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  1. Re:Not installing the fucking flash plugin is grea on Google Unveils Flash Ads · · Score: 1
  2. Re:50000 is mind-boggling? on PA's Khoo Reacts To 'E For All' 2008 Date · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now compare that to PAX's numbers for the same years, keeping in mind that PAX's first year was 2004.

    2004 - 3,300
    2005 - 9,000 (triples in size)
    2006 - 19,323 (doubles in size)
    2007 - 37,000 (doubles in size)

    I think the growth speaks volumes.

  3. Re:Why Mythtv when XBMC exists on Three MythTV Linux Distros Compared · · Score: 1

    doesn't have the power to decode actual 720p content without some heavy hardware modding

    That's why.

  4. Re:Fair??? Language, please... on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    Even so, your frustration is with the suit having been brought in the first place. The system works, SCO just decided to engage in some blatant abuse.

  5. Re:Get them out of the way on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hot grits, Natalie Portman, You Must Be New Here, a crack about not having a girlfriend, blaming the editors, calling for a tag, BSD is dying, goatse, GNAA, YHBT HAND, etc.

  6. Re:Mixed feelings on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    Crime and punishment aside, taking the extra gumball isn't right simply because the machine screwed up. You knew how many gumballs you were due for your quarter. In short, you got it, but you didn't deserve it, but kept it anyway. That makes it wrong.

    I don't believe you can say, unconditionally, that it's right for you to get two gumballs for one quarter when everyone else gets one. You're not special.

    Not a question of the law, just a question of right from wrong.

  7. Hey now! on Xbox Division Posts Loss of $1.9 Billion · · Score: 1

    Let's go easy on the rounding! 1.89 billion (as mentioned in the summary) and 1.9 billion is a difference of $10,000,000 :)

  8. Re:Wow on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Was that a Lawnmower Man reference?!

    Thwomp is awarded 5 points.

  9. Re:Other factors... on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 1

    his father is, coincidentally, an electrician.

    Well...is he a good electrician?
  10. What. The. Fuck. on New System Detects Calls While Driving · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What does it mean to attach a "paint gun mark" to a car? That sounds vaguely like "shooting a car with a paint gun." That's remarkably unsafe for a device that's supposed to save lives. Can it successfully detect if the user has his window rolled down or his convertible top down? Will it miss pedestrians? Damage the car?

    And what makes them think that an "EMP gun" can properly localize its effect to disable only the cell phone while leaving the vital elecronic components of the car intact? Not to mention that an EMP pulse doesn't temporarily disable the phone, it destroys its circuitry. No more phone. Have they done any studies to see if a badly timed EMP makes the battery catch fire in the users hand?

    And hey, what about the users complying with hands-free laws? They must get their phones fried too, since I'm fairly sure there's no way to distinguish between the two modes of operation aside from, yep, you guessed it, looking at the user.

    This is about 17 terrible, halfway thought out ideas. Either April Fools day came late this year or this is a company that really likes the concept of bankruptcy.

  11. Re:More developer interference? on World of Darkness MMOG In Active Production · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I followed all that. What a mess.

  12. Re:More developer interference? on World of Darkness MMOG In Active Production · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's WoD! The GM's are supposed to get power-hungry and fuck over the players.

  13. Reading is fun on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 4, Informative

    "They arrested him," Chen said of FBISD police, "and also went to the house to search." The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy's room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn't in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.

  14. Re:$19 Million on Hand ... on Obama's MySpace Drama · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but there's still more to it than that.

    I guess what bothers me at all was that money came into it. If I was this guy I think all the thanks I'd need would be to have lunch with the Senator, have the opportunity to tell him about my efforts.

    It all comes down to the name. If he'd built up a massive group of people that supported Barack Obama on a MySpace with his own name, there'd be no problem. He didn't. Unfortunately, he violated MySpace's terms of service.

    If I were Obama's campaign manager, the only thing I'd have done differently is to demand the name, change the other guy's to something else, let him keep every contact he'd built, then start off with zero friends on the new Barack Obama page. Then people get to decide on the move.

    It's drama for sure. That's what MySpace is really there for ;)

  15. Re:Obama's Space Drama on Obama's MySpace Drama · · Score: 1

    How would you feel if a 2.5 year labor of love was pulled out from underneath you?
    If he's asking for any money at all then it's obviously not a labor of love. He would have just handed it over with the knowledge that he'd helped to set up the ultimate Obama MySpace account.

    This isn't about ideals, it's about money.
  16. Re:$19 Million on Hand ... on Obama's MySpace Drama · · Score: 1

    How is this different from some guy washing my windshield at a red light and then expecting me to pay him for it?

  17. Re:Speaking of sunlight as a power source on New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light · · Score: 1, Funny

    You forgot Chuck Norris.

    Probably omitted due to the fact that he invented the sun so that he could demonstrate his ability to kill faster than the speed of light.
  18. Re:Sorry... on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a Zimbra-specific thick client. Why would I want the extra layer? Why use Zimbra and not any other IMAP capable groupware?

  19. The Ultimate Roomba Killer on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Daleks.

  20. Re:Not just seniors... on Wii May Be Succeeding in Widening Game Market · · Score: 1


    A 22-month old victim training his cleaver arm on this Nintendo murder simulator? What is there to smile about?
    </jackThompson>

  21. Re:Genes don't fold..... on PS3 Owners To Simulate Gene Folding · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, Rock will find this information useful. Yessss, very useful indeed... Your covering days are over, Paper!

  22. Re:You mean "SQL database".. on Oracle Open Sources TopLink Java ORM · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. In ORM, you want to map your tables and their fields to classes directly, then use the ORM's query engine to accomplish such feats. So for your example, Customer and Order would be classes. The query itself would be similar, but adapted for the ORM system you're using.

  23. Re:Wholy crap.. on Sony Keynote Offers Hope For PlayStation 3 Fans · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? I didn't hear you. I was too busy playing tennis. ALL THE TIME.

  24. Re:English? on Microsoft Attacks Google on Copyright · · Score: 1

    And to top it all off.

  25. Re:Thats great on Reflectivity Reaches a New Low · · Score: 1

    Don't look now, but I think that's what they're trying to do ;)

    Matt Hitchens, Comp Sci, '02