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  1. Re:Go Blizzard on End User License Gems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is, for the cheaters, "cheating" is the game.
    And with that, your guidelines fall flat. :(

  2. Re:Not So Free Software on MySQL CEO Insists He's Not Supping With The Devil · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They are neither assisting or hindering SCO's attack on Linux. They have made a business decision which will increase sales of their software, and may improve sales of SCO's software.

    They are neither assisting or hindering that country's attack on another country. By selling weapons and ammunition to them they are simply increasing sales, which may help them win the war, but they are not helping.

    What?

  3. New from Microsoft and Yahoo! on Yahoo and Microsoft to Merge Instant Messengers · · Score: 2, Funny
    Double Your Privacy Invasion, Permanent Chat Logging, User Profiling and Targetted Marketing for the Same Low Price!

    Hurry, While Supplies Last!

  4. Re:Xp GUI on Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    But the first thing i do after a clean install is disable all that fancy dandy Perdy UI shit. Its a resource hog and gets in the way. If you say so. Although going back and forth between XP Luna and Classic UI my memory and kernal memory usage fluctuates by approximately 1-2 megs. Unless you have some 1989 Hercules video card, the difference in speed to draw windows with either is smaller than probably any human could notice double-blind-tested. (Though blind testing UI's would be quite a feat.) I mean, turn off Luna if you hate it, but "It's a resource hog" is silly. What's an additional 2 megs of RAM now days, a nickel? But if it makes you feel more h4x0r to turn off Luna because it uses "resources" and "gets in the way", then by all means...

  5. Re:My reasons on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Hear, hear. Incidentally, that's (one reason) why I DO subscribe to Consumer Reports. No paid ads. Period.

    I hate to be the one to break this to you, but Consumer Reports is one giant paid ad. They consistantly rate Bose speakers as top quality audiophile products for Christ sakes.

  6. Re:Pure BS on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    And once the IP-blocks are identified all the major trackers will just block those IP-blocks forever. Its a losing game. They're not going to use hundreds of thousands of IP's to "slow down" a few people downloading Rome, get real.

  7. Re:The detail is amazing on Test Equipment Finds Life In Mars-like Conditions · · Score: 1

    The point of TFA is the detection capabilities of the hardware not inferring that life in a volcano on earth increases the probability of life on another planet.

  8. Do-it-Yourself How-To on DIY Electronic Paper Display · · Score: 1
    Step 1. Find an older CRT monitor or rear projection television.

    Step 2. Connect video card output to monitor or TV.

    Step 3. Load up your favorite PDF fullscreen.

    Step 4. Turn off screensaver.

    Step 5. Display image, unchanged, for a month.

    Enjoy your new epaper! Requires no video card to remain on-screen, can be disconnected from PC for reading "on-the-go"*

    *For on-the-go display, we suggest a 12" monitor or a rear projection TV with wheels.

  9. Re:And probably not even that on 24 Mb Consumer Broadband Launched · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I hate comments like that.

    That is the worst reasoning in the world to use against broadband. So what if there's no application for it now? The idea would be to get 24Mb to be commonplace then see how the internet changes. We all might be surprised to find out what's possible when that is the norm. Let's not sit at 512k and assume it's as good as it will ever need to be.

  10. Re:Burnout. on Pay vs. Happiness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow. +Insightful? This has to be a Troll. Maybe a few more years on this planet will wake you up to the fact that the "happiness" of a Land Rover is shallow and fleeting. That how many "toys" you buy for your kids is not a gauge of your parenting quality, (though I'm sure they appreciate them as a poor replacement for their absent father who's out making more money). And someday you'll wake up and realize the only person more shallow and consumer-society engineered than yourself is your prostitute wife. (Sex for money, right?)

  11. No AV or Firewalling Server Side Apps on Microsoft's Nightmare Scenario · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah that's what I want, all my applications to be server side web-based. That way I can't stop them when they "call home" and report back things like what I'm searching for on the net, the names of the files I'm opening. And I can't stop them from a hacker switching out a DLL on the server side suddenly corrupting or infecting my data. AV and firewalls become useless at that point, and the way modern apps try agressively to monitor what you do and call home, I'm not comfortable with losing the ability to control them.

  12. Re:TV on Radio on Emergency Gadgets Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Of course what they don't mention is the crank requires you to be able to benchpress 350.

  13. Re:The first discovery.... on Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab · · Score: 0

    I Fucked the Girl in Hanson

  14. Re:Questions on IE More Secure Than Mozilla? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You're right. It sounds retarded.

    Anything that can deceive the user like spoofing a title bar should be taken as a security risk. I'm sorry you don't, I just hope you're not someone working on the Firefox code.

  15. Re:Bad idea on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1
    "We need robust assurance..."

    lol, I thought that said "We need robot insurance". I think we're both right.

  16. Re:No need to survive the first strike on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1
    "A would not launch a first strike because they would not survive the retaliation."

    Unfortunately while "country" A may not survive the retaliation, in many cases "President" A would, and that's the part that worries me. Are you sure those giving the nod plan on hanging around till their faces melt off or might they be en-route to their private island retreat as they push the button?

  17. Re:Wewt on Seagate Momentus 120GB 2.5" HD · · Score: 1
    You just have to adopt the mentality that your total usable disk space is exactly half what you can afford.

    Or, put another way, when you are shopping for hard drives you can only buy what you can buy two of at the time of purchase. Simple as that. Then, using any number of methods, you can at least have all your data on 2 drives at once.

