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  1. Re:I've always wondered... on Recruiting Friendly Botnets To Counter Bad Botnets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He didn't say he would have sued Microsoft, he said he would have called a lawyer. Microsoft was never specified as the target of said lawyer. Basically, he's saying that if someone breaks his computer without permission, he's holding them liable, even if they were trying to be helpful.

  2. Re:oh god on How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It · · Score: 1

    I have no Facebook. I'm not sure we can continue to consider the Facebook community part of the English speaking world, either.

  3. Re:Oblig. on Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hope they don't, the sex offender list is a travesty.

  4. Re:What if... on Building a 5-Ton Calculator From 19th-Century Plans · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or not turn the crank at all.

  5. Re:No sense of smell on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 1

    Once you drop both taste and smell, you've just got texture. I used to work with a guy who didn't have a sense of taste, most interesting thing was that he didn't like peanut butter, said it reminded him of oily sand.

  6. Re:Wow on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    How about German Americans, Italian Americans, or Irish Americans? We're just a little bit more discrete for those of European ancestry. Although, now that I think about it, we generally just say Germans, Italians, or Irish, we just drop the American part.

  7. Re:Not smart on Stolen US Military Equipment Being Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    Nope, I'd never say that. I conjugate properly. :P

  8. Re:Oh FUCK on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many folks confuse slander with PC, Many more folks confuse slander with libel.
  9. Re:Somehow reminds me of Asimov... on Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq · · Score: 1

    By proxy. A robot could lay landmines, if it were told that all sides of the conflict would be aware of the presence of the mines, and that they were only being placed to prevent access to the minefield.

    Besides that, it's silly to assume that the only possible use for robots is to kill the enemy. There's also protecting your troops, perhaps by clearing minefields, performing recon, destroying infrastructure, extricating the wounded from the battlefield, and any number of other hazardous duties.

  10. Re:Wrong on The Texas Petawatt Laser · · Score: 1

    So was mine. Specifically, I was alluding to the well-reported issue they had with discerning the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents.

  11. Re:Inexpensive? on GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications · · Score: 1

    As a beagle owner, this is completely true.

  12. Re:You PWN3D my Empire! on Inside the Secret War Against Internet Spies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there anyone dumb enough to still believe the romantic portrayal of the young valiant American heros defending liberty and freedom from the vicious hordes that everyone else refers to as "the rest of the world" ? My grandfather, and probably anyone else who was around when it was still true.
  13. Re:British ID card system on Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that'll help the folks who tried unclogging their running snowblower. Unless they registered from both hands...

  14. Re:Wrong on The Texas Petawatt Laser · · Score: 1

    You must work for Verizon.

  15. Re:The "3 steps" on Rumors of a 'Whisper Campaign' Forming Against Fair Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember, the governed also refer to evolution as "only" a theory, and consider it on par with their own random thoughts. They will also borrow something to you instead of lending it to you, completely fail at verb conjugations, and generally maim any segment of the language they can pass through their mouth. There is no language they understand.

  16. Re:The singularity on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our soylent manufacturing overlords.

  17. Re:Version 1.0? on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm still not sure why we're going smaller on this. I want my Magrathea, dammit!

  18. Re:This is a shame on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forgot reverse engineering. Assembly is really the only decent way to do that, presuming you don't have the source.

  19. Re:I find that hard to believe on Windows 7 in the Next Year? · · Score: 1

    Oh. Yeah. I keep forgetting that 2000 wasn't officially a home release. D'oh.

  20. Re:I find that hard to believe on Windows 7 in the Next Year? · · Score: 1

    You're missing Windows 2000 (great).

  21. Re:An ISP? on UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's the chart look like for having members of the general public shot?

  22. Re:why? on US Cyber Command Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats · · Score: 1

    And if they use Tor, that's a nice crater with nothing to show for it.

  23. Re:god damn it on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Almost certainly higher, if you use the same standard of Warm Times I am. I'm starting Warm Times at 50 F(10 C). We breached that for the first time this year yesterday.

  24. Re:Worst possible choice on Engineers Make Good Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    I'm reasonably certain that when faced with a guy who can build bombs, you worry a little less about his religion, and more about getting these bombs to where they need to go. After all, you don't see terrorists refusing to use Kalashnikov's just because they were made by those godless Communist's, do you?

  25. Re:god damn it on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Sun? What is this "sun" you speak of? It's the thing up overhead that brings the Warm Time every day. I live in Wisconsin, you insensitive clod! We get Warm Times maybe 50% of the days, tops.