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  1. Re:Battle of resources, not facts on Microsoft Drags Feet with Settlement Claims · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't matter whether we're talking about SCO, Microsoft, the DMCA, RIAA, or Michael Jackson.

    Well the RIAA and Michael Jackson have been going after little kids, but Microsoft?

  2. Re:Looks great, but... on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 1

    Except that top performing Intel chips use more power than top performing AMD chips. You could have made that argument when it was p3's vs tbirds, but not anymore. Maybe you didn't know that, or maybe you are just a FUD monkey. I really don't know.

    Maybe you didn't read that the Xbox uses a celeron.

  3. Re:Looks great, but... on Project Plex-Box · · Score: -1, Troll

    does it cook a turkey in under 3 1/2 hours?

    No, the Xbox has a Celeron, which is not from AMD.

  4. Re:Businesses are like organisms... on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 1

    If you're a die hard Zipf's law fan you probably have Wentian Li's Zipf law page bookmarked.

  5. Re:Good grief on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I don't know about Google growing up, but trouble brewing is at Google.

  6. Re:Trade name on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 1

    As long as people hold on to the association of the word "Google" with "searching" they will have no problem.

    Yes, just like how they held onto "Netscape" with "the web" when Internet Exploitable was bundled into Windows.

  7. Google translator doing well on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, at least the Google translator is doing well, repeated use seems to have generated: Employees carp that Google is morphing in strange and nerve-racking ways.

  8. Diebold folds? on Diebold Folds In DMCA E-Voting Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone else have visions of DMCA notification letters being folded into origami statues of liberty?

  9. Re:My take on this on ARIA Threatens To Sue Internet Service Providers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, about as interesting as a lighted candle inserted rectally.

    How did you find out about ARIA's "business tactics"?

  10. Re:It was already written for a different audience on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 2, Funny

    You've just inspired me. I am going to try the opposite strategy and write a book for a large illiterate audience. Looks like I just found calling.

    So, you want to work for Playboy...

  11. Secrets? on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 5, Funny

    Secrets of 'The King'. Can't break this hobbit: Will Frodo destroy the ring? Will Aragorn wear the crown?

    Yes, those are well kept secrets.

  12. Re:Isn't there a better way? on Internationalized Domain Names Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Basically anyone literate in one language can copy ASCII characters from a signpost onto a notepad, and then punch those into a keyboard. Even if her culture doesn't use the ASCII set in normal daily activities (which about everyone in America, Europe, and Japan does), then the shapes are at least simple enough to copy geometrically.

    Why should they have to learn another character set? The same argument could be made in reverse, which you in fact do:

    But if 16-bit charsets are allowed in DNS, we could get hostnames composed of 3 Chinese characters and two Arabic ones, and which a Russian or Briton will be incapable of processing without tremendous pain.

    But those characters could be very simple to copy geometrically!

  13. Re:apt-get expose on Expose Metacity With Expocity · · Score: 1, Funny

    No offense, but if you are taking trolls seriously you need to write some simple automation scripts in shell or perl to remind yourself not to.

  14. Re:Atheism on Israeli Ministry of Commerce Picks OO.org Over MS · · Score: 1

    You call that a flame war? ;)

  15. 90% identical on WVG : The New Scalable Vector Graphics · · Score: 1

    and is 90% identical to SVG.

    Well, that goes without saying: it's from Microsoft!

  16. Re:Single point of failure on Broadband Over Power Lines in Canada · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the power is gone, the communications are gone anyways, so where is the issue?

    I was over in the US when the recent blackout occurred. I still had about an hours worth of net access after the blackout occurred thanks to backup power on the network and the battery in my powerbook. So it's not necessarily gone.

  17. Ad for Keanu Reeves movie #1000324 on Recycling TV Ads · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Whoa, dude!"

  18. I can see (hear?) the ads now... on Mobile Phone for the Blind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I once was blind, but now o-wa-sys

  19. I tried to RTFA on Documentary about Professional Gaming · · Score: 5, Funny

    and it said to WTFM

  20. Sssshhh... on Gnome.org Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. We're hunting integwation features!

  21. Re:Wars and revolutions on The Sunspot Cycle Explained · · Score: 1

    Or the Boer war which many parts of the British empire were involved with during a low part of a cycle. Anything can look significant if you pick and choose.

  22. Re:****ENGLAND HAVE WON THE WORLD CUP**** on The Sunspot Cycle Explained · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I blame the sunspot cycle for Australia's loss.

  23. Re:Wars and revolutions on The Sunspot Cycle Explained · · Score: 2, Funny

    Easy, just write down all the wars and revolutions that don't coincide with the sunspots. :)

  24. Links to the abstracts on The Sunspot Cycle Explained · · Score: 5, Informative

    As easy as one, two, three.

  25. What a change on Snail Mail Tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    From paddles for perforating snail mail to paddles in my boss's email:

    Nov 19 05:02:32 gw postfix/qmgr[241]: 0D91C17442: from=VeralsisWorldofOTKSpankingDrawings-bounce@gro ups.msn.com, size=13028, nrcpt=2 (queue active)