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  1. Re:I Took it For a Spin on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1
    I recommend you not to recommend software you don't use yourself.
    That sounds nice, but as with all sweeping statements there are exceptions. For example I don't use Linux, but if someone asked me what OS they should use for their basic home-made server I would recommend they look into Linux (as opposed to Windows).
  2. Re:Looks nice on Google Weather Service And GMail Improvements · · Score: 1

    No. Just about the only specific temperatures people care about in their daily lives is when rain turns to snow and ice. Using Celcius is very convenient -- if the temp is negative, it's freezing, if it's positive, it's not. With Fahrenheit positive/negative is meaningless and water freezes at a seemingly random 32 degrees.

  3. Re:Right... on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's time you move out of your grandmother's house so you and your wife can have your own place.

  4. DSL? on Always-On Internet For Cheapskates? · · Score: 1

    Around here, the cable ISP is $45 or so but we also have Verizon DSL which is considerably slower and only $30/month (assuming you have a landline already). What's your per month price limit, anyway?

  5. Re:Universities should work with Cell Provider on College Students Turn Away From Landlines · · Score: 1
    Also, a cell phone company would love the contract to be the sole supplier to a college campus.
    That would be impossible. Students could still purchase a phone with any other provider in the area.
  6. Spoofed emails on eBay Begins A Change · · Score: 3, Insightful
    After all, who is 'spoofed' more than ebay?
    Uh, how about PayPal?
  7. Re:Aren't SEO unethical on Climbing up the Search Ladder · · Score: 1

    Since when is business ethical?

  8. Re:Looked up some historical links... on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton · · Score: 1
    Screenshot of Tim-Berner Lee's web browser/editor gizmo
    Note the "fetish" link in the HotWired window. Porn was on the web before TBL even finished creating it.
  9. Re:Betamax? on The Lost 1984 Mac Video · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hot and wet is great when you're with a lady
    +1 Informative

  10. Re:Judging by other Bush Admin decisions... on Should Taxpayers Pay Twice For Weather Data? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Touché. I'm going to continue vomitting and wishing I lived elsewhere.

  11. Re:Judging by other Bush Admin decisions... on Should Taxpayers Pay Twice For Weather Data? · · Score: -1
    Well, now-adays it's rarely "classified" it's just "sensitive." You see, sensitive doesn't have any accountability.
    Um, nothing has any accountability in this administration. Bush has awarded medals to people who came up with false reasons for us to go to war. Nobody has lost their job for things that would get you fired immediate in the business world (and probably many other countries' governments).
  12. Re:External drive for Mac Mini? on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    Just find a firewire case (available at newegg.com and most online computer shops) and you drop any hard drive into it.

  13. Knoppix website on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 2, Informative
    It may not be the official homepage, but it's the best one I've found. Knoppix.net

    I recommend downloading it via bit torrent here.

  14. Re:Map of usenet on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1
    Try the copy on UK Google Groups, which looks much better. Hopefully Google won't alter the link automatically (they now change google.com to google.co.uk in the UK).
    How do you know it looks better if you can't see the .com version>
  15. Re:Repaid already? on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 1
    Sometimes the united states act like idiots. This little war their embarking on is one of those times. I'm going to get modded down by patriotic americans
    It's disgusting how the societal definition of 'patriot' has changed in the last few years in the U.S. It used to mean one who loves, supports, and defends one's country. But now it means someone who supports whatever the U.S. does, even if it goes against basic American ideals of (civil) freedom. It's patriotic to hate terrorists and give up your privacy so that the authorities can find them. It's unpatriotic to denounce the war on terror for the sake of protecting our own civil liberties. I love my country and I want to make it better, but many of my wishes are opposed by so-called patriots. I don't want to go to war, I don't want our soldiers killing civilians, and I want U.S. citizens to have full freedoms of speech and privacy.
  16. Re:Ken is smart on Ken Jennings Gets a New Challenge · · Score: 1

    The Mormon church already takes a huge chunk of his earnings. They made a cool $200,000 from his initial run on the show. That money would be much better spent on, as you mentioned, the ACLU or cancer research.

  17. Re:So what happens if reaches 100%? on 2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again · · Score: 1
    What happens if is eventually determined that this thing will land in central Asia or Africa - will unaffected countries still be willing to pick up the tab?
    It's a sad reflection of our society when we have to wonder if rich countries will spend some money to prevent millions (billions?) of deaths in a poor country.
  18. Re:This is Geek news? on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 1

    I don't mean to downplay the earthquake, but people died on 9/11 at the hands of terrorists while people died on 12/26/04 at the hands of nature. One was preventable, the other one wasn't. One was man-vs-man, the other was nature-vs-man. Apples and oranges.

  19. Re:Not many women use Google on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but she wasn't very active in 2004. The other people on the list were in movies or released CDs this year. AFAIK she didn't come out with a new Playboy spread or anything like that.

  20. Not many women use Google on 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist · · Score: 1
    Or at least they're not very horny.

    The top 4 queries are women's names. The first guy (Orlando Bloom, who was in LOTR) appears after the fifth woman (Carmen Electra, and I don't even know what she did this year that would draw so many searches).

  21. Re:iPod is to Apple as on Latest "iPod Killer" Takes Aim at the Mini · · Score: 1

    People still buy Walkmans?

  22. How will they track him down? on Apple Subpoenas, Sues Over Leaks · · Score: 3, Funny
    The subpoenas are related to a lawsuit against an unnamed individual who leaked the information.
    How are they going to find him if he doesn't have a name!?
  23. Re:Specialized earplugs? on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 1

    Just stop wearing earplugs altogether. Eventually the tinnitus will drown out all noise.

  24. Re:wall st on Sprint Close to Buying Nextel · · Score: 5, Funny
    the combined company, to be called "Sprint-Nextel"
    Darn, I was hoping for Sprixtel, or Nextint, or maybe Sextel.
  25. Virgin Mobile on Sprint Close to Buying Nextel · · Score: 1

    What will become of Virgin Mobile, which uses Sprint's network? Hopefully it will stay the same at worst or add Nextel's network at best.