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  1. take away some one times charges on Microsoft Misses Quarterly Revenue Projection · · Score: 1

    ...and they made street plus server sales were up 11% over last year...

  2. Re:It's R2D2's story isn't it? on Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 1

    I like it when a comment makes me laugh out loud like that.

  3. Re:Scientific software is disproportionally affect on Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is great ancedotal evidence. Now can you provide any specifics that prove that anybody that knows what they are really do knows the exact cause of the issues? I run both XP SP2 and Linux(RHEL 4 to be exact) and don't have the issues that most people seem to have with Windows. I prefer Linux, don't get me wrong, but all I do is make sure automatic updates are installed and make sure my av signatures are current several times/day and I've never had a virus/worm/trojan.

  4. Re:Wow... on Martian Sea Discovered · · Score: 1

    What are you? Ignorant? Didn't you ever watch Flash Gordon and see the hot hail that Ming the Merciless rained down upon Earth??? Ice can be hot too!

  5. Re:homosexuality on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 1

    In that book you quote, the word of "God" it is called, there is section about the rapture and how "angels" will beat their wings at the 4 corners of the earth to keep people from escaping judgement. My question would be as follows, Didn't the writer realize the earth was a sphere? Also, two tribes of Israel were the result of a pair of daughters getting their father drunk and having sex with him. Amazingly, sex between father and daughter isn't explicity forbidden in the Bible though it is a good way to have retarded children. Women hit menopause in their 40's and 50's today but back then women lived for hundres of years and had children well into their hundreds. Is it evolution that lead to us not living so long today and not being fertile for so long as well, or were the people back then actually pious enough that they received long life and we all are not worthy and going to hell? It really is like shooting fish in a barrel when people cite that book. It was written by simple people that didn't understand the world around them and some thousands of years later, people still follow it... amazing. It has some very good ideas and beliefs in it but it also has some real crap too.

  6. Re:Equation constraints on Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way · · Score: 1

    That game, more than any other coin-op arcade game, got my adrenalin flowing as a kid.

  7. Re:Korea on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Does any one groups starving take precedent over anothers? The original poster was making references to attrocities, I think Kim Jung Il does quite a good job, maybe even better than Saddam, of repressing his people. I was addressing the original posters claims and am not arguing about famine or starvation.

  8. Re:Korea on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Getting Oil from there takes a lot of security which jacks up the price. It's basic economics. No direct threat to the US? They are developing or have the capability to hit the West Coast of the US. Do you realize how many people starve in North Korea because of their tyrants policies? Do you realize what a repressive police state it is? Go ahead and go there, if you can get in, and stand on the street corner and yell about how Kim is a bastard and see what happens. Saddam committed attrocities but a lot are happening in this world right now, the whole moral issue works as a good smoke screen to people like you that want to believe everthing that their government does is right.

  9. Re:He's one of the richest, most powerful men on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 1

    His net worth isn't in cash, he can't liquidate and have $30 billion right now. The fact is that even though I don't like Microsoft, The Gates family has donated a lot. Also, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, the amount of charitable donations that provide a tax benefit are capped.

  10. I'll go throw a copy of RHEL 3 on the net on Why Does Windows Still Suck? · · Score: 1

    I won't make any changes to it, no patches, no turning off of services. Anybody want to bet that it will be compromised fairly quickly? If Linux was the dominant operating system it would receive a lot of attention. Now granted, the design is better and therefore it presents less of a profile than Windows, but I'm not going to play dumb and act like I don't have to work on keeping my Linux box secure. The same goes for Mac OS X.

  11. Re:Cheap Sun hardware on Solaris 10 Released · · Score: 1

    My first purchase on eBay was 512 megs of 50ns EDO RAM for an Ultra 10. I got it for less than 1/4 of what standard PC EDO RAM costs today.

  12. Re:secret sharer on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    Competition from DSL? I have a 1.5Mbps/1Mbps DSL line now. Frankly 1.5Mbps is fine for download and I love the 1Mbps upstream

  13. Re:Not a great idea. on Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    Well you're right about that but we didn't have to get involved in a land war in Europe becuase of that now did we? There were multiple reasons for our getting involved, Pearl Harbour was the biggest. Unfourtunately history doesn't show the mass genocide taking place as even the first or second reasons for joining the war

  14. Re:Not a great idea. on Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    We didn't move to help the Jews, we moved to help our allies that were threatened by the Germans. Sorry, your analogy failed... next.

