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  1. Re:Looks like firefox on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mis-spelled 'free' as 'poor'.

    And no, showing me ads does not make a browser free.

  2. Re:Not just tourism on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    So when you say "won't do" you mean "won't do for the same price as illegal workers." That's not quite the same thing. Some AC has been making the same point, but it's wrong.

    And even still, some Americans on welfare will take very low paying side-jobs (unreported income) as well.

  3. Re:Crappy low-res pictures... on Quake 4 Visual Preview · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! this screenshot looks remarkable!

  4. Re:Not just tourism on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    If companies stopped hiring illegal aliens to do those jobs (like, you know, they're supposed to), then those jobs would get done. Some people act like they wouldn't. That's bullshit. *Legal* citizens would fill the void.

  5. Re:Not just tourism on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    I don't care who you are or where you're from. The statement that "there are some jobs Americans won't do" is bullshit. They may expect more money but they'll do the job. Americans risked their lives for work during the great depression doing hard manual labor. I'm sure if necessary they would do it again.

  6. Re:..what's particularly amusing... on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Quebec knows that it's not a part of Europe...

  7. Re:Not just tourism on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    Because Americans sure won't do those jobs that the illegal aliens do.

    That's utter bullshit based on negative stereotypes and you know it.

  8. Re:Tricky Linux programmers on SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    Yes, 666 % 666 would be 0.... Or are you being sarchastic somehow?

  9. Really unlucky. on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    And if you're *really* unlucky, they use aalib

  10. Re:Sounds like religion or "Scientific Creationism on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 0, Troll

    "String theory" matches that same description (can't be proven). It's being researched and taught in colleges though.

  11. Re:How can this be done? on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    That's the rub then isn't it? Whether the compiler simply "doesn't recognize" AMD's chips and treats them as generic 586, or whether there's a "if (amd_cpu) { generate_extra_crappy_code() }" routine in there somewhere.

    If it is as you describe it, then it sounds like AMD whining. Why would I buy an Intel compiler and expect it to work well for an AMD/Cyrix/Transmeta CPU?

  12. Re:Simply ludicrous on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    perhaps not enough people realized that happiness==success. not money.

    I would love to have enough money to test this hypothesis of yours...

  13. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. on Flying the Wiretapped Skies · · Score: 1

    What's bad is when they use this plus provisions in the PATRIOT act to allow them to tap it without that ever-important authorization.

    Which provisions is that? Do you have a link to the passage?

  14. Re:Cures and money. on Possible Breakthroughs in Cancer and AIDS Research · · Score: 1

    And how many cures for Aids, the common cold, and cancer have these countries provided so far?

  15. Soundtrack! on Total Annihilation Sequel Preview · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The single best thing about the original TA was the *fantastic* score used for the soundtrack. The only game I've ever ripped the audio from to listen to alone.

  16. Re:Only 7 bombs? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Mmmm. I love AC responses to my posts...

  17. Re:Then what? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Are you saying it's justified that we also start a very visible war (in this case in Iraq), with all of the death and destruction that entails (both against combatants and civilians), in order to make the public "feel better"?

    I think you have a limited view on the war if that's all you can see. I think that we've been trying the covert stuff for a *long* time and it's been limited in effectiveness. I think adding in the 'visible' war is a change in tactics. We've now elevated the private behind-doors world of international terrorism to the fore-front of politics. What once was personal is now political.

    I believe the idea of attacking Iraq is to get the leadership of terrorist sympathetic nations to think twice. "Shake up the bee hive" so to speak.

    But now that I've carefully avoided your question... No. I don't think war "just to make people feel better" is necessarily justified. But I don't think that's all it's done.

  18. Re:Only 7 bombs? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    who was retaliating? At this point is it even clear who was the 'original' aggressor? Does it even matter anymore?

  19. Re:conspiracy theory on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Wow. I.. Er. Jeez, I don't know quite what to say. I mean, sure you may disagree with the guy. But to believe that he would sacrifice thousands of his own citizens lives, and have the ability to cover it all up *perfectly*, to do what now? Pass a few laws?

    I think I can rule it out. Unless, of course, you have compelling evidence that doesn't include paranoid rantings, coincidences and assumptions?

  20. Re:Then what? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Perhaps both are being done? Making the public "feel good" is definitely important when it comes to terrorism. And as you point out there really is no way to know if there are any 'covert' operations going on. I'd be surprised if there were none.

  21. Re:Its always bugged me how... on Leap Second This Year · · Score: 1

    Sure, why not? It would keep with convention. It would probably confuse those who don't know about leap seconds though.

  22. Re:Its always bugged me how... on Leap Second This Year · · Score: 1

    But the extra day added to a "leap year" is called "leap day."

  23. Re:What a load of crap on Sweden Bans Copyrighted Downloading · · Score: 0

    See .sig. The title and article are misleading though.

  24. Re:its not going to work on Ballmer: 'We'll catch Google' · · Score: 1

    A bit sensitive are we?

    I believe he was comparing Balmers past screams and such to the Howard Dean scream.

  25. Re:Easier the other way... on Identity Thieves Drain Unemployment Benefit Funds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Signatures don't encrypt the data now do they? So you would certainly be able to read them.

    The revocation would be used 'going foreward' and thus would be from $DATE on-ward that the old key would no longer be valid. So validity in the past would be fine - just make sure a date appears in the document (perhaps part of the standard signature?) so it can be verified that you signed it while the key was still valid. You could even be requested to re-sign the documents with your new key.

    Sure, not perfect. But do we really have anything 'better' today?