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  1. dont hold much hope regardless on Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isnt the first trailer for the game, and in comparison, the first trailer back in 2001 was MUCH better.

  2. Re:More than just ink... on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink? · · Score: 1

    printers rarely come with a usb cable. I have had more printers come with ethernet cables than I have had USB cables, and i have opened a good 200 at this point.

  3. Re:Steve Jobs and Security on More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007? · · Score: 1
    you realize that was a movie right? Even moreso you realize it was a FICTIONALIZED TAKE on Jobs and Gates, in the same vein that Titanic was true?

    Right?

    And people wonder why our country is going to hell....

  4. Re:Not Quite on Startrek.com Shutting Down · · Score: 1
    oh and to expand a bit on your comment, this is not like the coding team (although a few where) these where interviewers, comic writers, and researchers. Startrek.com was a lot more than your run of the mil corp run fansite these days. They had reviews of the episodes, commentaries, spoofs, and a lot of other stuff you normally see from fan run sites, except with the full blessing of Paramount. Once CBS took them over though, the mood changed, as Les Moonves HATES Star Trek (and was the main triggerman on Enterprise's cancellation... since while ratings vs the big 4 where poor, they where the second highest rated show on that channel)

    The only reason the Star Trek movie is going through as it is now, is because CBS doesnt own the movie rights to Star Trek, only the TV rights.

  5. Re:Not Quite on Startrek.com Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    the team was outright fired. They no longer work for CBS effective this weekend.

  6. Re:Classic Lawyer Spew on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1
    the kicker is though, laughing squid contacted them to ask if it was a mistake. Best Buy's lawyers countered with the "your not reporting on it, your promoting it. Bloggers are not reporters" spiel.

    Guess BB hasnt talked to Apple about why you dont pretend bloggers dont have the same rights as reporters.

  7. Re:Can you hear me now? on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1
    Sorry AC, but your quite a bit wrong here. A turn signal can be EITHER the lights on a car that signal a turn, OR in some regions a alternate name for the turning lights in many metropolitan intersections that enable left hand turns before the opposing traffic can go through the intersection.

    Many regions call traffic lights traffic signals. If you are going to go about correcting someone, it would help if you understand that not everyone holds to the same naming conventions as you and your area does.

  8. USPS needs this! on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 1

    You have never known nerve-racking until you have tried to merge left, or made a left turn in a USPS mail truck.

  9. Re:That's it? on Spike VGAs Confuse, Gamecock Apologizes · · Score: 1

    people where pissed off? Like who? Seriously i need to know, because they are the reason that reject of a network still exists... They dont even have the rights to quality Trek reruns anymore (well they have Voyager but I rest my case) so WHY are they even still around?

  10. Re:Best of the Best, of the Best of the Worst? on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1
    I do and the thing is I dont let the media and activist wackos scare me. I know the dangers and compared to coal they are FAR fewer chances of even remotely minor accident.

    The facts are far more die of serious lung diseases from coal plants each year, than have died from nuclear accidents EVER to warrant your fear. Heck there isnt even enough of a cancer danger to warrant it, as more die from the carcinogens in coal, oil and gas burning than nuclear radiation (just about all of the dangerous stuff being able to be blocked by a piece of paper...) Your scared because you want to be, not because you have a rational reason to be.

  11. Re:Best of the Best, of the Best of the Worst? on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    you realize their is more danger from exposure to radiation from coal than their is nuclear, and humans have been burning it for hundreds of years constantly.

  12. Re:Story seems dubious to me on The Register Exposes More Wikipedia Abuse · · Score: 1
    Well he outright said that Wiki was presenting reasons why. The reasons why wiki banned them though does not in any way match the facts at hand, nor the time stamp for those events taking place.

    While I agree there is still some bit of evidence missing here, there is definatly something fishy going on, and it wouldn't be the first time the admins and owner of wiki have been publicly outed for being liars and biased.

  13. No your number one issue SHOULD BE on MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering · · Score: 1

    TELLING YOUR PARTNERS TO MAKE DECENT FUCKING MOVIES. Maybe then people might want to pay 30 bucks to see your movie in a theater...

