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  1. Re:Amateurs! Just do a google fight! on Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but if you were searching for the bacteria testing kit Google would have failed. Where as yahoo and bing returned both.

  2. Re:WTF on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 1

    You know you could form a Union at your workplace if it bothered you so much.

  3. Re:Why not? on TomTom Can License FAT Without Violating the GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All this will do is steer more businesses away from GPL licensed code towards a BSD or similar licensed code. I never got why a business would choose GPL code over BSD licensed code. They can modify and distribute all they want and only release their code changes if they choose to.

  4. Re:interesting times on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    Hello Mosiac. It's been a LONG time, old friend. We've missed you.

    Exactly. Who decides what browsers. I can see them saying: To comply we will offer the latest version of 3 compteting browsers. 1. Lynx 2. Mosaic 3. Netscape Navigator

  5. Re: OS X and package management on Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Same here. I don't understand why I need the X11 sources compiled from fink just to get apache 2 and php.

    Not sure about on Mac, but on FreeBSD I define WITHOUT_X11 so that it doesn't do that.

  6. Re:Perfect thing to fit on a truck to ram somewher on Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages · · Score: 1

    Becuase "we" fear that there are all those "evil" people out there (somehwere?) to get us and try and kill us? That attitude is fabricated crap, generated from the kind of attitude present in text like this.

    The muffin man lives on Drury Lane
  7. Re:1/64th inch of skin on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    No. Non-lethal means it doesn't kill the person. If it takes out an eye, it is still non-lethal.

  8. Re:Shuttleworth quakes, but not the rest of us.... on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 1

    How does one sue Linux. It is a piece of software. That is like asking how many times Windows XP was sued, or who sued Notepad.

  9. Re:Urp on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    So if my cable company starts using DPI, what choice do I have? They are the only available ISP.

  10. Re:IVR Guide on Get Out of Voice Menu Pergatory · · Score: 1

    I have already experienced this with menus that require you to speak the choices. There is no touch tone options, your only choice is speak your commands.

  11. Re:It's bad already on States Push to Collect Online Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    But technically they aren't supposed to charge California sales tax if you are not a California resident.

    For example. I live in Oregon, near Washington. Oregon has no sales tax but Washington does. If I go to a store in Washington I can show them my Oregon drivers license and they will not charge sales tax.

  12. Re:Pertinent Links: on WinMX Suspends Operations · · Score: 1

    It will then be:

    Pepsi presents The Republic of Vanuatu

  13. Re:Um on FCC Extends VoIP 911 Deadline · · Score: 1

    Except for in that case, she did what she was supposed to do. She registered her location for their 911 with the VoIP company. When she went to use the VoIP's 911 service it didn't work properly.

  14. Re:RIAA should address the cause on Recordable Media a Bigger Threat Than Filesharing? · · Score: 1

    But shouldn't the RIAA be allowed to sell their product for what ever price they want. Whether thet are charging $5 per cd or $100 per cd, it still doesn't change the legallity of duplication.

  15. Re:sorry had to on Nintendo Quarterly Profits Down 80% · · Score: 5, Funny
    I refuse to purchase one until the price goes down. If they sold at maybe half their price,
    It's a frickin' hundred dollars? WTF!? How cheap do you expect it to be???

    Obviously half of $100 is $50.
  16. Re:These laws... on Ex-Microsoft Exec Barred From Google Job · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this Noone person held a gun to his head then the contract is not legally binding.

  17. Re:The world on The Future of Linux on Laptops · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World/

    The term "Second World" refers to the (former) communist-socialist, industrial states, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic.

  18. Re:What I'm curious about on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    I have six tabs open and am using 30mb of ram with 1.0.3

  19. Re:How about a focus on quality? on ATI Announces 512MB Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Same mootherboard, but the 9700 pro, and I get the same thing sometimes at boot.

  20. Re:Nothing is impossible to clean on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    Take a look at this utility. Nlite http://nuhi.msfn.org/nlite.html It will create a custom iso with all the customixations you could want.

  21. Re:200 dvds ? on 6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is you multiply bits by 8 to get bytes? So we all know 8 bits in a byte. But by your logic I would take my 8 bits and MULTIPLY it by 8. Your logic: 8 bits * 8 = 64 bytes Reality: 8 bits / 8 = 1 byte

  22. Re:200 dvds ? on 6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No.

    3 billion pairs x 2 bits = 6 billion bits

    6 billion bits / 8 = 750,000,000 bytes

    750,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 732421.875 kb

    732421.875 kb / 1024 = 715.2557373046875 mb

    So it would be 1 700mb cd and a little bit on a second cd. And thats without running any sort of compression on the data.

  23. Re:The More Appropriate Question... on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    I know the '05 Corvette's have that option for the ignition and the door locks.

  24. Re:Hard To Do on Hackers, Slackers, and Shackles · · Score: 1

    Kind of like the original Quake?

  25. Re:relapse on $1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 2, Informative