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  1. Re:A little anti clamantic... on Firefox 3.5 Hits Release Candidate Milestone · · Score: 1

    WebKit is based on KHTML. KDE adds patches back from WebKit when they can, but they're not that different when it comes to web standards and performance.

  2. Re:Bet it will sound better than the CD album on Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released · · Score: 1

    That seems like a hard feat since the bass part is virtually indistinguishable from the guitar part in most of the songs.

  3. Re:There's no justice... on Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released · · Score: 1

    Ulrich can barely play Dyer's Eve with a double bass pedal. Metallica had to record the double bass sections separately in order to maintain accuracy and speed. Also, Ulrich is an old fart in comparison to the endurance and speed of your typical death or black metal drummer.

  4. Re:Not good enough. on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 1

    Most states in the US have the age of consent set at 16 or 17. Many more have laws regarding small age differences not being illegal. What you're looking for is pornographic laws.

  5. Re:SMOKE on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    The arbitrary numbers you're looking for are 435 representatives total, and two senators per state.

  6. Re:Game pricing with ads on Activision Blizzard Announces Guitar Hero 5, New Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    Well, at the AMC theatre near me, they have no ads, but tickets cost almost $10. At the local theatre in a nearby town, tickets cost half as much, but have plenty of ads before the trailers before the film. It's possible...

  7. Re:I don't like this Activision Blizzard name on Activision Blizzard Announces Guitar Hero 5, New Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    Square Enix is just unoriginal when it comes to naming games. Each Final Fantasy game, for example, is an entirely different story with different characters and often different gameplay mechanics.

  8. Re:My proof on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 1

    Or just absolutely evil.

  9. Re:All the more reason not to buy an ipod/phone on Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project · · Score: 1

    The ubiquity of buggy media players that insert a gap between songs (including some that have an option for no gap between files but still inserts one anyway; I'm looking at you, Rhythmbox) is probably to blame for the fact that people want the gap in the first place.

  10. Re:Time for Geroge Carlin to update his routine? on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    It's too bad we'll have to hear his updated routine via a psychic. :(

  11. Re:Mod parent up. on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    OK, if stopping wastes so much energy, what about hybrids that regenerate battery power from braking? If everyone in front of said hybrid is coasting into a stop, then the hybrid is getting worse mileage as well as more pissed off at the driver ahead of him.

  12. Re:But still... on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    Minix is open source and has been for a while. Maybe it cost money 17 years ago, but not anymore.

  13. Re:Well, a step in the right direction on Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition · · Score: 1

    I'd assume that a person using four drives in RAID would use something like RAID 5 instead of living dangerously in a RAID 0 environment with several disks.

  14. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    But X isn't the window manager. If something like compiz/beryl, kwin, enlightenment, twm, etc., crashes, that doesn't bring X down with it. When Explorer crashes in Windows, that's somewhat similar.

  15. Re:Just wait ... on Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws · · Score: 1

    And Europe has a much better public transportation system along with better city layouts that don't encourage hour-long commutes in order to have a job. In the US, however, this is a big problem.

  16. Re:publicity good, piracy bad on PRO-IP and PIRATE Acts Fused Into New Bill · · Score: 1

    Have you ever considered that a lot of people coming from those websites might be younger people who have little to no income and no means for purchasing anything online? When I was younger, the only choice I had was to look for free things as I didn't want to bother my parents with purchasing essentially unnecessary crap, but now that I'm older, I can actually buy things and donate to projects with my own income.

  17. Re:People are still buying DRMd music. on Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It · · Score: 1

    Well, that's what Macrovision is for, but their analogue copy protection is all easily defeatable, so it's a moot issue.

  18. Re:Keep it simple! on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    That's just using iterative recursion which is just as easily represented as a loop in a language like C. :)

  19. Re:EU Antitrust Charges. Don't blame the Victim. on AMD Loses $1.2 Billion and Its CEO · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Thank Goodness on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 1

    Even if he could, it's never a good idea to defend yourself in court. You need an emotionless person to handle that for you. It's kind of hard to remain emotionless when you're talking about yourself.

  21. Re:It flew under the radar on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    All I requested was the usual 10 discs I normally ordered from them because I'm always giving them away to friends and losing my own copies when I need them. I got them around the time 8.04 was officially released, too.

  22. Re:Hmm.. on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're a music geek? Or a guitar geek?

  23. Re:BLASPHEMY! on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Java! Yahoo still has plenty of those games, and many of them are fun. :)

  24. Re:IE6 on Open Source BIND Alternative Launches · · Score: 1

    Why can't IE6 handle simple web pages written to widely-accepted standards?

  25. Re:It never ends, does it? on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, if you've actually spent a bit of time in Europe, you may have noticed that their stereotype-based jokes mostly deal with country of origin rather than race, religion, ethnicity, etc., that are joked about in the US.