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  1. Re:Is this one of those... on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or is it a land mark case? Some sort of statutory precedent?

  2. Re:Coming back full circle on Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93% · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next up, cooling servers with a bag of frozen peas?

  3. Re:Oh no! on New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, I think they are the type to try and save the Titanic by drilling holes in the floor, so the water will have somewhere to drain out.

  4. Re:Why gas? on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Extreme heat and magnetic forces would make it harder on the payload. Ultra high energy railguns usually need to have thier rails replaced everyfiring. Add in the complexity of, no doubt, hundreds of massive capicitors, it would be like the LHC.

  5. My DNA profile on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would they look at my half Scotish side? Or the German half? Or would they look at it and say I came straight out of a chimp via Africa and Mesopotamia?

  6. Re:hacking on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Provided that you don't give them a reason to pull you over, you'll never have a problem with a cloned license plate. Bonus points if you make sure to use a plate that belongs specifically to the exact same colour/make/model of your car, and you can generally get away with just a ticket if you do get pulled for a moving violation.

    Hacking/skimming RFID passports has be demonstrated, and will only get easier. The same rules apply, as long as you don't arrouse suspicion it is often bussiness as usual.

  7. Re:A Sperm Bank is probably okay on Swedish Regulators Ban Word "Bank" In Domain Names For Non-Banks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine having to audit their liquidity? I believe thier best practices for an audit involve lots of defrosting and shuddering by a third party accounting firm.

  8. New Expansion, many players excited! on First Age of Conan Expansion On the Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    A new expansion drops, and most of the current players are happy. Well of the 4 still playing, Ted perfers things the way they are, but the other 3 are psyched. They will be let down though, the new 4 person raid content is useless unless Ted also buys the expansion.

  9. Re:MMO: the Movie on Comparing the MMO Industry With the Silver Screen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    MMO: The Movie

    Act 1. Scene 1.

    Ext. Bank, Daylight

    The Hero, Heroine, Sidekick and Disposable Guy#1, stand outside the bank, hanging around the mail box.

    Hero: LF Healer, for heroic movie then gtg! Have geared tank, DPS! Must be keyed and exalted rep status!

    ...

    Ext. Bank, Night

    Sidekick: Seriously, screw this. Can't buy a freaken heroic run on this server. That's it, when a new MMO comes Im jumping ship.

    Sidekick leaves party

  10. Re:To be used in court cases how? on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 1

    Lets take a little look at the statistics for criminal justice system.

    The 1997 BSJ figures put the number of American's in prison/jail and on parole/probation at a total of 5,692,500.

    Of Those 5,692,500 inmates, African American's numbered 2,149,900 or 37.8%. The 2000 census (closest used for comparible numbers) lists total number of African American descent population the US at 36,419,434 or 12.9% of the total population.

    The stats say that African Americans are 3 times more likely to be convicted of crimes than they statistically should be.

    Statistically, by your standards of proof, I can argue that African Americans are more likely to be convictable criminals, and by encorporating your facts, conclude they most likely have a brain disorder.

    So my point is to ask, what do we do with them? Do we just lock them up becuase they are statistically pre-disposed to crime? Or do we perhaps look at some other correlating factors? Like poverty, substance abuse, education levels, income etc? Perhaps we should leave the idea, that expressed genetics controls our lives at concious level, back in the 1900s with the rest of eugenics movement.

  11. Re:Cheating on BringIt.com Allows Players to Bet On Console Game Matches · · Score: 1

    I would say its easier to cheat in a video game, but don't forget that pro sports/racing are just as tainted by cheating. If this got bigger, individuals betting on team matches, I'm sure we would be more likely to see point shaving than flagrant hacks. Then again, if the technology existed... Im sure we would see some sort of android golfer botting up the links at least once.

  12. Re:from TFA on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority."

    I think thats more of an apt summary which doesn't imply a bias based on data which lies outside the scope of thier research.

    They were comparing values of vitamins in one to the other, let those facts stand on thier own. There is no nutritional value in sustainability, pesticide use or ecologically sound farming practices nor should any imply as such.

  13. Far more practical on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    How dare you put cursive and blacksmithing into the same group... blacksmithing is far more usefull in today's society. How many jobs can you get solely based on good cursive script? None. But I can get a job as a ferrier or artisan blacksmith, bladesmith etc.

  14. More importantly on Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice · · Score: 1

    More importantly, we are on the threshhold of turning chickens into eggs, thus make the chicken-egg question one of quantum superposition. The chicken can be, both chicken and egg, and many chickens and many eggs *brian explodes*

  15. Re:FTFA - default passwords on Murdoch Paper Reporters Eavesdropped On Celebrities' Voicemail · · Score: 5, Funny

    So we all agree it isn't theft. Its obviously copyright infringement! The penalties in the US would mark it as 100,000$ per voicemail track downloaded.

