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  1. Authority? on WSIS to Consider Internet Governance Under U.N. · · Score: 1

    If the UN decided to take control of ICANN, do they really have the authority to do it? How can they do it?

  2. Re:Unbelievable... on Galileo System To Include Jamming Capability · · Score: 1

    It's not like one of the Galileo countries has threated to nuke the United States recently. Wait a minute, one of them has.

  3. Re:Is this a good thing? on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 1

    Do the deaf get a 50% discount as well?

  4. Re:hmmm... on China Releases Cyber Dissident · · Score: 1

    And where does the other statistic come from? The Chinese government?

  5. Re:Here's hoping on ITU Meeting May Decide Governance of the Net · · Score: 1

    So would this site be forced to be slashdot.org.us?

  6. Re:who can stop this? on Congress Expands FBI Powers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It appears as though armed rebellion is a right enshrined in the constituition.

    Tell that to Lincoln.

  7. Re:All Hail... on ITU Meeting May Decide Governance of the Net · · Score: 0, Interesting
    ICANN has managed to mismanage just about every aspect of the Internet, and has been too busy trying to keep itself in power and settle internal squabbles to worry about how their policies actually affect the modern Internet in the real, modern world.

    Sounds a whole lot like how the UN works.

  8. Re:Where to spend school dollars... on Texas High School Gets iBooks · · Score: 1

    But hey, you get an iBook to play with! My mother is a teacher in Poteet and is very envious of you teachers in the "rich" Pleasanton ISD getting your iBooks.

  9. Re:WHa on Texas High School Gets iBooks · · Score: 1

    The cost advantage of Windoze machines would completely disappear the first time an email virus strikes all of the machines on campus.

  10. Re:Won't Somebody Think of the Children? on Texas High School Gets iBooks · · Score: 1

    Have you even been to Texas?

  11. Re:But still they don't get it on E-Bombs: Technology Update · · Score: 1
    Brilliant! I guess there is no longer a need for Navies or Air Forces, since all future enemies will be guy with rifles or truck bombs.

  12. Re:Nice name... on E-Bombs: Technology Update · · Score: 1

    i-bomb? Is that an Apple product?

  13. Apple? on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So does this include OS X? That should be an interesting fight.

  14. Re:ugh on China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD · · Score: 1

    Actually, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Taiwanese movie.

  15. Re:For the time being. on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 0

    Or we can wait a couple billion years and let the Sun expand to Earth's orbit.

  16. Re:Why oh why on Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Actually, the word they use is 'elitist'

  17. X11 on Jag? on MacGimp Reviewed, Available For Easy Download · · Score: 1

    Of course, it seems that Apple has removed the version of X11 for pre-Panther OS X computers, so you'll either have to compile it yourself or buy Panther.

  18. Re:Not a US citizen on GameSpy Sends DMCA-Based C&D To Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    Maybe King Koopa will pardon him.

  19. Re:5-0 ? on Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier · · Score: 1

    And 535 members of Congress who make those laws. And thousands more that are responsible for state and local laws. What's your point?

  20. Re:Guys, Don't worry on Imagine A UN-Run Internet · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that, under Chinese pressure, the DNS servers would not be allowed to resolve any of the .tw domains.

  21. Flamebait? on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1, Funny

    So how do I moderate a CNet article as (-1, Flamebait)?

  22. Re:makes you wonder... on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 2, Funny

    If we had only ratified Kyoto!

  23. Re:Hehe on Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they are just trying to cash in on the fact that IE will automatically try to download the Flash plugin.

  24. Re:President Bush says... on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 1
    And of course, the next day, Hu Jintao asks the Australian Parliament to help him "secure" the freedom of the Taiwanese people.

    Oct. 23, 2003

  25. Re:Suing themselves on Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons" · · Score: 1

    The rule has probably been instituted because Fox runs so many damned advertisements on the bottom of the screens during the shows.