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  1. Re:Side effect on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    OTOH, don't accidents that take place with the front/back of one car meeting the front/back of another car tend to be far less dangerous than a T-bone?

    Maybe, but I'm still dealing with the effects of a whiplash injury from a rear-ender four years later. YMMV.

  2. Re:Congrats! on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    Eh? Did you just call the shuttle a "hobby rocket"?

  3. Re:And then? on New Laser System Targets Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    Not a clever idea. The main food of wasps is other insects, usually the pest varieties. Leave them alone, and they will leave you alone. If you let them get into your house, catch them and put them outside again. I find an old yoghurt pot and a piece of card is adequate for the task.

    If the outside of your house is blanketed by wasps, I assume your house is made of wood. The wasps are getting wood pulp to make paper to build their nests with. Treat your wood with something that will make the wasps go elsewhere.

  4. Re:From across the pond on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not a problem! We just declare 31st April European Pi Day instead!

  5. Re:Isn't there already energy in the spin on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    Can't we just extract it without having to put some in first?

    Sure, if you want to end up living on a neutron star.

  6. Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    You make coffee out of Cuban cigars?

  7. Re:Or I will gouge out your eyeballs... on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...desperately tries to get head round the idea of fucking a shellfish...

  8. Re:Puppet ... I looked at Puppet, and i am NOT on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone make a distro that is designed to forensically one's own network from outside

    Did you accidentally the verb?

    Seriously, why not look at ltsp? A different approach, maybe, but it ensures that all workstations are singing from the same sheet.

  9. Re:Oklahoma? on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    and screw anything that moves, without protection.

    You could have phrased that last bit a little more carefully...

  10. Re:Kdawson on Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding · · Score: 1

    Business owners don't think like 2 year olds

    You don't know a lot of business owners, do you?

  11. Re:Fraud on Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective · · Score: 1

    Change "casino" in your post to "government"... and I think your post reads just as accurately.

  12. Re:This is pretty standard on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: 1

    On January 19, 1992, Magistrate Noel ordered that Klayman pay Universal "any costs, including attorney's fees, incurred by the plaintiff in attending the aborted December 4, 1992, settlement conference" and that Trifed be fined $6,708, "which represents the sum of money [Trifed] thought it would save in air fare by reason of [Trifed's] willful violation of the court's order." The district court affirmed the magistrate judge's sanction order on April 2, 1993.

    That sounds like fun. How much does it cost to run a private Learjet these days?

  13. Re:E-Reader for Newspaper makes some sense on Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers · · Score: 1

    Having worked in IT for 25 years, got dot-commed out in 2002 and was a (van) courier for four years. You spend a fair bit of time waiting for jobs (when you're not run off your feet :) and I had a Palm m505 from a previous job. Loaded up loads of books to read while waiting in the office (thanks Jim Baen). Still use it, in fact. Job comes in, press the power button and I'm on the road. Layover somewhere eating lunch? Out comes the Palm. Much better than filling up the cab with paperbacks.

  14. Re:Free Wikipedia Access? on Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers · · Score: 2, Funny

    and not have to worry about all that paper left lying around the house 8)

    I don't think putting a kindle under the parrot is going to do the kindle much good...

  15. Re:DRM for text is a really ridiculous idea on Amazon Caves On Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    No one places DRM type restrictions on my purchase of an automobile, house, or TV set.

    Bought a TV with HDMI/HDCP lately?

  16. Re:One last advantage on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    And the best part is that if you forget your reader at the beach, you don't have to bother going back to get it because it will be gone!

    ...but the books haven't, because they're backed up on my server!

  17. Re:At least there's a vendor involved on Book Publishers Making the Same Mistakes as Record Labels? · · Score: 1

    You'll have trouble finding a publisher who's OK with you giving your books away.

    Seemed to work for Jim Baen (see links above).

  18. Re:Next time.. on Comet Lulin Closest To Earth Tonight · · Score: 2, Funny

    No biggie. I'll catch it next time.

  19. Re:Ubuntu on Which Distro For an Eee PC? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not so. My son got a 901 and the wired network worked out of the box. For the wireless, about 5 minutes googling found us the answer - a misconfiguration problem that updating a config file (I forget which one - this was 6 months ago) fixed.

  20. Re:First questions first on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    What exactly the fuck does being elected (or not) have to do with promoting free speech? Nothing. There is nothing at all which prevents someone who hasn't been elected to any body, for example you or me, championing free speech.

  21. Re:No more routers...think of the children on How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet · · Score: 1

    I suggest a system based on gaffer tape and chicken wire.

    I thought that was what the current system was.

  22. Re:Impacts are good on Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets · · Score: 1

    I thought we were still voting for lizards. Isn't that a requirement to be a politician?

  23. Re:That's so easy I could do it! But I didn't. on UK University Making Universal Game Emulator · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that the study of history is a pointless thing to do?

  24. Re:First collision on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Idiot. Try colliding two cars at high speed and see how many pieces result from the collision. I bet it's greater than two.

  25. Re:Sub $500? on Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable · · Score: 1

    The channel guide scrappers that are currently used with MythTV break every couple of months, what's keeping that from happening with Hulu?

    If you're still using scrapers with Mythtv you're doing it wrong. If you're in the US/Canada use Schedules Direct. Anywhere else there's a standard XMLTV updater.