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  1. Re:1984 was a work of fiction. on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 1

    There is some small loss of privacy associated with living in any society. Have you ever lived with roomates? You are free to move to an isolated cabin in the woods of West Virginia and live without electricity, television, driver license, or whatever other innovation you may fear. I'm just not uncomfortable with the level privacy I have now. Of course, I'm not doing anything illegal either, so I don't care who sees what I'm doing.

  2. 1984 was a work of fiction. on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 1

    Sorry to ruin everyone's paranoid, delusional fantasies. The next time somebody uses 1984 in an argument about our eroding rights and privacy please remind them of this.

  3. Just playing devil's advocate... on Can Newspapers Save Local Music? · · Score: 1

    Could it be that local bands can afford to share a few songs since it is very unlikely that many people have ripped their entire CD. This being the case, the listener must buy the CD to hear any more songs.

  4. There is a bad joke in there somewhere. on Peercast: Peer-to-Peer Streaming · · Score: 0, Troll

    Streaming golden showers from pee-er to pee-er. Hmm... I'll work on it.

  5. The 'dumber' demographic on Mac Users May Be Smarter · · Score: 1

    Apple is trying to win over the 'dumber' demographic. Evidence: they gave away a Mac on the Price is Right last night.

  6. The moral of the story... on MPAA Goes After Its Customers · · Score: 1

    Be a leech. It's just as illegal, but they won't try to catch you. Of course, that is a good way to kill a P2P network. What would be really scary is prosecuting the downloaders. If the ISP won't cooperate they could just go after people buying spindles of 100 CD-Rs. If you're really paranoid, don't fill out that rebate form. It might just be used as evidence.

  7. Re:Robots on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions · · Score: 1

    I would rather see real autonomous robots doing battle. I would also like to see them change the name of the current show to remote-controlled car wars.

  8. Re:Yeah, no murders ever before video games. on Slashback: Stapler, Interface, Gaming · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pong is still a gateway game. After Pong I started playing table tennis. Thank god my parents intervened after I experimented with raquetball.

  9. Re:God help them... on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The rumor is that SourceSafe is a popular project to break-in the new hires. My personal experience with SS has made me very thankful for tape backups.

  10. God help them... on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    if they are using SourceSafe.

  11. If you can't access the IOP on A More In Depth Look at PS/2 Linux · · Score: 1

    then you can't have sound, or access the controllers. How can you make a game like this?

  12. Re:Klein's bottle on Mathematical Lego Sculptures · · Score: 1

    The klein bottle cannot be embedded into 3 dimensional space. These legos and the models people sell are not real klein bottles.

  13. Re:Meet and Greet on Atari's 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Be sure to also stop by the New Mexico burial site of those ET cartridges

  14. First transporters, now this... on Wi-Fi Communicators For the Real World · · Score: 1

    I'm working on a real tricorder. I'll submit the story when it's finished.

  15. Why Indrema really failed... on No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders · · Score: 1

    No market for mod chips.

  16. Re:Mod chips... *shudder* on No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders · · Score: 1

    Actually, an unmodded Dreamcast will play CD-R copies.

  17. Don't mod the X-box... on No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders · · Score: 1

    Just port Halo to the PC.

  18. Let the wayback machine archive it on Finding Mirrors for the evolt Browser Archive? · · Score: 1

    and you wont have to do anything anymore.

  19. Gimme more on XBox + UltimateTV for $500 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Add in a microwave oven and you've got a deal.

  20. Re:question 4 on Ransom Love's Answers About UnitedLinux · · Score: 1

    QUESTION 4 It seems to me that a group like UnitedLinux could bring a lot of commercial development to the Linux platform. Are there any efforts to bring companies who have so far neglected developing for Linux due to support costs, like most hardware venders, into UnitedLinux?

  21. Missing some math books on General IT Books? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about: "Numerical Analysis" Burden and Faires "Computational Geometry" deBerg, et. al. "Matrix Computations" Golub, van Loan

  22. Re:Cel Tweening.... on Disney Switches To Linux For Animation · · Score: 1

    Source is "The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Imaging" by Isaac Victor Kerlow (Director of New Technology at The Walt Disney Company). The Black Cauldron sequence is a short simulation of a "flying visible light source", not as long as the chase scene in The Great Mouse Detective.

  23. Re:Cel Tweening.... on Disney Switches To Linux For Animation · · Score: 1

    The first Disney film with any cg effects was "The Black Cauldron" in 1985. The last Disney film to use hand-inked cels was "The Little Mermaid" in 1989.

    Didn't take long, did it?

  24. Re:yeah but.. on AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you brought that up...
    Did anyone find the Dilbert series to be funny AT ALL? They could have at least tried.

  25. Forget this.... on IMSAI Series Two · · Score: 1

    Tell me when I can buy the WOPR.