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  1. Re:So Who Got Bumped? on Google to be Added to S&P 500 Index · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Is this really a good thing? on Google to be Added to S&P 500 Index · · Score: 1

    Offset GM? GM is a Dow component, not S&P.

  3. seriously on Panasonic R&D 'House of the Future' To Open · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Dinner still has to be cooked. OK, it's very easy because this system automatically sends the cooking data to the network microwave oven. " Don't we see this shit every decade or so? That sounds like a commercial from the 70s for those new fangled robots... When I can afford this junk I'll be interested.

  4. if it comes out... on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It will have to tie into the new sidebar (update?) and will probably link to gmail accounts - which means that it could be BETA only? In any regard, I'm excited for it, pending its real.

  5. 31337 on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: -1, Troll

    Woah windows rooting, how hardcore is that. 1337 1337 1337.

  6. uhm on ZDNet UK Begs for Google's Forgiveness · · Score: 1

    That's not an apology but a slap to their face. But poooor cnet...

  7. Re:huh? on Cell-based Server Blade Demonstrated · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not a drug deal - this was an illegal exchange of human embryonic stem cells.

  8. Re:GTA on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Alright... every xmas break from school I spend a few days (probably around 10 hours) playing the newest GTA. For the couple weeks after I noticed the urge when driving to just pull the handbreak and do 180s... all the time.

  9. OMG on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is news. I haven't even read it, but here at UofM we don't get to have any sort of router in the dorms (inc wireless). Something about newbs putting junk on the network and ruining things. Mike www.vafrous.com

  10. dutch, going to go up regardless on Google's IPO Trading Defies Dutch Auction Logic? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With people selling their shares only for a premium in ANY ipo, it's a mathematical certainty that a runup on the first day is completely inevitable regardless of the process used to doll them out. This is because those who sell shares will not do so on the first day unless a nice premium is paid, and there were many investors out there that wanted a piece of the ipo. Google was successful in that the IPO did not product catastrophic price raises (50%+) that others have seen. Mike Sklut www.vafrous.com

  11. DS on Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been thinking about the new DS for a long time and haven't thought of many gaming methods to take advantage of the dual screen. Alright, this is off-topic.. Anyway - the donkey kong mario racer game that the last pic showed had your location on the track... big deal... the next innovation for them should be making the gamboy thinner with a larger screen, not fatter with two.

  12. Gmail [updated] on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1

    Now offering 1PB (petabyte) of storage... Store all your email for all your family.. forever and then some..

  13. For the minions on Google Files for IPO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How long after the stock goes public will the general population be able to purchase some? What's the game plan for these people - is Google worth the buy?

  14. Dammit on Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They are working in the wrong direction. It's not about copy protection anymore - the niche market that the ipod hit is no longer a niche market. The name of the game over the next few years will be make a store with music you can easily put on anything, take anywhere. I predict Apple makes their flavor of CP open.

  15. nice graph on OED Science Fiction Database Updated · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This story isn't that interesting... In any regard the graph does spark some thought. What accounts for the explosion of new words in the 30's/40's (pun sort of intended). I would have guessed the 20's would have been a more popular time.

  16. ma bell on Pictorial and Written History of Bell Systems · · Score: 1
    i got the ill communication

    call me a llama but the beastie boys and some old school phreakers at hacker cons are the only references to 'ma bell' that i come across..

  17. new.net on New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember the hype around new.net (or lack thereof) -- what a joke of a company..

  18. This is, perhaps, a dupe.. on Can Software Kill? · · Score: 1

    Software doesn't kill people. People kill people.

  19. high price on Microdrive Technology Rebounds Thanks to iPod Mini · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The whole IBM premium pricing for "compelling innovations" is pretty interesting. Why would they keep the price for so high for so long - was someone else purchasing the drives for another procuct?

    Hitachi is probably profiting nicely from this.. It's too bad they don't have CFlash cards that are big and cheap yet, seems that's far down the road.

  20. Re:What about on Suggestions for a DVD Video on Demand System? · · Score: 1

    Sounds hot.. But difficult.

  21. indeed on Viet Dinh Defends The Patriot Act · · Score: 1
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    -- Ben Franklin

    :)

  22. What the on Linus on Intel's 64 bit Extensions · · Score: 1

    hell? Why do I have to scroll bloody 1/2 down the page before I get past all the "funny" replies? Slash needs a filter for funny vs. 'pertinent' dammit, or perhaps something where a funny post isn't worth as much as one that goes into the details of the topic at hand...

  23. tablets? on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? · · Score: 1
    My mother has one... it's nice and all - if your a girl.

    A real man's machine is a nice laptop with your choice of [linux] distro, dual booting with windows (for your office, assignments and such). I recommend thinkpads, they are sweet.

  24. Re:it's true on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "A quick peek around indeed shows something named Windows.Source.Code.w2k.nt4.wxp.tar circulating"

    How does one take a quick peek to see such a file is circulating?

  25. Re:indeed on The World of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    Son of a bitch - I clicked my own link on my windows computer to see the traffic allocation error that geocites gives and went to the site -- Norton AV didn't see any virii... is there something bad on the site??