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  1. Re:cool! on Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Digital != HD.

  2. Re:Low income? on Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone · · Score: 1

    Sounds about right, if >$250K is middle class as Clinton and McCain have explained.

  3. Re:One of the reason many poor stay that way on Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone · · Score: 1

    An article in the AJC earlier in the year was showing the plight of the homeless in Atlanta, the impact of the story fell on its face as all but two of those pictured had a cell phone

    Actually, if you're homeless and genuinely looking for work a cell phone should be your top priority. How else are you going to set up interviews or hear if you got the job?

  4. Re:New Bill on Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks · · Score: 1

    It costs $1.50 to send a money order, which is fine for a large value but not good for sending $2.56.

  5. Re:Laptops on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    So steal vally_manea's laptop. Problem solved.

  6. Re:XP is what to beat - not Vista on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    I thought consumers skipped Win2K because it wasn't a consumer version of Windows, it was the server/corporate version. WinME was the consumer version before XP.

  7. Re:Is this news? on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Oh, and as far as faster boots... it takes forever to boot Kubuntu. That's one of the reasons I haven't rebooted in several months.

  8. Re:Is this news? on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    I've always assumed that Linux outperformed contemporary Windows equivalents

    Bad assumption. A decade ago, my computer ran Windows '95 well but didn't have enough RAM to do anything graphical in Red Hat. System requirements are always distribution-dependant.

  9. Re:A couple decades more likely on Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    Halfway puts you in interstellar space. That gives you zero sunlight or particles to power your ion engines.

  10. Re:Same thing with the World Series on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    Actually, baseball doesn't allow watching games live online that are being shown on TV. You can only watch out of market, non-national games unless you're outside the U.S. or you watch the archives later.

  11. Re:Anything for non americans? on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't go to Yale if you are retard

    You do if your daddy is one of the most influential people in the country and he wants you to.

  12. Re:Yes on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    If you look at the assortment of "third" party candidates, America would lose even worse if they won (with the possible exception of Nader if you're a socialist).

  13. Re:Commericial viabile minerals? on NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars · · Score: 1

    Even if you do it bulk, the cost per ounce to fly gold from Mars to Earth is much, much, much higher than the value of gold. Or any other mineral.

  14. Re:Not to rain on this parade but... on Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    we simply won't have enough sunlight to make the engine run once is starts to fade away from the centerish part of our solar system.

    You don't need or want the engine to keep running, though. You build up your speed in the inner solar system, set your trajectory and turn the engine off.

    The real problem with ion engines is that you'll be moving way too fast to gather enough sunlight to slow down in the destination solar system.

  15. Re:A couple decades more likely on Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    The theoretical upper limit of an ion engine gets you there in about 100 years, and doesn't offer you any way to stop, your probe better snap very quick pictures.

  16. Re:Safe Harbor made innovation work on 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web" · · Score: 1

    Perjury is for lying. If you had a good faith belief, you didn't lie, and certainly shouldn't be convicted of perjury. Your absurdly low standard would mean anybody could be trapped into perjury conviction.

  17. Re:fair voting interface on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 1

    And, believe it or not, there are other issues on the ballot besides the presidency which are quite important and have varying numbers of options.

  18. Re:What about Eval? on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 1

    You have to escape the $ as well, and include a closing quote. But as Rasmus says, "If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question."

  19. Re:Bad Turkey, no EU for you! on Blogger.com Banned In Turkey · · Score: 1

    Mexico was already admitted in the 1840s.

  20. Re:Please, read what you write before you post it on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Only because the summary is always some unedited scaremongering almost entirely unrelated to the linked press release.

  21. Re:Martial law? on Early Voting Problems, Open Source Alternative · · Score: 1

    No, the aliens are using the moment of weakness to launch their strike and turn America into a breeding ground for their young (who nourish themsleves on human meat).

  22. Re:Map is wrong, in any case on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    You can enter Lake Michigan from Lake Superior, right? Wouldn't that lead to border patrols being necessary along the shore of Lake Michigan?

  23. Re:Stupid Guns on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    Dedicated people with small arms can kill a bunch of people. They can't control a country. The insurgents can achieve anarchy in Iraq, but they certainly can't control Iraq.

  24. Re:Considering the last 8 years... on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    Now you're just trying to get into a debate on when something is considered life.

    Unless you don't eat animals or plants, the debate is about when life develops into a person.

  25. Re:In order to counterpoint you: on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because terrorism is the leading cause of death in America.