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  1. Re:Instant Messanging? on Ten Applications That Changed Computing · · Score: 1

    wow thats a big icq number, noob :D

    2951034

  2. Re:Number One is Correct on Ten Applications That Changed Computing · · Score: 1

    I miss the old Yahoo categorized listings. Do they still exist in some shape or form?

    They sure do!

  3. Re:I don't mean to nitpick... on Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter · · Score: 4

    E, CERN is ...

    Shouldn't that be 'e'?

  4. Re:When? on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 1

    who cares? it behaves the same. I'll take the hit of the extra 200kb or however much extra disk space it uses.

  5. Re:Why is it in there to begin with on Cocaine Test Prompts Red Bull Removal In Germany · · Score: 1

    Is something coming from a place that is processing both a red bull ingredient and cocaine?

    Uh, yeah. The plant that takes the coca leaves and removes the cocaine and sells the leaves to red bull as a flavouring. Same with Coca Cola (note the name), Pepsi, etc.

  6. Re:When? on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 1

    Tools -> options -> interface -> start -> Display UI chooser

  7. Re:A better idea on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    The game's been around for a while now. It isn't in response to all this madness.

  8. Re:Don't worry on Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I've had the misfortune of reading some of those sites. Frightening stuff.

    The worst is the images they post as 'thinspiration'. The people look like they are straight from concentration camps.

  9. Re:Inc. China on Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    So in the name of reducing the distribution of child porn they have created a publicly accessible list of all the child porn sites they've managed to find.

    *slow clap* well done.

  10. Re:you just think you're joking. on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    True, but still far from entertaining. This guy did a good job with that though: The Brick Testament. I particularly enjoy this one on why to keep 'the law'

  11. Re:I Once Had To Work In A Cramped Cubicle on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    That's great, so if you could just go ahead and move your desk a bit further back, we have some more boxes to put down here.

  12. Re:Better than a refund, and maybe not planned on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    They could have just dropped the film in a new projector and kept going after the damaged portion. They probably couldn't just replace the bulb, as i bet there's glass everywhere after one of those things goes.

  13. Re:I used to intake around 500 mg/day on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    Quitting cold turkey is the equivalent of going from 100 miles an hour to 0 in a microsecond

    Sounds deadly.

  14. Re:Nope, it's the putative new users problem on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    What its missing is specs the manufacturers aren't releasing. Reverse engineering stuff is a royal pain in the ass. People do it, but its slow going.

    Your assumption that proper code = 100% hardware compatibility makes me think you've never written any hardware interfaces.

  15. Re:Nope, it's the putative new users problem on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    The average user doesn't do that. Usually they go by what's on the box, not what they searched for in Google.

    Well in that case whatever they just bought said it supports linux right on the box. Sounds like it'll work out great for them.

  16. Re:Nope, it's the putative new users problem on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    how do you propose they support all this manufacturer-unsupported, undocumented hardware?

    I think its more an issue of lack of ability rather than lack of want.

  17. Re:Too Bad, that they do not carry it further on Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs · · Score: 1

    Sadly, that's a convenience we can only dream of these days.

  18. Re:2nd Paragraph. on Attempting To Reframe "KDE Vs. GNOME" · · Score: 1

    I have a t61. Type 7658-CTO to be specific. It works flawlessly under ubuntu. It suspends every time, it comes back every time. Wireless works, usb works, sound works, brightness keys work, etc, etc , etc.

    Check out thinkwiki if you havent already. They'll tell you the little tweaks that are needed now and then to make things perfect.

  19. Re:There is money and publicity on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 3, Informative
    Nice troll, but the linked website doesn't agree with you. It talks of both a yearly cycle and a long term trend. It also says man made CFCs

    contribute to the thinning of the ozone layer and allow larger quantities of harmful ultraviolet rays to reach the earth.

    and some tasty graphs showing stuff like

    NASA/NOAA satellite data showing the rise in stratospheric chlorine and corresponding decline in ozone layer thickness from 1979 to 1997. As stratospheric chlorine declined in response to enactment of the Montreal Protocol, the first stage of ozone recovery began.

  20. Re:What about... on Growing Plants In Lunar Gravity · · Score: 1

    No, he understood. You just don't understand physics. A centrifuge can only add to apparent gravity. Turning it upside down doesn't fix anything, you're still increasing the total force vector on the plants. Unless somehow you can spin it so the force vector (Which always points out from the centre of the centrifuge) is always pointing against earths gravity. You'll need a mighty big centrifuge methinks.

  21. But most importantly on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    Do crabs stick to magnet?

  22. Re:I'm Old-School as Hell on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 0

    I keeps it real-ah, cause I'm all about my scrilla The ladies love me cause I'm a million dolla hitta

    That said, I dont think snoop dogg's lay low counts as oldschool as hell. But I admit I love that 'but we still smokin', what?' line.

  23. Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Just about any Dual core and up. on Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation? · · Score: 0, Troll

    you used a video camera to record a computer screen? How quaint.

  25. Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    Dude start getting V0s then. 128? I'd never do that to my sennies.