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  1. Great idea on Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life · · Score: 1

    Why the hell even bother to go inside? Most places have lines outside, and noone will object to you standing on a dark roof with a sniper rifle (as opposed to inside, where this possibly could get you kicked out for rowdy behaviour).

    Then again, why not a nude beach? Might as well have a good look at what you're going to get (take) before choosing...

  2. Just like in the Matrix... on Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life · · Score: 1

    ... it seems that this isn't really real, either... ;)

  3. Very perceptive of you on P2P News Syndication? · · Score: 1

    Indeed it would be demonized, but that hasn't stopped sites like What Really Happened or Turning the Tide, even though they are quite popular.

    Then again, they don't reach millions of people with video, which for some odd reason works more convincing on most people.

  4. Re:credibility? on P2P News Syndication? · · Score: 1

    Fox News.

  5. What's wrong with Symantec? on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous because you can't predict which virae will be released next week and charge extortionate prices for securing your clients from them before anyone else knows they exist...

  6. No, no, no. on Gigabit Networking for the Home? · · Score: 1

    That's what the external WLAN HDD is for. Duh.
    "Um, it's not mine... I, er, was just browsing"

  7. Sounds like a terrific place on Stop Cell Phones Without Stopping Pacemakers... · · Score: 1

    Here, impoliteness is in restaurants met with patience and over-politeness. If you tell off the waiter for asking you to keep your voice down, odds are for that they will apologize.
    If you politely ask people to tirn off their cell phone where it shouldn't be on (theatre, quiet areas, etc.), however, they will very likely feel offended and talk back.

    Too bad Tucson is in a capitalist country, since I don't mind paying 50% taxes.

  8. What other countries? on Stop Cell Phones Without Stopping Pacemakers... · · Score: 1

    If it's typical there must be examples.

  9. RTFA on Stop Cell Phones Without Stopping Pacemakers... · · Score: 1
    Hell, aren't devices like these illegal anyways?

    "The Federal Communications Commission points specifically to the Federal Communications Act of 1934, which says that "no person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications" licensed by the government."


    Yes it is.


    Anyway, if someone gets hurt where there's a jammer installed, you'd think this would be apublic place, right?

  10. Obsolete on Stop Cell Phones Without Stopping Pacemakers... · · Score: 1

    Sweet mama! I've been waiting a long time for these!

  11. The point of selling consoles: on Xbox Price Drop Doubles Sales, Sony To Follow? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sell the console cheap. Lose a little money while doing it.
    Charge extortionate license fees from the producers for every gamecopy produced or sold.

    Why else can you get consoles for the same price as three games?

    The point of lowering prices to bleed even more is to get consumers locked onto _their_ machine, so that they will buy _their_ games. It's the games that pay their bills, not the machines. A machine can hold for years (I'm pretty sure my NES still works), but new games keep coming _all the time_.

    We are all consumer whores.

  12. Maybe just a softball bat on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    On one side:
    This is a quiet compartment.
    Please respect this.

    On the other side:
    SHUT THE FUCK UP,
    YOU SMELLING PIECE OF FETID CARP!

  13. Oh yeah... on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    They slashed the buffet car here in Denmark years ago... Now there's a young lady with an airline-type beverage-and-nasty-food cart... Ech... As if the food they had before wasn't horrid enough...

  14. Yes, AC, it is on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    I *am* from Denmark. My mother's just from an old colony, Greenland. All my greenlandish relatives live up there, so I never maintained the use of the language.

  15. That's a relief on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Aren't those the ones I kept hearing about on Copenhagen Central Station?
    "Swedish Railways are sorry to announce that the X-2000 for Stockholm has been cancelled..."?
    Happens quite often, as I recall...

  16. 139 price point? on Xbox Price Drop Doubles Sales, Sony To Follow? · · Score: 1

    Please enlighten me.

    I'm a European too, and I've no idea what you've just said.
    Or, actually I do, but that one thing is out of context...

  17. Sorry, I was thinking in Danish on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    The Brits still behave as if they had an Empire. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to get titles of the Imperial type, anymore.

    Apart from that, Danish is only my second language, and English is my third.

    I don't *use* my first language anymore, and for a time, English filled that role. Odd, really.

  18. Cattle Class? on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    I've always called it 'the Monkey Cage'

  19. WHAT!!! on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    I just moved into central Copenhagen from a station on that line A MONTH AGO. I'd been living there for two friggin' years, commuting every single morning!

    We are talking the line that goes from Helsingør/Elsinore thru Copenhagen and CPH Airport to Sweden, right?

  20. I hope not on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    My laptop has a built-in wi-fi card...
    Also, I can't use it for my final exams this year, because I could set up a hotspot on/near the school and secretly access the internet - and if it wasn't the wi-fi, they'd still ban me for the IRda-port. Seriously.

  21. Regional trains and IC trains on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    in Denmark all have that compartment. Yet almost every time I choose to sit in one of them, I have to tell people off for talking loudly or using their cellphone - and they talk back, the bastards. If I wasn't a pacifist... (and there was a lax arms-law in DK... of course I'd use a suppressor, it being the quiet compartment and all...)

  22. GREAT Britain on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be a real Empirical Passport if it didn't demand all-access to all it's citizens worldwide, would it?
    It's probably a remnant for back when it was a privilege to get a passport...

  23. Of course it would be against regulations on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Think of what a few teenagers might do for kicks if they got access to the internal network for train detection and interlocking - that could be... catastrophic.

    No one say terrorists. I hate you already, if you're thinking it.

  24. Noooooo! on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now they can actually make money by being late! The horror! Now they have incentive!

  25. He's all silly about history, on Handling Accusations of Trademark Infringement? · · Score: 1

    if you read closely.

    Half the stuff we laugh at whilst reading is based on real life events.

    Okay, so a quarter, but *still*...