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  1. Obvious on Software Developer Beats Pirate in Boxing Ring · · Score: 1

    Its obvious, vodka had to be involved --- boxing geeks, rather, boxing russian geeks --- vodka, lots of vodka.

  2. Software Tie Ins on Google Toolbar v.4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For all of Google's amazing technology they don't do a very good job of linking things together. They have "Pack" which has Firefox in it, yet they don't update the toolbar for it! How can you support something in one area, then not integrate it into your existing offerings?? duh.

  3. Re:The beginning of the end on RIAA Goes After Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    Gerald:

    If everyone would kindly take a dollar from their right hand pocket and place it in the right hand pocket of the person sitting next to them, I believe my client will drop their grievance.

  4. Funniest Part on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Has to be the fact that their, "NvIOpRAM 24GB" is just a mini-stereo jack, available at Your local Electronics Store. Sweet that means i can build one of these for like $20!

  5. Photo of Biggest Hacker on World's Biggest Hacker Held · · Score: 1

    Here is a link to a photo of the "biggest" hacker.

  6. Even easier money saver on Blank Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Just mix up all the keys on the keyboard, they can easily pulled off with a flat head screw driver.

  7. Re:Trusted by whom on Google to use TrustRank for News, Possibly More · · Score: 1
    I think if "trust rank" was user specific sort of the way search history works that would be ideal. You clicked on the link from the news which means 1) the article interests you and 2) you trust or are interested in what the source has to say.

    For me thats the true power of google's massive database, what do I look at, and how can I find things I need faster. Give me USEFUL information from sources similar to those i have used before.

  8. Re:timer on Gmail's Birthday Presents · · Score: 1
    thats cause they are just running a javascript timer:

    quota.innerHTML = format(((now - START)/(END - START)*1025) + 1025);
  9. Sub-Par on Google Adds News Personalization · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I honestly believe google is doing amazing things with internet based UIs, but this one leaves a lot to be desired. Its not very intuitive and I find it kind of hard to use. Its not nearly as elegant as gMail or as easy to use as Maps. I wonder why this one seems to be a shotty hack.

  10. King of Media Comment... on Pay-Per-View Downloads of TV Shows? · · Score: 1
    Howard Stern is already doing this.

    Granted he is also offering all the TnA you can stand, but the idea is already there. I would hope he is making money off this as it would allow more "content providers" to place their stuff on the web for pay-per-view.

  11. Firefox on Yahoo's Y!Q Contextual Search Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Highlight the text in a webpage, right click. You get "Search for " Sounds like the good folks at mozilla already have this feature. And the tags on the page described just seem like useless overhead.

  12. Gun Makers on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So does this mean we can hold gun makers, people who build cars and knives to the same level of responsiblity? Lets do a little math: Gun Deaths last year approx 16k = $40,000,000 Traffic Deaths last year 43k = $107,500,000 I am just counting deaths, sounds like we could balance the budget if we include anything that might cause a crime also.

  13. Gaim Plugin on P2P In 15 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    Given its small size and the notion behind it of a small network of friends accessing files shared solely for eachother, with some effort could this be the start of the Downhill Battle file sharing proposal?

  14. Wait a minute... on Centaur - a Four-wheeled Segway · · Score: 1

    I thought the only cool thing about the orginial Segway was that it had two wheels. Guess i was wrong, now there must be nothing cool about the old Segway.

  15. Dynamic JPEG Creation on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1
    Couple quick observations: 1. Google search URLs now have the browser type as a parameter, not sure if this was always the case 2. The JPEGs are rendered on the fly, i had 1st just assumed that they agreed with the publisher to include certain key phrases and just have the entire book highlighted statically, but by varying the q= param in the url you can get it to highlight different things. Example

    http://print.google.com/print?id=TpUEyu2mTdoC&pg=3 &img=1&q=REPLACEME&sig=Aty75CJmTJeGBo3RuQNDK2rySFw

  16. Google Against Google on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1
    Gotta love the second headline is a /. article about how to break Google's DRM Link To News Search about Google Print

    Ah, the massive /. barrel of monkeys strikes again.

  17. For those who dont Speak Chinese on Googling Behind China's Great Firewall · · Score: 2, Informative
    Took a bunch of the chinese and ran it through babel fish ( i know no chinese so i cant verify any of this ): Noteable Names: Huang Liman Jiang Zemin Jia Qinglin Words/Phrases: Overthrows, Buddha, Chinese and Russian boundary, student movement, Tibet not to be independent, communize, Japan, Pakistan, smuggling, Wise, judicial, police officer, sex abuse, democracy, masturbation, Traitor to China

  18. Summary on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems that everything, except the personal information posted by a third party, can be summed up by a simple common acronym: RTFM. Ignorance of the law isnt a defense -- neither should be not reading the manual.

  19. Re:HOLY FUCKING SHIT! on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 2, Funny

    How dare this amazingly useful -- cant live without -- service i pay nothing for go down?!?!