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  1. Re:Not so fast.... on QuarkXPress 6 For Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Funny

    What did you eat for lunch?

  2. Re:Plot? on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1
    I just wonder if, in this sequel, the humans will be looking for some Weapons of Mass Destruction.....

    IIRC, in the sequel "V-The Final Battle" humans defeated the Visitors with biological weapons.

  3. Re:Woz is a good man on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][ · · Score: 1

    Dont forget that your Pentium or Athlon has probably a better design than that old 6502. In such that there ever was a 2400 mhz 6502, it would probably be quite a bit slower than any modern processor.

  4. Re:mmm.... on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 1

    one should always have a Remington 870 as back up... you know, for close encounters. either that or just use harsh language. :)

  5. Re:How is this piracy? on DMCA Vs. The Sewing Underground · · Score: 1

    Or sell your car. (I'm sure there's plenty of patented stuff in one)

  6. what wrong with the original? on Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is there something wrong with the current system? Why not let individual countries decide how they want to have their addresses represented?

  7. Re:Good! Why do 'we' always have to be first? on Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006? · · Score: 1

    Although you provided an explanation why the Chinese attacked UN forces, you still cannot dispute that it was indeed a Chinese attack upon Western nations.

  8. Re:Good! Why do 'we' always have to be first? on Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006? · · Score: 1
    China has never attacked a Western nation

    Do you remember the Korean War?

  9. Re:Oooo, those evil capitalists! on Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    Yes, it should say that the U.S. donated 30% of it's IP addresses to other countries. :)

  10. hmm... on Buying Computing by the Computon · · Score: 1
    Remember when HP actually did cool stuff? Stuff that actually took real R&D?

    Now they are trying to position themselves as a "services" company. That's just pathetic.

  11. Re:GSM vs CDMA on Slashback: GSM, Buffy, Wobble · · Score: 1
    The main reason ATT switched from TDMA to GSM is because GSM has more timeslots per frequency compared to TDMA. It's a lot cheaper to buy a base station than can cram more calls per freqency than actually putting up new towers.

    CDMA2000 networks are also a heck of a lot easier to deploy than WCDMA ones, since CDMA2000 base stations are backward compatable with CDMA(IS-95) phones, and vice versa. To deploy WCMA, which is not backward compatibale with GSM, an operator has to either use new frequencies (not exactly cheap), or use their currently-used-by-GSM frequencies. (and reduce the capacity for people with legacy phones)

    That's why you soon see a lot of GSM carriers going with EDGE in the near future, which should have better data rates than CDMA1X. (on paper, once you get in the field, all bets are off)

  12. new? on The Searchable Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Haven't Experian and all those other credit report asswipes been doing this for years?

  13. Re:Oh No! Romero! on E3 - John Romero's Newest FPS, Via N-Gage · · Score: 2, Funny
    A log? What?

    That would be software for Microsoft's iLoo

  14. Re:Have old bills? on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    When I was travelling to Taiwan earlier this year, the banks there would just give you more for the new twentys than for the old ones.

  15. Re:What's the Point?? on TiVo For Radio? · · Score: 1

    I thought the whole point of Payola was that the music was advertisement for the recording industry.

  16. Re:So on Porting Unix Command-Line Tools to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Because they'd have to provide support for the programs?

  17. Re:The Toshiba Box: RD-X2 on TiVo Basic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, with TyTool and now the very niceTyStudio, resourceful TiVo hackers have been extracting video and burning it on a DVDs for a while now. (DirecTivo users can even get DD 5.1 sound)

  18. Re:AND the AAC files are locked to YOUR Macs on Apple Sells A Million Songs in Debut Week · · Score: 1
    And uses up an awful lot of plastic, too.

    You can just use a CD-RW over and over.

  19. Re:Problems with service- Makes me feel dirty on Review of iTunes Music Store · · Score: 1

    so is there a sales tax on souls?

  20. Re:Guns and checked baggage on Wireless Computing and Airplanes? · · Score: 1

    ...and most importantly, the gun cannot be loaded. :)

  21. Laptops/PDAs/Cell Phones in checked baggage on Wireless Computing and Airplanes? · · Score: 5, Interesting
    So are the airlines going to start taking responsibility for checked baggage?

    There is no way in hell I am going to check a laptop. Last year, one of the baggage handlers at LAX broke open my bag and stole some stuff out of it. American Airlines basically told me "Too bad."

  22. Re:w00t! on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have no delusions that we are gonna win this in the end. I am just happy it won't be a shutout.:)

  23. w00t! on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Well, we got one win.

    Score: Common Sense 1, RIAA/MPAA 50

  24. huh? on Cisco Support for Lawful Intercept In IP Networks · · Score: 1

    Didn't already support this on their routers sold in China?

  25. Re:How long could an Xboxen version take? on Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics · · Score: 1

    Of course MS might "convince" to sit on the Windows/Linux/OSX version for a while like Bungie did with Halo.