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  1. Re:Typical.. on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Depends on what "misbehaving" means. In some places being drunk and loud can get you a disorderly conduct charge. You really cant make a judgment on whether it was her fault, or if anything even happened, if you don't know what the story is.

  2. Re:What part of "use a proxy" can't he understand? on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    How the police responded so quickly is beyond me, though...

     
    Quickly? According to the article it took them a week to arrest him. Coincidentally his twitter post was: "Robin Hood airport is closed, You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!"

  3. Re:What am I missing. on Pedro Matias Sets New Texting Record At Mobile World Cup · · Score: 1

    Obviously I'm not faster than the world record holder, but 264 words in 2 minutes is over 130 wpm. That's faster than nearly everyone can type on an actual keyboard, and there's no way you can type that fast with just thumbs.

    It was 264 characters, not words.

  4. Audio/Videophiles Beware on THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Expensive isn't always better. Ever heard of Denon's $500 ‘Audiophile’ Ethernet Cable

  5. Re:We need more ideas such as this on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    That's not such a problem... if the barrel was strong enough to work under explosive pressure, it will be strong enough to put another barrel around it.

    Is the barrel strong enough to work under explosive pressure, or is it only strong enough when there is an opposite pressure on the other side?

  6. Re:We need more ideas such as this on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    design the cannon like a thermos bottle as sounds require a medium to propagate which is why in space no one can hear you scream.

    So your going to have explosive pressure on one side, huge water pressure on the other side, and a vacuum in the middle?

  7. Re:All You Can Eat on Comcast Launches Broadband Meter · · Score: 1

    250GB is only 10 Blu-Rays. Is t

  8. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    I used to think using me@mydomain.com was way more professional than using a free email account. The only problem is way too often your emails get marked as spam. Sometimes they don't even go in the spam folder, they aren't delivered at all and you have no way of knowing.

    Now I use free email accounts, a few might think I'm unprofessional, but at least they get my emails.

  9. Re:If only people did what the ad told them to do. on Gallery of Past Tech (and Other) Advertising · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Enron was thinking "I hope this makes people buy our stock!"

    From what I remember a lot of the ads from the dot-com bubble era would leave you scratching your head wondering what the company was selling, I guess its obvious now, soon to be worthless stock.

  10. Re:new to customer service on Google Faces Deluge of Nexus One Complaints · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've had to contact Google customer service in the past, as a paying advertiser and as a adsense publisher, and in my experience you wait 2-3 days to get a form letter that doesn't even apply to your question/problem.

    I've heard, and experienced somewhat, that this improves once you start making them decent money.

    In their defense they must receive an unbelievable amount of stupid questions.

  11. Re:Not the same scale on Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs · · Score: 1

    What about affiliate marketing?

    But I do think its pretty obvious in this case these people dont know their sending these emails and that the websites theyre promoting are scams.

  12. Re:Scale it up! on iPhone-Controlled Helicopter With AR Games · · Score: 1

    Once that device has a five-mile range and can carry a pizza and a six-pack, its market potential is enormous.

    It wouldn't be long before someone strapped a gun and/or bomb to something like that.

  13. Impressive.. on World's Tallest Building To Open Monday · · Score: 5, Informative

    Too bad it was built with slavery...

  14. Everyone Does on Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People in every line of work take advantage however they can. Janitors, mailmen, military personnel, police, teachers, principals, street sweepers, CEOs, mechanics, and on and on. Its human nature.

  15. Re:I'm ever so thankful on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 5, Informative

    Um... you can still go to jail for porn in the USA

  16. Re:Wait, let me see if I got this right on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    The main person doing the complaining is Rupert Murdoch, and he thinks Google is stealing his content whether they show ads or not.

  17. Whats Next? on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 1

    How about Synthcrack, or Synthheroin?

  18. Instant on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you will have the option of getting immediately sober if you so desire it
     
    Can I get drunk again later that night?

  19. Re:Screw Google. on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    You're right, how dare websites be economically viable.

    The Wallstreet Journal, Slashdot, Google, Youtube, Facebook, and the smaller (and much smaller) websites should be free to view AND advertising free.

    Nobody said anything of the sort.

    Well, the OP did basically.

    I do agree that it annoys the hell out of me that cable TV costs $50-$100+ a month and is full of ads.

  20. Re:Wait, let me see if I got this right on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

          Google has no ads on that page, so they're not clicking ad links there either.

      rd

    Google has no ads on that page yet....

  21. Re:Screw Google. on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    The Wallstreet Journal, Slashdot, Google, Youtube, Facebook, and the smaller (and much smaller) websites should be free to view AND advertising free.

    Um...

    Disable Advertising
    As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable advertising.

    A site can afford to reward some of their top members (who provide something to the site).

    Obviously, and I can't believe I even need to mention this, if Slashdot (or any other site) was advertising free (and free to view) for everyone it would quickly go bankrupt.

  22. Re:Screw Google. on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    You're right, how dare websites be economically viable.

    The Wallstreet Journal, Slashdot, Google, Youtube, Facebook, and the smaller (and much smaller) websites should be free to view AND advertising free.

    None of those sites have anything of intrinsic value. I noted this in the last paragraph of my post.

    Take Slashdot as an example. I can get all the news here elsewhere. I am only really here for the community. If slashdot were to fold, the community would simply move somewhere else and I would be typing this in a different forum. What exactly has been lost? It's not like the people here cease to exist because slashdot is gone.

    You're right, the entire internet should consist of hobby sites paid for out of the pocket of those who choose to run them for a loss.

    These sites should then die as soon as they become too popular for the hobbyist to afford.

    That sounds much better than looking at ads.

  23. Re:Wait, let me see if I got this right on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    I think the problem might be something seen here at Slashdot.

    Most people go to Google News and probably just skim the headlines, while relatively few people bother to click the link and read the full article.

  24. Re:Screw Google. on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're right, how dare websites be economically viable.

    The Wallstreet Journal, Slashdot, Google, Youtube, Facebook, and the smaller (and much smaller) websites should be free to view AND advertising free.

  25. Re: The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Men on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    Actually I've just finished watching all 70 minutes of "The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace" and I must say it's very well done.

    From the editing, to the special effects, to the woman he has chained in his basement, and of course his points about the movie(s), a lot of thought went into this and it's all very good. This took more than a weekend to do.