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  1. Re:Shit gets shittier on Another Windows 8 Pre-Beta Surfaces · · Score: 1

    No, your just people who choose to use a program that requires more keystrokes/clicks to accomplish the same task as Office 2003.

  2. Re:Excellent! on XBMC Gets a Dedicated Remote · · Score: 1

    That was not my experience.

    I purchased a WMC remote w/IR receiver and was using XBMC Live (Ubuntu-based) that was then loaded to the hard drive. LIRC is on there.

    The WMC remote maybe has 6 keys that worked off the bat. Unfortunately, "back" wasn't one of them. Up, Down, Left, Right, Stop and Play yes but I can't navigate back out of a menu.

    If the WMC worked right, then yes I could use it to teach the Harmony and all would be right with the world. But it was barely functional out of the box.

    I had the exact opposite results. I had XBMC running on WinXP and had to do a bunch of regedits to get a WMC remote to work. When I reinstalled with XBMC Live, the remote just worked.

  3. Re:Damn! - Eve? on Guild Wars 2 Devs Aiming For the Top · · Score: 1

    "expensive, prestigeous public locations for rent/sale and personalized use."

    - Ok, got me again.

    Delve.

    Watching PL keep people from taking Delve while they themselves don't bother conquering it has given me a laugh.

  4. Will I need Kali to play multiplayer? on Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed - Again · · Score: 1

    After all, I payed 10$ in order to play multipler games over tcp/ip.

  5. Re:Loving all the rage on In Isk We Trust: the EVE Online IskBank Exposed · · Score: 1

    If it took you months to save up for a BS which costs 150 million isk with t2 fittings then your doing something majorly wrong. You can make 150m in a few hours of rattin gin 0.0 or now doing the Incursions in low-sec.

    The implication of this is that a player willing to spend real money becomes near-invincible. They can afford to lose ships, and long-term conflict in EVE is all about economic war and attrition - cut off the enemy corp's industry, wear down their funds and resources. But you can't do that when they are spending real money. It's just unfair. It means the game is no longer a contest of skill, but about who has the best funding in real life, which just completly ruins everything.

    Now your just plan wrong. IT (aka Band of Brothers 2.0) had over 500billion isk available yet they couldn't defend against the goons in Fountain. ISK selling may get you a short-term gain but if your alliance is at that point where you need to purchase isk, your alliance is already failing.

  6. Re:Because consumers are stupid on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 2

    We ban lead paint but get rid of a product that is non-toxic when broken for one that is (due to the mercury content in the CFL).

  7. Re:Margaret A. Nagle, U.S. Magistrate Judge on DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence · · Score: 0

    If your British, then your royally screwed....

  8. Re:Surprise move? on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Minimal auto insurance (aka liability) is to cover not dammges to your car if your in a accident, but damages to the other party. Required insurances is there so you don't bankrupt someone who you hit and damaged. Its not there to keep you from bankrupting yourself.

  9. Re:9th Circuit on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The 9th circuit court makes more rulings than any other circuit, so it also has more rulings overturned than any other court. In terms of percentages, they are not more overruled than any other court.

    Your actually wrong on this. The SCOTUS usually overturns ~75% of cases it takes up. With the 9th circuit though, last term they overturned 94% of the cases taken.

  10. Re:Here's to hoping on 3 Prototypes From HP, In Outline · · Score: 1

    The pre has been out for 14 months now.

  11. Re:Interesting on Military Personnel Weigh In On Being Taliban In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Don't forget all the professional peace advocates profiting from war.....after all without war there would be no peace and they would be out of a job.

  12. Re:Ignorance, mostly. on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 2, Informative

    ASP wasn't even released until 2002. That's even two years after PHP 4.

    No idiot...ASP was originally released with IIS in 1996. ASP is interpreted/scripted while ASP.NET was released in 2002. ASP and ASP.net share as much in common as VB6 and VB.Net do..ie language syntax and name only. Everything else is different.

  13. Re:Eight Killed Today on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    How many people were killed due to sectarian violence in India last month? or Pakistan?

    How many people will killed due to drug violence in Ciudad Juarez?

    How many drive-bys were there in LA last month?

    There will be violence in Iraq just like there is violence in other coutrys throughout the world. But the organized insurgant violence is gone. Now its the equivalent of you local gangs.

    How incredibly stupid you have to be, to use comparisons like this in order to justify violence in Iraq?

    Let me ask you a simple question - how many people were killed on a daily basis while Saddam was in power? And how many people are killed on a daily basis now?

