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  1. Re:Typical liberal response on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    The state of Washington actually has no income tax.

  2. Re:Ugh, that's depressing... on Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar · · Score: 2, Informative

    And Congress extended the length of copyright terms, not the executive branch.

  3. Re:Screwed Into Skin on Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you read the post you're responding to, they are using needles 10 times shorter. Could make a difference.

  4. Re:Writing your own eulogy on How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? · · Score: 1

    But there's a difference between an irreplaceable employee and an irreplaceable position. If he quits, retires, dies, etc, then there are more IT guys out there that the company could hire.

  5. Re:What? on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 1

    Looking around their website, I found "Want to go portable? You can buy DRM-free MP3s for your iPod or other portable devices" and "If you later decide that you also want to get the MP3, the 10 cents you paid for the web song will be applied towards that purchase." So it appears that they're combining web-based listening with the option to pay extra for a downloadable MP3. Without registering, I couldn't find anything on the website to indicate what the price of a download would be, or if that ability was live yet.

  6. Re:Verilog on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    int myArray = new int[2] is the same as int* myArray = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int)*2) Close, but not quite the same. new int[2] also needs to store the length of the array somewhere, so that the right number of elements will later be destroyed by delete[]. C++ is tricksy that way. And myArray[2] is actually the same as *(MyArray + 2), not *(myArray + 2 * sizeof(int)) , as was pointed out above.

  7. Re:MD5 on OpenBSD Will Not Fix PRNG Weakness · · Score: 1

    The claim is true. Wang and Yu published it in 2005.

  8. Re:a magnet? on How To Tell If It's Really Titanium · · Score: 1

    Except the statement was in response to a post claiming that steel, an alloy, was magnetic because iron is always magnetic.

  9. Re:will AJAX development finally be easy? on The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web · · Score: 1

    ...and as a user am repelled by apps which break my back button, don't let me save state, and basically break the web. This really annoys me about gmail - though I understand there that they're dealing with info you're not generally going to make public, so the lack of bookmarking ability doesn't matter so much...

    Google is aware of these issues, and has actually fixed them in the Gmail interface a month or so ago. You can bookmark emails and searches as well as actually using the browser's back and forward buttons. Check it out.

  10. Re:What I want to know is... on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It would be, if Coke had an 80--90% market share in both the vending machine and soda markets.

  11. Re:I'm confused on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Google's not a big player in the "operating system and browser markets". Google's also not very significant in the auto or textile manufacturing markets.

    The fact that VMS competed against their Unix operating system did not change AT&T's telephone monopoly.

  12. Re:Its probabbly true. on 'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales on the Horizon? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the MacBooks start at $1099, it's the MacBook Pros that start at $1999.

  13. Re:Cool, solves a problem on SanDisk Spins SD/USB Flash Combo · · Score: 1

    SD cards have been around for a while, and many people (myself included) have cameras which used them.

  14. Re:LJ. bleah on LiveJournal Buyout Rumor · · Score: 1

    That's why I read the LJ journals of friends from real life. It's handy for keeping up with people you don't see that often (ones who are going to college in another state, who work the night shift, or just really busy).

  15. Re:Socially beneficial? on MP3s From The Phone Box · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not all of us either care to or can afford to carry a cell phone with us everywhere we go.

  16. Re:finding a good LCD screen is hard on Macintosh 2004 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    From where? I'd been thinking of doing something like this, but I couldn't find the B&W LCD.

  17. Re:Gargling on Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1
    Once, before I graduated from highschool, I walked in on one of the physics teachers doing LN2 demos for the freshmen. He was explaining the Leidenfrost effect to them, but apparently didn't really believe it, because he was rather hesitant to actually stick his hand in. So I walked up and plunged my hand in, took it out, and was fine.

    Then, the freshmen were all noticing my unscheduled arival, so I figured I may as well try putting some in my mouth---something I'd heard of, but never tried. Either they'd all be amazed, or I'd screw up and they could laugh at my dumb-assed-ness. So I grabbed a cup and poured some LN2 into my mouth and blew smoke. They were all sutibly amazed, but the teacher nearly had a heart attack. His lack of faith in physics did not impress me.

  18. Or maybe it's true on North Korea's School For Hackers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just because they don't have a general electrical grid doesn't mean that they can't keep electricity going to their "hacker compound".

  19. Re:Forget.. on Cortical Cybernetic Implants · · Score: 1

    No, it's "10.09 - Sep 2002" It's not an old article, it's an article that's been sent to us from the future.

  20. Re:Get your Divx's right on Sony Proudly Rolls Out Spyware/Restrictions System · · Score: 1

    He said what he ment.