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  1. Re:And they got off easy ... on Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually this fine is about 5 times larger than any previous spam-related fine in Denmark, according to Politiken, a Danish newspaper.

  2. Re:costumers on Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A costumer is one who creates costumes. Still, a very common (and annoying) misspelling. I'm not going to classify it as a typo, as it appears that people believe customer actually spelled this way.

  3. Re:Fanboy alert on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think your sarcasm detector is broken. That is a pretty obvious joke.

  4. Re:ctrl alt del! on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 1

    I don't read DS anymore, but to my knowledge, he has never been late in 4+ years. I prefer achewood, white ninja, buttlord gt, perry bible fellowship, bob the angry flower, wulffmorgenthaler, and slow wave. I don't feel like linking all those. Use google.

  5. Re:ctrl alt del! on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Diesel Sweeties would probably win, if R. Stevens signed up. He said he's not going to, though.

  6. Re:Sync issues on AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program · · Score: 1

    With mplayerosx I can move the sound with the -/+ keys on the numpad (A/V Delay). I haven't figured out how to do it from the command line, but I haven't spent much time on it either.

  7. Re:Ninja-hackers? on How to Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime For Spring · · Score: 1

    With a katana. Possibly a wakizashi.

  8. Re:No torrent option yet? on Google Announces 'Google Movies' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Err am I the only one for which it says
    "Find theaters near you
    [homotown] [go]
    [x] Remember this location"?

    Prepares for onslaught of "yes, yes you are" replies.

  9. Re:It ain't Unix! on Mac OS X Server Panther · · Score: 1

    Just for the record, the command is called ditto. I also seem to remember reading someplace that Tiger will have rsrc fork support for cp & mv.

  10. Link to thread on Apple Posts Security Update 2005-002 · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it works, otherwise the message IDs are: 1174@ames.UUCP, 19400003@datacube.UUCP, and 386@aurora.UUCP in reverse chronological order. The funniest being 1174@ames.UUCP

    google groups.

  11. Re:Go Go Apple on Apple Posts Security Update 2005-002 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I remember finding an amusing post on usenet from 1983 or 1984 discussing the possibilities of Apple adding Objective C libraries to the Macintosh. Took a while, but they did it! :D

  12. Scandinavian scanned content online on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1

    Some sources for scanned Scandinavian books, some OCRd:

    * Numerous encyclopedias (bibliographical, etc), as well as literature at Project Runeberg

    * Encyclopedias regarding Danish parishes at Statsbiblioteket

    * Misc. pre-1900 legal texts as well as dictionary of Danish 1300-1700, at Digitalhylla

    * Codex Holmiensis
    (midieval Danish law)
    * H.C. Andersen's manuscripts

  13. Re:Interesting term from TFA: on Euro Patent Restart Demand Repeated by Parliament · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about Movie And Film Industry Assoctiotion? :)

  14. Re:It's awesome... on Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I think that is what your parent means, that there's no way to mirror in realtime. If there was a way to donate bandwidth so that whenever someone went to wikipedia.org, the load would be distributed across whomever was donating at the time, it would be prety neat.

  15. Mod parent the hell up on Judge Slams SCO's Lack of Evidence · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. This is the stuff that retrials are made of.

    And all the while, we'll have to listen to all these ridiculous claims.

  16. Re:Detailed Instructions... [-100: troll] on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 1

    3. Insert even less useful "PC crap"

    How was this modded insightful?

  17. Re:Size DOES Matter on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    I agree. Size does matter. While the submitter was referring to the ages old "size does not matter" line, he was trying to make the point in the opposite direction. Where it was once "bigger is better", it's now "smaller is better". I works pretty bad in the summary, though.

  18. Re:Mpeg. on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    If I read the article correctly, he wants to offer WMV and another format. I'm pretty sure that anyone who doesn't use WMV is probably using a player that supports MPEG4 (QT, VLC, mplayer, etc).

  19. Re:Quicktime is cross-platform on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    You set the date back after clicking ok, naturally.

  20. Re:Civilization? on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 1

    I would never give them the wheel. They could make chariots!

  21. I got it! on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 1

    How is the computer even going to know that the program is working correctly? I suppose it could parse the specs beforehand, and compare them with the source code. We'd need to write the specs in a machine-readable language, though.

    Of course, we would also need a parser to determine if we wrote the specs correctly, possibly by using a third language that defines the way that specs are transformed from human language to machine-readable language.

  22. Re:Memories for life? on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Heh, you got me beat there. I only have about a hundred megs of MacWrite II documents and HyperCard stacks from around 1990.

  23. Re:I'm still waiting for things promised by Y2K on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 1

    In Denmark, cells with video (as in, seeing who you're talking to) are starting to spread pretty widely. I'd be willing to wager that almost all Danes know a person who has one.

    Granted, we're pretty crazy about cell technology here (although not as much as Japan).

  24. Re:Typo on DirectX9 - For More Than Just Gamers? · · Score: 1

    Way to go, I put an error in my own grammar nazi post.

  25. Re:Typo on DirectX9 - For More Than Just Gamers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it were only a typo it wouldn't really be a problem. However, a and e aren't nearly close enough for this to be anything but ignorance. :)