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  1. Re:Sure, until MSN 7 comes out of beta on Logitech MSN Webcam Codec Reverse-Engineered · · Score: 1

    This is true. MSN is really big on working with other clients - you have to remember that they spent the good part of a year once pissing off AOL by getting around their MSN blocks. Which I found hilarious.

  2. Re:Google & Backup on Behind the Scenes At Google · · Score: 1

    A cache of a cache of a cache of a cache?

    I for one welcome our new recursive overlords of our lords I welcome as one

  3. Re:Obligatory on Taking Care of Mobile Patients · · Score: 1

    I've added 6 new pipelines to my heart and overclocked to 2000BPM.

    Needless to say, I wrote this post in .3 milliseconds.

  4. Re:Except in Nebraska? on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    Yeah, being from Nebraska, I was wondering what he meant by that..

  5. Re:hmmm on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    That would be nice, but what about transporting the Shuttles and etc down there? They might be saving money not moving everything down to the Equator. There's also the fact that we can have our own warplanes and military to protect our shuttle launches against attack, whereas I don't believe we have the same luxury down there.

  6. Re:why would China partner with America? on China To Launch 2 Into Space In September · · Score: 1

    We can, but we have grounded the shuttles for now via our own decision, not from any technical or money issues.

  7. I've got your hack right here on Apple and Pepsi Do it Again · · Score: 1

    chmod bottle_cap 777

  8. A Chilly Armageddon on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's Bruce Willis and a nuke when you need them? The poor penguins must be saved from the iceberg!

  9. I live/work in Omaha... on Man Auctions Forehead Advertising on eBay · · Score: 1

    And I work at one of the branches of the Omaha library. At least I'll know who he is when he walks in, perhaps we can get enough money together amongst the library staff and we could advertise the library!

  10. Re:Stable? on 64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if by "not very stable" you mean "XP has only crashed on me once in the last 3 years" like my experience, Linux must have negative crashes.

  11. Re:Not only that.... on MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs. SpyBot · · Score: 1

    In my experience of using such "homepage lock" features with any anti-virus, it still gets changed when I test reinfections. Even when locking the value in the registry. I haven't been able to figure it out.

  12. Re:Open Source The Mars Rover? on Spirit Rover is One Year Old · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe it's OS is open-source because anything created by the goverment or funded by goverment/taxpayers is automatically public domain.

  13. Re:The sounds of Mars on Spirit Rover is One Year Old · · Score: 1

    so I'm guessing the moral of the story is, don't include a microphone on your Mars mission? Perhaps they should rename it "mechanical sound asorber" so they can avoid the microphone curse.

  14. Re:Oh, great.. on Coast Guard to Track Ships Using Buoys · · Score: 1

    Remind me to invest in Reynolds before you do that..

  15. Oh jeez. on India Quietly Introduces Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Oh wow! Better hurry up and make a reply where I damn India to hell for protecting the small guy.

    Patents do -not- cost 40,000 to file. Unless you're going through another company, in which case have fun, that's illegal for them to charge YOU to file a patent on top of the patent fee. I know many people that have made inventions recently, and it only cost them a couple hundred dollars to file - if there were no patents to protect them, a "big business" could come along, take their idea (remember, no patents!), and literally out-advertise and out-spend them, and then they 'own' the product in the public's eye. and Joe Original Idea looks like the copycat.

    And the software not being patentable on it's own according to Indian law, but as part of an invention makes sense. For instance, if you invented the car, of course you couldn't patent the wheels or a gear, but you can patent the thing as a whole. Which sadly, a lot of people like to sweep under the rug when they shout their anti-"regime", anti-patent rhetoric from the rooftops.

    PS. When have patents really stopped anyone before? Even though GIF had a patent, that didn't stop other people from making other image formats, sometimes even superior.

  16. Re:Why not a bar code? on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Barcodes can't truly store information, and they misread all the time. I work at a library that uses barcodes, and the bc scanners will misread every 1 out of 50 books, or try to read the desk, mouse.. what have you. And a misread in this situation is not what you want.

  17. Why is it good on Poland Blocks European Software Patent Vote, For Now · · Score: 1

    So, can anyone actually explain why this is good, without being a broken record? Hmm?

  18. Otacon sez on 'Metal Gear' Symbian OS Trojan Disables Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    It's true. Viruses can bloom on the battlefield, Snake.

  19. Re:Server 2003 is immune on New Spoofing Vulnerability in IE · · Score: 1

    So... why would you need graphics accel, sound accel, themes on a server? :)

  20. Re:Trillian is nice, but gaim has cross platform s on Trillian 3.0 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft shares information aswell when AOL/Yahoo lock them out of their networks. The last time Trillian got locked out of AOL, Microsoft busted through it and told Trillian how they did it, who then dispersed the info to other IM client programmers.

  21. Re:Terms of Service on MMOG Economies Examined · · Score: 2, Informative

    because your character is property of Blizzard, unless you modeled, drew, and animated it yourself...

  22. Re:F*ck Sega and NFL2k* on EA Obtains Exclusive NFL Licensing Rights · · Score: 1

    Oh yes! Sega's online was so fun! You see, when somebody was winning, all they had to do was hit pause and walk away, and you're sitting there with the game paused and you can't do anything, so much fun, then when you quit, it gives them the win! Nonstop fun! Weee!

  23. Re:Oh Goodie... on First Mod Chip For GameCube · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would probably be a lot cheaper and safer to get a region switch installed on your GameCube, unless they changed how it works from the JPN/USA Cubes.

  24. Re:competition on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as excess profits. When a market approaches effiecency, it maximizes profits, and minimizes cost. Not the other way around. But I guess we should be anti-corporation, or something like that. Hold on, give me five minutes to run down to Hot Topic and get my Anarchy shirt.

  25. Re:Donald Duck on GameCube-Powered Webserver · · Score: 2, Funny

    easy... just hit the 1 and 0 keys really fast. 010100101010101000101000100001010101010103 whoops... blue screen.