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  1. Re:well that's funny on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    Which is her charity and makes her look like a nice person (which is something some people pay for). Where the money goes later isn't the matter. She get's it first, she can do with it whatever she wants.

  2. Re:Robot Ethics? on South Korea to Build Robot Theme Parks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Robot Ethics is not about robot feelings! It's about other humans feelings of how you treat the robot.

  3. Re:Keep those wishes coming on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    Option to "Reopen Closed tabs" in IE - This will be addressed via "Are you sure you want to close this tab?"

    You are about to close this tab. Cancel or Allow?
  4. Re:No Child's Behind Left on Open-Source Early Literacy Materials Gaining Some Attention · · Score: 1

    Then History would be rewritten in the country's interest. Then it's 1984!

  5. Re:Brains and thoughts on Microsoft Wants To Read Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Hey, wasn't that like, a Firefox feature or something?

  6. Re:Makes me wonder on iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying they should give the key of the door to the owner of the mobile instead of making him break into it.

  7. Re:Y'know.... on MS Awarded "Best Campaigner Against OOXML" · · Score: 1

    And it has keeped lots of chair companies away from bankruptcy.

  8. Re:OpenISO.org on OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index · · Score: 1

    And it would be easier to use the standards if they didn't charge you for them...

  9. Re:Let forth... on Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist · · Score: 1

    Some small vibrating machine help her cure her broken heart?

  10. Re:And just why won't this work for.... on Sony Runs Walkman Off Sugar-Based Bio Battery · · Score: 1

    That's what happen when people don't talk in football fields terms!

  11. Re:Why do all this... on iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice · · Score: 1

    And what about the Nokia E70?

  12. Instead, Why not... on Pirate Banned From Using Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    run the government software on WINE?

  13. Re:How much does it cost not to... on How Much Does a New Internet Cost? · · Score: 1

    You could just use wget or curl on cron, wget can use FF or Netscape cookies with --load-cookies (see the man).

  14. Praise/Damn the action, not the company. on Open Source Community's Double Standard · · Score: 1

    I for one, praise the action of opening software, and damn the action of closing software. Whatever the company is.

  15. Re:More juice! on DirectX 10 Hardware Is Now Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Forcing everybody to use certain graphics card to play is just like forcing them to buy certain gaming console to play. Maybe in the consoles world it seams reasonable, but for PCs... people will always have different setups. I am not a game developer, so I don't have a game developer perspective.

  16. Re:More juice! on DirectX 10 Hardware Is Now Obsolete · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You might just buy a gaming console and stop worrying about hardware incompatibility at all. :-/

  17. Re:Yes.... on Creative Documentation · · Score: 1

    I'll just wait for the movie thank you.

  18. Re:How about pulling a Mac? on Preventing Another Vista-like Release With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Now do it with a car analogy.

  19. Re:Spoiler alert on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1
    Things I didn't saw coming:
    • Molly p0wns Bellatrix!
    • The coolest spell ever was casted... by Crabble!
  20. Re:Their plan all along? on One Laptop Per Child and Intel Join Forces · · Score: 1

    So Embrace,Extend and Destroy?

  21. Re:musicmatch? on Yahoo Downgrades MusicMatch Jukebox · · Score: 1

    I just prefer mpd...

  22. Re:Nope. on 2008 - Year of Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    There will be. It's in the stars, right after the year of the pig and before the year of the shark with friggin laser beams on his head.

  23. Re:Safety isn't first on Explosives Camp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Some child threatened to blow up a building from the middle east and he was deported 12 hours later.
    Gee, you paranoid americans can't take on a joke right?
  24. Re:Who to sign up... on Explosives Camp · · Score: 1

    Sure, give your neighbor's kids knowledge in explosives, that's the smart thing to do.

  25. Re:Aptitude on LinRails — Ruby On Rails For Linux · · Score: 1

    If you need a package that isn't in a repo, probably you already know how to compile. For desktop users, if something is not in a repo probably is not worth use it yet.