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  1. Re:Money for nothing on Judge Trips Up Settlement In Hot Coffee Class-Action · · Score: 1

    Remember, beating the police up so much that they shit out their bones is something completely natural; the real harm comes from the hidden consensual sex scene. My child will probably start demonically masturbating by... oh... age 13, because of your horrid game. You, Rockstar, owe my child a second chance of not becoming one of those godless heathens. I'll shut up with a few mil.

  2. Re:The Judge should launch an action... on Judge Trips Up Settlement In Hot Coffee Class-Action · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    spill it.. on the female's breasts? That's called a perl necklace, dear.

  3. Re:I would be willing to do this on Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way in Canada · · Score: 1

    You own a blackhoe? classic pimp wannabe.

  4. Re:Notes not written by a real muslim? on Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    Honestly, it looks like child's handwriting more than anything. I don't care if someone uses something different than the latin alphabet, they wouldn't make the note look like some kindergarden writeup.

  5. Re:What did happen to UNIX? on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What makes you think what happened to UNIX was bad? It's called evolution.

    I COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH YOU! Linux, SunOS, Solaris (Not an evolved SunOS!), BSD, etc were magically created out of... erm.. random bits generated from some pseudo-random generator in DigiGod's image. Proof? DigiBless.com

    </satire>

  6. Re:They wanted to give him the death penalty? on Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    If it is true, then they didn't try and murder citizens; they simply applied fear - they scared the shit out of Americans, and when the Americans looked for the cause, they (ABC News, the government, whatever you think is the originator) pointed at Saddam Hussein.

  7. I find the Salon.com article much more interesting on Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case · · Score: 2, Interesting

    just a repost of the link: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/

    What's really interesting is the link between Ivins and his strong christian / anti-islamic beliefs that they outline via the letters to the editor he sent in to the Fredrick News Post. http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=78274

  8. Re:You can't patent something.... on 3D Printing For Everyone · · Score: 1

    She could completely reform copyright law by the end of a single tube of KY.

    A porn star that needs KY? No thanks mate ;)

  9. My first order on 3D Printing For Everyone · · Score: 3, Funny

    A life-size statue of CowboyNeal.

  10. Re:Oh, So That's What Happened... on Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately people think there's a difference with a macbook logic board (intel *coughs*) and an intel motherboard. Though a fan of OS X, Apple needs to give up on putting their apple logo stickers over the original 3rd party vendors hardware. It's a fucking PC/laptop with EFI.

  11. Re:iPhone's not a bad idea on Making Mobile Presentations Without a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I know Apple sells composite and component cable adapters for iphones/ipods now.

  12. Re:That is nice on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    I use nspluginwrapper on 32-bit Ubuntu. Works like a champ.

    You might prefer using the 32-bit flash plugin by itself instead of wrapping a 32-bit plugin to 32 bits for a 32 bit browser (essentially what nspluginwrapper does; if its 64-bit compiled it wraps it so its a 64 bit plugin). just download it, and put the libflashplayer.so file into your ~/.mozilla/plugins folder. Not too hard, no?

  13. Re:YouTube on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    You checked the contents of your browser's cache folder recently?

    Though I agree with you that the file is downloaded either way, Joe Sixpack can't even understand how watching something "online" means he's really watching it "offline".

    When I had a tech support job someone wanted to save a pdf file that was on some site, however they couldn't save the file when Acrobat opened it (in the browser) because he was using the free version. The actual link to the pdf was gotten via a form button (most likely a GET command to bullshit.asp?file=432432 or something). I told him that he already has a copy of it on his hard drive. He said I was nuts and asked someone else, then ignorantly walking up and asking me where it's located. Good times. *nawcom pops another anti-depressant*

  14. Re:YouTube on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    real geeks sniff the http headers and gets the file via raw GET command over sockets.. and says the first 1000 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence at the same fuckin time!

  15. Re:Hypocricy on The War Against Virtual Beer Pong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In God We Trust

  16. Re:Beer Pong Video Game on The War Against Virtual Beer Pong · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait until they come out with the wii game where you play a drinking game where you drink if your character in the game your character is playing for drinks....erm.

  17. Re:why is this a problem? on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 1

    AV software has nothing to do with OS security, it's there to protect the user from his own stupidity and/or ignorance.

    i wasn't equating anti-virus software to security software, i was referring to all of them as a whole. You shouldn't depend on 3rd party software in order to get the best out of the OS. And for the justification comment,

    What business justification is there to expend this massive effort ?

    i was just thinking of what i personally would do if i had the power to recreate the OS itself. Please recognize imagination, and don't assume it always has to be applied to a current environment. The correct situation that I placed the idea in is if I could start it over myself. I'm a damn OSS coder, like I care if the company went bankrupt.

  18. Re:Significance on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 0, Troll

    I firmly believe that extraterrestrial life does not exist

    I don't care if you believe that the tooth fairy lives in everyone's rectum. The remaining skeptics will take evidence as evidence (in this case, that the water on mars we saw from space is in fact real water), for belief only requires the delusional confidence of one's self.

    Optimism is something completely different however. I can say I'm a skeptic who is optimistic about extraterrestrial life, yet accepts the fact that there is evidence lacking.

  19. Re:It's not "real" on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: 0, Troll

    You remind me of the creationists who demand evidence they can feel in the palms of their hands because microscopic evidence under a microscope is never enough. I can see someone traveling to mars, getting some water for "you" to taste, and you not accepting the truth because it tastes different then the water that's been softened with sodium that you've grown up to know and love. I assume you are a member of the flat earth society too, no?

  20. Re:Big deal... on NASA Announces Water Found On Mars · · Score: -1, Troll

    F-U-C-K-I-N-G hilarious. why is this modded interesting? My guess is this is how they morph science news in Mississippi schools now.

  21. Re:USENET will be around for a long time to come on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 2, Informative

    So what's the big deal that some alt sections are being removed by some providers?

    I don't think there are any issues at all. What issue are you referring to? ISPs and Universities along with as far as I know any "free" NNTP service block alt.binaries, but there are cheap services you can pay yearly or monthly for in order to get alt.binaries access.

  22. Re:wait...s-pr0n? on Spore Almost Ready for Production, Complete With "Sporn" · · Score: 1

    heh.. i mean no personal offense when i say.. yeah, it's probably just you. :) To get into technicalities of play-on words, you usually aim for the new word to at least be the same number of syllables, so s-porn would never work.

    Uh oh, I just realized that I'm replying to a post about something only a loser geek would point out. oh well.

  23. Re:Shades of Gray? on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use NeoOffice instead of MS Office.

    Have you given OOov3 a try? It's still beta 2 as of now, but I personally like it better than NeoOffice; the only thing that crashed on me was their database software; everything else seems quite stable.
    *nawcom prepares to be modded Off-topic by grumpy moderators*

    http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=macosxintelaqua&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0beta2

  24. Re:why is this a problem? on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 1

    Hell, they don't even have to get involved in open source at all. Even with all the exposed source code Apple's APSL gives to OSS programmers, they make a good, secure, high-quality product. Microsoft can probably do the same. I'm your GNU/BSD OS user myself, so don't take this coming from an MS fanboy; I just think MS has just been lazy for the last decade or so.

    If I were in charge of Microsoft and I decided that I wasn't going to let Free Software take my customers, I would: (a) redesign the entire kernel and OS from the ground up, and (b) create a secure enough product that the third party anti-virus/PC security software industry would be forced to dissolve due to the lack of need for their software. Just a little bit of the many ideas that I came up with in my caffeinated brain within the last minute or so.

  25. Open Source Lab open its doors? on OSCON 2008 Roundup · · Score: 1

    What I'm curious and excited about is when the Microsoft Open Source Lab actually opens up some good ol MS source code! Or am I misinterpreting what the Lab is for? I'm just guessing it's either for that - or for dissecting open source software and seeing which parts used stuff from their imaginative IP list that Balmer is always adding new things to. Who wants to bet that they buy their lab goggles from McAfee?