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  1. Re:It's NOT "fairly standard", it's for LINUX! on Google Releases Picasa for Linux · · Score: 1

    The word "kudos" makes me uneasy.

  2. Re:Again?? on Google to Distribute Online Video Ads · · Score: 1

    Fire up the block list, images have been there for awhile.

    It's up to each adsense account as to which type of ads to display.

    If you go to a site that starts loading video ads, ask them to go back to text only.

  3. Intelligence is in extra short supply today. on Google to Distribute Online Video Ads · · Score: 1

    Really... how many of these stupid "OMG NO VIDEO ON PAGE LOAD!" posts are there going to be?

    The second comment more than half an hour before this clears up the issue.

    I can understand the tons of AC's posting it just to be stupid, but real people with real ID's this dumb?

  4. Re:Careful Open Source! on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Microsoft is the woman and OpenSource is the man?

    But the link... oh snap!

    Microsoft and OpenSource are LESBIANS!

  5. Re:Yay! For the USA! on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    How do you think they come up with new terrorism suspects?

    Only people calling the al-queda hotline?

    Maybe... just maybe, this has ties to the warantless wiretapping.

  6. Re:Yay! For the USA! on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    So what % of freely criticizing the government are you willing to give up for a 0% increase in security?

    And you should speak in limits, not quantitative amounts. A limit would be, action your willing to permit, but nothing beyond that. That's not a numerical value.

  7. Re:Yay! For the USA! on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Paying for an improved means of communication doesn't make our right to speak freely any less of a right.

  8. Re:well... on How IBM Out-foxed Intel With The Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    For a system that goes for $400 + tax (which in NJ is about $24 at 6%) in a retail store $20 is not "well over the standard retail price".

  9. Re:well... on How IBM Out-foxed Intel With The Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    My response was to the ridiculously flawed statement of:

    "Which explains all the successful sales of X360 on ebay for well over the standard retail price. Consistently selling something for a price higher than what best buy charges sure seems to be indicative of demand. Demand, IIRC, is inextricably linked to the success of a product of this type."

    Where they had once been selling for crazy prices due to the lack of supply and had little to do with the success of the product.

    The next statement saying that there is now supply and no demand is due to the sight of them sitting in stores by the stacks. And while shortage is indeed tied to supply and demand, it generally only implies extremes.

    The whole of your statement cannot be refuted, seeing as is exudes logic.

  10. Re:well... on How IBM Out-foxed Intel With The Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Except there are no XBox 360's selling on e-bay for more than what you would have to pay for the system in the store.

    None with any bids that is.

    They were selling like that before there was a supply. Now that there's a supply, there's no demand.

  11. Re:Piracy? on Oklahoma Senate OKs Violent-Games Bill · · Score: 1

    Being unable to purchase games to play in their spare time to keep them occupied they'll be forced to roam the streets. Their easily impressionable minds will be fodder for the crafty pirate recruiters.

  12. Re:not a big deal at all. on Oklahoma Senate OKs Violent-Games Bill · · Score: 1

    The publishers are against this because the only likely outcome of this law will be an increase in piracy.

  13. Re:Blame it on the .com bust and hype on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 1

    "I always found that amusing because our whole society is based on technology and will always need people to run it."

    Lasers are high-tech and were a breakthrough in their time. The same with the microprocessor.

    A cashier at Shop-Rite, who operates this high technology, makes $7.00/hr

  14. Re:Patenting the Internet on Patent Firm Woos Inventors · · Score: 0

    "Jesus said to his disciples: "If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and by one" - Luke 22:36"

    See folks, even gods forget to proofread.

  15. Re:Too late on New Internet Regulation Proposed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not exactly false pretenses, the whitehouse guys said she has valid credentials and has attended numerous other press conferences.

    "Hadley said Wang was an accredited journalist who had attended White House events before "and had not raised a problem.""

    The disruption part was the only bad part. Although there's mention in another athat they are considering additional federal charges against her.

    "She was charged with disorderly conduct and could face additional federal charges, said service spokesman Eric Zahren."

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/21/bush.china/ index.html

  16. Re:Read whole parent tree on Going To Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    ARGH!

    I apologize to you good sir/madam.

    I was sidetracked by the whole: "Its the first time I've seen so many Macheads get so excited about running windows" bit that I hadn't digested the " (or windows applications)." part.

    Too bad, that was pretty funny.

    I'll just pretend that I'm right and reality is wrong.

  17. Re:We Must Not Allow a University Cannon Gap! on MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon · · Score: 1

    HUZZAH!
    HUZZAH!
    HUZZAH!

  18. Re:Why the excitment... on Going To Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    Co-worker: Hey SuperKendall, why didn't you come to the meeting? Didn't you get the notification?

    SK: Oh snap! I forgot, let me reboot to check my email really quick. I was just daydreaming about how great I am.

  19. Re:What are the entry requirements? on Hacker Boot Camp · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about the exceedingly slow save program?

    I want to make sure that whenever I save a file it goes extremely slowly and show's me every percent along the way.

    Oh, and it has to flash every bit of data on screen as it saves. I'm sure it'll work out some sort of proper layout too.

    Otherwise, how would I know it's actually saving the proper data?

  20. Re:Oh? You want a book? on Beginning Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    First thing my girlfriend said too...

    Well first was "Where are all my files?" since we setup dual boot. But the web was good and helped her map her ntfs drives in a couple minutes. Then xmms was installed and all was well.

    She thinks apt-get is the hottest thing alive right now.

  21. Re:Using Ubuntu on Beginning Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm in the same boat. I just Ubuntu on yesterday after switching over my girlfriend a week ago. I used her as my guinnea pig.

    She isn't incredibly computer literate and she enjoys it so far.

    I enjoy it too. Very easy to use sets up nicely off the bat.

    ubuntuforums.org and ubuntuguide.org are mandatory references.

    Also, on the coincidence side of things, I just bought this book today for my girlfriend. She prefers the dead tree stuff to online references.

  22. Re:Sims and GTA on When Virtual Worlds Collide · · Score: 1

    I think you look into the telescope until the aliens come, and then you hire them to take over the army base.

    Hope they have the KillSoldiers Gold Badge.

  23. Re:The Supreme Court takes a step forward. on Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obscenity Case · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think you're confusing Conservative with Republican.

    Current Republicans in power are not Conservative on government issues, which is what this case deals with.

    I'm sure you'll find the Republican administration not happy with the Conservative Supreme Courts decision.

  24. Re:Boys who cried wolf on Chinese Bloggers Stage Hoax · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of what you're implying.

    Either you're saying that since other governments are bad, the Chinese must be good.

    Or just taking a pot shot at US government.

    Oh and you take it out of context by not adding the mounds of proven factual evidence of chinese corruption... errr I mean Iraq buying WMD's.

  25. Re:Guns or butter? Bush chooses guns. on U.S. Satellite Programs in Jeopardy of Collapse · · Score: 1

    Umm... that's the point he was making, that the US shouldn't have invaded in the first place.

    Oh wait I forgot, all Americans are dumb.