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  1. Re:Preemptive Strike! on A Chip on DVDs Could Prevent Theft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who needs China?
    It sounds like some winding wire, a piece of cardboard, and a flash circuit will do.
    i.e. fold the cardboard over like to make a cd mailer. tape the sides and wind the wire around it leaving the end open so you can insert / remove the disk. then charge the flash circuit and dump its capacitor through the winding wire.
    Now where to get an non activated disk to play with?

  2. Boston on Proposed Legislation Is Mooninite Fallout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The amendments include extensions to the prohibitions on the spread of false information and mailing threats, increases to maximum prison terms, and allowances for civil suits so that local and federal governments can attempt to recoup expenses related to an incident.'


    Um, wasnt the boston government the ones "spreading false information" and making bomb threats?
  3. Best option. on What Can You Do to Stop Junk Faxes? · · Score: 0

    The best option I know of is to use a computer with a modem as a fax mechine. I have done this and it works rather well. you will also be able to "email" fax mechines with this setup.

    There are also some services to email your faxes to you, prices range from a couple bucks to $25 a month. I havent used eny of these so I cant say if one is better then another. But if your looking in that direction google for "internet fax service"

  4. Re:The easy way out. on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 0

    because this one already exists, its effects are known, it would help alot of their citizens, and they know how to make it.

    So, why should they NOT copy Elfavirenz? (and no "intellectual property" doesn't matter)

  5. Re:Ever ever? on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...if you take "ever" literally... the greatest software ever hasn't been written yet

    What about "Radar Rat Race" or "little computer people"? One of these has to be the greatest software ever.
  6. Re:Mod parent up! on Do We Really Need a Security Industry? · · Score: 0

    24/7/52


    You dont want to know how long stared at that wondering where the other 313 days went.
  7. Re:Let the market speaks on Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux · · Score: 0

    Would you buy a (oh no not again) cheap car with an oil leak, knowing that there's a free and simple way of fixing it?


    Well, it depends on where the oil is cumming from and how much they want for the car.
  8. Re:Grabbing at liquid on Home Secretary Requests Fingerprint-Activated iPods · · Score: 0

    Trying to get a handle on this kind of theft is like trying to get your hands around some liquid. There's just no way to contain the stuff, it's going to come leaking out between your fingers somehow.


    So what your saying is we need a freeze ray?
  9. Re:bah on UK Voters Want To Vote Online · · Score: 0
    The "minors are incompitent" thing always pissed me off from as far back as I can remember and still does even now (im 19). enough ranting.

    here in the UK you can join the army at 16

    In the US its 17. I joined at 17 (Air Force) and its MUCH better then being a civilian. You don't get looked / talked down to for being young and everyone has to earn their rank by their actions/job performance/knowledge and education. I'm not saying its perfect. Just that being an A1C in the air force is preferable to being a "stupid kid" in the civilian world. /end rant /me needs a smoke
  10. Re:bah on UK Voters Want To Vote Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've never had to walk more than 200m to get to vote - maybe if you can't be bothered to make that effort then your vote shouldn't count...


    You WALKED 200 miles? wouldnt driving be a litle easier?
  11. Re:Can't be right on Cell Phones Aren't Killing Bees After All · · Score: 0

    Are you privy to information not in the TFA?


    Please dont do that. whenever I come to "the the" my head resets reading that sentance and it takes afew cycles to break the loop.

    Thanks
  12. Re:C'mon on Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 · · Score: 1

    Dont know about colorado, but there sure as hell will be one here (Dyess AFB, TX).
    Barnes hall, friday night, BYOB.

    *Karma go down the hooole*

  13. Thank God on Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now burn in hell bitch.

  14. Flash Disks on Dell Releases Flash-Based Laptops · · Score: 1

    Watch for flash disk sales. afew months ago I got some 1GB SD cards for US$10 each.
    One of those is enough to install your OS. then one or two for data and your good.

  15. Re:Great news. on Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm hoping their amps can now go up to 12 instead of 11


    What? 11 isn't even audible. Personally I leave my volume at 90 most of the time.
  16. Re:yawn on Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment · · Score: 1

    *yawn*


    This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...

  17. AWSOME on Is Your GPS Naive? · · Score: 1

    This is AWSOME! *digs through junk drawers*

  18. yes on Wal-Mart Begins Massive Push For HD DVD · · Score: 1

    is it next year, yet?


    TFA says:

    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005


    So, yes it is. in a way.
  19. I love walmart on Wal-Mart Begins Massive Push For HD DVD · · Score: 0

    Thanks walmart.

  20. No one answer. on Learning More About Linux? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dont have one magic answer.
    Forums are good for getting and sharing information on specific problems as long as the "google it yourself" crowd havent invaded. (how else would you have found the forum?). http://www.linuxquestions.org/ is a good start.
    There are varias wiki's specific to certian subjects.
    And I dont mean to sound rude with this, but please read the man page first. Weather or not you understand it at the time.

    On a side note the best way I have found to learn about something is to break it first. but maybe thats just me.

  21. Re:Great. on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 1

    My comment had nothing to do with the us governments role in the internets creation.
    What I was talking about was the fact that untill recently the internet was "free". The one place you could do or say whatever you want. there was no governing body and local laws were not enforced.

    -normuser

  22. Great. on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 2

    Just what we need. Another bullshit "internet law".
    Does enyone else remember when we had that great internet completely void of government?
    I wish there was a way to bring that back.

  23. Re:DHMO on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    du'oh

    That last line should have been "And yet Dihydrogen monoxide still goes unregulated."

    Submit != Preview.

  24. DHMO on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    "It really is a message from Washington state and policymakers that we won't accept chemicals that build up in our bodies and our children"


    And yet Dihydrogen monoxide? still goes unregulated.
  25. Re:Daylight Saving Time on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 1

    DST shouldn't have had any thing to do with it.
    Caller ID records are the most unreliable type of "record" I know of. They shouldn't have arrested him even if the time matched.