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  1. Re:Daft Punk on Tron: Legacy · · Score: 1

    I saw the light suits in use at a Blue Man show a year or two ago. Even in the nose-bleed seats they looked laser-light-show good. So if they wanted old Tron level glow I'm sure it could have been done. But I didn't mind as the suits fit with the rest of the scenery.

  2. Re:So what on Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked · · Score: 1

    Option B: Get yourself tested after waiting long enough for the disease to have a chance to show up on the test.

    If you find out a partner has had tests you get the results instantly. Some things have an incubation period.

  3. Re:Plain but classy, and balanced on Swiss Bank Has 43-Page Dress Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well men don't really have anywhere near the options women do in most dress codes (and men's clothes generally don't have clevage/cut/hemline issues) so it follows that most of the dress code would be about what the women can and can't do.

  4. Re:This doesn't sound like a good idea on US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier · · Score: 1

    Automobiles really went down hill after they replaced the tiller and manually adjusted carburetors. Now any idiot (with no servants to walk in front carrying flags) can operate a horseless carriage!

  5. Re:Yea I'm a contractor too on Cablegate, the Game · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

    Actually, if you're not part of the solution you are part of the precipitate. Saying someone is either part of the solution (x)or part of the problem ignores people that are completely neutral to the situation. Of course narrow-mindedness and binary thinking is the new enlightened so maybe I should just get with the times.

  6. Re:Assange also claimed a poison pill if arrested on Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions · · Score: 1

    If it's not bullying then why all the hype about upcoming releases and the insurance file? Why not just do what they are theoretically supposed to be doing an release them without all the grandstanding and saber rattling?

  7. Re:Here is the thing about banking... on Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions · · Score: 0

    Ahh, the old "It isn't violence if it isn't physical". I'd expect as much from people who have twisted stealing similarly when it eases their conscience.

  8. Re:Counting down on Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions · · Score: 1

    *Tries* to DDoS them.

    Their attempt at Amazon went so well that they said they never tried it in the first place.

  9. Re:Our advise is to place your funds somewhere saf on Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions · · Score: 1

    And don't forget the damning one about Medvedev being Robin to Putin's Batman. That one really exposed the corruption in our government.

  10. Re:So, the system works? on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    Inferred, not missed. The main point was Wal-Mart people buy only on price.

  11. Re:I say potato and you say.. on Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    So Achilles can never catch the tortoise?

  12. Re:So, the system works? on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    And by boxer I mean horizontally-opposed. Not that /. is full of pedants...

  13. Re:So, the system works? on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    And their demand is making the other makers play the "me too" game.

    Why anyone would want a V-twin shakemonster over a smooth-as-glass boxer engine is beyond me, but apparently enough people want the rumble so Honda dropped the Valkyrie for the VTX.

  14. Re:So, the system works? on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    The rise of Wal-Mart is a sign that when people are exposed to the Sam Vimes theory of boots they don't go "wow, you can save money by being rich by being able to buy the $50 boots that last ten times longer" and instead go "wow, you can buy boots for $10".

  15. Re:I say potato and you say.. on Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    "Then why are jurors ever permitted to be educated adults?"
    Perhaps so that they can use their prior knowledge and experience in interpreting the evidence presented to them?

    "What is the difference between looking up and knowing a definition prior to the trial and looking up and learning it during"
    One is before the trial, the other is during. That is the difference. The court is responsible for presenting evidence during the trial so they don't like someone going off and gathering their own that hasn't been run past them first. Whatever a person brings with them is screened before they are admitted to the jury. If either side has an issue with them they are not picked for the jury. Once on the jury the court has to control the evidence.

  16. Re:wow... on Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    "No but the judge is in charge."

    Ouch, bad thing to say around here. Someone in charge is someone that call tell you what to do and the groupthink here says that's a bad thing. The only thing that can tell you what to do is the GPL and only because that is the word of RMS (blessed be his beard).

  17. Re:FOXNews has a problem not all of libertarianism on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    It's a "we didn't lose, they cheated" thing.

  18. Re:Good luck on First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas · · Score: 1

    Considering that many here demand to get noise they barely consider music (and don't even like it) for free the person that copied your work and gave it away for free would be lauded as a hero of the people.

  19. Re:Obligatory on Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months · · Score: 1

    Some ip addresses and MACs won't be spoofed. Someone will slip up. And then that everyone shrinks to someone.

  20. Re:Yo, Jimmy, I've got an idea: on Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already? · · Score: 1

    With all the hype they should really drop the humble.

  21. Re:Yo, Jimmy, I've got an idea: on Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already? · · Score: 1

    I pay for many services I could normally get for free. Both because I want to reward them monetarily and because I wish to use their services in the future which necessitates their continued existence.

  22. Re:Yo, Jimmy, I've got an idea: on Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already? · · Score: 1

    The examples were deemed original research and non-notable thus flagged for speedy deletion.

  23. Re:SO fucking stupid. on Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months · · Score: 1

    So it's like how the Tea Party doesn't exist because there's no central leadership?

    Scotland Yard is probably interested in if someone *was* in Anonymous, which can't be changed on a whim.

  24. Re:youre on /., a geek or a nerd, and you dont car on Today's WikiLeaks News · · Score: 1

    Leaking documents that are equivalent to "Water is wet, the sky is blue, and fire is hot." is not productive.

  25. Re:youre on /., a geek or a nerd, and you dont car on Today's WikiLeaks News · · Score: 1

    How about if I say Assange is an egomaniac and Palin, Liberman, and every other politician at the federal level are all egomaniacs? Is that better?

    Wikileaks should stop Assange's little feud with the US and get back to doing something productive.