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  1. Re:Yet another Pro-Linux, Anti-Windows 'report' on Windows vs. Linux Security, Once More · · Score: 1

    Problem is you are not going to get some bicycling enthusiatic who has never touched a computer to give an in depth report on Linux versus Windows.

    Sorry to tell you this, but all pursuasive papers have a thesis, and work towards convincing you of that thesis.

  2. Re:I'm skeptical on America's Most Connected Campuses · · Score: 1

    Same. What do you expect from Forbes though. They are pretty much bottom of the barrel reporting.

  3. Re:Here we go... on EA Gives Hockey Fans a Virtual Season · · Score: 1

    judging and generalizing labor opinions based on professional sports salary disputes doesn't make sense to me.

    such a profession, where the people who don't do anything make more than $180,000 per year, can cry all they want about their low salaries.

  4. Re:Here we go... on EA Gives Hockey Fans a Virtual Season · · Score: 1

    ESPN should have coverage of this, showing highlights on Sports Center. Nothing like mocking the players. What, they want more money for playing a game? Sure, hockey's probably the lowest paying mainstream professional sport in the U.S., but they make plenty of money.

    Mock them!

  5. Re:Watch your assumptions on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    that's funny stuff.

  6. Re:Bono's a moron on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    is that what it was? i guess I misinterpreted their mocking for lack of inspiration and talent. U2 once had some good songs. "Still haven't found what i'm looking for" is one of the first songs I ever rememeber hearing.

    i suppose I'm not their target audience anymore.

  7. Re:Bono's a moron on U2 iPod: Any Color You Want, As Long As It's Black · · Score: 1

    that doesn't mean the commercial sucks less. The song, if it is actually a song and not just a commercial jingle, should go down in history with other crappy songs with numerical debaucheries in spanish by a non-spanish speaking group, such as "Pretty Fly" by the Offspring.

    "Uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis?" Come on...

    In fact, i'm surprised it's not an MTV Music Award yet. "Best numerical debauchery in spanish by a non-spanish speaking group." Or should that be "Worst..."?

  8. don't read the article on Hannu H. Kari Gives The Internet 2 More Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I won't read the article because I don't want to be liable for more rubbish pouring through the pipes of the Internet. I don't want to help him fulfill his prophesy.

    For once, we all at /. have a good reason to not RTFA.

  9. Re:just replace the ads on Online Gaming Ad Network Launches · · Score: 1

    But that's assuming that the ads are just images that don't have any effect in the game except visual advertisements. Who is to say that they won't be 3d objects that without will cause the game to not work properly?

    I mean, I just think that more will be needed than current web browser ad blocking technology.

  10. Re:What exactly is the point of this? on Online Gaming Ad Network Launches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And they(18-34 year olds) are too hard to reach via T.V. because we stopped watching T.V. If advertisers stopped and asked themselves "Why have they stopped watching T.V.?" they might realize that it is due to the lack of content and 15 minutes of advertisements.

    Are the advertising companies just trying to drive us out of our apartments and homes and force us to go outside for a while? Is this all part of a master plan to advertise on the moon's surface or in space using giant lasers beams attached to mutant space sharks?

  11. ad blockers on Online Gaming Ad Network Launches · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, now our video card drivers will have to have ad blocking code in them to filter out the lame ads.

  12. Re:They've been dying so long on The State of the Demon Address · · Score: 1

    neh. it just means OSX is a necrophiliac.

  13. Re:The advertisers might want to tone it down a bi on Firefox Seeks Full Page Ad in New York Times · · Score: 1

    Yeah, say it's better. But don't go into some webpolitical diatribe about declarations of independence from stagnant monopomonkeys or what-have-you...

    just say, "Firefox. Safer, Faster, Free. Better than IE." except without the cheesy rhyme.

  14. please explain please on Bungie Speaks On Halo 2 Leak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They also send out a warning that posting any kind of information about leak will result in "having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and we will ban your gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience"."

    Could someone please explain how they could do this to someone who talked about the leak? I guess I don't understand the connection between an XBox Live account, what gamertags are, and if they mean talking about it on Bungie Forums only.

  15. Re:bits on Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until I see 64-bit games, it's also so 2004

    Since when is compiling Gentoo not considered a game?

  16. mod me annoyed on Linus Pooh-Pooh's Real-Time Patch · · Score: 0, Troll

    I swear, people who get their submissions accepted don't know how to link. Seriously, wtf is up with the first link to http://news.search.com/search?q=red+hat&search.x=0 &search.y=0?

    there is not one mention of Real Time or Linus on that page. Come on, can't you learn to link to the story?

    Here's how you should have linked the first line:

    "Speaking with CNet via email, Linus Torvalds appears to be in no hurry to accept..."

    I find it ironic that you linked "appears" in correlation to Linus to a page that had "Linus" appearing nowhere in the page.

  17. Re:OT - Don't touch that... dial? on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    pointing out an elders mistakes? that's a paddlin', too.

  18. GNU Inside on OQO For Sale · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'll take an Etch-a-Sketch Animator with a "GNU Inside" sticker on the front over this any day.

  19. Re:Everyone knows.. on RIAA, MPAA Ask High Court To Review P2P Decision · · Score: 1

    I'm only stealing what I would have never paid for anyway.

    besides being a kleptomaniac(sp?), and wanting attention, what other reasons are there for stealing? you steal because you don't want to pay money for it. that's almost the definition of stealing.

    But anyway, stealing something in this case is making the owner think that their goods have value.

    So stop stealing, make the RIAA know that their goods suck, and end the RIAA's control.

  20. Re:By the way, if you've never heard of Hibernate. on Hibernate in Action · · Score: 1

    No kidding, this is the kind of crap that makes me wonder why i read /., because surely the editors don't read it. If they aren't interested in /., why should I be interested? This story is exactly where an editor should step in and offer a 2 line descrption of what the package is.

    At this point it's mostly the entertaining trolls that keep me comming back. The other stuff I can find elsewhere.

  21. Re:Dev-C++ on Scalable Windows Development Environments? · · Score: 1

    Would an editor that crashes from time to time really be something to recommend to a software company? I've used Dev-C++ for testing code I write to make sure it will compile and run in Windows, so I don't actually use it for much editing. But if I did, and it crashed, I'd switch up fast. I just use it for it's easy project/build system.

    Dev-C++ looks great for those who want to develop on Windows but don't want to buy MS Visual Studio, and it gets the job done for me, but if it does crash on typical uses, then it's probably not ready for a software company.

    I've never had emacs crash on me.

  22. Re:Still miss Gnome 1.4 on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    time travel with CVS. go back and check out a 1.4 branch and fork Gnome :)

    Fix the broken things, but make no huge changes.

    mostly kidding, but it is possible!

  23. Re:Gentoo! on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    LOL. All furthur Gentoo advocates will be referred to this.

    -

  24. diamond dating on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CDAC is also known to have created via CVD the hardest diamond to date.

    there's a joke in here somewhere, but my brain is mush right now.

    something about the difficulty in dating an inanimate object, i'm sure...

  25. disappointed on Dell Recalls Millions of AC Adaptors · · Score: 1

    over 90 posts and not one Anonymous Coward (AC adapters) joke in sight.

    what, is everyone asleep?