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  1. Re:McDonalds? on Ready For the Big Mac Virus? · · Score: 1

    At least it wasn't using the quarter pounder. The virus would be called royale with cheese in european countries.

  2. Re:Copy and Paste Fixed? on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you sure about that being a real bug and not just some environmental problem? I don't ever remember seeing this problem on any FF on any machine. I just tested it again and it works fine.

  3. Re:you know... on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    Dude out of 1000 posts here you got the best one.

  4. Re:Now, wait a second... on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    For the human species to really evolve, the 4 major gene types (Caucasian, Asian, Aborigine, Afro-African) must mix as much as possible. The supremme being would technically have all the dominent genes out of each pool.

    U.S probably has more interacial offsprings than any other country in the world in the past 300 years. It's no surprise that U.S remains one of the most innovative.

  5. Re:Obviously on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Walmart exchange site was not properly backed up for "years". Mostly because Exchange was not 3rd party software friendly at all, and M$ didn't have much of their own backup software to offer. Veritas and Legato couldn't bend over enough for a million users.

    Walmart invited countless consulting firms and data backup experts. They deployed Exchange strictly because M$ was willing to "support" them. To say they were vulnerable to a major IT disaster was an understatement. The Navy want nothing to do with Walmart's IT.

  6. Re:Further... on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a close friend who worked at Cisco for a while. The company had massive layoffs in 2001, followed by countless little series of layoffs in 2002, 2003. Tons of good engineers were supposedly let go. You wonder if the lack of engineering resources is beginning to catch up with them. All these years in the trenches shorthanded will leave the product more vulnerable than ever.

  7. Re:Not enough funding? on Katrina Delays Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The government carries a serious political baggage that I think NASA can do without. The private sector will eventually out do NASA, just a matter of time.

  8. Re:Let's invade on Yahoo Helps Jail Chinese Writer · · Score: 1

    The 3% military spending is going to be rendered inaccurate once Bush's term is over. All the interesting numbers will be from 2004, 2005, 2006 and on.

  9. Re:nothing new on Higher Game Prices Explored · · Score: 1

    Yes! You knew Street Fighter 2 retained values on the shelf for ages because it was that good. So good, you didn't think a sequel would ever top it.

    Nowadays, sequels are expected because the originals never seem to be good enough. If they released 1 very good Tekken game for the entire life cycle of the console because it was that good, the price would be locked at $49.99 permanently. But no... they'd rather do a cheesy Tekken 4, decent Tekken 5. Why not just skip them. There is going to be a Tekken 6 and a 7. It's certain.

  10. Re:Online crime? on MMOGs Shift Gears, Online Crime Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In other news online crime rate in Japan has increased 10 fold in one year. Offline crime rate remains the lowest in the world.

  11. Re:Spoiler on End of an Era For Zelda · · Score: 1

    Man I was trying to do Link some honor. Now you put him in the same category as Michael Jackson.

  12. Re:Don't let them fool you..... on Don Mattrick leaves EA · · Score: 1

    I have two young relatives who are sons of this guy who work in EA vancouver. These two kids are respectively 15 and 19. When they visited me in the U.S I told them straight out about the EA monopoly. And about the buyouts and the way they lock up licenses to crush competitors with pure $$$. Nothing that you haven't seen on slashdot.

    They looked at me like deers infront of headlights. I don't know what their father feed them, but they had this 100% positive view of EA as a community contributor and perfect savior of Canada. They truely saw EA as a generous company that donates games to kids, the place where every person wants a job. Where game developers are treated like superstars.

  13. Re:Spoiler on End of an Era For Zelda · · Score: 1

    They should just reveal Link's real name in the finale..... Robin Hood!

  14. Depends on American Workers: Lazy or Creative? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The higher up the corporate chain the lazier Americans get. And no, surfing the web isn't any less productive than golfing. Why doesn't some American journalists bring that up. Oh maybe they're afraid to get fired.

  15. Re:Visicalc still works on The First Killer App: VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    I'd rather give credit to Lotus 1-2-3 who made the giant leep into making VisiCalc friendly.

  16. Re:Scientists were mistaken ? on Evidence Dinosaurs Are Like Giant Chicks · · Score: 1

    There is supposedly plenty of evidence found showing man feet and dinosaur feet next to each other. Suggesting that man and dinosaur may have lived at the same time. But the scientific community is always slow to adopt. If overwhelming evidence prove that dinosaurs are bird like, that will still take another 10 years to accept.

  17. Re:Obviously... on Games As The Mainstream Media's Demon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know if people realize how messed up parents are nowadays.

    I was at a well off neighborhood mall with this Italian friend with fairly tanned dark skin. He's got a beard, mustache, and a mario nose.

    The mall was tight on parking space, we pulled into this space right before this other family did. The father of that family was obviously pissed that we got to the space first.

    He got out of the car, banged on our car window while holding these 5 year old kids in his hands. To my Italian friend, he yelled "Go back to fucking Iraq you terrorist!" My Italian friend was speechless.

  18. Re:As much on Creating a Katamari Sequel · · Score: 1

    It's not so much the sequels to worry about, but the really shitty imitations to come. Look at tetris, then there was blocktris, hatris, sextris and a million other lousy spawns.

  19. Re:Ahhh...more Entertainment industry fun on Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware · · Score: 1

    That's not a good comparison with the RIAA. Try SCO lawyers, EA monopoly tycoons, and the Enron folks.

  20. Re:Shades of Hitler in his bunker... on Balmer Vows to Kill Google · · Score: 1

    You sure it's not

    Ballmer = Very Large Whale
    Google = The Ocean

  21. Re:wrong name.... on Bill Gates To Star With Steve Jobs On Broadway · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless that was a really good flick. It was very accurate to history, easy to watch. Anthony M Hall played an excellent Bill Gates. I do wonder if he's this annoying in real life.

    Anyways, they nailed down the most historically important moments and did justice to the tech community.

  22. Re:multiplayer? on Review: Dungeon Siege II · · Score: 1

    Speaking of Diablo II, I want to replay that game again on extremely Hi-Resolution. Is there a hack to make that happen?

  23. Re:Maturity on Nintendogs Sells Quarter of a Millions Units · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People are tired of these serious, hardcore, frustrating games. I used to beat every game in the 80s, I beat less of them in the 90s. Now I find myself needing cheats to just get by. It's ridiculous.

    Katamari and Nintendogs set the trend for going back to the days when games are just good for messing around. Every plot revolves around some group of teenagers saving the world anyways, these two games are truely unique.

  24. Re:Oh great. on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 1

    Finally kindergardeners have an alternative word they can use loosely in a classroom.

  25. Re:Marketing led on Death to the Games Industry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First step is to declare EA a monopoly. There is yet a standard Anti-Monopoly trust in the video game industry. Sure there is the Sherman Anti-trust act, but some politican needs to bend the same rules to apply it to EA.

    All these politicans waste their time talking about video game violence and bad values, they should wake up. They should break up EA and use the big company benemoth as a cornerstone example.

    If a democratic station like CNN is forcefully dominating all TV stations, Bush would have a fit. No one up high gives a fuck cause it's video "games". Let's call it video "media", then they'll care.