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  1. Re:Let's just ban Alcohol like we did with Marijua on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Endangering one's self is freedom. Endangering other's life abuses other's freedom.

  2. Re:Oh no free advertising! on New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era · · Score: 2

    Absolutely. Leaked punch lines and secrets are only going to server to generate publicity. If anything, I would chose to film the first ones live, even if the rest of the series wouldn't be.

  3. Re:Faraday Cage? on New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era · · Score: 5, Funny

    Supposing we built a large wooden badger...

  4. Re:Stolen IP? on First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    If plans were taken as you suggest, then the plans were stolen, not the IP. Building their own aircraft from those plans is still infringement, not theft. I suggest it is you who is playing semantics, not the GP.

    Part of the reason our IP laws are so useless and convoluted is because people call it theft and piracy, to elicit an emotional response, instead of calling it what it really is.

  5. Re:Women of /., please comment on Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear · · Score: 1

    Among experts, thoughts are that statistic is flawed. Men are less likely to seek help and thus less likely to be diagnosed.

  6. Re:Why would Verizon care? on Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try writing "fuck the police" on the police station with chalk and see if they think its vandalism.

  7. Re:-40? on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    Your never going to start the car with the engine at -40 though. A block heater will be more than enough to warm up the ambient temp in the engine bay I would think.

  8. Re:1000 dollars on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 1

    This this case, the merchant, or distributor IS the person who is ripped the CD and uploaded it. Just like if you unknowingly purchase stolen goods, you are not prosecuted as the thief.

  9. Re:Ill gotten gains on Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing · · Score: 1

    Theft of a car is property theft, you deprive the original owner of selling it to someone. Distributing music is infringing of copyright, therefore not depriving the RIAA of selling it to others.

    Try again, your analogy is fallacious.

  10. obligatory on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    Chaos theory at work, ladies and gents. You were warned.

  11. Re:Interesting on 8pen Reinvents the Keyboard For Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Swype still requires fairly accurate start, end and transition points as well as the device must predict. This requires no prediction, therefore no input lag, and you should be able to do it without even looking at the screen after you associate the muscle movements to memory. Also, it wont be confused by names and unknown words, like all other prediction based methods are.

    I see the use, and after only a few text messages playing with it I already find myself swirling a few letters without having to consciously plan my choice. I figure a couple weeks with it and it will far exceed my wpm and will negate two handed landscape mode for longer messages.

  12. Re:Note for world domination: encrypt serial no.'s on How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks · · Score: 1

    Actually, the math would still work, even when you don't know the lower bound.

  13. Re:DON'T DO IT! You'll get fired on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    Not illustrate, demonstrate. Which, while I don't share the extreme views of the GP, I think is likely to come back to bite you. These people don't know what a script is, showing them a "psuedo-virus" isn't going to substantially enlighten them, nor enhance their lives in any meaningful way. Move on to useful things and spend more time on those.

  14. Re:Translation on Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android-Related Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thats pretty much exactly what the word innovation means.

  15. Re:Parts on Self-Powered Parts Are the Future · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When you mature you'll lose the need to criticize others in order to bolster your pathetic self esteem.

  16. Re:A little help on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but who's gonna drive you home when your tires explode?

  17. Re:BMWs, Minis on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't address camber wear because the inside of the tire is still the inside. Unless you remount them on the wheel, the same part of the tire is in contact with the road.

  18. Re:No Thanks on Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 1

    me 2

  19. Re:Compare to voice... on Average Cellphone Data Usage Is 145.8 MB Per Month · · Score: 1

    Yes, but one is packet routed and the other is circuit switched. Obviously, one puts much less strain on the network.

  20. Re:Red light Cameras != Speed Cameras on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    Actually, he was driving the speed limit. My point is not that he wasn't at fault but that the whole thing is needlessly dangerous to everyone.

    Sure, his insurance will repair the two other cars but everyone knows its never as good as it was before. What did those other drivers do wrong? Why should they have to go through all that hassle? I would have been pissed if he had done that to me.

  21. Re:False on Nexus One a Failed Experiment In Online Sales · · Score: 1

    That is only required if you wish to access the 4g network. The 3g functionality of the device is not compromised by rejecting that additional service.

  22. Re:Red light Cameras != Speed Cameras on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    I recently watched a 3 car pileup at a red light camera intersection. Why did it happen? Because everyone is so scared of rolling through that yellow light, a driver slammed on his brakes, locked up on the wet road and slid into the oncoming turn lane, hitting two other cars.

    If there was no camera, he would have harmlessly slipped through on the very edge of the red light.

    The simple fact is, adding a delay between the light turning red and the other lights turning green, so that nobody is entering the intersection for two seconds or so, is the best way to stop intersection collisions. Red light camera's are merely a "justified" revenue stream.

  23. Re:Running a guild for a couple years on World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When was the last time you worked for a business that fairly shared the profits of a sale with you?

  24. Re:False on Nexus One a Failed Experiment In Online Sales · · Score: 1

    Actually identical plans on sprint are $70 and that also gets you unlimited calling to any mobile number on any network.

    Well, ok. Technically you are only getting 450 anytime minutes, but the loss of 50 minutes is easily outweighed by the fact you can call any cell phone for free.

  25. Re:Let the rationalizations begin on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Precisely the opposite. My door can be used by many different people without costing me additional time and effort to construct a new door for each user, quite similar to people duplicating a recording.

    People who use a door I installed haven't had to hire me to install a door for them, but if they like the door and are in the market for one, chances are the satisfied customer will pass along my information.

    Full disclosure, I actually don't fit that many doors. However, nearly all of my new work comes from word of mouth recommendations from satisfied customers.