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  1. Re:Old news on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink? · · Score: 1

    I'm still using the starter cartridges for my color laser and I've been using it for three years.

    The only problem is that to replace all the toner cartridges would cost as much as a new one. And I don't want a new one since they've taken the duplex option off of their low-end models.

    For my next color laser, I'd like it to have networking and duplexing though.

  2. Re:A Big Market in the U.S. For This on $999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you get everyone in the family to chip in 100$ to get one person tested?

    Or 50$ if you guys are good at that sort of thing. ;)

  3. Where is FIOS? on Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    I still have no idea where FIOS is available or what their deployment plan is.

    The only thing I know is that it's not available here.

  4. Re:Be in business for yourself undercut them on How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could make $20/hr with a Rolodex of small businesses and home clients...

    Oh. Is THAT all you need to be good in sales? Just a list of good customers? Christ man, you make it sound like it's the easiest thing in the world to get.

  5. Re:Best Buy is evil according to my experience on How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. Only buy things from Best Buy that are:

    A. Disposable, like printer paper.
    B. Indestructible, worthless, or both. Like rocks.

  6. Re:Not giving up, just changing methods on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1


    I modded a friend's forum that uses phpBB2 to use bbProtection.

    However, they've shut down. It was great when it worked though.

  7. Re:So far all I see.. on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1

    What? No bashing on Google for investing into technologies that will benefit itself in the long term?

    (waits for the hippies to show up and say "Well, they have *so much money*, it wouldn't hurt to spend it on the homeless")

  8. Re:Entrenched habits? on Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google · · Score: 1

    For the money that students pay for college these days, I'd expect a working email system.

    The old guard got that way because college was where you went to learn something. Now it's a whole life experience.

  9. Re:Propaganda.... on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 1

    Uh, almost everyone?

  10. Re:Games on More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor · · Score: 1

    This is one of the reasons I haven't bought Vista yet. They sell the 32 bit and the 64 bit separately.

    I'd like to go with 64 bit, to future proof my system, but what if I have problems with it? I can't just switch it to 32 bit. I'd have to go buy the 32 bit version.

    They really shouldn't have tried to make money off of this aspect of the OS.

  11. Re:Basic psychology on How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys · · Score: 1

    You don't see how being hit for thousands of dollars in fines is against a company's interest?

  12. Re:Basic psychology on How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys · · Score: 1

    That's 100% incorrect. Unlike everyone else, I have *unlimited* workplace experience!

  13. Re:obligatory Linux snippet in the end of the arti on More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor · · Score: 1

    One part luck. One part skill. One part perseverance.

  14. Re:Missing sales recipts = piracy on BSA Software Piracy Fight Smacks of RIAA Crackdown · · Score: 1

    What if you didn't buy it?

    I did a handwriting test for MS in exchange for software. I chose office 2007.

    I have no receipt, I use it for my home business. I'm in violation of the BSA.

  15. Re:Well...yeah. on How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys · · Score: 1

    How cheap can you get? Although the housing industry is tanking now, for the past 8 years it had been making crazy good money.

    The mortgage company is gambling that the BSA won't find out. Good luck with that.

  16. Seen it. on David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Overall they put a lot more work into the quality of the show when you compare it to previous episodes.

    The only parts I didn't like were the song and dance routines. They were really poor when compared to the opera piece they did.

    They really went nuts with the time travel. Which I liked. Sure it got confusing, but it was cheap and easy TIME TRAVEL. Chaos just comes with it.

    I plan on buying the DVD when it comes out to show my support. :)

  17. Basic psychology on How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys · · Score: 4, Insightful


    When when you skimp on salaries, make a hostile workplace, and generally make life hell, don't be surprised when your employees (or ex-employees) are not looking out for your best interest.

  18. Re:sigh... on Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing · · Score: 1

    Did you buy the subscription?

  19. Re:the problem are clathrates, not cows. on Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1


    The climate changes. Period. So deal.

  20. Re:the value of the concept of "context" on UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture · · Score: 1

    So maybe what we need are some better regulations and laws regarding how and when cops are allowed to use tasers, like only when someone is in physical danger?

    There will come a time where only the worst most corrupt people will become cops because they're the only ones willing to deal with the ridiculous rules fosted on them.

    Usually by ignoring them completely.

    And the management will let it slide because otherwise they can't get any applicants.

    Have you ever asked yourself what it would take to make a Cop's job better?

  21. Re:Normalization? Keys? on Head First SQL · · Score: 1

    I can see how some of those other problems could happen...but not normalizing?

    Normalization is as integral to databases as SQL. If you're not normalizing your databases, you might as well not have them.

  22. Re:Suggestion... on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    Linux doesn't have any kind of automatic setup for a NAS. Especially if you're setting up RAID-5.

    The only people I would tell to do this are people I hate.

  23. Re:Go FSF! on FSF Reaches Out to RIAA Victims · · Score: 1

    So does that mean the Indians don't own that reservation land? Sweet, I'm going to go pick that up.

  24. Re:But on Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review · · Score: 1

    Mac users mystify me with this attitude. They seem to be unable to use tools that don't "Look good".

    Form over function. Bah.

  25. Re:Order 66 on Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters · · Score: 1

    You are costing them more money than they're making. They'll be delighted to see you go.