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  1. Sites or pages? on Internet Growth in 2005 Sets Record · · Score: 1

    Are we talking about web SITES or web PAGES? A web site is a collection of pages, after all. It's hard for me to swallow that that many SITES were created in the past ten months. Pages, sure. I create a page when I add something to my blog. I don't add a site, though.

  2. Re:Claim is it someone else's issue on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1

    Someone from Taiwan sent an angry, semi-threatening letter to 2600 Magazine about this very thing. They pulled out the whole "official ISO naming system" thing, too.

  3. Re:Maybe she'll help out when they impeach Bush on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    I should have specified. By "that" I meant not the perjury, but the Monica thing.

  4. Re:Maybe she'll help out when they impeach Bush on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Again, why did that ever go to court? Why was it anyone's business?

  5. Re:Serious Problem on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Justice Rehnquist was also never a judge.
    /for teh win

  6. Re:You know, here's a news flash... on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Actually, Bush met with Miers several times over the last four or five weeks, so she's had at least a month or so :)

  7. Re:Maybe she'll help out when they impeach Bush on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    He was impeached for lying about whether or not he had sex with Monica. How was that EVER the country's business? Seriously.

  8. Still hard to imagine. on HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs · · Score: 1

    Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary.
    My God, how far they've fallen. A once proud tech giant, now nothing more than a division of a subsidiary...
    /me sheds a single tear

  9. We already knew it was possible. on Stem Cells Restore Feeling In Paraplegic · · Score: 0

    After all, on South Park, Christopher Reeve gained Superman-esque powers by eating fetuses.

    The thought that there was ANY sort of reality in that... frightens me.

  10. Re:The best part of the article is the credits... on PSP Firmware Downgrader Released · · Score: 1

    I love how the bastard who steals everyone's code says that toc2rta stole the exploit code from the site he tells people NOT to visit ;D

  11. Re:"homebrew software development " ? on PSP Firmware Downgrader Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I currently have 6 full-size games on my 512MB stick.

  12. ALL LIES on PSP Firmware Downgrader Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to PSPUpdates, SonyXTeam has NOTHING to do with this. It is the sole creation of Team MPH.
    SonyXTeam is comprised of former members of Team WAB, a group that conned hundreds of people out of their money.
    WAB said that they would be releasing a downgrader on September 1, and opened up a Paypal account for donations.
    Then members of WAB claimed to have been arrested, and they claimed that their hard drive crashed. If anyone came on their IRC server and asked about the downgrader, they were kicked off. Then the team split up, and the "main coder" of the supposed downgrader went over to SonyXTeam.
    This coder, Yoshihiro, is well known throughout the XBox scene as a fake who stole the code of others and claimed it as his own. He is doing the same thing here with the real downgrader.

  13. Totally inappropriate on Broadcast Flag Back in Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the same sort of thing that got the REAL ID act passed. It's totally inappropriate, and it's a hijacking of the true democratic process. Irrelevant riders simply should NOT be allowed on bills.

  14. Re:Oh, come on. on Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent · · Score: 1

    According to RIAA jargon, when you buy a CD, you are buying a license to play the work, not the actual work itself.

  15. Re:Are you sure? on Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent · · Score: 1

    not selling or assigning those above rights
    Are you sure? Downloading a copyrighted work automatically gives you the ability to reproduce the work, therefore violating the artists' right to control that reproduction.

  16. Re:Sorry, no. on Sun President Says PCs Are Relics · · Score: 1

    Comparing apples and oranges is fun! For example, while apples are usually red, yellow or green, oranges are almost always orange! Oranges have leathery, dimpled skin, while apples have smooth, papery skin! Oranges are sour, and apples are mostly sweet!

    In other words: that cliche has outlived its usefulness.

  17. Sorry, no. on Sun President Says PCs Are Relics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Has this man ever heard of a concept known as "PC gaming"? The PC is more than just a service utility these days. It's a total entertainment device. Unless there are some leaps and bounds in the broadband technology employed across the US, there is simply no way anyone would want to play games like Half-Life or Doom 3 as "internet services".

  18. Misleading headline on Acetylene Based Life on Titan? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even just from the summary, it would seem that the life itself is not acetylene-based, just the food the life would eat.

  19. Re:And every year on State of the Onion 9 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did someone get less than the requisite number of hugs as a child? Seriously, what is the motivation for this sort of thing? Does it have to do with John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory? Or does it just entertain you to be a total dick?

  20. Re:I hate to turn this into a flamewar so soon, bu on Creating Artificial Proteins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is simply no way to statistically "prove" or "disprove" evolutionary theory. It's not a matter of simple mathematics. You can't quantify all of the variables properly.

  21. And on the 5110523158965th day... on Creating Artificial Proteins · · Score: 1

    Mankind created happy little protein-building bacteria. And it was good.

  22. Re:Apples to Apples? on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To get infected on Windows you... have to turn the system on. As far as I can tell.

    Not sure if you were being facetious, but in some cases this is exactly right. From 2001-2003 at Michigan Tech University, anyone on the residential network who had a fresh install of Windows XP running would almost immediately be infected with a virus - either Klez or someting else, I can't remember. The vulnerability lay in the totally unprotected "Shared Documents" folder that was automatically shared with full access in both Home and Professional versions of XP (pre-SP1). Someone would get hooked into the NetBIOS system, and their machine would be infected.

  23. Re:Wrong (Re:Snopes claims this to be false) on What's On Your Hotel Keycard · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's keep reading, shall we? Snopes ACTUALLY says that none of the hotel chains they contacted put sensitive information on the cards. One reader who works at a hotel said that the only thing that goes on there is the room number, the number of nights in the stay, and the number of keys issued.

  24. OK, great. on Toshiba to Demo New Fuel Cell MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    That's cute and all, and I'm sure the science is fascinating to some, but the question I have is how much will this cost?
    If I can pay less to recharge my 6h-capacity battery 10 times than to fill up my 60h-capacity fuel cell, then there's no point in switching technologies.

  25. I refer you to VGCats. on Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor · · Score: 1