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  1. Re:Wow on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if the 16,000 that die every year in drunk driving accidents said goodbye to their loved ones...

  2. Cost of Hardware VS. Cost of Software on ARM: The Non-Evil Monopolist · · Score: 1

    Hasn't most software either stayed the same price or is now more expensive, while hardware gets cheaper? (50% rhetoric/ 50% inquiry)

  3. Re:Maybe if by size... on Video and Software Downloads Overtaking Music · · Score: 1

    It depends on the porn, like that scene in Idol Country with the two latinos. Damn that's hot! I've watched it several times and know I'll watch it again.

  4. Re:Finally! Step 2 on A Six-Step Plan for Apple · · Score: 1

    Why? Is he a heavy drinker? Oh, you were making a joke. Jokes. I get jokes.

  5. Re:get him first on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 1

    Troll, but True!

  6. It's called... on Cambridge Team Spins Nanotube Yarn · · Score: 1

    a Space Bridge.

  7. Re:Pretty high cost on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis · · Score: 1

    I've heard the average salary at MS is $55/hr.

  8. Re:get him first on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bush & Co. (aka Helliburton) aren't worried about the solar-powered VW as a terrorist threat, they're worried about it as a threat to the oil companies! I'm sure the wan't to kill the fucker.

  9. Re:get him first on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 1

    The Indians aren't stealing our jobs. Our corporate leaders are giving away our jobs to Indians and whoever else will do them cheaply, so they can have a few more weeks at the island resort while we all cash our unemployment checks (if we're lucky). PS. KEN LAY ROT IN HELL YOU INDICTED BASTARD!

  10. Re:previous research... on Fetuses Provide Stem-Like Cells to Mothers · · Score: 1

    Thank You, this was very informative. However, it did clear up some incorrect information from the parent post... It's not blood cells that are in the body, just cells, and some DNA. Also, it mentions nothing of the mother's cells in the child's body.

  11. Re:previous research... on Fetuses Provide Stem-Like Cells to Mothers · · Score: 1

    can you site a reference, please.

  12. These PDFs SUCK! on The Black Plague Batted .500 Its Rookie Year · · Score: 1

    The content of these PDF's is just two bitmaps set at 100 DPI.
    There is no selectabe text, the bitmap text is too small.
    If I flatten the whole thing and save it out as JPG I get a file 1/3 to 1/4 the size.
    WTF?

  13. Re:Tape? on Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man? · · Score: 1

    This company came up after a quick search.
    I think everyone imagines a room full of those spinning reel-to-reel things when you mention tape. It's archaic, but viable today!

  14. Re:GIGO on E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'? · · Score: 1

    DAMMIT forgot the break tags

  15. Re:GIGO on E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I believe this is a hoax, several of these items are only accusatory in nature and prove nothing bad has been done. (If this were true,) I would reserve my own personal judgement until at least some court ruling or facts of the cases have come out. Especially since famous people and people in power seem to attract a disproportionate amount of false accusations. Being arrested and being accused does not mean you are guilty. The following points, this would be true for: 30 have been accused of spousal abuse 9 have been arrested for fraud 14 have been accused of writing bad cheques 12 have been arrested on drug related charges 4 have been arrested for shoplifting 16 are currently defendants in lawsuits 62 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

  16. I bought a Windows machine... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    it got a virus. It died. I bought a Mac, then another Mac, then another...

  17. Re:Other Famous Version Number Skips on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ratio of 1:1.618 is known as the Golden Ratio

  18. The author of the article is correct. on Dashboard Not a Konfabulator Rip-off · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I tried using Konfabulator. At first I thought it was great, then I realized that the mini digital clock was using 60% of my CPU! It made my computer run like crap. Now, there were other widgets that ran without problems and used tiny fractions of the CPU cycles. So I turned of the resource hogs. Then I started thinking about security and decided that since these things could be written by anyone, what might be happening? So, maybe in a paranoid, naive, uninformed decision, I quit using Konfabulator. I also didn't want to pay the fee.

    I'm thinking that Apple's architecture for thier widgets would incorporate the security measures already in web based media (for whatever that is worth) The author doesn't really bring up security, so I'm still wondering if it's possible to create a naughty Konfabulator widget that looks like some innocuous tool, but is actually doing bad things. Or could it be done in Apple's new model?

    I'm looking forward to it, though.

  19. Re:Watch for Apple on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    I believe around 6 million original iMacs were sold.
    What do they say? "The proof is in the pudding."
    I love pudding. Do you?
    Naah, you probably hate it,
    prefering to eat dry, old, stale bread.
    Blech!!!


    Oh, btw, you should check your Wikipedia again, since it's an ever changing document. You should probably copy and paste from it instead of just putting up a link, since you never know what it might say next. Then again, you could always write something for yourself.

  20. New Poll! on Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth Collecting? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's been done before, but I'm really getting tired of that poll that's up there now, the 'Take Over the World' thing. And yes I've seen all of those (mostly lame) cartoons. At What Bit Rate Do You Rip Music? 320-256 320-256 VBR 192-160 192-160 VBR 128 or lower 128 or lower VBR I use OGG, you insensitive clod. I only buy AAC, you insensitive clod. (I even put 8 options so /. editors would not freak)

  21. Re:Watch for Apple on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    Yes, some of it was over the top, i.e. multicolored George Foreman grills. However, I loved my lime green iMac, and still use it for music in the workout room. It is a very playful design and works well in there. It also beat the fuck out of the beige tower drab nightmare that preceded it. If it wasn't such great design, it would not have been imitated so broadly. The sleek black G3 powerbook was perfect in the corporate setting I used it in. I think the G4 Cube was way ahead of it's time, and we'll be seeing devices like it again. After having a G4 cube, I never thought I'd own a computer as LARGE as the G5 I have now, but I love it's minimal industrial form and like to run my hands over the cool elemental surface, and being functional as well, the whole thing is one big heat sink.

  22. Re:Amazing. on Cassini-Huygens Reaches Orbit Around Saturn · · Score: 1

    Actually, Godiva makes a wonderful chocolate liqueur

  23. Re:Ahh yes, Hitchens on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    I kept reading and reading (and reading and reading) and I kept asking myself, 'where are the lies?', 'I want to see the list of lies', I didn't see it. I did see some interesting points listed out that MMoore makes in the film and the author of the article (who is he, anyway?) doesn't contradict them... WFT?

  24. I Read... on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Fox News' stellar unbiased reporting on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    And how accurate are YOUR films?