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  1. I know one group that benefits... on Storing Liquid CO2 in the Oceans? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Today was a great day in the history of coca-cola production.

  2. Re:The patent system... on Supreme Court Rejects Microsoft Eolas Appeal · · Score: 1

    The real problem often ends up being that one company makes an idea which gets to be really popular, and people wouldn't be able to live without it, then it gets to be considered a basic idea and everyone says that it is unpatentable.

    e.g. the type of GUI developed at PARC

  3. Re:Looks like a good move to me. on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 1, Informative

    e.g. the archos jukebox, first released on August 29, 2002. Steve Jobs originally claimed that they wouldn't make PVP's, because there wasn't enough demand for them. (http://portables.about.com/cs/portablevideo/a/app lepvp.htm)

  4. Re:Missing the point on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 0

    It seemed to me that the video store was started because of the new ipod, not the other way around... Mainly because, without the video store and with no line-in recording, the video functionality would be virtually useless (especially if it respects DRM).

  5. Another problem... on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 0

    At the school that I go to, many people have iPods. It's not too uncommon to hear of someone being mugged for their ipods. If this happened often when an ipod would be mostly kept in a bag or pocket and the only indication would have been the headphones, imagine how the problem would escalate if people were carrying ipods around visibly watching videos on them.

  6. I don't know about you guys, but... on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's nice and cool in my new Hummer v2.

  7. Re:Anyone know how this works? on Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD · · Score: 0

    Sounded to me as though it is the media itself that degrades rather than the player deleting it.

    If they can afford to make it for so cheap, then it must be cheaper to make than a DVD (unless it's a licensing thing), and then if it didn't degrade by itself then they would probably just use the same technology for permanent discs.

    Also, microsoft denied having anything to do with this idea...

    go figure.

  8. Re:Better translation? on Origen 360 Revealed in Less Than 12 Hours · · Score: 0

    I could be mistaken, but I believe that ludere is third conjugation (ludo ludere lusi lusum), so "ludent" would be future.

    I know, very significant.

  9. Re:Please tell me you don't write code. on Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered · · Score: 0

    The presumption is that any large project is going to have bugs/security flaws in it, and the question is how quickly they get found and exploited.

  10. Re:Funny how the emphasize on Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered · · Score: 0

    Not how many it has, how many are going to be found and exploited.

  11. Re:Funny how the emphasize on Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered · · Score: 0

    Well, you have to consider also that, Internet Explorer having somewhere in the range of 90% market share as opposed to under 7% market share for Mozilla, about 13 times as many vulnerabilities would logically be found... (and only about 5 times as many are)

  12. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You do know that, if he existed, he was jewish, right? he never would have said anything about sins etc. Some random arab, probably insane or on some wierd drug, made up the bible thousands of years ago, so you base your life around these two things?

    Jesus probably never even existed.

    And, although you didn't directly say that, it is inferred because you have said that that is a sin, and that sinners should burn in hell forever :P

    See you there

  13. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    so instead you are saying that if someone is homosexual, then they deserve to spend eternity burning in hell?

  14. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    so you agree with your friend jesus that you must go around and kill them all or else you will be sent to hell...?

  15. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    it's your choice, sure. It's just that if you make the wrong choice, then the bible says off to hell you go for eternity. Like in the gun example. You can choose not to meet their demands, but they're probably going to kill you...

  16. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    And the old law says that homosexuality is a sin...

    anyway, unnecessarily killing other animals...? Ring a bell?

  17. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    yes, there actually is... according to christianity, if you don't do what god wants you to do (fulfill the demands of the guy with the gun), then god will send you to hell for all eternity or something... (the guy will shoot you)

  18. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I realize that it is considered to be old law.

    But, as shown in the second quote, 'jesus' plans on fulfilling the old laws

    you don't sacrifice animals, but you consider eating animals to be a decent idea?

  19. Re:Indeed... on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Well, your statement is false...

    Leviticus 20:13---

    If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    i.e. homosexuals must be killed according to Leviticus, and...

    Matt 5:17-18

    17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

    18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

    That's supposedly a quote from "jesus", talking about the laws from before his time, and saying that he will fulfill them (this is presuming him to be a fictional character, but holds true either way)

  20. Re:Not particularly difficult.... on The Know-It-All · · Score: 1

    But, I presume, he tried to remember all of the details from it. I doubt that these people whom you know could, after reading at that rate for 33,000 pages could tell you all of the things that happened in what they read.

  21. Re:Lasers are different on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    So not only will he hit the pilot square in the eye from the ground, but he will aim it at the glass so that it splits into two beams and also hits the co-pilot? Wow.

  22. Re:Excellent! It worked! on Two Ziff-Davis Magazines Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe that they shut down two entire publications because one person decided to unsubscribe?

    It's their magazine, with their opinions...

  23. Re:BT on Tankjumping in Halo 2 · · Score: 1

    try saving to your computer first then opening in your client (as opposed to opening it from a temporary folder)

  24. Re:what's linux? on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    it's also quite likely that, while screwing around in their BIOS, they'll mess something else up.

  25. Re:Love this sort of speculation on Halo 2 Feb 9th Speculation · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has not even announced an Xbox 2 for any time soon, let alone next year...