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  1. Re:They set themselves up in a Catch-22 on Firefox Developer on Recruitment Policy · · Score: 1

    I imagine /. 403s the validator because it seems like every other article there's half a dozen links to the validator which everyone clicks on :p

  2. Re:What does the contract say? on Intuit Disables Features in Quicken To Force Upgrades · · Score: 1

    "we can disable this software whenever we want or even blow up your computer with it. Bend over and prepare to be violated"

  3. Re:not a peep about G5 heat and power issues on Dual Core Intel Processors Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Intel designed the Centrino hardware. Apple did not design the G5.

  4. Re:Doubt it! on Microsoft in 2008 · · Score: 1

    Which would be a violation of everything the OSS zealots stand for.

  5. Re:Gates' political leanings? on Microsoft Posts Record Earnings · · Score: 2, Funny

    But who lent Tony Blair political legitimacy, and does Tony not know it's not nice to lend out someone else's stuff?

  6. Re:If the game was bad on EA's Profits Up, Workers Get Layoffs · · Score: 1

    and what if the decisions weren't being made by the team?

  7. Re:What counts as "pirated"? on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    You bought the disc the software was on. You licensed the bits on the disc :P

  8. Re:Classic on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Last I checked, the changes aren't automatic. The poster must have just clicked through and not read the dialog like a typical Windows user...

  9. Re:What happens... on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    The pirates should stop using pirated goods. If they actually *tried* to keep up to date in the first place and were denied, they'd know they are vulnerable and should a) stop using the pirated software or b) get a legit copy.

  10. Re:Spot on on AOL Kills Usenet Access · · Score: 1

    I've actually found no indication that 50% are below average *by definition*. They don't go out of their way to define people as below average. That's just the way *it turns out*. The bell curve is quite common in statistics.

  11. Re:Imagine Pentium M at higher clock rates on Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed · · Score: 1

    The same reason Athlon64s and PPCs aren't running at high clock speed. Unless it's doing very little work per clock or has monstrous cooling, the CPU will heat up like a fireball at Pentium 4 clock speeds.

  12. Re:Guilty until proven innocent? on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 1

    Suspects are presumed to be guilty by the police and prosecutor. The courts consider them innocent because they have to be proven guilty for the court to consider them otherwise.

  13. Re:Canadian Government... on Governments Take Sides In Blackberry Patent Suit · · Score: 1

    Yes, please save us by putting our friends and families out of work so we cannot feed or clothe ourselves. I actually can't wait for the economic crash in the US so wages will go down so we cannot afford foreign goods and have to make things ourselves.

  14. Re:oldest ISP in NY ? on MelbourneIT Lapse Permitted Panix Hijack · · Score: 1

    advent ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dvnt) n. The coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important: the advent of the computer. For many of us the internet hadn't truly arrived until it became feasible for being more than just a toy for a bunch of geeks (which was long after 1989). We could argue about the multiple meanings of arrival...

  15. Re:The weekend rule on MelbourneIT Lapse Permitted Panix Hijack · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, domain owners may set a registrar-lock to prevent the snatching of domains via the 5 day rule. However, in this case, MelbourneIT ignored all of it, did not attempt contact with either the holding registrar or the owner and simply gave someone a taken domain.

  16. Re:Lack of rational thinking on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    Accepting any argument about mental deficiencies in either gender will result in discrimination in employment, education and even in our daily lives. Social issues are already making it hard enough. Giving an engineering instructor in a university an excuse to abuse female students even more is not something we need.

  17. Re:whois on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 1

    No, it was due to expire in April but someone apparently was able to have it transferred regardless of locking and apparently without notice to either the registrar or the owner.

  18. Re:Multiple registrars? on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 1

    No, they don't need the password at all. As far as the illegitimate hijackers are concerned, they can just get everyone's mail in one big pile to search for passwords, credit card numbers, paypal account information, online back account numbers etc.

  19. Re:Is this necessary on Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I don't understand why people don't demand that MS put all the graphics data into the graphics card's memory and perform drawing operations via the GPU. As long as they don't go overboard, they could enhance the look of the OS and leave more CPU cycles for apps. I seem to remember a lot of MS bashing when Apple started using 3D accelerators to do the drawing in MacOS X. When MS didn't do it, they were becoming obsolete, now that they are, they are "adding bloat". *sigh*

  20. Re:The summary leaves something out: on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 1

    Actually, IIRC one of them had official business at the courthouse at the time. The other may have drove him there. The other times they were just outside exercising their right to protest the state of the legal system.

  21. Re:Slow news day? on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 1

    Even if his lawyer ran off, he can go in and let them no his lawyer ran off. It's also nice to know your lawyer was that big of a pansy beforehand. He could also claim inadequate defense and if it were a civil matter, sue the lawyer for abandoning him. The difference in this case was that the men weren't heckling a specific lawyer. They were just telling jokes. Please, remove your head from your anus.

  22. Re:Wishlist: Slashdot on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    And yet there's actually a bug in the rendering engine that is fixed on the trunk and will be fixed in Firefox 1.1 for the Slashdot (and other sites as well) bug. IIRC, most of Slashdot's problems are pedantic stuff anyway.

  23. Re:Parent was FUNNY... on Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    I found it informative that Linus may not have ever thought that Linux would take off since he thought Hurd was coming (which became vaporware) :O

  24. Re:Celeryon on AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips · · Score: 1

    Indeed, even my pre-Celeron D 2.8GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM runs perfectly smooth.

  25. Re:A unique and amazing ecoregion on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    I suggest pointing out the fallacies in an argument rather than just throwing around what has turned into a lame buzz word of the socially inept.