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  1. It is a Tape Recorder on TiVo-like Application for XM Radio Under Fire · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well it works just like one. I think that they will have a hard time forcing him to shut it down. It is XM RADIO which still operates like radio! I fail to see why a judge would see to treat it differently from a regular radio and a tape recorder. Just because it MIGHT be used for mass distribution does not mean that it has.

  2. Re:There's a lot more on groklaw on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1

    Ah! That is probalbly what happened to "Kieren O'Shaughnessy". No wonder he thinks Linux does not exist!

  3. Re:Security? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    I don't that a limbless person has a significantly less chance than a person with all their limbs intack (at least when they get on the plane).

    If/When there is a crash of a major airliner. People are not going to be walking away. They are fooling themselves if they think that the safety equipment in the plane will save their life. Face it, if you are in a real crash, you are as good as dead and it is just an excuse to say that a limbless person will be in more danger than other passengers.

  4. Re:The reasons are easy on Real Feels iTunes Backlash · · Score: 1

    Damn them for treating us Mac users like second class citizens!

    Or worse, like a Windows user. The horror.

  5. Re:Garage tech and barriers to entry on Primer · · Score: 1

    If you were an entreprenuer or maybe took a business course you would know better.

    Small business account for most of the new innovations that are produced, not large budget research and development labs. I might not be able to build the next plane to compete with Boeing in my garage but there are plenty of great ideas that come out of the average person every year. Knowledge comes out of people's minds and a quirky or different way of looking at things. Not from the bottom of a big pile of cash.

  6. Re:Funny how... on FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The mideast cuts off people's appendages on TV

    They also make the US like pretty free and wild compared to how women are allowed to dress. Different strokes and all.

  7. Re:Specs in plain English on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 1

    I think that the question is,

    Are you or are you not, your own grandpa?

  8. Re:Best Support on Annual Customer Support Rankings · · Score: 1

    I sent an email to Darth Vader attempting to confirm your A++ support rating. He wrote back saying,

    Your lack of faith is disturbing...

  9. Re:Bounces on the line and kicks up chalk... on Is Sveasoft Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    I don't think that a software developer is the only person with the necessary skills to burn a CD. Even assuming that he was required to burn the first CD, any minimum wage person can burn copies of the originial.

  10. Math will be a sport... on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1

    When I see captain of the Math team kicking sand into the face of a non-jock and not getting the crap beat out of him I will believe that Math is a sport.

  11. What a Suprise on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 5, Funny

    My hair would turn grey too if I had to support 500 Windows users.

  12. Absolute Worst Experience on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

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    So one day I was told to build a couple of PC's at a client work site. I got these big speciality cases for servers but the only thing was that the power supply was not hooked up directly to the power switch. With 4 attachments and electricity I was kinda of reluctant to guess what I was supposed to do. So I called back to the office, and was basically told, "figure it out for yourself."

    So I hooked the connections up and turned the power on and *BOOM*. I guess the circuit blew up because of all power in that part of the room went out. Luckily it was after hours and the client was gone so I just went home. I got to the client site early the next day and pointed out innocently, "hey there is no power here, what is going on?"

    They said, thanks for catching that! Needless to say I never mentioned it at work ever.

  13. Re:What's your proof that women dig intelligence? on E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy · · Score: 1

    It was Einstien, that I recall, that started this trend of women being purely attracted to intelligence. The women flocked to him all the time, he was Hugh Heffner of the science world. All of this occurred before Playboy, at which point women just sold out to men with lots of money. So before, it was all about "EM^2" and then Heff ruined with those damn cute bunny outfits.

    DAMN YOU HEFF!

    /Sarcasm

  14. I hear on Spider-Man in India · · Score: 1

    That the first villian will the Man-Eating Cow from the The Tick. I am sure that Indians would love the irony of that sort of villian. Especially if all the people that he eats are Westerns, *YUMM*.

  15. Acquire? on The Return of the Sparrow Electric Vehicle? · · Score: 1

    having acquired the rights and tooling from Phoenix Environmental Motors

    I did not know you can acquire the rights to Ugly! Good design, yes, patents, yes, ugly, I don't think so, and this car is just ugly!

  16. Re:Easy way out on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 4, Funny

    Brings about an interesting "AH-HA" experience with consulting. Be prepared to address problems up front so that they cannot bring them up later. This is the best example I have heard of this,

    The wife is in bed and the man brings 2 aspirin and a glass water. The wife says, 'I don't have a headache!'

    I hope you get the idea now.

  17. Re:Yet meeting California emmissions will bk them on Cars To Be Assembled Atom By Atom · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Logic, Ok then, how about everytime they come up with a new regulation to improve fuel efficiency or reduce pollution from cars we get two reactions.
    • American manufacturers, spend millions in lobbying and advertising about how impossible it is to met these unrealistic regulations and big government is just interferring with a free market economy.
    • Japanese manufacturers, they the meet the regulations or improve on them.
    Seems logical to me, American manufacturers are better at whining than building cars. Maybe they are using that Nanotech to build the worlds smallest violin that people are always offering to play for them.
  18. Re:A Great Man on Marking 50 Years Since Alan Turing's Death · · Score: 1

    At least we know you went into CS because you want learn, you certainly did not go for the guys! :)

  19. Re:Slightly O/T, but... on Google's Ph.D. Advantage · · Score: 1

    They changed this probalby because having a PHD is not a valid job requirement for sweeping floors or making burgers. It is a great way to lose a couple million in discrimination lawsuits.

  20. Re:Dear Lord... on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    Yeah but they have not got anything on my "Jelly and Peanut Butter Sandwich!" Patent Pending.

  21. Re:Missing the point? on The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Management: That looks good but can you use a pie chart instead? I just get whoozy looking at it...

  22. Re:Relative failure of new TLD's on Berners-Lee on the TLD Explosion · · Score: 1

    Talk about a catch-22. Alternate domains cannot get any official recognition so only those shady companies get a URL with them. Because they only get shady companies working with them, noone wants to recognize them in a more official capacity! That just sucks and I call BS.

    .COM, .NET, and .ORG are most recognized because they are the easiest to get started with and everyone remembers those three. If you do not let someone else have a legitmate interest in starting a officially recognized TDL, it is just a naming monopoly and noone can generate an official recognition. It is the same argument people use when you try to convince people to use Linux and it is just silly.

  23. Re:Burn a cd? on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Then how are you going to install the other-half of the Service Pack? Joking aside, the number of patches and tools that you can put on a USB Drive(256 MB, last I heard) is always being dwarfed by bigger and bigger installs of software.

  24. Re:How much? on MS Sales Growth Limited by Delays in Windows · · Score: 1

    90% all queries to Google come from systems running Windows, 47% from systems running XP

    Yeah, but don't you know that 70% of all statistics are just made up!

    >:)

  25. Re:Having lived there. on China Plans Surveillance System for Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have been to China, in fact I am marrying a Chinese woman. So I think that I a decent idea of what chinese are like.

    If you paid attention to history you would see obivious flaws in his bias. He is basing his opinion based upon his father, who probalbly holds a very idealized view of his childhood.

    Think about what he said, his father, who has lived in the US for decades about the way China is. That is assuming China has not changed since this man is a child. Is the US the same as it was 50 years ago, 30 years ago, hell how about 5 years ago. But you are willing to assume that China has not changed at all?