustrated the meaning of the word. To provide (a publication) with explanatory or decorative features: illustrated the book with colorful drawings. Obsolete. To illuminate. v. intr. To present a clarification, example, or explanation.

    Why, what do you know! it's already in the English language.

    This gives me a great idea. I'm going to create some software and call it It. I should be able to sue LOTS of people then! Perhaps a whole suite including The for Windows, If database querying, and And collaboration software!

  8. Re:Yeah, and maybe .. on Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name · · Score: 1
    I don't think Apple and Sun are trademarked. I believe "Apple Computers" and "Sun Microsystems" are.

    So I'm not gonna get sued if my company is Apple Microsystems or Sun Computers?

  9. Re:Oops... on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 4
    Of course there's another password category "people who make up passwords in hopes that someone WILL find them out".

    Like my pw I hope one day to have the FBI demand from me:

    password: guessityourselfyoudumbcunt.

  10. Re:Oops... on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 4
    Yeah I called Microsoft tech support because my password was showing up when I typed it into the login box!

    They couldn't figure it out for quite a while until they asked what my password was....

    Of course, it was ******(star-star-star-star-star-star).

  11. tought to do? on images.google.com · · Score: 1
    Amazing how similar tough and tought look and how different they sound eh?

  12. Re:Distrube: Hemos the genius on Napster Signs Indie Deal · · Score: 1
    Hey I was just posting tongue-in-cheek there, anal policeman (but touche, that usually annoys me almost as much as there/their/they're). It was intended to be funny. The sad thing is that it was modded 'insightful'! HA!

  13. Chasing its own robotic tail on Hyperion Robot Follows the Sun · · Score: 3
    Is it really necessary to have it tearing around trying to stay in the sunlight? shouldn't it just concern itself with whatever it's doing and if it loses sun, power down and wait for a recharge tomorrow?

    Of course it could make for some interesting robot race challenges....

  14. Re:Distrube: Hemos the genius on Napster Signs Indie Deal · · Score: 2
    Hemos obviously recognized the living nature of our language and his abiility to shape it. Ingeniously, he has created a single word to describe the fact that Napster does not actually distribute anything but it's client software.

    Distrube: a combination of distribute, rude, rube, and ruse, emphasizing DIS-ing the user and making reference to a Rube Goldberg device.

    The creative brainpower astounds.

  15. Re:Yowza... on Napster Signs Indie Deal · · Score: 1
    I'm sure we've all seen stories about the studies that say that CD sales may have increased as a result of Napster usage.

    The great thing is CD sales are down this year (2001) compared to 2000 sales. Of course it's actually because there are no super-teeny-bopper-megahits like last year, but it will LOOK like downfall of Napster == less CD sales.

  16. Blatant Anti-Microsoft Karma-whoring on Caldera Per Seat Licensing · · Score: 2
    News flash 3: So is extortion, blackmail, forgery, and contract killing.

    Doesn't make them right.

    No, it makes them Microsoft! (Ok so we haven't been able to pin the contract killing on them... YET.)

  17. Re:Media!=Mediums on Supreme Court Sides With Freelancers On Net Copyright · · Score: 1
    Well actually you WERE incorrect. While mediums IS a word, it's not the word you want. Unless you meant to say that:

    This decision gives writers more control as to what fortune tellers their art gets distributed in

    OR

    This decision gives writers more control as to what middle-sized things their art gets distributed in

    that is.

  18. Re:Pre Bitchslaps to: on IBM Develops Transistor Capable of 210GHz · · Score: 1
    Sadly, both the Beowulf and Quake posts made it in even before this one (#9)

    >SLAP<
    >SLAP<

  19. Pre Bitchslaps to: on IBM Develops Transistor Capable of 210GHz · · Score: 4
    Pre Bitchslaps to:

    First post mentioning 'A Beowulf cluster of those things'
    FPS in Quake if Invidia uses IBM's new technology
    Personing mentioning that faster CPU's are useless since everybody is just surfing AOL and writing email anyway.
    First person mentioning anything related to SETI@Home or distributed.net

    Have a m00 day.

  20. Re:a dumb question on Google Plans an IPO · · Score: 1
    what is an IPO?

    There are no dumb questions. Only dumb places to ask them. Lets see here. you're in an article about GOOGLE. A search engine. A way to find answers to things, and sites about those things. Hmm. How about typing IPO into, say... GOOGLE???

    Or for those of you running AOL, Click Here! You've got link!

  21. But that name! on Five Years of Quake · · Score: 1
    Myst isn't even 3D; it's just prerendered snapshots and video sequences. OK so I guess that's 3d, but not LIVE 3d.

