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  1. Re:Nothing new for companies as large as MS on Google Lawsuit Exposes Microsoft Offshoring Deal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because completely draining the company's coffers/cushion of funds will really give them a return when the company needs it and doesn't have it and collapses into bankruptcy.

  2. Re:My Solution on Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It could be that we have dozens of different "blends" of fuel so we couldn't simply move surplus already refined fuel from other parts of the country to the eastern US due to EPA rules.

  3. Re:Well fuck. on Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our peanut farming overlords :|

  4. Re:RIP on Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at 80 · · Score: 1

    Are you a Constitutional lawyer? If the whole "separate but equal" theory had held water, it might not have been overturned in Brown or ever for that matter.

  5. Re:But will it be missed? on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    Don't think so, but it's been free for a while.

  6. Re:Heard that Before on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    No, what he said was that people were just throwing in POSIX in their requirements just to keep Microsoft out of bids even though they didn't really require POSIX at all. Microsoft did an implementation that satisfied POSIX (at the time) so people couldn't use it to keep them out of bids using this underhanded maneuver.

  7. Re:If only the federal, state, and local governmen on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    When you evacuate a major US city, chances are the people who don't leave are going to be the poor, ignorant, and uneducated that were either incapable or too foolish to leave. Many of them even believe they were abandoned and are now lashing out against everyone and anything they feel like. They aren't going to stop until they get a NATO round delivered from their friendly National Guardsmen.

  8. Re:Police doing the looting...Government SNAFU on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    all the unique culture and history means shit when you lose thousands to hurricanes because you put the damn thing in what probably should be a giant lake.

  9. Re:Gouging, et al on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    If you tell people that you have the last 10 and you actually have 10 + 90 hidden in the back, you are lying and probably demanding an unfair price for something someone may need to survive during a disaster. Doing it during a disaster is even more heinous.

  10. Re:All I gotta say is... on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many of these fine citizens stayed for the sole purpose of looting thinking that it wouldn't be nearly as bad as it turned out to be. Considering that the people who stayed are probably among the least educated/most ignorant members of society, I'd wager breaking into other people's homes while they're gone was probably on their minds...

  11. Re:In bed with Microsoft on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    He's completely right about Vista, though. After all, the UI for Windows XP betas didn't make it into the RTM version. I doubt the UI in Vista is even close to being finalized.

  12. Re:Vista is a total rip-off of Tiger... on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Um. The 9600 and its variants were always intended to run slower than the 9700 series. They actually made it slower than the 9500 PRO just to keep people from buying them over the 9700.

  13. Re:Power Efficiency? on Apple Hedges Its Bet on New Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    Until the customer realizes their PPC-only software won't run on their Intel powerbook and sues...

  14. Re:Who uses Office XP anymore? on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1

    OOo might be making improper assumptions when making certain risky calls which may be bringing down the driver. If the driver assumes OOo knows what it's doing and it really doesn't, should we fault OOo?

  15. Re:Who uses Office XP anymore? on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 1

    Alt, v, h *poof*. Or add a button to the toolbar. The author of the article is a fool.

  16. Re:Outsourcing should be illegal. on Small Town USA Competing With India · · Score: 1

    Competing with dictatorships that keep their people beaten down in the dirt and starving is totally fair ;)

  17. Re:Outsourcing should be illegal. on Small Town USA Competing With India · · Score: 1

    What you suggest is simply that the standard of living in the US drops to the point that we can't afford to feed ourselves either.

  18. Re:Plastic aluminum? on Fly To Mars In A Plastic Ship · · Score: 1

    Once you activate the shields, I'm sure it will be fine.

  19. Re:Scott Adams Wins Again on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: 1

    Continuing to bill people for a service you know they cancelled and you are not even providing is fraud escpecially when they tend to charge people's credit cards.

  20. Re:Evil is as Evil does on Google's Turn To Be The Villain · · Score: 1

    Or it could be that Google is using the massive amounts of cash it got from it's arguably overpriced IPO to buy up all the engineers to squash the startups and protect their spot? Those people will probably lose their jobs after the startups fold Google decides to hike its stock price by instituting "cost cutting" measures that will "increase profits".

  21. Re:My best... on 10 Computer Mishaps · · Score: 1

    If they wanted him to fix something, I'd say it's perfectly valid to pay him an existing debt before he does any new work.

  22. Re:No, only what he THINKS Apple will do on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1

    The reason and the excuse are different. I imagine wanting to control the middle east and wanting all obstacles (the west) out of there might have more to do with it than the US bullying its trade partners.

  23. Re:Quite right. on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    If they aren't allowed to use admin rights on a machine, don't give them the damn password (on the back of the machine no less)...

  24. Re:More than just using the taped password on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    The pornography means zilch as far as the charges go except they can use it to prevent the religious from supporting the "criminals".

  25. Re:Not so free after all on Australian Linux Trademark Holds Water · · Score: 1

    Do I have to remove "Linux" from the source so I doesn't display anywhere? What about copyright notices that I'm not allowed to remove? Isn't it impossible to create a Linux distro without infringing on the trademark? No more free Linux distros?