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  1. Re:Man they've got balls on RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order · · Score: 1

    Pardon my ignorance, but what does a "Rule 11 sanction" mean?

  2. Re:I Don't Buy It on Scientists Threatened For "Climate Denial" · · Score: 1

    Paper has been a renewable resource for *decades*.
    Decades? I thought they invented a way to make the stuff grow a few billion years ago.
  3. Re:Erm.. on Marvin Minsky On AI · · Score: 1

    Which means that the Borg actually represent the evil capitalists, trying to obliterate peace-loving societies.

    Or it could just be a fictional story. Who'd a thunk?

  4. Re:Welcome on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, SETI@Home only uses Beowulf Clusters of old Koreans! ...how many other permutations you guys come up with?

  5. Re:Troubling for Sony on January Game Sales Explode, Wii Dominates · · Score: 1

    I see posts all the time from people on the internet saying that their Walmart in the middle of nowhere has had them on the shelves for ages
    I never thought of Los Angeles as the "middle of nowhere", but all the game/entertainment stores I've been to had PS3 boxen sitting on the shelves.

    Maybe Sony got their distribution rates wrong - not enough to the New England area, too many everywhere else.
  6. Re:really? on Consumer Vista Upgrades Moving at Snail's Pace · · Score: 1

    Nah, they just become zombie processors.

  7. Re:Actually on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Let's get this straight: you clearly communicated your disdain for religion, while simultaneously (and openly) complaining that you are being restrained from openly communicating your disdain for religion.

    I'm a bit confused here.

  8. Re:Missing something on The Web Fueling A Crisis In Politics? · · Score: 1
    1. The numbers don't lie.
    Lies, Damned lies, and statistics. You can use the numbers to get just about any 'evidence' you want.
    2. An act of desperation by a suicide bomber cannot be compared to a fighter jet dropping guided bombs on UN outposts, schools, mosques and downtown apartment blocks.
    The suicide bomber kill a bunch of innocent people, the guided bomb kill a bunch of innocent people. What's the difference?
    3. If you think no one cares when a suicide bomber blows up a market, .. well. I think we live in different spaces.
  9. Re:Vista RC1 is slow on Preview of Vista On Old Hardware · · Score: 1
    But, hey! It's got IPv6, and the hourglass cursor is now a circle!

    Cursor,n: The object that occupies the space between the chair and keyboard.
  10. Re:Why should we really upgrade. on Preview of Vista On Old Hardware · · Score: 1
    What intelligent person . . .

    Ya talking about both of them?


    I know I won't be using it. I don't know about the other guy, though.

    Nope, me neither.
  11. Re:Damages for companies? on Judge OKs Challenge To RIAA's $750-Per-Song Claim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know french law, but here in the U.S. that could be considered "cruel and unusual". That sort of punishment would be quickly shot down by the Supreme Court.

    Basically, U.S. citizens are "more free" than french citizens, in some sense of the term.

  12. Re:Tough crowd tonight on Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Worse yet, I'm forseeing an new type of "obligatory..." post format.

  13. Re:Offline Office at last on Google Office To Get an API · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is an export feature. I'm not sure if it's new, but I just tried it out (Google Spreasheet -> OpenOffice *.ods) and it works fine.

  14. Re:Am I just being overly simplistic... on IPv6 Essentials · · Score: 1

    Actually, it sounds like you just 'discovered' the basic functionality of IPv6. When the upper 96 bits are all zero, the resultant IPv6 address is handled exactly like an IPv4 address.

    This also means that every IPv4 address is automatically a valid IPv6 address - the upper 96 zeroes have just been left off as a convenience. And if you think about it, that actually means that IPv6 has already been in use for years!

  15. Re:How much electricity? on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: 1
    To pass that 173 kWh in 5 minutes works out to 2.076 MW. At 120 V, this requires 17.3 kA.

    You try & I'll watch.

  16. Re:Exxon Mobile on Much Ado About Gas Prices · · Score: 1
    They warned me gas prices were going to go up. Then why the hell did they make record profits?

    Hmmm... gas prices go up, profits go up... I dunno, I certainly can't see any conection there.

  17. Re:Not if the Cell Companies... on Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access? · · Score: 1
    Use IPv6. There ought to be enough room there for every cell phone to have a unique permanent IP number.

    Though it does make the DNS idea a seem a bit more usefull...

  18. Re:Knee-jerk misconceptions on Microsoft to Become Mobile DRM Standard? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it sounded more like a statisfied customer. Which is, of course, the only way the DRM can really catch on.

    Just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean everything they do is stupid & useless. I don't care for most of their stuff either, and I'm not about to buy into MS's DRM scheme, but they do seem to have the most customer-friendly version of DRM right now.

  19. Re:Hold on just a sec... on Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption · · Score: 1
    In Soviet America, message intercept YOU!!

    (damn cell phones...)

  20. Re:Don't agree with global warming on Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming · · Score: 1
    Redefining terms solves no problems.

    The problem is: keep technology advancing for as many millions of years as possible.

    Solve it. And not by redefining 'keep', 'technology', 'advancing', 'for', 'as', 'many', 'millions', 'of', 'years', 'possible', 'solve', or 'it', please.

    In keeping with the above list of "do not redefine" words:

    I hereby redefine 'problem' as a series of events which will spontaneously occur regardless of any outside influence, either positive or negative

    Solved?

  21. Re:Don't agree with global warming on Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming · · Score: 1
    I'm just waiting for our Developer to come out with that new Expansion Pack they've been promising, Earth II: Second Comming. Though I hear it starts off with a nasty purge of the less savory users.

    I hear the Developer is planning on reformatting the server. There's instructions on the Developer's website to register a backup copy of your account - but hey, who reads that stuff anyway?