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  1. Re:Simple Answer: No on Does OSS Make The FCC Irrelevant? · · Score: 1

    Who says they can't?

  2. Re:Simple Answer: No on Does OSS Make The FCC Irrelevant? · · Score: 1

    Since when do they regulate cable? I'm pretty sure I can watch boobies iwthout restriction.

  3. Re:Coin has two sides on iPod Tax Causes Sour Apples · · Score: 1

    I guess I should pay my parents, huh? After all, without them I wouldn't exist. 10% of my life earnings sound fair?

  4. Re:Disbarrment on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > They are real-life trolls Most insightful Jack Thompson comment. Ever.

  5. Re:Disbarrment on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This really reminds of of McCarthy. People eventually saw him for what he was, a fucking lunatic.

  6. Re:Ooooh. on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't think they want this in civilian hands any any large quantity.

    Imagine a house protected with this stuff and a SWAT team trying to save a child from being killed by his mentally-disturbed dad.

    I know, "protect the children", but anything that can stop multiple rounds of .50 cal defeats police snipers.

  7. Shoot out on FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky · · Score: 1

    You mean there wasn't a shootout where he got shot? With crack sprinkled on him?

    Awwww =(

  8. Re:Because Novell fucking told you you want it! on Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tell me how round buttons effect productivity. At all. They are not even round. They are rounded sqaures and are EASY TO CLICK. If Windows has small close buttons and Linux came out with buttons that were 100px sqaure, would you be cumming yourself?

    Sounds like your are so insecure in your geekness/masculinity that you worry over the color of a button. You can disable the Windows themes service with just a few clicks.

  9. Re:Will it be usable? on Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. As long as the interface is useable, you might as well make it pretty, too.

  10. Re:Great timing on the topic on Software PVRs Becoming Tivo Killers · · Score: 1

    I had been researching both for about a month before I laid down 600 bucks for a new computer. I chose MythTV

  11. Re:Mod parent +25. on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit.

    We aren't born with expectations of how an OS should work.

  12. Re:How is that cheating? on Microsoft Adopts Virtual Licenses · · Score: 1

    They don't require CALs for macs!

  13. Re:$20 million will do that on 20,000 Show up for X-Prize Expo · · Score: 0

    I have always loved the Xprize.

    It shows the absolutely amazing things people can do with the interest and incentive. This is the kind of stuff that would take NASA 20 years to do, but they are well on their way in 5. Shit, we can't even go to the moon if we wanted to. All the tooling for the saturn rockets was DESTROYED. What a fucking great idea, eh?
    I don't say this much, but hooray for the private sector.

    I know they are doing this for future profit but that's what makes it so great. In an era of stupid shareholders wants R&D turnarounds of one year, they have the long term in mind.

  14. Re:The licenses aren't the problem, the content is on The Firemonger Project · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Mafia on Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU · · Score: 1

    That's bullshit. Operating systems CAN NOT tell if a program is good or bad. Operating systems only do what the user says to do. Frankly, if it did anything else I'd be pissed.

  16. Re:sounds like... on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, forgot about that part.

    Doh! I thought it was awful before =(

  17. Re:sounds like... on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 0

    Last time I checked they had these magical things called wiretaps before 2001.

  18. Re:This is just one more reason... on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 1

    Just want to endorse the parent. I'd like to see the FBI tap and sort my 400 kb/s bittorrent traffic that goes on 24/7. Then try and find an AIM message which looks corrupted because it's encrypted anyway.

  19. Re:It's a pity eBay bought Skype on FCC Giving Veto Power to FBI Over VoIP? · · Score: 1

    Skype uses 256-bit AES encryption already

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Security

  20. Windows vs Linux on Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone that says that Linux will beat out Windows in every situation is a fool.

    Choose the product that best suits your needs. If Linux doesn't cut it, get Windows. If Windows doesn't cut it, get Linux.

  21. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Spark that interest on Walk on the Moon in IMAX 3D · · Score: 1

    You conveniently forget Pathfinder, possibly the most awe-inspiring NASA event in decades. The whole world was literally talking about it.

  23. Re:Water City on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    "It covers half the planet!"

  24. Re:Water City on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    4 words and one number: "1993 World Trade Center bombing"

  25. Re:Kind of a stretch... on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    Remember that lawyers trying to make it so they can sue anyone draft these things (aka people without common sense or social responsibility). If an engineer wrote that his friends would laugh and disown him.