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  1. Re:So... no Win 7? on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Not of MS isn't selling you keys.

  2. Re:Mah nishtanah, ha-laylah ha-zeh, mi-kol ha-leyl on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Because we have a welfare program that qualified IT workers will use if foreign workers are taking local jobs. This means more taxes will be spent to give these people something to live on. I understand getting unemployment in the US is more difficult.

  3. Re:tax evasion? on The Internet Archive To Pay Salaries Partly In Bitcoin, Requests Donations · · Score: 1

    Not at all. Governments can get their taxes when people cash out to spend it on goods, services or they can then count it as income. I doubt the government will be accepting bitcoins as a legitimate way to pay your taxes either.

  4. Magnets on CES: Using Eye Movements to Control a Computer or TV (Video) · · Score: 1

    "Magnetic mounting capability" that doesn't sound good to use close to your computer.

  5. Re:My god! on Sony Fined In UK For PlayStation Network Hack · · Score: 1

    Define it as a percentage of total worth for corporations?

  6. Re:link = trafficking? on Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Real world analogy would be, "See that car round the corner? I think it's stolen" = Trafficking in stolen vehicles / Grand theft auto.

  7. Re:May I be the first to say on North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang · · Score: 1

    I say those excuses don't make their god any less of an asshole.

  8. Re:It isn't Windows 8 I find to be the barrier... on NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish · · Score: 1

    That's why I buy drives and enclosures separately.

  9. Re:What? on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    THC doesn't damage the brain, in fact it protects the brain from some damage EG: Heavy drinking.

  10. Re:too heavy on Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    That is also assuming it has a magnetic field like earth and isn't bombarded by the solar (or whatever you would call the charged particles coming off an alien star) wind. There is much more that could be at play then just gravity and escape velocities.

  11. Re:Yawn! on PayPal, Symantec Hacked In Anonymous November 5 Hacking Spree · · Score: 2

    A few minutes of not being in the news, and they pull a stunt - a rather weak one at that which only reinforces the governments agenda of net surveillance.

    Does that not make you question whether or not it is "anonymous" at all"? After all it does further many governments agendas in relation to the internet.

  12. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe if they gave people their lunch hour instead of a lunch half hour this would be less of a problem?

  13. Re:Why do phone companies overcharge for data? on Wrong Number: Why Phone Companies Overcharge For Data · · Score: 2

    To get rid of the taste of the food.

  14. Re:can't use while operating... on NYC Taxi Commission Nixes Cab-Hailing Apps · · Score: 1

    1. Stop the cab.
    2. Get out.
    3. Operate the phone application.
    4. ?????????
    5. Profit.

  15. Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    If you want to stabilize the earth you need to reduce the population to something under 1 billion.

  16. Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, we do not even have the experience of building something that can stay 10 years in space without constant support from Earth...

    It just makes for some headlines, for a long time.

    Voyager one and two would like to say hello.

  17. Re:How is this different? on Ubisoft Ditches Always-Online DRM Requirement From PC Games · · Score: 1

    Because if I reformat, change my graphics card and motherboard Diablo 3 will still install and let me play. Ubisoft DRM'ed games will not (after a [usually] unspecified number of these events).

  18. Re:I always suspected... on Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass · · Score: 1

    If she's sleeping on your couch I would hazard a guess and say she's not your girlfriend.

  19. Re:Oh shit! on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 0

    Why do lions lick their ass holes?

    To get rid of the taste of intolerant christians.

  20. Re:The Internet Needs to be Policed on Australian Gov't Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now · · Score: 1

    Strange /. lost my post and now I have a double post, sorry about that.

  21. Re:The Internet Needs to be Policed on Australian Gov't Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now · · Score: 1

    How about try some fucking parenting before advocating government snooping.

    As the father of a ten year old son I have an unfiltered connection that he has free access to. Am I worried? Not in the slightest, I monitor his usage and have never been forced to have an uncomfortable conversation (I am not afraid of uncomfortable conversations either) about his activities. Maybe that's because i taught him the "rules" to follow.

    His birthday is in two weeks and he will be getting (and building) his own computer. It also will not have any "filtering" of any sort. I am still unconcerned, because his computer will be approximately four feet from mine.

    We plan on playing Saints Row the third together. Some people would think that game is inappropriate for a ten year old boy, For some ten year olds it might be, I have no problems explaining adult concepts to him. It prepares him for life outside my pocket.

  22. Re:The Internet Needs to be Policed on Australian Gov't Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about do some fucking parenting. Do not expect the government to trash everything others enjoy to do it for you?

    As a father of a ten year old son I allow him free access to the internet. I do that because I have taught him the "rules" of the internet, and I trust him to do the right thing. I constantly monitor his usage and have NEVER had to have an uncomfortable conversation about his activities using it. This is after six years of him having net access.

    I do not filter anything, because I actively parent. Maybe you should try it before advocating government spying on it's populace without warrant or cause.

  23. Re:No worries! on No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis · · Score: 1

    You only need to open hyperspace windows if the asteroid has a high concentration of naquadah, else a Mk IX gate buster aught to vaporize everything in a 100 mile radius. So that's solved for anything up to 100 miles.

  24. Re:If we start filtering... on Google Joining Fight Against Drug Cartels · · Score: 3, Informative

    Caffeine would be the most prevalent.

  25. Re:A week? on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    And they censor it.