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  1. Some more flaws in their thinking on Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged · · Score: 1
    They are looking for popular sites on the Fortune 500? Google is not on that list. Yeah, they only look at the "Top 1000 Corporations' Web Server"s - so where is Sony, Daimler Chrysler, BMW (2 Apache, 1 Netscape - and no, I chose those names before I checked what they were running)? What about government sites? Edu?

    I hate it when somebody claims "this survey is flawed because blah-blah", then makes a counter survey with the same flaws (signs exchanged) and with some odd constraints sprinkled on top.

  2. Re:A bit more than the average MS bias on Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged · · Score: 1

    So how many pr0n pages are served by Fortune 1000 companies?

  3. Re:Don't agree... on Why Random Encounters In RPGs Aren't That Bad · · Score: 1

    In the Exile series off RPGs, when you became too strong the random groups avoided you - when you cornered them on the map, they even disappeared. No cheap XP for you! ;-)

  4. Re:A case of mass yellow journalism on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1
    straw man.

    And, yeah, I must be imagining all those suicide bombers. They can't do it for free, it's not a good business model!

  5. Re:A case of mass yellow journalism on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1
    A) You spread the money over several straw man.

    B) For somebody willing to kill himself and others for free, $100 from the evil US government for the family is the icing on the cake.

  6. Re:A case of mass yellow journalism on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1
    Drugs. Period. (BTW with Mafia I'm not only talking about Italians or Italo-Americans, I gladly mix in the Triads, the Columbian drug cartells and all other organized crime, including WASPs)

    And ignoring all evidence pointing to 9/11 cost more than 3000 lives. What's a couple of Arabs, Turks or old Europeans compared to ten grand on your bank account compared to that.

    Last but not least, the CIA actually makes the Mafia look like a philantropic society, they have murdered hundreds of innocents and looked away on many thousands more. Including (very deadly) terror attacks to frame Communist terrorists. And they did drug traffic on a large scale.

  7. Re:A case of mass yellow journalism on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1

    So how many CIA employees lost their jobs because they completely missed 9/11? And the Mafia would never kill innocents, sure.

  8. Re:A case of mass yellow journalism on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1

    And who would be better suited to effectively predicting those things than somebody with inside knowledge? So we'll have these people winning: the terrorists, the Mafia playing terrorists and CIA agents stuffing their pension funds instead of preventing those attacks.

  9. Re:A case of mass yellow journalism on Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape · · Score: 1

    Or, even closer to the point, would he be offended if you collected those ten grand because you killed his wife to get those $10,000?

  10. Re:Government control = bad on Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam · · Score: 1

    Fare included or distributed?

  11. Re:How Come... on Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Because most bad sitcom plots have a foreign accent?

  12. Re:Madonna on Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome · · Score: 1

    What do you mean, "just"?

  13. Re:News via Images? on News at a Glance · · Score: 1

    But USA Today wouldn't show a lot of those images.

  14. Re:Images are even easier to manipulate than words on News at a Glance · · Score: 1

    Yet it shows what else couldn't have been shown in one photo. However the blurb says a lot about the author's distorted image of the world.

  15. Re:Learn marketing, people. on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 1

    You don't understand why people buy an iPod instead of a BrickMP3 either?

  16. Re:Not sure about the 20" iMac... on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you don't know how to use an iMac as a stand-alone display, maybe you shouldn't be using a computer.

  17. Re:Has a judge ever interpreted the law that way? on Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware · · Score: 1
    If you are a journalist for a newspaper, can you write for another newspaper in your spare time?

    If you are a telemarketer, can you sell stuff over the phone in your free time?

    If you make analogies, do they have to be close to the facts of the matter at hand?

  18. Re:Quantum game of Go ??? on Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 1

    Because quantum computing is decades away.

  19. Re:The game of Go ? on Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 2, Funny
    And even with quantum computing, Go computers won't be beating humans anytime soon.

    Especially with quantum computing, Go computers won't be beating humans anytime soon.

  20. Re:Check the #5 and #6 on Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd · · Score: 1
    • Virginia Tech thinks they can handle.
    • If it had ECC, it would still be faster.
    • The point of having a fast computer is to have shorter computations.
  21. Re:Apple approved fix on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1

    Well, at least Reformatting your iPod for Macintosh to work with Windows is an unsupported operation. Everything you do from there isn't Apple's problem anymore.

  22. Re:bullshit. on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    Would you please provide me one good reason not to use free software?

    Errm, the quality of the product. Yes, I dare say that some free software plain sucks. Being free is not a good reason to use it.

  23. Re:Apple approved fix on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    There's no difference between Mac and Windows iPods that I can see. I converted my original 5G iPod from Mac to Windows a long time ago just by flashing the firmware

    Err, urm, yeah, appart from the different firmware there is no difference.

  24. Re:BZZZZZzzzzT NOT on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobu y/licensing/pricing.mspx Yupp, $3999 sure looks cheaper than Mac OS X.

  25. Re:The far planets are dim. on Stunning, Detailed New Image of Jupiter · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they are so dim that you can't see them from earth. No, wait...