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  1. Re:Free download but a form to fill prior download on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure which compete with IBM, but there are plenty of full-blown applications that can be run without being installed, like Portable Firefox, Portable OpenOffice, Portable GIMP...

  2. Re:These are pretty dumb on Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders? · · Score: 1

    To finish your list:

    1. Goatse
    2. Natalie Portman
    3. SCO
    4. Soviet Russia
    5. Meept!
    6. Beowulf-clustered overlords (I for one welcome them...)
    7. CowboyNeal! I think you're missing:
    8. ???
    9. Profit!!!
  3. Re:This would matter except . . . on Allofmp3 Shut Down, Again · · Score: 1

    it doesn't matter how many clones pop up - I have $4 credit with allofmp3.com and dammit, I want to use it. Then log in to mp3Sparks.com and use it.
  4. Re:No Big Deal on Allofmp3 Shut Down, Again · · Score: 1

    Yeah my $-0.17 transferred perfectly! Very happy too. Oh wait...

  5. Re:Amazing on New WiFi Link Distance Record · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is amazing, yet the scientist and all the kings men STILL cannot:

    1) Keep my bluetooth headset connected to its base station an amazingly 3 feet away
    2) Keep my cellphone connected with a tower a mere 1 mile away. 3) Put Humpty Dumpty together again. 4) ???
    5) Profit!
  6. Re:i don't understand.... on Wolfram Offers Prize For (2,3) Turing Machine · · Score: 1

    BSOD

  7. Re:Copy protection on A Chip on DVDs Could Prevent Theft · · Score: 1

    Whoooosh...

  8. Re:In other words: on You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    If you're a vegetarian, you can't eat yogurt.
    Why not?
  9. Re:Next up... on Breakpoints have now been patented · · Score: 1


    int exitstate = -1;
    if(!exitstate) {return -1;} else exitstate++;
    Aren't those two lines just a long way of writing

    int exitstate = 0;

    Or am I missing something?
  10. Re:Or it was some crap on the lense. on How Google Earth Images Are Made · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Or it was some crap on the lense. on How Google Earth Images Are Made · · Score: 1

    But have a look at 52 4'51"N, 4 18'24"E, if that's crap on the lens, I'll eat my tinfoil hat...

  12. Re:Caps lock key on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 1

    But you didn't use caps lock...You used shift! Just more proof that it is useless! Actually he did use caps lock - and inverted the case when he also used shift for the first character and the I.
    Not that that makes the caps lock key any use.
  13. Re:Probability on New Algorithms Improve Image Search · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're not big on quantum superpositioning I take it.
    I can take it or leave it. I can take it and leave it!
  14. Latte? on Astronaut Has 'Wasabi Spill' in Space · · Score: 1

    Lopez-Alegria, who was born in Madrid but grew up in California, had Spanish muffins known as magdalenas, chorizo pork sausage and latte in his bonus container.
    What is latte? As far as I know it's not Spanish, in Italian it means milk, but I guess it means something else in the US...
  15. Free Public WiFi on "Free Wi-Fi" Scam In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I've seen several ad-hoc networks called "Free Public WiFi". I wondered about them and found this blog. It seems there is a "feature" in Windows where after you disconnect from a wireless network, it will continue broadcasting the SSID as an ad-hoc network. Other people then see it, try and connect, and then start broadcasting it themselves...

  16. Re:Would make for a GREAT security wake-up website on Apple Closes iSight Security Hole · · Score: 1

    I just installed the update and restarted, and that website STILL switches on my iSight without warning.

  17. Re:Detected... on Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered · · Score: 1

    Actually they attract the earth exactly as much as the earth attracts them (every force has an equal and opposite reaction force), otherwise there would be a net force causing the earth-boxer system to accelerate. It's just the effect of the same force on the earth is much less noticable.

  18. Re:Quite some time. on Scientists Make Item Invisible to Microwaves · · Score: 1

    If invisibility cloaks are outlawed, only outlaws will wear invisibility cloaks.

  19. Re:What java could have been... on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1

    Just beacause you don't care about Mac doesn't make it "available by default on every end-user OS in existence".
    And I'm pretty sure that when installing a .NET application on XP I've been prompted to download 100Mb+ of .NET runtime before it would work, which is not exactly what I would call "working out of the box", especially when there is no fast internet connection available.

  20. Re:What java could have been... on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1

    Since when has .NET been available by default on the Mac? on Linux? on BSD? Even on Windows I don't think it's installed by default.

  21. Re:Mesothelioma ads = gold mine for hucksters on IE Used To Launch Yahoo IM Clickfraud · · Score: 1
    I've never really understood the psychology of this [...] But I understand some people will just click out of curiosity [...]
    So you have understood it.
  22. Re:Portable???? on GeV Acceleration In 3 Centimeters · · Score: 3, Funny
    Now excuse me, I have a negotiation with Coka Cola about burning their logo on the moon.
    Make sure you spell check their name before starting...
  23. bacteria or virus? on Self Cleaning Mouse · · Score: 5, Insightful
    that disables the survival of bacteria with an auto-disinfecting surface.
    contributes to the spread of pneumonia, the flu, pink eye and strep throat, among other extremely contagious viruses.
    What's the point of an antibacterial if the problem is viruses?
  24. Re:Yep...and... on USB Batteries · · Score: 2, Informative
    look at Samsung/LG. 5MP camera in a cellphone. Crap? I think not.
    Just because it has 5MP, doesn't mean that the optics are any good.
  25. Re:Apple has been a leader in addressing this prob on Apple's All-Seeing Screen · · Score: 3, Funny
    That was a long way to go just to show off the fact that you have a 24" monitor. ;)
    Actually it was to show off the fact that he knows a female. ;)