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  1. Re:Doubts on Halo 3 Causing Network Issues · · Score: 1

    NewYorkCountyLawyer != NewYorkCountryLawyer. He doesn't claim to be from a rural section of New York in any way.

    I personally enjoy his posts because he can speak with authority about the letter of the law, as opposed to all the people giving free legal advice prefaced by IANAL. I don't actually care about his, nor anyone else's stance regarding copyright infringement.

  2. Re:Security Through Obscurity! on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1

    LAX has cameras, doesn't it? Use a pseudorandom number generator to pick a specific pixel on a specific security display, and check the least significant bit. Repeat until you have enough data. Even if you tell everyone exactly how it works, by the time a terrorist organization has the ability to affect it in any meaningful way, they might as well just use all that manpower to invade.

  3. Re:Then go online in your own computer. on Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information · · Score: 1

    Stevens Point, about as close to the center of the state as you can get. Due to my general slacking during high school, the UW system was unconvinced that I should be a student. I got a degree in Computer Electronics from Mid-State Tech, and am currently working on getting a startup going. The sooner, the better, or I may end up killing some of my current coworkers.

  4. Re:Then go online in your own computer. on Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I didn't think of Huntsville. You mentioned working in an ISP, so I made the leap to going to college for a more directly computer related degree. I was imagining a school is Cambridge, or possibly one of the California schools. Wisconsin has some good schools for that too, of course.

  5. Re:Get a bloody repeater, mate on Why Municipal Wi-Fi Networks have Been Such a Flop · · Score: 1

    If you're planning on daisy chaining repeaters, and putting them all on the ragged edge of connection for the previous repeater, then yes, you will end up getting all manner of signal loss. If you're making Wi-Fi hop upstairs, then you don't need to worry about it. If you want, you can also just run cable like you would if they did DSL/FiOS.

  6. Re:Then go online in your own computer. on Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information · · Score: 1

    I'm confused as to why someone would travel to Alabama for college. Especially from Wisconsin. No offense, but when I think Alabama, inbreeding comes to mind way before education. Of course, a Wisconsinite wouldn't be part of that.

  7. Re:Easy Answer on Why Do Commercial Offerings Use Linux, But Not Support Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    Japanese car running on Canadian roads is a bad analogy for software drivers. Try getting a Honda and a Ford, then switching the engines. I'm not a car guy myself, but I have it on good authority that you can create one hell of a mess by trying it.

  8. Re:Then go online in your own computer. on Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information · · Score: 1

    If I might ask, which ISP in Wisconsin? I'm currently looking to exit from the hole of misery that provides my paycheck, and an ISP sounds fairly decent.

  9. Re:Why do they lead? Simple answer: WWII. on Why Japan Leads the Mobile World · · Score: 1

    Well, as much fun as microwave pain beams are, there's a bunch of other stuff that's from defense research that's a little more useful. The Internet, for example. And nuclear reactors. Et cetera.

  10. Re:zzzz...... on Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it means that 47% of IT workers consider LCD monitors to be coworkers.

  11. Re:Regarding Ron Paul... on Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The murder part is too far, but it's still possible to go further. I'd prefer to just toss on an assault charge for every member of [group] that is supposed to be threatened by the act. Lynch a black person, and you get a murder charge for the victim, and an assault charge for every black person that lives in the same community. After all, serial killers get multiple murder charges, shouldn't one be enough by your standards?

  12. Re:A certain irony... on OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale · · Score: 1

    I don't watch TV. I have a PS2 that I bought in November of 2004 as my only console, not including my PC, which I have built and slowly upgraded over time. I work for $8.00 per hour, no benefits. My car is a '94 Ford Tempo. You need to be more careful when you talk about what we all claim to have.

  13. Re:Not me... on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Hans Reiser. Allegedly.

  14. Re:Not so much on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 1

    I am actively not having sex right now. In fact, if we consider how many times I have not used a vagina, I'm probably responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of people not being on this planet.

