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  1. Re:The flagship... on D&D Is 30 · · Score: 1
    "but until you've re-written your character sheet 15 times"

    You call yourself a geek? I have my character sheet on my Toshiba e805 PDA.

  2. Re:Convenience? on Biometric Voice Recognition Credit Cards · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Isn't one of the goals of credit cards convenience?"

    The main goal is to get people to spend money they dont have so that they can pay off the interest for the rest of their life.

  3. Wow! on Listen to Internet Radio over Wifi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! Wireless radio, what will they think of next.

  4. Re:VIA is reliable on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    It all depends on what the system is being used for. I tend to load my computers up (RAID, Gigabit, Fireware etc). I expect all the PCI slots to be usable, VIA seems to think that 2-3 out of 5 of them are just for show. ACPI, IRQ and other resource sharing just seem to no work well on them.

  5. Re:Way to get the lead out! on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 2
    "Ok, I know, it's not punny. Sorry."

    You should be punnished for that. Still, at least it wasn't a pun about German sausages, eh? They're the wurst.

  6. Re:VIA is reliable on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1, Interesting
    "I'm sure this board will live up to the VIA reputation."

    VIAs reputation is poor at best. The last VIA board I owned (KT133) wouldn't post if you had a SCSI card and a PS/2 mouse hooked up at the same time. Search around on Google, most of the VIA chipsets are rife with problems.

  7. Re:Questions... on Open Voting at OSCON · · Score: 3, Informative
    "Wouldn't it be very easy for someone to patch the software in a bad way and recompile it before installation?"

    Wouldn't someone be able to do this with a closed source app as well? Closed source is not the same as no source.

  8. Re:or from the developers perspective. on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 1
    "I call bullshit!"

    While not a game, I have released an HTML editor that got millions of downloads, was included on several internatinal demo CDs and has sold exactly zero copies. This is not to say that people are not using it. I can point to several web pages that have the meta tags I generated by default and I get support requests all the time. There are also several cracks for the light copy protection I chose to include. The leason I learned is that you have to spend more time on copy protection then on the program itself or people will rip you off.

  9. Bah.... on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom · · Score: 1
    "Expect failure after only 5 years..."

    Mine dont last 10 seconds... in the microwave.

  10. Grilling Diebold? on California Grills Diebold Over E-Voting Foul-Ups · · Score: 1

    Save me some white meat.

  11. Re:I don't buy it on UK Releases Global Warming Report · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not saying global warming is 100% real. However, there is SOME evidance to support it, and given that, why not have lower emission vehicles? If nothing else, I would prefer not to be able to see the air (the green sunsets in LA are neat however).

  12. Re:I don't buy it on UK Releases Global Warming Report · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thats the same site that claims recycling is a waste of time and caffine isn't adictive. Take it all with a grain of salt.

  13. Um..... on UK Releases Global Warming Report · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surfs up? Or how about we take a chapter from Futurama and hope that nuclear winter cancels out global warming?

  14. So... on First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 3, Funny

    So then the money has been both transfered and not transfered? That sounds like an argument waiting to happen.

  15. Re:I for one dont want the rebate. on Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash · · Score: 1

    Notebooks are harder since you can't build your own (well, in some cases you can). However, if the vender choses to offer their products with Works and Excel (never seen that by the way, sure you dont mean Works and Word?) that's their choice. In truth I can't recal a period within the rebate time frame that you couldn't find a vendor that shipped just the OS as an option.

  16. Like they didn't have enough security issues. on AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP · · Score: 1

    Let a whole new series of spam spewing exploits strike terror into the hearts of net dwellers where ever they may lurk.

  17. I for one dont want the rebate. on Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't bother to fill out the form they sent me because I don't agree with the settlement and in fact think that it sets a very bad precedence. I purchased Microsoft software because it performed a task or service that I was willing to pay for. At no point was I tricked or forced to buy the stuff. I agreed to the price when I paid for it, so I think it would be wrong for me to change my mind years after the fact. I paid more for Autodesk, Novell and Sun software but you don't see anyone demanding rebates from them. This whole thing just struck me as a bunch of greedy layers and consumers who saw an opportunity to get something for nothing.

  18. Re:They used to be my google.... on WebCrawler Turns 10 Today · · Score: 1
    "I remember when webcrawler was the only search engine I touched..."

    Touched what? No, never mind. I dont want to know.

  19. Re:I know little about embedded devices on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 1

    Indeed. However I doubt you can buy them in any sort of quantity as they are no longer being made.

  20. Re:I know little about embedded devices on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 5, Informative
    "But that seems like a lot of RAM. Is it?"

    Oods are this is using a SODIM setup. In which case 64MB is the smallest amount of RAM you can get.

  21. Solar powered? on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't recall where it was, but some other city tried using solar powered parking meters. They never worked due to insufficient light.

  22. I interviewed there. on Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I interviewed at sex.com or as they like to be known "deerfield communications". Place was run out of the basment of an abandoned building. Not realy what I was looking for in a job.

  23. Re:Ogg Vorbis?Ogg Vorbis?Ogg Vorbis? on Fourteen Digital Music Players Reviewed · · Score: 1
    From apple.com

    Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF (Mac only) and WAV

    What part of that is too hard for you to understand?

  24. Re:Uh-oh... on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 4, Funny

    The way I see it, if they can have their cell phones, then I should get my gun. Its a checks and ballances issue.

  25. Re:The whole no phones in planes on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cell phones CAN cause problems with radar systems. However only in select spots (ie where yuo are in relation to the radar). Rather then say that yuo can use a cell phone anyplace on the plane other then this red circle, they just say no phones. Hell, you cant use a cell phone in the front section of the ferry boat I ride home each day because its under the radar dome.