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  1. Re:Stupid question but... on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1
    If the use of cash becomes illegal, then counterfeiting it would be somewhat pointless, eh?

    Yes, but by then, perhaps counterfeiting identity papers will be a valuble skill to have...

  2. Re:paying in cash? on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1
    I think the worse that would happen is they would know that two particular documents originated from the same printer.

    One of which may be traceable.

  3. Re:Stupid question but... on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Yes, but when they start checking around and eventually find that you own such a printer, and that you refuse to let them examine said printer, they get a warrant and find that indeed it is YOUR printer that printed the bills.

    Perhaps one day, the use of "cash" will be illegal.

  4. Re:Tinfoil printouts on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1
    Millimeter sized? Hell, I'd think a printer was dirty or something. Those are awfully big and noticable?

    I agree. If my color printer sprinkled this kind of crap over my documents, I'd take it back.

  5. Re:Here's the deal... on Migrating IE Web Apps to Mozilla · · Score: 1
    I, personally, do not and will not connect to the internet (or even the local net) with MSIE installed on my computer. I consider it excessively dangerous.

    Which eliminates working for 75% of the IT operations out there. Good developers work with whatever the boss wants them to work with.

  6. Re:Web Forms... on Migrating IE Web Apps to Mozilla · · Score: 1
    or use standard ECMAScript (Javascript) to do the same thing minus the security holes of ActiveX.

    Not really. Some of the minor stuff, but in no way = to AciveX.

  7. Here's the deal... on Migrating IE Web Apps to Mozilla · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm sure, with your small World View and asinine opinion, you are not in any position to "do business" with them anyway. Generally, code monkeys like you are LOW on the totem poll.

  8. Web Forms... on Migrating IE Web Apps to Mozilla · · Score: 1

    To me, the main advantage of IE web apps is complex forms and form actions / processing that can be accomplished with ActiveX widgets combined with VB and VB Script. Widespread adoption of a standard and rich web forms technology would eliminate much of the need for IE dependent web app technologies.

  9. Re:More people than you think would pony... on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1
    Plus the crap she'd be expected to buy for friends, family, etc. Plus leaving money for the heirs.

    Fuck 'em. She can hold a yearly Christmas party. Let the leaches fall away.

  10. One Possibl;e Reason... on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1
    but I somehow thought that by now a public company could have pulled it off already

    Space travel involves HUGE infrastructure that is much more expensive to set up and fund than just the cost of a single launch. This is one of the reasons private space travel has not "taken off" yet.

  11. More people than you think would pony... on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1

    Suppose (as several people have in just the last few years) that you win the lotto for 200 plus million. The truth is that you could blow 100 million and still be set for life, no big deal. Orbiting the moon is a trip of a lifetime, so why not?

  12. Re:Downloading isn't evil at all. on Challenging Music Downloading Myths · · Score: 1, Troll

    You may play games with words if you wish. But at the bottom line, it's dishonest, and you know it.

  13. Re:Downloading isn't evil at all. on Challenging Music Downloading Myths · · Score: 1

    The fact that these people buy a lot of music is not justification for them to steal it as well. That's just a silly idea.

  14. Wonder why... on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    I've had it open for about 2.5 hours on WinXP (a machine which freezes regularly when I load PhotoShop). I have several other applications open as well. Still going...

  15. Re:#1 thing Inkscake is missing on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I've had it open and have been fucking around with it fro the last 2 hours, hasn't crashed yet. Very nice. Impressive. As an OSS project, much slicker than Gimp (yes I know, different thing, blaw, blaw, blaw).

  16. Re:NASA Says Thermal Tile on Debris Seen Falling Off Shuttle During Launch · · Score: 1

    Yes, well, it was a piece of hard foam that brought down the last one...

  17. Yes but... on Jeremy White on WINE Installer Challenge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...does Ron Jeremy have to say about it?

  18. More or less true... on Debris Seen Falling Off Shuttle During Launch · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Well, not quite the same, but "Pinky" Nelson says the Shuttle's days are past and we need to move on.

    And to be frank, which is true Pinky-style, he thinks at 30 years old, the shuttle is past her prime and says it's time for the next spacecraft.

    "I'm gonna worry about every launch until then," he says.

    http://www.komotv.com/stories/38187.htm

  19. NASA Says Thermal Tile on Debris Seen Falling Off Shuttle During Launch · · Score: 3, Informative
    From Foxnews:

    NASA officials said an object that may have been a 1 1/2-inch piece of thermal tile appeared to break off from the Discovery's belly during liftoff. It came off from around a particularly vulnerable spot, near the doors to the compartment containing the nose landing gear.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163629,00.html

  20. Sign me up. on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 1

    I will load Linux if you give me a blowjob. When can we schedule a time? My preferred distro is unpopular here (RHEL4), but it's still Linux.

  21. MMMmmmmmm... Microsoft cheese! on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful
    MMMmmmmmm... Microsoft cheese!

    But seriously, this all sounds like pretty smoke and mirrors (how can I possibly pass on platoons of new widgets?) Any solid reasons for my work site, which has several hundred workstations, to deploy this when we just recently stabilized and standardized on WinXP SP2? No?

  22. Re:Don't even bother... on Fun and Informative Way to Introduce Open Source? · · Score: 1

    In the English language, and most others as well, the first word of a sentence is capitalized. Most educated people know this.

  23. Are the prices reasonable? on A Portrait of the UK Game Pirate · · Score: 1
    They feel videogames are too expensive and resent the long wait for many games released in the US or in Asia before the UK.

    I don't know anything about how long it takes for legit games to hit the stores in the UK, but the price issue is universal. I just can't help but think if games were more reasonably priced, the level of piracy would go down. Most people actually would prefer a real copy, but few think $40 plus is reasonable.

  24. Re:Yes, excuse you. on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1
    I think the GP's point is that he's not someone who's opinion should be newsworthy.

    An opinion that most people would not agree with...

  25. Re:Don't even bother... on Fun and Informative Way to Introduce Open Source? · · Score: 1
    Gimp will be the most useful for Mary Jane and Brad who want to make a collage of their kids.

    I don't think so. Gimp is not ready for professionals that now use Photoshop, and way too much for people that just want to make a collage for their kids. Gimp has potential but trying to say it is anywhere near what current Photoshop users want is just dilusioning yourself.