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  1. Logic breakdown... on Net Neutrality Voted Down in U.S. House Committee · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's the evil big telecom corporations vs. The Public and Microsoft.

    OMG!!1! We're on the same side as Microsoft!?!?! WTF?!?!?!11?!?//

  2. Re:Excellent news on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    exactly. They're rebuilding the fan loyalty that the RIAA has been destroying for the past years.

  3. Re:Even better! on CUTE USB SUSHI DISK DRIVES!!! · · Score: 1

    not that I've ever bought one of the ducks, but they don't actually light up that well. Just a sort of dim light if all other room lights are off. My good old Cruzer Micro is much brighter.

  4. Re:Remote Exploits? Poor user security model? on Windows Vista 5342 Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Use this link to the screenshots (they're the same pics)-- they're thumbnails here, so it doesn't take 6.3 hours to load them all.

  5. Re:Welcome news on IE7 Separated from Windows Explorer · · Score: 1

    To be fair, when you're in file manager and it's loading all of your drives, the animated graphic is more interesting in Vista. And the folder icons are see-through.

  6. bad example on French Parliament Fights iPod and iTunes · · Score: 1
    local (French) annexes of big (American-based) multinationals such as Vivendi-Universal

    I'm sure that what you say is true, except that Vivendi's headquarters is within 2 miles of this.

  7. Free on Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1
    What's not free about Opera? It's bee free for almost a year (or something like that).

    Or do you mean OS?

  8. Re:Advertising on One REALLY Long Runway for Rent · · Score: 1

    fwiw, I seem to recall pizza hut doing that on a Russian rocket within the past 5 or 6 years.

  9. Re:That's actually a really good point... on Movies Losing Popularity at Box Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not an amnesiac CIA agent, but I still enjoyed the Bourne Identity. What's your point? You have to be one of the characters in a movie to enjoy it??

  10. the obvious difference on Movies Losing Popularity at Box Office · · Score: 1
    the obvious difference is that something that's primarily performed live (the concert and theater performances that you cite) aren't remakes-- they're performances, and thus the old one doesn't exist anymore as it was first experienced-- while we can see the old King Kong movie exactly as it was experienced by its original audience.

    Thus, the movie remake is duplication and lack of creativity, while performing something that was once performed is not copying that original performance (just because Kathleen Dupre performed Elgar's cello concerto like nobody else doens't mean that I don't want to see any other performance of it, because I'll never be able to see hers)

  11. chesterfield? on The Simpsons Come to Life · · Score: 1

    What part of Canada are you from?

  12. homeless hotdog vendors? on Who is Your Hero, Gates or Jobs? · · Score: 1

    have you no shame?
    bad business practices do not belong in the same category as endemic poverty and diesese.

  13. Re:I suggest the Free Software Foundation on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 1
    tyre is the European spelling instead

    Well, no, the Europeans actually have several different ways to spell each word. Those crafty Europeans, they have these language things...

    Sorry, I couldn't help it...

  14. Re:Lets hope they open source it on Google to Buy Opera? · · Score: 2, Informative
    This demonstrates the upside and downside of extensions-- each response telling how easy it is to open tabs in Firefox has given a different answer ('huh? all you have to do is ...x...'). For me (presumably a function of what mouse gestures extension I use-- All-In-One Gestures-- and the way I've got it set) all I need to do is middle click on a link. That's all I need to do in Opera as well.

    I think that functionality wise the two are pretty much equal-- I use opera at work where I share a computer and I don't want to spend much time customising it, but at home I use Firefox because I wouldn't be without all of my extensions (most notably, adblock and the adblock filterlist, and some google-related extensions).

  15. Re:10 poorest .... add some more on Forbes Fictional 15 · · Score: 1

    I think that with his inheriting the Black family fortune that Rowling is setting Harry up to best the Malfoys in some sort of financial transaction. Maybe I'm too financial minded, but there must have been some reason that book 6 spent some much time (a couple of pages) establishing the fact that Harry went from being comfortable (with his parents' money he didn't need to work for a while after school) to being filthy rich.

  16. Re:Limiting Internet Access on Is Wi-Fi Ruining College? · · Score: 1
    You're assuming the network admin is totally clueless?

    Ummm.... Yeah. I wouldn't trust them with doing a whole lot of anything-- which is a lot more than they do right now.

  17. pathetic sentances on The Ultimate Star Trek Collection · · Score: 1
    omg, i think that's the most pathetic sentence I've ever read.

    there are many of those on this thread...

  18. Re:World Dominance for Google by Open API on Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego · · Score: 1

    Awful? WTF? I used to run home from school with my sister to watch that show. I'll never forget Reykjavik thanks to that early iteration of edu-tainment.