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  1. Re:Nothing unusual on Microsoft Pays Bloggers to Tout MS Slogan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    otherwise why would we bother listening?

    Because we listen to them anyway ?
    Microsoft's not digging Deliverance-style rednecks out of the backwoods to promote their stuff here...

    If we've been listening to them for awhile, how do we know everything we've been listening to wasn't motivated by some no name companies' money ?

    You don't have to tout brand names to get people thinking about a product or service, specially if you're only one of a handfull of companies providing the product or service.
    Isn't it funny how bloggers always want to tell you about this new thing they found ?

    It's fine if you want to believe you're not good enough to make your own decisions based on information, but don't assume everyone is like that.
    Be thankfull that society allows us to use a system of credit to survive, if it wasn't for money the same people who get you to work for nothing would be crushing your skull & eating your brains to survive just like the animals do.
  2. Re:People... on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're obviously not from California.

  3. Karma on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    There's no possibility of a 7'6" 320LB retarded kid having parts of his brain repaired that would make him realize he was being picked on or remember the names of those people with this research, right ?

  4. Re:University of Bologna? on Tunguska Impact Crater Found? · · Score: 1

    Too poor to afford the second "L" or something?


    BOLOGNA
    1234567

    BULSHIT
    1234567


    Been punched in the mouth enough times to devolop a habbit of being scared people are going to track you down & do it again ?
  5. Re:University of Bologna? on Tunguska Impact Crater Found? · · Score: 0

    Tunguska crater seems to me, like B-U-L-S-H-I-T.

  6. Re:If everyone jumped off a bridge on Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans · · Score: 1

    I had to switch my phone from automatic to manual network selection, then select Cingular from a detected networks list, it was actually the only one on the list & I found it on accident when my buddy flew home for the weekend & I was in a cabin in the woods all by myself & had just watched the entire first season of Sopranos back to back.
    The area I was in was on the out-skirts of Paoli, a small town really, some guy named Jerry Fuhs owns just about everything in it, the network operators there probably figure nobody would think to piggyback on their network, or even have the technical knowhow really.

    I just looked on my phone, it's called "Operator Selection" on this phone.
    I get a choice of T-Mobile & Cingular here in Clearwater, FL.
    Yep, Cingular tells me to go F myself here in the city, I was using a different phone back then too though so I'm not sure if it's the phone or the network.

  7. Re:If everyone jumped off a bridge on Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're setting us up so that they can get everyone for huge bills one month because they changed the definition of mobile-to-mobile to mean when you call yourself. :P

  8. Console Emulators on Vista Games Cracked to Run on XP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can play games from every videogame console I've ever had on a PC through emulation, why wouldn't I be able to play a game that runs on the same hardware ?

  9. Re:If everyone jumped off a bridge on Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans · · Score: 1

    mobile-to-mobile as in other mobile users with the same carrier, but not necessarily the same service plan.

    For instance, if I use T-Mobile & so does my friend, then neither of us are charged minutes when we talk to eachother on our mobiles no matter what time it is, & in my case, wherever we are in the United States.
    I could talk to a friend in California using T-Mobile from here in Florida untill our batteries died every day & still have the same bill at the end of the month.

    If my friend was using AT&T, I would be charged minutes for calling them, I don't know what would happen to them though.

  10. If everyone jumped off a bridge on Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans · · Score: 1

    MetroPCS was charging $99 a month here for unlimited minutes & no data, their service was terrible though, my brothers had alot of explaining to do with people since he's been using them.

    I'm on a T-Mobile contract myself, 3000 minutes that are valid to any non-tolled number of the 48 contenental United States at anytime, unlimited mobile-to-mobile, & data for rates similar to the contracts from AT&T.
    The service is ok, though I had to manually set my phone to piggyback on Cingulars' network when I was in Paoli Indiana last year.


    I think the biggest issue for people is going to be trying to get everyone they know switched over so the mobile-to-mobile kicks in.
    Alot of people are already in contracts with other companies & the people on pre-paid are going to laugh at a 2-year contract.

  11. Slowdown ? on Microsoft's Virtualization Stance Eying Apple? · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that Vista was a resource hog as it is, wouldn't a virtualized Vista require more resources & in turn a beefier computer to run virtualized as opposed to how it's traditionally run ?

  12. Becoming ? on Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    I've used one CD in the last year. It's a CDRW & I used it twice, once to install Unreal Tournament 99 & once to attempt a headless Linux install on an old computer I have laying around.

  13. Googlebrairy on College Librarians Urged To Play Video Games · · Score: 1

    Haven't they heard ?
    Google's replacing the worlds libraries with datacenters.

    Seal your Playboys in vaccuum bags now kiddies, specially ones with pages stuck together, for if you don't your grandkids may never appreciate how good they have it.

  14. Re:Gambling? on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 1

    I don't think things like this are decided on the condition itself, it's probably got alot more to do with how the number of people that would be diagnosed would effect the economy.
    People classified as addicts generally aren't able to fund their own treatment.

  15. Re:They say that it works on First Quantum Computing Gate on a Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why they built a NOT gate, even if they failed, they'd still succeed.

  16. Re:Fuzzy qubits of unknown distinction? on First Quantum Computing Gate on a Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tribbles & Qubits: The new Pacman

  17. Re:How to meet the budget/electicity supply on Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts · · Score: 1

    You know, you really do have a good point there.

  18. Re:Hacktivists!? on US Prepares for Eventual Cyberwar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People don't beat their kids for the better of the child, they beat their kids because they themselves are incapable of acting in a socially acceptable manor & beating the children allows the parent to vent the fustrations involved with being a failure in society as well as an incapable parent.

    Don't beat your kids, better yourself & lead by example.
    If the children don't follow your example, abandon them.

  19. Re:Support Costs on ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages · · Score: 1

    I don't think paying will be an option, single persons will never be able to match the funding of advertising.

    Eventually people will forget about advertisements & they'll be like the signs you see while driving down the highway, which nobody pays any attention to unless they need gas or somthing to eat quick.

  20. Prank on Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you think would happen if a student pasted a "PODS" label on the side of it & called the company to come do a pickup ?

  21. Support Costs on ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages · · Score: 1
    I wonder if one could sue an ISP to recover costs associated with,
    1. Support as a hosting provider to customers wondering why there's ads on their pages
    2. Support as a website subscription provider to visitors who pay a subscription fee to have ads removed
  22. Re:Wrong Problem on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 1

    Ummm... Why do you think the tomatoes at the store look the way they do and taste like wet squishy cardboard?

    They found one of the 5 million ways not to mass produce tomatoes ?
  23. Wrong Problem on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It amazes me that Horticulturists can come up with thousands of varieties of flowers, fruits, & vegetables, Engineers can come up with robots that circle a tree numerous times to clean it of any fruit, but the two can't work together to make a tree that's easier to harvest from.

    Maybe they will now.

  24. B Lo Double G on It's Hard To Run a Blog In Sweden · · Score: 1

    I think he said it best, "Bloggin ain't easy".

  25. Re:Privacy, anyone? on Charges Dropped In PA Video Taping Arrest · · Score: 1

    How about we work to cure the problem instead of trying to cure the symptoms?

    What's the worst part of a problem, symptoms.
    Without symptoms, there's no problem.