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  1. Re:Really? on Google Privacy Counsel Facing Criminal Charges · · Score: 1

    It's simpler than that. Whoever's jurisdiction it is gets to set the laws. Enter their jurisdiction, be subject to their laws. If a country wants to arrest people who upload racy pictures on myspace who later enter their country, well, they can. Fair? Doesn't enter into it.

  2. Re:Why? on WarCloning, the New WarDriving? · · Score: 1

    Is there any evidence that they were worse?

  3. Re:sony on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't installing BHOs that are not asked for and cannot be uninstalled without hacking pretty much the definition of malware?

    Give the guy a chance, he's only been in for two weeks...

    Rich

  4. Re:Aged badly on Red Dwarf To Return, Find Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    ITV axed Men Behaving Badly

    What did they axe them?

  5. Re:Interested in free printer chips and ink formul on CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting idea. I think open source toner might be a bit tricky (likely the manufacturing process is difficult) but it certainly might be possible to work out the components for an open source driver board that could be used as a module in existing printers, bypassing the "chips" and allowing the simple use of third party toner. It might then be possible to move forward with open source printer hardware from there.

  6. But what can you really do? on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 2, Funny

    Information wants to be free. And this is information with military training.

  7. It's not just the Army on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 5, Funny

    I also recently purchased a used IPOD and found important naval information stored on it, most notably recruitment details describing how new recruits would be able to

    • Learn Science Technology
    • Learn to fly
    • Play in sports and skin dive
    • Study oceanography
    • Sign up for the big band
    • Or sit in the grandstand

      When your team and others meet

    • sail the seven seas
    • put your mind at ease
    • join your fellow man

    amongst other available activities. In the interests of national security, I deleted the file in question immediately.

  8. Re:This is just awful. on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    Haven't you switched on the box recently? The destruction is complete.

  9. Re:Breakthrough Screens and Women on Ink Breakthrough Heralds Bendy PC Screens · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wider than they are tall?

  10. Re:Yes, but... on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't be the first appliance with concrete in. Take a look inside a washing machine sometime (I'm not sure if they all have concrete in but the one I took apart did). Dampens the oscillations on the spin cycle.

  11. Re:Scientists! on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 1

    He said $0.50, not $0.05. And PIC is capable of running minimal ethernet with an interface chip. Probably UDP would be sufficient for such an application in any case but the Microchip website contains an example perfunctory web server.

  12. Re:Won't be useful to many people on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 1

    No, because the system described relates to peak energy usage, not total energy usage. If I run the dishwasher and washing machine at the same time, it uses the same energy as using them at different times.

    Given that this is Spain, I expect the issue is rather old infrastructure that is unable to cope with the needs of modern power usage. In order to defer upgrading, the power company has placed restrictions on how much load individual users can apply.

  13. Re:There are quite a few ways to extend functional on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 2, Funny

    more than 50% of my electricity usage was going towards making food lukewarm.

    Welcome to slashdot, Ronald McDonald.

  14. Re:Why wasn't this tagged 'edison v. tesla'? on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Why wasn't this tagged 'edison v. tesla'? on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    There are computer PSUs out there that take 12V in. That would be a start.

    Rich

  16. Re:Extracurricular activites on Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills · · Score: 1

    ^This. My daughter is homeschooled and has many, many extracurricular activities per week (more than I had when I attended public school, particularly when the teachers went on strike and suspended extracurricular activities) as well as some group-based learning. And as an ancestor poster mentioned, there's a lot to be said from learning behavior from adults instead of the lord-of-the-flies environment of mass schooling.

  17. Re:I tried to watch some of his speech. on Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES · · Score: 1

    Tell me about my email client.

  18. Re:Really that big deal? on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    Scam? I think you have a misunderstanding of what the point of insurance is. Whether it is good value is another matter entirely.

  19. Re:Fond memories on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 1

    What's your address? I have three I need to get rid of.

  20. Re:I can see it now... on Google Router Rumors · · Score: 1

    $ ping -v

    ping v1.0.5 Copyright 2008 Verisign Inc

    Mystery solved.

  21. Re:Last sentance is incorrect. on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't forget they'll still work for VCRs and 8-bit micros.

  22. Re:The "new channels" on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1

    We have two new channels called Qubo and Ionlife, the first has cartoons & the second has some decent enough stuff. There is also a new Spanish channel. No interest for me except that they carry Mr Bean which is equally watchable/unwatchable in any language.

    There's also NPT2 and a bunch of God channels, the latter of which we may have got before but I disabled on the Tivo (and will be disabling on the MythTV once I get around to it).

  23. Re:Why is the government even subsidizing this? on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1

    These are my thoughts exactly. There is no way these boxes are $50 technology. Expect to see them in Big Lots for $8 before very much longer.

  24. Re:Well, no... on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I met up with my friend from the UK in NY this summer. He's lived many places in the UK including London and said he wouldn't mind living there for a year. A lot of it is what your expectations are. Personally, I prefer a bit more green myself. I certainly could get along there though.

    About the only negative experience was that the hotdogs suck. I don't know why the NYers carp on about them so much.

  25. Re:Just visit Manhattan on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 1

    I finally made it to NY (Manhattan) this summer for a few days. I was actually surprised on how uncrowded (pedestrian wise) it was. Not a patch on London (or even Brighton or many other English cities).

    I was also surprised at how clean it was and how not-rude the people were compared to what I had been led to believe. I put the latter down to many people not being aware how it is necessary to interact when things start to get crowded and mistaking necessity for rudeness.