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  1. Re:The cops that arrested him must be proud on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    'couse piling millions of jews into large ovens and console hacking are roughly the same...

    GP is right. These people are doing thier job. Your gov't decided this job needed to be done, so someone did it. If he had to toture and kill people to find this console hacker, then your Nuremberg comment might be appropriate.

  2. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you are having a flashback of WWF summerslam '88

  3. Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually saw a woman driving with her elbow this morning. She had the cellphone in her right hand and her left hand was blocking the sun from her eyes.

    That bitch really needs to learn how to use her knee.

  4. Re:3-d glasses? on 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About · · Score: 1

    I suspect it is actually 2 projectors with polarized lenses alternating frames.

    Bingo.

  5. Re:haha on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    -- Old growth forests don't really "grow". New forests grow much faster and create more oxygen.

    -- Trees are farmed for paper. Magic clicky text here.

    -- Also when you cut trees for lumber, you get chips and waste, which is made into paper, so that argument doesn't stand either.

  6. Re:haha on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If by "dismember and ground up", you mean "carbon capture". It's not rain forest trees going into your books. It's farm trees + natural trees with strict replanting laws.

  7. Re:Its the blob! on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick, someone give it a jellybean!

  8. Re:malware on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: 1

    I assume that you are referring to Teksavvy and MLPPP. I tried to sign up seeing as I was 3-4 blocks from the CO. I got 5m down and 316k up on an interleave profile. If I got two and tied them togeather, I would have 10/.6m service for about $70/mo. Through Shaw I get 15/1 (acutal is like 22/1) for about $50/month with lower 1st hop latency.

    I wouldn't exactly call the MLPPP innovation. It's more like a subpar solution. The real solution is for DSL to not suck.

  9. Re:About an Autobahn lane projector ? on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    I live in calgary. In the city, we have over 500km of bike paths for bikers to use, but for some unexplained reason, many jackasses on bikes have a death wish. I cross a narrowish bridge to/from work every day. Frequently, there is a cyclist clogging up the bridge with their slowness, when there is a goddamn cyclist bridge 10 feet -literally- north. We spend all this tax money on bike paths and special bridges, and still they use the road. One of these days, I'll be washing cyclist of the front of my car...

  10. Re:You cannot use viruses/bugs as an example of co on The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Further to that, bing.com has more views than google. Also, what the hell is tooooop.net?

  11. Re:I am in the market for a new camera. on Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As I see it, the camera is using the (unofficial) battery to post and load the firmware, only to realize that the battery is illigal, and then either eisplays message or halts. I just find it funny that it has to use the very device that it intends to block to power the check.

  12. Re:If you give up the inch, they'll take the mile on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    Well, one problem is that most of the world has to have two sets of tools for everything. Two sets of wrenches, two drill bits, two sockets, two sets of numbers on my speedometer.

  13. Re:Oh the Humanity! on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Of course older politicans don't get it. on Canadian Politicians Reverse Course On DMCA · · Score: 1

    The other reason I think they should "axe the tax" is that I simply can not accept that people are actually downloading music (probably in mp3 format), converting them to wav files (or whatever) then burning them to CDs. In fact, I take it back, anyone actually doing that deserves to be fined 21 cents per CD for having too much time on their hands.

    Anyone that has a non-mp3 enabled cd player in their car would disagree. Also the conversion process is done on-the-fly now anyways, and has been so for probably 10 years now.

  15. Re:Industy Standard Warranties on Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He might be saving money, but in part because he is getting raped for electricity. His rates were 11 cents to 30 cents+ per kWh. I pay 7 cents per kWh all the time.

  16. Re:Are you serious? on NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't know my wife trolled slashdot...

  17. Re:Protecting Artists? Artists to Blame. on $1.9 Million Award In Thomas Case Raises Constitutional Questions · · Score: 1

    Well, if you walked in and stole a VAIO laptop valued at $1,000, and then on your sentencing date you are told you have to pay back $80 Million to the retailer, you might have a problem with that.

  18. Re:So much for catching it live... on Spaceport America Begins Construction · · Score: 1

    Actually 2.5 hours. It's 1:50 MDT now.

  19. Re:Justifying piracy on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 1

    Well, If you price the songs at $1. That would mean that each song was uploaded 80,000 times. Assume 5 MB for the song, you get 400GB. Multiply that by 24 and you get 9.6 TB. Upload. No protocol.

    I hope that the RIAA feel real good.

  20. Re:Killing massive amounts of people on Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan · · Score: 1

    [...]massive amounts of targeted people[...] Sorry.

  21. Re:If the technology gets in wrong hands on Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan · · Score: 1

    How is this flamebait? It's true...

  22. Re:I for one welcome our robotic overlords on Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the idea is to have robots kill people... This is basically nuclear warfare without the fallout. Nukes have a couple of problems. They cause fallout, massive civilian deaths, mutations to future births, etc. They are great, however, because they can be used to kill & deal enormous amounts of damage from afar, with no soldiers on the ground.

    Likewise with these drones and robots and what have you. The point, once again, is to make killing massive amounts of people as simple as pressing a button, with no soldiers on the ground. Sure, it's not as bad as nukes, but to me it seems like a technology that is as game changing and disruptive.

  23. Re:mobile is where it's at on Canada Telecoms Launch Mobile Payment Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    I get free voicemail, free caller ID, Free web browsing to partner sites, and 100 text/MMS messages a month free.

    If you call them (*611, free call)and complain that when you start your phone's web browser it goes to their homepage automatically, thus charging you 2 cents, when you really want to get to a 3rd party site. So in effect, a 3rd party site costs 12 cents: 10 for the 3rd party site, plus 2 to view thier homepage. You do not have the ability to change your homepage.

    Ask them to just "block all partner sites". They will tell you that is not possible. Ask them to change your homepage to something else, or just not load anything at all. Agian, they will tell you that is not possible. Tell them that you are "fed up with telus nickel and dimeing you to death and that you *will not hang up until this issue is resolved*. 2 managers later, and I got a nice, permanent, perk.

  24. Re:Getting smacked around by space rocks? on 14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I would expect a huge gaping hole where his hand used to be. Possibly the meteor missed him entirely hit the ground near him, and some of the debris from the impact with the earth hit his hand.

  25. Re:How to get intestine cell? on Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class · · Score: 1

    I was wondering the same question. I'm guessing that is was from a fecal sample.