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  1. Re:It's Not Gonna Matter on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1

    Although, the way u spell, I don't think your in a position to interview anyone.

  2. Re:Monster Cable versus wire coat hangers on Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company · · Score: 1

    the information there on the experiment doesn't say what kind of music was played.

    Ok.

    A high quality recording of smooth, trio, easy listening jazz was played (Piano, drums, bass).

  3. Re:Hmmm.. on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, Australia derives approx. 8% of its electricity from renewable sources.

    Very impressive. Now check out Sweden here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_European_Union

  4. Re:Pre-loaded apps on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 1

    Name one model of iPod that will play DRM'ed files from any other music store

    The less incentives for thinking up crazy DRM schemes, the better. I'd prefer that the iPod would remain completely ignorant of as many DRM formats as possible.

  5. Re:Instead of Laughing at the RIAA.. on "Exaflood" Disaster Appears Unlikely · · Score: 1

    What happens when scholars can't sell books because as soon as it's published, it's on the interwebs for free?

    Then the universities will have to publish the books, and help the students save thousands of dollars every year at the same time. Without a monopoly-supported, profit-driven market for schoolbooks, effort can be spent on more useful things than writing 10 books with the same content and release new editions every other year to prevent students from buying books second hand.

  6. Re:Don't download the source via the torrent on Eve Online Client Source Code Leaked · · Score: 4, Informative

    surely they have no legal grounds for a lawsuit

    They don't need a lawsuit to ban accounts on their servers.

  7. Re:Only in FOBR America... on Psystar Offers $399 "OpenMac" Computer · · Score: 1

    Amazing... Companies can thrive by suing those who increase their sales!

    Apple sells hardware.

  8. Re:Stop the Bus! on Study Reports On Debian Governance, Social Organization · · Score: 1

    Pre-Sarge, Debian was being criticized for everything under the sun.

    Then they fixed it. Now it's great. Can't see the problem really. :)

  9. Re:obligitory post on Laptops Screens, Glare or Matte? · · Score: 2, Informative

    With a ThinkPad, you'll end up using the trackpoint 100% of the time you need to move the pointer. Yes, it's that good.

  10. Re:First looks at gimp 2.5.... on First Looks at The Gimp 2.5 · · Score: 1

    I kid... if it had 16-bit support I would use the Gimp

    Good for you then, the next version will (and this beta probably have it already?)

  11. Re:It really doesn't work this way... on Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, thank you, know we know how it works in your big store where you have more than one cash register. Now back up and read what he wanted.

  12. Re:Coverup on Satellite IDs Ships That Cut Cables · · Score: 4, Informative

    My guess is that it was a South Korean shipping company.

    That's quite likely, since South Korea build the most ships in the world.

  13. Re:no catch? on Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online · · Score: 1, Informative

    I won't make any claims about Demonoid, but it's fairly common for questionable sites to suddenly go down, and following a down time period of any length, they go back up just like nothing happened but now with new government monitoring overlords.

    Citation needed, or STFU with the FUD, RIAA-troll.

  14. Re:What's the distinguishing characteristic? on Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer · · Score: 1

    Ok, if this doesn't deserve +5 Funny, nothing does :D

  15. Re:What's the distinguishing characteristic? on Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It costs the USPS money to deliver it. Money that raises stamp prices, or paid via taxes.

    Ok, so, let's see. The less customers USPS have, the lower the price for stamps?

    If everyone sent 50 letters/day, the stamp price would be so high, it would be unthinkable?

    Apparently I fail to follow this logic.

  16. Re:this won't take off soon on IBM Creates Working "Racetrack Memory" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh! New motherboards would have to be introduced! That could take some time to switch to indeed, because it's quite rare that such a thing happens.

    Except for the switch from DRAM to SDRAM. And the switch from SDRAM to DDR, and from DDR to DDR2, and from DDR2 to DDR3, and from AGP to PCI-e, and from IDE to SATA, and.. and.. ad infinitum.

  17. Re:They can patent that? on Satellite Abandoned Due To Orbital Patent · · Score: 1

    or anything made of plastic

    What would be bad with anything made of plastic? How is that bad for the environment?

  18. Re:Caffeine? on Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs · · Score: 1

    A more akin example is if cocaine were a miracle-mind drug. If researchers were consuming that instead, would that be ok?

    Yes. But it isn't. So it's illegal.

  19. Re:Worst analogy EVAR! on IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth · · Score: 1

    Ah. I missed an important piece of information. "from your knuckle to your fingertip". I thought he was talking about from your eye to your fingertip...

  20. Re:Worst analogy EVAR! on IBM Ships Fastest CPU on Earth · · Score: 1

    What's a 'task'?

    Perhaps he meant that it could task switch in that time, which would mean handle the interrupt, saving the current register set, look up a new task from a list, load the registers, and jump. Sounds unlikely if they only have, say, 10 cycles to do it (5GHz for 2 nanoseconds), but who knows.

  21. Re:Talking of Non-Talking on FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes · · Score: 1

    Why the hell are people so frightened of silence?

    It makes them have to think...

  22. Re:Scare tactics on UK Banking Law Blames Customers For Insecure OS · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a stupid question, but why do you reboot your computer?

  23. Re:It isn't e-voting, it's how on The Cost of Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Extrapolate #3 even further. Hire cheap techs for each county to ensure they have internet connectivity - State runs the servers

    This doesn't work very well when RIAA and NSA feels that it's necessary to monitor and read all network traffic in order to stop the terrorists.

  24. Re:Never had a drive fail on Disk Failure Rates More Myth Than Metric · · Score: 1

    these WILL fail, without failure

    That's not a very epic fail.

  25. Re:Amazed on UK ISP Says No To Music Industry Pressure · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed it's taken this long before any of the ISPs have spoken out

    AFAICR, the Swedish ISPs have been saying this from the beginning.