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  1. Re:My 1st BSOD on Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista · · Score: 1

    and was your reaction: "Wow!"?

  2. Re:and the wet dream of any victim on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    no you silly boy. keep the internet goodies, and fence off the baddies with a good proxy and HOSTS file.

  3. Re:One of the biggest in the universe? on Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision · · Score: 1

    and that this scientist has seen enough galaxies to be sure of what he's saying.

  4. Re:Jesus Christ on 'Til Tech Do Us Part · · Score: 1

    Strong words by mr. Anonymous Coward there...

  5. Re:MS can do something right on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1

    Although I would have to consider myself a "Mac fanboy", Microsoft does occasionally get something right.

    yeah! kudos for MS for hiring Logitech to get the job done :D

  6. Re:Life will be there after the oceans boil away on Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit · · Score: 1

    oh, OK... so everything will be alright. that got some weight off of my shoulders. thanks!

  7. on-chip 10G Ethernet ports on Sun To Release 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor · · Score: 1

    huh? ethernet ports where? anyone care to explain?

  8. Re:listen to ads? on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Here's what you can do: instead of interrupting the calls to play what the sponsor wants you to hear, have the ad play instead of the tone you normally hear while the called party hasn't answered the phone. At least in Portugal Vodafone has this option as a service to have the user replace the "beep beep" with some song chosen previously. it's called "ringding" service over there.

  9. Re:Bogus question. on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 1

    But if you no longer possess the original are you legally allowed to own the backup?

    If you have a receipt or any other way to prove the purchase of the original I think you should be OK. If you show up in court with a DVD-R with a game and the original DVD with tooth-marks it should be clear to any judge what your intention is when making back up copies of the media. As for the DMCA attempting to block this, it's the lawmakers of the USA that should be held responsible.

  10. MI on Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number · · Score: 2, Insightful

    these guys didn't watch "Mission: impossible"?

  11. Wow... just... wow! on Intel Core 2 Updates, QX6850 and E6750 · · Score: 1

    So, the latest CPUs are great value for money... *but* if people wait for a few months, there will be new CPUs and those will be even better. Wow! I've never seen anything like this before!

  12. Re:What can they really do? on BBC Trust Will Hear iPlayer Openness Complaints · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since the content being made available for download with DRM is the same that previously has been broadcast over the air, without any sort of protection, the other option they have is to dump the DRM on the downloadable material and put the stuff on bittorrent themselves, instead of having the viewers do it.

  13. Tom Dickson has a question: on Baby Mammoth Found Intact · · Score: -1, Redundant

    will it blend?

  14. Re:Opening of a Joke on The Intersection of Microsoft, Linux, and China · · Score: 1

    Panda says: "In communist China, jokes tell you"?

  15. Re:iPhone Shuffle on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 1

    you might as well fit the whole phone in the case of a bluetooth handset and just sync it with your computer when you need more phone numbers in its memory. it's a bit like the ipod shuffle 2G form-factor applied to a phone. if it were possible to get decent battery life on that the iPhone could actually be a clip-on.

  16. breathe in UAC breathe out UAC on Bill Gates Drops To Number 2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and you had better press "allow" really quick...

  17. Re:So? on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, do not welcome any sort of goatse-displaying alien overlord.

  18. Re:Please smarten up on Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD · · Score: 1

    Everybody who want's a CD will get one. It's a national paper, and he's giving them away at the concerts too. They would not sell at stores for at least months later.
    and the rest of us who cannot get a copy from a newspaper will get it from bittorrent. there's no point in not distributing the music for free if the CD itself is for free, right? I bet that the distributors' cartel is very happy about this :)
  19. Re:Then who owns Mars? on Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target · · Score: 1
    Regardless, anyone who goes through the expense of terraforming Mars, even a government, is going to want some assurance that the rest of humanity won't leech off their work.

    obviously nobody would consider moving to another planet without taking weapons with them.

  20. Re:The list on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    All of them perfectly cromulent words if you ask me...

  21. Re:Come on... on Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough · · Score: 1
    And you should have seen the comments on Mac users forums when it was released for OS X. "oh it's like spotlight but not as pretty" "bah, who asked for this in the first place?", etc., etc...

    in the meantime Beagle is in early stages of development and the suite Google Desktop+Firefox+Sync extension makes my life easier everyday while moving between several computers. I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'd be one happier ubuntu user if I could use GDS there.

  22. Re:The top layer is for growing plants on Vertical Farming · · Score: 1
    > All the bottom layers are for growing mushrooms and cockroaches.

    I must be reading in too much of a hurry... I read that as:

    At the bottom, lawyers, growing mushrooms and cockroaches...

  23. Re:It WAS... on Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX · · Score: 1
    Of course on a Windows machines you don't have to use Microsoft's formatting or partitioning tools, you can always format fat32 up to 2tb on your linux box then put the disk into a Windows box and it will read it just fine. I can't imagine why you would want to do that but the option exists.

    If you visit Macrumors.com and its forums you'll find dozens of help requests everyday from people who bought a BIG external hard drive and need to format it in a way that will be R/W from both their Mac and their Windows PC. Nobody seems to care much about using EXT2 and the free drivers available for both MS Windows and OS X to use this partition standard, on the contrary, people are really keen on finding how to have their Macs use NTFS or FAT32 on 500GB disks.

  24. Re:For about $500 on Palm Unveils Foleo, Linux-Based "Mobile Companion" · · Score: 1

    Schools. If this device reads PDF, sends email, browses the web without using Flash and other noisy stuff, it's great for schools and the people managing IT resources for schools.

  25. what will they do on stage? magic! on Gates and Jobs to Share A Stage · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Jobs will step into a wooden box leaving his head and feet out. Gates will use a chainsaw to cut the box in half. there will be a fatal error.