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  1. Re:So I will drive with my windows open, NEXT on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 2
    Bad argument.
    With automation you have defects.
    Lord knows that People have No Defects! Their judgement is infallable!
  2. Re:Canada is worse... on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, that also punishes the victim for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Where's the justice in that? How many stories have you heard about a woman who begs police to do something about an ex-boyfriend, but they can't do anything until he carries out the rape/assault/murder that will allow them to?

  3. Re:So I will drive with my windows open, NEXT on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    This device is a gigantic invasion of privacy!
    But shouldn't you give up that privacy given that a) you're in control of a perfect mass-murder weapon and b) might just be intoxicated? You want to get drunk? No problem! Do it at home! But the moment you get into a car, yes, the law should be able to make sure you're not going to kill somebody! The US of A is too concerned with crime punishment and not concerned enough with crime prevenetion.
  4. Re:And the difference from now is? on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 2

    Either a) holiday weekends are, in fact, probably cause to suspect people of drinking, or b) because a roadblock/checkpoint checks EVERYBODY who goes through, it's not unreasonable search.

  5. Re:Problems on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 2
    What are you trying to imply?
    Need I remind you that Prohibition was brought about by a group called, I believe, the Christian Temperance Movement? It's not unreasonable to draw a parallel, or to point out that a religion that a) has a bunch of strictures and b) honestly believes that anybody who doesn't believe is doomed to hell and c) therefore wants to do their best to MAKE people believe "for their own good" is likely to do things like this. And yes, you can parade forth tons and tons of examples of good members of all sorts of religions that would never try this. I can counter with tons and tons of examples, the poor schoolchildren in Ireland being a current example.
  6. Re:Employ NSA-linemuncher-like countermeasures on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 2

    Hell, a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Less likely to be able to give a pissed off cop enough to press an 'open container' charge. "It's the damnedst thing, officer. My wife was trying to clean some nail polish off, when I hit a bump, and the alcohol spilled ALL OVER the sensor, and now it's constantly registering at the top if it's scale."

  7. Re:Monopoly Issues on HP+Compaq Deal Could be Great for Linux · · Score: 2
    Just as Conan wasn't born to chop off James Earl Jones's head.
    Actually, I'd say that Conan was born to do the afore mentioned head removal. Or should I say, reborn on the Wheel of Pain, weaned on the blood of the gladiatorial pits, and taught at the feet of the cruel. Conan! What is best in life?
    To crush your enemies! See them driven before you! Hear the lamentations of their women!
  8. Re:All right, someone has to do it... on Image Detecting Search Engines' Legal Fight Continues · · Score: 2

    Dude, that's weak.
    "In 19xx, images were previewing."
    Search Engine Programmer: What happen?
    Image Indexing Robot: Somebody set up us the law.
    IIR: We get registered letter.
    SEP: What?
    IIR: Main reading lamp turn on.
    Letter: How are you gentlemen???
    Letter: All your indexed image are belong to us!!!
    SEP: What you say???
    Letter: You are on the way to liability. You have no chance to argue, make your time.
    Letter: Ha ha ha!!!
    SEP: Move email.
    IIR: You know what you are doing?
    SEP: For great publicity,
    SEP: send out every email.

  9. Re:Don't Forget Steve... on MenuetOS Debuts · · Score: 2

    Read and learn. Then explore the rest of the site.

  10. Re:Iceland Defense Force on NATO Developing Environment Friendly Weapons · · Score: 2

    I call that "American units, and other NATO units, stationed on Iceland, because in the event of a conventional World War III, the Soviet Union would have tried to close the Sea Lines of Communication between North America and Europe, making Iceland an important part of the SOSUS installations. Furthermore, Iceland makes a good staging ground for aircraft."

  11. Re:Environment on NATO Developing Environment Friendly Weapons · · Score: 2

    Iceland? Nothing beyond a police force, last time I checked.

  12. Re:check out what they're seeing... on Big Brother To Watch Judges? · · Score: 2
    Sounds a little funny-- the volume of traffic is going the wrong way to be a massive data leak
    Actually, the letter quite explicitly states that they log mpgs because they tend to be bloody huge, and degrade network performance (one guy using morpheus can easily saturate a T1) and that, my friends, leads to angry users.
  13. Re:Cowboy Bebop premiering tonight at midnight on Ghost in the Shell 2, Matrix Revisted, Daft Punk · · Score: 2

    I will point out that most of Cowboy Bebop, including the very first episode, was deemed to violent for Japanese TV as well; I believe only 12 episodes were actually broadcast.

