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  1. Re:Ten Microsoft Developer Community Sites on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1
    "I am a Microsoft employee so..."

    Burn him!!

  2. Inefficient? on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1
    "Even if these numbers are too large, this still makes you think about how inefficient our cars are."

    No, it makes me think of how inefficient our plants are.

  3. Re:Windows ATMs on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 1

    We've got them in Canada too. The new TD cash dispensers, the Wincor-Nixdorfs, run NT. I've seen a few others with it too.

  4. Re:Three Major Vulnerabilities on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes ATMs have floppy drives, and some even have CD-ROM drives. The problem though, is that these drives a long with the rest of the computer running the ATM, resides within the safe. Good luck getting in without stealing the whole machine first, in which case once you're in, steal the cash and dump the machine.

  5. Re:Mo Money! Mo Money! Mo Money! on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 1

    Most ATMs are designed to stay up unless there's a fatal error. They'll stay up if they're out of paper, if they have a non-fatal cash jam, etc. Only card-reader errors, fatal cash jams, and communication errors will bring a machine down. Some machines will even stay up when they're out of cash. I've never seen a machine that would go down due to damage to the safe, but the seismic sensor on the alarm would go off.

  6. Re:Not so fast... on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    Read your own quote. The Act states that private copying for private use of the person who already owns the material is legal. Filesharing is not.

  7. Re:Spell checker on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a good idea. Maybe we could even get Malda to use it.

  8. Re:I'm switching on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    Keep the piano. A guitar only has 6 strings, but a piano's gotta have somewhere around 180.

  9. Re:I don't pity them on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but who can believe anything that's said in a chat room where *@*.fbi.gov is lurking around?

  10. Re:Introvert geeks: on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 1

    So what happens to a social anxietous introvert then?

  11. Re:no payola in CA? on RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, they do use promoters who do whatever they can to convince a station manager to play a song, but they can't actually pay the station.

  12. Re:Horseshit on RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers · · Score: 1
    "File swapping on P2P is simply distributing the same tracks that the record labels PAY radio stations to broadcast to the public on the dime of the public itself."

    This isn't true, at least not in Canada. Paying a radio station (but not MTV et. al) to play a song is illegal, and everytime a radio station plays a song they have to pay a small, standard royalty to the copyright owner.

  13. Re:Mozilla, The Movie Trailer on The Mozilla Foundation · · Score: 1

    Eerie, of the 1460 songs on my list, Kashmir happened to be playing while I read this. I mean, what are the odds th-- oh, 1 in 1460 I guess.

  14. Re:Mozilla on Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues · · Score: 1
    "Tab browsing and killer popups won me over."

    I've been using Mozilla for a long time, certainly since they brought in the pop-up blocking, so I haven't had to deal with pop-ups in a long time, and I wasn't really aware of how bad the situation is today. I mean, I've heard there's still lots of pop-ups, and that they're still really annoying, but killer pop-ups??? Man... All I can say is, I sure am glad I'm using Mozilla.

    By the way, nice sig.

  15. Re:hmmmm on Mozilla 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Any story that gets 400 comments is, in my opinion, newsworthy as there is obviously a strong interest in it.

  16. Re:20 years of windows on Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the buggy, painful years have continued on long past Windows 3.11.

  17. Re:Of course they make it up! on BSA Creates Piracy Statistics · · Score: 1

    1. People need money, and therefore a job, to survive.
    2. See #1.

  18. Re:Gaming the Recorder and Black Boxes on DVRs for Cop Cars · · Score: 1

    You think calls never get cancelled?

  19. Re:Gaming the Recorder and Black Boxes on DVRs for Cop Cars · · Score: 1

    How are you able to distinguish that the cop is abusing it and not using it for a good reason?

  20. Re:Feature request on New Mozilla-based Mail Client: Minotaur · · Score: 1

    I've never tried this, but:

    Mozilla's profile manager allows you to specify the location of the directory where your profile is stored. So setting that to a common FAT32 partition would store all of your profile information there.

    I can't figure out though, how to change the location of your current profile. There must be something telling Mozilla on startup where to find profile information, but I can't find it.

  21. Re:How is porn destructive? on Peer Pressure Porn Filter · · Score: 1

    So because you know of two people who ended up getting divorced after the husband was caught looking at porn, although for other reasons, you've come to the conlcusion that there is a correlation? I bet you could find all kinds of things in common with those two husbands.

    Did it ever occur to you that there's probably plenty of husbands who look at porn that never get divorced?

    You might be right that porn is a sign that something is wrong, but your evidence sucks.

    Furthermore, if porn really is a sign that something else is wrong, then cutting out porn doesn't exactly cure that other problem, now does it?

  22. Manure to Electricty? on Cow Manure --> Electricity · · Score: 2, Funny

    I call bullshit!

    (Sorry, sorry... +1, Lame?)

  23. Obligatory Simpsons Quote on Snowflake Photos · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You know, fingerprints are just like snowflakes. They're both very pretty." -- Chief Wiggum

  24. Re:50 million people download OpenOffice on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 2, Informative

    50 million people, eh?

    A friend of mine says his MS Office 2K Pro cd has 506 megs of data on it.

    506 megs x 50 million downloads = 25,300,000,000 MB transfered.

    25,300,000,000MB / 1,048,576MB/TB = 24,100 terabytes of data transfered.

    I would like to know what pirate can afford to transfer 24,100 terabytes of data.

    I guess that whole 50 million people bit was just bullshit.

  25. Re:Wow. That's stupid. on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1

    You forgot to multiply by each time each of those files were downloaded.