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  1. Re:Easy there nerd boy on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 1

    A better phone would have just a side-crank instead of buttons, so that you can the switchboard operator lady's attention to tell her who you want to talk at.

  2. Re:What about receiving calls? on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 1

    My boss could use this phone.

  3. Re:Expensive Price on Anti-Smartphone Phone Launched For Technophobes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whoa! That's all tekno-geek gibberish to me!

  4. Re:Newspeak on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 1

    Exactly--the Googles and Amazons, etc. will never pay a dime--they have too much leverage. However the small shops will be the ones who get squeezed.

  5. Re:More obvious stories on From Apple To Xbox, Tech Companies Lean Left · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This just tells me that Microsoft's products are overpriced...

  6. Re:Where.. on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed -- once you hit some limit, more words per line means it's harder to shift to the next line.

  7. Re:Solution on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    Autohide.

  8. Sound advice on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 2, Informative

    The usual games of trying to put facts on the ground first to "win" a standards battle....

    HTML5 needs a LOT of work, especially in the realm of security.

  9. Re:mixed units on Tapping Solar Wind's Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    I had a 5,000 mile sail once... got caught in the solar wind and blew away...

  10. Re:Overkill? on Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats · · Score: 1

    I've used that ever since Netscape (whatever it's called now) stopped saving bookmarks in html by default (I've used the bookmarks.html file as my home page for about 15 years)...

    However, autoExportHTML is horribly implemented. It should auto-export ANY time there is a bookmarks change, not just at shutdown. I don't shut down firefox, essentially ever--it crashes, I have to kill it forcibly, system crashes, etc., otherwise it is always running. So autoExportHTML is almost useless to me...

  11. Re:Ivana Trump on Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It · · Score: 1

    And she was using this trademark "Ivana", and nothing else in 1998? Article does not state (it's a typical "Big bad Yankee telling us innocent little guys what to do" piece).

    And when did she start using this trademark in the US, where the conflict is, where the fashion show is, where the lawsuit was filed? Article suggests it was recent...

  12. Re:Ivana Trump on Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It · · Score: 1

    Only when someone tries to launch a competing fashion accessories product line under that name, solely to garner interest on the confusion/controversy.

    Every wonder why Ms. Suhonen didn't call her line Paola, or Suhonen?

  13. Re:McDonald's on Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It · · Score: 1

    No, but try opening a restaurant called Mc- or Mac-Anything...

  14. Newton's third law of motion on Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It · · Score: 1

    "To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction"

    This is clearly in reaction to The Pirate Bay's page on threatening letters they've received.

  15. Re:Did they try this in Boston back in the 80's? on Opossums Overrun Brooklyn, Fail To Eliminate Rats · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Dachshunds were bred to hunt down such vermin. Of course Dachshunds livling off of NYC subway rats might themselves grow to be 6 feet long, and jump onto old ladies laps on the trains...

  16. Teach the Newspapers a Lesson! on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cancel your subscription, or stop buying the paper.... All seven of you...

  17. Re:Kinda Free on No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice · · Score: 1

    a) Software is GPL
    b) Canonical, and others, could provide it, and the necessary server support for free if they choose to do so

  18. Convert my Ferrari? on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I'd like to make my Ferrari look more like a Ford Pinto, because more chicks have driven Pintos that Ferrarris.

  19. Re:Also add horse sounds on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    No! Society shall NOT progress!

  20. Also add horse sounds on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 5, Funny

    They need to add the sounds of hooves and the cracking of whips too, for those of us not used to these newfangled horseless carriages...

  21. Great combo! on Canon Unveils 120-Megapixel Camera Sensor · · Score: 1

    I hope they package this behind a nice 3mm plastic fixed focus lens!

  22. Re:Don't botther on Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM · · Score: 1

    This has got to be a candidate for the worst quality video ever posted to youtube

  23. Re:No Criminal Intent on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They took 56,000 pictures of minors in their bedrooms and watched them for fun out of incompetence or stupidity??!!?!

  24. Re:I'll give up flash when... on Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away · · Score: 1

    Don't be intentionally obnoxious.

    Even with absurdly literal interpretations, there is no inconsistency here. What if I never discovered a website that didn't render properly in FF?

  25. Re:I'll give up flash when... on Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away · · Score: 1

    No, the high level of IE usage is attributed to IE being pre-installed, not some active choice of intransigence by users.

    To your second point, this is why Flash isn't going away anytime soon. RTFA. Flash will go away when websites stop using it. Do you understand there is a difference between websites (providers) choosing a technology on a server, and an end-user choosing amongst competing implementations of the same standards?

    I personally haven't come across any websites that only work in IE...