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  1. Re:hey on Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections · · Score: 1

    Put them all in one room? I'm cheering already!

  2. Re:Worst Mistake That Still Needs Fixing on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    1 - it's not hard to do. and no, you're not going to deface any visible side of the casing anyway if you mess it up. Myself I used a spatula since I don't have a paint scraper.
    2 - i recommend not upgrading the disk or ram in your purchase configuration of any Mac. It's just way more expensive than commodity parts.
    3 - unless you have the latest mini, the system can only support up to 2GB of DDR2 ram anyway. Some kind of mobo limitation.

  3. about marketing on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    They've been hiring some of the best software engineers and managers forever. The fact that they can't seem to get their act together seems to be a problem of top management more than anything.

  4. Re:HAM Radio on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    The downside of ham radio is
    1. the lack of encryption - not possible if you need to reach the masses
    2. triangulation - you're just inviting the enemy into your front gate
    3. jamming - you _can_ stop the music

  5. I can't see the transformer brick on Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings · · Score: 1

    Is this thing running on DC?

  6. Re:Correct me if I am wrong... on Is China Creating the World's Largest Botnet Army? · · Score: 1

    Can't you read? It's spelled "bothwaysfuckwad"!!!

  7. www.goldenpalace.comium on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    er or something. Take 2 pentium and call me in the morning

  8. Re:My suggestion on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    murderinthefir.st then.

  9. Re:The "understood" security risks on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    What you could do to mitigate - wrap a layer of citrix around it. Put the entire app accessible only through the browser of a xenapp server, then get everyone to connect through that server. Of course, we're talking cost here. - client licenses for terminal server, citrix, and the loss of ... every benefit of a web app. But it is doable.

  10. Every Device will fail eventually on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    As a safeguard, teach your daughter about 1. How to avoid strangers, 2. How to find the nearest policeman (yeah I know, can you really trust them? But eventually you're gonna have to trust someone.)

  11. You can ask for the world on Court Asked To Strike All MediaSentry Evidence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't mean you'll get it handed to you. Speculation for nerds, Wishes for Fishes.
    Wake me up when the Judge files a ruling either way, that's what I call news.

  12. Re:Summary of previous discussion on Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    approximately 1/3rd of them were not explicitly installed by me, this is that half:

    Good God man, you've added 1/6 more extensions just by talking about it here!

  13. Re:Region 8 (sideways) on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 1

    You've never seen the crew of Serenity watch a movie. And those are pirates if I've ever seen them. Now you know who won the war.

  14. Re:LOL on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah! Have sex! even gay sex! anything is better than the latest crap you would have gotten at the nearest blockbuster back home.

  15. Re:This is why we don't like the EU. on EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    Name em and shame em, where's the proof?

  16. Re:Cynicism on Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, maybe you're a schizo and don't know it. So it's time to ask yourself: Is it really true that the world is out to get me, or
    1. do you have periods of time where you can't remember and can't account for your actions
    2. do you have an evil twin brother

  17. Re:not a prank, a CRIME on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1

    You know, it's attitudes like that which reinforce the concept of "a life of crime". If a court orders a conviction to be expunged from the record, it ought to be removed. It's called "rehabilitation", and one way or another, we have to believe it works sometimes, because the alternative would be to terrible to comprehend.

  18. Re:Easy Solution on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1

    And your adult indian name would be "Paisley Eyepatch"?

  19. Re:The new movie got off to a good start? on Terminator Salvation Opens Well, Scientists Not Impressed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason T4 would do poorly is because T3 sucked so mightily. Fool me once, shame on me...

  20. The essense of Soccer on Soccerbots Learn How To Fall Gracefully · · Score: 1

    ... is to fall in such a way as to get the other guy a yellow or even red card. Maybe even get yourself a penalty kick. Er and yeah, not get hurt. But that red card is more important.

  21. Re:Prediction on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    There are 2 factors in play within a voters mind in a first-past-the-post voting system. Who you want to see elected, and who you don't want to see elected.
    If your priority is to get your favorite candidate elected, then by all means, you're going to vote for him.
    If, however, your overwhelming priority is to see someone _not_ get elected, then it doesn't matter who you want, you're going to vote for the leading candidate running against him. Doubly (dubyaly heh...) true for a president running for reelection.

    Just my 2 cents.

  22. Re:Definition: Robot on Robot Soldiers Are Already Being Deployed · · Score: 1

    Sense+Think "There's something wrong with the state of IP law"
    Sense+Act "We gotta get them terrorists fer what they did to us in 9/11"
    Think+Act "Lets stop the violence in our kids by banning video games"

  23. Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat on Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder, what's the response time to a security incident? What happens if the connection is down? There's no idea at the front even if the person in the back room is taking a break.

  24. Re:Is it just me... on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    I don't think Microsoft would do that to customers.

    Vista Starter
    Vista Home Basic
    Vista Home Premium
    Vista Business
    Vista Ultimate
    Vista Enterprise

    or...

    Office Ultimate 2007
    Office Enterprise 2007
    Office Professional Plus 2007
    Office Professional 2007
    Office Small Business 2007
    Office Standard 2007
    Office Home and Student 2007
    Office Basic 2007

    They're not really features that got turned off, they're features that can get turned on!

  25. Re:It's called "feature protection" on Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    A few years back, Intel was facing the peculiar situation where their supply of low-end Celeron processors was not meeting the demand. They solved this particular dilemma by binning better processors into that category, rather than, I dunno, maybe lowering the price of the higher range? It made for some crazy overclocking though (300-450Mhz, 566-850Mhz).