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  1. Re:It's Global Warming! on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe one day people will stop making these lame jokes, and we can stop wasting our mod points

    I applaud anyone who helps push this crap below my viewing threshold.

  2. Re:So I watched the Oscars last night... on BitTorrent Legit Service Launches · · Score: 3, Informative

    How many people want to watch movies on their computer? A relatively small number.

    How many of customers of this service want to watch movies on their computer? Pretty safe bet to say 100%.

    How many of them have a problem with using either an Apple based solution or a Windows-only solution?

    Macs have about 4% market share overall, linux around 3%. (from some quick googling). Though I'd say its a safe bet that the kind of people who want to watch movies on their computers are more likely to be running osx/linux (also consider setups like mythTV boxes). So maybe 10% of their possible market? more?

    Either way, the issue isn't quite as insignificant as you tried to make it seem.
  3. Re:-20C on Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you got a bad brand or something. The last 3 packs I bought all come on in less than a second, and don't noticeably change in brightness. Certainly nothing like you describe anyway.

  4. Re:Audiobooks on Rollable E Ink Displays Get Real · · Score: 1

    With some open headphones, you could easily listen to an audiobook and hear cars approaching. Sure your concentration might be a bit off, but I'm sure you're generally thinking about things while biking anyway.

  5. Re:I'm paying for distribution now, too? on Apple TV to be a Centrally Controlled P2P Network? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure getting paid to send data would be against my (and most others') TOS

  6. Re:The very least they could do on Canadian Copyright Group Wants iPod Tax · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not this link points to a list of gas taxes in American states.

    http://www.ontariogasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

  7. Re:Enforcement != laws on Your House Is About To Be Photographed · · Score: 1

    But a cop has no more power over you than a normal citizen, unless they identify themselves as a cop. So keep ignoring rent-a-cops, as if they're a real cop they'll have to tell you. Or so I'd assume.

  8. Re:Uh...Win 95 upgrade on Vista Upgrades Require Presence of Old OS · · Score: 1

    As I recall, my Windows 95 Upgrade required the presence of Windows 3.1/3.11 to install. Now, this was tied to exactly ONE file, so if you had a copy of it and you could produce it at the appropriate step during install, it would go ahead.
    glad someone mentioned this, I had to go through this process as well. I assume they'll do the same thing now and make it so you can just insert the xp disk.
  9. Re:18%? on At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its true, ladies like 'bad boys'

    Trust me, fire up bittorrent, and you'll become a sex machine.

  10. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    With only 100 hours per month, we'd have plenty of room for them... and many others.

  11. Re:I have problems with regular coax... on Nano-Scale Optical Co-Axial Cables Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Er. you know, or your hand will slice through it like a giant piece of bipedal monkey through a tiny cable.

  12. Re:It makes perfect business sense on Microsoft Squeezes Win2000 Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If microsoft is going out of their way to make everything slow, then why isn't linux SIGNIFICANTLY faster?

    Not a troll, I only run linux and hate windows, but I dont see the logic in your statement.

  13. smart pills on 10 Tech Concepts You Should Know for 2007 · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed these things are just coming around now. I remember seeing them years ago on some disconvery channel show.

    Pretty neat things though.. but I don't envy those who 'recover' the pills after theyve passed through someone.

  14. well written article on Independent Benchmarking System for Mice · · Score: 1

    "Having decided to benchmarking mice, there was several ways of going about it."

    ..what?

  15. Re:Remember, this is not just about the Royalties. on Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions · · Score: 0, Troll

    read before you post, you tool. He was quoting a website on the "scary internet", not asserting an opinion.

  16. Re:This is why small claims court exists.... on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    Him: Write down one cent. How would you write one cent?
    Floor Manager: 0.01
    Him: How do you write half a cent
    Floor Manager: uhh that would be... point... 0, 0, 5 of a cent... i dont know if thats right.. I'm not a mathematician.

    I don't think she had the qualifications to understand your explanation.

  17. Re:reasons to get vista. on Vista's 'Next Gen' TCP/IP Stack · · Score: 2, Insightful
    -I also do photography, and you use to be able to open an image file on an OSX machine and XP and it would look better on the OSX box. Not with vista.

    What in the hell are you talking about?
  18. Re:So... on Virtual Reality Creates False Memories · · Score: 1

    You never should have trusted them with your mind, Quaid.

  19. Re:Shipping on Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its for the war on iraq!!

    If they don't accept it they're TERRORISTS!

  20. Re:Pareto Distribution on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 1

    So if a homeless man agrees to let you kick him for food, this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do? Are you a decent human being for bringing this opportunity to him? Fuck no, you're an exploiting piece of shit.

  21. Re:Lossless is compressed on Does Portable Music Have to be Compressed? · · Score: 1
    ...when properly engineered...

    Too bad that almost never happens..
  22. Re:RAM... on Windows Vista and XP Head To Head · · Score: 1

    oh god, has it really gotten that bad for you windows guys? With less than 512 megs of ram you can't run software made since 2000?

    ...or maybe you're full of shit.

  23. Re:IBM/Lenovo on Notebook PC Manufacturer Who Will Sell Parts? · · Score: 1

    they might if it was a $100 mouse.

  24. Re:Did you see CmdrTaco's review of the Zune? on Critical Review of the Zune · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Sony clearly doesn't get the term..... on Sony Finds Defect In Digital Cameras · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The obvious answer is that would cost a shitload. People on slashdot seem to be so painfully distant from reality.