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  1. Analogies on Cameras in UK for Toll Enforcement · · Score: 1

    If this analogy was true, wouldn't the car manufacturers be Microsoft? Oh...wait...

  2. Great Wall EXPIRES on Freeciv-1.13.0 Stable · · Score: 1

    The Great Wall wonder expires. City walls don't.

  3. Re:Corporate BS on RoadRunner Blocking Use of Kazaa · · Score: 1
    Cutting off the bandwidth hogs is going to result in faster service, at no extra cost, to the remainder of the people using the service.
    Except it doesn't, because RoadRunner caps ALL cable at 2Mbps.
  4. Dell on Mac Users May Be Smarter · · Score: 1

    With that stupid and ANNOYING spokes, uh, KID that Dell's got doing advertisements for them, it's no WONDER Mac users think they're smarter.

  5. Petition to REPEAL CARP on Carp-Free Independent Music Labels · · Score: 1
  6. A Buck on A Lawyer's View on the OpenGL Patent Mess · · Score: 1

    Like they need anymore -- they've already got over $40bn. (Unless, of course, they've lied on their financial reports, and they're almost bankrupt, in which case I suppose we can all feel sorry for them...*cough*)

  7. Network (non-)Solutions on Collateral Damage in the Spam War · · Score: 1
    The only people I got spam from was from the e-mail address I used to register domain names with through netsol.
    Now there's MyPrivacy which is an email forwarding service that automatically sends back a verify message to any address sending email to it. Spammers don't get through. They also have set-up a whitelist for registrars so that you don't lose important information from them. (Just hope Register.com doesn't try to fool you into switching registrars through it.)
  8. Stop CARP on Latest Toast Update Combats Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Another great reason to Revoke CARP. (Well, hey, it's a start.)

  9. Fan on More on Orbital Space Debris · · Score: 1

    Just put a big fan up there and blow everything into a different galaxy!

    (Wait...what? No air? DAMMIT.)

  10. GPS on A Big-Screen Mobile MP3 Console · · Score: 1

    What happens to GPS devices, then? Nothing, just like what happens to this.

  11. Ultimate Search on Latest UDRP Stupidity: Unix.org, Canadian.biz · · Score: 1

    This is completely contradictory to what the UDRP has done for Hong Kong-based company "Ultimate Search, Inc."

    Case 1: Poetry site.
    Case 2: PricewaterhouseCoopers.
    Case 3: WBW
    Case 4: Home of the Underdogs.

    And you'd better believe there are lots more cases in which these cybersquatters have taken over sites without retribution.

  12. Re:Ahhh Office Space on I Believe You Have My Stapler · · Score: 1

    Well then... thanks for completely ruining the joke.

  13. Young Genious on US Army to Test Laser Based Mine Clearing Device · · Score: 1

    Take a page out of an old 80s movie about a laser that can kill people from space. *DON'T DO IT*. (Or, at least, be able to get into the test plane and reprogram the microchips, which are conveniently removable and not souldered into place like all other microchips.)

  14. Re:Who made these guys king? on W3C Ponders RAND Again · · Score: 1

    If everyone had to follow them, there would be no sites "designed for IE".

  15. Re:Another fine game of whack a mole... on Cable Companies Saying No to WiFi Sharing · · Score: 1

    So, does this mean that I can no longer network a computer two stories up with the cable in the basement via 802.11a/b? I mean, what the hell do the cable companies care anyway? They already cap the modem, so if the modem's capped, there's no excess usage.

  16. Re:Amazing on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites · · Score: 1

    one big PARKING LOT. (Y'know, for all those SUVs.)

  17. Re:Finally. on Yucca Mountain Approved for US Nuclear Waste Storage · · Score: 1

    So, it's where they used to test nuclear bombs...good! More radiation!

  18. For Those Who Don't Know on Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Nihon" == "Japan" in Japanese.

  19. Re:Of course on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1

    Some web designer you are --
    You're just a web deformer.
    Anyone that doesn't comply to standards is just as bad, sometimes even worse, than anyone that uses a WYSIWYG editor (even those can be W3C compliant at times). Or maybe you're using Frontpage, in which case, what the HELL are you complaining about deadlines for?!! (Maybe if you spent less time using bad editors and learned some HTML you wouldn't have to spend so much time fixing bad code.)

    As a REAL (standards-conforming) web-designer, people like you make me sick. Mod this down for being flamebait, or whatever, but I really can't stand this kind of shit, especially from someone that claims to be a web-designer.

  20. Will It Matter? (12/21/2012) on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 1

    According to the Mayans, who had an *extremely* accurate calendar (up to the point where they could determine astrological charts thousands of years in the future), the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012AD. If this is true, it won't really matter if Earth will expire by 2050, since it'll be gone, or everyone will have died, or both.

    Read more about 12/21/2012 here, here, or any of these places.

    The fact that their calendars and astrological charts were so correct gives a certain authenticity to this over, say, "THE WORLD IS GOING TO END IN 2000! OH MY GOD!@#$!@#$" and other more conspiratorial claims.

  21. Re:Sorry to say but this is FUD on MS Palladium Patent · · Score: 1

    Well, if you don't want to protest to the source, how do you want to approach the growing Microsoft problem? Sitting around twiddling our thumbs isn't doing anything.

    And, how many of these things exist in W2K (versus XP), and how many will exist when W2KSP3 is released?

    What Rights Do You Want Violated Today?(TM)©®

  22. Won't Someone Think of the Trees!?! on Milestones in the Annals of Junkmail · · Score: 1

    C'mon. Postal SPAM kills trees. We like trees. They allow us to live. That's very important, because if we don't have trees, we don't live, and we're dead, and that's bad. Don't kill trees. Trees are our friends. *takes another draw from a marijuana joint* Really.

  23. Re:Completely Unnecessary on Commerce Dep't to Hold Public Workshop on DRM · · Score: 1

    I just copied your post and sent it to their PR address.

    Maybe you need some stricter rights management on your posts.

  24. Deep Linking on Seiko TV Watch is now 20 years Old · · Score: 1

    OH MY GOD! YOU JUST DEEP LINKED EBAY! I bet the Danish would be interested in this.

  25. Re:Great news! And one little inaccuracy on 3 Megabit Cable Modems, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    If a company like RCN can do it, why can't Time Warner do it? They're multitudes larger, with tonnes more money.