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  1. Re:Idea!!! on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1

    You're right, of course, except for the Freudian slip Obama!=Osama, although Obama's middle name IS Hussein. ;-)

  2. Re:My solution on Syncing Music Players In Linux? · · Score: 1

    iRiver doesn't make Zen Vision M. Creative does.

  3. Re:For mass storage devices on Syncing Music Players In Linux? · · Score: 1
    I just plug the player to the laptop usb port, and viola, moments later it's done.

    Well that explains it. If you're only listening to viola music, it's not going to take very long. There's just not much music in the viola repertoire. ;-)

  4. Re:Let's hope they win! on First Nations Want Cellphone Revenue · · Score: 1

    If you really don't want their RF signals on your property, just surround it with a nice thick dome of tinfoil!

  5. Re:Firefox off track on The Secrets of Firefox about:config · · Score: 1

    about:config has hydrochloric acid in it?! That IS bad.

  6. Re:Lines on the Display? on Sony Debuts Razor-Thin Flexible Display · · Score: 1

    I had one with the Centris 650 I bought in 1992.

  7. Re:What is XBMC? on Linux Finally Getting XBMC · · Score: 1

    No, more of a poor attempt at humor.

  8. Re:What is XBMC? on Linux Finally Getting XBMC · · Score: 1

    "Inutile"? Is that Italian or something? Please inform me so I can mod you up.

  9. Re:/. editors on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it means if you choose to look at the -1 comments, they cancel out some of the worthwhile posts, so there are even fewer posts worth reading.

  10. Re:So the market sure is promoting innovation on The Man Who Owns the Internet · · Score: 1

    Nitpick: .cm is Cameroon, not Cambodia. The article discusses the deal with Cameroon at length.

  11. Re:Ergonomics on Intel Prototypes World's Thinnest Laptop · · Score: 1

    My ThinkPad T43 has both, but I usually use the touchpad. I like the location better, or at least it's what I've gotten used to.

  12. Re:Solvents on Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars · · Score: 4, Informative

    True. A good reason to put it in plastic bottles. It does dissolve, just very slowly. Stronger bases (think Liquid Plumr) dissolve it even faster, but it still is slow.

  13. Re:Business as usual... on Intel Laptop Competes With One Laptop Per Child · · Score: 1

    Ha. No, it's India, so it'd have to be pappadums.

  14. Re:Did Apple make a mistake? on 4.7GHz IBM Power6 Spotted · · Score: 1

    I'm not a big [J.R.R.] Tolkien fan, but others may know whether it is indeed ironic that someone with the nick Tolkien should be modded Troll.

  15. They took the picture off on Visualizing the Wikipedia Power Struggle · · Score: 1

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    The requested URL /wp-content/uploads/2007/05/windowslivewritervisua lizingthepowerstruggleinwikipedia-f7c7wikivislowre s74.jpg was not found on this server.
    Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Server at www.abeautifulwww.com Port 80

  16. Re:Capital S? on Spyware Still Cheating Merchants · · Score: 1
    It's probably more like:

    Jamie found an interesting story about how Spyware is still on the move. It talks about how Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their image, but still doing fishy things.

    through the magic of super-lazy editing staff, doesn't become,

    Spyware is still on the move. Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their image, but still doing fishy things.

    It's more work to add superfluous words than to just copy and paste unchanged. More work still to judiciously remove words.

  17. Re:so, what this article is saying is... on Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln · · Score: 1

    Well...Kennedy had a Press Secretary named Lincoln, and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and...

  18. Re:the drive costs about $18,000 on Holographic Storage Slated to Hit Market This Fall · · Score: 1

    Can be. Now be a jolly good chap and remind me to ring my friend called Ifor who's landed 'imself in hospital, what what.

  19. Re:typo? on Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched · · Score: 1

    Nitpick: That would be informative, not insightful.

  20. Re:URI vs URL on Is Dedicated Hosting for Critical DTDs Necessary? · · Score: 1
    very slightly less silly

    This reminds me of something. . .

    Voice-over: Here at Luton it's a three-cornered fight between Alan Jones - Sensible Party; in the middle, Tarquin Fintimlimbimwhinbimlim Bus- stop F'tang F'tang Olè Biscuitbarrel, Silly Party, and Kevin Phillips-Bong, the Slightly Silly candidate.

  21. Re:Not even close to true. on Global Internet Censorship On the Rise · · Score: 3, Insightful
    To a certain class of person, and I don't necessarily exempt myself here, doing something interesting is more rewarding than doing something good.

    This struck me as a very insightful comment. It explains one way that people can rationalize doing something that, if they were able to step back and look at the big picture, or with enough hindsight, they would know it is wrong to do. Yet they do it, and while doing it, think it is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Sometimes, interesting means evil. A certain Chinese saying comes to mind: "May you live in interesting times."

  22. Re:Sounds Neat on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 1

    Same here in Oregon. We have a 2D bar code, no mag stripe. And I have an Oregon driver's license, not a US driver's license, BTW. Where do you get one of those anyway? Not that I want one.

  23. Re:I don't understand what the big deal is on Google Wins Nude Thumbnail Legal Battle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Same here. I've never used fingernail polish either.

  24. Re:as the owner of a first gen intel mac.... on Microsoft To Dump 32-Bit After Vista · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the pic. I wanted to see it, but when I followed the link I got this:

            This web browser is not supported.

            We're sorry, but it looks like you're running a web browser that doesn't yet work with Google Docs & Spreadsheets .

            Google Docs & Spreadsheets currently supports:
                IE 6.0+
                Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7+ Download Firefox
                Mozilla 1.7.12+
                Netscape 7.2, 8.0

    And I'm running Opera 9.2. Opera is not supported by Google Apps.

  25. Re:Huh? on Fruit Flies Show Spark of Free Will · · Score: 1

    I realize my first comment doesn't really contradict yours, and it probably contradicts itself. It was either random or the result of free-will, I'm not sure which. Either way, pay no attention to it.