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  1. Assuming what people are thinking... on Legodeath - Twisted Lego Constructs · · Score: 1

    If you can't assume what people are thinking, what can you do?

  2. Saw it, liked it on Review: Solaris · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but it's all about what existance is, and some people say it's weirder than 'The Sixth Sense' and is kind of like 'Vanilla Sky' (which I haven't seen.

  3. What to do... on Copyright and Copy Rights · · Score: 1

    Get together a group of people to buy enough stock in the companies to give them marching orders.

  4. Google Search Time! on Using PDAs for Dictation? · · Score: 1
  5. The answer to that is... on Another Millionaire Spammer Story · · Score: 1

    Start lifting weights now!

  6. Fair and Balanced? Who's missing here? on Fox CEO Says Tech & Media Should Work Together · · Score: 1

    Alright FoxNews, I see actors and politicians on your station. Where are the Tech people and the Union people? Tech and Media have a long way to go to work together.

  7. Doing something on AT&T/Comcast Consider Aussie-Style Bandwidth Caps · · Score: 2

    Get a group together and buy stock in a company, and as a shareholder tell them not to implement download caps.

  8. Someone should tell them... on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    Traffic lights are not a source of electricity.

  9. Rest of The EM spectrum on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    What about the rest of the EM spectrum. If electricity could be gotten from that, it would be even better.

  10. That just maide no sense. on Microsoft Profit and Loss by Business Area · · Score: 1

    When you are making a profit, you are going to be a growth stock, if I understand the term correctly to mean a stock that is expected to continue to increase in price.
    Steve Balmer made an infamous statement that would seem to indicate that Microsoft would have no problems with curtailing its stock growth in order to save money elsewhere.
    The statement that MS infamously paid no taxes last year, if factual, only serves to increase the probability that MS is hiding profits to reduce its tax bill, because hiding profits is one way of achieving zero taxes.

  11. In other news on Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Militant nasty people who hate change in general declare a ban on natural mutations and new hybrids, contending that not enough is known about the "new mutants" and "half breeds" long-term safety for humans. One of them was reported as saying "We know enough about the half breeds that have been with us for some time, but these new guys, we're just not sure."

  12. How do such transfers happen? on Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know the vector that allowed the genes to transfer?

  13. Price? on NetBSD Powered iSCSI Accesible Appliance Released · · Score: 1

    They don't give the price? How annoying! Yeah, yeah, I know... If you have to know the price, you can't afford it.

  14. Not true? on Microsoft Profit and Loss by Business Area · · Score: 1

    If so, it's just barely not true. Ever tried to get support from Microsoft lately?

  15. You're missing the point. on Microsoft Profit and Loss by Business Area · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft is leveraging their high prices to enable them to give away other products, thus undercutting their competition. If Microsoft didn't require their overcharging in order to charge lower prices on their other products, you wouldn't hear many complaints on the lower priced goods.

  16. The problem with AI on ALICE vs. ALICE · · Score: 1

    The real problem with AI is that they don't know how to patch the problem that generates results like this. Maybe it would help if they coded an AI for easy patching. Would a patch for detecting and avoiding repeats have helped here? But no one's going to try it.

  17. Well it gets much better further in. on ALICE vs. ALICE · · Score: 1

    I normally wouldn't have watched it, but someone I knew had some extra tickets, sort of.

    (the real reason is harder to explain, but that's close)

  18. The real reason women don't go into computers. on ALICE vs. ALICE · · Score: 1

    There seems to be a conspiracy afoot to make it all seem boring. So I gather from my study materials. But computing can be fun, I tell you, yes it can!

  19. The resolution on The PC Display has Left the Building · · Score: 1

    The resolution of the finger should actually be as precise as you can move it, because all the program has to do is calculate the center of youir finger from the edges.

  20. Now all we need on Douglas Adams Written Dr. Who Episode Goes Into Production · · Score: 1

    is someone to complain about the lack of continuity introduced by the American movies with the first Doctor, and how the actor playing him looks and sounds nothing like William Hartnell.

  21. Delighted on Publishers' Attack Free Government Sites · · Score: 1

    We're delighted with the decision [to shut down PubScience]," LeDuc said.
    "We are delighted that the Democrats chose Nancy Pelosi as Minority Leader because it means they're out of touch with voters." Republicans said.
    "I am delighted with the attack on the World Trade Center" Usama Bin Laden said.
    I am disappointed in all this delightment in bad decisions.

  22. Here's an Idea on FTC Sues Six in Spam E-Mail Round-Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everytime you get an unsolicited e-mail that has an unsubscribe option, unsubscribe webmaster@ftc.gov... also use in a message on a board known to be freqented by spambots. That should put an end to the stupidest of spammers, at least.

  23. Philips is on the side of... on Philips & Sony To Purchase Intertrust DRM Tech · · Score: 1

    making sure the consumer doesn't get a CD with their logo on it that can't play in a player with their logo on it, thus making them look bad.

  24. I understood what he meant on Philips & Sony To Purchase Intertrust DRM Tech · · Score: 1

    He meant, not readable under certain conditions. If that's still not clear enough, pipe up again.

  25. Morally equivalent? on The Law of Leaky Abstractions · · Score: 1

    That guy has a strange idea of moral equivalece. I still don't see the magic, though.