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  1. Why is the "bottom" of the market $350? on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That seems steep. Maybe this article is designed for the semiprofessional photographer who carries more than one camera around? That way the discussion about weight and bulk sounds more relevant. I mean if you're going to spend $1000 on a digital camera you may already be familiar with Digital Hasselblads.

  2. Whichever one your friend spent more money on on Guide to your Perfect Digital Camera · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is the perfect one. At least that's what he tells me.

  3. They turned into PS2s on Reliving The Glory Days of SGI · · Score: 2, Informative

    An SGI workstation is about equal to the graphics power of a PS2. SGI learned the hard way that if you need to ride the crest of Moore's law then you need massively large capital investment to do it. Niche 'power' workstations is a dead business.

  4. Re:I'm enthralled by your face2face prattling on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 1

    And your fat baby Jesus too.

  5. Re:I'm enthralled by your face2face prattling on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    See? A bunch of nazis. Go fuck yourselves to death and I hope your plane crashes into your own house.

  6. I'm enthralled by your face2face prattling on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh I'm sure you get mucho soccermom points handing out cards to people about how much you enjoy shaming and embarrassing them over talking on their phone....

    Guess what? I fucking can't stand listening to you talk to the person sitting next to you. I don't fucking care about how your little whore did at cheerleading camp. I don't fucking care about your golf game. I don't fucking care about how much you paid for your house/car/boat. I don't fucking care who the fuck your're flying to to visit, how long it's been since you visited them last, the wonderful job your son has or your daughter in laws seat on the local school board. I don't fucking care about how long you waited in line today. I don't fucking care about your snotty kids who I think you should fucking beat into a coma if they don't shut the fuck up already. I don't fucking care about the paperback book you're reading. In fact I don't fucking want to hear a peep out of your stupid smug christmas sweater wearing fat assed can't fucking sit down in the correct seat or get your fucking bag stowed in under 30 minutes chattering snarky insulting card handing out mouth at all. So sit the fuck down shut the fuck up and if you complain about my cell phone I will shove it down your fucking throat up to my elbow.

  7. White people...meet cribs on Segway Polo · · Score: 1

    Segway polo, next stop solid platinum iPod Stadium Concerts.

  8. Verizon to buy Sprint, kill Nextel on Sprint Close to Buying Nextel · · Score: 1

    Nextel was going to be to the next great thing when it was rolled out a decade ago. They suffered from the "We have better technology ergo we don't have to do anything else" syndrome. I can't really understand why Sprint would want to pay that much for Nextel's clients. In either case Verizon should buy Sprint and hopefully increase and improve Sprint's coverage area which is the worst of the major cell players. I am a Sprint customer and I experience digital roaming practically everywhere I go.

  9. Re:Linspire still free? on TheOpenCD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's "Lindows", I forget.

  10. Linspire still free? on TheOpenCD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I think if you put Linspire in the discount code field on the ordering page it's still a free downloadable image.

  11. If they easy to hack then they be pointless on Password Security Not Easy · · Score: 1

    Point is it doesn't matter if your password is a randomly generated 18 character string of letters numbers punctuation marks two snaps and twirl if the underlying fapplication is teh shit.

    Otherwise just get a good PDA app and store the passwords in for as many as you need. I have hundreds and I don't really care how difficult they are.

  12. It's not storage it's indexing on Digital Packrats · · Score: 1

    What's the point of capturing 3.8 quabbigabillion bytes of music if you can't easily find it browse or use it?

    I don't know about you but rapidly scrolling through an alphabetized list 10,000 rows deep is essentially useless to me.

  13. Big Brother the Grocery Clerk on Driver's Licenses with Digital Watermarks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shit just what we need another device to track us in the complete absence of either a coherent process that controls how they are handed out in the first place AND any sort of legislative brakes on the data that is embedded on it or what data its usage gathers.

  14. Put a woman in your lap on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 1

    Seriously if you are fat weird comicbook store guy and you flop in the LayZBoy all night with a computer in your lap then it doesn't matter how fecund ye gonads be. The first thing you need to have in your lap is woman who's willing to be impregnated.

  15. Time well spent. Kudos Congress on Private Spaceflight Law Passes Senate · · Score: 0

    Wow between this and Freedom Fries I just want to cry with shame at our gubmint.

  16. Re:Why is more fragmentation better? on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 1

    That's wonderful. I lived in the Ivory Coast and there are 700 different dialects of languages spoken. I imagine that reinforcing that is not only a good use of scarce resources but time well spent as well.

    The languages of technology are English, Chinese, Japanese, French. And everything else is a distant last place.

  17. Wait till the cable company is a phone company on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 1

    Wrapped up in a movie/TV/radio company. Not only will they criminalize zapping through their malware (advertising) they will make it illegal to refuse to buy the service at all. You can expect to have private ownership of computers, or at least private responsibility for what's on your computer to go away and be replaced by a government licence. Of course people will still be prosecuted for the content of their machines but someone's got to fill the prisons....

  18. Free speech George Bush style on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At least in the PRC they're more upfront about it. Here in Redneckistan they just leave it up to 'private' groups to narc you to the gubmint.

  19. Why is more fragmentation better? on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 1

    How many people who are able and prefer to use Swahili actually going to use a computer to do it or is this yet another vanity computer project like Google in Klingon? Why is it progress to do something to insure that more people are isolated from one another?

  20. Great non answer on Massive Layoffs At AOL · · Score: 1

    "My guy isn't actually a cannibal yet, I hate lib-r-als, mwah mwah mwah I'm a victim they're picking on me again, mommy!!".

  21. Hopefully they will all be homeless on Massive Layoffs At AOL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ahhh Christmas in George Bush's America. I can practically smell the trashcan fires burning.

  22. Re:Margaret Atwood said it best on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    Still the whining victim I see. Were you conceived at a Nuremburg rally?

  23. Pretty sad some of the responses here on Programmer Built Vote-Rigging Demo for Florida Politician · · Score: 1

    The obligatory "Ur all seeing black helicopters" rant from the right as if actually winning and probably winning by enough, so that even if this were true and there was some fraud you;d probably win anyhow. And yet, even that's not enough, no. You have to moan like the permanent victims you imagine yourselves to be. Which is pretty shameful and puts you in the same basket as third world tyrants and military juntas. Always the victim, and there is always permanent Emmanuel Goldstein enemy out there for you.

  24. I have a P2-400 that runs AOK on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For normal garden variety desktop office type usage. With W2K and 288MB RAM I see no reason to ever get rid of it.

    I also have a P2-350 that runs absolutely fine for a single peripheral and application, a digital drawing tablet and image scanning. And with an even older W92OSR2 and only a 160MB RAM there is probably no reason to ever change it. When the peripherals fail and I have to replace them with devices that are not supported by the OS I be forced to but that will require only another 100-200MB RAM and an installation of W2K.

    I think this almost biological urge to constantly upgrade CPU power is like a sickness.

  25. Duchy of Grand Fenwick Linux rises up in revolt on Sun's COO Pretends Linux Belongs To Red Hat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously - if we need to soothe the ruffled feathers of every Eskimo language Linux distro that runs on my espresso machine then Microsoft has already obiterated us.

    The Bigger Picture, people, the Bigger Picture.