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  1. Re:MAD already did it.. on LOTR Jumps the Shark · · Score: 1

    What about going to Bayreuth? Isn't that an annual event?

  2. Re:Technies needed for adoption but not wanted on Consumer Problems with Blu-ray and HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    Wait until the first time that they revoke the keys of a disk player.

  3. Re:I knew the DS was big in Japan... on World-Wide Revolution Launch Unneeded · · Score: 2, Funny

    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney :-)

  4. Re:"Tens" of millions of pounds damages on The Beatles, Apple, and iTunes · · Score: 1
    How cute of them. Try hundreds of milliions of pounds.

    Why? The courts are not a lottery. Any damages paid to Apple Records should be based on actual damages suffered by Apple Records due to the dilution of their trademark. Apple Records did not invent or market the iPod, and as far as I am concerned, the value of their trademark is minimal.

  5. Re:Passenger Purposes? on New Jet Engine Tested · · Score: 1

    The Russians already use ramjets in some of their missiles. The SS-N-22 (Sunburn) is a sea-skimming missile that travels at 1500 mph.

  6. Re:The last mile... on New Data Transmission Speed Record · · Score: 1

    It's inherent in the design of the cable modem and the cable network. There is only one uplink channel and each cable modem is assigned a time slot on that uplink channel (TDMA). There can be many downlink channels.

  7. Re:Why is bandwidth measured in Kb on New Data Transmission Speed Record · · Score: 1

    A byte, or octet, is a higher-level concept. When you do the math for communications channels, you work with bits and symbols, not bytes. Also, the prefixes for units are proper SI prefixes, not the non-standard powers of 2 used in the computer industry.

  8. Punishment on New Griefer Punishment - Crucification · · Score: 2, Funny
    Only a week? What a bunch of bleeding-heart liberals.

    In my day, we put their heads on a pike and fed their bodies to the dogs, and we liked it.

    Why not just strip them of their gear, and exile them from the city, never to return on penalty of death.

  9. Re:This should surprise no one (911 horror stories on Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold · · Score: 1

    In many places, if you call that number, assuming you can find it, they'll tell you to call 911, since all dispatching is handled through 911.

  10. Re:Nothing to see here on Vonage Puts VoIP 911 Caller on Hold · · Score: 1

    I've owned pellet guns that could kill or seriously wound small game. A lucky shot could cause serious injury or death to a human. They are not toys.

  11. Re:Some Questions on Cosmic Radiation Speeds up Aging in Space? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a bigger rock (13x larger than helium), and it causes more extensive damage in the cell when compared to helium nuclei. I don't think the exact element is too important. The damage is related to mass and kinetic energy. Iron is just a relatively common element, being the waste product of large stars.

  12. Re:Executive Orders... on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, executive orders only apply to the employees of the executive branch. You can't be tried for violating an executive order.

  13. Re:Decision without officially making one on Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obscenity Case · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't read too much into the court's decision not to hear the case. The court receives far more cases than it could ever hope to hear, and there are many reasons why it may decide not to hear a case, many of which have nothing to do with the issues of a particular case.

  14. Re:Contradiction in terms... on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help thinking of the "final solution" to the Windows problem. My subconscious must want revenge for decades of dealing with Microsoft's drek.

  15. Re:Always the way it goes on DRM More Important Than Life or Security? · · Score: 1

    You watch too much television. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental and unintended.

  16. Re:Like the democrats? on Australian Labor Party Proposes ISP Level Filter · · Score: 1

    There are a very large number of Democrats who are conservative Southern Baptists, the same people who supported prohibition, blue laws, and other legal expressions of social conservatism.

  17. Re:Why on NVIDIA Releases new Budget GPUs · · Score: 1

    Fifty bucks is fifty bucks. That's a lot of money when you are building a low-end PC. Depending on its intended use, that money might be better spent on more RAM or a larger hard disk.

  18. Re:What about pointing? on Shining a Light on Interplanetary Communication · · Score: 1

    The problem is in how many photons make it to the destination. I was watching an interview on television with one of the experimenters for the ALSEP lunar ranging experiment, even with a high-power laser and a bunch of expensive equipment, they were doing well to detect a few photons from each pulse of laser light.

  19. Re:I Want a Tinfoil ROOM on Building a Better Tin Foil Hat · · Score: 1

    You can also do it with copper sheet. The tricky part is doing the doors, windows, ventilation ducts, AC outlets, etc.

  20. Re:US cell market == ripoff either way on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    In the USA, mobile numbers are indistinguishable from wireline numbers. When mobile telephone service was introduced in the USA, they used ordinary wireline telephone circuits, and numbers, to connect the telephone network to the mobile telephone service provider. This meant that the call was billed to the wireline caller as an ordinary telephone call, and the mobile telephone service provider billed the mobile telephone service subscriber for connection charges and airtime on all calls, no matter who originated the call. When cellular telephones were introduced, they continued this arrangement.

  21. Re:US cell market == ripoff either way on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Why should the caller get stuck with a large and unexpected bill for the call because you decided that you wanted a cellular phone.

  22. Re:US cell market == ripoff either way on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 0
    Hell, why would I have to pay to RECEIVE a phone call?

    You are paying for airtime, which is a scarce and expensive resource. Your call is using one of a limited number of channels on an expensive cellular base station.

    It isn't some conspiracy. Its roots go back to the history of the Bell System and the way that pre-cellular mobile telephone service was implemented and billed to the customer.

  23. Shoot Your Lawyer on Suing Google Over Pagerank · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your "constitutional right to free speech" is a restriction on the actions of the federal government, and through incorporation, the states. It does not require any private entity to provide you a forum, listen to you, or to treat you fairly, whatever you think that might mean.

  24. Re:A good fit on The Chinese Socialist MMOG · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Communism is a mountain of corpses. By their acts you shall know them, and not by their words.

  25. Re:free broadband access its called a library on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    My fault, I should have chosen different parents for myself.