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  1. Re:Star Office on Mad Hatter Preview - Sun Java Desktop System Demo · · Score: 1
    Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language.

  2. Re:WTF is this SUN Java name? on Mad Hatter Preview - Sun Java Desktop System Demo · · Score: 0
    A Sony SUV!
    Is availiable with right hand drive?

  3. Floppy on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 2, Informative
    As long as I can fit 1.7M on a 1.3M floppy, why should I care?

  4. Re:What's next? on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 1
    What's next? Monitor sizes? I love my 19" (18" viewable) monitor!

    In the UK monitor are sold according to their veiwable size. See theregister here. How else can you comapare a LCD to a CRT?

  5. Re:OFFTOPIC - Alternate story on GIMP goes SVG · · Score: 1
    WTF?br> RTFA its 100% Sony DVD/PVR and nothing else.

  6. Re:Real reason on IRC in the Dog House? · · Score: 1
    Why not attack the root of the problem, dumbass people leaving unsecured, easy to root machines lying around, connected to the Internet?
    I have to agree. You need to pass a test before you can drive a car on the public highway. We need a secure internet with only licensed users with trustworthy hardware.

    Any ideas?

  7. Re:How long until a new map-hack? on Blizzard Removes 400,000 More Battle.Net Accounts · · Score: 1

    What about a trap that'll only attract the most active map-hack players?
    That should be simply enough for them to have done it already?

  8. Re:How long until a new map-hack? on Blizzard Removes 400,000 More Battle.Net Accounts · · Score: 1
    When a program sends no packets, and in no way changes anything besides what is on a display client side, there is no way to detect it without scanning that client ...
    How difficult would it be to detect this cheat by examining the players response to information they shouldn't have?

  9. 400,000 Scum Bag Subsidy on Blizzard Removes 400,000 More Battle.Net Accounts · · Score: 4, Insightful
    400,000 is a lot of scum bags to ban.
    What more, it takes a serious degree of selfishness and dedication to cheat, these scum are often heavy users.
    Guess who's going to end up paying more?

  10. Re:the backspace method... on What Big Brother Teaches Us About Game Design · · Score: 1
    If you're going to go to all the effort of reading the article, then you should really try a bit harder to read the right article.

  11. Re:Easy on CIA Pursues Anti-Terrorism Videogame · · Score: 2, Funny
    Thinking like a terrorist involves two things:
    1. Living in conditions that you perceive as less than acceptable.
    2. Believing that the fundamental cause of those conditions is due to $THEM.
    Isn't that thinking like a teenager?

  12. Cyber Terrorist on CIA Pursues Anti-Terrorism Videogame · · Score: 1
    They can't find any real cyber terrorist so they're going to make their own.

  13. Re:What's your point? on Microsoft Services for Unix and OpenBSD · · Score: 1
    This shows that the Services for Unix aren't derived from SCO sources, and therefore MS lied.
    I expect that before long we'll learn that much of the *BSD code is actually owned by SCO.

  14. Re:Farscape's influence... on NASA's New Space Wheels · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes, but I bet they didn't make the proper whooshing sound as they opened.

  15. Re:pygame on Is There Life Beyond DirectX? · · Score: 1

    PyGame is amazingly easy and powerfull. I met it playing pyDance with a PS2 dance mat hooked up to by 'puter.

  16. Re:You seem knowledgeable... on Knoppix 3.3 Is Out · · Score: 1
    Type knx-hdinstall into a root console and Knoppix will install its bleeding edge debian distro onto your hard drive. See here, here, or here.

  17. Re:Here's the catch on Live CD for PC Games? · · Score: 1
    Hardware, ESPECICALLY gaming hardware changes so frequently, that it would be difficult to support you gam ein a few years, it would possibly be unplayable on newer hardware.
    Ok that's bad news for some bleeding edge consumers. For the game producer though, being able to sell a hardware update version is a bonus.
  18. Re:Benefits? - Troll on Space Elevator Conference Wraps Up · · Score: 1
    Example: Outside geostationary orbit is a great place to be if you want to do something hazardous. Want to build a really messy experimental nuclear power reactor?
    Well thats great. So because the UK has signed the Kyoto Protocol you want to mess us space instead. It daft wasting all this money make space accessible when there are still large are of this planet left to be polluted.

  19. Re:Air Certified on Electronics & Planes Don't Mix? · · Score: 1

    These common portable electronic devices didn't exist at the time when many of aircraft flying today were designed. Aircraft could be harden to deal with the current range of consumer products, only to be effected by next years latest greatest high speed networked multiplayer devices.

  20. Air Certified on Electronics & Planes Don't Mix? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not test the device on the ground if the passenger wishes to use it in the air? Busy types will pay a premium for equipment certified to be safe and allowed for aircraft use.

  21. Re:Chicken or Egg? on Top 10 Reasons for a Space Program · · Score: 1
    What comes first?
    A proto-chicken-like creature that wasn't an actual chicken laid an egg.

    A mutant-proto-chicken-like creature that is an actual chicken hatches from the egg.

    What was the question?

  22. Re:If Google ever decided to do this... on Google Wins the Filesharing Wars? · · Score: 1

    Google this.
    ... the origin is Kent Brockman in the Simpsons episode [Deep Space Homer].

  23. Re:What's that you say? on Google Wins the Filesharing Wars? · · Score: 5, Informative
    From EFF Makeing P2P Legal
    The first American compulsory was adopted when the music industry fought the Napster of 1909: the player piano. Sheet music publishers claimed that the creation of piano-readable sheets was against the law and that they should have the right to monopolize the booming piano roll industry. Congress disagreed and instead crafted a compulsory license that paid recording artists while protecting the new technology. Today, this license allows bands to record (or "cover") another band's song (so long as they've paid the $.08 per copy of the recorded track).
  24. Re:Not that I have a bad attitude, but... on Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat · · Score: 2, Informative
    I swear, if Redhat ever actually gets into the black, I'm switching to Apple, stat. Fuck market share--I want something where nobody will bother me with free tech support requests.
    Decembler 2002 - Red Hat has reported a profit using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

    I recomend OpenVMS if you really don't want any bother.

  25. Re:Screen shots on KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 Finally on FTP · · Score: 1
    I'm so sorry.
    I hope you recover soon.