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  1. Re:allofmp3.com on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Yep. Even though it's hard to read, that's what I clicked on. No resultant English page. Perhaps it requires Active X or something else that my Firefox browser doesn't support.

  2. Re:allofmp3.com on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Tried that. It didn't work, so I just figured somebody in Russia thought it'd be cool to have it on the page even if it was non-functional.

  3. Re:allofmp3.com on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Details. Details. :- )

  4. Re:allofmp3.com on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    The allofmp3.com site that I went to was 100% in Russian. I don't know where you've been.

  5. Re:allofmp3.com on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    I haven't learned how to read Russian yet, but thanks anyway.

  6. Re:ha! on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    I signed up with emusic. I had a list of 100 artists whose music I wanted. I found 3. Oh well. If you're the kind of person that hasn't got time to test listen to hundreds of unknown artists, don't waste your time with emusic. Only the DRM freedom is nice, the music is just sort of ho hum. No offense.

  7. Re:A great programming language on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1

    Exactly! My favorite programming tricks of all time involved the use of EQUIVALENCE. Stuff that would drive you nuts in any other language.

  8. Readme!! on Oregon's Governor Backs Open Source Development · · Score: 2, Funny

    All the derogatory comments in this blog regarding Oregon are true! We are just strange people that love living in these horrible living conditions (like lots of rain and that sort of thing)! You wouldn't like it here, so don't even think of coming here (unless you want to vacation here for a week or so).

  9. Re:God didn't give us long lifespans for a reason on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    I certainly couldn't (and wouldn't) argue with that. Peace.

  10. Re:God didn't give us long lifespans for a reason on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    By definition, if you truly have faith, you don't doubt it.

  11. Re:God didn't give us long lifespans for a reason on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    "Who knows... We of faith may be dead wrong"

    This has got to be the utimate oxymoron!

  12. Immortality on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    Oh, ye of little faith!

  13. Re:I try and try.. on Gambling Sites Battle DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    If you want to be taken seriously here, you need to quit mixing facts with opinions. Just because you believe something to be true doe NOT make it so. Likewise, just because you believe something to be untrue, does NOT make it so.

    "Alcohol and nicotine are the worst drugs around."

    Oh, come on now! Even someone with a modicum of intelligence will recognise the ridiculousness of that statement. Some of the worst, granted, but not The worst.

    "While the Christian fundamentalists will tell you that smoking pot and using LSD will send you straight to hell, .."

    Being one myself, I can testify to the absolute error of this statement. "

    ..there is no scientific evidence to back up any of their claims."

    Let me get this straight. You're asking for scientific evidence for the existance of hell? Good luck! I'm afraid that's quite a ways off at this time.

    "In fact, there is not one reported case of someone dying from taking either of these two substances, either immediately or over a long period of recreational use."

    Here is another example of grandiose claims, that to any intelligent person is obviously wrong.

    "I therefore find my argument quite consistant."

    Consistant. Well, yes, but I wouldn't be bragging about that if I were you.

    "Perhaps you haven't fully considered the effects of alcohol vs other substances?"

    At last! Something intelligent. Granted, a question rather than a statement.

  14. Gunning on Creative Gunning For the iPod · · Score: 1

    Well, all the comments here make it quite obvious that the iPod is the way to go IF you can afford it. All the rest of us will just have to do the best comparative analysis we can and settle for something inferior, such as the irock!. I bought my little irock! a loooooooong time ago, and I've never had a problem with it. Granted, it won't house my entire CD collection, but I could give everybody on my Christmas list one of those little players (and still have money left over) for the same money that I would have spent on a single iPod.
    Pity we don't all have money to throw away on iPods.

  15. Extreme on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    "All I was saying is that the number of people who are at this extreme .. "

    Such as yourself, right Mr Gates?

  16. Journals? on Make Magazine Subscription Now Available · · Score: 1

    Is Make Magazine supposed to turn into some kind of journal?, one that we keep on the shelf for reference year after year? At $15 a pop, one would hope so.

  17. The War of the Giants on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is just one major salvo across the bow of Battleship Microsoft from Battleship IBM. This war that been has quietly raging for many years is far from being won. The sinking of the IE ship is well under way at this time, and the Admirals and Generals on both sides are in their respective war rooms. So what's next?

  18. Email Security on Free Windows Software Without Spyware/Adware · · Score: 1

    All these lists are fine, but I don't see much in regard to email security. I use a little email checker program called Poppy. Highly recommended.

  19. Calandar change on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    Ain't happening. Nothing worth reading here. Move along.

  20. Re:uses 90% less on World's Thinnest Flash Memory Cell Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I don't know for certain, but I suspect just plain old poor education in grammar. Ever so, you'd think that reading a sufficient number of correctly written books would teach people the difference between 'less' and 'fewer'.

  21. uses 90% less on World's Thinnest Flash Memory Cell Unveiled · · Score: 1

    fewer

  22. Holograms Now on The Future of Holograms · · Score: 1

    You're living in one right now. Why be concerned about how long the program will take to get to the part where the inhabitants learn how to do real time holograms? Just enjoy the trip. Heheh.

  23. Compiling Java on Decompiling Java · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

  24. Re:Here are some beautiful visualizations... on Origin of Cosmic Rays Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's face it .. if it weren't for this, some people would never get a shower.

  25. "no less accidents" on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    fewer