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  1. Wrong. on Putting Google to the Test · · Score: 1
    Google has built its reputation on being the fastest and most accurate way to find information.

    Google doesn't find information nor was it designed to. It finds websites. Big difference. Fundamental difference. Understand what I'm saying and you'll undergo a religious experience.

  2. Re:SOLLY CHOLLY on Star Trek TOS DVD Box Sets Forthcoming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not a troll. Re-read the submitter's post again.

  3. Re:Remember Bill Gate's quote? on 1981 Personal Computer Catalog · · Score: 4, Informative

    You must be the last guy on earth to believe he actually said that. He didn't.

  4. The Game on Laser Vision Offers New Insights · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Come on Wesley, play the game!"

  5. Re:Online Banking Model on California Panel Recommends Dumping Diebold · · Score: 1

    So throw some terminals in the polling stations. I think the grandparent has nailed it and I'd like to hear why this couldn't work.

  6. Re:PNG on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    It was good enough in the BBS days.

  7. Re:point-five past lightspeed on Star Wars Galaxies Takes Jump To Lightspeed · · Score: 1

    I've heard this explanation as well but it sounds like a total coverup for what was an obvious mistake. It's like saying, I drove from Chicago to New York in only 500 miles! And without the back story you provide, a viewer watching Star Wars would think it nonsensical. The parsec reference was obviously thrown in because it was found in the research and sounded 'spacey.' Lucas can't and won't admit he made a mistake so instead he comes up with a few details that seem to explain what he really meant.

  8. Re:You are not devious on FBI Raids Arizona School District Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Then that student has a responsibility to inform the network admin or maybe he could change his fucking password dumbass. And if they're getting PIN numbers [sic] maybe he should tell the cops. Please, this just isn't happening.

  9. Re:public search engine on WebCrawler Turns 10 Today · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait until Google goes public and buy stock.

  10. Re:I'm a Big Fan Of GoBack on Tracking Changes to a Windows System? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Windows XP ships with System Restore built right in. Same thing.

  11. Re:Shouldn't this be YRO? on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    Guess what? E-mail isn't secure! I've always been taught to think of unencrypted e-mail as a postcard: anyone can read it and given the chance, most likely will.

  12. Re:How will this help Gas prices? on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    Porn, brothels. God forbid you actually have a real girlfriend.

  13. Wrong. on Weapons in Space · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From a quick Google search: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, outlawing "the appropriation of space" by any nation, bans orbiting vehicles bearing nuclear weapons. Earliest negotiations between the superpowers on arms limitations, SALT I, resulted in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. The ABM Treaty forbids missile defense shields such as Ronald Reagan's 1983 Star Wars initiative. Likewise, it outlaws the Ballistic Missile Defense boondoggle currently under development. The two space technology programs have cost taxpayers over $100 billion dollars and if pursued, could cost $250 billion more. But Russia says Nyet"to abrogating or amending the ABM Treaty to permit "space defenses."

    Last November, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed the Outer Space Treaty, reserving space for peaceful use only. But the United States abstained from the vote. The region beyond the stratosphere is seen by the Pentagon as a theater of engagement. A 1996 Air Force report predicts "space-based weapons of devastating effectiveness [will] effect very many kills ... This technology [is] advanced at Los Alamos National Lab and other nuclear weapons labs" (Air and Space Power for the 21st Century).

  14. Re:I fail to see on Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway · · Score: 1

    That's not actually the test. According to "What Computers Still Can't Do" by Dreyfus, Turing first wrote about his test in 1950 in his article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." The test he orginally proposes is called the Imitation Game. It's played by three people: A man, a woman, and an interrogator who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room separate from the other two. The object of the game is for the interrogator to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman through questioning. Now the question becomes what happens when a computer takes the place of the man? Will the interrogator guess wrongly as often as when he plays with an actual man or woman?

  15. Re:It's kind of like having a real life tamagotchi on Spread The Love (And Pay Us) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have one of those. It's called a dog.

  16. Re:QT? What about licensing? on Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated] · · Score: 2, Interesting
    the most obvious is that it is a barrier to adoption

    Linux has been free for years and yet only accounts for 5% of the desktop max. So what is the real barrier to people adopting Linux then?