  14. Re:WindowsXP in the year 2401 on Windows XP: Prices, And One Reaction · · Score: 2

    Well, whatever you're typing in, it's obviously not English. Otherwise, you'd be familiar with concepts such as capitalization, puncuation, English grammar and sentance structure, and the fact that there are only two English words that are a single character long.

  15. Re:How do you pronounce Sklyarov? on Sklyarov, Elcomsoft Plead Not Guilty · · Score: 2

    sk'el-yar-ov Ooops but that's too lame, so let me throw in some random text. ;alkhflakhdfklahdlkhdgio49087q435oil,wg Is that better, slashcode?

  16. Re:Miscommunication on Sklyarov, Elcomsoft Plead Not Guilty · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The Gods made us all, but Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot rounds made us all equal."

  17. Close on Mice Headed for Mars? · · Score: 1

    Close...by everybody knows the universe will be taken over by Giant Space Hamsters, Giant Fire-Breathing Phase Hamsters, and other such variants.

  18. Re:I can just see it... on Do Games Know The Secret Of UI? · · Score: 3, Funny
    When will I be able to import my Baldur's Gate character into Word?
    Mr Clippy: I'm sorry, you're not experienced enough to change text colors yet. Try underlining it for now!

    Etheria the Wizard: Fool! You do not understand the powers with which you are meddling! Do you not realize the consequences of unleashing such colours upon your document?!

  19. Re:I'm not a great NT admin, but... on A Case for Linux in the Corporation · · Score: 5, Informative
    But aren't individual machines supposed to have their own license numbers? With their new activation technology, isn't MS going to start making it impossible to slide on this?
    No. Take any Microsoft product of recent; say, anything from office2000 up. Probably even earlier, but I can't say. Drop to a cmd prompt, and navigate to the setup program. Then do a 'setup /a' and watch, as in beautiful majesty, the software makes what is called an 'administrative install' which preconfigures the license key, company name, and all that stuff. Then it installs it to a designated location, such as a network share. Then, go to microsoft.com, find the Resource Kit page for your software, lets say Office 2000 again, and download the core tools. You'll likely find something called 'custom install wizard' which you run against this administrative install. This will then take you through from 1 to 40 wizard pages where you customize anything and everything about the install. When it's done, you get an MST, or Microsoft Setup Transform file. Then, using a command such as
    \\myfileserver\myinstalls\office2000\setup TRANSFORMS=mytransformfile.mst /qa-
    you'll get an install, preconfigured, no user input. Just progress bars. Then, using something like SMS, Zenworks, Tivoli, whatever, you automate the installation of these.
  20. Re:I'm not a great NT admin, but... on A Case for Linux in the Corporation · · Score: 2
    What if I had to do 700 of these things?
    Disk images for installs, and Microsoft SMS for software/patch distribution as well as asset tracking.
  21. Re:This, alas, is only a story. on A Case for Linux in the Corporation · · Score: 2
    said the OS crashed frequently
    Then they're doing something wrong.
  22. Re:Asians are doing it on Future of Digital Music in Doubt · · Score: 2

    See, that's kinda funny, because last time I was in Korea, I was listening to CBC Radio over the Internet. And this was three years ago. Video too.

  23. Re:Similar Issues on A Case for Linux in the Corporation · · Score: 2

    Running exchange2000. Unlike 5.5, which has it's own directory service, Exch2000 lives off of the AD. Very nice.

  24. Re:I got that too on MS Security: On A Path As Clear As It Is Reliable · · Score: 2

    Ah yes. Lord knows that outlook isn't an application that can be accessed by the Internet at large by any stretch of the imagination! Why, the very idea that these 'data packets' of which you speak might actually make their way to my email reader is simply preposterous! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Next time, I'll remember the difference between an Internet server and an Internet client, and why it's permissable for one to have security holes, but not the other.

  25. Re:Oops, unexpected outage. on Spammers Stoop To New Low · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Almost sounds as though the judge specifically wants to go through the entire process, check and doublecheck at every step of the way, to provide a rock-solid, bullet-proof, airtight precident against spammers that other courts can then gleefully use to go after spammers double-barrled. Sounds like a good idea to me.