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  1. Does Vista have anything we need? on Is Vista a Trap? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Anyone using this malware? Does it have anything we need?

  2. Re:More than 4 GB?!?! on Laptops with Big RAM? · · Score: 1

    "You will never need more than 64k"
    Get it? You can never have to much proc power or to much hard drive space or to much RAM, and some of us can never have enough.

  3. Does a forum count as a meeting? on Meetings Make You Dumber · · Score: 1

    That would explain a lot of stuff I see and read on the Internet.

  4. Deny the right to prove innocence? on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty?" ....nevermind I am being naive.

  5. Microsoft doesn't even believe in what they do on Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Im a big fan of XP, but Vista has left me scratching my head trying to figure out what they were up to, from the emails I gather they don't really know either.

  6. Re:Market forces speak on Professor Michael Geist on Vista's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    I routinely advise people against certain actions, like joining AOL, clicking on emails from people they don't know, and voting for Bush, I don't, however, insist they follow my suggestions.
    How can some person that knows nothing about computer make an informed decision without input from others? That is what I was suggesting.

  7. Market forces speak on Professor Michael Geist on Vista's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Don't buy Vista, talk people out of buying it, and when they get a new computer insist on XP or Linux. (I would say Apple but they aren't much better)
    If it doesn't sell corporations won't try to do this.

  8. Re:About time on Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM · · Score: 1

    To bad wages don't move as fast.

  9. About time on Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From where I stand (or sit) DRM wasn't much of an issue, as it was released it was promptly circumvented. I am old enough to recall buying vinyl and when CD technology was introduced the complaint then was the cost of CD's.
    The music companies said the cost would come down with acceptance of the tech but it never really did come down.
    God bless the Internet.

  10. health issues? on Future Desks to Charge Gadgets Wirelessly · · Score: 1

    Aren't there some health concerns to having your work space set up like that?

  11. how much more on VeriSign Puts Flaw Bounty on Vista and IE7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Would you get selling the exploit to some nefarious hoodwinks?
    30K?
    50k?

  12. wow 3 gigapixels? on The Astronomical Event Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the digital zoom is like on that camera.

  13. It's not stealing on Warner CEO Admits His Kids Stole Music · · Score: 1

    it's "copyright infringement" so don't call it stealing.
    Beside when you pay for your overpriced CD you don't "own" it you are merely licensed to listen to it.
    Until the artist is the one selling it, I won't pay a fricking dime.

  14. Why on Earth on IE7 Toolbar Mayhem · · Score: 1

    Are the words Microsoft and secure ever used in the same sentence?
    Anyone want to take a bet??? Vista will be less "secure" than XP ever was.

  15. Revisionist on Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here · · Score: 1

    Great and when the government in power disagrees with the text books content they can be easily adjusted to say exactly what needs to be said, evolution? What's that?
    How many fingers am I holding up? Double plus good brother...

    Anyone ever try to read a microbio text book in PDF format? Paper is still better.

  16. Re:Romero is so yesterday... on John Romero, the Man Behind the Hype · · Score: 1

    LMAO...well my point stands!!

  17. Romero is so yesterday... on John Romero, the Man Behind the Hype · · Score: 0

    Besides Thresh owned him and took his car to boot, now lets move on to relevant games.

  18. Re:Sigh... on A Browser War Preview · · Score: 1

    "Just like war. It is far more fitting" I'm not sure if you mean the term "war" is more fitting than competition, but everyone here understands that there are winners and losers in competitions, but in war people die, so it is not appropriate to use the term war for coders creating new browser software as no one will die.

    You have been successfully indoctrinated to the "culture of war".
    http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/18/image_of_the_ day_chi.html

  19. Sigh... on A Browser War Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does everything have to be a "war"? Can't it be a browser competition?
    Let the indoctrination to the culture of war end.

  20. Simple on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    Mandatory reversible sterilization world wide, when people are ready and can afford children allow them, the main problem with human survival is the humans, reduce their number and the problem becomes manageable, step 2 is exactly what Stephen said we have to move out and off this world as they say "all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea" the third is to stop making major decisions based on "will it sell or not" stop making crucial world affecting decisions based on financial aspects alone.
    Abolish corporations as they exist today or at least change the laws that define corporations.

  21. Coronary or murder? on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    I love a good conspiracy theory so how about this, Ken Lay whacked because he was going to talk about Cheneys "energy meetings" to get a reduced sentence.

  22. Oh good there is hope on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 0, Troll

    For Bush and the right wing.

  23. Stoo-pid on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 1

    Guy pulls his gun out you flood the area with radio interference and viola "gun no worky"

    Great way to de activate guns and make them virtually useless.

  24. The biggest threat? on FCC Approves New Internet Phone Taxes · · Score: 1

    IMO I feel the FCC, or rather the people in control of it currently are the single biggest threat to our democracy.
    Media ownership and the parceling out of spectrums seems to be very biased in favor of corps.

    Or maybe my tinfoil hat needs tuning.

  25. Netscape still exist? on Netscape.com Loses Its Identity · · Score: 1

    I ahve heard hide nor hair about NS for some time now.