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  1. Correction on LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed · · Score: 3, Informative

    SA is buying Livejournal fromDanga, they are not buying Danga itself.

  2. Re:WTF? on LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed · · Score: 1
    Hmm, sarcasm meter is stuck near 50%, I'll bite

    why would you quit, the same people are running it, and there are no plans to change anything that wouldn't have likely changed before.

  3. Re:Why flat-panel TVs are selling. on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    And they're thin. My 50" LCD Projection TV is 18" deep. You can't get a CRT that big, and if you could, it would be 3 deeper. Picture quality is not the only consideration

  4. Re:Tiger Server Will Have Blog Capability on LiveJournal Buyout Rumor · · Score: 1
    "Many websites are now just BLOGs with pictures."

    I would respond by saying that Blogs are just websites.

  5. Re:Wow on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing your story. I worked with Greg at Real, and heard a version of this from him, I always thought it was hilarious.

  6. Re:iPhone, uPhone we all phone for iphone... on More on Apple/Motorola Joint Cell Phone Venture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd really like to know the answer to this as well. It bothers me every time I hear it.

  7. haha on Bad Science Awards · · Score: 1
    "(c) YHWH"

    Not sure how many other people will get that, but I wanted to say how funny I thought it was.

  8. Re:Daring Fireball covered this on Rumored iPod Flash Leaked · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Like your cell phone, laptop, etc. It's OK to partial charge it now and again, but it's bad overall"

    Actually that's completely wrong. Lithium batteries only have so many charge cycles, and it's better to leave them charged and drain them rarely. Your method was great for old batteries, but not new ones.

    www.Apple.com/batteries/

  9. Re:Daring Fireball covered this on Rumored iPod Flash Leaked · · Score: 5, Informative
    18 months? Go FUD. I've had my original iPod since the day they were released and it still works great.

    The iPod suffers from the same problems any lithium battery-powered device does. If you use it certain ways, the battery will quickly die, the same as ANY MP3 player with that type of battery.

  10. Re:Do people actually register? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Because they know the date and time the product was sold, and almost any store that sells a color laser printer will have a video camera.

    Sure, that's hyper-paranoid, but when you're printing counterfeit bills you kinda have to be.

  11. Re:I was right! on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least with a daisy wheel it requires "the feds" to have possession of the wheel in order to determine which one it came from. With the dots, they will already know where and when the printer was sold as soon as the have the document.

  12. Re:Great for Grow Ops. on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 1

    Do you know if these are actually good as grow lights? I don't grow weed, but my cacti and plants might benefit from them.

  13. Re:Eyes on Thin CRTs to Challenge LCDs in 2005 · · Score: 1

    an LCD refresh rate is not the same as a CRTs at all, you can't really compare the two.

  14. Re:Google on Bringing the Library of Congress Newspapers Online · · Score: 1
    "but I'm not so sure about the significance of the content, what did they write/read in 19th Century?"

    I'm temped to mod you funny, but sadly I think you're serious. Obviously nothing important happened between the late 1800s and 1920, we should probably just ignore it all. I guarantee those 30M pages are more significant than half of google's 8B. Unless you think a person's blog with pictures of their cat and a review of the latest Dashboard Confessional album is important.

  15. Re:Prefrences on Creative, Apple Battle for MP3 Player Market · · Score: 1
    I agree except for the battery life rating. Almost every other player has better battery life than the iPod... this comes at the expense of a small form factor and other things, but the truth remains that the iPod battery is not "very good."

    Not to mention that the 12 hour stated life is completely unrealistic.

  16. Re:Dear gods, its just an optical cable! on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    Verizon is one of our competitors in the networking market we serve up here in the Northwest (schools) and let me tell you, we're more than happy to have them competing with us. I haven't met a single customer that is happy with the service that Verizon has provided. I don't know much about their cell service, but they have really awful networking and professional services

  17. No. on Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth · · Score: 4, Funny
    "They will also test whether it is suitable for human beings to live in the harsh environment there," he said.

    No, it's not.

    Next question?

  18. Re:Disconnect and motivation on The Music Man · · Score: 2, Informative

    I understand that, I was just relating it to the RIAA's efforts, which have (up to this point) targeted the sharers, not the downloaders.

  19. Re:Disconnect and motivation on The Music Man · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've never really thought about it, but it's funny to think that "pirate" is being used for people that share what they have willingly with others. The pirates being sued are the ones giving it away, not the ones taking it.

  20. Re:I wonder on The Music Man · · Score: 1

    I have 3431 songs taking up 15.27GB on this laptop here, which is 4.55MB per song. If he had this same average, you're talking about 4TB, which isn't all that much, considering.

  21. Re:A few angles... on Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player · · Score: 1

    you implied these actions by MS somehow made them more evil than the next company, which is just not true.

  22. Re:A few angles... on Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player · · Score: 1
    Right. They are the only tech company that does this.

    This is common practive among all companies that employ contractors, no reason to lambaste MS for it like they're the only ones.

  23. Re:A few angles... on Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player · · Score: 1

    And they would probably be right. Those kinds of things are frequently farmed out to an audio production company to take care of.

  24. Re:Discovered fractals? on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    A ratio by itself is not a fractal. That ratio can play into a lot of fractals and is seen in many places, but by itself is just a number.

  25. Re:so little HTTP bandwidth? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    I can believe that, but where is the other 65% of internet traffic coming from, email?