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  1. Re:Question on Court Sets Rules For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection · · Score: 1

    They aren't authorized to investigate system settings

  2. Re:Question on Court Sets Rules For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection · · Score: 1

    On the biometric front, some fingerprint scanners claim to be able to detect duress. Since an unwilling person would necessarily be under duress, no court order could overcome that however compliant the defendant might be.
    Marketing BS

  3. Re:Why the study is worthless, condensed: on More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Yeah but you get more Kudos for killing your self with alcohol.

  4. Re:Units? on More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember being in Ireland and they did something funny like measuring distance in MI and speed in KM, or something like that.

  5. Re:A pretty good one, actually on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Like OMG where's iTunes

  6. Re:I propose... on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    I thought they gave it a life time achievement award because it was on top for the last 10 years.

  7. Re:God uses Linux, Linux implies !C64 on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    Gotta use quotes

    "God uses a $_" PC 1650
    Atari 0
    Smartphone 0
    C64 0
    Amiga 0

  8. Re:Yea, why the fuck not? on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service? · · Score: 1

    http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.html

    That was actually easier than I thought

  9. Re:As Jon Stewart would put it.. on Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form · · Score: 1

    That make head asplode

  10. Re:The Letter Was Written by NCsoft on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 1

    Yeah I saw that but it took a very long time to stop laughing.

    Technically I haven't stopped I'm still giggling about it

  11. Re:The Letter Was Written by NCsoft on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you bother to read the official document [libsyn.com] hosted by GamePolitics, Garriott claims that letter was fabricated while he was in quarantine from his space flight

    I find this sentence very amusing, but I think its because I'm working on the assumption that he is crazy and isn't actually going to space, and he locked him self in his room for a while.

  12. Re:Uh, no on European Union Asks US To Free ICANN · · Score: 1

    They weren't I think it was Patton who asked if he should keep going and deal with the Soviets now instead of later.

  13. Re:non competes only make sense when... on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sounds like an intelligent solution, it'll never work.

  14. Re:End of /.? on Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon · · Score: 1

    Judging from all the comments above yours I don't think it is a bad thing.

  15. Re:Perl? on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1

    This quote needs to be the motto of every coder out there

    Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

  16. Re:Perl? on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1

    Who?

    Oh it needs to be installed, cute.

  17. Re:Perl? on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not so sure, from what I can tell Perl is just a really good community, they know their limitations.

  18. Re:tortured people say anything. on Al-Qaeda Used Basic Codes, Calling Cards, Hotmail · · Score: 1

    This is the thing I've never understood, it seems that any time anyone is against torture they always say "They're saying what you want to hear"

    While I've always been under the impression that the government is incompetent, I've never considered them to be beyond stupid.

    I don't know how actual interrogations work but if I had to guess it would be something similar to what they do on "Law and Order" sit them down and talk to them. Then when they lie they call them out on it. In short they don't take someone into the back room and start wailing on them and believe every thing they say. They already know some information about who they are and what they might know, there are usually multiple prisoners form a site, which are kept separate and you go over it again and again and look for discrepancies in the "collective" story and discern truth from lies. And when they are allowed to torture instead of saying bull, they lean them back and waterboard them.

  19. Re:Too much Mission Impossible? on Al-Qaeda Used Basic Codes, Calling Cards, Hotmail · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Not like that... on OpenBSD 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    It's modded troll because he's acting like one, all good trolls have a degree of truth in them. The use of profanity brought it down, if that was left out I'm sure it would have been up modded. I would absolutely love to move to OpenBSD but I don't really want to give up the 3d support.

    Also I'm by no means a virtualization master, but why would you run a set up like that? You can run OpenBSD from VMware server, which can then run XYZ OS.

  21. Re:I wrote a song about it. Wanna hear it? Here it on OpenBSD 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Jingle Bells, don't you mean Oh Christmas Tree

  22. Re:Dear USA... on US Says Canadian Copyright As Bad As China's, Russia's · · Score: 1

    Canada's laws aren't, I think, generally more enlightened and less restrictive compared to American law. We have some pretty foreboding hate speech laws in Canada and a significant cross-section of the law is still defined in an unwritten common law; but I suppose if your priorities lie in downloading music, marrying other men or smoking pot we must look like quite the utopia. The scary part about all of this is the comparison to China and Russia. The copyright laws in those countries are pretty far from lenient, they're just almost entirely unenforced. This whole story is another lie from the people who brought you the rather quaint notion that most film piracy comes from Canadians recording movies with camcorders rather than the reality of film pre-release DVDs getting leaked from the MPAA.

    http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1218231&cid=27782975

    I have to say I find this rather amusing.

    But on a more serious note, you've never had White Castle. You poor poor bastard, I'll bring up 3 cases (30/case) this weekend.

  23. Re:Comparisons??? on US Says Canadian Copyright As Bad As China's, Russia's · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the explanation.

    There is some speculation that the US is going to end up with something like that as well, the Fairness Doctrine.

  24. Re:Nothing gets fixed until it breaks on ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most of them don't just support it most look for an IP6 address and then fail to IP4

  25. Re:What about my toaster? on ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    well what ever OS base they decide to use for their TOS hopefully they have a good TOS.