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  1. Re:Damn on French Town Tests Cashless Society · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even in the Star Trek universe they have latinum.

  2. Re: In Other News on 8 & 10 GB iPod Nanos Rumored · · Score: 1

    Actually it has been there since the release of Windows XP. It sucked (Not that the current one is much better), but you had to enable it manually for each connection. It wasn't until SP2 that it was really used, or even noticed for that matter.

  3. Re:Wow, this technology works! on New Patent on TV Forces You to Watch Ads · · Score: 1

    Damn my smart house!

  4. Re:Marshmallow Peeps came to rule the world? on The History of Easter Candy · · Score: 0, Troll

    It always amazes me how vain many people are and how blind they are to the rest of the world. Also - WTF is this article doing on slashdot??? Slow news day??

  5. Re:You Retards! on Duke Nukem Forever Update · · Score: 1

    Well, it appeared on April 1st too!

  6. Re:Horrible. on CBS Coming to the Produce Aisle · · Score: 1

    As I work in a grocery store, I can assure you that these advertisements won't be more of a bother than the damn Muzak that plays. I hear the same songs 3-4 times a shift 5 days a week. Talk about getting old!

  7. Re:FYI: Non USians need not apply. on Sun Grid Compute Utility · · Score: 1
    US citizens, however, are free to model nuclear weapons to their hearts' desire. Until Homeland Security shows up.

    Should give you plenty of time then!
  8. Re:SQLite on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1

    I installed FireFox on my parents computer running Win2K. They complained the other day about not being able to add or remove bookmarks. I looked in the profile and there were tens of thousands of copies of the bookmark file, for some reason. I removed them and all works fine now, but not sure why this would have happened.

  9. Re:Flipping magnets... on Magnetic Processors - Computing's New Future? · · Score: 1

    Who knows, but it would be fun to see the mass panic not seen since the terror of Y2K!!

  10. Re:Could be great for textbooks on New Sony E-Book Device To Debut This Year · · Score: 1

    Not only would it be great for textbooks, but if they can make it more like a 'pad' from Star Trek, meaning that you can also write and draw on it, I think they could have a really huge thing here. I'm all for things from the Star Trek universe being developed in real life.

  11. Re:Focus Magazine Interview Haunts Gates on MS Patches Go For Quality Over Quantity? · · Score: 1
    The thing is, he's right, he just didn't know it.

    He didn't know it? It says that he presented facts that proved it. How could he have said it but not known it?? As for Automatic Updates - they need to be completely automatic. They should run COMPLETELY in the background and update automatically without the user's knowledge. This is the only way to completely and properly secure a vulnerable windows box.

  12. Re:Everyone In The UK Has Region Free Players Anyw on Spielberg Bitten by DVD Encryption · · Score: 1
    Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe.

    The way I read this is that, since the screeners have the the dvd players, and the encryption was correct, but the problem was the region encoding, is this really newsworthy? So they were encoded in the wrong region, big fucking deal. If the DRM actually failed and disallowed the playing of the DVDs completely, that might be worth noting.

  13. Re:Source? on Google Unveils The Google Pack · · Score: 1

    For that matter, where do you download the software itself? I can't seem to find a link anywhere on the page. And for that matter, the author says Trillian is included, yet I can't see that listed on the Google Pack site. WTF?

  14. Re:No-brainer on Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Well, if you put it like that, it makes the scientists feel dumb.

  15. Re:'Transferbangle'? on Australia To Legalize VCR Recording and CD Ripping · · Score: 1

    In addition, I also checked the Macquerie Dictionary (highly regarded Australian dictinoary), and the Australian slang dictionary. Both of which yielded no results.

  16. Hoax on Watercooling the XBox 360 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I call hoax. I think it's just a fan slapped on the side of a 360. I doubt there's any more to it than that. No modification or anything. It's complete BullShit!

  17. Re:Hollywood has used this formula for years: on Software Predicts Movie Success · · Score: 1

    So does a smaller budget mean smaller boobs?

  18. Re:Missing the point on Air Guitar That Actually Plays! · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, air guitar plays you!
    *ducks*

  19. Re:Million Bit Parallel Data Access on 300 gigabytes in the size of a DVD? · · Score: 1
    Hard disks are what I feel is holding back system performance. It's almost always the biggest bottleneck in a system, and has been more or less at a platoe for years, mainly because magnetic media can only do so much in a serial manor.

    Well, Something has to be the bottleneck. :)

  20. Re:LOC'ed in. on Bandwidth Challenge Results · · Score: 1
    So then that's:
    959.77/14 = 68.555 LOC/DAY
    68.555/24 = 2.856 LOC/HOUR
    2.856/60 = 0.0476 LOC/MINUTE
    0.0476/60 = .0007933 LOC/SECOND

    If my calculations are correct that is. Gee, I guess that's not very fast than is it?
    I'll be impressed when they can get up to 1 LOC/SEC.

  21. Re:great... on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one to notice this as a dupe. Now if I could just find the original post....

  22. Re:Bigger Screens good, Wider Screens bad on Get Ready For The 20-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried using an IDE, such as Eclipse or Visual Studio, on a 15" laptop? I'm doing a lot of programming this semester in school and I do most of it on my laptop. I have a 15.4" widescreen display and wouldn't trade it for a thing. It's the perfect size and not too heavy. Eclipse is able to "spread out" across the widescreen display so I can actually see what I'm programming.

  23. I don't get it... on Future Cell Phone Knows You By Your Walk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What is the usefullness of this? I don't want to have to get up and walk around everytime I want to use my cell phone or laptop. Do you have to be walking to use the phone or just to authenticate to it?

  24. Re:Oh, great. on Fingerprint Payment System Gets Financing · · Score: 1

    Ew.

  25. Re:I'd take a backup of my backup. on Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    Oops, yeah, I meant Fujifilm. That's what I get when I try to type with one hand, eat with the other, and watch a tv thats sitting behind me. I guess that's what I get for being in college.