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  1. Tivo by Google on Can Google Fix the Cable Box? · · Score: 1

    Tivo will be a target for Google. This will happen within a year. Mark my words.

  2. Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem... on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    My mac doesn't have this option. What now, smarty pants?

  3. Re:Seriously? on MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D Printer Assembly, In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Welcome to 1999.

  4. Re:Men and Boys on MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D Printer Assembly, In Pictures · · Score: 1

    I heard that some folks live on the other half of Earth.

  5. Re:only 50% - must not have been on 128 at rush ho on Researchers Test WiFi Access From Moving Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I love Wolfram Alpha:

    55mph for 300M

  6. Re:First toast on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the time where I had lizards in my case. I started smelling something funny and pinpointed the smell at my computer case. I opened her up and found 6 dead lizards. I have no idea how they got in there. They were not pet lizards but they kind you see sunning themselves on the sides of brick homes. I guess they got in the house and found a warm spot and couldn't get back out. I wish I had pics.

  7. Re:How do you type the funny e? on Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    You have to remember the sequence for all accented characters. Plus, how many laptops have numpads?

  8. Re:How do you type the funny e? on Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    hold Alt and then tap 0233 on the number pad (then release Alt).

    There has to be a better way. It's usually faster for me to go to google and type a french word that I know has an accent in it (without the accent of course) and then paste the accented e that is presented in the search results.

    What do French speakers/typists do on Windows? On a mac it's option+e, e.

  9. Re:WHY would you do this? on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 1

    15 D cell batteries

    Try 4 AA batteries.

  10. Re:Android 256MB App Storage Limit on Android 2.0 — Competition Against the iPhone and the Rest · · Score: 1

    This one is over 1 GB.

  11. Re:The easiest solution on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    Thuraya is $2500/month for unlimited usage. 144 kbps. All you need to do is couple 10 or so of these together and you'll have a nice connection (albeit, with fairly high latency). I think it only works in Europe, Western Asia, and Africa.

  12. Re:Silverlight a good thing? on First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3 · · Score: 1

    As for the required Flash plugin, so what? It's already everywhere.

    Cough.. iPhone... cough.

  13. MDM on Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records · · Score: 1

    Best Buy is a pro at MDM, and have been for a few years now. They have a record of everyone's purchases and actions at Best Buy who hasn't paid for a purchase in cash. Even those cash purchases are tracked if the person uses a rewards zone card. They know which credit cards you have used at each location, they know if you are a sucker for warranties, and they know if you have a tendency to bring stuff back after a few weeks. They digest every piece of identifiable information that you have so they can target you, the consumer, in a more profitable manner.

  14. The Spongebob Channel? on Time Warner/Viacom Rift Healed, Pending Details · · Score: 1

    Why hasn't Viacom produced a 24 hour Spongebob channel? At any given moment, there is a very high probability that Spongebob is on one of the Nick channels. Why not give people some consistency and let them find Spongebob at his very own channel?

  15. Re:$speak_text = $speak_text.' eh?'; on Stephen Hawking Going To Canada · · Score: 1

    +1 funny. I would have given you real mod points, but I have not had the privilege since I was blacklisted in '00.

  16. Re:But i thought... on Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If one has that large of a gap in judgement.. ...When he was 15. Everyone does crazy stuff when they are 15. I know I did. Didn't you?

  17. Re:Solution on Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always link to this onion "story" when I see such a comment :

    Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

  18. Re:What I'd like Google to do on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    Get GMail out of beta. Heck, it's been over 2 years!

    Wow.. it's actually been over four years. I just went back through my inbox and found my "Gmail is different. Here's what you need to know" welcome letter dated 8/24/2004.

  19. First rule of Google Bombs ... on Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain · · Score: 1

    ... There are no Google Bombs. Once it is out in the open, it is gone. So, does it ever exist? Perhaps, for a brief moment in time.

    I know for a fact that Google has a small team dedicated to this sort of thing now. Google bombs, if they do materialize, are immediately squished. Google searches blogs and popular websites such as Slashdot for news items discussing "glitches" in their ranking algorithm. If there is a "bomb", it is extinguished immediately.

  20. Re:Direct links to mirrors on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    I'm seeing RC3 for those links.

    Check out the timestamp of binary:

    http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/

  21. Re:Direct Download-Day Links on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Please people - stop posting the RC links. Check the timestamps of these files on the mirros.. they are still 6/11

  22. Release Day Schedule on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0

    Looks like they are running a bit behind. ;)

  23. Slashdotted! on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Not due to slashdot only, of course.. but I've been trying to load up getfirefox.com since 1:00pm, and it appears to be bogged down.

  24. Re:Anonymous Coward on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately, Apple could not find a partner to install 3G towers throughout Greenland's 840,000 square miles for a population of just 54,000 people. BTW, Greenland's slogan is "Move to Greenland, we'll give you 1,000 square miles of land".

  25. Re:I see a market here on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1

    1. Modify the scanner head to accommodate a reader of sorts
    2. Scan the floppy
    3. Reassemble bits using either Scheme, Perl - whatever.
    3. ???
    4. Profit.