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  1. BULLSHIT!! on RIAA Calls Settlements Proof that Education is Working · · Score: 1

    The RIAA is solely concerned with music under coyright to their member studios. They don't give a shit what you do with the 2 and a half hour opus you've recorded in your basement with your 5-assed monkey drummer. Your arguements would carry more weight if you stuck to the facts, instead of erecting strawmen such as this, claiming the RIAA want's to stop anyone copying any music anywhere for any reason.

  2. Try reading the whole post next time. on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    In one sentence, the guys says his managers told him it was because he identified which building MSCopy was in, and in the next sentence, he starts rambling on how pictures of Mac's are inoccuous.

    They told him why they fired him, he says why the fired him, and then rambles off on some tangent about pictures of G5's.

  3. There is no conspiracy here. on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 1

    The judge presiding over the case denied Microsoft the ability to argue the validity of the patent. They didn't "forget" to bring it up because they wanted to lose, the "Judge" wouldn't allow them to bring it up.

  4. Kinda funny actually... on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 1

    He identifies why he was fired. "The picture itself might have been permissible, but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line."

    And then goes on to say "To my mind, it's an innocuous post. The presence of Macs on the Microsoft campus isn't a secret (for everything from graphic design work to the Mac Business Unit), and when I took the picture, I made sure to stand with my back to the building so that nothing other than the computers and the truck would be shown -- no building features, no security measures, and no Microsoft personnel."

    They told you why they fired you dumbass, you identified which building one of the departments is housed in, it had nothing at all to do with the Mac's.

  5. Re:Incredulous Assertions==Lies on Tennessee's Super-DMCA Rises From The Grave · · Score: 1

    A) He was most likely referring to the area that Time Warner Cable Memphis served, which could include suburbs/outlying areas.

    B) If TWC Memphis charges for extra outlets/cable boxes in a house and someone is paying for 1 cable box/outlet, but has 2 other grey market cable boxes in other rooms in the house, they're stealing cable service as far as the law is concerned (and are probably counted as two people, since he did say people, not households).

    Whether this is right or not is an exercise for the reader, but you're making the same kinds of assumptions/assertions/lies you claim he's making.

  6. In fact, here are two example images on Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here · · Score: 1

    from the Tablet PC handwriting recognition.

    In the first image is a handwritten copy of a post someone wrote dissing the Tablet PC Handwriting when they first came out.

    The second image is the recognizer, the green highlighted words are words the recognizer wasn't sure about, but in each case, it has selected the correct word. Simply hitting OK would have accepted the recognition.

    http://www.teamunited.com/art/writing[1].gif http://www.teamunited.com/art/recognize[1].gif

  7. This is for PocketPC's.. on Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here · · Score: 1

    Office XP has Voice Recognition support already, TabletPC has Voice and Handwriting Recognition built in.

    Who's behind who again?

  8. Yes, I have used the Tablet. on Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here · · Score: 1

    90+% Handwriting Recognition, thanks for playing though. I use the tablet in situations where it would be awkward, or impossible to use a Keyboard, in situations where 90-95% success rate is better than not being able to input anything at all. Voice Input is great for launching programs, selecting menu items, etc. Not for general data entry.

  9. The typical shareware author... on Broadcast Flag All But Approved · · Score: 1

    is lucky if he get's one payment in 1000 downloads. 1 in 10 would be a smashing success, the kind of success that creates companies like ID Software.

  10. Of course they didn't... on Tall People Earn More · · Score: 1

    the compared the average salaries of a few 6'6+ NBA Basketball players, and a couple of 5'4" guys working the maintenance shift and the Sip'n'Save.

  11. The Quake and Quake 2 engines were GPLed.. on Slashback: Forbes, VoIP, Firefly · · Score: 1

    ONLY once all licensees had an opportunity to produce their product and bring it to market. Only then, once ID Software has released their product and enjoyed the profits Copyright provides them, and all their engine licensees have enjoyed their profits, do they release the engine to the public domain under the GPL.

  12. Sure, buy a microwave oven. on VoIP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies · · Score: 1

    802.11b is in the 2.4 Ghz unlicensed band, anyone and everyone can play there. Just fire up a microwave oven and watch people start losing their connections.

  13. Then it would be their fault for selecting on 'Winston Smith' Speaks Out On MS Reader Convertor · · Score: 1

    stringent security settings on their own documents. It's certainly not Microsoft's fault for making them use the most restrictive security settings available to the program.

  14. So I guess it'd be alright... on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    For some corporation to force employee's into a toxic waste dump without protection? Get your ass in there, or lose your job?

    Use your head, there are numerous laws designed to provide a safe work environment for employee's, this happens to be one of them. Your right to suck back a thousand different carcinogens ends as soon as you are blowing your fucking smoke into someone elses face.

    If you want to kill yourself with throat and lung cancer, do it somewhere you aren't effecting anyone else.

  15. Smoking Bans are there to protect employees... on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    Employees have a right to a safe working environment, sucking back the second hand smoke of a couple of hundred yahoo's a night, is not a safe working environment.

  16. RTFA on More on BTX Motherboards · · Score: 1

    The Article even says that they will be able to incorporate heat-pipes and or water cooling.

  17. What, this one? on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1
  18. Typical Download for IE 6 SP1 is 25MB. on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    But can vary between 11 and 75MB. Hardly 111.

  19. Why is he joking? on Orson Scott Card on mp3 File Sharing · · Score: 1

    It's a legitmate question. Would he mind of people just went and pirated all of his e-books.

    Your response, btw works equally well in response to people who pirate mp3 files. They could get off their asses and go and buy the album in a used cd store instead of downloading it. Why don't they?

  20. Gimme a break, what about the assholes... on Russ Cooper's Internet Penalties Plan · · Score: 1

    who write the viruses and the worms in the first place, they're the ones who are responsible for any damage done.

  21. Yeah, they had to put the fish up there... on Video Screen in Thin Air · · Score: 1

    to cover up the Canadian Geese. The mall scene as shot in the Eaton's Center in Toronto, though the majority of the movie was shot in and around Vancouver.

  22. Probably because building management are lazy. on US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline · · Score: 1

    It was an outside office with windows on one wall, so lots of active lights aren't really necessary, and building managment is reluctant to be bothered changing the lights unless all the lights in an office are burned out and we complain for a few days.

  23. We had a flourescent tube that had been... on US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We had a flourescent tube that had been "burned out" for about 6 months suddenly come on about 2 minutes before we lost power here in Toronto.

  24. Why the May 2003 date then? on Linus to SCO: 'Please Grow Up' · · Score: 1

    If that were true, ALL SCO employees, regardless of date of employment should be rejected out of hand. It's very clearly a sophmoric reaction to the current SCO situation.

  25. Bullpucky on Linus to SCO: 'Please Grow Up' · · Score: 1

    If that were true, he wouldn't have a date of May 2003 as the cut-off date for SCO employment, they'd reject ALL former SCO employees regardless of date of employment..