  17. Re:Too many choices?? Hardly on The Paradox of Choice · · Score: 4, Interesting
    There are too many choices. If Linux wants to make it on the desktop they need to orient Linux in such a way that there are two choices: Windows and Linux. The problem right now is the choices are Windows and Adamantix, ADIOS, AGNULA,Aleader,AL-AMLUG,ALT,Ankur Bangla,Arabbix,Arch,Ares,Ark,ASLinux,ASP,Astaro,Au gustux,Aurora,Aurox,AUSTRUMI,Ayrsoft,Bayanihan,Bea rOps,BEERnix,Berry,Biadix,Bioknoppix,blackPanther, BlackRhino,BLAG,Blin,Bluewall,Bonzai,Boten,BrlSpea k,Buffalo,Burapha,ByzantineOS,Caixa Magica,cAos,CDlinux,Censornet,Chinese 2000,ClarkConnect,CLE,clusterKNOPPIX,Cobind,Colleg e,Componentized,Condorux,Conectiva,Cool,Core,Cosix ,CPUBuilders,CRUX,Damn Small,Danix,Debian,Deep-Water, Defender,Definity,DeLi,DemoLinux,Devil,Drinou,dyne :bolic,Eagle,eduKnoppix,EduLinux,eLearnix,ELX,EnGa rde,ESware,Euronode,EvilEntity,Feather,Fedora,FIRE ,Flonix,Freeduc,Freepia,GeeXboX,Gelecek,Gentoo,Gen toox,Gibraltar Gnoppix,GNUstep,gnuLinEx,GoboLinux,Guadalinex,Haki n9,Hancom,Happy Mac,Haydar,HispaFuentes,Holon,Icepack,IDMS,Ignalum ,Impi,INSERT,IPCop,JoLinux,Jollix,JUSIX,K12LTSP,Ka lango,KANOTIX,Kinneret,kmLinux,knopILS Knoppix,KnoppiXMAME,Knoppix STD,KnoppMyth,KRUD,Kurumin,L.A.S,LBA-Linux,LFS,LGI S,Libranet,LIIS,LindowsOS,Lineox,Linpus,LinuxConso le,Linuxin,LinuxTLE,Linux XP,Litrix,LiveCD Router,Livux,LNX-BBC,Lonix,Lorma Luinux,Lunar,Lycoris,Magic,Mandows,Mandrake,Media Lab,Medialinux,MEPIS,MIKO GNYO,Miracle,MIZI,Morphix,MoviX,MSC.Linux,MUMi,Mur ix,Nasgaia,Netwosix,NordisKnoppix,NuxOne,OGo Knoppix,O-Net,OEone,Omoikane Onebase,OpenDesktop,OpenNA,OpenSLS,Openwall,Oralux ,Overclockix,PCLinuxOS,Peanut,Penguin Sleuth,Pequelin,Phayoune,PHLAK,PHP Sol,Pingwinek,Plamo,Plan-B,PLD,Polar Bear,Puppy,QiLinux,Quantian,Red Flag,Red Hat,ROCK,ROOT,RPM Live,Rubyx,RUNT,SCI.Linux,Securepoint,SENTINIX,Sen try Firewall,Shabdix,Shark,Skolelinux,Slackintosh,Slac kware,Slavix,SLAX,,Slix,SME Server,SmoothWall,SoL,Sorcerer,Source Mage,Soyombo,stresslinux STUX,SULIX,Sun JDS,SUSE,SystemRescue,TA,Tao,Tech,TFM,Thiz,Tilix,T PM,Trustix,TupiServer,Turbolinux,UHU-Linux,uOS,Use rLinux,Vector,Vine,ViruX,vnlinuxCD,Voodoo,White Box,WinBi,WOMP!,WOW,X-evian,Xandros,Xteam,Yellow Dog,Yoper,YourESale,ZENIX,Zeus,and Zopix.

    Every fork, every distro is one more nail in Linux's chances on the desktop. Linux is divinding and conquering itself. Pick a distro. Name it the One True Linux. Promote the hell out of it. Then you'll see results.

  18. Wrong page brother. on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 3, Informative
    Nice to know they are cutting back on their interface rather than adding spastically like Yahoo.

    You're thinking of Yahoo! the web portal. Yahoo!'s search engine page looks pretty plain to me. They haven't added anything to it.

  19. Re:Researchers? on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 0

    Am I crazy or is the Sun an example of a fusion reaction that gives off more energy than it takes in?

  20. Re:Just slightly OT on Keystroke Logger Faces Federal Wiretap Charges · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I mean, is there any useful use for this device at all?

    Definitely. If you're a writer of some kind, install a KeyKatcher and you've got an instant backup of everything you've written. If your word processor crashes, no problem; fire up KeyKatcher and cut and paste everything you've lost. Beautiful stuff.

  21. Re:Women of geekdom on iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The 4GB iPod is not competing with the 15GB iPod. The 4GB iPod is meant as an alternative to the flash based MP3 players offered by everyone else. Take a look: 256MB Rio Chiba is $200, a 256MB Rio Cali is $200, 256MB Yepp is $200, 512MB Creative MuVo2 X-Trainer is $289. I could go on and on. Now $250 for a 4GB iPod looks pretty good right? To say nothing of the fact that it's an iPod and looks so damn cool compared to any of the flash players out there. People saying the Mini iPod is expensive don't understand Apple's strategy here. They want to compete with flash players with the mini, and HD players with the regular iPod.

  22. Re:loyalty cards on RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or you can always use Rob's card. He doesn't mind.

  23. Re:you signed up! on RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not' · · Score: 0

    I'm reminded of Homer Simpson: "Why did I sign up for Instatrace?"

  24. Re:The Wild Wild Web is born again... on ICANN to Incorporate TLDs Already In-use? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blah, blah, blah. Look, new.net is not selling REAL TLDs. You've got to download a plugin for them to be visible to your browser. Since they're not real TLDs, fuck 'em and their customers for being stupid. Case closed.

  25. GUI=!UI on A History of Every GUI Ever · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I stumbled upon this site - GUIdebook, that offers a history of every GUI, from command prompts...

    A command prompt isn't a graphical user interface. Come on.