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  1. Re:Ugly hack on Virgin Atlantic Bans Dell, Apple Laptops · · Score: 0

    A crafty litle wise man.. Hmm!

  2. Re:ok so? on Zune's Viral DRM Will Violate Creative Commons · · Score: 0

    But the iPod isn't wireless!! Useless... P.s. Anyone know the situation with a wireless NON-drm'd mp3 player? LET THE SHARING BEGIN!

  3. Re:Does it still hog memory? on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 0

    Doesn't bother me...

    Opera is good too, I also really like firefox, and we're all going for the same goal.. Yay!

  4. Re:Guess what on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 0

    You don't have to update..

  5. Re:But.. on World's Largest Medical Experiment · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Bingo, this is where HIV+ comes in.

    You see, when most people are HIB positive, they rarely catch the aids virus, but people worry, they go to their doctors which basically trigger aids.
    when you're checked for being HIV positive, it sometimes only accumulates to a normal cold, or small bug.

  6. But.. on World's Largest Medical Experiment · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We need people to die..

    Why do you think cancer is around?.. it's a man made virus to decrease the huge population we are coming to, which ultimately causes more suffering than if we had cancer.
    Smoking is good in a way, it gets the dumb people get out of the way because they've basically chosen to sacrifice their selves for other peoples enjoyment of a not-so-filled world.

    We don't want the whole world to be like Japan or China, do we?


    What's that?.... don't like my opinion?.. well, you try telling 50 million horny teens not to have sex.
    Discipline and environment social behaviour is the answer, but it has gone passed that.

  7. Re:well, considering other reasons on AOL CTO Shown the Door · · Score: 1

    I say we get her...

    A WITCH!

  8. Re:The UK Terror plot: what's really going on? on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I could not agree with you more.

    I have much respect for all different races, cultures and people from all parts of the world - I don't care what they believe in.. After all, we all have our own ideas on what this life is.

    What pisses me off is the fact that the news outlets put so much pressure on everyone to hate particular races of people. They don't do it blatantly obviously, but enough to really push the fact down that they believe all muslims are terrorists, a subject I am most irritated on. It is a form of stereotyping on the highest level.

    Not only that but indeed, John Reid I also researched upon. Looking at his Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reid_(UK_politic ian) you can see some in depth facts about him, most of which points to the racial aspects of his personality, loverly.

  9. Re:Can someone explain to me the Relevance on 22,000 Indiana Students Using Linux Desktops · · Score: 1

    Not joking around here, but I get really confused about net neutrality...

    Are you saying that they support the current situation of the internet as it stands now? or do they want to make it a big competition, shutting small companies down and so on?

  10. Solution on 22,000 Indiana Students Using Linux Desktops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem that has been with linux always has been the popularity.

    The more users, the more development, the more programs, the more users, the more .. you get the picture.

    I'm very happy with this, and I don't mind what distribution they use.

  11. Re:For the lazy on VMware Announces UVAC Winners · · Score: 1

    I had no problems. Mepis, with firefox 1.5.0.1

  12. Re:cut MS some slack on Microsoft Insists IE7 is Standards Compliant · · Score: 1

    Microsoft IE7 clones firefox (mostly in looks department), yet not even 1% as good. This forces people to use this new interface. Stubern users who stick with IE6 are forced to use this new browser look, and being so similar to firefox, they are more likley to switch to the real thing - Firefox. Result? = Microsoft makes big mistake.

  13. Re:Why credit monitoring? on EFF Files Complaint with FTC Over AOL Data Leak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right, as if anyones to know that AOL would do this. Yes, AOL is a complete pile of shit for a company, but this was unexpected. You cannot blaim these people, I feel for each one of them.

  14. Re:It's another thing to be afraid of hunters on Backlash Against British Encryption Law · · Score: 1

    The majority of people do *some* illegal things in their life.

    If you went the speed limit on most US motor ways, you would be a public hazard - there is no denying this.

