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  1. Re:Stick / Dead Horse..., on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 0, Redundant
    In my experience, anytime I do a spyware removal ($30-$60) I offer to install Mozilla for free. I explain that if they mostly use Mozilla, they will need my services less frequently

    If you taught them how to run spybot s&d and adaware for themselves as well, they would certainly need your services less frequently.

    Not to sound snarky, but capitalizing off of this situation brings to mind protection rackets and the like. Well I guess that makes sense if you were also installing spyware when you are "removing" it. ;)
  2. Re:NAME CHANGE on Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 · · Score: 1

    This is beginning to sound like a Pokemon battle...

  3. Re:OK, I'll ask the question on BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel · · Score: 1
    So I guess we shouldn't teach our kids that stealing is wrong. Right? Wrong.
    So I guess we should teach our kids that sharing is wrong. Right? Wrong.
  4. Re:Talking points on Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan of Attack · · Score: 1
    -Eclipse sounds French. VisualStudio is a good, strong American sounding name.
    "Eclipse" does come to English by way of Old French, but it is actually derived from Greek. "Studio" also comes by way of Old French from Latin. An interesting comparison:

    "Visual" comes from the Latin visus (sight), from videre (to see). Studio derives from Latin studium, from studere (to devote oneself, study).

    "Eclipse" comes from Greek ekleipsis, from ekleipein (to omit, fail, suffer).

    By the name alone, which sounds better suited to the task of project management? To see devotedly or to omit and fail?
  5. Repairing micro-meteorite holes on Japanese Deploy Solar Sail · · Score: 1
    What I dont understand is how they intend to protect these massive sails from being shot full of holes by meteorites and space dust as it propels its way through space.

    This is pure speculation on my part, but perhaps some future form of nanotechnology could be used to make self-repairing sales. Implanted sensor arrays would detect discontinuities in the sail-surface and delegate molecular assemblers to patch it.
  6. Re:Kind of like this one here... on 140" Monitor Demonstration At Purdue · · Score: 1

    What are they learning in that class?! There are more projectors in that classroom than people (8:5), and everyone looks bored out of their skulls. Including the teacher (or at least a little confused).

  7. Re:Powerful incentives (and interests) on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1

    Maybe even get rid of the Democratics and Republicans, two parties that claim to be different but are both the same cultural poison. Come on, give Nader a chance, he has some great ideas. :)

    Actually, I don't think Nader is all that different.

  8. Re:Hang on... on Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first rule of PATRIOT act is, you do not talk about PATRIOT act.

  9. Re:But but but... on FairPlay v2 Reversed, Playfair Back Online · · Score: 1

    I would not say Apple is so intent on DRM. Rather as other posters have pointed out, their reliance on the RIAA for the songs sold on iTMS obligates them to respect the DRM-wishes of the RIAA (at least legally/economically, though perhaps not morally). For Apple, DRM = good business. For the RIAA, DRM = control of the recording medium = any business at all.

  10. Re:Why is there only one database access language? on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    Arabic numbers are old too, but I don't see anyone proposing to change them.

    Actually we use binary now. Arabic numerals are just a backwards compatibility layer for humans.

  11. Re:'Quotes' on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 1

    > I still couldn't resist tossing my own two cents onto the fire. You mean, in to the microwave?

  12. Re:Nice to see the technology is catching up... on DARPA Robot Contest Update · · Score: 1

    Are autonomous vehicles, designed to win military-industrial funding, household robots?

  13. Re:Don't forget Carmack on Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's Sponsor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

    The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!

  14. Re:nemo on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    >The matrixes were ok, but didn't live up to the hype the first one caused. Don't you mean "matrices"?

  15. Re:2008?!?! on U.S. DoD Commits To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Watch Serial Experiments: Lain. IPv7 promises deviceless connection between the real world and the 'net