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  1. Re:The real issue: U.S. government corruption. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 2

    They have to prove intent to get a conviction. There is a lot they can do without bothering to take something to court to make a person's life miserable.

  2. Correct, right wing governments are an effect of industry seizing government, not a cause of government seizing industry. However the end result is the same. Industry and government in an incestuous relationship where they become the same thing.

  3. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 0

    It's only deceptive if you're a god damn moron.

  4. Re:Oh Canada... on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: 2

    It's because Americans all think of themselves as rich people who just aren't rich yet, and they sure as shit don't want to spend their when-i'm-rich money on taxes going to poor people.

  5. Re:I've been waiting for this... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In many places these draconian anti-speech laws are popular with the local people. This would not end the way you think it would.

  6. the rich don't like that on Aaron Swartz's Estate Seeks Release of Documents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sadly the only lesson that the DOJ seems to want to teach anyone is "don't fuck with the rich"

  7. Re:Invention? on Japanese Military Invents Tumbling, Flying Sphere · · Score: 1

    That's what everyone says about inventions.

    "I could have done that"

    But you DIDN'T. Therein lies the difference.

  8. Re:Financial Industry on Taking a Look At High-End Programmer Salaries · · Score: 1

    You're confusing what banks do with OUR money (read: normal people) which is put it on OS/2, win95, etc systems, with what they do with THEIR money (read: corporate and high-net-worth individuals), which is spare no expense to make sure it is maintained and grows consistently.

  9. Re:I'm going to quote an old robot saying on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1

    He'll probably be able to get out of jury duty without much trouble.

  10. I'm gonna have to say... on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    no. Is this really a question?

  11. Re:Kids these days? on Android Software Piracy Rampant · · Score: 1

    parent post appears to be thinking that you're talking about ROMs from old video game consoles and probably doesn't have an android phone. Being able to manage your android ROMs is damn useful.

  12. Re:Banking and Democrat Change on Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    The Franklin Raines part of your comment is a complete fabrication. He is not, and has never been, an Obama advisor. Even the article you link to doesn't make that statement.

  13. Microsoft called... on A Look At the Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and they want their win95 widgets back.

    I would be quite upset if a GUI toolkit that looked like windows 95 wasn't quick on a 500MHz cpu. Win95 itself was blazing fast on hardware of that speed.

  14. Re:If we start shining huge lasers into space on Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? · · Score: 1

    if you've taken a look at most of the slashdot userbase I don't see how you can think that blinding sex-starved space babes would be a bad thing. what they don't see can't hurt us.

  15. Re:Hoping for the worst on Why the PS3's February Sales May Be Misleading · · Score: 1

    The PS2 was (and still is) less powerful than the Dreamcast, however it was a far better system because of games and 3rd party support.

  16. Re:he has it coming on TSA Now Investigating Boarding Pass Hacker · · Score: 1

    What he did was illegal but it was not wrong. While this is a point of semantics, it is a very important one.

  17. bah on 34 ISPs Subpoenaed By U.S. Government · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck does the government insist on spending it's god damn time fucking looking for porn....

    Do they even PRETEND to actually care about the security of this country?

  18. Re:"we don't want to support piracy" on Xbox 360 Backup Discs Bootable · · Score: 1

    That doesn't quite fit the definition of "very little trouble"

  19. Re:Competitiveness on Xbox 2 to Release in Fall of This Year · · Score: 1

    and it only took how many years?

  20. Re:Stern.. on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    So in other words you don't know anything about the man?

  21. RTFA on JVC First With A HD-Based Consumer Camcorder · · Score: 0

    If anyone reads the article they'll know that this is NOT a hard drive based camcorder. It is a flash-based camcorder. Almost every digital camcorder you can buy now has been based on tape (digital-8 or mini-dv) -AND- flash media. Sony Camcorders do Memory Stick(of course), Canon's do SD cards, other manufacturers also use SD and CF. This camera simply uses ONLY flash memory. The fact that it comes with a CF-TypeII Microdrive doesn't make it hard drive based, any my than my Canon Powershot S50 digital camera is a "groundbreaking hard drive based digital camera". This is as hard-drive based as any other device that will accept Type-II compact flash. Not that impressive, all they did was simply REMOVE the tape assembly and include a 4GB MicroDrive (which is a good idea, but nothing earth-shattering)

  22. Re:SOMEbody's bitter! on Dell CEO Tells All · · Score: 1

    The photo R300 is an epson,just to be nitpicky. It does have cheap cartridges and the print quality is great (R300, R200, and R300M are all identical internally and can all print on cd media, the R200 simply lacks a built in media card reader)

  23. Re:For those who want PPC970 without getting a Mac on A History of PowerPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gotta love the "Add to Cart" buttons on the POWER 275 workstation page :)

  24. Re:pawn shops on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 1

    The two gamestops around my place (northwest houston area) have both been very strict with the collection of my information everytime I've sold something there, which has been between half a dozen and a dozen times, it used to annoy me, but now I'm quite glad about it, as I certainly don't want to buy something there, and end up finding out it's stolen and have the police come take it from me and give it back to it's owner and find myself out of $XXX.

  25. Re:Well, EB broke at least one law on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 1

    getting on the hall of shame for knowingly accepting stolen property (or at least accepting it without question or even watning to know) will get them a lot more sales from those who STEAL property.