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  1. will apple get around EU laws force the phone to.. on O2 Offered iPhone Contract in UK · · Score: 1

    How will apple get around EU laws force the phone to be unlocked?

  2. Re:I'm not familiar with Windows deployment on Dell Warns of Vista Upgrade Challenges · · Score: 1

    They must mean RAM as just XP + office is over 1gb

  3. People may be able to clone your I-pass or EZ-pass on Are Contactless Payments Really Secure? · · Score: 1

    but transactions are tracked and they can disable it and get the plate of the car that has a cloned tag you should be able to do the same thing with other contactless payment systems.

  4. Re:terms of services and middle-man on South Korea Now Officially Taxing Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Does the South Korean IRS tax you on ebay sales?
    also for a small business can you wire off the costs of playing the game?

  5. terms of services and middle-man on South Korea Now Officially Taxing Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    The terms of services say the items and currency = $0 and the taxes are applied by middle-man?
    so if you use ebay that you don't have to pay the tax?
    also what games like Second Life where you buy and sell from the people running / making the game with out a middle man?

  6. some dialed 9 chevrons on a STARGATE on What Happened Before the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    and that set off a big bang and we will soon see what that is like in stargate universe

  7. the Ancient device on What Happened Before the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    set off a mini big bang that removed the plague that was killing the Ancient in the milky way.

  8. No Video games or pinball games at the stores on Some 7-11s Become Kwik-E-Marts · · Score: 1

    The Kwik-E-Mart in Simpsons has them and they can at lest put the Simpsons game and the pinball games in them.

  9. Re:Bombula on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    the computers of today are based on tech from that ship

  10. This may lead to anti trust lawsuits if games.... on Fighting Online Game Cheating in Hardware · · Score: 1

    This may lead to anti trust lawsuits if games force you to have this as people will not like being locked in to Intel chip sets and high end games will not want to give up nvidia SLI chip sets for this. Also this may give a big boost to AMD in the AMD VS intel lawsuit as it is braking anti trust laws for Intel to not give this a way for free to other chipsets to use if this ends up being needed to play some games.

  11. Re:Yes, but... on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    We tried that back in 2003 and it just ended up geting into a big loop and then the system overloaded taking down a big part of the us power gird with it.

  12. Re:Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    witch side do you want?
    1. USA 2. NON US side of Iraq 3. China. 4. north korea 5. north vietnam 6. UK 7. Russia 8. cuba 9. iran 10. germany 11. france 12. canada 13. US Civil war north 14. US Civil south 15. japan.
    16. show next page

  13. Just save are money and say.. on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the only winning move is not to play

    how about a good game of chess?

    and then move the supercomputers back to the star gate at NORAD

  14. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fine witch side do you want?

  15. Re:Traveling salesman.. on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 1

    you can add a stop and drag it in place on the left bar.

  16. Re:memory bandwidth? on AMD Announces August Release Date for Barcelona · · Score: 1

    Intel maxes out at 4 cpus and there plan to have 4 FSB in there upcoming 4 wat xeon chip set and CSI has been pushed back to 2008

  17. How long before It becomes AMD / M$ / ATI VS...... on Microsoft to Sell PCs, Starting in India · · Score: 1

    How long before It becomes AMD / M$ / ATI vs APPLE / INTEL / NVIDIA?

  18. Re:Damnit on Microsoft to Sell PCs, Starting in India · · Score: 1

    amd is real good on the low end right now and they will soon have there quad-core out.

  19. Re:What's SO surprising about this ALL this? on CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels" · · Score: 1

    About the same amount of time or more as it takes for the truth about JFK comes out.

  20. Why is M$ software even on voting machines........ on NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment" · · Score: 1

    Why is M$ software even on voting machine in the first place?
    Why is it on ATM systems as well at least there it is more
    slot and video Casino games must have there source code turned over the NGC and if windows was being used as the os then that code may have be turned over well. Windows may not even pass the testing need for Casino games as it may crash in the middle of a game. I once had a slot slow down and crash on me and it still slowly finished the bonus round and printed out the ticket then it disabled it self.

  21. Sounds like they want people to do TPS reports.... on Presence Systems Number One On Federal Wish List · · Score: 1

    for every little parts of there jobs and thinks like this will just end up having any time gained from this will lost to the paper work, overhead, and people doing the bare minimum. Works will just do the minimum amount of work not to get fired if they had a office with bosses like this.

  22. Good things like eulas geting ruled unfair may... on Congress to Revisit Virtual Goods Taxation · · Score: 1

    come from this as a big pro. As people will not want to pay tax for in game gold and other things that eula says is = to $0 usd if not. People who just play the game with out trading in game stuff for cash will quit the game.

    Second Life eula says that in game things do have cash value so they may be in for some big time IRS work load also they may also have to crack down in game Casinos and other things that may not be lawful in some states / areas.

  23. Way to go Bush not only do you under pay the army. on How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Way to go Bush not only do you under pay the army health care system and support US employers to cut back on health care costs you let stuff like this come in and take away US jobs.

  24. large organization may have lot of TPS reports.... on Pros/Cons of Working at Big R&D Consulting Firm? · · Score: 1

    and other stuff like that that needs to be done.

  25. Re:What if you are bad at math? on Brain/Machine Interfaces Approaching Usefulness · · Score: 1

    or what if you are thinking about some number and the train set that as it's speed and what if you think a about 0 and the system starts Dividing by Zero.