  18. Re:Not That Easy on How Much Money do Programmers Really Make? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    • 1 bedroom = rent = no equity
    • leased car = no equity
    • eating out 6 times a week = waste of money and health
    • party time on Saturdays - see above
    Ahhh the American Life(tm). How to make $52,000 a year and have as much to show for it as a high school kid with a job at McDonalds.
  19. Re:Katrina can eat me on PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Since when did it cost money to walk?

    "Ohh boo hoo, I'm too poor, I don't have a car, but I can afford a cell phone. I am "above" walking, I will not even try to go to the SuperDome or a shelter, I will just stay with my materialistic goods and drown or wait for someone to rescue me." give me a break. There is no excuse to be standing on the roof of your house right now waiting for a boat to pick you up unless you have no friends, no family and are paralyzed from the neck down.

    Now which point specifically would you like to call untrue? The one about charities somehow misapropriating funds into peoples personal bank accounts? See 9/11 for some sweet examples of that. Idiot politicians grandstanding with comments like "This is our Tsunami!", yeah, good call dickhead. What like 210,000+ died in the Indonesian tsunami, how many have died to Katrina? And how many of those didn't have to? It's like saying "Yeah, sorry your family all died in a plane crash, but my Gameboy batteries stopped working, so that's "my plane crash".

    Or did you want to tell me that there isn't mad looting going on? Or maybe all you disagree on is the celebrities. You're right, I am sure Britney Spears has genuine distress over the Katrina victims. In fact she's eating a third helping of Rocky Road while she wipes away her tears as we speak. No wait, you meant that there AREN'T capitalist pigs trying to make a fast buck off this... Ah yes, you mean like the $6 gallons of gas that aren't happening. If your heart keeps bleeding at its current rate, you'll need a transfusion before you're done reading this comment.

  20. Katrina can eat me on PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Im tired of Katrina already. The entire event is one huge extortion opportunity, that's all it is. It's news networks trying to increase viewership with sensationalism. It's politicians trying to entrench their position by being the first to offer the biggest aid not out of passion but out of lust for power. It's minorities pushing their equal rights backwards 5 steps by being the hoodlums they say they aren't and looting like it's Christmas. It's aging celebrities lunging at a second chance in the limelight by crying on cue on Larry King. It's corrupt charity operators hoping to buy a second yacht with some of the funneled relief proceeds and it's capitalist pigs turning a fast buck off everything from T-shirts to $26 bottles of water all to save humans that were too god damn stupid to not leave when the nation told them to. If you choose to live below sea level, along the coast and don't have insurance - deal with it. If the entire country is warning you that in 2-3 days all your shit will be submerged, and you opt to stay in your home and drown or put rescuer lives at risk to move you like you should have moved yourself three days prior - deal with it.

    Is there cirumstances where none of what I said above is true? Definately.
    Is what I said above the majority of what's going on? You better fucking believe it.

  21. Re:Perl 9 is already out... on Perl 6 Now by Scott Walters · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cripple Fight!!!!

  22. Should have used existing ratings letters on Parents 'ignore game age ratings' · · Score: 1
    Parents have better things to do than try to learn if "M" means boobies and dicks, or just someone saying "Damn".

    If they'd put "Rated PG", or "Rated XXX" right on the box in large print more parents would quickly and clearly understand the nature of the content of the game.

  23. Re:Random thoughts on Apple on Mac OS X Running on Non-Apple Hardware · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Interesting.

    I bought a Dell Latitude X-1 which is a super slim 2.9 lb notebook with widescreen (a form factor that doesn't even exist in the Apple world).

    1. It is a form factor ideal for my intents and desires and Apple doesn't make one like it.
    2. It arrived in about 4 days with free overnight shipping for a total cost of $1,300 loaded.
    3. Both batteries that came with it have been recharged and depleted nearly every day for 4 months now and work perfectly.
    4. The external DVD drive ejects fine after 4 months of daily use.
    5. There are no marks on the pixel perfect LCD screen from the keyboard.
    6. The trackpad is a Synaptics that is as accurate as my Logitech MX mouse. (I dont think Dell's have made nipples on their notebooks for years have they?)
    7. Solid build. It goes with me everywhere, at all times, and it looks pristine. It has zero flex either in the case or keyboard. Impressively solid for a 3 lb ultralight.
    8. The performance is great. I can run multiple virtual machines and VS.NET while burning DVDs and watching a movie on the second screen (both powered by the built in gpu as an extended desktop). It won't play EQ2, but it plays NWN great. Again, for a 1.1Ghz ULV P-M, I'd say impresive considering high end gaming is not this machine's target market.
    9. As for software, even though I always format the day I get it. I was amazed to find exactly nothing other than Dell driver related software installed on the notebook. A feature of buying a Latiture through Small Business.
    10. When I call 24/7 tech support I speak to an english speaking American in America. A feature of buying a Latiture through Small Business.

      I mean I shouldn't be feeding the trolls, nor am I saying that Dell doesn't make some crap. They make entire PC's with 19" LCDs that sell for like $450. What the fuck do you expect? But if you spend some money (and by "some money" I mean "half what you'd spend on an Apple"), and buy through Small Business, you can get some very nice machines with 3 years of on-site warranty and exactly zero spam/spyware/adware installed by default with english support. Do a little shopping and quit buying the bottom of the barrel and expecting top quality hardware and support. Duh?

  24. Re:It's missing several things... on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Shut Do... ?

  25. So they'll warez service packs and updates on Microsoft To Begin Checking For Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Big deal. If MS starts putting the screws to Windows Update visitors for having a keygenned serial number, all that will happen is your neighborhood 0-day distro will have:

    Windows.XP.Security.Updates.Nov19.2005.X-Force