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  1. Re:mean cases for Xerox or Scotch was successful? on Apple Antitrust Case Gets Green Light · · Score: 1

    Or Band-Aid for "sticky wound bandage"
    Or Kleenex for "tissue nose wipe", et al.

    You could almost make the same claim for Coke, but Pepsi has beaten that down a little.

  2. Re:I for one... on MIT Fashion Show Online · · Score: 1

    Except your 'clothes' would be rather shapely... Think Trinity in Matrix Reloaded or Kate Beckinsale in Underworld Evolution, except much tighter.

    Might be good for camouflage? :-\

  3. Re:Past records on Court Date Set for Google Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Except for that the House and Senate have to pass the law first.

    And if they pass a law saying "OMG We can search everything ever" I think the Supreme Court (even if Alito is approved) would have to agree it conflicts with the Fourth Amendment.

    If the following transpires in this nation, I vow to become as crazy as Granny D (see http://grannyd.com/)

    I: The House and Senate pass a law giving the executive branch the authority to search these private records, whether or not they previously had the right to.
    II: The president approves such a law (not too difficult to comprehend once I is done)
    III: Someone sues after refusing to comply with the law (hopefully Google again)
    IV: After appealing up to the Supreme Court, the Court determines that the law is valid and constitutional.

    Anyone care to join me?

  4. Re:No refer link whining! on Massively Multiplayer Games For Dummies · · Score: 0
  5. How bout NOR Flash? on Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    You know, I wonder, can someone please make NOR flash? I mean it's functionally complete too. Anyone know of any available NOR flash?

    I wonder if I'm misinterpreting the meaning of NAND in this instance, where the hardware uses chained NAND gates to store values. Can't the same design be implemented using NOR's?

  6. Re:Partially True on Gaming Fanatics Show Hallmarks of Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    Heh.. D2 Seriously, it go so bad, that I had to uninstall D2, lock it away from myself above the laundry, give away my online accounts (all 8 mule accounts too), and go totally cold turkey. I had dreams.. nightmares even, but I eventually got over it. Twas a shame to give up what I had amassed, but I realized it wasnt worth anywhere near as much once 1.10 came out, so it made things easier to swallow. I never know exactly what became of those cds after I moved out.

  7. Re:Get your formula's right!! on Cray Supercomputers to be Based on AMD Opterons · · Score: 1

    sqrt(x) = x^1/2

    sqrt(19.6) = 19.6 then x^y then .5

  8. Fucking copy/paster on Pay vs. Happiness · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stolen Direct FTFA, adding in "The problem in finding out whether job burnout is occuring is because" and "(what I think is most important to the company):" Get a life.

  9. Re:So wait... on Federal Agencies To Collect Genetic Info · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you haven't heard of Guantanamo Bay?

    Your rights are already given up once you get detained as an 'enemy combatant'. You may as well already be dead.

    God Bless Corporamerica.

  10. Re:Is it April First already? on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Although this whole article is bulls***, you CAN insert OEM text in the support information.
    Instructions for the curious

  11. Re:Hotmail is doing this already? on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1
    A significant number of viruses are distributed with names along the lines of "cute picture of puppies.jpg.pif" too.

    How do you flag one as potentially dodgy (which it is) without getting false positives for the other?


    Simple. By scanning the contents of the file. Sure it may take a little time, but seriously, look at the contents of the file. Never assume the file-extension is right. Also, mime-types are good things to check.
  12. Re:Comments from a Monad developer on Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    Secure Microsoft Shell or SMASH

    I must have missed that A somewhere... care to point it out?

  13. Re:VoIP'ing with Vonage on Forget about Wi-Fi VoIP, Vonage going WiMax · · Score: 1

    How about Laser, or Scuba?

    The whole point of acronyms is to shorten otherwise long phrases into a small set of characters, or better yet, one or two syllables.

    It's a natural progression of our laziness. Voeep is a lot more natural to say than Vee-oh-eye-pee. But anyone who thinks 'errl' is natural, or a least more natural than you-are-el is asking for a beating.

