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  1. Re:Better water purification on Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uhm, trying putting the straw in your mouth instead :-)

  2. Re:Sadly philanthropy isn't profitable. on Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery · · Score: 1

    The taxes don't have to be at 90% for options 1-3 to happen...it's going on right now at 45%.

  3. Re:Classics, not just stuffy rhetoric or dull hist on Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Jesus had one joke in the bible..."Peter, you are the rock upon which my church will be built." Peter=petros=rock. HAHA Oh that Jesus always cracks me up!

  4. Re:My Two Favorites on Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    I've literally seen Danger: Diabolik over 50 times. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

  5. Re:Universal law. on Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they're pretty good ideas. Given that all men are created equal, I think we all deserve the highest standards of human rights.

  6. Re:hilarious on Netflix Extends "Watch Instantly" To Mac Users · · Score: 1

    Or, you can get the PlayOn server for Windows (1x $30 fee) which can stream Netflix, Hulu & YouTube to your 360, PS3 and any other DLNA compliant device (such as XBMC). I'm using the free beta and it works really well!

  7. Re:Fox News is all you need. on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 0, Troll

    This site is just as objective as Fox News, if not moreso.

  8. Re:YES! on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I use the package system, it's wonderful. And when something that I actually need or want actually *is* on another website, then Ubuntu turns into a pain in the ass for me. I'm looking at you, Songbird!

  9. Re:WTF?!?? on US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday · · Score: 1

    As long as the voter doesn't yell out "LOL, you just got pwn3d OLD MAN!" I think the vote will remain secret.

  10. Re:Great ... err ... on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can't get reliable and consistent documents from Word...if I print a document to a printer, that same document will look different when sent to another printer. It's damn near impossible for me to do a simple page replacement in a report without finding out who/where the original was printed because the pagination never matches.

    Stick to PDF if you're trying to impress a potential employer.

  11. I prefer DVDFab - Bless those Chinese Capitalists! on In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD · · Score: 1

    There is a free version available that will rip the Video_TS and Audio_TS files to your hard drive, but I ponied up $50 for the pay version and it's one of the most useful software packages I've ever owned. The pay version lets me rip ISO's of my DVDs which I can then store as backups, or I can encode the movies to a number of formats (h.264, xvid, wmv, etc.), with customizations for different video platforms (Xbox 360, AppleTV, PS3, cell phone, Nintendo DS, etc.). Whenever a movie comes out with a new encryption scheme (ie, Blades of Glory), there is a free software update that's usually available the next day to handle it. China's disregard for our asinine IP laws allows me to get the most utility out of my entertainment purchases.

    And, no...I don't put any of my files on p2p networks. Why should I share the rewards of my hard work with a bunch of freeloaders?

  12. Trademark Violation Potential on New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages · · Score: 1

    This is no different than if Burger King squatted the domain for McDonadls.com (see the typo) and sent traffic to their site instead.

    Here's one way to tackle this. If I'm a local business owner in an area served by Cablevision, I would complain to the local utility commission to have Cablevision's franchise dissolved and then file suit against Cablevision if someone tried to go to my company's web site, misspelled the name by one letter and was referred to my competitors through their advertising system.

  13. Re:Solution for ISPs mucking with DNS results on New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's a good thought and a viable one. I do the same thing myself. The problem is that my dollars are still going to support the ISP's DNS servers, which still warrants complaint.

  14. Re:Ah, bible explained after all. on World's Oldest Rocks Found · · Score: 1

    Radio signals dissipate into white noise after 2-3 light years, just making it out of our solar system and that's about it. Watch a few episodes of Cosmos (Carl Sagan's show from the 1980s) or The Universe (a newer show on the History Channel). We are very, very tiny specks of dust.

  15. Here's my thought... on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fuck the wireless mics. Get rid of them and put them in their own set of frequencies. This is much more important.

  16. Re:Yes on Can You Be Sued For Helping Clients Rip DVDs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no such law that allows for one backup. I can make 100 copies of CDs that I bought and go skeet shooting. I am only breaking the law when I distribute those copies to others.

  17. Re:right vs wrong and legal vs illegal on Can You Be Sued For Helping Clients Rip DVDs? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Basically mob rule. Nothing will ever get done (esp. your nuclear power example) if the crowds are just going to change their minds that often and change their votes. And you thought bureaucracy was bad now...

  18. Re:Holy crap. on Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B · · Score: 1

    You would be a dumbass to put your life savings into one stock of an airline and tie it into an automatic trigger.

  19. Re:Mandatory short answer: on Amazon Opens On-Demand Video Store · · Score: 1

    This isn't for mass-consumers of television. It's geared for people that might watch a couple of hours per week. If this could stream to a TV via Media Center to my 360, it would be great for me. As it is, I'm more psyched about being able to stream Netflix to my 360 for a FLAT FEE this fall.

  20. Re:Colbert on Measuring the "Colbert Bump" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mayor is fine...the splatter damage area is greatly reduced to maybe no more than the tri-county area. Regan fscked us with onerous debt and Sonny Bono gave us unconstitutionally long copyright terms.

  21. Re:Who owns your contacts? on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "A contact isn't some sort of IP."

    Under accounting rules in the US, a customer list is a type of "identifiable intangible asset."

  22. Re:I bet it was cool on The Internet Meme Timeline · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm coming here less and less, actually, because of Digg.

  23. Re:Personally... on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    I noticed this when I saw Transformers playing on a bunch of HDTV's at Circuit City. The lighting of the movie on blu-ray or hddvd gave me the impression I was watching a "behind the scenes" show shot on video...except it had all the cgi characters. Complete turn-off.

  24. Re:Blogs? on SEC Lets Companies Disclose Via Websites, Blogs · · Score: 3, Informative

    The SEC already does this with the EDGAR database. Every financial statement and major press release has to filed there by public companies in the US. I have a Quick Search set up in Firefox that lets me type "ed [companyname]" into my address bar to bring up any public company's filings.

  25. Re:You wonder? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can use a site like Qik.com to stream live from your cell phone to the net. Naturally, the video gets recorded and saved that way.