  16. Virtual murder isn't and cannot be murder. on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1
    Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being. This requires the death of a human being, being the ceasation of life. One cannot commit virtual murder.

    Further more, one cannot commit murder against an artificial intelligence or even an alien (at this moment in most countries).

    To confuse 'killing' avatars in an MMO with murder is rediculous, at its best, rendering an avatar useless against the law would be property damage.

    The photorealistic qualities of games do not change the law, or impart more permanent consequences. Even if a computer peripheral sprays blood on my face after shooting a digital representation of my mom on screen, it doesn't mean I killed her. It may not be great for one's mental health, but neither is entertaining to many realistic daydreams about similar topics.

    Page me when I can actually press a button while playing a game, and a handgun mounted on top of thier monitor shoots someone in face.

  17. My email to my MP on Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches · · Score: 1
    Hello, my name is ***********, one your constituents.

    This is in regards to the tabling of a law regarding warrentless electronic intercepts, links below for refence.

    http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/18/tech-internet-police-bill-intercept-electronic-communications.html

    http://www.news1130.com/more.jsp?content=20090617_213536_8084

    The bill proposes the ability for police to make warrentless intercepts of electronic information with the aid of ISPs. While I believe in the best efforts of the police and our intelligence communities, and I believe in making their job easier, I do not believe this is the path to take.

    This is a fundamental erosion of personal privacy. Warrants for searches are applied for and executed all the time, and justice is well served by the judicial oversight. The point of oversight is to balance the justice of the many against the privacy of the individual. Wholesale disregard for oversight leads to abuse, the police are only human and humans are fallible.

    I also call into question, the scale of which these are laws are designed to help the people. Terrorism and child pornography (while abhorrent) are todays boogeymenm, occupying such a fractional percentage of actual crime. The value of the electronic intercepts a law like this would provide would be minimal in cases of drug/organized crime when compared to phone tapping and physical searches (both of which require warrants).

    There are ways to fight crime; money for more officers, money for investigations, prosecution and witness protection, and better inter-agency communication. We can reduce poverty, increase education, raise the standard of living to fight crime. Eroding the rights of the innocent populance doesn't fight crime.

    Thank you for your time.

    Sincerely,

    *********

    *********

    Vancouver, BC

  18. Re:Dr.Goebbels would love this on German Parliament Enacts Internet Censorship Law · · Score: 1

    The line between liberty and Hitler is a thin one, located in a small strip between the nose and the upper lip.

  19. Re:useful energy is not free on English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates · · Score: 1

    What if they could hook a device up to your engine block, and siphon off all the stored heat residing inside and use it to heat thier water? Its useful free energy (not withstanding the energy required to build such a system). And it would provide a valueable service.

  20. Re:Great... on UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors · · Score: 1

    It's like a breathalyzer for computers. And we all know how well those work.

  21. Re:Still in "friends and family stage"??? on Jumpgate Evolution Delayed · · Score: 1

    A page from the Duke Nukem Forever School of Software Developement.

  22. Still in "friends and family stage"??? on Jumpgate Evolution Delayed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Article says they are in their friends and family stage, which is essentially just end of alpha, pre beta stage. And they were going to release in June? I'm not sure who laid out milestones and delivery dates, but they seriously miscalculated the ammount of time necessary to bring a game from beta to polish. Good MMOs have taken at least 6 months to a year from a close beta to a successful launch. What the hell were they going to change in 2 months? What if one, or maybe two features needed redesigning? It's a good thing they are delaying it then.

  23. Re:Hell yeah - R2-45 on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1
    The situation regarding the prosecution of members Bountiful, BC (to which I think you are refering specifically) is a touchy one. As you say, by prosecuting them under bigamy, they risk having the courts define what is and isn't legal under the charter. There is huge room for interpretation.

    In the broadest view, any restrictive state definitions of marriage would be discriminatory. In the narrowest it would limit the rights of homosexuals to enjoy monogomous marriages.

    I personally can't think they would uphold a bigamy conviction under the charter. The argument that all bigamy is a defacto case of abuse is absurd, there shouldn't be absolutist moral judgements against lifestyle choices codified in our legal system.

  24. Re:Mixed feelings on German Gov To Ban Paintballing After Shooting · · Score: 1

    In my new script, a idealogical lawmaker teams up with a mad scientist, and they use his time machine to travel back to Germany circa 1938 in an attempt to ban paintballing. It irreversably alters the timeline, causing Germany to surrender to France, Russia to become a Democracy promoting peacekeeper nation, England sinks into the sea, and America becomes a communist regime after a southern revolt.

  25. Re:The Real Worry on Looking Back At the Other Kind of Virus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew I shouldn't have had that Vista Capable pacemaker installed... If my heart needs to reboot, my pacemaker better not blue screen.