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  1. What? Jealous? on Government Love and Hate for Video Games · · Score: 1

    http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Jason+Della+R occa For those interested in what Jason Della Rocca Generally looks like.

    What's up with sites with dark text on dark background until the "real" image background loads? That's no fun at all! :

  2. Never use a goto? on Learning to Code with a Boardgame · · Score: 1

    Why not? It might be fun!

  3. Re:Inner workings of a computer on Learning to Code with a Boardgame · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Because they don't want to?

  4. Cling Tight? on Learning to Code with a Boardgame · · Score: 1

    What? Afraid you might lose them?

  5. Name a few songs in each category. on RIAA Trying to Copy-Protect Radio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Name a song from those played on the radio that is "much the same" as those punk fans are calling awesome, and don't blame me if someone tells you that you have a tin ear.

  6. Obvious excuse for a Max Headroom reference on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Zig-Zag Burgers: Don't go reaching for your leather wallets, folks, because that's what they taste like!

  7. Re:Good on Mothers Taking the Fight to the RIAA · · Score: 1

    There's always a gun to your head, or do you suddenly not need to eat?

    The people claiming to be ripped off by P2P are the ones ripping off everybody else.

  8. Re:Good on Mothers Taking the Fight to the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Who am I not to decide what someone else is entitled to?

  9. Re:IQ scores go up every generation on Intelligence in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    The Flynn effect says nothing about the distribution within the population.

  10. Why do you want to stop the practice? on Music Giants Sue Baidu Over Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    And who wants to make a living from music anyways?

  11. No It isn't on Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Release · · Score: 1

    I should get more than most people can be true when no one should get more than you, I should get less than some people cannot

  12. Not Imaginary. on Trouble With Open Source? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They plague every human endeavor. The article falls victim, however, to the idea that every human endeavor is monolithic. There is no one OSS vision, not all commerce is sordid, and I doubt that many hold the opinion that they be separate. The article falls apart under the delusions of its writer. Somebody give him and those close to him a wake up call!

  13. Attack of the PeerGuardian Robots on MethLabs Shuts out PeerGuardian · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are the PeerGuardian Robots
    We are here to protect you
    We are here to protect you from the terrible secret of PeerGuardian
    Do not trust the Methlabs Robot. He is malfunctioning
    Do not trust the Sourceforge robot. He is inferior.

  14. Now you've made me angry. on Stolen U.C. Berkeley Laptop Recovered · · Score: 1

    I just had two laptops stolen from me not too long ago. There was information on it that would have easily tracked it back to me, but now you tell me you format the drives without checking that sort of thing out. Computers are completely different than cars in that they contain data that can be tracked back to their real owners, and the thieves that steal them often aren't clever enough to be able to delete it. I just wish the laptop makers instead of splashing their stupid logo at startup made it easy for owner information to be there. Cars can have the VIN plate switched with a crashed car of the same make and model.

  15. Re:This is not a good sign.... on Advent Children Director Wants To Redo FFVII · · Score: 1

    You can drop the j. At this time, all the FF ## have been put out in practically every market using the original numbering scheme in one form or another.

  16. Re:Just last night . . . on MS Upgrades To Be Smaller And More Frequent · · Score: 1

    It seems to work fine with me in Windows Explorer. Cut and paste. I have System Restore turned off, maybe that's it.

  17. Re:Just last night . . . on MS Upgrades To Be Smaller And More Frequent · · Score: 1

    Under Windows XP you can move a file that is currently being used by Windows and then copy another file in it's place and Windows will happily continue using the original file until reboot.

  18. Re:holy shit! on Microsoft to Buy Stake in AOL · · Score: 1

    Sure, look up tweaknt and timebomb.
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tweaknt+timeb omb

  19. Fuel Lobby? on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 1

    In capitalist United States, the fuel lobby protects rises in fuel oil.

  20. Re:Make it for Latin on A Useful Grammar Checker? · · Score: 1

    So maybe you can explain what
    Ne me mori facias
    should mean
    It has been translated variously as "I bring death" or "bring me death"

  21. Why I'm not on Linux yet on Rickford Grant Interview · · Score: 1

    I want to convert from NTFS to Reiser4, and I don't know how yet, and I don't want to deal with any other FS's.

    I know the Console Window commands for Windows. They're not that different from DOS, which is what I was using before Windows.

    For that matter, I know enough to write little programs that will run in Windows.

    I can do English and Japanese stuff in Windows.

    Getting to the point where I can do that stuff in Linux will result in significant amounts of time not doing that stuff.

    I am, however, looking at replacing Windows XP files with Wine/ReactOS files.

  22. Relevant Google search on The History of the Game Controller · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22game+controllers
    Also, starting with the dual shock, adding the two buttons mentioned by another poster, adding the center xy-axis control and z button from the N64 controller for alternate hand grip. (I liked the N64 controller for race games like Crus'n USA), buttons for the lower three fingers of both hands with the standard grip, controller tilt sensors, removal of the 'analog' button that switches the controller between digital compatability mode for old games and analog mode for new games (which should be handled automatically by software on the console, btw).

    Some other features that I don't feel adds as much as the ones above and may be more expensive are:
    Leds that change from red, yellow, green, for each button in response to pressure applied to buttons or software commands.
    Color-lit lcd touchscreen. Any lit color screen would be an improvement, but why not make it a touchscreen

  23. Feature Reductus on CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be hard for a browser to support both directions, but browsers these daya are removing features if they believe the standard specification doesn't call for it.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30811 7
    http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/08/29/457667 .aspx

  24. The problem with proprietary closed source work on Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser · · Score: 1

    is that nobody can tell how much time has been spent on it. Also, it draws from previous work. I would find it highly unlikely that a useful mesure of such metrics can be established in this case. Also there is differring of features to be considered. For example, say one browser has tabbed browsing. and rudimentary rendering standards support, and another has support for many standards, but no tabbed browsing, and still another will render standards correctly but also handle content that doesn't conform to standards. Which is more mature?

  25. Re:Common misconception. on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 1

    That's not true. You don't understand the Bill of Rights at all. They aren't restrictions. State governments could not legitimately pass such laws and it had nothing to do with the Constitution. Sure they passed amendments to clarify the matter, but they did not change the legality of the situation.