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  1. Where is this from? on EFF And MPAA On Broadcast Flags · · Score: 2, Informative

    not playing unmarked content

    Where did the poster get this bit of info? I see nothing about this in the FAQ, which seems to indicate the opposite, and the FAQ appears to be the only deep link in the article.

    The only purpose this seems to serve is to allow the Broadcast providers know when someone stupid is redistibuting their stuff.

  2. You appear to misunderstand... on Legalities of Rewrapped Games? · · Score: 1

    He's talking about other stores, the competition, not the one he works for.

  3. No... on Two Lackluster Reviews For LindowsOS on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 1

    No, not on my machine. The Monitor tab is there, but there is no Refresh frequency... maybe because it's a laptop... or because the driver says "Standard Monitor"

  4. Re:How do you figure.. on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 1

    But it doesn't. It draws energy from the vacuum. That energy has always been there; it just hasn't been in a usable form.

  5. Even that's More complicated than it actually is on Two Lackluster Reviews For LindowsOS on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 1

    Right click on the desktop and choose properties...Click on settings...Huh.. there isn't a Refresh setting on my computer here.

  6. You are assuming too much about God and his role.. on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 1

    in the universe. In some sense, God, as can all beings, can be reduced to a set of rules for conduct. He happens to be the set that leads to ultimate success. God 'helps' those who take him into theirselves. That seems to be the only way that God can help. Such a limitation should not strip him of the title of God, though.

  7. Why on A Selective History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    So it can fall on your toes hard?

  8. How do you figure.. on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 1

    or dou you just go about calling everything you don't understand fake?

  9. That's close enough to the cell phone... on Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff · · Score: 1

    to see his face on the screen.

  10. What's even more sad on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 1

    is that energy projects like this don't get more funding.

    Table of Contents of above site

  11. Great! on Disgusting, Scary 'Walking' Fish Invades Maryland · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now our seafood can walk to us!

    Get in my belly, little fishy!

  12. Me?... I want to live in a deiocracy... on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 1

    unlike the Taliban...and I want it Global!

    That being said, the "under God" in the pledge reeks due to its nonspecificity.

    From Relena Peacecraft's speech on changes in Romefeller:

    Why is there always confrontation? It's natural that when more than one person is involved, the second will be a potential source of conflict. In order to eliminate this, we must become unified as one...

  13. That may be the main merit... on Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff · · Score: 1

    but that philosophical idea has been around for a long time and that alone would not have made it cool. The way it brings that concept to life may be what made it cool, and if so, there are plenty of other philosophical ideas that are sitting on a shelf, gathering dust, waiting to be brought to life in such a similar way.

  14. The real story here... on Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff · · Score: 1

    Japanese companies are better at giving Japanese what they want than American companies are at giving Americans what they want.

  15. The time is ripe to take over the Internet... on June Netcraft Survey · · Score: 1

    Come on, somebody, get your code together that takes advantage of all the exploits and eforces your view of the way things should be. There's hardly a better time!

  16. Got it right first? on XML and Java, Developing Web Applications · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell nobody has it right yet.
    Where are my voice/gesture aware applications and 3D interfaces?

  17. Details, details... on OpenCM Alpha6 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    It should have been mentioned in the article that OpenCM is a replacement for CVS. Also OpenCM (Configuration Management) is a bad name for this sort of project Configuration Management sounds like the functional equivalent of Control Panel not Code Versioning Management.

  18. I'll help you start on Options for Adults with Renewed Interest in Math? · · Score: 1

    the digits in the decimal system are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
    Any number plus (+) 1 is the next number in the set
    when you get to 9, the number as a result of adding 1 is 10.

  19. The box is one step in the process... on Design Hardware/Software for Global Civil Society · · Score: 1

    The box is one step in the process...it has been said that the design of the internet reflected certain values that as a result brought about changes in society as we know it today. With such a box as Bruce Sterling proposes, he hopes to bring about such change.

  20. Book design on Design Hardware/Software for Global Civil Society · · Score: 1

    In the book called "Virus" by Grahm Watkins, ie described an OS similar to the system Bruce Sterling wants. It was called Penultimate. I'm lousy at the details tough. Anyone else read that book?

  21. FoxNews: Fair and Balanced? on Tragedy, Media and Marketing · · Score: 1

    FoxNews fair and balanced? It doesn't bother to explain what's being said most of the time. How is that fair and balanced? For example, they had a feminist on there saying that women shouldn't be objectified. That draws into question what an object is. Does FoxNews ask her to explain what she thinks an object is and why she thinks human beings aren't objects? No, they don't. Anyone out there care to offer their position?

  22. More math buffoonery... on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two different brain processes decide they want to solve the problem. One decides to round 199 up to 200, add the two numbers, then subtract 1. the other recognizes that the 100's position is the only position that need any work done... They get in a fight and hillarity ensues.

  23. Public School on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    That's the source of my problem...
    199 + 200 =399...
    but when you've got the old price of the X-Box and the new price of the X-Box...The price of tea in China, Timbuktu and who knows what else, you kind of forget which two numbers you're adding and pick the two nearest numbers passing through your head to add instead.

  24. Tax Rates? on The Hard Business of Selling Hard Drive Platters · · Score: 1

    Going by tax rates there isn't a level playing field within the U.S. 50 different tax rates on various factors of production.

  25. Anonymous on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 1

    For those of you commenting on this, what he means to say is that, given that someone has put up $200,000, the most likely person to do so would be Larry Ellison, but if he were to do so, he wouldn't do it anonymously, which means we wouldn't have to guess.