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  1. Re:Pictures on site on One-Thumb Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Ummm, its on a Japanese website :P

  2. Hrm...I wouldn't use this to MUD with... on One-Thumb Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Ok...I'm in a room, and OH CRAP, someone tracked the buffest mob in the entire friggen game....Gotta get that thumb moving...by the time I get to fully type recall with my thumb, the monster has proceeded to kill me, eat my corpse, and sacrifice all of the equipment on it...and I just completed getting all that L33t eq!!

    For some things, there will always be your handy-dandy QWERTY keyboard.

  3. What do they really have planned? on Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Working as an intern for a national laboratory, I noticed how getting new equipment worked. First, you find what you really want, like a computer for instance. Next, in your proposal, you go around and find different parts for that machine, and make sure the stuff you really want is the lowest price. Send it up to the people who double check this to see if they are getting a "good" deal, and bam, you get your computer.

    With this in mind, what Linux or Unix OS are they planning on using already? They must have one picked out if they are going to start making rules on the OSS situation.

  4. Yeah... on Updating the Pirate Anime FAQ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Video Companies chose to ignore moral fansubbers for many reasons

    One of the main reasons is because the Japanese companies can't get the people in America due to licencing laws. If its not licenced in America, its not illegal.

    Now there are moral fansubbers who throw their fansubs away when said series becomes licenced, and go but a full quality DVD.

  5. re:dvd-r on DVD Recording - Is There a Winner Yet? · · Score: 1

    I believe I heard on Macrumors.com that Apple is changing their Superdrives with ones that burn the +/- R/RW formats, in order to be more compatible with everything out there.

    And if you are going to pirate these DVD's, make sure you have a DVD decryptor program and DVD2One, so you can make full copies onto a single DVD (since most DVD movies out there are dual-sided and would take up 2 disks).

  6. M$ motto towards non-profit organizations on Microsoft's Software Philanthropy: The Goodwill Ploy · · Score: 1

    Resistance is futile.

  7. Sorry... on Cheating in Multiplayer Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm too busy cheating on Counter-Strike to go read the article.

  8. Please suh' on Cornucopia Of Spam Bills · · Score: 1

    may I have some more spam?

    Ridiculous.....my ISP can sue yet I can't? This is good and bad. For one, it would put pressure on the ISP's to stop spam mail, but on the other hand, ISP's who aren't keeping up with the spam could lose customers.

    Its my internet connection, I'm paying for its bandwidth, I should be able to sue those who decide flood me with absolute crap.

  9. Jeez....this guy will never stop on Prince of Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    Other Shuster patents include similar technology to take control of a user's computer and send them to unexpected Web sites

    Whats to prevent this guy from opening a page to a site which opens a pop-up ad, which opens a page to another, rinse...repeat?

    Patents are good and all, but they need to be analyzed for abuses.

  10. Re:Thank you! on Gates on Digital Restrictions Technologies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I choose not to use Windows(tm) too ?

    Resistance is futile.

  11. Re:is it just me ? on Gates on Digital Restrictions Technologies · · Score: 1

    Its amazing how the quote from Benjamin dude works so well here. Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security

    This quote works amazingly here. Your average-joe computer user has no idea what DRM can and could do. Bill Gates' flaunting of it as a means of security can be used as a veil to eventually control the entire computer, and market.

  12. You know... on Gates on Digital Restrictions Technologies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Consumers shouldn't be worried that Microsoft Corp.'s new security technology will wrest control of their PCs and give it to media companies, Bill Gates said Tuesday.

    And we're supposed to believe someone who has a pretty good grip on the OS situation, and would do anything to keep that grip? Personally, I would rather have the chance of being hacked but also have the ability to do anything I want on my computer. I don't want a company telling me what I can and cannot do with my own computer. If we allow them to do this, who knows how much farther these guys will go?

  13. Don't get mad.... on Ebay Negative Feedback Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    ....get even! If someone writes nasty "graffiti" on your feedback page, return the favor!

    No...seriously....if someone has bad feedback for me, I will listen, and try to improve my relations with the next customer.

  14. Wait, am I reading this wrong? on Cell Phones and Air Safety · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look like like Wi-Fi and airplanes just don't mix.

    And yet you link to a story about Cell phones! Cell phones != wi-fi!

    /end rant

  15. Dust causes fires as well as clogs on An Affordable Air Purifier For Dusty Computer Labs? · · Score: 1

    My freshman year of high school, we couldn't go to computer science because so much dust had collected into a computer, and a fire has been started. I do agree that dust is a serious issue, and as such, do simple things like using compressed air to spray the dust off the components and out of the power supply. If you can get the dust to settle outside of the computer/power supply, its alot better than still having it inside.

  16. Forgetting Starship Troopers on Assorted Video Game Movies in Development · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That obviously had to be inspired from Starcraft.

  17. Can software base routing be traced? on More On Detecting NAT Gateways · · Score: 1

    I know ISP's and stuff can find out how many computers are hooked up through your NAT/Router box, but what do they do if I'm running a DHCP server on a computer hooked to a simple hub? Can they still see how many computers are behind it?

  18. Palm screens too small... on New Palms: Zire 71 and Tungsten C · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't stand Palm's, or anything with that small of a screen. This is one of the reasons I sold my PEG-N710C and got a Newton. No, I'm not trolling for Apple, I'm saying that Palm needs to look back at what jumpstarted the industry: larger screen and non-grafitti handwriting recognition (the Newton had what was called Rosetta, still unmatched, even Apple's Inkwell on Mac OS X can't beat it).

  19. Why not let people download rather than stream? on Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some of us don't have the connection to be able to listen to this. I would rather download this into (insert favorite audio codec here).

  20. Wait a friggen sec... on Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel is brining out a FASTER cpu while AMD is going to redo the desktop market with a 64-bit processor?

  21. Is the RIAA counting all transfers? on Investigating the RIAA's Billion-Dollar Claims · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how many of those "transfers" that came from that student's computer didn't finish transferring. Its possible there are alot...and they're being counted in the mp3 transfer total.

  22. Good thing for on Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering · · Score: 1

    Proxy servers.....no really...I'm not trolling here or anything, but I have used proxy servers to get to sites which were blocked by our firewall. Just enter a google search for "Wingate servers" and you'll get all sorts of sites hosting lists of proxy servers.....

  23. If this isn't abuse of a monopoly... on Windows Media 9 in Digital Theaters · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    then what the hell is? Although, 177 screens isn't alot now, but if it catches on quickly, more theaters will be using it. I don't have to worry about my town's only walk-in theater because the owner refuses to go digital.

    So I wonder whats going to happen in the event that the computer decides to freeze.....Reboot....Get back to last part....rinse...repeat.....I would want my money back...

  24. Hell on Peter Jackson remaking King Kong · · Score: 1

    truely has frozen over....a real story finally appears on April Fools Day!

  25. Does this mean on New Whitespace-Only Programming Language · · Score: 1

    that the DMCA could be violating itself? Who knows whats in those whitespaces on that document....for all we know, it could be the encryption key breaker to the XBox!