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  1. Re:Yes, but.... on Amazon's Special Thank-You · · Score: 1

    $50 to upload? Fuck. I assume it's only uploading, because I can't imagine anyone willingly downloading it.

  2. Re:E-book on Digital Clock as Thin as Paper · · Score: 1

    Here. Unfortunately it is only able to be powered for 1 second before the battery dies. And due to an engineering fault, the battery is non-rechargable and non-replacable.

  3. Re:Neat! on Digital Clock as Thin as Paper · · Score: 1


    I wonder if they will wind up putting little clocks into notebooks... that'd be really cool, I wouldn't have to have a watch anymore!


    Already done dude.... Oh wait. You meant those wasteful old-style paper notebooks didn't you?

  4. Re:Bush administration on Shuttles Can't Finish Space Station · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I trust them to incite fear in the common populace. That's one thing they've got down pat.

  5. Re:How to go to jail on Viewing Files on the Web Considered Possession? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Step one: Buy some kiddy porn

    Step two: Find out when someone's house is about to be searched.

    Step three: Place said kiddy porn in their house.

    Would the person then be charged? I don't think so (assuming the cops learn that the person didn't deliberately obtain the porn). Should be the same case with the internet.

    If I have a page I've viewed that is obviously for porn (either accidental click or the google thing) and I don't click on any other links, it's fairly easy to prove I didn't deliberately view the porn (and stopped viewing when I realised what it was). But if I proceeded to click on numerous links after finding out, then it's easy to prove I knowingly looked at it.

  6. Re:Spyware? on Viewing Files on the Web Considered Possession? · · Score: 1

    What about people that secretly put kiddy porn underneath your bed? Same deal with such things.

  7. Re:Holely Cheese on Viewing Files on the Web Considered Possession? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This technical know-how shouldn't be required to stay clear of law enforcement.

    Luckily it isn't. Not breaking the law is required to stay clear of it (NOTE: parent was talking about people KNOWINGLY looking at illegal images. I see knowing how to clear the cache akin to knowing how to clean blood from the floor so it leaves no marks).

  8. Re:redder and not in the sky, not the same really on Looking at a Martian Aurora Borealis · · Score: 1


    Not exactly like staring at the sky is it.


    From TFA:
    The light show was about 30 kilometres across and about eight kilometres high

    Now assuming this is 8km from the ground (and not 8km in height) I'd say it's staring at the sky for most people that would be on Mars (if there were any people on Mars).

  9. Re:uh.. oh... on House Limits Patriot Act Rules on Library Records · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go outside. See a plane flying overhead? That's how far the joke went over your head.

  10. Re:No new episodes? on Sci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly · · Score: 1

    That's why I like bittorrent.

  11. Re:what on Sci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    whats next, updates on "where is the cast of cheers now?"

    Ted Danson is in San Diego

    Shelley Long is in Fort Wayne

    Kirstie Alley is in Wichita

    Nicholas Colasanto is in Providence (the place, not the show)

    Rhea Perlman is in Brooklyn

    John Ratzenberger is in Bridgeport

    Oh fuck. That's where they were born. Screw it. You can look it up yourself to see where they are.

  12. Let me be the first to say on Sci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly · · Score: 1

    YIPPEE!

    Does this mean new episodes will be made as well?

  13. Re:Uncertain future.. but not in space tourism.. on t/Space Demonstrates New Air-Launch Method · · Score: 1

    What he meant was that t/Space could work for another country, such as Japan. It would be Japan outsourcing to t/Space.

  14. Re:Dont really care on UK anti-ID card campaign Gains Momentum · · Score: 2, Funny

    BUT... I do not see why I should have to pay something like £90 when (as a studnet) the governments olny gives me £3000 to live off for a whole year!

    Perhaps it's because you're a bad studnet? Perhaps if you're a better studnet you get more money?

  15. Re:Privacy vs "Justice" on UK anti-ID card campaign Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    Say it with me: UK != part of USA. USA is the one who failed to thwart 9/11. USA != entire world.

  16. Re:Does anyone... on Creative Commons & Webcomics · · Score: 1

    Please stop visiting all sites you block advertisements on and do not pay for. Or would you rather not put your money where your mouth is?

  17. Re:Does anyone... on Creative Commons & Webcomics · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't have a pop-up blocker. Otherwise you're just as bad as the OP.

  18. Re:Profit on Creative Commons & Webcomics · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Userfriendly (1 million readers) does have an optional club people can join, but offers their content with no subscription. I'd say 1 million readers is very popular.

  19. Re:Faster, yes... not necessarily better... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    The first rule of turning in papers writen in OpenOffice is: go pdf.

    The first rule of turning in papers: use the format the professor demands. If he gives you the option of pdf, great. If not, don't use it. I've yet to see a professor who was happy with a paper in pdf (which is fucking screwed seeings how I'm stuck with all of their documents being in PDF).

  20. Re:Faster, yes... not necessarily better... on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 1

    Why should it have to be in .DOC?

    Because he refuses to mark it otherwise. I can give him all the arguments I want, at the end of the day if they don't sway him (which in most cases, they don't), I have to submit it in .DOC. End of story.

  21. Re:the results are in on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've yet to see a MS Word processor that had MS Word compatbility to function 100% with the documents made in the previous version. So I guess OO.o aint too bad, considering it is definitely an improvement on MS Word.

  22. Re:Blooooaaaaat on Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn my spelling sucks sometimes. ;-)

    You misspelt always.

  23. Re:If it's true, it's really sad on Quark CEO Abruptly Resigns · · Score: 1

    Well he's no longer complaining about it anyway.

  24. Re:Erm, actually, it's not on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I was trying to be funny, I guess it wasn't obvious enough.

  25. Re:MS, good stuff? on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 5, Funny


    Can anyone tell me more about their good/bad experiences regarding IP and Microsoft ?


    Dear rd4tech

    I've had a good experience, and I definitely look forward to future business with them.

    Sincerely

    Carlos Armando Amado