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  1. Re:There is only one true keyboard... on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression the dot matrix printers of the 1980's were the loudest most annoying peices of computer equipment ever created. We had to put them in sound dampening boxes just to minimize hearing damage.

  2. Re:Worst idea ever on The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All? · · Score: 1

    A unique TLD will be (almost certainly) able to be claimed by a TM owner. Typing "disney" as a URL will default to "http://.disney/". They will not ignore this.

  3. Re:Worst idea ever on The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    exacty.

  4. Re:Worst idea ever on The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't defining your own TLD basically do this? I mean if you want .brenth or .bhardy or .brenthardy or .brentrandalhardy or whatever, you just register what you can get. If they (ICANN) limit it to 5 or 6 characters then sure they're just doing a money grab. If they open it up tho', squatting becomes kinda pointless.

  5. Re:Worst idea ever on The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it will upset current domain squatters and create a new generation of them. But, if it opens up the probability of simpler and smaller domain names, I have to support it. I can think of a couple of hundred TLDs that I will contest because if I control them people (and/or their companies) will want to (and get to) use them for their own benifit.

  6. Re:What kind of plane is it? on First Image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    I don't know what to make of that...

  7. Re:Maybe... on Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google · · Score: 1

    So he didn't know Vogel was in GA? I don't get it, what was the big deal?

    1) Take I-20 going towards ATL until you get to I-285.
    2) Go north on I-285.
    3) Go north on GA400.
    4) Follow the signs when you get near Dahlonaga.
    5) If someone tells you, "You got a perty mouth." you'll know you made it.

    Hell you could start in Abilene TX and follow those directions.

  8. Re:Reading in dollars? on First Reviews of the MSI Wind Ultra-Portable Laptop · · Score: 1

    My theory was the price of UK kit was the US price + the cheapest ticket from KDY to Heathrow.

    There is no "minimum sales tax" in the US. We have shipping and handling here (a negotiable fee that can be 0%) and state sales tax that doesn't apply to out of state buyers.

  9. Re:It's called the Nano? on VIA Introduces the Nano Processor · · Score: 1

    It used to go the other way. People talking about getting servers with "Xenon" processors.

  10. Re:Whatever happened to.. on Brain Interface Lets Monkeys Control Prosthetic Limbs · · Score: 2, Informative

    As I recall, direct electrical stimulation, eventually killed the nuerons. Though I don't know why they couldn't eventually have a mechanical-to-biological interface that duplicated the natural one non destructiveness.

  11. Re:Pictures on Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater · · Score: 3, Funny

    I amused that a link to goatse can be merely ruled offtopic now.

  12. Re:Think twinkie on Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just remember to answer, "Yes, I am a god."

  13. Re: Screw the OLPC on OLPC's XO As a Wireless Hacking Tool · · Score: 1

    "I knew nothing of linux when I got it, but now do all my writing and email in the terminal with Midnight Commander, then use Lynx to email it out..."

    Mission Accomplished.

  14. Re:Is there life on mars.... on Mars Probe Brings the "Weather Rock" New Respect · · Score: 1

    Written by. Peter Paul and Mary did the version that I usually hear on the radio.

  15. Re:Even better on VIA Open Platform Mini-Notebook Serves up Linux · · Score: 1

    That's really more of a coffeetablebook than a notebook, innit? Why not just go for a world atlas with a 21" LCD?

  16. Re:Up to 3 hours???? on VIA Open Platform Mini-Notebook Serves up Linux · · Score: 1

    This is good advice for most notebooks if you have the option on a BTO machine or if you are replacing your battery. The upgrade from 4cell to 8cell is usually cheaper than buying a second battery, it gives you enough juice to occasionally run the notebook at full speed and it's one less thing you have to carry around.

  17. Re:RS-232!! on Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available · · Score: 1

    There are a gazillion devices that cannot be made obsolete and refuse to die that use rs-232.

  18. Re:inspiration v. tech on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Just more corporate pandering... on An Inside Look at the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    But that isn't true today. The crushing tyranny has produced stability when "other" governments have created economic chaos. China now effectively owns the USA, and has the humanpower to overwhelm it in every way short of military might (though I would not call a nuclear defeat a win).

    I would call myself a supporter of "raising" the people of China to middle class standards of "the west" but the west seems determined to eradicate the middle class leaving only lords and serfs.

  20. Re:We must defend ourselves on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 1

    The province of security through obscurity belongs to the "clandestine services". The USAF should focus on security through superior processing power. It's what we're paying for.

  21. Re:Jargon pisses me off... on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grok.

    Grokgrokgrok.

    Pics or it didn't happen.

  22. Re:The Web is currently at least 8,000 times as la on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Captain Obvious,

            Please send this fine fellow your password for future posts.

  23. Awesome! on NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea!

    We could just stick all of ScuttleMonkey's subs there. JK.

  24. Re:Just more corporate pandering... on An Inside Look at the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    China isn't the USSR. China was perfecting captalism, bureaucracy, and massive populations while we were wading through feudalism. They don't fear our economy anymore than the sea fears the earth.

  25. Re:Good luck on An Inside Look at the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    While our posts were grouped coincidentally, did you ever hear the phase "everything is forbidden"? There was an odd sense of anarchy/freedom knowing that nothing you did would pass legal scrutiny unless you had the Yaun to for it and anything you could pay for would pass...