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  1. Re:Fishing for Drivers on Update On Free Linux Driver Development · · Score: 1

    Oh, I have one of those. It'd be great to get VIVO working on it.

  2. 2017 - The Night the Lights Went Out... on Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY · · Score: 1

    Wow, 40 million dollars for a system that's just going to be turned off 7 years later! Must be a public works project.

  3. Re:Battery? on Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper · · Score: 1

    The batteries can be attached to an edge, which you roll the display around.

  4. Re:According to this utility ... on Intel's PowerTOP Extends Linux Battery Life · · Score: 1

    That's it, I'm calling your bluff! I once tried to weld with an external SCSI HDD power supply, and could barely get two pieces to stick together! Even when I did you could toss a 4-sided die at it and knock the piece off. Now, if it was FireWire, then maybe it would be possible!

    Come on, we all know you're really wasting your CPU cycles rendering poor quality porn.

  5. Re:Infuriating on Threat To Free, Legal Guitar Tablature Online · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We've replaced the brains with a new low-fat, low-stupidity replacement. Let's see if they notice.

  6. Re:Incremental development, not a new idea on Nanoscale Analysis Labs · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what percentage of the LOC is dedicated to the LOC idea?

  7. Re:Computer displays??? on Nano Light-Emitting Fibers In the Lab · · Score: 1

    Well, due to limitations and a rush to bring a product to market, we'll only get 300DPI screens, but that's fine for me. The bigger problem is only having shades of orange.

  8. Re:Do more profit on Orkut In Pact With Indian Law Enforcement · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Do No Evil*"

    *Offer only valid in the US, Canada, and Sealand.

  9. Re:So who's going to buy them? on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    They generally use standard-ish components inside an odd case. So you can take your Dell guts and put them in a regular case, but not off the shelf guts and put them in the dell case. Though I did manage to do it once, only needing to custom make a new IO cover.

  10. Re:How about... on Dell Offers Virtual Saplings For Earth Day · · Score: 1

    This is why you chain yourself with your back to the tree.

  11. Re:Gee I'd like to listen on RMS Protest Song On Gitmo · · Score: 1

    Perhaps people just don't feel like wasting time making a codec from scratch when there's a perfectly good one provided.

  12. Re:The term you're looking for on The Math of Text Readability · · Score: 1

    Or it could be the lack of desire to stare at a lightbulb... Though there is "e-ink," but I'm not sure if it's come down in price. The last time I saw an ebook reader it was at least $150, which probably put people off as not everyone buys a ton of books.

  13. Re:6,400 on Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes · · Score: 1

    Only if it's 320x240!

  14. Re:This is my pointy stick there are many like it on New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots · · Score: 1

    You might be able to strip it quicker, but let's see you put the leaves back on it!

  15. Re:So if my house was made of this stuff I... on Electrically Conductive Cement · · Score: 1

    You just have to stop rolling around on the carpet before hand and you'll be fine.

  16. Re:Since it is a "tech building" on Birthplace of Silicon Valley in Shambles · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "Until the RAID dies and the backups were accidently degaussed."

  17. Re:I for one.... on Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM · · Score: 1

    Do you let lose the dogs of war when you get your marketing to keep you from loosing money?

  18. Re:Ponies on Top 10 April Fools Stories · · Score: 1

    So a group of emacs users go into an open-mic comedy club. One of them goes on stage and says "vi!" and the group laughs heartily. Later, on their way out, they are approached by a man that, unknown to them, is a vi user. He says he's got another great joke for them. "You want to see a what 'control k' would do in real life?" he asks. The group agrees. They were later found half way across the country crammed between two barbed wire fences.

    I heard it happened somewhere in Liberty City.

  19. Re:Penryn and Nehalem? on Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU · · Score: 2, Funny

    Small and annoying, but somehow still manange to get the job done, but only with the accidental help of some other even smaller one? Oh, and lots of big old ones helping support it too. They don't sound particularly good to me...

  20. Re:Why not just change it on Define - /etc? · · Score: 1

    If you don't mind, I'm just going to pretend you never made that second suggestion. The first one was plenty good, no need to make me want to smash you with a very large wrench.

  21. Re:THEY STOLE MY IDEA! on Using Gym Rats' Body Power to Generate Electricity · · Score: 1

    All right, but when was the last time you were called a facist by your science teacher?

  22. Re:It's voodoo on Dow Jones Plunge Fueled by Overwhelmed Computers · · Score: 1

    Nah, the space shuttle has five computers. It's an entirely different kind of computing; all together!

  23. Re:Just wait... on Purdue Unveils a Tricorder · · Score: 1

    "I just sniffed what?!"

  24. Magnet has been pretty much doing this. on Metalinks Tries to Simplify Downloads · · Score: 1

    It seems like we might as well just use magnet links, since they can include different hash types of the file and different locations to download from. I already have them for certain larger files on my website and work fine if you have a client that supports it.

  25. Re:Hmph... on XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM · · Score: 1

    So you're trying to install 32-bit software on a 64-bit machine that has a 16-bit installer written by 2-bit developers?