    But what about that name? Quake? I mean sure it's a household name now -- I don't even think about the meaning of the word but when I heard about the game I expected some kind of spelunking game or at least some Duke-Nukem style earthquake effects.

  22. Re:Sorry, I can't help myself on Piezoelectric Shoe Power · · Score: 1
    Could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things? You could solve California's power crisis. thousands of health-nut runners, hooked into the power grid during times of peak usage.

    Dear Dumbass-who-thinks-using-buzzwords-makes-a-joke-mo re-funny: When you hook lots of things together it is not necessarily a 'Beowulf cluster'.

    Here are some other ways NOT to use Beowulf cluster:
    I went to a library and man! they had a Beowulf cluster of books!
    2 Beowulf clusters of raisins in Kelloggs Raisin Bran
    Unless you come down here right now, mister, you're in a Beowulf cluster of trouble!
    Did you see that Italian dude with the Beowulf cluster of hair on his back?

    Tune in next time for: Why Open Source doesn't involve removing the computer's cover

  23. Re:Makes sense. on Piezoelectric Shoe Power · · Score: 1

    Beat you to it. M0000.

  24. Hello, Chief? on Piezoelectric Shoe Power · · Score: 5
    Hello, Chief? I have to go walk around. The shoe phone is almost out of juice.

    Missed it by THAT MUCH.

  25. Re:That thylacine link is bleak on Scientists Discover Another 'Extinct' Tree · · Score: 3
    They did have their own name for themselves.. we just don't care.

    You're right. From now on I will refer to them as the Peoples of the Adirondack, Delaware, Massachuset, Narranganset, Potomac, Illinois, Miami, Alabama, Ottawa, Waco, Wichita, Mohave, Shasta, Yuma, Erie, Huron, Susquehanna, Natchez, Mobile, Yakima, Wallawalla, Muskogee, Spokan, Iowa, Missouri, Omaha, Kansa, Biloxi, Dakota, Hatteras, Klamath, Caddo, Tillamook, Washoe, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Laguna, Santa Ana, Winnebago, Pecos, Cheyenne, Menominee, Yankton, Apalachee, Chinook, Catawba, Santa Clara, Taos, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Blackfeet, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Comanche, Shoshone, Two Kettle, Sans Arc, Chiricahua, Kiowa, Mescalero, Navajo, Nez Perce, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Pawnee, Chickahominy, Flathead, Santee, Assiniboin, Oglala, Miniconjou, Osage, Crow, Brule, Hunkpapa, Pima, Zuni, Hopi, Paiute, Creek, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Shinnicock Tribes.

    It's awful how the Peoples of the Adirondack, Delaware, Massachuset, Narranganset, Potomac, Illinois, Miami, Alabama, Ottawa, Waco, Wichita, Mohave, Shasta, Yuma, Erie, Huron, Susquehanna, Natchez, Mobile, Yakima, Wallawalla, Muskogee, Spokan, Iowa, Missouri, Omaha, Kansa, Biloxi, Dakota, Hatteras, Klamath, Caddo, Tillamook, Washoe, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Laguna, Santa Ana, Winnebago, Pecos, Cheyenne, Menominee, Yankton, Apalachee, Chinook, Catawba, Santa Clara, Taos, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Blackfeet, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Comanche, Shoshone, Two Kettle, Sans Arc, Chiricahua, Kiowa, Mescalero, Navajo, Nez Perce, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Pawnee, Chickahominy, Flathead, Santee, Assiniboin, Oglala, Miniconjou, Osage, Crow, Brule, Hunkpapa, Pima, Zuni, Hopi, Paiute, Creek, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Shinnicock Tribes were persecuted and faced genocide.

    I truly feel sorry for the Peoples of the Adirondack, Delaware, Massachuset, Narranganset, Potomac, Illinois, Miami, Alabama, Ottawa, Waco, Wichita, Mohave, Shasta, Yuma, Erie, Huron, Susquehanna, Natchez, Mobile, Yakima, Wallawalla, Muskogee, Spokan, Iowa, Missouri, Omaha, Kansa, Biloxi, Dakota, Hatteras, Klamath, Caddo, Tillamook, Washoe, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Laguna, Santa Ana, Winnebago, Pecos, Cheyenne, Menominee, Yankton, Apalachee, Chinook, Catawba, Santa Clara, Taos, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Blackfeet, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Comanche, Shoshone, Two Kettle, Sans Arc, Chiricahua, Kiowa, Mescalero, Navajo, Nez Perce, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Pawnee, Chickahominy, Flathead, Santee, Assiniboin, Oglala, Miniconjou, Osage, Crow, Brule, Hunkpapa, Pima, Zuni, Hopi, Paiute, Creek, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Shinnicock Tribes.