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  1. Re:I may be heartless... on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection · · Score: 1

    So if you were diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, you'd just shrug and refuse treatment?

  2. oh boy on Lego Christmas Production Shortage · · Score: 1

    Queue the legos/lego/lego(tm) bricks holy wars.

  3. Re:resolution independent on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    Please explain how you set that up - I'd love to get it working myself.

  4. Re:Wireless Digital Monitor on USB To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    About 330MB/s from my calculation (that's 60 fps uncompressed).
    It's likely that could be cut down via lossless compression and of course, only sending areas that have changed.. however then the monitor needs a cpu to decompress the stuff, so we might as well just use a small form-factor pc running VNC over a wireless LAN :P

  5. Re:Alternate Theory of the Universe on New Stephen Hawking Movie in the Works · · Score: 1

    Things that don't make sense don't need disproving.

  6. Re:Not IQ, but energy level on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1

    Dude, TNPUAIYHTSTOIA (there's no point using acronyms if you have to spell them out immediately afterwards)!

  7. Re:So if he's guilty on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 1

    Out of interest, if Linus Torvalds committed murder, would you go back to Windows?
    What about just assault? What if he kicked a puppy?

  8. Re:is it just me.. on Land of the Videogame Star · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Being lauded for playing a computer game is rather pathetic. Computer games are fun, but they're not real life accomplishments.

    Well, neither is playing football, or running very fast around a track. People are lauded for all sorts of stupid reasons.
  9. Re:Missed point ... on IE7 Toolbar Mayhem · · Score: 1

    The clutter maybe, but I would have been interested to see whether this "IE Reset" disabled all the spyware processes and nasties that the toolbars brought with them. The stuff you *don't* see.

  10. Re:Pardon me, but.. on Burger King's Disturbing Games · · Score: 1

    Ohhh I see. We haven't seen those in New Zealand. BK seems not to use The King over here at all.

  11. Pardon me, but.. on Burger King's Disturbing Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the hell does the submitter have against Burger King?

  12. Re:forced ad serves? on Does Ad Blocking Affect Your Business? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I was not aware of that. But does your wife block ads?

    I block pretty much everything except google text ads, I do play the occasional online flash game, and I would not use pogo.com now that I know about their ad scheme. There are too many other places to get online games.

    My theory is that most adblockers encountering pogo.com will either play anyway, but be annoyed and unlikely to be very receptive to advertising; or go play elsewhere.
    Also, specifically trying to break ad-block software with server tricks will definitely generate much more ill will.

    I wonder whether pogo introduced this feature because of adblocking..

  13. Re:Explanations on WGA — Too Many False Positives · · Score: 1

    Okay, offtopic and I don't normally do this but.. Grammar nazi time.

    Quote: "Its far to easy to just change your # then reformat.."

    That "then" there is an excellent example of bad grammar changing the meaning of a sentence.
    I read that sentence and went "huh?". I had to read it a couple more times before I parsed it correctly.

    I feel like a bit of dick for pointing it out, but my mother is an English teacher - I can't help myself :)

  14. Re:forced ad serves? on Does Ad Blocking Affect Your Business? · · Score: 1

    Practically, I doubt that would work.
    Most people who block ads already would still block those ones and feel somewhat irritated at the bandwidth waste, or they would just stop visiting the site.
    Even if you could force those people to view ads, there'd be little marketing value thanks to the bad juju generated by doing so.

  15. Re:Moo on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1

    Gah, I hope those were all "ironic" Insightful mods.

  16. Re:Bull on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    Well, that's not what he's claiming.

    He's not selling lecture notes, he's selling audio recordings of his lectures.

  17. Re:An interesting application... on Xerox Reveals Transient Documents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People would probably just print the coupon on normal paper though.

  18. Re:Any "technical details"? on Privacy Web Browser 'Browzar' Branded Adware · · Score: 1

    here's the blog in question.
    Apparantly, it didn't delete all of temporary internet files.

  19. This sounds like a job for... on Explaining DRM to a Less-Experienced PC User? · · Score: 1

    .. BadAnalogyGuy!

  20. ugh on New Hope for Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    Pro-life, Pro-choice. Stupid namby pamby frolicking-around-the-point.
    How about this: pro-abortion, anti-abortion.
    But noooo, no-one likes to say "abortion", so we'll invent some new sickeningly cheery PC euphemisms. Oh and we also can't be "anti" anything either. *spit*

    </rant>

  21. Re:You're wrong. on Computer Designed Car Sets Speed Record · · Score: 2

    You can tell it's a computer by the courier typeface.

  22. Re:Linux needs to get its act together on Linux's iPod Generation Gap · · Score: 1

    greater than 1% marketshare? Oh noes! Also, shoddy job with the search+replace. Better luck next time.

  23. Re:Excel was simply a clone on The Greatest Software Ever · · Score: 1

    His list was not of "the first", it was of "the greatest".
    Personally, I don't know about Lotus or Visicalc, but Excel is pretty damn good.

  24. ooh, printable version on The Greatest Software Ever · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Offtopic, but I gotta say: linking directly to the printable version == nice work.
    I hope it catches on.

  25. Re:Easy compression rule on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    wikiped doubleplusungood ref compression rewrite fullwise newspeak upsub antefiling