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  1. Are these available in Boston? on Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine's Card · · Score: 1

    Should make for an interesting week!

  2. I don't see the problem on Simulating Emotions Within Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    a character is furious one moment and cheerful a second later

    So it's a woman? what's the big deal? actually, they seem to have the hardest part figured out already!

  3. grab the raw stream of copyrighted TV programming? on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 1

    what are you, some kind of terrorist?

  4. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    I hope if I ever get arrested, I get this judge.

    Me: I swear, she told me she was 18!
    Judge: In that case, I firmy believe that the suspect didn't know that the victim was 4 years old at the time of the incident. Case dismissed!

  5. DNS? what? on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    why would the ISPs need to use a special DNS server to get ipv6 google? can't they just add the dns record for ipv6 addresses (I think 'AAAA') on their DNS?

  6. If you figure out the solition on FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge · · Score: 1

    call your mom on the phone and tell it to her. You'll hear from the FBI 15 minutes later if you found the correct answer.

  7. The logic is flawed. on What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting · · Score: 1

    I agree that texting should be cheaper, but the article logic is flawed.

    - if the price goes down, text usage will go up proportional to voice usage, so it's not a matter of "oh, they'll just install the extra infrastructure anyway".
    - how many times have we heard the news "SMS network collapse in some 3rd world country after some nation wide event that requires texting"? Somehow, "trillons" of messages sounds hard to believe.

  8. why would the list have to "leak"? on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    doesn't the govenment publish the blacklist? this isn't like other countries where they just pretend like there is no filtering going on at all.

  9. What went wrong? on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    They should have called it CAN'T SPAM.

  10. Re:Hypothetical, what if a TERRORIST got the pair on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 1

    Well, if an assassin killed them, I'm sure there's a bunch of rules in the constitution that dictate how to proceed, but if a TERRORIST did it, then you're right, all bets are off.

  11. Re:papers to buy a sim card? on Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail · · Score: 1

    I know, that's how I got my current phone line (cost me $5, those bastards ripped me off :). But isn't there a law that "encourages" people to register their DNI when they get the line?

  12. papers to buy a sim card? on Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail · · Score: 1

    so is it OK to require paper to buy a SIM card now? I thought it was evil. Or maybe just in the countries where terrorists come from, because everyone there must be a terrorist? or just in places where it wouldn't affect me?

  13. Obama says no. on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, you can't "expect anyone who followed a warrantless wiretap from the Bush administration to also be fired" becase Obama voted for the law that gives them inmunity, remember?

  14. let the computer remember stuff on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The notion that memory == intelligence is just wrong. Just get over it, and let a computer do all the memory for you. Use your brain for what it's uniquely qualified to do.

  15. how do they define happy? on Unhappy People Watch More TV · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the measure of happiness comes from the subjects themselves. Maybe they're just as happy as everyone else, but they think they're not as happy as "the happy people you see on TV" (not that I've read the article or anything).

  16. any recent example? on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    Discovering stuff on your stove is nice, but are there any recent examples? I'd be surprised if there any _non hobbyist_ labs around in 1856.

  17. Re:Map is wrong, in any case on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    you can't tell, but Canadians are inmigrants too. some of them even speak french

  18. Still inflated. on Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Most of the development can be outsourced, that would cut the "average salary" to at least 1/3.

  19. The Onion needs to change their headline on Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Phones on airplanes on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 0

    For the same reason you can make a phone call from inside a tall building.. the 9/11 planes were roughly at the same height (and position).

  21. rewriting the windows calculator? on Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about the guy who found a security hole on IIS and wrote and exploit for it? that sounds way cooler than rewriting calc.

  22. Re:Shocking secret of open source on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. But there's actually a lot of "open source" projects that only run on windows. VirtualDub (GPL, hosted at SourceForge) and Google Chrome come to mind.

  23. So the problem is on How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding · · Score: 1

    So the problem basically is that you didn't get the money to do the work, and instead went to some company in Bulgaria? Was the original development funded? because otherwise, what changed? How is the project dead, since the bulgarians will keep maintaining it?

    and who wants to get a job porting something to java anyway? (unless you were using something like Visual Basic before, what's the improvement?)

  24. In South Korea... on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 1

    Remamber what they say: In South Korea, only old people use e-mail. (or was it north korea?). This is true for most people I know, e-mail is usually only for corporate stuff.

    Kids are going to be using IM, that's probably why they're asking for an e-mail (most people just assume any e-mail is IM-able).

  25. I think I'm missing something. on Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? · · Score: 1

    I can understand a debate about keeping hard math or physics classes out of premed, but isn't the human body like, made up of a bunch of carbon? and aren't medics taight to (among other things) cure their patients by introducing medicine that interacts with their chemistry into them? How can you be a medic and not know organic chemistry? Maybe nurses have to be premed too?