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  1. Re:A pocket notepad on Best PDA for College? · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing your wrong link wasn't to fetish donkey porn. That might have been embarassing. :)

  2. Re:Self-Destruct? Not likely on Blu-Ray to Include New Copy Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even worse: what about when hackers can start sending these self destruct packets themselves. Imagine how pissed you'd be when someone "destroys" your dvd player!

  3. Re:Difference. on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    DRM meals.. Will those leave as bad a taste in my mouth as DRM music current does?

  4. Re:And for a dollar more on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    ..because they're college kids.

    They're going to get it for free if they can.

    But I don't even really see the point if you don't have a _real_ book. I use a computer all day, and I don't want ot have to stare at one to study, even though it'd make my load a lot lighter..

  5. To consumers.. on MS Gets $7 Million From Spammer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    asserting that he had sent, or helped other spammers send, billions of e-mail messages to consumers

    At first I was wondering why Microsoft gets the money, and whether they would keep it. What's the basis for this suit? It's not a class action, is it? Shouldn't the money be going to those consumers that were affected by it?

    Granted the article mentions
    Smith said that Microsoft will reinvest all of the money, after legal expenses, including $5 million that will go to increase Internet enforcement efforts and expand technical and investigative support to help law enforcers to address computer-related crimes.

    But what does that really mean?

  6. Re:Go wireless! on How Many Wireless Technologies Can We Handle? · · Score: 1

    What kind of geek are you if you can't stop your laptop from connecting to a wireless network?

  7. Re:The robot is all thumbs. on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: 1

    Assuming you mean something like a jigsaw puzzle, I'd say that's a valid example. While it's not hard to deal with or overcome, it is involved. wrt the robot, once you've figured out how to do the math for one bit, adding another doesn't make it more difficult, just more complicated--the bookwork is the only challenge (which I attribute to complication rather than difficulty)

  8. Re:In other news... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    mmm freedom penguins..

  9. Re:Shuttle on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 1

    too soon!

  10. Re:The robot is all thumbs. on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: 1

    Not everything that's complicated is difficult..

  11. Re:Small flaw in the argument... on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Windows ME!!

  12. Re:Newegg: Lots of Problems & Been Censored on E-commerce Sites Edit Customer Reviews · · Score: 1

    The thing is though, that's a complaint with Newegg itself. The purpose of the reviews are for comments about the actual product. Customer service may vary, but the product is what's important. I don't really care if it took you two weeks to get something and it was the wrong part, I care that the new harddrive I bought is loud and runs hot.

  13. Re:How are they going to control commerce? on The Commercial Future of Torrrents · · Score: 1

    IIRC, trackers can deny a bittorrent client access. I know for some, you're forced to register before you can actually start downloading, even once you have the *.torrent file.

  14. Re:You have buttons on your desktop? on Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott · · Score: 1

    man, I wish I had a mod point to waste. great brevity.

  15. Re:Where is the Stop button (Red X) on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 1

    rtfa:

    "The stop and refresh buttons are combined into a single button that is logically separate from back and forward. The button is "cancel" while a page is loading, and "refresh" when the page is done loading. There's no need to clutter the screen with more buttons."

  16. Re:IMAP? on Transferring Mail from AOL? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Although this is a little OT, the app says it doesn't have support for outlook pst files, but does for thunderbird. IIRC, thunderbird can import pst files, so outlook-->thunderbird-->gmail may work for those who want to go outlook->gmail.

  17. Re:Advantages of SMS on E-mail Is For Old People · · Score: 1

    Funny, I was pretty sure he meant using AIM instead of calling someone.

  18. Spam mob? on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    Any chance there's some sort of Russian Spam mob going on? If these guys are in "business" it's probably lucrative enough for them to be so hated. Perhaps one spam boss wanted all the business?

    It seems ridiculous, but it's the first thing that came into my head.

  19. Re:Clutter on Yahoo Purchases Konfabulator · · Score: 1

    That's so weird.

  20. Re:Why the deviance? on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 5, Informative

    from the wikipedia link:

    "When all known forces acting on the spacecraft are taken into consideration, a very small but unexplained force remains. It causes a constant sunwards acceleration of (8.74 ± 1.33) × 10^-10 m/s2 for both spacecraft.

    ...

    "Data from the Galileo and Ulysses spacecraft are also indicative of a similar effect, although for various reasons (such as their relative proximity to the Sun) firm conclusions cannot be drawn from these sources."

  21. Re:"Financial engineers??" on Calculating the True Worth of Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    definition: design systems to fuck you out of your money

    So that's where hookers come from!

  22. Re:Less is not more? on Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs · · Score: 1

    Yah, but so is anything pretty much anything faster than a 1Ghz PIII + 512mb ram. Anyway, I was just refuting the price, not the viability of the solution.

  23. Re:Less is not more? on Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even considering brother post.. 30" cinema displays are 3k each commercially, and the base price of a dual 2.7g5 is 3k. I'd say 9k + some options would get you well over 10k.

  24. Re:pfft on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I'm a message, you insensitive clod!

  25. Re:isn't that scopring reverse? on Rate Your IM Popularity · · Score: 1

    But the guy with only 6 people is obviously more exclusive and thus knowing him is more valueable.

    or a loser?