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  1. Re:Why bother? on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    Boo hoo hoo. Firefox won't work with my skools web site. Waaaah. So, wait. I'm supposed to grow up yet you're the one with the sarcastic mockery. Ok, I'll bite. The point I made was an extremly valid case example for the parent post who argued that a plug-in of this nature didn't really have a base of interested users. I expressed a few cases including my own that shows how it could be a useful tool. Furthermore, IE is the only certified browser. Opera seems to render things decently well, but I don't really want to stare ad banner ads while browsing around. So, it would seem that I'm more grown up, and you're just an AC troll.

  2. Re:Why bother? on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    I don't really have an option. I have to do my my registration/financial aide/bill play/housing/and even some courses on the interweb... Are you suggesting I transfer schools just so that I don't have to use IE?

  3. Re:Why bother? on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    How about this idea. Firefox doesn't always render pages correctly, because a lot of them are designed with IE in mind. As Firefox gains market share, there are going to be less pages like this, but take my school for example. A lot of the registration and university management sites won't render properly in anything else, or I get error messages saying I'm not using a certified browser. So, let's go beyond that, maybe people in an office need access to intranet sites that won't render in anything but IE, but want to incorporate tabbed browsing to clean up their desktops thereby making them more efficent workers. The availablity of such a browser-plugin could be a godsend. I myself use Firefox for everything except managing my university stuff.

  4. Re:I need another cup of the KoolAid.. on Google Releases GDS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I've been using it for a couple of hours. It seems pretty handy, except it docks at the side of the screen, so when running an application in fullscreen, it doesn't extend to that side of the desktop. It does take some real estate, but I've got a 21.4" monitor, so it isn't so bad. It's the plugins in it that make it really useful. It has all of my trillian conversations indexed, as well as all of my gmail, and it interfaces with Picasa that has my pictures indexed. All in all it's pretty useful. However, I'll probably uninstall it from my workstation and install put it on my laptop. It's kind of like a productivity aid and I don't use my desktop for those sorts of tasks.

  5. Re:Not the complete picture. on New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better · · Score: 1

    911 is not free. Everyone who has a phone pays a tax (whether or not they use it) to keep it running.

  6. Re:The death penalty is dubious as it is on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    What I always use to shut up the right-wingers is how can they be pro-capital punishment and pro-life at the same time. One of their views doesn't jive with the other.

  7. Re:Prices? on 164 Million Broadband Subscribers Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we abuse our I2 connection some on campus. shhhh. Don't tell anyone. We don't want it clogged with zombies.

  8. Re:Prices? on 164 Million Broadband Subscribers Worldwide · · Score: 3, Informative

    Internet 2 is for research facilities only. Universities don't want your zombie subnets chewing up their much needed bandwidth.

  9. Re:Dear Timothy on Zeta Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Truly, I do not see the point in getting all bent out of shape over some minor mistakes. Would your time have not been better spent doing some reflecting on the valuable parts of life? Like art, or history, or art history.

  10. Re:YRO? on School-Lunch Monitoring System for Parents · · Score: 1

    Little guy, get emancipated ASAP You spelled emaciated wrong.

  11. Re:Remake IV-VI? on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 1

    I made this comment when The Phantom Menace was released. Years ago. Then someone pointed out how the SE IV-Vi are totally fucked up. Han shot first. Stuff like that ruins them. Now imagine if they were to do it to the entirety of three movies. It wouldn't be anything like it was before.

  12. Re:Win 2k Is already ppc ported on The Scoop on the Xbox 360's Embedded OS? · · Score: 1

    I've got a copy of that beta somewhere in my MSDN library. I tossed it on one of our Alpha stations once when we were upgrading the engineering department. It ran very smoothly. I had a problem with trying to get drivers for my scsi adapter though and scraped it as the IT department webserver.

  13. Re:Force power on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 1

    According to star wars RPG all people of the skywalker bloodline start with the force sensitive feat. Han is essentiall force-blind, and only survives because of his skill combined with his luck. A light saber can be turned on and attempted to be used by anyone. A standard -4 penalty to all attacks for lack or proficency. To become proficient with a light saber, you need to be a force using class. You can take a 20 on attack rolls against non-moving objects such as a dead animal, however the pressure of combat is what gives you the -4 penalty, and for a lower level character, that -4 is basically like saying you can't hit shit. A common side rule in staw wars RPGA (due to rules outlined in the novels) is that any non force using class that rolls a natural 1 on their attack roll with a d20 is a critical miss that results in a mishap, similar to rolling a 1 with a poisoned weapon in D&D

  14. News flash on NetBSD Status Report January - March 2005 · · Score: 0

    It's dead. We...Think?

  15. Funtatsic! on Hitachi Goes Perpendicular · · Score: 1

    I felt like I was high wighout any drugs or side effects!!! Reminds me of school house rock, but it serves it's purpose. It explains a fairly complex concept to that the lay people can grasp it. Personally, I'll hold out for 30 gigs of flash memory. mmmm solid state.

  16. Re:I'm pissed. on Grand Theft Auto Led Teen to Kill · · Score: 1

    Despite the verdict of a trial, a judge also has the autority to just dismiss the case, though he can't just convict someone. That is, unless the defendant agrees to a bench trial.

  17. This just in... New Cure for cancer. on The Cure for Cancer Might be: HIV · · Score: 1

    Death! That's right folks, those who die are 100% of the time spontaneously cured of all forms of cancer. Research suggests that death may also be the answer to several other of lifes problems, including but not limited to, Valentine's Day depression!

  18. Re:but on Copyright Infringement and Shoplifting Contrasted · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure if you did shoplift in your underwear the jury would take pity on your "special" circumstances.

  19. Re:Other Schools... on Who Needs Harvard? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    oppertunity Is this highly skilled staff qualifed to teach grammar school?

  20. Re:Only 25 years? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Legalistically speaking, it isn't the jury's job to determine what the intended outcome was. That's a job for the district attorney. The jury is only supposed to determine whether or not a crime has been commited.

  21. I'm in college. on Linus Makes Business Week's Best Managers List · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll call in two orders for pizza for two of the buildings close to mine and steal one of the pizzas from the guy's car when s/he's delivering it to the other one. A pizza is a few bucks, and I'd feel much better about myself depriving someone of $8 (with student discount at pizza hut) than I would for several hundred, or possibly several thousand.

  22. Re:Can you blame them? I can't. on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 1

    Oh this isn't my area of knowledge. Why is our shuttle fleet grounded?

  23. Re:MailList: Used by Spammers? on Bringing Down A Copycat Site · · Score: 1

    Waoh, people don't kill people, improper restrictions for minors and video games kill people.

  24. Re:66.250.450.10 - www.demonoid.com on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    66.250.150.45 The other tards replying to it used shit like .045.

  25. Re:66.250.450.10 - www.demonoid.com on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    You can encode a lot more than 450 in eight bits if you use hex.