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  1. Re:buy high cap. on How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? · · Score: 1

    Well, there are professional photographers that burn through flash over the course of a sporting event. Though, I'm guessing they just put them in a container of sorts and sift through them all later.

  2. Re:Darn... no Mac Mini update on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 0

    No, its more like complaining that we don't want to buy any more minidiscs, even though sony is no longer the only one that makes them. Cd's are more ubiquitous, even if they might not be as advanced as the minidisc. My car stereo ( purchased 4 moths ago) only plays mp3s. Its vastly better supported than aac. That's why Amazon uses it.

  3. Re:TXT execution technology on Researchers Hack Intel's VPro · · Score: 4, Funny
  4. Re:twitter example: I"M FARTING NOW CAN YOU SMELL on Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? · · Score: 1

    Its actually less than that. Its a solution to a problem they would like to have. Its like offering investment advice to someone making minimum wage (the problem being what to do with excess money). People solve the problem that doesn't exist, hoping to cause the problem it would have fixed.

  5. Re:Free NOT EQUAL TO freedom on Stallman On the State of Free Software 25 Years On · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Germany, we have 3 different words for "free" when used as in beer, and a law defining what each word means, when used in business.

    In Germany ... free ... beer ?!

    Sign me up!

  6. Re:interesting choice on Actor Matt Smith Will Be 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    When you become 900 years old, you'll understand too.

  7. Re:Here we go again... on Protection From Online Eviction? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Please tell me there was another sign in the laundry room reading

    Rule 3: Always make a backup ( This is an offsite backup of rule 1)

  8. Re:Open Source on Balancing Performance and Convention · · Score: 1
    I've tried doing similar things. Possible outcomes:
    1. Project accepts your code. (all is right with the world)
    2. Project rejects your code, because they have a different plan for solving the problem ( 2 major releases away!)
    3. Project denies that the problem exists

    I've experienced all three. The second two, are far more likely than the first.

  9. They do have a back up from 2007. on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    From their twiiter feed (http://twitter.com/jsupgrades)

    new server is powered up. We are copying the database. 9:23 PM Oct 7th, 2007 from web

    So Unless they nuked the old drives from the old server they should have a back up of oct 7 2007. That's better than a sharp poke in the eye. Sort of.

  10. You trust us that much, Taco? on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    There are some real sickos here that very well might provide you with good sounding advice that may result in your death in this situation. You should really talk to someone offline that you trust.

    What is your tin foil hat out of power too?

  11. Re:M$ seen as perfectly cromulent on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Public usage of "M$", and "Micro$oft", is perfectly cromulent.

    Now you've done it. Trying to make a horrible joke and/or fad relevant by tying it to a classic Simpsons joke. This, of course, means war.

  12. Re:Real mature on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Everyone here already knows what Microsoft does. Adding a $, doesn't inform anyone of anything, nor does it make an original point, nor does it have anything to do with the story. Its stupid (in other words, not cool). Anyone who uses it, comes across as lame. Its like making jokes about Gerald Ford's clumsiness. We get it all freaking ready. Its not funny anymore, if it ever was. Its like the "in Soviet Russia" meme, only that was funny at one point.

  13. Re:WTF do they need GPS for? on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't I just remove the gps sensor from my car and leave it in the garage? It hasn't moved => No tax for me!

    If there is a tamper proof seal of some sort to prevent removal, I'll just create a little Faraday cage around it, with a gps signal generator inside to fake a constant location.

  14. Re:Credit? on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    Assuming you are correct, that kind of information isn't usually made public by even the most transparent of companies.

  15. Re:Credit? on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    Debit cards work can as credit cards, so its difficult to tell how much of any companies sales were due to credit.

  16. Re:Prejudice on Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Science is built on reputation. If you have a good reputation, then people take your work seriously. If one of your publications is a hoax or fraud, your career is over. This smells like yesterday's fish's sweaty socks.

    Hell, expect Blogoavich to issue a statement tomorrow disavowing any association with this guy or his publications. It smells that bad.

  17. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    The laser in the video didn't cut anything. It wasn't powerful enough to ignite hydrogen. But I guess you could locate a balloon full of hydrogen match nearby then stand inches away with your dvd laser to ignite the match to explode the balloon to destroy the traffic camera. But, thats not the covert long distance bond type destruction you've been looking for.

  18. Re:You'll never finish it on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: 1

    No, most of them used ink.

  19. Re:It's a good headline. on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 2, Funny

    I disagree, I think he's thinking things false. Once he starts thinking things true, then he'll wish he'd kept the whole thing to himself.

  20. Re:links to reliable resellers? on Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear · · Score: 1

    Will do. Sorry, if I'm a bit curmudgeony.

  21. Re:links to reliable resellers? on Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear · · Score: 1

    Because, I'm not the guy that buys high end network gear. I'm the guy that wants to play with used high end network gear on the cheap. But I'm also the Guy that talks to other guys that buy high end network gear. So even if I wasn't going to buy myself, I could provide a sales lead to them if they brought their website usability factor up. Yahoo store fronts are more usable. Plus, if they are going to present themselves as an honest broker of used equipment, it would behoove them to present themselves as a professional operation worthy of my trust and moohla.

  22. Re:I found the ???! on Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear · · Score: 1

    I think steps two and three are really the ???. Lets try it for underwear gnomes first.

    1) steal Underpants
    2) Search for personal info
    3) Blackmail
    4) Profit

    Ok that seems to work.
    How about web 2.0?

    1) Use Ajax + Social networking
    2) Get Personal Info
    3) BlackMail
    4) Profit

    It seems to work for most. Good Job.

  23. Re:Sweet on Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear · · Score: 1

    I know its possible. Just not going to be as easy an install as modern hardware. There are some pieces of hardware that just never got any support in Linux. I have 486's that won't take Linux, even old slackware, due to their old obscure ide controllers and/or the Packard bell label on front.

  24. Re:links to reliable resellers? on Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear · · Score: 1

    Horrible website. Its not worth my time to dig through it to find any bargains, or even to see what products they had in stock.

  25. Re:Sweet on Recession Pushes IT To Find New Value In Old Gear · · Score: 1

    The thought of having openoffice on a 386 just makes me sick. Installing Linux on a 386 is no walk in the park either. Way too much work for even $4000. As long as you're being dishonest, just superglue a dvd with ubuntu to the top of the case and be done with it.