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  1. Re:Grounds to contest? on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    The cop generally doesn't care if you think the person behind you will hit you either. And frequently it is a cop who is riding your bumper or coming up fast trying to scare you into running the red light.

  2. Re:Tangible Personal Property? on California Lawmaker Proposes Music Download Tax · · Score: 1

    I think the equation for this is actually 1/n
    The more you pay (n) the less you end up with. So the trick is not to pay anything and cause a division by 0.

  3. Re:The "3 steps" on Rumors of a 'Whisper Campaign' Forming Against Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I'm curious if states like Arizona and New Mexico have though about applying the 3/5 clause to illegal aliens. It seems there are a lot of people who don't want them to be "free Persons".

  4. Re:The Earth in danger from microscopic black hole on Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Black Hole · · Score: 1

    because there's no "friction" on the black hole.
    Ha! I knew all stuff I was learning in physics about frictionless perfect spheres would be useful somewhere!
  5. Re:Is it smaller than this one? on Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Black Hole · · Score: 1

    A google search for the mass of the earth and sun (5.9742e42 kg and 1.98892e30 kg) would indicate a black hole massing 3.8 times the sun would be ~1.2 million times the mass of the earth.

    Anyone have a few million earths so I can make a black hole to destroy the earh?

  6. Re:RFID Limited Range? Ha, Ha, Ha! on NXP RFID Cracked · · Score: 1

    I've read one of these cards from over a mile away.
    Unfortunately my gigawatt Tesla coil killed everyone within 40 feet.

  7. Re:bad.. on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 1

    In regards to the first paragraph from your quote. RDRAM wasn't licensed because until Intel started showing an interest in it there was very little demand. However, Intel never really seemed to show a longterm interest in RDRAM so production never really picked up. And Intel's interest may have only been in grabbing 100k shares of Rambus for cheap (perhaps Intel knew and hoped to capitalize on Rambus's intentional subversion of the standards process). While the depressed DRAM prices surely didn't help RDRAM, it doesn't change the fact that RDRAM was always going to be more expensive than DRAM. RDRAM is more complex, has a large die size, and higher licensing fees than DRAM (ignoring the current patent claims this article is about).

    To the second paragraph from your quote, The "price-fixing scheme" was collusion by the manufacturers to drive up the price of DRAM. In combination with the initially depressed prices of DRAM this can possibly be seen as a type of bait and switch tactic to hurt RDRAM. Yet, I have have seen no evidence that the "price wars" in DRAM were anything more than the 'great free-market' at work, and done intentionally to drive RDRAM from the market. And lets not forget that Intel wile supporting RDRAM, was basically only using it in its high end systems. So the only PC market for RDRAM was a system with a $1000+ CPU/MB combination.

    From a technical perspective RDRAM was a short term solution for the need for more RAM bandwidth between PC133 and DDR.

  8. Re:bad.. on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 1

    How exactly was the price fixing hurting Rambus' RDRAM?
    The problem was the major manufactures colluding to increase the price of DRAM and DDR DRAM.

    RDRAM failed because it really didn't meet the needs of the time. Even with the DRAM price increases, RDRAM was too expensive and had too much latency.

  9. Re:Fist fights at 30,000 feet. on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some people do not realize that just because they have a hard time hearing someone on their cellphone does not mean the other person can't hear them so they must yell.

  10. Re:Business model on Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you can tell our leaders how to get to step #4.
    So far its been s/PROFIT/LOSS/

  11. Re:Hmm... on Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan · · Score: 1

    However I heard that the Capitol lawns were already a little brown an could use another Thacher, to pull out the dead stuff.

    p.s. yes, I know her name was spelled Thatcher

  12. Re:If it wasn't for arnold ... on California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt · · Score: 1

    I am more thankful for his earlier works of stopping crazy snake cults and assisting hot female barbarians.
    And perhaps his work as a kindergarten teacher.

  13. Re:States the Last Hope? on California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt · · Score: 1

    If REAL-ID takes even a handfull of their tricks, you won't see a lot of these faked (especially if it becomes a federal crime to do so, not a local misdemeanor!)
    But if all you have is a faked REAL-ID does that mean you don't have to appear in the federal courthouse for your trial?
  14. Re:Sad bunch on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    Because putting children in a microwave is only a Modest Proposal?

  15. Re:justification too low to enter someone's home on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 2, Informative

    Consequently, I personally would rather die in defending my home against an FBI raid based on some honeypot vs. any "day in court". Patrick Henry and Socrates had it right, freedom xor death.

  16. Re:Stating the obvious problem on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    Yet, in terms of totally fucking your life, it hardly matters if you are convicted of child molestation or statutory rape.
    To the average neighbor you are a child molester, and for the employer you are a former felon.

  17. Re:I would have read the article before replying on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    I've been running a simple MAC filter for a long time, mainly because my older router doesn't seem to do WPA or WEP well. Living in a somewhat rural area, I haven't been concerned enough about the insecurity of the MAC filter to justify the expense of a router upgrade, but shit like this makes spending ~$60, on my broke college budge, a no brainier.

  18. Re:Eliminate environment that is a criminal incuba on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    But if people are no longer criminals how are we going to control them.

    You can't reasonably trust that free man walking down the street beside you.
    He very well may decide it is his freedom to rob, rape and murder you.

  19. Re:Microsoft's response on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Looks like he got sucked out before seeding the atomosphere of Mars. Start the reactor Quaid!

  20. Re:Innovation on Patent Troll Attacks Cable, Digital TV Standards · · Score: 1

    Only if the nukes get dropped from space...its the only way to be sure.