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  1. Re:I wonder... on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    A day's pay for everybody at the factory amounts to only a few hundred bucks?

  2. Re:R.E.S.P.E.C.T. on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 1

    Let's stay on topic and remind everybody of the 30-80 million Chinese killed by Mao.

  3. Re:Hmm on Price Drops For Mac mini Upgrades · · Score: 1
    And how long do you expect to keep a $500 machine? For that price even computers are easily disposable.

    And it won't take up a lot of room in the back of your closet!

  4. Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban. on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I meant to say the late 1970s, not "late 1970".

  5. Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban. on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, in the 1970's neither country was particulary friendly with the Chinese. Remember that the Chinese attacked Vietnam in the late 1970?

  6. Re:Just business on US ISP Terminates Iranian News Website · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I was thinking, it was just a business decision. Maybe they just didn't pay their bills.

  7. Re:Partner? Why? on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    So what answer do you think you would get if you asked the Taiwanese or the Japanese?

  8. Re:Michael Powell is the son of Colin Powell on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    I hear the two of them will be starring in a new sitcom this fall!

  9. Re:Worst on Monitor Basics - LCD vs. CRT · · Score: 1

    How about "Dropping like metal spheres off the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa"?

  10. Re:This would hurt EA on Take Two in Talks with Major League Baseball · · Score: 2, Informative
    They would need an exclusive deal with the MLB Player's Association to keep EA from using real player names.

    A deal with MLB would just prevent them from using the Team names. Anybody remember Tecmo Baseball on the NES?

  11. BT on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does this infringe on British Telecom's hypertext patent from the eighties? :)

  12. Re:Ping times. / more interestingly on US Air Force Building Space Router · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course alien networks work just like ours. Haven't you seen Independence Day?

  13. Re:jumbo jets vs regional ones on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1
    Actually, the Wright Amendment protected (past tense) DFW. The airport is 30 years old, there is no need for this law. But everytime there is talk of repealing it, AA finds the right congressmen to "convince" that it's still needed.

    (And, as always, DFW and the city of Ft. Worth are American Airline's bitches)

  14. Re:Can we run servers yet? on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    I have a dynamic address from Comcast, and the IP address has not changed in over a year. (Since I moved)

  15. Re:jumbo jets vs regional ones on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 2, Informative
    We have a few regional carriers that make money. It's just the government still wants to subsidize the big, bloated carriers.

    For instance, The U.S. government has a law (The Wright Amendment) to protect the American Ailines from competition with Southwest.

  16. Re:Right, but .... on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it was doomed because it just didn't make any money.

  17. Re:Well... on Fantastic Four Teaser Trailer · · Score: -1

    And don't forget about the TV version, The Shield.

  18. Re:Dupe... on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you heard the rumors about the iPhoto that can display photos?

  19. Re:Premature post-mortem? on N-Gage No Longer Relevant · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, Nokia just eliminated a bunch of the people working on N-Gage stuff.

    They are about to pull the plug on the whole damn thing.

  20. Re:Imagine the reaction on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like the Kyoto treaty?

  21. Blackberry? on Has The "Technology Bounceback" Begun? · · Score: 1

    Didn't RIM just lose their lawsuit and are now prevented from selling any more Blackberry products in the U.S.?

  22. Re:What's next? on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In · · Score: 1

    Actually I was planning on suing GM because I bought some gasoline, and now I have to buy a car to use it!

  23. left out one adjective on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to replaced the incredibly dated Apple Works and incredibly expensive,bloated and slow MS Office.

  24. Gigabit ethernet? on Possible uses for Power over Ethernet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess it won't be compatible with gigabit over cat5e, since that uses all eight wires.

  25. Re:From TFA on Virtual Island Sells For $26,500 · · Score: 1
    Without anything of real value behind the money it has value simply because people belive it to have value.

    This may be a little off-topic, but can't you say the same thing about gold? What real does it have?