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  1. Re:ran across some of this earlier today on EFF Lawyer Calls YouTube ContentID Worse Than DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative

    Easy. Bands don't own the rights to their own music.

  2. Re:So it's official now? on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    I guess I'm the only person ever to take a hard drive image through:

    • Windows 3.0
    • Windows 3.1
    • Windows 3.11
    • Windows 95 Beta
    • Windows 95
    • Windows 98
    • Windows Me (uninstalled that one, luckily I backed it up first)
    • Windows XP

    It always ran great except when I put crappy Kodak camera drivers on it. Then it blue-screened about once a month. Other than that, I ran it for about 10 years with little to no issues.

    The key is buying decent hardware from solid companies and not installing every piece of garbage that you find on the internet.

  3. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    I'm still getting over the fact that people actually had respect for them.

    I mean, if you think it's funny but you don't respect them, that's one thing. But I am seriously shocked that people could watch South Park and think the creators of it were some kind of decent, upstanding human beings.

    News flash for you. The Jackass guys are probably not respectable either.

  4. Re:See: Michael Portillo on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know what you're getting at, but I assure you: It would still be the most entertaining two hours of television featuring David Blaine, ever.

    FTFY. Apparently you've never watched a David Blaine special.

  5. Re:Alternative viewpoint: on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 1

    I don't have to look carefully! I'm using Lynx you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Few companies work as hard to make bad decision on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    What is so bad about Vista on decent hardware?

    The fact that it is 12-20% slower than Server 2008 on the exact same hardware.

    No thanks, I don't really feel like paying the 12-20% MAFIAA tax.

  7. Re:Macs on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, funnily enough, I remember a guy that replaced his floppy on a Mac with a PC drive and had this exact problem (had to manually detect floppies after that).

  8. Re:Detection via delta? on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    This makes sense, since it's impossible to boot Windows 95 from a Floppy Disk.

    Great idea. 15 years too late, but nice thinking!

  9. Re:Why Bother on Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider · · Score: 1

    With the same hardware and software?

    Speed is not the only measure of an Operating System. If it were, we'd all still be using command lines.

  10. Re:Caps are... on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 1

    Time Warner will figure this out again soon when their competitors get a good hold on their market.

    What competitors? The DSL line provided by the evil phone company that goes 10X slower?

  11. Re:screenshots on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    Cool! How long until I can use my punch cards with Firefox and then use the output on my dot matrix printer?

  12. Re:Mental Masturbation on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    But Facebook's whole point is that it usually links to Fackbook. So it is going to have 100 links per page that could be reduced by 100 characters each. So it's outbound bandwidth too.

  13. Actually, you may be missing the point on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Let's say a Facebook page has 100 links on it.

    Using GET syntax, each of the 100 links must contain all the metadata about the user's current state, etc.

    Using POST syntax, the links each contain only the page information. The metadata WILL be added to the call, the same as the GET syntax, but not to each <a> tag on the page.

  14. Re:Can they not use... on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Aren't ethernet packets about 1500 characters in length?

    So, I'm guessing that a 150 vs. 50 difference in URL length makes exactly ZERO difference in the initial call of the page. Now, maybe logging and links within the page will chew up some bandwidth. Maybe that's what they were getting at, since Facebook pages have about a billion links each.

  15. Re:Sounds great! on FTC Warns Against Deceptive DRM · · Score: 1

    Try it on a Vista PC with an old VGA monitor. You'll see what he means.

  16. Re:Surely there is a single word that could replac on The Underappreciated Risks of Severe Space Weather · · Score: 2, Funny

    Evolution?

  17. Re:Another good one! on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 1

    Wow, I actually wrote a printer driver for the Atari 8-bit for my Panasonic KX-P1124. That brings back memories.

    And my brother still has a mindspring.com e-mail address.

  18. Re:Can you call X really forgotten? on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, X finally is forgotten. But as recently as Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, it continuously made its presence known when installing or even randomly after rebooting.

  19. Re:OK, then... *WHO* is the official ext3 "moron"? on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    Yep, we urgently need some kind of killer FS for Linux...

    Try ReiserFS.

    Oh, I thought you said, "killer's FS".

  20. MOD PARENT UP! on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I'll never understand article after article about mulitple CPUs being wasted when I have 37 processes in Task Manager.

  21. Re:This is not a bad idea on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    Creationism isn't a search for answers.

    Really, you might want to tell that to these guys: http://www.answersingenesis.org/. They keep spending millions searching for answers through scientific experiments. I wonder why they keep doing that when they could just close their Bible and say "God said so."

  22. Re:This is not a bad idea on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the creation theory contains no explanation for why all the evidence should consistently point to a much older age

    You mean like this whole section of their website (with 8 subsections):

    http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers#/topic/age-of-the-earth

    But since it has yet to have ANY predictive successes

    You mean like the creationist that correctly predicted the magnetic fields of all the planets prior to the Voyager flybys (non-creationists got them all wrong, but their theory is in your science book, not the guy who got them all right): http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/21/21_3/21_3.html

  23. Re:This is not a bad idea on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It is very easy to spot people who have never read a single creationist article.

    They make statements that assume that creationists don't follow the scientific method, which couldn't be further from the truth.

    Creationists have done literally thousands of repeatable, scientific experiments that cast doubt on the current understanding of the big bang and evolution. There is plenty of evidence that casts serious doubt on many of the things that are taken for granted in your science book.

    Maybe people should try reading a couple articles so they can speak knowledgeably on the topic: http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers

  24. Re:Creationism... on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 0

    Really?

    So scientists with doctorates (from other Universities) falsifying the evolutionary and big bang theories with repeatable experiments using the scientific method is NOT science?

    Occasionally, they even do repeatable scientific experiments that prove that the earth might be younger than billions of years old, even thousands of years old. Again, this is all done with close attention to the scientific method.

    Sounds like a very political definition of science to me.

  25. Re:You're not the customer on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Were you talking about Kodak or Microsoft? I couldn't tell.