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  1. Re:Tip of the iceberg? on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    I remember reading a statistic recently citing that over 100,000 laptops were "lost or stolen" within the realm of airline travel. Now I wonder how many of these occurrences are inside jobs.

    All of them?

  2. Re:Yeah... so what? on Al-Qaeda Web Sites Go Offline · · Score: 5, Funny

    The government budget to run these sites has been transferred to bailing out the banks.

  3. Re:Mac OS X on Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 · · Score: 1

    NeoOffice runs on top of OOo code.. It is the OOo code that is not stable.

  4. Re:irrational... on Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices · · Score: 1

    Why do so many people like Subway?

    Oh, because they use fresh baked bread? Because it's fairly healthy? And how exactly do you screw up a sandwich, anyway?

    I guess you haven't been to a Subway in a while. They found a way to screw up a sandwich by putting less and less on it in order to cut costs.

  5. Re:irrational... on Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices · · Score: 1

    Yeah, having a platform that "just works" is just sooo terrible for customers.

  6. Re:well on Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices · · Score: 1

    No worries. All the developers making tons of money on the App Store didn't want you around anyway.

  7. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought as well.

    Also a "Personal Computer" could be a Mac. :-)

  8. Re:The ads weren't that great. on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 1

    And yet 1/3 of sales in the Apple retail stores are people switching from Windows.

  9. Re:Just an ID? There's a DB somewhere... on New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses · · Score: 1

    And since when did Canada become the enemy??

    Direct flights to Cuba... Nuf said.

  10. Re:Meaningless? on New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses · · Score: 1

    Because you can't use the DHS RFID serial number to get credit issued, which is the only (valid) reason people worry about their social security number.

    Or access to your 401K

    Or access to your bank accounts

  11. Re:With a catch.... on Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400 · · Score: 1

    Gads, who on earth would run a 64-core Windows box?

    Someone trying to run Microsoft's bloated software?

  12. Re:Specs? on Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400 · · Score: 1

    Wow, if you need your e-mail and office suite to be processor aware, maybe you should stop using Windows.

  13. Re:Base 2 on Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course their die surface is 8 times bigger too.

  14. Re:DRM, the snake oil of content producers on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Except that you only bought a limited right to use license... You don't own any rights to resell the CD. (All hail corporate America!)

  15. Re:We will not compromise on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    I agree, I think EA is blowing its own foot off. I spend a LOT of money on games.

    Prepare to spend a lot more. You are exactly who this is created for then.

  16. Re:How is this a compromise? on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    -Warning: Zero resale value.

    Warning: you don't BUY software.. you rent a right to use license.

  17. Re:Steve will fix it, don't worry. on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 1

    Nope.. The field is actually maintained by Apple IT.

    http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2006/04/what_i_do_for_a.html

  18. Re:Pfft. on German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't border issues be handled at the border?

  19. Re:Pfft. on German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would be hard pressed to find anything bad about this.

    Nothing wrong with employees working booths at trade shows being terrorized by armed thugs?

  20. Re:That's Not "Ironic" on Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans · · Score: 4, Informative

    But at some point the Islamic side will wake up and see just how godless the Chinese can be, and the Chinese will wake up and see just how unsensibly non-pragmatic the Islamic fundamentalists can be, and things will become "interesting", in the Confucian sense.

    It isn't reported much, but there ARE Islamic bombings in China already...

  21. Re:Fist Prose on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 1

    Yep! NetFlix nets me about six discs a week with their three-at-a-time plan. Thank Cthulhu for AnyDVD and CloneDVD! :)

    I have the 1-at-a-time plan and I get 3 discs per week. :-P

  22. Re:USB? Bah. on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    You forget that firewire 800 exists today.

  23. Re:Is it just me on Shrinky Dinks As a Threat To National Security · · Score: 1

    Virus?

    You mean you allow Windows?

    Who does that anymore?

  24. Re:Suck up airtime. on T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones · · Score: 1

    So, if I write an app the sucks up a lot of bandwidth and airtime and as a result T-Mobile gets to bill the customer for a lot more money, I make more money?

    T-Mobile's data plan is flat rate.

  25. Re:Need a standardized platform! on T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones · · Score: 1

    J2ME runs basically anywhere....

    Except when it really only runs on the phone the developer had for development.