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  1. Still Used! on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    Photoshop and Illustrator both make great use of the Capslock key. When engaged, the program will default to 'prescise' cursors (crosshair), in place of your standard cursor (Aarow, or brush)

  2. Telus on Telecom Carriers Use Deceptive Advertising · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I have a phone on Canada's TELUS TALK 30 Plan.

    The idea is: $30/month for talk 30.
    Great.
    +$6.95 Network Licencing Fee
    +$2.75 Taxes

    Total is almost $40/month for a plan called '30'.

    It's not as bad as it is in the states, but it's still deceitful.

  3. Excuse me but... on European Space Shuttle Prototype Lands Safely In Sweden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it really a good idea to name your new Space Shuttle after a Mythical Bird which is well know for bursting into flame?

  4. Matrix on I, Robot Trailer Available · · Score: 1, Interesting
    If anyone here watched the AniMatrix, it's remarkably similar to the 'Rennisance' storyline.

    Man makes machine, machine works for man. Machine commits murder, man trys to shut machines down. Machines go to war.

    I guess it sounds like 50% of sci-fi storys out there...

  5. Re:Yes, but... on Life After the Video Game Crash · · Score: 1

    You don't have to stop playing a videogame every 10 minutes to be bombarded with commercials.
    You can also choose when to play your favourite videogame.
    Videogames don't specifically pit 2 good games against each other, allowing you to only play one.
    TV's content may not suck, but the method is clearly inferior.

  6. What? on Did HP Defraud the Canadian Government? · · Score: 5, Funny
    As a red blooded Canadian, I have only one question to ask.

    Who gave the Canadian Department of National Defence $160,000,000?

  7. Re:Game developer #1 and #2 on Rockstar Announces GTA San Andreas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you ever heard of Halflife?
    Blue Shift?
    Opposing Force?
    Team Fortress Classic?
    Counter Strike?
    Day of Defeat?

    This is called a successful business model, and personally if the engine isn't broken, why fix it?

  8. Audible on NYC Crosswalk Buttons are Inoperative · · Score: 1
    I like the buttons that have a sign: "Push Button for Audible Signal Only"
    What follows is the chirping meant to allow the blind to find their way across.

    Every day, I hear that damned thing chirping away, with not a blind person for 100km. Some asshat has pushed the button anyway, hoping it will work. Apparently they can't read.
    What I want to know, is how is a blind person supposed to read the sign, let alone find the button.

  9. Love Hate on Google Asks Booble To Cease And Desist · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Amazing how meer days ago, Google was one of the heroes in the war against SCO.

    One decision since then has vilified them, and suddenly they are the bad guys trying to restrict our rights and freedoms.

  10. Phew on Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Funny

    Librarians around the United States, heaved a sigh of relief.

  11. bitch make me a sandwich. on Women Buy More Tech Than Men · · Score: 2, Funny
    This just proves that geeks have their women whipped.

    Hon, can you go to the shop and pick me up *insert gadget/techno babble here*

  12. CA$H on Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rumors · · Score: 4, Informative
    Incase any of you didn't know, regardless of how much you/we think EP I & II may have sucked, they still raked in a wack of cash domestically:
    Episode I: $431,088,295
    Episode II: $310,675,583

    I think what we're seeing here are at least + 741,000,000 reasons Lucas is considering 7,8,9.

  13. Future? on Windows that Double as LCD Monitors · · Score: 4, Funny
    If they already have them, wouldn't that make them the windows of the Now?

    Further, can they legally call them the 'W' word?

  14. Excuse me but... on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Correct/Mod me if I'm wrong, but aren't the main uses of the internet Porn and P2P? However according to MIT encouraging "evil" P2P is wrong?

    Sure, they're not exactly the most honourable or squeaky clean businesses on the planet, but they sure as hell are the most popular.

  15. SOLUTION on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Hey You in the RIAA Jacket, you're not allowed in my store. You're trespassing. Get out, or I'll call the REAL cops."

    End of story.

  16. The Series is called what? on Coalescent · · Score: 0

    Insert pathetic Destiny's Child (R&B) Joke here.

  17. Re:It's a great idea... on Shuttle Fleet Upgraded · · Score: 2

    Considering Oxygen is a gas at room temperature, when they say "Heat" they probably mean "Above Freezing"

  18. Free as in Beer on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How about making Windows Free?

  19. Time Time Time on iTMS Named Fortune's Product Of The Year · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Time owns Fortune magazine.

    Time Warner is also a member of the RIAA.

    I smell something good for business.

    Somehow, this got posted on Slashdot...

  20. No no no. on Heads-Up Displays for Motorcyclists · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you've ever driven a car and instead of focusing on the road in front of you, tried looking at the windsheild, you'd realize just how hard it is to change focus quickly from the glass to the road. Now try driving with glasses on and focusing on the lenses of your glasses, while staying in your lane.
    Further, when I go riding I spend most of the time with my visor up, to feel the wind on my face and enjoy the ride. Why would I want to keep my visor down, just so that it can tell me I'm speeding when I already know?

  21. ATM Vs. INTERAC on Fake ATM Fraud Expose · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Personally, I fear no ATM. If I need cash, I simply go to the bank and get it from the official ATM there. That way I save my self $1.50 or what ever the FlybyNight ATM charges. I do this once, perhaps twice a month

    The problem arises when people have created false Interac machines, or scam your bank cards information from it. I use Interac probably 3-4 times a day, and each time, do my best to ensue I can see the interac terminal, which my card is being scanned through, to allow my self a *little* piece of mind.

  22. Re:That's okay on California Bans Genegineered Fish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then the actors become politicians, and throw the law back out again.
    They shalt call it the Hollywood life cycle.

  23. Vega on Dusty Disc May Mean Other Earths · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now all we need is Jodie Foster to point all of her radio telescopes toward it, and we'll be having corporate sponsored alien space travel devices in no time.

  24. Re:Or, buy a Mac... on Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS · · Score: 4, Informative

    Corporate Headquarters
    Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
    915 Murphy Ranch Road
    Milpitas, CA 95035
    Toll Free 1.800.677.7305
    Main 1.408.570.1000
    Fax 1.408.570.1001

  25. X Person on Human Pac Man · · Score: 4, Interesting
    VR gloves, and 'mixed reality' goggles which overlay virtual cookies--shown as floating spheres--on a first person view of the real world

    It would be kind of weird playing 3rd person in VR no?