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  1. Now your .pdf files will flash many colours on Adobe Acquiring Macromedia on December 3, 2005 · · Score: 0

    From the article:
    "About Adobe Systems Incorporated

    Adobe is the world's leading provider of software solutions to create, manage and deliver high-impact, reliable digital content. For more information, visit www.adobe.com ."

    They redirect you to the site you are already on, genius.

  2. He should donate it to opensource.org on Court Rules Ellison Must Donate $100M to Charity · · Score: 1

    For karma's sake

  3. Make no bones about it, Calcium works on First Quantum Byte Created · · Score: 2, Funny

    "With a trap using magnetic fields they captured eight calcium ions, lined them up, and set up them in "W states" using a complicated laser technology"

    Calcium again coming to the rescue to provide structure for a complex system. What would people or quantum computers be without it?

  4. I'll drink to that on RIAA vs Linux and DVDs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some history about the Linux flap:
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/archive/g arfinkel.txt

    Some other page I found by accident about file sharing:
    http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php

  5. Re:"it's"? on GMail Adds Virus Protection · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its the damn grammar nazis again to ruin the hype.

  6. Now the apology letter.... on Consumer Strikes Back at Crooked Online Retailer · · Score: 1

    http://thomashawk.com/2005/12/apology-letter-from- ed-lopez-owner-of.html

    Guess they had a sudden bout of guilt and shame?

  7. Re:Evolution on Linux Desktop Email Key to Success · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could probably convince Kansans to start using it, as long as you explain in detail about how it was indeed intelligently designed.

  8. Re:Make everything free on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    AVG Free is a much better alternative

    see: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

  9. Re:A self-fullfilling prophecy on Hooked On The Web · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much I could charge to connect people's chat clients to an Eliza bot?
    ----

    The answer is: as much as you want, addicts will pay any price for their fix. Just make sure the bot redirects them to other pages that will generate you more revenue.

  10. Make everything free on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When your greatest competition is making effective and useful products for free, you will have to follow that same route. So when does google come out with its own free operating system?

  11. A self-fullfilling prophecy on Hooked On The Web · · Score: 1

    Internet is an addiction, but help is on the way....please click here http://www.netaddiction.com/ to read about how you can stop your incessant clicking.

  12. How can nature infringe on anything? on Blackberry Maker Facing Infringement Case In U.K. · · Score: 1

    After all, the blackberry maker also made everything else.

  13. Re:Because they're too busy.... on Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything? · · Score: 1

    Or dodging the chairs that randomly fly out of Microsoft's windows (small w)

  14. Too many unexpected consequences on Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything? · · Score: 1

    My guess is that if they did, it would take too long to test all of the patches to ensure that:

    -The patches worked
    -They didn't adversely affect other functions
    -The patches come out on the 2nd Tuesday of the month

  15. Note to advertisers: Flash ads suck on 2005 The Turning Point For Online Ads · · Score: 1

    Mod me as offtopic or whatever, but it must be said:
    Flash advertising is annoying and very distracting!
    It is harder to read text next to a flash ad....sometimes I will even zoom in to the point of obscurity to disable the flash ad. It doesn't make me want to buy the product/service any more if the ad is moving and flashing between white and red backgrounds.

    Okay my rant is over.

  16. Re:disable active scripting ... on Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Security > -Checkbox for- Allow active content to run files on My Computer?

  17. Re:disable active scripting ... on Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their reply would be: you really don't need the water anyway.

  18. Re:disable active scripting ... on Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    agreed, just summarizing the temporary 'fix' for it.

    It's not a patch, it's a new feature?

  19. disable active scripting ... on Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    ...or enable inactive surfing

  20. Re:From Wiki on this subject on John Seigenthaler Sr. Criticises Wikipedia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, wikipedia is censored and the Simpsons are evil

  21. Skype-integrated eBay? on Skype 2.0 Adds Video · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since eBay now owns Skype, maybe they should integrate this video technology into eBay so you can get a video of what you are purchasing.

    This would help when buying big-ticket items on eBay. The ability to view a house or piece of property on video would probably increase the interest and sales.

  22. And we're glad glad glad that you're alive.... on Glide File Sharing Service Debuts · · Score: 1

    I just want to know if the people who wrote Glide were Phish fans? :)

  23. From Wiki on this subject on John Seigenthaler Sr. Criticises Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    2 This opinion piece on USA Today, causing Wikipedia some bad press. If not for this policy, Mr. Siegenthaler could have just fixed the problems if he didn't ignore the policy like the people above and more, but instead he used it as an excuse to make us look bad. The longer we don't allow areas of expertise to fix problems like that, the more problems we'll have. 3 If a policy is WP:IARed all the time, there's no purpose in having it at all. 4 When you click on the edit button, right there at the bottom... If you don't want your writing to be edited and redistributed by others, do not submit it. With WP:AUTO, we'd have to change this to...
    If you don't want your writing to be edited and redistributed by others except the person who this article is about if this article is about a person, do not submit it.karmafist 08:01, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
    from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MfD

    My only question is: Why did this guy move to Russia?

  24. Cancelled cards on Consumer Strikes Back at Crooked Online Retailer · · Score: 1

    I've had to cancel my credit card on the advice of my credit card provider."

    Why should he have to cancel his card? He never did anything wrong, PriceRitePhoto should have to pay HIM for his time wasted.
    This consumer horror story ranks as one of the WORST I have ever read. On a 20/20 or some other news/investigative TV show I saw a couple years ago, this same kind of scam was being perpetrated by several camera stores in New York City. After seeing that show, I would NEVER buy anything from a New York City store. Unfortunately for the unknowing consumer, they had several different scams being perpetrated by several different stores in the city. When the show confronted them about it on hidden camera footage, they tried to deny their scams, and it was sickening. I just would not want to take the chance of getting ripped off, I would pay the extra money elsewhere with a more reputable business, and ALWAYS read the negative comments about any retailer.

  25. Re:Someone needs to go to the moon on Slashback: BlackBerry, Cloning, Smart Hotels · · Score: 1

    How is the space elevator more useful than exploring the moon?