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  1. Re:Retroactive Evidence ;) on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    How much payload is there in a bullet?

  2. Re:FireFoxconn on Foxconn Betting Big On Firefox OS · · Score: 3, Funny

    The sound of someone trying out the nets?

  3. Re:Duh, they are a publisher on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is unintentional first degree murder. Bob and Joe decide to hold up a bank but no one gets hurt. Bob, unbeknownst to Joe, is actually planning on using the gun he brought to kill the bank manager because he is dating Bob's ex. Joe knew about the gun, was part of the bank robbery, and being part of the plot to rob the bank is now culpable for the murder.

  4. Re:What a great idea! on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    That would stop you from talking on the phone during the incident, not stop you from recording with the phone, and people are wont to do since they have a convenient camera. Or as the other poster suggested VOIP over WIFI.

  5. Re:Duh, they are a publisher on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I guess I should have used the 'unintentional' qualifier. They unintentionally pulled a bait and switch by making promises they couldn't keep.

  6. Re:Duh, they are a publisher on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 1

    So Sony didn't sell a system for running various media and then later stop allowing those media types from working? I completely understand it wasn't the plan out of the gate. But they sold a general purpose computer with special hardware to allow it to play games and blurays nicely, then they specifically went out of their way to make them not work anymore. How is that not a bait and switch? Because they didn't plan to do it ahead of time?

  7. Re:Duh, they are a publisher on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here is a product that does X, Y, and Z*.

    Disclaimer: We are selling it as X, Y and Z in perpetuity, but in a few years it's going to be only X and Y, and then just X a few years after that. Or X and Z. And eventually X* (because some of X won't be compatible without Y) and Z.

    So, not lying, just bait and switch?

  8. Re:What a great idea! on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    And if you and everyone else in a certain radius say a block or two had their phones killed, what would you think? Possibly that the government wants to hide activity or prevent any collateral damage from being able to get word out who it was that came in the black helicopters? Nah, it would probably just be some hacker.

  9. Re:It'll do a lot for pre-installed Linux too... on XP's End Will Do More For PC Sales Than Win 8, Says HP Exec · · Score: 1

    So a pet rock?

  10. Re:Sounds Horrible on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Well, from your post you list two reasons to use gmail: 1) The web interface 2)the storage on Google's servers.
    So, from that it follows if you stop liking the web interface, you use it for the storage.
    Mind you, there is no reason with this new option to stop liking the interface.

  11. Re:No! on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know right? I hate it when I have new options on how to look at things. I mean, when someone sends me mail I want to go get it out of the mail box and open an envelope, not mess around with some newfangled electronical mail.

  12. A subtle knife has quite the edge.

  13. Re:one on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 2

    So, 3.1?

  14. Re:Somebody, quick! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    I don't watch television. In fact, I don't even own one.

  15. Re:In a perfect world on Sunstone Unearthed From Sixteenth Century Shipwreck · · Score: 1

    He probably got Odin's beard confused with Durin's beard.

  16. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    The point that if you run out of gas the car won't go anymore?

  17. Re:Before commenting, please remember... on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought the Westboro Baptist Church was an atheist business trying to make money in lawsuits by masquerading as a retarded church.

  18. Re:More evidence on Troll Complaint Dismissed; Subscriber Not Necessarily Infringer · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression the discovery in question means the court won't compel the account holder to hand over all of their computers to be forensically investigated, or compel anyone else to do it as part of the legal proceedings.
    Not that they can't investigate by going to the site the file was downloaded from, asking "was this downloaded by an account under the name Bob IPAddress" but the site owner is allowed to refuse.
    I just thought that the court won't do court orders for fishing trips.
    If I had your IP address, and nothing else I shouldn't be able to go to a judge say "he stole my file, now let me take all his computers to look for more evidence" that shouldn't fly.

  19. Re:Is "Securing elections" a euphemism? on Kevin Mitnick Helping Secure Presidential Elections In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously they can't harvest their own snow because it would adversely affect interstate snow harvesting commerce.

  20. Re:Apple lost in court on Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    You might need a merkin if you get a brazilian.

  21. Re:Strange methods on On Second Thought, Polaris Really Does Seem 434 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    About 27 million give or take. 1 AU is ~8.3 light minutes, 525949 minutes per year, 434 years.

  22. Re:Billions of Fricken Dollars on Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport · · Score: 1

    They have incentive for passenger/plane safety. People scared to board an airplane won't buy tickets, and planes are expensive to replace.

  23. Re:Sony shiting on its customers on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    So the Smiths get the new Medal of Duty 2012. Now Little Billy goes to his friends house for the weekend with the game to play it. The next weekend Little Bobby goes to his friends house. The next weekend, Mr Smith brings it to a party.

    Who gets to play it where?

  24. Re:Copyrigt was created because of greedy publishe on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 0

    Sure, you wouldn't want to wait ten years to buy the book. But suppose the publisher waits ten years to publish a book, so they don't have to pay the author anything? Without any way aside from publishers to get books, that could be a real problem.

  25. Re:This will obviously help. on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 2

    So if someone set up a new church in the middle of the area to guide the lost sheep, would they all be forced to move again?