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  1. Juries are fickle beasts on Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial · · Score: 1

    After all, they acquitted OJ.

    But, I guess her peers decided she's a quarter million dollar threat, even if it was her neighbor using her wireless connection to do it.

  2. Is this to distract us from the Iraq and Iran wars on The New Moon Race · · Score: 1

    I remember - mind you, I was a kid then, that the original space race to the Moon was during the Vietnam War.

    From the viewpoint of a child, it worked remarkably well, in that I thought the Vietnam War was some kind of TV show like Rat Patrol, even though a cousin of mine served there, and was totally obsessed with getting Star Trek in color (when I could) and the Lunar Landings.

    That said, it looks like we'll be in an unfair race, in that we're going broke over Iraq (and then Iran) while the Chinese and Japanese are making money off of them.

  3. Re:Color me underwhelmed on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 1

    True, but OLED TVs use organic LEDs and only have a max lifespan of around 5 years based on my house's usage (teens and a movie watching adult).

    I figure, based on prior electronics marketing curves (my first degree was Sales and Marketing) that we should see $300 40" HDTV sets in 2009, buying in the Feb discount window. And the upgrade coupons may be useful for digital TV converters, as the signal strength for HDTV is stronger using antennas than using cable - I'll probably have cable but run an extra lead to a rooftop antenna (so i can switch when it spots out for local channels).

  4. Re:Color me underwhelmed on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This only impacts people with "rabbit ears"

    What do you have against Furries?

  5. Re:Color me underwhelmed on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 1

    No, I'm saying I don't care who does what, I just want my stuff to work.

  6. For this they want us to pay MORE? on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what is with Sony and copy-protection?

    Why are they purposefully trying to stop me from spending money on their products?

    Guess I'll have to go with another Japanese or Korean firm - and there are many.

  7. Re:DX9 looks better? or do the consumers vote? on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that the "realism" isn't worth it. Go out and create DX7 games that are fun :P !! (or openGL games that don't require much extensions;)

    Oh, come on, everyone will buy the PS3 because it has better graphics than the Wii .... um, hello?

  8. Color me underwhelmed on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 1

    But the only reason I could see for DX10 was WinVista, and that has been such a disappointment that it's just not going to matter to most of us.

    Meanwhile, my Wii works fine with my digital TV as it does for most Americans, and we'll buy HDTV when it's cheap (or we have to in 2009).

    Promises mean little. Results matter. Come out with decent fully documented drivers for Linux and the Mac OS and we'll talk.

  9. Re:who really cares, when does ca.mx go live? on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    Canada doesn't want anything to do with California either.

    Um, didn't California's Governator recently sign a number of treaties with Canadian provinces to take concrete action on global warming emissions and development of alternative energy sources?

    I think Canada might care, actually.

  10. Re:I sense a disturbance in the Force... on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your pitiful Green State shall not stop the Power of the Red Bushie side of the Force!

    Soon you shall feel the might of this fully operational Iraq Embassy!

  11. Inadvertently? Um, might want to check further on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I noticed Karl Rove and Dick Cheney sneaking around earlier, saying something about SCHIP ...

  12. Research Labs refuse to install Win servers on Microsoft Marketing to OS Pirates, Just Agree to Audits! · · Score: 1

    just because we have a few dual-boot Linux/Win machines in our labs, doesn't mean we agree to host MSFT audit software on a dedicated non-Linux server, when most of those dual-boot computers are running Linux 80 percent of the time.

    You want audits? Ship disks and boxes when you sell us software. Then we'll talk.

  13. I regret that I have but one disk to sacrifice on Leaks Reveal New Xbox 360 Package · · Score: -1, Troll

    for my packaging.

    Halo 3.1 - now with new improved non-destructive packaging!

    Only $10 more ...

  14. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and .... on Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    Those that heard of a proposal to let a sex-starved panda free to roam the Canadian tundra were outraged.

    Um, there's not much bamboo in Canada. And none in the tundra.

    Let alone panda bears. They're not only not native, they don't understand either of the two official languages and aren't First Nation speakers either.

    Plus, they don't grok net neutrality very well.

  15. Three Things To Think About on Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Canadians value privacy, freedom, and their role in creating the open communications systems they depend on (SFU and UBC R001!)

    2. Canada is used to having a high-bandwidth internet that is cheaper than the US one, faster, and in more households.

    3. Only those who want to sell you less for more are in favor of killing off net neutrality.

  16. Re:august? on More Lich King Details, Apologies For Burning Crusade? · · Score: 1

    Parent's basement?

    I think I've had my dad stay in my attic, but my son has his own bedroom, and there is no basement in my townhouse.

  17. Re:You mean like that (Group) marker? on More Lich King Details, Apologies For Burning Crusade? · · Score: 1

    Look, now that I know they are group quests, they're no prob.

    But they aren't labelled as such. It's fine for my hunter or rogue to do them.

    And pulling inside caves doesn't work well for warriors.

  18. Re:You mean like that (Group) marker? on More Lich King Details, Apologies For Burning Crusade? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, frequently not (selected) for quests involving high-aggro situations (like Murlocs) and highly-constricted environments like caves where just attacking one brings ten down on you.

    Seriously, most of us waste a lot of time before we clue in it's a Group quest they didn't mark as "Group".

  19. I always buy a $500 console for breakout games on LittleBigPlanet Could 'Move Consoles' For PlayStation 3 · · Score: 1

    Especially one that uses an HD format for a TV that I would need to shell out $2000 for, to pay $60 a game for, and twice the normal DVD movie rate.

    Oh, wait, this isn't Bizarro World?

  20. Re:august? on More Lich King Details, Apologies For Burning Crusade? · · Score: 2, Funny

    august /aw gus t /ln augustus - fr auot
    -month
    1. referring to the month when people should stop wearing white in summer
    2. referring to the month when people should stop quoting thing
    3. a time when the Lich King will take your soul for pubbing silly asides that have nothing to do with WoW

  21. Re:The Expansion they wish they made first on More Lich King Details, Apologies For Burning Crusade? · · Score: 1

    My main bone of contention though is that the 1-70 grind is not getting much attention. Do they feel that all of that is throw-away?

    All I know is I've got lots of level 4 to 29 characters and somehow the grind makes me not push hard to make them higher level.

    It would help if they more clearly marked group quests.

    For example, if I have to go into a physically constrained mine, in oh say, the Barrens, to get an elite level 25 surrounded by 10 level 20-24 warriors bound to aggro me, that's a Group Quest - not an Individual Quest (unless I was a Rogue).

    Just a hint. It's no fun dying 20 times and getting nowhere.

  22. Re:Lawyers (better or worse?) on Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting · · Score: 1

    Yeah, too bad they use the budget surplus to pay down the national debt.

    Um, that's a good thing.

  23. Re:Lawyers (better or worse?) on Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting · · Score: 1

    No, not really.

    At least in Canada they vote with paper and pencil.

    And they have this newfangled thing called a budget surplus.

    So, it doesn't bother me.

    Besides, look at the last non-lawyer we "elected" in the US: he has an MBA and his initial are GWB.

  24. When only people with mobile phones can vote on Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting · · Score: 1

    Then we gun-owning landline owners will start the revolution.

  25. I am for to be happy this is not future, present on Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much for your order for 100.000 bottles of Pocari Sweat.

    We will boat this on top of evening in 1000 cases, 10 bottles in each case.

    Wishing your family will not die when they hear this news.