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  1. Re:The Question I'd Put to Him on George W. Bush Live From Facebook · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And he'd probably answer with an exasperated NO, since he's answered that question the same way to idiots like you for years.

  2. Re:Slashdot Poll on Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day · · Score: 1

    What about,"I was born on Cowboy Neal"?

  3. Re:THOUGHT NEW ORLEANS WENT ATLANTIS !! on Computer Crashed New Orleans Real Estate Market · · Score: 1

    When was that, when Katrina hit FIVE YEARS AGO?

  4. Re:Probably breaks lots of web sites on HTTPS Everywhere Gets Firesheep Protection · · Score: 4, Informative

    Um, no. That would be pretty dumb. IF the site has an https page, it directs to that. If not, it doesn't.

  5. Re:I'm torn on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    In the US anyway, the phone companies have their own power backups for when the power goes out. However, if a tree falls on your power line and cuts both the power and the phone lines, then yes both will be out. If you have a cordless phone with no UPS, then will not work either.

  6. Re:Obligatory on Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty Black Ops Edition · · Score: 1

    Also, IRL, it's really hard to shoot offscreen to reload.

  7. Re:Technically Legal on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Right, and who lobbied Washington to put those loopholes in place? Poor people?

  8. Wait, what? on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Someone stole a 10-year old laptop? How much is that worth on the black market? More than the thumb drive possibly. Or maybe he just really needed a machine on which to test DSL.

  9. Re:I still can't understand how this all came to p on Zuckerberg's Side of 'The Social Network' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, Mark knows about friendster. Check out his profile.

    http://profiles.friendster.com/950378

  10. Re:Mobilize the mob on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sounds like the mobs of angry Muslims after the Mohammed drawings. "How dare they insinuate Muslims are violent! Kill them all!"

  11. Re:Intercourse, Pennsylvania on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 1

    I guess it would depend on which direction you were going, wouldn't it? I live in Strasburg. You from the area?

  12. Re:slacker geo-hack on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 1

    In order to make passwords more secure, we will no longer be using overhead views.

  13. Re:Intercourse, Pennsylvania on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 1

    Blue Ball is on the way to Intercourse, right before Paradise. Bird in Hand isn't far away either.

    I'm serious.

  14. Re:Let me guess the results in advance on Largest Simulated Cyber Attack To Date · · Score: 1

    If when I open the box, the cat will be either dead or alive. Thank you for proving my point.

  15. Re:Let me guess the results in advance on Largest Simulated Cyber Attack To Date · · Score: 1

    Yes, I also predict it will either pass or fail! There has never been another result of a test.

  16. Re:Artificial Stupidity on Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't believe that it's possible to design and build an AI. This is partly because the best and only thinking computers we know of (brains), were not designed at all, they evolved.

    So we can't design anything that evolved? Viruses evolved, and we made one of those.

  17. Re:Pretty sad. on Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, there's a study that shows when people swear after getting hurt that it has a therapeutic effect. As in, hitting your thumb with a hammer accidentally and yelling Goddamit When you hold it in, it makes it worse. So I make a point to swear when I hurt myself, and I do feel better immediately.

  18. Re:Civilization 'V' on First Reviews of Civilization V · · Score: 3, Funny

    It refers to Rocky V, which was the fifth movie. It stood for Very.

  19. Re:Wild Animals Should Stay In the Wild on Opossums Overrun Brooklyn, Fail To Eliminate Rats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Boy, we've come a long way from our humble beginnings on the savanna when one raccoon is scary. Maybe you could try using a human femur as a club, or even a boomstick.

  20. Re:Use CASH on Credit Cards That Think They Are Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I have a great credit union, and they don't charge me. But many banks out there do. I also carry cash, but I don't plan out my purchases far ahead of time to ensure I have adequate cash at all times.

  21. Re:Use CASH on Credit Cards That Think They Are Gadgets · · Score: 1

    It also costs me money to take out cash, but I don't get an extra fee for using a credit/check/debit card. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I use my check card for everything and check my balance daily to make sure I enough money. And I even call myself an adult.

  22. Re:Is it water proof? on Credit Cards That Think They Are Gadgets · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. Says it in TFA.

  23. Re:Erm on Credit Cards That Think They Are Gadgets · · Score: 4, Informative

    AS TFA points out, there are 16 million credit card readers out there. Instead of making them all RFID readers, just use the existing infrastructure. And this would potentially reduce the size of your wallet, not increase it, by allowing you to carry just one programmable card instead of many.

  24. Re:What is your name? What is your quest? on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    Right. He should have said otherwise unladen.

  25. Re:The DVDs on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    That means nothing to me. Please use standard units like Libraries of Xongress, telephone directories, African male elephants' weight in micro SD cards.