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  1. We need an IP Tea Party. on U.S. Rejects Canadian Rejection of DMCA · · Score: 2, Funny

    I seem to remember a small revolution started 200+ years ago when some empire taxed without representation. "Strong" IP laws like the DCMA and other corporate friendly laws are nothing short of taxation. A corporate tax for the people and by the companies through the law makers they buy.

    I find it humorous that the very people that started the revolution are the "empire" and those who rejected the first revolution now are the revolutionaries.

    Personally, I'd love to turn off the natural gas and electricity to you thankless assholes and sell it to the Chinese.

  2. Re:DVDs usually don't even have CSS in France on French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs · · Score: 1

    The PAL standard is an advantage too, it being higher resolution and framerate than the NTSC...

    Sorry, but the PAL format is much not higher than the NTSC 720x480 DVD's. PAL is 720x526 @ 25FPS. Lower than the 30FPS for NTSC.

  3. Greetings Workshop - Not on list on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    BTW Greetings Wokshop - a MS product, will produce a "I am having trouble with a database" error after applying SP2.

    It's old but I liked it's simplicity. I since moved it over to an old 98 PC I use for TV.

  4. Didn't I make one of these in Shop Class? on Car Powered by Compressed Air · · Score: 1

    Small wooden car, CO2 cartridge. Mine was big enough for a korean, ;)

  5. Re:My car... on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    It's a SUV, huh.

  6. Now we can power our Romulan warp drive on Lab-Made Fireball May Be a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Didn't they use a synthentic singularity to power their ships on STNG?

  7. ET can now drive home on General Motor's EV1 Electric Cars Scrapped · · Score: 1

    I guess they can bury them next to all those Atari 2600 ET games.

  8. Re:Season 2? on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 This Summer · · Score: 1

    That's 13 good episodes. No clip shows or mindless fillers to make 20 or 22 episodes.

    Trailer Park Boys only has 6-8 episodes per season.

  9. Re:RTFA: The article makes no such insinuations on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1

    The AC was referring to the number of court actions against Google, and Yahoo & Ebay, by the French government. It's just yet another "attack" against these companies.

  10. Re:Funny. Pontiac Sufire = Asuna= Chev Cavalier on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 1

    Cars owners are like PC /Mac users. They all bought the best right. Love you're SIG. LOL The best yet.

  11. Re:Funny. Pontiac Sufire = Asuna= Chev Cavalier on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Example of this is Pontiac Sufire = Asuna= Chev Cavalier All three are the same car, but with different trim and styling. They all cost, last time I bought one 1998, about the same. I went for the Cav because that dealer had a model with ETS and a four speed automatic. Sometimes they market the same car with different names, the 1960's GTO was a Beaumont in Canada. It's the Chrysler Intrepid not Dodge.

  12. Vinyl? on Software Distribution By Vinyl · · Score: 1

    Why vinyl?

    I'm waiting for the SACD version.

    I took my old PET tapes and digitized them. Then used a program called WAV2PRG to save my old original programs for vice. Amazingly, almost all of my 25 year old tapes still worked.

  13. Re:I've been waiting for this for some time now... on Pentium 4 6XX Sequence and New EE P4s Launched · · Score: 1

    ...and waiting for the prices to drop.

    Sh*t or get off the pot.
    If you've really been waiting for the prices to drop, you'll be the one obsolete by the time you get a new model. Buy what you can afford now and worry about the next great model later when you think it's time to get a new one.

  14. Maybe he sold it to them? on LokiTorrent Shut Down · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lokitorrent was put up for sale recently, maybe the MPAA bought it for the "settlement" they were looking for from the owner. Could explain the quick turn around in the site to the MPAA banner.

    That way they could still claim he settled with them, and he wouldn't be really paying a large fine they might not have gotten anyway. Smells like a settlement/swap with the logs as the prize for the MPAA.

  15. Re:Obligatory Bruce Willis quote... on Helping IT Save Money ... and Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Funny, all I thought of at first was.

    "Ho Ho Ho, Now I have a machine gun too"

  16. Hydualic Press on Most Common Ways to Kill a PC · · Score: 5, Funny

    A guy I once worked with had a customer of his computer store get so frustrated with the "flaky" PC he bought, that he sent it back to him as a 6x6" cube. He used a hydualic press of some kind.

    To quote my friend "I didn't know if I should call the cops or laugh, but it made a great paper weight"

  17. Not really a "Product" IMHO on It's Not TV, It's MythTV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The same type of RSS plugin for his product can be added to Azureus and many other BT clients. I've been using Azureus with a RSS plugin to capture several shows that I normally watch. Works really well. Add this to XBMC or other non-capture playback only media players and your really do have a PVR. The RSS plugin can also allow you to save any type of BT file, movie, series, music that you care to configure. Your not limited to just TV.

  18. Yeah, Right! It's minus F**King -25 outside. on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So I should have froze my ass off at -36 today, but thank god for the global warming it was only -25.

  19. DukeNukem may come yet. on More On PS3 and Xbox 2 · · Score: 0

    Maybe now the hardware is finally able to support the game. The wait is over.

  20. Don't forget the microwave to zap your CDs on Just How Paranoid Are You? · · Score: 1
    If the "MAN" comes stick that hentai anime collection in the nuker and ZAP! POOF! No more!

    BTW it takes about 2 seconds to fry a single disc, but due to different power ratings on models your milage may vary.

    DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, use the office one first.

  21. I still use an old Commodore phone. on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    I have an old Commodore phone that came with my 300 baud Vicmodem. It's actually just a white Nortel rotary with the Commodore logo on the dial and front. I love the reactions I get from my kid's friends when they try to dial by pushing the numbers in the holes. "Mr. Ellis the buttons don't work" Ha HA FYI, with these old phones the carbon in the pickup needs to be loosed up every so often by hitting the receiver on something.

  22. Hey! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of RATS. on Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cells · · Score: 2

    It's called the RATRIX.

  23. Re:The reason I got DirectTV on G4 Drops TechTV Name · · Score: 1

    You could always get a grey market canuck dish, expressVu or Starchoice and see Leo and a hot chick who knows computers now.

  24. Re:No shit.. - Spikes on Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Let's not even start about the spikes on their shoes.

  25. Re:Why is this a story? on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 1

    Since when does idiot-proofing do any harm?

    Isn't that another term for DRM.