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  1. Re:So.. on ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    Actually, I thought it was a mighty succinct comment. The article was fluff. Intentions are nice but articles with feature and benchmark tests and word on the blogs are where the drivers will prove themselves.

  2. Promises, promises on 'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' · · Score: 4, Funny

    We would give you a nice paying job, a house, a car, anything you needed.... if you save Hollywood for us you can become rich and powerful.' In 2005, the MPAA paid Anderson $15,000

    Where does Anderson live, Lesotho?

  3. Online resellers change everything on New England Patriots Obtain Online Ticket Reseller Names · · Score: 1

    Minnesota repealed a decades-long scalping prohibition just this August with the image that it would only legalize the people hawking tickets outside the stadium who have always been there and always will be there. But it has become clear that the ticket reselling companies are the ones that benefit grabbing everything up the moment an online sale starts.

  4. Or their lawyers have a sense of humor on IBM Seeking 'Patent-Protection-Racket' Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't it true that IBM invented this in the 50s and 60s? They held Microsoft's place long before Customer Assurance was a gleam in Bill Gates' eye. Maybe a kinder, new millennium IBM wants a patent so they can sue any other company that uses the tactic instead of relying upon government prosecution?

  5. Good. At least we see a vote on Senator Slaps Down FISA Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    My Senator (Klobuchar, MN) has been a dick on both the August FISA bill and voting for the MoveOn.org condemnation. I want to see her vote, not this good-old-boy "unanimous" stuff.

  6. Senate Republicans have outmaneuvered Democrats on White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    "Outmaneuvered"? As in, "Ah shuckin's Missie Voter, I's powerful sorry them slippery Republicans done pulled the wool over our eyes yet agin"?

    I'm really sick of the Democratic Party shuffling out the stupid card. Either they really _are_ stupid, or they are insincere and think _we_ are stupid.

    In either case, why would they think I would want to re-elect them or their kind? I say zero tolerance, zero respect. That's what this sort of shuck and jive about "outmaneuvering" deserves.

  7. Very uncool on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    Considering how paranoid and politically polarized segments of the country are, somebody's going to get killed drawing weapons.

  8. Let's be precise on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    More than 60 million U.S. households currently rely on an antennas or analog cable

    This HD MythTV builder still relies on antennas. Never had cable in my life.

  9. Re:I got one of those on Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records · · Score: 1

    What are you hiding Comrade?

    Like they used to say back in the Vietnam war era, the quickest way to get an FBI record was to request any public information the FBI might have on you under the Freedom of Information Act. Which is to say that opt-out is inherently flawed.

  10. Re:a sex robot with us already, disguised as a hor on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    Just read the blurb for Butterscotch and replace in your mind the word "pony" with "girl" or "boy"...

    Or not. But I can almost guarantee that bestiality robots would be illegal in Mississippi.

  11. Re:Rights for artificial beings on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    More likely the way American society is going, corporate princes will give their robots in the inner circle rights to control lesser humans for efficiency and chuckles.

  12. Re:A bit of variety wouldn't hurt on Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed · · Score: 0

    I *really* suck at FPSs

    Ditto. Tremulous is way too frantic for me. Try TORCS road racing or Flightgear. Flightgear has incredible potential as volunteers rebuild their cities virtually into it.

  13. Re:Since there's a camera on every street corner.. on Corporate Encouragement For Sharing Your WiFi · · Score: 1

    Philosophically the Nazis pretty much sent "greatest happiness to the greatest number" up in smoke. A meaningful post-WWII ethics has to value each individual to be worthy as a morality.

  14. polymer best-known for its use in non-stick pans on Space Money Invented For Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    Space may be cold unless you're in the sunlight, but haven't studies shown that Teflon (TM and such) does horrible things to the lungs and health in general when it escapes off a pan that has been forgotten on the stove? Seems like maybe the most dangerous plastic to have chosen in case there is a space station fire in the vault.

  15. Re:"Simple"? on Getting Gouged by Geeks · · Score: 1

    Says something about the whole home repair scenario, doesn't it? How _do_ you justify running a couple cycles of a memory test?

    On the other hand, I've adopted a little old lady and she obviously understands nothing about thunderstorms and the CMOS scramble she got last week. Just disconnecting the power connector to check the PS with the PowMAXX was enough to clear the mainboard. "You mean there's nothing burnt out that you have to replace? No software to reinstall? You really think it'll be OK now?"

    Like a hypochondriac who needs a sugar pill, I think she was disappointed and a little worried that I didn't put something new in.

  16. Not just gay on George Takei Now an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    He was a grade school kid in a WWII internment camp for Japanese-Americans. Says he remembers looking at the guard tower from his classroom window.

    Instead of getting hate-filled and going ballistic, he's a humanist and a gentleman. That probably took some conscious will, so I think the honor couldn't happen to a nicer person.

  17. Sci fi for the NASCAR crowd? on Knight Rider To Ride Again · · Score: 1

    Dunno. Post-transformers, even Dark Angel and the like, isn't a guy in a talking car a little lame in general and a little tame in compelling available story lines?

    Perhaps interesting betting fodder on whether it survives from two shows to perhaps two seasons.

  18. Re:might've at least reworded the article title on 50 Years Ago, Sputnik Was an Improvised Triumph · · Score: 2

    Absolutely. The little beeping ball that ramped up both the space race and the cold war.

    Six in my case but I still remember the adults pondering the implications of this Russian "thing" right over their very own heads.

  19. $1.50 Pickering plastic log log with carrier on Know How To Use a Slide Rule? · · Score: 1

    Everybody in my high school advanced math class had to buy one back in the dark ages so we would get the school group rate. By all indications the pig in the "genuine pigskin carrier" wasn't optimally fresh and class was funky for a few days.

  20. Shouldn't be controversial on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    Depending on where they put them in South Texas the increased cancer rates surrounding the plants should be insignificant in the noise of other pollution-caused illness.

  21. LEDs make old calculators rare antiques on The Handheld Calculator Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    I really wish my wife hadn't locked my TI-58 into the print cradle with the power on. One of the program chips had a really nice power curve for predicting completion time for running speed by distance.

    I have two SR-10s (square, inverse AND square root -- woo hoo!). My original purchase has the box, charger, case and manual. The problem is that LED junctions burn out. Got a second one at a garage sale but it had a different junction burnt out.

  22. Re:Microsoft just announced plans for their fix on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 1

    You forgot DOS 6.0 and it's amusing data killer features.

  23. Heavy on sitcom and fantasy on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 1

    I project two, maybe three, I could possibly watch regularly.

  24. Perhaps less immediately dangerous on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Did anyone ever follow Penn Jillette's PC Computing article and set their computer to autorun a program that flashes: "10", "9", "8", "7".....

  25. Re:I wonder on OpenOffice 2.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Easy and streamlined -- use AbiWord. Really.

    A few years ago I had the argument with a guy about features. He was saying the wonderful thing about Word is that it DIDN'T have as many features as other word processors. (I can always be called upon to laud WordPerfect.) To me, that's insane. Don't use what you don't need and don't tell me I shouldn't have what I can use and we'll both be happy.

    As an aside, the comparison between OOo and Word the other day was interesting because it looks like Word still hasn't grown beyond limitations that annoyed me 10 years ago. OOo is my hope for maybe someday regaining the versatility I had back then with WordPerfect.