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  1. Price warring on What Has Number Portability Done For You? · · Score: 1

    I really think the price competition started a long time ago. I pay $50 a month for flat rate (land) phone service, includes unlimited domestic long distance. I've known quite a few people who didn't have land phones at all. I don't think that number portability will have all that great of an effect.

    Now, if they could get 911 calls to trace to a location on cell phone, they'd have something.

  2. Re:This Rocks! on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    Firebird is pretty good though.. it has a few oddities, but generally is pleasing to use.

  3. Will it run on thier Lindows PCs? on Wal-Mart to Launch Online Music Store · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Online music for Linux, maybe?

  4. First POST! on Microsoft Defies EU Commission · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dawg!

  5. Re:Other terms of the deal on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 1

    Better that than translucent fruit colored burgers with "Special Sauce".

  6. Re:Stock price? on Vietnam Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    Also, with the exception of maybe Germany, I think that those nations all have a very high piracy rate... MS loses money there anyway. What those nations are saying is not "We intend to stop buying your products", but "We intend to stop STEALING your products".

    You dig?

  7. Re:Soviet Wisconsin on Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    NO NO NO you've got it all wrong. It's:

    In Soviet Russia

    The law fights you and YOU win!

    Sucka!

  8. I need a key on (Yet Another) Mobile Keypad · · Score: -1, Troll

    for fr0sty p1sts.

  9. Re:Outlook... on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IANAL, but I don't think that ignorance of a law is a defense at all. If "putting an open machine online with the intention of having it compromised" were illegal, it wouldn't matter if you were negligent, ignorant, or had alterior motives: you would still be guilty.

  10. Re:Rich Uncle Pennybags on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 2, Funny
    Right, right.. I can see the windows update entry now-

    This update corrects an issue where the end user has specified some search engine other than the default msn one and will also correct browsers whose home page has been mistakenly set to something other than "www.msn.com". -- 2.8M

  11. Re:What?!? No "Frist Psot"? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    You missed-

    SCO/LUNIX is on TEH SPOKE!

  12. Re:Flamebait? maybe. True? yes. on GNOPPIX: Bootable GNOME CD · · Score: 1

    I think gnomes are little small guys with hats that show up when you are really, really shitfaced.

  13. Re:Not me but a friend.. on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong! I fit an entire rythm section (members included) into my Honda Civic. A full kit, and a bass rig (2 cabs). If you are a shitty singer you need a damn truck for all your crap though. 20 PA speakers take up some room.

  14. Re:Cash, hmm? on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    You can also get money orders or other cheques that are "Same as cash"... meaning they aren't tied to your identity.

  15. Re:Let's try an experiment... on What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are not supposed to date 12 year old girls.

  16. Re:Stop it on 2003 Privacy and Human Rights Survey Released · · Score: 1

    Even better, just encrypt your shit before you send it. If privacy is that important to you, there are certainly ways to achieve it.

  17. Re:iMac stats on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 0

    You forgot the software costs, tech support/warranty costs, but yeah, Macs are still a rip off. Better to price what you can buy with $1300, and compare that. $1300 builds a hell of a PC.

  18. Re:NEWS ALERT (Summary) on How Much Does A Cloud Weigh? · · Score: 1

    It IS blue though, and here's why-

    Blue is a purely human concept. Therefore whatever I percieve to be blue is in fact blue. If you have a "blueometer" or other device, then we can talk about what color the sky really is.

    Thanks!

  19. This is great on Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in · · Score: 1
    To use IRM features, businesses will need a server running Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system and Windows Rights Management Services software. The server software will record permission rules set by the document creator, such as other people authorized to view the document and expiration dates for any permissions. When another person receives that document, they briefly log in to the Windows Rights Management server--over the Internet or a corporate network--to validate the permissions.

    So, if the server or network is down, I can't access my own documents. Seems a little risky to me... What if I just want to do a little work on the road with my laptop?
  20. Re:not a line of code... on FWB Admits RealPC for Mac OS X was Vaporware · · Score: 1

    I think that would be "hype-ware", or maybe "shitware".

  21. Re:Crazy Go Nuts! on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released · · Score: 1

    Go Dumples!

  22. Bring a bedpan and pack a lunch on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man that theatre is going to smell bad. Dec 16th = Smelly LOTR day.

  23. My Favorite Part! on SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them · · Score: 1

    In addition the copy is to go back substantially further as its rights at Unix. Besides they are by AT&T under BSD license to have been spread, thus have been freely available and can from there in Linux to have been received.

    Word to your most direct female ancestor!

  24. Re:ok bad pun on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean.. I have a Stingray 4 and it's a great bass.. it's even cooler that thier IT dept. is teh r0x0r.

  25. Re:still undisputed champions of link hiding on Divx Now Adware Supported Only · · Score: 1