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  1. More woes for copyright infringement? on Video iPod Oct 12? · · Score: 1

    Oh great, something else for the **AA to complain about.


    Now lets see if I can compress X-Files episodes enough to fit on it, or better yet, just buy a PSP.

  2. Placing the Blame Somewhere on BBC Commentator Goes After Software Licensing · · Score: 1

    If she was to suggest a school experiment that involved drinking sulphuric acid, because she'd confused it with acetic, then she'd be in big trouble.

    This is that double-edged sword that tries to blame someone for personal mistakes, and actions. Crossreferencing is a very good idea when you're playing with chemicals. Obviously this is a specific incedent, but it holds true for everything, multiple sources are better than one. Yeah, script-kiddies can run some software that someone created, but some true hacker could write the same software and run it, then where does the blame get placed, on the compiler creator?

    I think you would see less Open-Source software if there was full responsibility placed on the creator, because one hardware conflict that creates negative results could amount to blames of "lost productivity" etc, and then again, you have a person or company looking for someone to take the blame.

  3. Ford and Pontiac? on Mozilla Lightning Plans to Unify Mail & Calendar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sunbird and Thunderbird coming together? Did somebody run a red light?

  4. Re:lame... on The Quintessential Sentry Gun · · Score: 1

    The engineer is on his way back, he had to get more ammo.

  5. Re:Brilliant! Simply brilliant! on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia computer contacts you.

  6. Re:Go see it in theaters on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    This happend at my theatre as well (Maine), Four screen, three prints.

  7. Re:Paradigm shift on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 1

    but I still wouldn't want to be near a collapsing star

    You mean like Kirstie Allie?

    Or is that an exploding star?

  8. This.... on High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics Competition · · Score: 1

    ....reminds me of the US FIRST Robotics Competition .

    The engineers did the work, but the kids and the sponsor(s) reap the benefits. This isn't much different but at least it is giving kids a place to go after school, and pushing more people into the engineering field, which is something we may not need.

  9. I'm Hoping for.... on William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show · · Score: 1

    ....The Shatner spoken word diss track.

  10. It will be a $350 mouse...... on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    .....with a built in ipod.

    That's what the second button is for.

  11. Re:FREE TIBET! on Mitnick: Security Not about Technology · · Score: 1

    Yes, all the tea.

  12. Re:Pleasant Side Effect on When Should You Quit Your Job? · · Score: 1

    Basic Training with blades, is that a new addition to EQ2?

  13. Re:John Cage on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 2, Funny

    But in the end he'd sign a picture of himself for you.

  14. Re:Let the Bush bashing begin! on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 1

    To quote PCU:


    "It used to be us against them, now it's us against us"

  15. Extinct software lives on.... on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1

    ....in the hearts, minds, and harddrives of exeem/BT/limewire users everywhere.

  16. Re:save the one button! on EFF Creates Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1

    The one-button mouse is always at risk of being an endangered gizmo, but Apple keeps reintroducing the species into the wild, where they are promptly eaten by 2-buttons and scroll wheels.


    I've heard the scroll wheel is a mean little bugger, moving up and down really fast, clicking occasionaly, I can see why the one button would be scared, and the 2 button mouse, don't get me started that thing is a menace to society.

  17. How many are legal? on MPAA Releases Software For Parents · · Score: 1

    However, users have noted that the software is not accurate; 'tagging' virtually every audio or video file it finds based on file extensions


    But virtually every file on my computer is taken from someone, yay infringement, my pR0n collection is definately the most extensive though, and I would be greatly disheartened if my parents found it all, on my computer, while I'm at college, half a country away.

    /Me turns off PCAnywhere

  18. Who Needs AI on Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Log onto any CS/D3/Painkiller/HL2 server and you have something way better than AI: real people.


    Sometimes they're n00bs though...or hax0rz. Guess that just makes them really good and really bad AI?

  19. Re:What a stupid question.... on No Pictures, Thanks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you went to far.

  20. Re:FIFA 2005 on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 1

    (Note: post may not be retain humour outside of England, where football fans are stereotyped as hooligans) Oh crap, they're not?

  21. Re:It's about friggin' time... on Price Drops For Mac mini Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Ever seen someone using one? No.

    Guess that indicates the actual amount of people buying iPods.


    That's like living in Nebraska and saying you don't see any snow shovels around.

  22. Re:The usual.... on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    I was more referring to his assertions that it's easy to be an optimist in a country where the crappy things that have happend eventually fixed themselves.

  23. The usual.... on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 3, Funny

    That eventually, somewhere down the line the US government will get better. (Howard Zinn says so)

  24. Wait a minute..... on O'Keefe to Resign as NASA Administrator · · Score: 1
    on the other hand can we really expect NASA to effect serious changes and find a focused direction with leadership changes every 4 years?



    Makes you wonder how some presidents manage to get anything done. Focused direction indeed.
  25. Another war on.... on FTC Wants Comments on Email Authentication · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's what I envision.

    "Today, we must fight a war, they clog our mail boxes, they offer us penis enhancements, drugs like v1ag|2a, stuff we don't need, they make our wives leave us for believing we go to porn sites and give out our e-mails to just anyone. Today we start the war against spam"
    -[Insert head of newly formed organization here]