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  1. Re:Apple *always* has a plan. on Merom in MacBook and MacBook Pros in September? · · Score: 1

    The cost of the black MacBook is $1499. The cost of the white one with an 80 GB hard drive is $1349. So, really, you're paying $150 for a different color plastic.

  2. Re:Copyright infringement ? on New Kind of Spam 'Un-Training' Filters? · · Score: 1

    I really wouldn't think so. The mail I've received of this sort I imagine could easily be justified as "fair use" found poetry.

  3. Re:Be careful... on CEO Shawn Hogan Takes on MPAA · · Score: 1

    If he actually managed to change the case law though by appealing the case to a higher court, that could very easily have powerful consequences for everyone in the US facing similar lawsuits.

  4. Re:And the conclusion is... on Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Well, I hardly think that humans can be seen as an example of early primates. Presumably in areas with more advanced primates, the primates would have killed off all the snakes.

  5. Re:Bwa? on The Dangers of Open Content · · Score: 1

    So Wikipedia is pointless then? I think that people can rely on Wikipedia, but they should be thorough in their research. They should make sure that they haven't been recent anonymouse, no summary edits recently. They should also make sure that there isn't any outstanding controversy on the discussion page. If using Wikipedia as a source rather than as a window to other source, they should check out the references and make sure they're credible. They might also consider only relying on "Good" or "Featured" articles. Yes Wikipedia has vulnerabilities, but so do other sources; I'm sure many encyclopedias have innacurrate information, it's just that you don't hear about it as much and they haven't been as sucessful.

  6. Re:Won't affect me on PowerPoint ZeroDay Vulnerability Exploited · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that the number of people who do not use Office to open PPT documents is small? I think targeting Office is in fact highly effective.

  7. Re:huh? on The Life and Death of Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't really do that though. Bug fixes and such are fixed through no-cost downloads. The new releases (the big ones named after big cats) actually add new features. That said, at least from a philosophical standpoint, I much prefer Ubuntu, though the OS X eye candy is rather enticing.

  8. Re:OH NO! on CEO Calls For AOL Paradigm Shift · · Score: 1

    Donate them to Ubuntu?

  9. Re:If the wings had been on Another Ornithopter Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, but pterosaurs aren't brids; they would presumably have their own rules.

  10. Re:and this wacko is why this may come to be on No Space for MySpace? · · Score: 1

    I've become very much used to being blocked from sites at the public school I go to. (I use a proxy to get around it.) All of LAUSD has its internet connections "filtered" by Websense, and most people don't know how to get around it (plus many of them are blocked). Webmail is blocked along with sites like myspace, and for a while it wasn't possible to get past the first few pages of a Google search. Technically we're not supposed to download anything either, but this is hard to enforce because many of the computers have only one user, and that user has administerial priveleges.

  11. Re:Javascript? on FirefoxFlicks Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Is it even Windows at all? The desktop has at least been made to look like OS X, what with the window that collapses on itself and all, if it is not in fact OS X. (Also there's the rounded blue bar thingy...)