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  1. The comparison isn't obvious on Blu-ray/HD DVD Disc Sales Numbers Revealed · · Score: 1

    I was looking forward to a nice barchart or so, but the scale thingys are a bit confusing really. Some people (like me) don't give a crap about the words, we're just looking for numbers...woulda thought a bar graph was the perfect comparison tool myself.

  2. Re:KVM support? on Linux 2.6.20-rc6 Kernel Performance · · Score: 1

    Yeah, especially since I can never get my Belkin KVM switch to work properly with Linux, I always lose the mouse or keyboard. I thought the problem had been fixed now, oh well...

  3. I've never called the 3 1/2 ones floppies on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was reserved for the truly floppy 5 1/4 disks (or even the eight inch ones I used on Datapoint machines).

    I prefer to call the 3 1/2 ones "stiffies".

  4. Re:Request on 25 Percent of All Computers in a Botnet? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here ya go

    Try this

    Sorry, I just had to do it.

  5. Please delay the releases on Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In fact, don't release some of them at all.

  6. National Lampoon's Information Technology on Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now · · Score: 1

    Vista salesman to Chevy Chase...

    Tell you what, you give me half the money you were going to pay for Vista and Office 2007, we go out back, I kick you in the nuts and we'll call it a day!

  7. Of course your food is moving on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1

    Especially if it is Odori!!

    Mmmmmmm, fresh!

  8. Re:If Nobel Laureates are so smart ... exactly! on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista, The Rematch · · Score: 1

    Lots of people run the Sub7 Trojan too.

    Maybe they're smarter than those that don't, which is quite possible given that they're all running Windows.

  9. Oblig. Quote on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    1. Build shoulder-launched missile system
    2. Profit!
    3. Develop countermeasure for shoulder-launched missile system
    4. More Profit!

  10. Hacking printers is easy on Printers Vulnerable To Security Threats · · Score: 1

    People print sensitive documents to networked printers all the time. You just hang around the printer with your coffee waiting for 'your' job and either clear up the un-collected jobs that are always lying around, or grab stuff as it comes off the printer. The owner will always re-submit the job without a second thought.

  11. They don't want Germans shooting Germans on Germany Wants EU to Ban Violent Games · · Score: 1

    In Call of Duty.

  12. Not sure about this on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will allow the US Navy to miss targets from much further away.

  13. Brings new meaning to the phrase... on Home Theater Transformed Into Star Trek Bridge · · Score: 1

    "Beam down Yeoman Rand and a 6-pack".

  14. Re:Well she has a point... on 10th Annual Wacky Warning Labels Out · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The labels are pretty rediculous but they are for the parents


    Well, actually the labels are there for the manufacturers. They don't give a crap what you do with their product, if there's a warning label then your chances of successfully suing them are minimal.
  15. Pollute the phishing sites on A Tour of the Google Blacklist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go there and put in false information. Make it harder for them to get valid data.

  16. Re:DRM=WTF on Movie Studios OK Download-to-Burn DVDs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I only got as far as "OK to download and burn DVDs".

    That's good enough for me.

  17. There's no excuse for it on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you know how to use HTML, you should know how to be able to write an email without using any HTML.

    If you don't know how to use HTML, you shouldn't use it, period.

  18. Get your Microsoft Eyeballs now folks on Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection · · Score: 1

    Because pretty soon, you won't be able to watch any premium content without them.

  19. Re:THE BOURNE SUPREMACY on Best (and Worst) High-Def Discs of 2006 · · Score: 1

    If you were lucky enough not to have read the books, the movie was probably a pretty good ride. For those unfortunate sods who read a ripping (and I use that term in the old sense) book, similarities between the two stopped after the "THE" in the movie title.

  20. Save cash... on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 1

    By not having your house lit up like the Griswolds' place. It might also reduce the requirement for another Power Station somewhere.

  21. Re:Wow on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Not to take anything away from the comment, but USB External Portable storage, perhaps?

  22. Re:Video brokenness on David Pogue Takes On Vista · · Score: 1
    You could read the article

    Tried to read article. Article requires login. Sucks. Hunting for alternate link right now.
  23. Re:Its a feature on Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted · · Score: 1
    Fairly alarming that a simple document meant to basically contain text, can launch code on an OS.


    Certainly is.
    Brought to you by the company that allows embedding URLs in digital media.
  24. Re:Hypnotoad on David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have this vague memory of reading Asimov's Oceans of Venus, where, as the story goes (iirc) amphibians - toads maybe? - were kept as pets, but as the story unwound, it was found that the blighters were exerting mind control over the human inhabitants.

    This Hypnotoad thingy wouldn't happen to have been nicked from Asimov now, would it?

  25. Let's hope someone doesn't build a Gort with this on Microsoft Formally Releases Robotics Software · · Score: 1

    I can see it now:

    Human (in trembly voice): Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

    Gort: Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzztttttt...