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  1. Re:Ugh... on Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration · · Score: 1

    Or at least the Secretary of not having time for this jibba jabba.

  2. Re:'twas lame on Nintendo - "Everyone is a Gamer" · · Score: 1

    The rest of the show was about how people who don't normally game were getting into the Wii and DS. That's great for Nintendo and the shareholders, people who would classify themselves as gamers were basically shoved over to the MS/Sony side of things.

    Wasn't that the point of the new and improved E3 though? I thought they were reshaping it to be more about the business and less about the games themselves.

  3. Re:I don't quite enjoy it so much on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Disc Return? on Microsoft Sued Over Scratched Xbox 360 Discs · · Score: 1

    No, but it is reasonable to expect warranty service in case the car malfunctions beyond what would be considered normal wear and tear - as is the case with a console scratching the games beyond usability.

  5. Re:Sell it on eBay... on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 1

    Dust, and:

    In addition to the remains of the iPhone you will be recieving a brand new Black Total Blender- $400 value, a "Will It Blend?" DVD of the first 50 videos and an autographed "Tom Dickson Is My Homeboy" t-shirt!

  6. Confirming your fears, or... on The Psychology of Facebook Examined · · Score: 1

    Facebook also digs away at the insecurities in people...your peers can see your profile on Facebook, and while they may have 50, 100, 200 friends they will mockingly see that you have a pathetically small number, confirming your worst fears about the low opinion they have probably held of you over all those years etc.

    Gee, I don't remember ever caring what other people thought of my social status in high school. Some people are fine with 200 shallow friendships and others just stay close with a dozen people. If you find yourself fearing for your social status a decade beyond high school, you still have some growing up to do.

  7. Yes, and it's irritating when... on Are In-Depth Articles Better Than Blog Postings? · · Score: 1

    Somebody links to a blog article, which just links to another blog article, which in turn links to the actual story that everyone is talking about. Quit trying to drive visitors to your Blogspot account and just show me what you really wanted me to see.

  8. Re:And it's a good fat too on Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yum-o!

  9. Re:Why, sir.... on First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning? · · Score: 1

    Anybody with a sense of humor.

  10. Re:What kind of idiot...... on Antivirus Vendors Headed for Court · · Score: 1

    Clearly you've never had to fix computers for a living.

  11. China Daily on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wikipedia has it pegged as a publication run by the Communist party, so it should occur as no surprise that words like "blog", "blogosphere", and "wiki", which suggest the dissemination of information, are going to be on the list.

  12. Re:Random thought. on AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL · · Score: 2

    You can't just bond six DSL lines like that and say you have 100 kb/s upload. Especially not with consumer products like that Netgear router with multiple WAN ports. To use the analogy, all you're doing is giving yourself six smaller tubes as opposed to one large tube. The difference is when you go to upload that 500mb file - you're only using one connection out of the six to do it.

  13. Burning question on Ask the MMOG Money Traders · · Score: -1, Troll

    How I mine for fish?

  14. Re:Botnet on FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and botnets were never a problem until the internet became ubiquitous, too.

    Let's blame the internet!

  15. Re:The Real Scoop on Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging · · Score: 1

    You think he's a SID.. when he really just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

    (No word on whether he blogged about it, though.)

  16. Re:Well, it's definitely fast... on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    I'm not used to the fonts, that's for sure. Bold text looks almost too fat. I can't scroll through a page by clicking on the mouse wheel and dragging the cursor down and the mouse wheel isn't scrolling through a page fast enough, but it's rendering everything ok and I haven't had it crash on me yet. I'll use Safari for a week or so and see if I get used to it.

  17. What monopoly? on Sony Launches Official PlayStation Blog · · Score: 1
  18. Privacy on match.com? on How Private Are Sites' Membership Lists? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Think about the purpose of that site for a second: the whole idea of match.com is you post a picture and a profile so you can meet new people. You're already spilling a ton of personally-identifiable information about yourself, and presumably someone is going to be able to search for you - so why get pissy about someone being able to determine that your e-mail address is registered there?

    And while I'm thinking about it, if you're using match.com while you're already in a relationship with somebody then maybe you need to have a talk with that person and let them know things aren't working out.

  19. Wealthy people? on The 10 "Inconvienient Truths" of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners.

    Who among the poor in China (or any other country, for that matter) can afford computers and broadband internet, or DVD players and televisions? Not counting the idiots who spend their welfare checks on electronics. But more importantly, sure, you'll get people who think $15-$18 is too much to pay for one or two good songs followed by 40 minutes of crap on a CD, but who is actually saying piracy is caused by poverty?

  20. Re:This is not the free we know about on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 1

    It's already well-established that Richard Stallman's definition of free does not line up with Bill Gates' (and therefore Dan Fernandez's) definition of free.

  21. You know why? on DVR Viewers Push Ad Ratings Higher · · Score: 1

    Because people have trained themselves for years to go get a drink during commercial breaks.

  22. If Express isn't designed to be extensible.. on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How did this guy pull it off? The e-mails make it look like removing support for Express was a matter of flipping a switch. Did Microsoft seriously just cut and paste Visual Studio 2005 into 5 different language-specific projects and call those the express editions or something?

  23. Re:Obvious question on MLB Says Slingbox Illegal, CEA Thinks Otherwise · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see college baseball ride football's coattails into some expanded TV time on ESPN, ABC, Fox Sports, etc., beyond the coverage that the College World Series will get. It's a struggle for me to find college baseball on tv for schools in my area (Nebraska-Lincoln, Creighton, Nebraska-Omaha) let alone conference or national games. I'd watch that any day over MLB if the option was available.

  24. Re:Modded by someone who doesn't know Fark on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It's a trap!" refers to the statement made by Admiral Akbar in Star Wars and is a catchphrase often employed on Fark.

    ... and everywhere else on the internet, too.

  25. Re:About damn time on Best Buy Accused of Overcharging · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least you actually found the memory you were looking for. Anytime I went there looking for memory that was being advertised, they were mysteriously sold out, but had several other models costing 10-20 bucks more I could choose from.