  15. Re:Not so much on The Fall Geek TV Lineup · · Score: 1

    But it always can be.

  16. Re:be carful on What Do You Want In iPhone 2.0? · · Score: 1

    I want some sort of active noise cancellation device that keeps me from hearing the asshole in the movie theater as he yaks it up. Preferably in the form of a GPS locater to realize that he's in a theater, and a 9mm that fires into his ear when he starts exceeding a certain (low) decibel limit.

  17. Re:Skip Vista? Dr. Death arrives after only 3 year on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: 1

    When you have no internet connection, the vast majority of those 170 MB of files are completely unnecessary. It's hard to get hacked over a non-existent wire, no matter what vulnerabilities you leave wide open.

  18. Re:Obiviously Benign on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Well, this is Boston we're talking about. They go nuts over Lite-Brites. You think electronics and putty are going to just glide through an airport there?

  19. Re:Just another excuse on Aerosol Spray to Identify Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    What "R" word? Revolution? I'm not talking about it. I'm talking about Reformation. I'm talking about some rights violation so egregious that the country will come together in demanding their rights back. Something like some VIP vanishing, and reappearing telling tales about being kidnapped to Gitmo. Terrorists accessing phone taps that were placed by the government. Something that hits hard for Joe Sixpack, that will not be ignored.

    John F. Kennedy brought the threat of assassination home to the U.S. Presidential security beefed way up after that.

    9/11 brought home both hijacking as a weapon instead of a getaway, and global terrorism. Up till that point, the majority of our terrorists had been domestic, people like Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski. No one worried much about people from the middle east around here before that. Boom, instant suspicion.

    We need another polarizing incident, this one highlighting how badly our rights have deteriorated. Only then will we demand them back.

  20. Re:Chilling... on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, why indeed? Why would the government develop a weapon that is easy to abuse (not that they would do that, just like how it's coincidental that the PATRIOT Act is so easy to abuse) and not make it easy to see if it's being abused or not. Let me think about that one.

    Now, even if they did have some kind of chip like that, what do you think the odds are that it would mysteriously be malfunctioning on most of the units that are being used for less than savory agendas?

  21. Re:Just another excuse on Aerosol Spray to Identify Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    That's true. Same thing with hijacking planes, the question used to be "Where are we going to go instead?" before someone said that the answer was "Those buildings over there." Now, no one can do the hijacking thing around here any more.

    Now that I think about it, I wonder if the very strong anti-gun agenda in the UK is a backlash from Guy Fawkes, or just the more recent American Revolution. If only there was a way for all our rights being taken away to create some sort of polarizing backlash in the same way...

  22. Re:Not "Gouging" on Massive Canadian Class-Action Cellphone Suit Is Approved · · Score: 1

    Estonia says the Internet is a right? Screw this place, I'm going there. I can learn Russian, or local dialect thereof.

  23. Re:GREAT Business, GREAT sense on GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades" · · Score: 1

    Not every kid with bad grades needs to study. I got bad grades because I learned early on that the work didn't matter as long as I could still ace the tests. I'm still trying to unlearn that habit, and it has been beating the shit out of me in the meantime. I graduated in the lower half of my class, while getting 4s and 5s on the AP tests I took. I didn't need to study, I needed to do my work, and that's something that didn't stick no matter how many times video games, television, movies, Magic cards, time with friends, or books got taken away (that's right, I actually had books taken away as a punishment.)

    Hell, right now I'm on Slashdot, instead of doing one of at least three things I can think of off the top of my head that would measurably improve my life. Anyone out there that has beat this sort of thing and can give pointers?

  24. Re:My experience on SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I seem to recall worry about declining bee populations and what that will do to the environment at large. Would these sorts of swarms eventually be able to replace bees for pollination purposes?

  25. Re:No Idea at All on Viacom Yields to YouTuber Who DMCA Counterclaimed · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know next to nothing about the video making process. That said, I'd like to hear more about these videos featuring "rack focus." It certainly sounds interesting.