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  1. Re:Might work ... on Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A carpenter can still acknowledge a better carpenter, or one with better connections or more labour available. Maybe he wants a larger/higher quality home than he could make himself.

  2. Re:First Comment on topic! ... oh wait... lol on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you read TFA you'd see they mention neither. Anyway, why should the whole world use a Christian-centric, factually incorrect date stamp?

  3. Re:Pointing fingers on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that WinFS was simply an SQL layer over the top of NTFS, so it'd have exactly the same storage patterns and associated troubles as normal NTFS.

  4. Re:BLASPHEMY! on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the housewives probably spend all day playing MMORPGs.

  5. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Come home, find dead body, panic, bury dead body.

  6. Re:Clubies on Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs · · Score: 1

    Or, say, disassemble, then forward over to Symantec or Grisoft.

  7. Re:And remember on RIAA Says "Wanna Fight? It'll Cost You!" · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, copyright infringement is a civil offense, not a criminal one, no matter what the RIAA tells you. At least like this it means that even if the RIAA's team of lawyers manages to bribe you guilty, you'll never get a criminal record.

  8. Re:This is going nowhere. on Westinghouse Commits to Green Plug's Universal A.C. Adapter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cell phone -carriers- suck. Especially the US's. It's only what they do to phones to fit their attempts at vendor lock-in and money-saving that make their cell phones suck.

  9. BlueGene/QCDOC vs this? on Researcher Discusses iPod Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    BlueGenes, and their predecessor, QCDOC supercomputers, already use slightly modified low-power embedded system chips. How is this any different?

  10. Re:What a bunch of bunk on From "Happy Hacking" to "Screw You" · · Score: 1

    If you want to use a loss leader, you really have to make sure you have a good follow-through that almost everyone who buys your loss-leader will want.

  11. Re:Short answer on Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Define 'steal'.

  12. Re:Bad day for IE8 on Acid3 Test Released · · Score: 1

    Safari3 passes Acid2, no?

  13. Re:Question: on Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or, you know, you could use Celestia.

  14. Re:No less rigourous? on The Life of a Software Engineer · · Score: 1

    "If civil engineers had to work to the same constraints as software engineers, Tacoma Narrows would be a weekly show."

  15. TfIBM on IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways · · Score: 1

    In unrelated news, Ken Livingstone announced today that he would be joining the ranks of IBM as a "consultant."

  16. Re:Oh it'll go at full capacity on USB 3.0's New Jacks and Sockets · · Score: 1

    And the DMA, of course.

  17. Re:Just in time for the holidays! on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 1

    XP is good at subpixel font rendering. It's the main reason I switched from Win2k when I could.

  18. Re:Wait, what? They can't count, either on The Best Tech You Can't Get in the US · · Score: 1

    But if a given nation's consumers as a whole decide that they don't need a particular technological advance, they aren't automatically wrong or ignorant. You mean like cars which get over 35 MPG?

  19. Re:this guy is a liability to the community on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    Um, actually I find that a suit that's actually your size and that isn't made of plastic (and even some that are) can be exceptionally comfortable. Hell, I buy cheap suit trousers just to wear around. With you on the shoes, though.

  20. Re:You've got it all wrong on Making Your Code OSS-Appealing? · · Score: 1

    If you -are- a woman, then you get the personality/stalker cult.

  21. Re:Please ..... on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Get back! I have a copy of "Fun with Science for Children" and I'm not afraid to use it!

  22. Re:listen to ads? on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    ... Holy crap, on US plans incoming calls aren't free?

  23. Re:Prays? on RIAA Wants Student Deposed On School Day · · Score: 1

    Does the Supreme Court count?

  24. Re:Sounds like bullshit... on Virtualization Disallowed For Vista Home · · Score: 1

    The software giant has declared that home versions of their upcoming OS may not be run virtually, because 'Vista is not mature enough for broad adoption.' Having fixed their typo, it makes more sense. :)

  25. Re:Oh no! on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    In the land where chopping hands off is the only punishment for theft, the man with the removable robotic hands is king!