  15. Re:Rooms full of drives on Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon · · Score: 1

    ...and that's how we liked it. Did you manually type the code to that word processor in yourself? I remember spending many days typing in lines of code on my C-64 from compute magazine. I even bought the book for SpeedScript.

  16. Re:Your Rights Online? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Maybe not a terrorist, but an asshole that needs both retinas burned out with a LASER.

  17. Re:Does anybody crack passwords any more? on Password Security Not Easy · · Score: 1

    Sure, get access via other means. Grab the file and crack it via Jon the Ripper on your machine at home. Then put on your best social engineering hat find other accounts of those users and then go to town seeing if their other logins on other machines use the same password or check if their bank login or credit cards use the same password too.

  18. In this country on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition · · Score: 2, Funny

    first you get the splash screen... then you get the power... then you get the women

  19. Re:Realtime on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    When the movie was coming out I remember 40 hours being thrown out as the estimated time for the average person to read it. Frankly I read it slowly each time I read. Reading fast can be like glancing quickly at a picture, you have an idea of what you saw but didn't really take it in.

  20. What happened to innovation? on Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Surely Verizion isn't arguing that they are incapable of coming up with good reasons and competitive alternatives to this. Frankly I'm not going to completely trust an open wi-fi network for all I do.

  21. ANYBODY BEING FORCED TO BUY OR PLAY IT? on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lots of whining for something that isn't required in your life.

  22. Re:In case you are wondering who Shawn Fanning is. on Shawn Fanning Is Back Into Digital Music · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of back in the early nineties when I went to a movie theatre with friends to see Dances with Wolves. We had been drinking and one of the previews was for the Adams Family, it was just a black screen with the music and the finger snapping. When it was done, somebody in the theatre whispered, "It is gonna be about the Adams Family". I was drunk and my self censor was turned off and bellowed "NOOOOO SHIIIIITTTT". If you had read the first two paragraphs of the article, assumed if you are going to be discussing it, you would have already known that so once again I say NOOOOO SHIIIIITTTT. So I don't understand why the parent is rated informative since they gave no new information that wouldn't be found by reading the article of discussion.

  23. Re:Christ...how could you support bush? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1

    Yes because Iraq was such a threat to us. Those Iraqi terrorists in Bali and Madrid. Those damn Iraqis on those Russian planes. No matter how you spin it Iraq was less of a threat than many other places to us. Meanwhile, were sucking the Saudi Royal Families collective cocks and when they fall(not if, but when), things are going to be a lot worse for us in the Middle East. Iraq was a bad idea, it's not bringing stability. You ever read Arab/Islamic media? If you did you'd realize how much occupying Iraq has hurt us. In Afghanistan it was within our rights to strike back. Iraq didn't have WMDs, and so what if they did, we do. If we get rid of ours then we have a leg to stand on instead of being hypocritical. There was no justification for Iraq. If you want to try to argue that that there was, grab the CIA fact book, like I said earlier, and list all the countries from first to last in order of which one needs to be occupied next for our freedom and explain to me just exactly what the delimiters are and why Iraq had to be first.

  24. Re:Christ...how could you support bush? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1

    You're not a libertarian. You're avoiding your statement that you are a Republican leaning Libertarian. You're a dyed in the wool Republican and when you come to except that I'll be happy. All you statements are staunchly Republican and not based in any Libertarian dogma except where they intersect. I'd suggest you read the Libertarian Party platform, especially with regards to foreign intervention.

  25. I will pay a modest fee for IMAPS! on Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts · · Score: 1

    I can't believe that nobody is willing to provide IMAPS. I'd upgrade my yahoo mail if I could use an IMAP client to really put that 2GB to work. I'm tired of having to sync POP3 clients and not having the sent mail folder follow me around. What good is the storage space if I can't have a setup that looks the same no matter if I use the http client or any of the variety of mail clients I'll use in a day?