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  1. Re:mother nature on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or, y'know, it could just be that people with pet allergies tend to not have pets because of their allergies.

  2. Re:So let's just forget about a fair trial! on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like the extradition itself is going to kill him. It's not. It may make him more likely to kill himself, but that's what suicide watch is for. Threatening to kill himself is not going to get him out of an extradition.

  3. Re:So let's just forget about a fair trial! on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    And people in jail are put on suicide watch all the time. That doesn't mean that they stop their prosecution of them, they just keep them from hurting themselves. Expressing an intent to kill yourself does not get you off the hook for committing a crime.

  4. Re:So let's just forget about a fair trial! on Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US · · Score: 1

    Why would the threat of him committing suicide matter for his extradition?

  5. Re:CoD6: Vietnam on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Wrong. They put the "Call of Duty" back into the title when they realized that consumers couldn't associate the title without "Call of Duty" in the name.

  6. Re:No, Steve is right and you prove it! on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 1

    He is fuming with Apple because he would really like to play a few modern games but the video card of this model cannot be upgraded.

    Why the fuck would he buy a Mac to play games?

  7. Re:And where did the retro-fit funds go? on What Happened To the Bay Bridge? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the governator needs to install an oversight group to make sure that earmarked funds are used for exactly what they're earmarked for.

    Of course, we'll also need an oversight group to make sure that the oversight group is doing what they're supposed to be doing.

  8. Why would you need to ask this question? on What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is this really a situation that you can't figure out on your own? Are you even capable of dressing yourself without help? For that matter, how did this make the front page of Slashdot? Is this a common occurrence that perplexes a large portion of the readership? I eagerly await the day when I see the headline "Ask Slashdot: What Should I Have for Breakfast?"

  9. Really? on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Photog? Litho? You can't be bothered to type those out?

  10. my "pet peave" on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 2, Funny

    pet peeve

  11. Re:Orphaned? on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But "orphaned" works are not in the public domain. They're still protected by copyright, but no one knows who holds the copyright. It may be that no living person or existing corporate entity does. Unfortunately, thanks to copyright law, they don't just enter the public domain, and thus no one can reprint or republish them.

  12. Re:Finish this joke on Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    Get the fuck outta here!

  13. Re:Upgrading on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1

    You're not investing, you're buying. If I purchase an Acura because it has a better interior, I'm buying it for my own personal enjoyment, not because I expect that it will hold value better or be worth more in the future. Your comment is akin to saying that it's "not worth the investment" to buy steak over hamburger because it all turns to shit eventually.

  14. Re:Honorable Way Out for NASA on Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest · · Score: 1

    ...you're joking about Serenity, right?

  15. Re:Harmony remotes on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't matter. I'm not giving someone else my phone so they can change the channel.

  16. Re:... And Justice For All on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    You would think that, but you would be wrong.

  17. Re:Gomco, Mogen, Plastibell. on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the "piles of medical evidince" have lead the American Association of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association not to recommend routine circumcision of newborns. Given the number and density of nerve endings in the foreskin, comparison to clitoridectomy is not so far-fetched. Just because the one is socially accepted where you live doesn't make it any less barbaric than the other.

  18. Re:Time to tighten our belts on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1

    I hadn't thought about property taxes. I stand corrected.

  19. Re:Time to tighten our belts on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1

    "School taxes"? Where do you pay "school taxes"? Money for schools comes from state (and to a lesser and more indirect extent, federal) income taxes.

  20. Re:"and it will be rolled out free of charge. " on "Live Expansion" Announced for Warhammer Online · · Score: 1

    Since when was $700 reasonable for a game?

    Well, first of all, your own formula (50 mo x 15 + 50 x 2) comes out to $850. In the interest of full disclosure, the original game was $50 and the two expansions were $40, so add in another $30, and you get a cost of $880 for playing WoW since release and paying by the month. If the average game is $60 and provides 10-20 hours of gameplay, that's $3-6 per hour. If you've been playing WoW for 50 months at a cost of $880, that's $17.60/month. If you play 5 hours and 52 minutes per month, your price per hour is $3, the low end of the price per hour of the average $60 game. So to answer your question, yeah, it's probably an unreasonable cost if you're playing much less than 6 hours a month, but how many people paying for the game since release actually play that little?

  21. Re:With Circuit City and CompUSA all but gone... on Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good · · Score: 1

    They did go back to the local store.

  22. Re:Wii Virtual Console is a disappointment on Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? · · Score: 1

    Sony has nothing to do with the Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior titles on the NES and SNES. The reason you haven't seen these series is that Square-Enix is notorious for selling ports and remakes. If they can sell you these titles as $40 DS games, why would they cut into that with a $10 VC release?

  23. Re:Good for Venezuela on Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates · · Score: 1

    Bush is popular, you're just not in his target group

    I didn't know that "less than 30% of the population" could be considered a target group.

  24. Re:Looks 2legit 2quit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    Collaborate and listen!


    ...I was always more of a Vanilla Ice fan.

  25. "Let's keep it all" is not a solution on To Purge Or Not To Purge Your Data · · Score: 1

    Conversely, keeping all of that data also opens you up to legal trouble. Different types of records should be kept for different lengths of time, in accordance with your company's records schedule.

    If you have too many records, you may have to turn over information that could be damaging to your case in any litigation against you - information you aren't even required to keep in the first place. Confidential information may be leaked, stolen, or lost, and the probability of that happening only goes up with time. Additionally, if you have a ton of records that you don't need and won't use, your ability to find the information you do need is severely hampered.

    While high storage costs may be a factor for disposing of unneeded data, it is not the reason for doing so. You shouldn't be keeping more data just because storage is getting cheaper.