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  1. Re:modder on AIM Bots: Useful or Spam? · · Score: 1

    +1 insightful? What are you, a moron?

  2. Re:tabbrowser extensions on Favorite Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 1

    if I recall, I tried 1.5 for a day before the constant crashing and horrible "new and improved" (== "hey look, we copied IE more, like us!") everything made me switch back.

  3. Let's not forget the real victims here! on AIM Bots: Useful or Spam? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure the people who used to have the screennames shoppingbuddy and moviefone dont like this at all.

  4. Re:Follow the train industry... on The Math Behind the Hybrid Hype · · Score: 1

    BMW(I think) has been saying that design is a mere 10 years away for at least 10 years now.

  5. tabbrowser extensions on Favorite Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why are these not built in to the standard distribution? Firefox is unusable without them.

  6. The death of hardware sales on The Death of Used Game Sales? · · Score: 1

    Psst.. sony.. if you want to lock people in to certain hardware, the idea is generally to lock them in so they will /keep buying new versions of the hardware/. If "upgrading" requires all new software, the point is lost.

  7. Re:Something I know about... on Write Portable Code · · Score: 1

    Until something comes along that you never expected to be "non-portable code". Everything would be portable to everywhere already if we all had infinite forsight.

  8. Re:"illicensed" ? on Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? · · Score: 1

    how would it even go against the license? You can't link to the kernel itself without opening your code, but providing an interface /layer/ would allow you to link to a dual-licensed layer. Nothing wrong with that.

    The real question is, why are they talking about it? It sounds like they just dont want to open anything, even the interface (otherwise, just write it. There's nothing stopping you. This isnt like telling somebody who thought linux was ready for the desktop "write your own drivers if you dont like it!" these are corporations who already have developers developing things for the linux kernel.[*otherwise it wouldnt have been an issue in the first place])

    P.S.: Drivers, if absolutely no other part of the computer, should be open. These are the parts that make the computer actually compute.

  9. Wow, cool on Google Patent for User Targeted Search Results · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking yesterday what a horrible idea that would be and how glad I am that google doesnt do this. I'm so cool.

  10. I let a friend have a key while he was in town.. on How Do I Determine If My PC is a Zombie? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I saw various things on the recently downloaded files list when I got home. I asked him about it, he said he tried to download some things, but that he never ran them because he couldnt find out where they downloaded to.
    Now I have paranoia.

  11. Of course they will.. on Oracle To Offer A Free Database · · Score: 1

    now that we already signed up for partnerworld to get the developer versions

  12. Re:Evaluating the link client side ?? on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 1

    Not knowing what you're doing isnt a security issue. Not allowing clients to create symlinks to otherwise unshared files /is/ a security issue.

  13. Re:off google on Windows Vista Build 5231 Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is that what counts as a good UI these days? Holy fuck.

    The GUI is dead. Bash, time to step up and take its place.

  14. But.. but.. openoffice! on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 1

    You mean simply adding .com isnt enough to make it unique to google?? Watch out Openoffice.org!

    (and Gaim is completely distinguished from GAIM, too! yep, sure is!) /hate everybody

  15. Re:uh.. they just spent $10,000 on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that means all their profits from t-shirt sales probably already are going to charity for a while :)

  16. Re:vim with font formatting on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    ** Whacks kishore.avv with a newspaper

    No.

    ** Whacks kishore.avv with a newspaper

    No.

  17. Re:long lines still slow? on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I doubt the numerous problems with long lines will ever be fixed unless someone is willing to walk through the tangled web and fix vim's flaws, for only the pleasure of having these fixes rejected by purists.

  18. I'll make BILLIONS! on Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD · · Score: 1

    ..utilizing my knowledge of future events now that I've somehow travelled to 1997!

  19. wait.. _I'M_ as close as four feet away! on The Mind of an Inventor · · Score: 1

    Ever try to talk to someone who has their cellphone speaker turned up too loud, causing you to hear your own voice every now and then? It makes it really hard to get a decent stream of words out.

  20. Re:Looking around. on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 1

    sounds like you want.. damnit, can't find it.. anyway, it was basically a zork-style shell.

  21. Am I the only one? on Hurricane Relief - What Would You Bring? · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who lost all sympathy for katrina victims once people started talking about rebuilding?

    This is not a troll, this is a question. Why should anyone support people who want federal aid in order to continue living below sea level?

  22. Re:could just do what cable companies do... on FCC May Push Bells to Unbundle DSL · · Score: 1

    incorrect. Not at all what I meant. (at least here, near Atlanta)

    Comcast High Speed Internet by itself costs $1 more than a bundle containing Comcast High Speed Internet + Basic Cable

  23. could just do what cable companies do... on FCC May Push Bells to Unbundle DSL · · Score: 1

    with Comcast, you dont need to buy the "Bundle", but if you buy internet without TV, it costs more than getting internet with TV.

  24. Re:My mother hated QLink... on Quantum Link Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    if QLink really did become AOL, then yes. Very early on in the life of AOL, my mother complained about them abusing her credit card.

  25. times two on Subversion as Automatic Software Upgrade Service? · · Score: 3, Informative

    remember that svn always uses more than double the actual space required to hold the files for a "working copy". For "one-way" updates, svn is _NOT_ the answer.