  14. Re:Finally on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/software.html

    "you can program both of these [side-squeeze] buttons -- along with Mighty Mouse's right- and left-click functions -- to launch Dashboard, Exposé, Spotlight, Application Switcher or any application you choose" (emphasis mine)

    Just create a workflow and save it as an app. Assign it in System Prefs and you got a nice shortcut. Just don't make the button do anything too damaging ;)

  15. Re:This ougta mod well. on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next thing you know Bush will make us use a calandar based on how many days it has been since Jesus died. That would be absurd.

    It's be simple to implement: day = oldDay + jesus.lifespan()

    Except when you get the compile-time error: ERROR: jesus is not defined

  16. Re:Problems with Apache and your wife are the same on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Wow. Do people still use this? on IBM Officially Kills OS/2 · · Score: 1

    I know Bank of America in Nevada uses it on the teller's workstations. I recently went in and applied for checking, and saw OS/2.

    I laughed a little, then just went through the spiel of signing up.

    I'm sure BofA has it's own support though, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see them migrate to Linux, possibly with a terminal emulator to get that old 'classic' feel.

  18. Re:Why bother w/this then? on Googling May Break Copyright in Canada · · Score: 1

    See... except that these people are writing laws... not pitching in money into a common pool with the hopes that they will claim other people's money.

    What does Canada stand to gain from this? Let's look at:

    Pros -

    Protect copyright holders, except this is hard to enforce, since google is US based, and we're talking about broad-reaching wordage that would have to expand to about 50 pages to get to the specificity it would require to actually be, you know, pertinent.

    Cons -

    Fuck over THE largest influence on the internet today (who here has met someone who didn't know about Google, much less uses the verb 'googling'?)
    Kill a few canadian buisnesses who operate using Google Ads
    Perhaps take down candian government sites, you never know that one link leads to another which leads to a newspaper article that a journalist plagiarized. Uhoh!

    This is a useless waste of time. Stop the inhmunaity!

  19. Re:let me explain something about longhorn... on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kimarhi not have long horn.

    Biran with long horn BREAK Kimarhi's horn.

    Kimarhi will have beta OS, defeat Biran's long horn.

  20. Re:I wonder if ... on New Ubuntu Foundation Announced · · Score: 1

    I have 3 words for you apt-get install xmms Done

  21. Re:And no one is shocked on DVD-Audio's CPPM Circumvented · · Score: 1

    Dude, don't give away phase II!

    You must mean Order 66?

  22. Questions on Another Stab at Laptop Security · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How would one report if a laptop is stolen? How easy would it be for a thief to remove this after stealing said laptop (before connecting it to the computer)? How will the law know where to go (geographic IP location can't be THAT accurate, can it?) How much of a performance hit will this add to normal use?

  23. Re:distributed storage is where it's at.. on Harvesting & Reusing Idle Computer Cycles · · Score: 1

    The only problem with this is security.

    While distributing CPU cycles is anonymous enough (MULT 7 45, ADD 2 98) whatever, data storage is a whole 'nother thing.

    You wouldn't want some evil person on the other side of the globe with a 'backup' of your personal financial records?

    This would purely have to be in-house, and would kill bandwidth if implemented poorly.

  24. I think the largest online industry... on CNN Now Offers Free Online Video · · Score: 1

    would disagree with this statement:

    Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?>/i>

    And we all know what industry that is (hint: rhymes with hornography)

  25. Re:This will have repercussions... on EU Deadline Approaching for Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    those rat bastards will find a way to pass the costs onto the consumer.

    You sir, have no idea how right you are. Basically, whenever a tax is levvied, the supply curve (how much product a producer produces) shifts up and left the tax amount. (See first few diagrams on this page)

    When you have a monopoly position (like MS does), that demand curve (the "\" curve) gets more and more verticval because you kinda need MS prods to survive. Thus that "Deadweight Loss" to consumers, not to MS, is much higer than that of MS.

    Sucks balls, huh?