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The post Dell/Alienware slogan:

On: It's Official Dell Acquired Alienware

Dude! You're getting a Alien!

I hope the French......

On: DRM Reduces Battery Life

...... use this as another reason to Open iTunes!

Who cares?

On: No HD-DVD Movies Until April

Because people who got burned in VHS vs. Beta are going to sit this one out until a format "wins."

Don't tell that.....

On: No More Next Big Thing?

.... To Wall Street. Then they won't have anything to throw money at.

Mirrors for the files you need to do this......

On: Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed

http://harrisonjordan.com/Winxponmac_0.1.zip
http://leewilkins.com/share/winxponmac0.1.zip
http://www.jerrybrace.com/Winxponmac%200.1.zip
http://www.geekdinner.co.uk/winxponmac0.1.zip
http://www.apple.tempex.sk/wordpress...nmac%200.1. zip
http://individual.utoronto.ca/kkapoor/winxponmac0. 1.zip

Funny that this has been posted.....

On: Dell to Buy Alienware?

...... As Mark Evans (a well known technology reporter in Canada) has posted in his blog that it is entirely possible that Dell has bought Voodoo PC:

http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/15 /1821932.html

This looks to be......

On: WinXP on a Mac, Hoax?

..... One of the better Photoshop jobs I've seen lately.

The title implies that.....

On: The Latest iPod Assassination Attempt

..... We should be adding the iPod to this list on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_ assassinations

Nothing to see here.... Move along....

On: Mac Mini vs. Media Center

..... So far in part one, all this article says is stuff we already know (the Mac is easier to set up and use blah blah blah).

Perhaps a more complete review will change my opinion.

I feel a great disturbance in the Force.....

On: Massive Porn Buyer Info Leak

.....as if millions of computer geeks had cried out, and then became silent.

I'm not sure what the value of this is.....

On: U of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Security Challenge

Because we know that ANY OS is insecure if it is not properly hardened. What may be of value is for someone to figure out how to harden OS X and then toss that computer on the net and see if it gets hacked. If it doesn't get hacked, feed the method for hardening the computer back to Jobs and company and see if it ends up as part of a future OS update.

Thank god this is settled!!!

On: RIM Settles Long-Standing Blackberry Claim

Now there won't be a need for crackberry withdrawl support groups.

I guess that doctors will be happy for now....

On: Blackberry Injunction Postponed

..... They continue to get to see crackberry addicts with RSI.

If you doubt that this won't work.....

On: Professional Gaming League Raises $10M

..... I've got three words for you:

World Poker Tour

Here's a radical concept.....

On: MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users

.... How about partents take some responsiblity for what their kids surf?

Nah. Won't work. Too much effort on their part.

The work provided by......

On: Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA

...... Sex Workers Outreach Project USA is made possible by a grant from Jack Thompson and by right wing nutjobs everywhere.

It almost seems.......

On: OSx86 Cracked Again

......That Apple is letting people outside it's organization be coders and beta testers to get OS X security issues out of their distro. Then they'll annouce that they've "magically" hardened the OS to make it less crackable so they can continue to rake in the profits from selling hardware.

But that's likely my tinfoil conspiracy hat talking.

This will only be taken seriously......

On: Game Industry Workers Get Voice

..... when the Teamsters get behind this. After all, a that's group associated with organized crime will tend to generate respect from employers.

Does that mean.....

On: How Songs Get Popular

I can stop watching American Idol?

Yeah but....

On: Nintendo Announces DS Lite

...... Does it run LINUX?

Does that mean that.....

On: MPAA Makes Unauthorized Copies of DVD

.... The MPAA will have to sue themselves?

The only question that I have is......

On: Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty

..... Is the botnet that he created and sold access to still around? Is it still a potential threat?

TFA isn't clear on this point.

Hmmmm.....

On: Jobs' Invitation To Microsoft a Trap?

"It doesn't take a Stanford MBA to deduce that the potential rewards of opting to use FairPlay far outstrip the rewards of going with PlaysForSure"

That assumes that FairPlay continues to be the standard. Microsoft could do something really radical such as embrace a DRM model that is more consumer friendly than FairPlay while keeping the record companies happy. If that happens, it doesn't matter how much mindshare Apple has. They're screwed and they're the ones who will be throwing chairs.

Re:"Star Trek" Solution to Space Garbage

On: NASA Warns of Cluttered Space

Actually, what is needed is some sort of main deflector dish:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Deflector_dish

What a dumb move by Bell South

On: Google Won't Pay Bell South

The tollgate strategy endorsed by BellSouth (and SBC too) is a misguided and uncreative attempt to recoup the loss of local telephone revenue as consumers leave for cablecos and VoIP service providers such as Vonage. If the carriers were smart, they'd realize the "pipe" to consumers has plenty of room to be leveraged financially. It's okay if carriers don't get a piece of every single piece of action because the more consumers rely on broadband service, the more open they will be paying for higher speeds and quality of service. As well, carriers can sell their own services and work with partners on a revenue-share basis. It makes the tollgate strategy seem extremely short-sighted.