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  1. obligatory link on Battlefield Pirates Hoists Mod Mainbrace · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the question of supposed chickens abuse.

  2. Re:WindowsXP is free... on New Numbers on Linux Market Share Soon · · Score: 2, Funny
    cite your proof that linux makes one more efficient.

    That's simple, solitaire isn't included in many linux distros.

  3. Re:FYI, there's a bounty on him now. on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    dang, looks a little better for me, the navbar is a little higher and the text isn't visibly off but I've seen much worse.

  4. Re:FYI, there's a bounty on him now. on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    the nav. bar being about 8 pixels too low is the worst you've seen?

  5. move to Cali. on Abbreviating Name on Official Documents? · · Score: 1

    ... we don't care about valid docs, just go grab a new license or ss card. :) yeah yeah we defeated it once but it hasn't died, that's what you get with people in the legislature with no common sense.

  6. old putnams on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1
    Red bull scandle anyone?

    Seriously check these old putnam tests out, they are hard, high school level math is required, 12 problems in 6 hours, 3 hour blocks for US/Canada college students, the median score is often 0, when I took it last year my score was better than that, but man, still embarassing. They are of course easy once you see the solution but creativity and a lot of intuition are required to solve more than a couple in any givin year.

  7. Re:Some things aren't meant to be for-profit. on ICANN Study Slams Verisign · · Score: 1

    what's to keep you from aquiring everything from aaaaaaaa to zzzzzzzz that isn't already taken?

  8. Re:magnetic disks on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    Oh that, well it's probably due to gravity from turning it over, try getting a really long IDE cable and dropping your hard drive off a tall building, add a fin for stabilization. Thus, now in a free fall your hard drive won't experience as much gravity in the opposite direction from normal but you can still test it with the reverse polarized magnetic fields it experiences...for a few seconds at least. This only works if you have enough IDE cables and a tall enough building. For those who live in Kansas and thus don't have anything tall enough, except maybe a grain silo, the alternative is to place a small bar magnet a few feet away from the hard drive (note to real idiots, try to keep the magnet a few feet away, also the horizontal component is likely more important than the vertical of the Earth's B-field, unless you live near the magnetic poles, which, according to the suggested theory, could come to a location near you...in a few hundred years), rather rambling for a post likely only one person will see. :P

  9. Re:Donate Fridge Magnets Now! on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1
    Maybe if we can develop cheap and ussable high Tc superconductors we can wrap them around the equator and that would protect us from incomming highly magnetic radiation storms so we don't end up like Mars, anyone else have any ideas 'cause if not...

    ...the end is near!!!

  10. Re:magnetic disks on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 3, Funny

    try turning your hard drive around...what happens?

  11. Re:whois search results for: on Network Solutions Overhauls Whois Results · · Score: 1

    try microsoft's uk site, I believe they have made the mistake before of not reregistering.

  12. Re:Update system on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    emerge -uD world does this count (ussually only works for gentoo linux though)

  13. Re:Half a day? on WineX Install Goes Sour for LinuxWorld Editor · · Score: 1

    took me less than a day to get my conexant hcfmodem working, have you tried google? Originally it was buggy but it has been behaving well for quite a while.

  14. Re:...on W3 Schools' site on GIF Slips Away From Unisys; Your Move, IBM · · Score: 1

    I wonder what /. web stats would look like?

  15. roadmap says "code-named Firefox"... on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 1
    the mozilla roadmap says

    "Focus development efforts on the new standalone applications: the browser currently code-named Firefox, the Mozilla Thunderbird mail/news application, and standalone composer and other apps based on the the new XUL toolkit used by Firefox and Thunderbird. We aim to make Firefox and Thunderbird our premier products."

    Sorry to disappoint you, I suppose, but though I figure FF will stick around this does not bode well.

  16. Re on A How-Not-To Guide to Cyber-Extortion · · Score: 1

    ...which can be summed up for the grandparent's benifit in one word (sortof): RTFA!

  17. it has been moved on Build Your Own KiteCam · · Score: 1

    ahhh, I got it while on dial-up :), looks like it hit a bit of turbulence..

  18. extortion? on 429,000 Do-Not-Call Complaints · · Score: 1

    Could this be classified as extortion, pay up or we'll keep calling? Different but sort of like the popups adevrtising anti-popup software a while back.

  19. Re:How about a little variety? on Alternative Distribution Schemes For The MMO? · · Score: 1

    go outside, for the love of god man, go outside!!!

  20. never had a chance on InfoWorld 2004 Salary Survey Results · · Score: 1

    poor little website, never had a chance...

  21. guys & gals, eyes & ears on What Happened To PC Gaming Audio? · · Score: 2, Informative

    guys, the target audience, experience love with their eyes, girls with their ears, or so the old saying goes, paraphrased for lack of decent memory

  22. Re:Mac versus windows on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    7-zip is actually pretty impressive, it can't quite stuff 2 pidgeons down a hole (for that try lzip) but it is still pretty good.

  23. Re:TROLL! on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    well it's a 'troll' as any informed user knows you can edit some settings and make ff pretty quick, albeit IE is often still slightly faster as of .8 at least, who knows about .9 or ... 1.0?

  24. Re:Great browser, but... on A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was going to respond to that PNG comment but you beat me to it, I'll just add the following: PNGs (and to a lesser extent MNGs, due mainly to their lack of support) are so great, though I really wish IE had them working properly, for non photograph like images PNGs actually compress (often much) better than JPGs, even when they are lossless and JPGs are lossy, they ussually compress better than GIFs while also offering much more color depth.

    responding to your other comments CSS is very useful but unfortunately can cause things to display slightly differently in IE vs other browsers, I've used CSS but I've restricted my use to options that work in older browsers: at least NN4, IE4. CSS is quite helpful for maintaining sites easily. a decent CSS reference

  25. Re:Great browser, but... on A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    There was a plugin but it wasn't playing nice for me and I haven't tried it in a while.