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  1. IE Plug-in on 1-Click Blooper Playback for Original Trilogy DVD · · Score: 5, Informative

    You want us /.ers to use Internet Explorer to use the features on your site? Not only use, but install an ActiveX plug-in for... I like easter eggs, and I'd like you to keep up your work, but I've buried IE so far down in my menus I sometimes forget where it is... And what about us Linux users? A platform independent plug-in would be nicest. I only use IE for Windows Update and online virus scans through trendmicro.com, that's all, and that's not going to change.

    My first first post, I think...

  2. Re:Distributed Processing on Cell Workstations in 2005 · · Score: 0

    Well the imediat advantage to having a Cell based HDTV would be that it would help out in displaying the higher resolution image I would think. Whereas with a regular TV you would be dealing with less pixels and the processing demand would be less. So maybe you would not get full HD resolution graphics unless you used a Cell based HDTV, simply because of the processing demand that has to be filled in.

  3. Re:Hype Machine - Powered by Cell! on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 0

    Why not, it's where the money is.

  4. Re:"Smart" domestic appliances on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 0

    1) If you don't know when to flip a burger you should not cook without adult supervision. 2) Can you now sue spatula makers if you get e-colli when you set it to well-done?

  5. Re:A progressive income tax IS what we need on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 0

    Maybe you can explain to me how a national sales tax is in any way consistant with a free market. The GOP keeps going on about the virtues and importance of the free market, but then come up with something that seems to contradict the entire idea of a free market by proposing direct government intervention on the price of EVERYTHING. The federal income tax was actually implemented to PUNISH the rich for EXPLOITING the poor and middle class, that's the only reason the public supported it in 1894 and 1895. It came first during the civil war for obvious reasons, then in 1894 and 1895 during the Gilded Age. That was the age of unrestricted capitalism and Robber Barrons and corruption. (It was struck down by the Supreme Court as being unconstitional because it did not apportion amung the states according to the constitution. This was changed in 1913 with the passing of the 16th amendment.) Unrestricted capitalism doesn't work, neither will a national sales tax and the elimination of the income tax because it will make possible the hoarding of money on a scale unseen in this country in our lifetimes. Not to mention the establishment of an untouchable upper class with the elimination of the Estate Tax. Also the rich man wouldn't be 'working' for you, the truly wealthy make enough income off their passive assets to exceed their expenses. In other words they sit around letting you work for them while they sit in a lounge chair on their yacht getting thier income. That's why there is a capital gains tax....

  6. Re:Why is there an assumption... on Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate? · · Score: 0

    Everyone here is talking about the light extracted by solar panels otherwise heating the earths crust. I believe most solar power farms are in the desert and the fact is deserts reflect radiation back into space and do not retain heat very well. That's why the temperature drops so drastically at night in the desert. Heavily vegitated areas retain energy through absorbtion by plants. So solar power INCREASES total energy retained on the planet, in theory heating it up more.

  7. Re:The Electoral College on How Would You Change U.S. Election Procedures? · · Score: 0

    Well, if we need some sort of puffed up electoral college number to legitamize our president what does that say about our democracy?

  8. But will they... on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 0

    have orbiting brain-lasers running Linux?

  9. Re:Umm on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 0

    The Enabling Act also had a sunset clause... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act

  10. Re:RIAA again going for the little guy on New RIAA File-swapping Suits Target Students · · Score: 0

    Maybe the IRS should audit the RIAA. Then there might be something solid for th DOJ to jump on, in which case they would be raided by the FBI, and I've run out of applicable acronyms...

  11. Swimming caps... on Waterproof MP3 Player Uses Bone Conduction · · Score: -1

    ...scare me.

  12. Re:Mars? on Nuclear Rockets Moving Along · · Score: -1

    So is Antarctica...

  13. Re:Programming versus Software Engineering on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 0

    That's funny, I always install Windows in the C:\DOORS folder...

  14. Re:Programming versus Software Engineering on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 0

    Disney started outsourcing it's animators to India. They are starting to make the stories there too. So much for the triumph of American creativity at the hands of the Corporation. Combine that with IT and, well...

  15. Re:.... Duh? on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 0

    The objective is to consume hydrocarbons by any means possible.

  16. Re:October 14 ? on EFF Goes To Court To Fight The Broadcast Flag · · Score: 0

    These are their opening briefs, that most probably is the date they are going to present these in court.

  17. Re:Scary, yet cool. on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: 1, Funny

    Florida was punished for the 2000 election. Washington is being punished for Microsoft.

  18. Re:Scary scary bloke on Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important? · · Score: 5, Funny

    But look how much crime went down under Vlad!

  19. Re:Interesting... on Rescue Rats to Find Buried Victims · · Score: 1

    So your saying noone would be rescued if a cheese factory collapsed.

  20. Well... on Report Says Patents Threaten Software Innovation · · Score: 1

    ...if they run Windows on all their computers...

  21. Re:Extentions on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    Firesomething and Chatzilla also do not work. I feel naked without my LightningBunny...

  22. Uh, I'm at work... on Amazon's A9: How Well Is the Hype Justified? · · Score: 1

    ...and am I the only one that clicked on the search for 'hello' and got pictures of naked women and a man bent over gaping his asshole at the camera in the pictures column?

  23. Re:Useless for now, because... on Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    If they GPL'ed it then you can migrate the code to C. This might be helpfull http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/toba/ , I found it in 3 seconds. I know nothing about programming.