  14. Oh come on now is Slashdot this stupid? on Space Shifting DVDs to Cost Extra? · · Score: 1
    Or is this just a example of how poorly implemented Firehose is? There is not one bit of information that could be factually backed up in the linked article. They wont even say Jobs is outright doing it (saying apparently or suspected)

    Given Jobs recent letters to the media, I highly doubt this is true at all, and strongly suspect this is a bullshit article made to play right into the fears people have here. There are a number of media entities who dont like Jobs, and I would not be shocked that the same groups suing grandmothers, would also like to see Jobs tarnished for making them look like fools to the public.

    Until I see Jobs outright say it, this is bullshit, and anyone who is taking this to be fact is a gullible fool. There is not one shred of factual basis anywhere in the blurb.

  15. Re:Why am I not surprised? on DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages · · Score: 1
    leave education out of this. the education department has been doing a good job keeping Bushie and his cronies out of the schools, the only problem is the Justice Department has now told the Education Department that they can lose funding if they dont let them in.

    Considering a good 50% of the Education Departments funding has been diverted to the war effort, its a very dangerous threat to have levied against you.

  16. Re:All I can say is... on Leopard as the New Vista? · · Score: 1
    last I looked Apple didnt force you to use their keyboard, their mouse, their hard drives....

    Lot more to the term "hardware" than the computer.

  17. Re:All I can say is... on Leopard as the New Vista? · · Score: 1

    most OS X issues tend to be hardware related, or very poorly written software. I have almost never hit a snag that was cause by Apple themselves.

  18. Re:This article brought to you .... on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 1
    Actually we do know what to do to get rid of the stuff, we are not allowed to again THANKS to the anti-nuclear movement to re-proses it into viable fuel again like European countries currently do.

    If people stopped the BS and actually took a look at current Nuclear technology, they would see that a lot of the hype around the anti-nuclear movement is media created hogwash coupled with outright making the problem happen. Much of your claimed 20 mistakes away is because our technology in place is over 50 years old and unable to be upgraded thanks to again, the anit-nuclear movement who freaks out when so much as a pen drops.

  19. Re:Yeah on Apple 10.4.11 Update Can Brick Macs With Boot Camp · · Score: 1
    its hardly a big deal when you put it in perspective of EVERY service pack from EVERY OS manufacturer has the remote possibility of making the computer non-operational due to various reasons too numerous to list.

    Considering this has been out for over a week and I am JUST hearing about this now, and I have whole labs who use 10.4.11 right now, on various machines from 2nd generation iMacs to brand new Intel iMacs, I think the percentage effected by this issue is extremely low.

  20. Re:Comedy Central? on David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie · · Score: 1

    Cartoon network couldnt pay for the rights... They show has gotten so popular that Comedy outbid them by a decent amount of money.

  21. Re:Failure? on Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing · · Score: 1

    Woot has listend the Zune about 6 times already... more than even some of the lesser known generic MP3 players. In comparison they have never listed a iPod, which means they sell well enough to never have a surplus which is what Woot sells.

  22. Re:The US did it so they won the war on Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb · · Score: 2, Informative
    Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a title used herein as named for its negotiators, the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, refers to the officially-titled Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, signed in Moscow in the early hours of August 24, 1939, dated August 23.

    Wikipedia is your friend... maybe you should use it.

  23. Re:The US did it so they won the war on Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb · · Score: 1
    Nice revisionist history there, but Russia was doing everything it could to stay OUT of the pacific war feeling it was a American conflict (and if the Americans lost, they could swoop in and take them as well)

    The seeds of the Cold War had been planted long before the end of WWII. The Russians where letting everyone else beat each other up, hence the non-aggression pack with Germany. Its just Hitler got very very greedy and assaulted Russia as well. Had Hitler not done that, we likely would be under Soviet rule.

    But in short, Russia had every intention NOT to get involved. England though, they DID have intentions to send off ships and troops to Japan, but that gets right back to the point of had a land battle been forced (which even after the bombs, it was still very likely as a attempted coup almost stopped the cease fire broadcast and placed their Emperor under house arrest) it would have cost million of lives.

  24. Donald Kerr got 2 words for you on US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy · · Score: 1

    Treasonist bastard, also know as who you are.

  25. Why does this keep getting atributed to the brits? on Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The helmet was designed by AMERICANS. Its part of the F-35's new flight control system. The fighter is a joint venture with the UK, USA, and EU... but the helmet was designed and developed by the Americans for use on the system... no one co-developed THAT part of the system.

    Not to mention the fact that this was discussed like 7 months ago.