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  1. Re:I have a very bad feeling about this on Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice" · · Score: 1

    Only, it really sucks when they publish you and your wife's SSNs before they figure out that they have the wrong guy. Sure, they apologized after the fact but that is a small consolation, IMO. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/01/anonymous-hac-1/

  2. Re:Use the line to pull other lines into your outl on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Copper is copper, there's no reason why cat-5 cables couldn't be used for phone lines in a house (though there are few reasons why it would be used as such).

  3. Re:marijuana legalization issue was Painful to Wat on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1

    Ahh, that is a better reading of the statute. Thanks for the insight.

  4. Re:marijuana legalization issue was Painful to Wat on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1
  5. Re:This is only a test on US DTV Patent Royalties Are $24–$40 · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Since everyone here (I assume) is used to getting news via the internet, it is easy to forget that important notifications go out via OTA television, and often times this is the only feasible way of receiving these notifications.

  6. Re:Shouldn't happen..... on US DTV Patent Royalties Are $24–$40 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Public notices are often transmitted via OTA TV, which has lead to it being considered non-optional. I don't think that all of these notices (school closings, weather warnings, etc)are even broadcast via radio anymore, making TV or the internet the only way to receive them.

  7. This story is nothing... on Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but did you all hear that TorrentFreak noticed that an article apparently published by ACS Law was actually plagiarized from a variety of different sources, basically cut and pasted together with no credit or citations given at all? Remarkably, in some cases, articles with the exact opposite view of ACS Law were copied with paragraphs that just had an added sentence to the end which completely contradicted what the original article said.

  8. Re:Why!? on Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology · · Score: 2, Informative

    There have been a number of violent acts perpetuated by the CoS. http://www.scientology-kills.org/dead/dead.htm

  9. Re:Where stereotypes come from on How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped · · Score: 1

    Ahh damn it, need more coffee - even got under/overrated mixed up and wanted to avoid modding you down. :(

  10. Re:Where stereotypes come from on How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped · · Score: 1

    Just posting to erase the effects of accidentally modding your post "underrated." Intended to mod it "insightful."

  11. Re:Pavement on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The idea has some merit, but Chu is yapping his face off about Global Warming in order to make sure his buddies get more dumptruckfulls of money to further "study" and "quantify" exactly how much this might help.

    So the idea has merit, but anybody that tries to study it is just in it for the money?

  12. Re:HD, yeah.. on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    People can see more than 272 lines at that size, which is what the real problem is. The screen doesn't have to be HD, but 272 is low.

  13. Re:Lousy screen, Low Storage on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    Have you ever listened to FM radio? Sounds worse than 64kbps mp3 IMO.

  14. Re:Is he gonna get compensated? on Judge Says Boston Student's Laptop Was Seized Illegally · · Score: 1

    Excise taxes do not work well for local units of government. People will just go to the next town over that has lower taxes to avoid paying them. Property taxes are the most popular form of revenue for local governments for this reason - as long as the property is owned by someone it can be taxed.

  15. Re:Wasn't even the meeting.... on Palm Kills Community Before It Begins · · Score: 1

    You're missing the same thing that the rest of us are missing: details about the NDA. Without those, we can't tell who is in the right in this situation. Now we just have to find somebody willing to agree to disclose this information...

  16. Re:Instructions for turning off Java... on Mac OS X Users Vulnerable To Major Java Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    The question I would have is that does Javascript on OSX have the same vulnerabilities?

    No.

    Java:Javascript::Ham:Hamburger

  17. The times are a changin' on A History of 3D Cards From Voodoo To GeForce · · Score: 1

    My first computer was a 233mhz pentium with a crazy case layout that wouldn't allow a graphics card to be installed. I remember playing Half Life and Quake 1&2 using software rendering at something like 400x320 resolution, and thinking it looked amazing. How times have changed since then, and my first computer is downright modern compared to many others' here.

  18. Re:Mechanical Masterpiece? on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    Disk brakes will save rim wear if Google plans on using these contraptions long-term. Reflectors shouldn't be necessary if these will be utilized in daylight. I don't know about stability, but rear suspension (or at least a seatpost) would be more comfortable. No bottle cages (or even mounting holes for the cages) is puzzling.

  19. Re:Muggings.... on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    Stealing equipment that is A) Clearly labeled as belonging to Google B) Probably proprietary C) Equipped with 360 degree streaming cameras and GPS seems like a bad idea to me. Not that mugging otherwise is a good idea, but stealing this particular equipment seems especially dumb.

  20. Mod Parent Up on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    This is a great idea, provided that the contraption could be easily towed behind a wheelchair.

  21. Re:what for? on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    Your comment about the tree stump is spot-on, actually. The paths around here (the ones not parallel to a road, at least) have a number of paved entryways that you are supposed to use. It is often easy (and faster) to exit/enter the trail at a non-designated point, but you can't tell where this will be possible with just a map.

  22. Re:Segway on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    Really? I'd love to spend the summer pedaling one of these around all of the bike paths around here. Can't say the same about a segway.

  23. Re:Hmmm . . . . on Google Tricycles To Map Footpaths For Street View · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought, too. I want this job!

  24. Re:why not just tax gas? on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    In other words, you don't care about externalized costs. Got it.

  25. Re:Oh No! Zimbabwe is pirating! on Calling BS On the BSA Global Piracy Report · · Score: 1
    Look very carefully at this next phrase:

    Tens of thousands of years.