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  1. Re:sounds like a good lock on Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    There is usually a password backup, these systems are used as a convenience to override the backup, so you don't have to type in the password every time. This is the way it works on my IBM T42.

    Always a little scary that the software makes you add in several fingers, using both hands, just in case you lose one.

  2. Re:How About No? on An Early Review of Roku's Netflix-Streaming Appliance · · Score: 1

    There is some sort of collection delusion that people start to fall under. It can be for anything, but I have met a few people who do this for movies. Because ripping movies if quite easy, though time consuming, they see it as a bonus. I have met people with 1000s of movies, more than they could ever watch, and even loads of really shit movies. These people have lost it.

    I now I used to do it for games, in the age of secret FTP sites (alt-255). I was just getting so many crap games, I would never play, just because it was easy. Then I realised, what a stupid waste of time.

  3. Re:Grr sidebar history on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 1

    You don't have to update to the new firefox, the old one will work perfectly well.

    And these is nothing wrong with learning new things, and getting improvements in software are worth the sacrifice to a lot of people. What proportion, I guess we will find out, when we start to see some usage stats for the new firefox compared to the old.

  4. Re:Won't happen. Here's why. . . on The Future of Subnotebook Pricing · · Score: 1

    A little superstistious aren't we. How do people like you get modded up. Go back to reading the astrology section of your newspaper, aligning your crystals, and avoiding ladders.

    How does shit like this get modded up.

  5. Re:$31,000 per minute! on US Amazon.com Website Down For Over 1 Hour · · Score: 1

    How do you know that it is going to be an extra hour?

  6. Re:But were they smart, or stupid? on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    I think you mean

    STOP STOP

  7. Re:OS Code Names on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    I think it should be obvious

    Puma Leopard Snow Leopard Tiger Bear Lion Shark Killer Whale Man

  8. Re:Happy Birthday on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    push cs
    pop ds
    lea dx, message
    int 21h
    mov ax,4c00h
    int 21h

    much better!

  9. Re:Broadband Access on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but not $10,000 for each person. Doesn't that make it slightly different?

  10. deja vu anyone. on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 1

    Ok, it was slightly different, this is the biggest websites, they where the worst IPOs?

    Is it the end of the year already?

  11. Re:big deal on Sun Adding Flash Storage to Most of Its Servers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that joke was to subtle, like a brick to the head.

    +1 point for dissing Microsoft.
    +1 point for being honest.

  12. Happy Birthday to ya on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    happy birthday, Happy birthday to ya.

    (You can thank TimeWarnerAol for the fact that we can't sing the usual happy Birthday song, without paying $30,000 is fees).

  13. Re:This whole thing must be based on a lie on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ha, that is hilarous. I guess it is because some stupid European dared to critisise or question some US policy, that logically imples that Europeans believe that they are perfect. Very good.

    Good to see you get modded so high as well. You clearly deserve it.

    I usually prefer ha ha funny, to crazy funny.

  14. Re:Why should Google care? on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    What an idiotic post.

    Yes some businesses tried to compete with other businesses in a sector and failed, so therefore no businesses should ever stray again.

    Why don't you go back in time and try telling Sony to not release the Playstation, Apple to not release the Ipod, IBM to not release the PC, Google to not release there search engine.

    I mean why ever try to compete, that is just stupid

  15. Re:OpenOffice just isn't very good. on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    You can select the column in Excel, choose Format Cells, and change it to Text.

    I agree, I have the way that Word and Excel make these stupid assumptions about thing you are trying to do. I spend a lot of my time overcoming these stupid things that Microsoft has decided to do to my documents for no good reason.

  16. Re:There's No Surprises on Windows XP Lives, Thanks to Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, smaller companies, like ASUS with 100,000 employes and $16.5 Billion in revenue in 2006. That is pretty damn big for a hardware company.

  17. Re:More like a stay of execution.. on Windows XP Lives, Thanks to Linux · · Score: 1

    Exactly. They are problably working on getting a Vista theme going for XP, and chucking on a few extra bits. Microsoft, you are a joke.

  18. Re:Caught between a rock and a hard place? on Windows XP Lives, Thanks to Linux · · Score: 1

    How do you know, if you don't have any anti-virus running, that you don't have a virus? They don't all print stoned on your computer screen anymore.

  19. Re:Advantages over rental on The One-Use, Self-Destructing DVD Returns · · Score: 1

    Well he did say probably.

    Cost of driving to store = x > 0
    Cost of this DVD = y > 0

    x is probably > y

  20. Re:A diskful of masochistic goodness on The One-Use, Self-Destructing DVD Returns · · Score: 1

    God, how many times can you watch the same movie over and over again? Most movies are crap, and aren't worth one watch, let alone the effort of copying them.

    Get out more.

  21. Re:A serious reply, but even shorter... on Bill Gates's Last Speech · · Score: 1

    He seems to have missed the point of Star Wars. You are supposed to do all the evil shit at the beginning of your career, and repent at the end...only then are you a hero, fit to stand beside yoda and obi-wan.

  22. Re:Not x86 on NVIDIA Enters the Mobile CPU Market · · Score: 1

    Really? My operating system is Microsoft Word, it runs in the harddrive under my desk.

  23. Re:Percentage is meaningless on Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make sure you keep it a secret, and don't mention that country. Nobody is interested in that sort of information.

  24. Re:Well, isn't that ironic? on Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And IE comes with the Operating System, so most people don't know any better.

    So the two reasons, Firefox is better, but users don't know. Those two things combined keep Microsoft in business.

  25. Re:Then tell me this on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    What an idiotic statement. Are you suggesting that we have the police stationed every few 100 meters along the road, because some morons need them to slow down?

    They want people to slow down without police presence. But they don't. So they encourage people to slow down by the fact that if you speed, there is a chance that you will be caught, and you will be fined.

    How can you be so idiotic. And who the fuck modded you up.

    If they really want people to drive the speed limit, park out in the open.

    Brilliant... If only someone had thought of it before. Surely we don't want people to slow down ALL the time, just on a few occassions, just for a few 100 meters, because that would be safe.