    How many per day were killed total or killed by Saddam's regime? Pre War Iraq, it was esitmated that Saddam's regime killed about 10k people per year using such clever devices as meat grinders (feet first). So to answer you question....about 28-30 a day.

    And how is comparing sectarian violence in India or drug violence in Mexico stupid? It's violence perpetrated against authority or against a different religious or ethnic group...both of which are reasons for the Iraqi insurgent violence.

  14. Re:About time. on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    People in Japan have been asking, but the US won't leave.

    Filipinos have shown that they can play nice with their neighbors.

    Japan and Germany....not so much.

  15. Re:End of violence? on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama did well on this one. Let's give him credit.

    Obama did well? Obama opposed everything that allowed Iraq to be in this position now. Obama had no plan for Iraq except a campaign promise (and like all of his campaign promises, it comes with a expiration date). Bush, and Patraus more so, deserves the credit here. They put all Iraq on this path, all Obama did was follow the blueprint given to him by Bush. A plan that called for the removal of troops in late 2010. Obama had no plan of his own

  16. Re:Eight Killed Today on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How many people were killed due to sectarian violence in India last month? or Pakistan?

    How many people will killed due to drug violence in Ciudad Juarez?

    How many drive-bys were there in LA last month?

    There will be violence in Iraq just like there is violence in other coutrys throughout the world. But the organized insurgant violence is gone. Now its the equivalent of you local gangs.

    A few years ago when I would debate with my liberal friends about declare victory in Iraq and leaving (which was there attitude), I told them we won't be doing that. We will have in Iraq maintaining peace (rather then stationed at a regional base) until they are no longer needed. Slowly and surely Iraqi forces would develop the skill and competence to take over the job that US troops were doing and eventually US troops would just not be used. That's what I told them then, and they were very skeptical, but that's whats happened since.

  17. Re:End of violence? on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 4, Informative

    How long have we maintained 40,000 troops in Korea?

  18. Re:it's worse than that on IRS Wants a Cut of Sales On eBay and Craigslist · · Score: 1

    Its not just businesses who would have to pay it. The "health care reform" law puts this on individuals also.

    On the OP, the IRS is actually being reasonable here (yes, a stopped clock is right twice a day). The basically want there share from those running a online store for profit.

  19. Re:XBMC was the best thing for the Xbox on XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support · · Score: 1

    I modded my old xbox which was closeted for 4 years recently. Splinter Cell cost me about $2 used. The bigger issue was finding a compatable USB stick.

  20. Re:Leader AND innovator? on Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com Over Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The ribbon is one of the worst UI changes ever to a application. Most experianced Excel users find their productivity going down due to it.

  21. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    You forget though that its your local and state government regulations that have allowed Comcast to get a monopoly on your sigh speed internet. Basically the bribe the local officials to put a ordinance in place which makes Comcast the sole provider in the area.

    As to government owning outright....when has anything the government owned ever worked out better for the consumer in the long run?

  22. sprint on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I live between two hills in a area where Sprint has great coverage but in my house I get either 1 bar or roaming. If I walk 100 yards up either hill its perfect reception. Sprint sent me a Airave ($100 normally) for free and comps me the $5 month fee. With it I get perfect reception. The Airave is not a repeater but a micro cell tower that communicates with Sprints network over a internet connection.

  23. Re:Anti-Union on NY To Replace IT Vendors With State Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fact remains that unionized government employees are paid 10-20% higher then private sector counterparts and have 4x the benefits package (about $9500 annual in the private sector vs 38k in a fed gov job). Many of the states who are bankrupt are so due to escalated costs of state employees.

  24. Re:I am shocked! on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    Of course our own Attorney Generals former law firm was responsible for the 5-6 delays. We were all ready to try him but when your bogged down in appeals, well it tends to delay things. Its sort of like a death row inmate whose been on death row for 25 years saying you can't can't execute him because its been inhumane to keep him on death row for 25 years (no mention that it was his lawyers actions which caused him to be there so long).

    Also remember that AG Holder won't even turn over lists of attorneys in Justice who worked for firms or actually represented Gitmo detainees (seriosu conflicts of interest there).

    Finally, when the AG decides that KSM will be found guilty, that stinks of kangaroo court and lack of fair trial (since the verdict is predetermined).

  25. Re:"Flushed Away" - sounds about right. on Astro Boy Director Speaks · · Score: 1

    QFT. My 6 year old daughter has seen all th epixar releases and disney movies but Ponyo is her favorite movie.