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  1. Re:Too much Google? on Google Calendar Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm still waiting for a google homepage where I can log in and check my gmail, post to my blogspot blog, check my orkut account, etc. all with one login and hopefully a nice UI like we've come to expect from google. All this other stuff is nice but I want it all in one place.

  2. Re:What about the weather? on Google Calendar Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Yea but as long as you know your zipcode you can hop right to it: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/63303 And it has changed in the past 5 years, just to bring more ads and popups tho. Nowadays I just check the weather reports on one of my local tv station's websites. http://www.ksdk.com/

  3. Re:may i be the first to say on Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware · · Score: 1
  4. Re:More OEMs need to offer linux on Microsoft to Disable Online Windows Activation · · Score: 1

    It only applies if you are *reinstalling*. It will really essentially never affect most users.

    So you're saying Windows generally never gets reinstalled on a specific computer?

  5. Re:Good Move Microsoft!!!! on Microsoft to Disable Online Windows Activation · · Score: 1

    The problem is at places like Best Buy where the policy isn't applied uniformly to everyone exiting the store. Other places do this to everybody (like Sam's Club) and no one complains. Which is fine wiht me, because if they do it to everyone it's expected, if it's just picking people at "random" that's something else.

  6. Just wait for the next iteration... on Google Announces 'Google Movies' · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I quote, "Popcorn and a date to snuggle up with are up to you. For now."

    Here's hoping for the best with all of their future plans!

  7. Re:Packets on iDownload Tries to Silence Spyware Critics · · Score: 1

    How could it be? Unless there's some sort of NDA involved. See the Infinium Labs vs. HardOCP thing. (Too lazy to link.)

  8. Re:Serial burglar at 19... on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah, but when's the last time sending someone to jail meant actual attempts at rehabilitating those kinds of criminal tendencies (in this case, burglary)? Just throwing someone in jail isn't going to make them "wise up" or whatever. Without actually attempting to make changes, we won't see any.

  9. Nuclear Now! on Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force · · Score: 1

    Wired's latest issue has an article on how the US should be switching to nuclear power. It's fairly lengthy, but very interesting. You can find it online: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/nuclear.h tml

  10. Re:I'm really not sure what the future holds... on John Smedley On the Future of MMOGs · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that last sentence was meant in jest, because it's pretty obvious to me: it only takes a semi-decent writer to make something happen in a MUD, whereas a visual MMO requires skilled modelers and animators. Also, guess which category of people is most likely to do their work on the cheap?

  11. Re:Hard habit to break. on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Been trying hard to break that habit since :D

    I hope you mean breaking that idiot of the habit of showing clients random and incomplete code ;)

  12. Re:WAIT A MOMENT on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'll understand when you're married. ;)

  13. Re:Ok, aside from the fact... on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    His beard? Shit, man, what about that SHIRT! Cripes.

  14. Re:Internap is *down*? on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sorry, but one man can't control power to an entire co-location. I used to work for a local telecom and one day our fiber went down for about 1/3 of our customers. The reason? Some guy shootin' squirrels blew the fiber lines apart. It was on a Sunday too, when there was minimal phone tech support, I think one guy ended up fielding 350+ calls by himself.

  15. Re:Work versus play on Getting Things Done · · Score: 1

    What makes you possibly think that would work if everyone would "get paid the same salary"? Businesses would have to conjure up fresh money for new hires (which can be a lot with training costs, insurance, etc.) and wouldn't get anything in return except the same amount of work as when they weren't paying as many people.

  16. Google cache on Today in P2P · · Score: 2, Informative
  17. Re:The lawsuit was pointless anyway on Masked Email Activist Can Stay Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Who ever bothers using real information when getting a free email account?

  18. Re:Common sense? on Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail · · Score: 1

    You could really argue from either direction, but I would say that regarding privacy, one should assume privacy unless explicitly told otherwise. (If family should be considered private enough or not is probably another issue entirely.)

  19. Re:Post Mortems of the demo miss the point on Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained · · Score: 1

    No you wouldn't, and I'm pretty sure there are disclaimers in the licensing mumbo jumbo to the effect that Windows should not be trusted for life critical applications.

  20. Re:Use it at your next LAN party on Grand Theft Auto 2 Released for Free · · Score: 1

    I remember one map where it was basically a race to see who could get to the tank at the military supplies shop first. From there, take the tank to the military base and destroy all of the other tanks so that no one else can get one, then go out and destroy! It was fun.

  21. Re:uhh on Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 · · Score: 1

    You're reading it wrong (thought it was written slightly incorrectly -- it should probably say substantially increased the bandwidth utiliziation). If PA's actual bandwidth had increased, there'd be no need for /. to host the images.

  22. Re:actually, vote with abstention... on MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My wife and I went to London about 2.5 years ago and one night we were there, we didn't have anything to do so we went looking for a movie. Browsing the ads for local playtimes, each movie had two times listed: when the lights went off and commercials started, and when the movie actually started. I don't know if it was just that theatre or what, but it would be nice to have over here.

  23. Re:PSP is toast on PSP Site Launches, Launch Titles Confirmed · · Score: 3, Funny

    There will be lots of DS systems sitting under the tree this year. There won't be any DS systems there.

    You mean no PSP systems?

    Which system would you develop for if you were EA?

    Both, since I force my developers to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week with little or no compensation.

  24. Re:And now Bush has his first Nominee on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, judges are appointed. Of course there are still enough Democrats to block such appointments, for now at least. (Who knows come 2006.)

  25. Re:What is being alleged, here, exactly? on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    I know everyone followed the link to read H.R. 2239 but check this part out, because we really need to get this passed:

    (i) No voting system shall at any time contain or use undisclosed software. Any voting system containing or using software shall disclose the source code of that software to the Commission, and the Commission shall make that source code available for inspection upon request to any citizen.