    If you went the speed limit on quite a few roads, you might get beeped at and more often than not, the other person rears up right behind your car and it is not your fault. This is what I call divide and conquer, once you get people obeying the law, others who do not, conflict with you - making your life even more hellish. Everyday by obeying the laws your life suffers and you end up having to be like the rest, vulnerable to the legal system but no other option to live a different life style. It is the outcome of corporate greed, just take a look at microsoft and their normal practises on cutting down piracy - They make their ligament customers suffer for the benefit of being ligament but they go way too far like in most other businesses.

    It is in human nature that we explore, deviate and try out new things. The problem comes when the laws put in place are beyond normal humanity. You cannot tell anyone for sure that he/she will not be a "criminal", and it is the current legal system which poses us as a programmable emotionless machine, but we are not. There will always be people who break the rules depending on their feelings and experience which has molded that person, since everyone lives their life differently.

    Because the laws are ever pushing into normal behaviour it begins to beg the fact that everyone is guilty. If everyone is guilty, businesses can then use this as an advantage for corporate interest AKA where the money is. It is not then the law protects innocent people, but a law that is setup for business efficiency wrapped up on the government side.

    Just you watch, we will begin to see even more laws supressing normal behaviour for benefit of the corporate industry, wether it be for "terrorism" "child pornography" and some other topic which has always been around from day one but we got by....


    Remember, we are human, exploration and deviation is what we do.. let's not forget that.


    Society is not perfect that we all have halos on our heads, so lets not fool ourselves it is.

  15. Re:Governmental power on Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet · · Score: 1

    Also note that they don't even print the money anymore, they make it out of digits, the actual money is worth nothing anymore, it used to have gold plating on the notes.

  16. Re:Where's the outrage? on RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They cannot speak up because they are busy sucking the RIAA's cocks.

  17. Re:Comparison on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if I knew that 15 years ago, I would indeed have been a genuis, sadly I realized too late and my genuis talents are wasted yet again.

    Have no fear though, I'm working on a new one.

  18. Re:I can convert the data to 1 bit. on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    If you're being serious then, that's briliant, where can I download your app?

  19. Re:Easy compression rule on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    I mentioned this above in a reply too.

    What I dont understand is why we cannot zip up open source programs to an extreme amount.

    For example, the zip archive tool scans the whole code, it finds repeats in the code (1001010), abbreviates them and then indexes them in a seperate file within the archived file, then when the other computer begins to extract, it takes on the work of plonking back the repeated code, making the archive tiny.

    Yes, takes a lot more CPU work, but the download is so much smaller.

  20. Re:Comparison on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    If many of the same words are repeated, why not abbreviate them, and get the end computer to compile the structure where they belong?

    for example, "the" "it" "has" will be repeated millions of times, why not just write a script to put X amount of 'the' is put in at x x x position in this paragraph.
    Simple.

  21. Awesome on First Blu-ray Drives Won't play Blu-ray Movies · · Score: 1

    I couldn't have asked for a better start.

    Wait, what?.. It doesn't play blue-ray dvd's, that's fu**** sh**!

  22. Re:hmm.. right on First Impressions of Freespire 1.0 · · Score: 1

    It CAN take over ubuntu, but personally I don't care.. I hope both of them get big.

    If Freespire helps users switch and they have a far greater and more enjoyment experience than windows, then bam, it has done it's job. If the user then decides to switch to another distro or stick with freespire, then that's brilliant either way.

    Freespire is ubuntu's friend, they are not trying to compete.
    Freespire is like the step between the transition from windows to ubuntu, in-a-way.

  23. Re:Proprietary Codec Fun on First Impressions of Freespire 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Mepis doesn't have bcm wireless driver support. one of the differences.

  24. Re:Time will tell on First Impressions of Freespire 1.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this is what we need.

    Linux gets a good name because the ease of use of this distro.

    People switch
    People realize that Linspire (free) is good, but there's better linux distros after getting used to Linux.

    People are now confident, acknowledged within the linux enviroment and open to try other distros if they wish.

    Mission successful.

  25. Re:Patch available on Homeland Security says 'Patch Windows Now' · · Score: 1

    God has spoken.