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  1. Re:FireFox on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: 5, Informative

    The best extension is the Flash Click To Play in FireFox! No more blaring annoying Flash ads anymore! All you get is a white window with red writing that says "Flash. Click to play" and if you want to view the flash content you click it.

  2. Re:You mean they *don't* JUST WORK? on Fix a Troubled Mac · · Score: 1

    I haven't had a lot of probelms with my new ibook but last night it came up with a screen that said "You must reboot now. Press the reset button or hold down the powerbutton". It's basically the OS X BSOD I guess. ugh.

  3. Re:logical question on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    You also can't hide in the bushes in Malibu and take pictures of hot celebs jogging or frolicking on the beach even though you are in a public place and seeing it from that public place. Damn anti-stalking laws! ;)

  4. Re:Novell found guilty on Novell Sued Microsoft Through Caldera? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Open mind, yes, but "innocent until proven guilty" is missing one word in front of it and that word is "presumed". If you kill some one you aren't 'innocent' at all, you are just presumed innocent by the law. This is one of the things that bugs me is that when some one like O.J. is being hounded by the press and people are calling him a killer, people get outraged about it and say "He is innocent until proven guilty!", but really he is presumed innocent by the government and this whole thing ONLY applys to the government. I can presume that some one is guilty all I want.

  5. Re:And for those who don't know on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Um... Are your per chance British? When we in the USA speak of this man it is because he was a traitor to the USA not to Britian. We don't care about being a traitor to Britian at the time, because all of our founding fathers were in a sense a traitor to them.

  6. Re:What? on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah I mean seriously, the war has been going on for over a year. Why protest now and not then? Was he too busy hacking away at the 2.4 kernel to notice the war had started? ;)

  7. Re:Good timing on AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ya know thinking about it, are there any VM type programs I can run on my mac.. that DON'T emulate x86? On Windows and Linux I can run VMWare which gives me a virtual machine to install another OS on but on the Mac I don't know of any that will give me a virtual PPC machine to install say YDL or even Amiga on. Other than installing Linux and running MoL that is (which I don't want to do). Any one know of any?

  8. Re:Good timing on AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release · · Score: 3, Funny

    *whew* First Apple now BSD. At least I will have an OS to run on my PPC in the future ;)

  9. Re:Punishment... DEATH on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1

    No sir, because I didn't force you at knife point to read this. You are choosing to do so.
    and for the record, I said repeat offenders.

  10. Punishment... DEATH on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think that repeat theifs should be killed. They aren't stealing just property but really they are stealing a part of their victim's life. Say it takes me 30 hours to earn the money for the iPod, if I get mugged and they steal my iPod, they just stole 30 hours of my life. It's as if they tied me up for 30 hours. I just think that people who steal life from others should have their life taken away from them.

  11. Re:Nothing New Here on WTO Wants USA to Gamble Online · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that we signed that treaty with the Soviet Union. Last I checked, it didn't exist any more.

  12. Re:Free of Floating Window on Gimp Hits 2.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought the same thing until I got a mac. Photoshop works exactly like the Gimp does in regards to the floating windows. After working with Photoshop like this, I have come to get used to it and don't mind it at all. But it is a bit of shock when you come from Win32 Photoshop to this crazy set of floating windows.

  13. Re:SIMS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY on Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up · · Score: 1

    And yet every time every recount was done even when the media went back later and did their own recount, Bush still won the recounts. Hey if Gore had won his home state he would be president right now.

  14. Re:couldn't resist... on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    Exactly, because in the 80s when Saddam killed all those people with that gas attack, it was actually hairspray and not a WMD.

  15. Re:No, more likely on Feds Reject Eolas Browser Plug-In Patent · · Score: 4, Funny

    More like "In the election later this year, ask not what your government can legally do to you... because really the law doesn't apply to them"

  16. Not hard on Storing Light In Chips · · Score: 5, Funny

    Storing microwaves within a year isn't very hard. I mean a year is huge!

  17. Re:If it makes voting easier... on The State of Electronic Voting in Georgia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Then you should have, oh I dunno, ASKED an election supervisor for HELP? I mean it isn't like you were voting for dog catcher, you were voting for president and that is something worth asking a question for.

  18. Re:On a more serious note on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes but then he couldn't have gotten his Bush bashing in could he? With this person's logic we should stop reproducing and stop making more buildings because we are going to make the Earth heavier and it will float away from the sun. Gotta love the science of the left. ;)

  19. Superior? on HP Working With Apple To Add WMA Support To iPod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Superior??? WHAT??? WMA??? Oh god! Leave it to Paul.

  20. Re:If you're avoiding all patents... on Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music · · Score: 1

    And in tech, more often than not, the patens are worthless after what 5 months? Wow so you had a patent on how to make a 256kb ram simm, or a 4x CD-ROM.

  21. Re:Phone numbers are for sissies on VoIP Advances And Trends For 2004 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why IP and not by e-mail address? Think about it, e-mail is a way for some one to contact you through text, well why not just say that e-mail is a way to contact you which ever way you wish. Why not have everything done to your e-mail address?

    Then if you have a cell phone and a home phone why not have it setup like cell.myaddress@host.com? Dialing by IP would be too much to remember. I can hardly remember a regular phone number now! But I know just about every one's e-mail address by heart because it's just english and not a string of numbers.

  22. Re:It's Obvious on Earth Travel On Time, Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it's now on time. So that rules out it being a woman. ;)

  23. Re:...uh on Netscape-Branded ISP Launching February 2004 · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would you want to go to a dial up service if you have a cable internet connection?

  24. Re:hmmm on San Francisco's Got Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Too bad that nothing is really free. Some one is paying for it.

  25. Re:Cute on iTMS Named Fortune's Product Of The Year · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Partially correct. The record companies don't 'give' tons of money to potential bands. They lend it to them against future sales. So if your band gets signed and puts out an album that doesn't sell, you are on the hook for the money that they lent you to produce the album and tour to support it. The sad part is that some times great albums get put out but never pushed by the label. So the artist ends up worse off then when they started and no one really gets to hear the music.