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  1. Re:Your own dog food... on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    They might.

  2. Re:BUT INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREEEEE. on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 1

    Proved? One person suggested it, no one else verified. RH also still distributes all of their source.

  3. Re:Devalued? on Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Perhaps more people are realizing that just because someone wrote it down doesn't make it valuable. Just because it is in the NYT or Wall Street Journal doesn't make it worth anything. People will, in general, pay for things if they see a worth to it, but if they don't, they won't.

  4. What competition? on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no real competition in the US mobile market, only the illusion of competition.

  5. Re:Disgusting on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. The Red Cross actually suggests that you donate often to keep their accounts ready to deal with a disaster at a moments notice instead of them having to wait for donations. So it's possible that money they received because of a flood of donations after, for instance, the earthquake in Haiti is being funneled into relief destined for Japan right now.

  6. Now that is a useful feature on Google Introduces Domain Blocking To Search · · Score: 2

    Expertsexchange can go strait to hell.

  7. Re:Where's the line? on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 1

    If you can equate legitimate business to pretending to be a charity to extort money out of people then I suppose you have a moral conundrum.

    A big difference in your example is that rice companies are actually selling rice, charity scams aren't providing charitable works.

  8. Re:Disgusting on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know what I find more disgusting, that these inevitable scams pop up or that I felt the need to send out a company wide email to remind people that the Red Cross and such doesn't send out grammatically incorrect bulk email requesting donations at donations@reddcroos.ru

  9. Re:Yet another reason to begrudge nVidia on NVIDIA To Push Into Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    You're the one who bought an unsupported device without researching, but nVidia is the bad guy here.

  10. Re:Yet another reason to begrudge nVidia on NVIDIA To Push Into Supercomputing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    nVidia shuns linux users? They may 'shun' those that can not have any non-GPL code, but they do make a higher performing and far more feature rich driver for their cards for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris and keep it (for the most part) up to date. If you don't like it, there are alternatives.

    Gotta love the rabid GPL fans. The GPL doesn't mean freedom for everyone to do things the way you think they should be done.

  11. SGI on NVIDIA To Push Into Supercomputing · · Score: 4, Funny

    version 2

  12. Re:Technically... on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    The other examples are John Quincy Adams (vs. Andrew Jackson 1824), Rutherford B. Hayes (vs. Samuel J. Tilden 1876), and Benjamin Harrison (vs. Grover Cleveland 1888), and of course George W. Bush (vs. Al Gore 2000)

  13. Better than the alternative on Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations · · Score: 1

    Scum and Villainy and all that.

  14. Re:How the heck do I attach to my TV? on Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment · · Score: 1

    You get a new TV with an HDMI port.

  15. Re:Mixed bag on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 1

    That irritation is finally being fixed in Lion.

  16. Re:What is the point of OSX server? on Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Developer Preview Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Home and small business users. You know, those that thought Jobs suggestion to run OS X Server on a Mac Pro or a Mini was just fine.

    Apple has no real interest in the enterprise market.

  17. Re:We wish we could do that on Late Night Gaming Banned In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    I doubt productivity really fell when Internet access was introduced into the workplace. People waste time at work and always have, restricting one way just makes them waste it in another.

  18. Re:Really not that bad..... on National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    50 miles outside of Raleigh, NC and AT&T only just brought their 3G service to the area about 6 weeks ago. I don't believe 99% of the US has 3G, by area or by population.

  19. Re:Outlook on Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice · · Score: 3, Informative

    Outlook is more then just a e-mail reader. Corporate support for Outlook and nothing else is from running Exchange as their collaboration suite. Nothing works better with Exchange than Outlook and replacing all the functionality of Exchange/Outlook is not easy.

  20. Re:I fart in the general direction of vi on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    Real Unix admins are lazy. They are not going to Type Everything Completely Over.

  21. Re:This is a DMCA-free comment on Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is threaten with big words. Most places will not risk having to prove a challenge was bogus.

  22. Re:Publicity fumble: Why not do it live? on Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight · · Score: 1

    Because Jeopardy is never live. This is just another Jeopardy episode, except one of the contestants isn't breathing.

    I'm pretty sure the IBM team would be ecstatic to destroy the human competitors. They really don't have to care if people are put off, it's an IBM Research project, they aren't planning on selling Watson to you any time soon.

  23. Re:Not sure why people are knocking it on Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight · · Score: 2

    It also responds if the host asks it to be most specific.

  24. ISP on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until my home ISP or the ISP for the company I work for offers IPv6, I think it's going to be very easy to ignore IPv6.

  25. Re:Someone's gotta do it... on Designer Tweets Egyptian Riots Due to His New Line Coming Out · · Score: 2

    Pretty much. People need to realize that not everyone holds your sacred moments as sacred.