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  1. Re:XBox CPU? on Are three cores better than two? · · Score: 1

    1 is NOT a prime number

    Isn't it? What divides 1? only itself, (and, by simple identity) 1. Seems to fit the definition of prime really well.

  2. Re:I don't get it on Car Paint Changes With Temperature · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, for when the US is involved in actions that push from the arctic through a jungle to the middle east without stopping...

  3. Re:Software Patents... on Free Software Foundation Begins Rewriting the GPL · · Score: 1

    Software patents?

  4. Re:Try outlook web access... on Linux Desktop Email Key to Success · · Score: 2, Informative

    Holy shit you're right.

    Check out his post history, they're all "look at this great thing that microsoft makes"

    Astroturfing is worse than ads above the pisser

  5. Re:Full of hot air on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    Assuming you run around the internet for hours trying to dig up the precise driver for your piece of hardware, or else windows won't recognize it, then when you do find it you realize that you're in canada, so it's not REALLY the right driver. And you're looking for an ethernet driver so you have to do it all at a friends' house... etc.

    What I think is one of linux's most powerful features is that almost all hardware that *IS* supported comes with the kernel

  6. Grr... on Venus at Peak of Brightness · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad I live in the north west... I never get to see anything in the sky that isn't water.

  7. Re:IVR Guide on Get Out of Voice Menu Pergatory · · Score: 2, Informative

    well, technically speaking you have an accent as well. I could probably notice it on you (unless you're western Canadian).

    The systems are set up though to only deal with the broadcast standard accent, which I think is the problem.

  8. Re:Selling The Hook on Microsoft Loses $126 Per Unit on XBox 360 · · Score: 1

    I dunno...

    I'll never buy a sony CD again, but a ps3 is fair game. I still hate MS way more than i hate sony

  9. Re:How to avoid bad games? on How Not To Buy Crap Games This Season · · Score: 1

    Don't be a lemming.

    Or do, because that game was awesome.

  10. Re:No need to ask on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    But if the entirety of the first sample was compromised (it can happen), then all subsequent tests would show up as false positives as well

  11. Re:great... on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    See, now... a boycott only works if you originally bought the product in the first place...

    I'm 100% positive that Sony/BMG doesn't care if pirates boycott their product, because the "boycott" was on well before they did anything (well, other than charge 20$ for a CD... wtf's up with that?)

    FWIW, I boycotted RIAA labels a long time ago, but not because i thought they were doing anything wrong, but more because I like indie bands anyways.

  12. Re:great... on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quite the opposite, actually.

    If it rates them high, it means it does a pretty good job of guessing at what kind of tripe the masses'll buy up, which is my understanding of what it's supposed to do

  13. Re:Clueless! on Google Searches Used in Murder Trial? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, it's the perfect time for it... you don't drag your spouses credit rating down with yours, and you don't fold your debts in to theirs either

  14. Re:DRM on Open Source Forming a Dot Com Bubble? · · Score: 1

    On the subject of "trusted" computing, I'm curious as to how long it'll take an enterprising hacker with a microscope to figgure out the hardware shielded master key.

    Really, i could be wrong, but in my mind it'd be time consuming and eye straining, but not all that hard, since every gate is etched on to a piece of glass

  15. Re:Death of Doom3 on Half-Life 2 Taken Seriously · · Score: 1

    i dunno, i didn't find quake4 too overly dark... dark, yes, but not too bad

  16. Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... on OMG Girlz Don't Exist On Teh Intarweb! · · Score: 1

    You FOOL!

    Do not teach your woman to use the ethereal, before you know it she'll be finding out what pr0n you search, and listening in on your IM conversations...

    Ignorance is bliss... just not *my* ignorance

  17. Re:And the point is.. on Microsoft Plans Deliberate Xbox 360 Shortage · · Score: 1

    Although it does have a monopoly on the Xbox360 market...

  18. Re:Don't own an Xbox on Microsoft Plans Deliberate Xbox 360 Shortage · · Score: 1

    you can always get used... all the 360 migraters will dump their old xbox

  19. Re:Silly on Open-Source Insurance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah you can...

    There are only a limited number of ways of solving certain problems, so if entire functions look pretty much the same, it wouldn't be too surprising (unless comments are the same too... then it's fishy)

  20. 64-bit clean on Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    For the love of god work on an amd64 port!!

    The ONE feature I want out of OO.o is the ability to compile it in a 64 bit environment. Everything about 1.1.4 is perfect, except that I can't compile it

  21. Re:Only Chat room users affected? on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 1

    It's a kernel option. Also, a gentoo use flag (multilib)

    Saves a tiny bit of harddrive space, but more to the point, i'm sure of what i'm running

  22. Re:Only Chat room users affected? on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 1

    Especially linux on amd64 without emul ia32 turned on, like my computer... I can't even run a good chunk of *linux* binaries, let alone binary code for an *entirely* different platform (win32)

  23. Re:Non sequitur on Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone have such problems with radiocarbon dating?

    Theological concerns. If C14 dating is correct, then the earth is older than 6000 years ago, and it would anger the sky wizard to have errors poked in a book some guy wrote.

  24. Re:Amazing on Yahoo and Microsoft to Merge Instant Messengers · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that disqualify it from being the "single IM protocol" then?

  25. I call bullshit on Anxiety Disorders Discoverable by Blood Test · · Score: 1

    "The team has also set their sights on depression, hoping for a similar technique to detect these types of disorders as well."

    NaCl present in blood, it must be depression