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  1. Re:Poor judgement on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: 1

    I'm usually against the overly lawsuit happy nature of this country (US), but schools and school districts I make an exception for.

    They have way too much power, for example, sending a student to a boot-camp/daytime prison for making a map of their school for a video game like in Texas.

  2. Re:Israel, the US/Mexican border etc on Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled · · Score: 1

    I have heard the Mexican government actually provides help for people wanting to go to the US.

    Don't know if it is true.

  3. Re:Xenu Built My Hotrod on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1

    Wear a shirt advertising a non-Heinz Ketchup and see how long you last. :)

  4. Re:Understood... on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    Well of course.

    The rapture will go a lot more efficiently if things are planned well in advance.

  5. Re:Understood... on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Public universities would likely take him.

    Some of them are really good, such as UCSD, or UNLV.

    UNLV will let one take classes as a "special student" before admission, and you can get in if you do well enough. Despite the jokes and smart-ass comments people make about it, it is a premier university, and is THE leader in OCR technology development.

  6. Re:I'd like to say... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    80 cents?

    They barely get a dime!

    Listen to the Public Enemy song "Swindler's Lust"

  7. Re:The logo should be changed on Supreme Court Weakens Patents · · Score: 1

    Electric bill is miniscule? Guess you don't live in Nevada. :)

  8. Re:You're an idiot on Iran to Filter 'Immoral' Mobile Messages · · Score: 0

    And if they didn't CHOOSE to take it down, the court (gov't) could rule against them, and the sheriff (gov't) would come and take all their stuff and sell it at public auction to give to the plaintiff.

  9. Re:Since no one here uses windows on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    remember the kernel with

    if (current.uid = 0) { ...

    in it? (or something like it)

  10. Re:This will legalize the NSA Spying and more on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    What about the Unlawful Intercept ports? :)

  11. Re:Since no one here uses windows on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    But Google isn't evil.

    Which is a good thing, because soon they'll control the world. :)

  12. Re:A layman's view on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1

    Relativity isn't proven, see the work of Petr Beckmann

  13. Re:Well, it makes sense on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1

    We've done it to the Earth.

    Look at the ozone layer.

    Actually don't look at it, since it is almost all gone, and looking that way will sunburn your retina.

  14. Re:Well, it makes sense on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1

    Planck length, Planck time.

  15. Re:If I'm missing something... on New Way to Patch Defective Hardware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nothing.

    And this is the reality NOW.

    Erasing the BIOS, stopping fans, overclocking and overvolting chips can be done TODAY.

    Also, changing the region of a DVD drive until it locks out changes and leaving it on a unwanted region is also doable; another "advantage" of this attack is that it is a felony to repair the hardware thanks to the DMCA giving DRM the force of law.

    Killer POKEs didn't die with the Commodore PET and C64, they just aren't literal POKEs anymore.

  16. Re:Wait a sec... on New Way to Patch Defective Hardware · · Score: 2, Funny

    What competition is there to Vista?

    Linux doesn't even come close in consuming memory and adding vulnerabilities, but it is catching up! :)

  17. Re:The problem is on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    We use data models for all sorts of shit, for example, 'proving' that the design of the aircraft you're flying in won't crash and burn on takeoff, or like better understanding the conditions that form tornados and any number of things.

    And we trust them for designing magnets in our supercolliders. ...Until they explode.

  18. Re:It's an FCC ban, not FAA on U.S. Airlines to Offer In-Air Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Cell phones worked on the plane on 9/11 and didn't mess with the cellular networks.

  19. Re:My own experience. on Is The Term Paper Dead? · · Score: 1

    Some children even have the gall to copy and paste Wikipedia articles word for word. It's sad times that we live in, and the United States government simply isn't proving a means to deal with it.

    Did they ever end up cutting-and-pasting in vandalism from Wikipedia? :)

  20. Re:I had a recent experience with this on Is The Term Paper Dead? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those would be too easy to achieve.

    Ask them to find a way to secure Windows.

  21. Re:Nikola Tesla springs to mind on Using the Terahertz Spectrum for Wireless Communication · · Score: 1

    He is the father of longitudinal and scalar waves, anomalous power generation and quite a few innovations that are still ahead of OUR time.

  22. Re:Clean = Immune Retardation on New Superbug Weapon to Replace Failing Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    Couldn't the vaccine cause shingles too?

  23. Remember TGN1412 (a.k.a CD28-SuperMAB)? on New Superbug Weapon to Replace Failing Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    They better test this on human CELLS first before human beings and 1/500th of a dose is too much, start them at 1 millionth or billionth (hormones in the body are sometimes in mg/ml amounts).

  24. Re:Price still factors, though, and AMD competes. on Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU · · Score: 1

    DirectX is Microsoft proprietary non-standard crap. Tied to Windows and PCs

    OpenGL is a standard. And wonderfully designed, easy to get into, but powerful enough for almost anything you can think of and some things you can't :) and cleanly extensible too if you needed. It is supported outside the PC/Windows world too.

  25. Works on drivers on MIT Shows How to Shut Down Brain With Light · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yellow light shuts down brain activity in the drivers here in Nevada quite well.

    Makes them forget that a yellow light means "go slow", not "go really really really fast".