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  1. Re:No choices on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    Hate to break it to you, the US hasn't won a war since WWII, why break tradition now? War has become like treating cancer, you never want to cure it, you don't make money that way. Its much more profitable for those parties who profit from war to "treat" the problem for 100 years...or so McCain thinks.

  2. WTF on Florida Election Ballots to be Printed On-Demand · · Score: 1

    They can't do a validated paper trail for electronic voting because of paper jams...but they can print the entire ballot? I have a sneaking suspicion that voting means nothing.

  3. I wouldn't say there are a lot of formats... on Afterlife Will Be Costly For Digital Films · · Score: 1

    Cineon was the standard for a long time when it came to archiving or exchaning the final frames, but EXR has pretty much taken over. The problem really isn't archiving the final frames, its the fact you need to archive every element used to make those frames, and those files could be rla, exr, cin, jpg. This could be 1PB or more because people get really paranoid and just archive everything online when the shot is finaled.

  4. can we just disolve congress now on Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Talk about the weakest congress in the history of the country. god damn.

  5. MS Patent deals, how they play a role in this. on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is why the Microsoft patent deals with Linux vendors are so important and why Novell F-ed everything. They are playing on both sides. Basically, by signing these deals with Linux vendors they herd a lot of companies toward those vendors. That gives them a target, but they can't directly attack it. At the same time, they secretly help patent trolls to attack those Linux vendors, leaving the customer with a bad taste in their mouth. The customer had switched to Novell for "protection", and then Novell gets slapped with an injunction. "Linux isn't safe" they read in the press and hey go running back to Microsoft.

  6. FOX needs a domestic spying expert. on Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News · · Score: 1

    Who better than Carly?

  7. A button you press that buys something! on 1-Click Rejection Rejected · · Score: 1

    OMG its ground breaking. I mean, its better than the other buttons you press that do crazy and unimaginable things. Who would have thought that I would live in a world where a company can have my credit card details on file, and when I click a button, it accesses them and buys stuff! I mean, we have buttons, we have databases, we have a standard electronic communications medium. Who would have thought to put those together! Its amazing. I bet they are using VARCHAR and INT fields in the datasbase to store character and integer data in the SAME TABLE. Its amazing!

  8. Dear Bill on Microsoft Should Abandon Vista? · · Score: 1

    Windows running on Linux. When you make another 20 billion I'll be waiting for my cut.

  9. Shouldn't the title this? on Inventors Protest Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    "Inventors" Protest Patent Reform Bill

  10. He still works there? on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    He got it wrong because he did about zero investigation into the subject. Even a monkey would have been more accurate simply making guesses by chance. He was simply wrong about every possible detail except the parties involved. I'm surprised forbes still employs him. I lose all respect for the publication thanks to Mr Lyons.

  11. Re:IF, just, IF on Valve Looking to Port Games to Linux? · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, they don't have to release the source. Reminds me of back in the day when I had a large farm of apache servers and a M$ salesman told me if I was running Linux I had to release to source code to my website.

  12. Apparently on NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    NetApp invented the snapshot, what a crock of shit. SCO, part 2 the revenge.

  13. OMG Exec Meeting Now!! on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Hey NBC: I have chosen not to have cable, but want to pay you for Heroes. Guess what my only alternative will be if you pull it from iTunes?

    Oh my god, the company is going to fail. We are about to lose a single viewer...what do we do?

  14. Lame on Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile · · Score: 1

    There is a stanard libc library for reading in /etc/password you dolts, you shouldn't have passwords in there anyway. You need things like this to find out the users shell, home directory, etc. Cry me a river, dictionary attack? I mean, make a decent password and use one of the many tools available to notify you of that stuff. Nothing, is secure, security is just a means of slowing people down.

  15. shuts down? on US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database · · Score: 1

    "US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database" basically means that the database has been elevated to top secret status.

  16. kids are seeing boobies!! on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids are seeing boobies. Is that the world you want to live in!

  17. Yet Somehow... on World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are only 9 million players but 11 million night elf hunters. Go figure.

  18. Re:Doubt it on Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election? · · Score: 1

    I used to live in D.C. and knew many people who worked on the hill. Its a running joke about how tech savy Democrats are vs. Republicans. All Democrats used Linux because it was free and they could get it up and running with no money down. Republican staffers were pretty much required to go through party supported contractors for IT. They generally ended up with Windows/Sun boxes.

  19. damn on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    We are still hunting whale this day in age?

  20. Please... on What Microsoft Could Learn from OSS and Linux · · Score: 1
    "And if Microsoft thinks Open Office is a pain now, try suing people over it, then see how many people refuse to buy their products.'"

    Please, the average American has a memory of about 2 seconds, about as long as a gold fish. A new headline pops up and we'll pretty much forget about MS sueing anyone. That same day, we'll drive to Best Buy and not only buy Office, but donate a few bucks to a "clubbing baby seals foundation", and "help the poor gas companies cause" in exachange for a free subscribtion to Stuff magazine.

    Just look oat our foriegn policy, we have secret prisions in Poland, and a concentration camp in Cuba to torture brown people with names like Aziz. People don't care about that, and they most certainly don't care about some office program lawsuit.

  21. Please on Is Videotaping the Police a Felony? · · Score: 1

    Why is this even a question? Of course we should be able to film and take pictures of them.

  22. did not one person mention on More States Rebel Against Real ID Act · · Score: 1

    The privacy concerns or the fact the the US Government has no right to issue us all "papers". This should be handled at the state level, like it is now.

  23. Err Wait, I'm confused now on Church Threatens Legal Action Over Sony Game · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I thought Christians == NRA? You don't see many jewish members of the NRA. Not only that, isn't it Christians that would use a preemptive nuclear strike against Iran? (from Republican debates) Aren't those Christians that are responsible for over 1mil+ Iraqi deaths? Christians, please go fuck yourselves.

  24. How I long for the days of Comcast on Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping · · Score: 1

    Man, every since Time Warner has taken over my cable service its been shockingly bad. Internet is down constantly and for days. I've called support a couple times, apparently it went down because they don't support Linux. They are also doing something to the channel lineup, changing channels around a lot, that renders my Tivo useless for a lot of stuff.

  25. Why is this surprising on Microsoft's IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware? · · Score: 1

    I mean, windows users are 99% more likely to be hosting malware.