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  1. Re:London 1984? ;) on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    There are some vaguely similar systems in the US, except that they're only at tolls and use your ticket. The tickets they give you have a timestamp on them, and when you pay your toll at the other end, it gets a current timestamp and finds the difference - dividing by the distance between tolls, if your average speed is over the speed limit, they use your plates to send you a ticket. It's a frustrating yet deviously clever system. ;)

  2. Re:Incorrect wording in title on VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just because Linux programmers don't get paid, you think it's OK to violate them?! You insensitive clod!

  3. Re:It'll all work out on Discouraging Students from Taking Math · · Score: 1

    Stop stalking me!

  4. Re:not an argument on Why We Need to Expand into Space · · Score: 1

    Absolutely correct, that's why we must preserve the one thing that we have that, even in the eyes of the universe, is truely unique - humanity. For all we know, we might well be the only sentient beings in the universe, and fuck if I'm just going to let all of our scientific advancement just fall into the darkness. We might not expand now - hell I don't think with our current technology it's even possible for maybe another couple centuries, but to not even try? To give up? That's pathetic.

  5. Re:What is up with Slashdot on Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? · · Score: 1

    You're probably right about the air (I freely admit that I don't know what their thermometers are measuring), but the whole ice getting thicker sounds wrong. All studies I've seen show rising water levels and increasingly unstable ice shelves, which would indicate greater melting. I never said there wasn't an increase in heat in the arctic, just that if you measured the ice, it would not show any difference.

  6. Re:What is up with Slashdot on Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? · · Score: 1

    Just like to note that you should probably take a look at chem 101 again. You say Antarctica is not warming. That is correct. However, Antarctica is ice. Until the heat of fusion is fully established for the entire system, the temperature will not rise above 0 degrees Celsius. Period. So, since you obviously don't get that, that means that you won't see a rise above 0 until ALL the ice is melted. Good luck with that.

  7. Re:Doesn't Office 2007 already support ODF? on Does ODF Have a Future? · · Score: 1

    Just checked in our enterprise version - no this is not possible (and there is no MS plugin).

  8. Copyright Law on Big Ten Schools Recommit to Google Books Project · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is just ridiculous now. If Google gets restricted from posting educational information because of copyright law its just going to be pathetic. I mean, isn't that what libraries are for - providing /free/ access to books??

  9. Re:Get 'em while you can-NETFLIX on New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable" · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to get where this is heading. Once the Volume IDs are out they can freely be incorporated into new HDDVD decryption utilities with update capabilities. Oh, and if you're actually complaining about having to do a GOOGLE SEARCH then you're right, you are too lazy to rip your own movies.

  10. Re:Good! on Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ok, DoS attacks aren't funny, but they also shouldn't be a criminal felony. Felonies are for either very high value theft or an act that injures another person; DoS attacks do neither. If the target wishes to gain reparations for damages (monetary) then that is a matter for civil, not criminal, court. Thus, it should be a misdemeanor and punished as such, not as a felony. The punishment should fit the crime and two years imprisonment does not fit a DoS attack at.