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  1. Re:This smacks of bullshit... on Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court · · Score: 1

    Sounds fine to me, as long as everyone has equal rights to deny whatever group they want.

    btw, actively denying an entire race is not comparable to not building special structures to cater to a certain (very small) group.

  2. Re:This smacks of bullshit... on Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court · · Score: 1

    How about they ask someone to help them up the stairs, instead of requiring every business (including small ones that can't afford it!) to build special ramps just for them? Or use a wheel chair that can climb stairs, or order things over the phone.

    Also, as the baby boomers age, target, kmart, etc will have to cater to them, eg by building ramps.

  3. where is the blog?! on Hospital Wants Critical Blogger's Anonymity Ended · · Score: 1

    The /. and the linked story, neither one has a link to the damn blog!

  4. Re:you joke but.. on Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Extruded powders are not limited to military rounds. (You can buy surplus green tip 5.56, btw.)

    5.56 rounds can go thru someone, but ideally they fragment.

    A steel jacketed (or solid) bullet would destory a barrel in no time. Bullets are almost exclusively copper jackets or lead. .50 BMG is 3.9 inches (99mm) long, not 12 inches.

    Plz read:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M855
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG

  5. Re:CD-quality programming . . .Yeah right on Howard Stern Coming To the Net · · Score: 1

    I was very disappointed when i hooked up my sirius sportster replay (yes, it's plugged straight into the stereo) and discovered the music channels don't even have the fidelity of fm. I have to turn the treble down just to listen cuz they don't apply a low-pass filter to remove the aliasing.

  6. Re:CD quality? on Howard Stern Coming To the Net · · Score: 1

    They've upped the bitrate on 100 and 101 (stern's channels), i believe they're now stereo as well. The other talk channels have high freq compression artifacts. The music channels also suffer from artifacts - it's no where near cd quality. Don't buy xm or sirius if you want cd-quality sound. A strong fm station sounds better.

  7. Re:Subliterate Legislators on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 1

    Charging the maximum price will not always give you maximum revenue, which is what you're after, to get more profit. It depends on the demand curve.

  8. Re:obligatory rant on efficiency vs consumption on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Not if government safety mandates keep increasing vehicle weight.

  9. Re:A Very Impactful Author on Stanislaw Lem Dies in Krakow · · Score: 1

    I saw the 2002 version, and i almost fell asleep. If wasn't so tired, i would've walked out. It was the most boring film i've ever seen, and to add insult to that, cluney(too lazy to look up the spelling) flashes his ass to the camera.

  10. weight on Kids Build Soybean Fueled Sports Car · · Score: 1

    How much does this car weight? THAT is likely how it gets 50mpg and 0-60 in 4sec. Put on all the safety requirements the government demands on it and it'll probably gain a couple thousand pounds.

  11. girls of cs! on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 1
  12. Re:What the hell on High-Tech RepoMan · · Score: 1
    You would think that in exchange for getting put a device on a car that you own that they would give the people with shitty credit history a break on the interest payments.

    Did it occur to you that maybe people with shitty credit tend to default and not give the car back? The device may lower risk, but apparently not enough to affect the interest rate. Maybe that will change, if lenders (to the dealership) see risk drop significantly.

    Just so i have this straight, you believe it'd be better for people with shitty credit to have NO car rather than be "extorted" into a mutually voluntary(sp) contract? Apparently some of them disagree, since they choose to buy cars with this device.

    ps, almost all people with bad credit have it due to their own irresponsibility.

  13. Re:Probably as close as we'll get... on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    can you name any species, other than human, that has sex for any reason other than pleasure?

  14. Re:False: The quality is equal or less on RIAA Goes After Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as lossless adc->dac.

  15. Re:It's a good thing... on Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking · · Score: 1

    Are you serious?! That movie was dumb as hell and there were a bunch of impossibilities and mistakes. eg, raising the room temp to 98.6 to mask body heat -- skin temp is about 20 degrees cooler, your clothes even more so, and your skin temperature is not evenly distributed. A thermal camera could still see gradients.That's just one example.

  16. Re:How about blaming Louisiana? on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1
    One of the roles of government is doing what others can't do for themselves.

    Since when?

  17. Re:I wonder... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1
    In a pure free market, we wouldn't have FEMA, we'd have entreprenuers demanding families' life savings in exchange for life preservers and clean water.

    Which would encourage others to sell them, and eventually bring down the price. See below, the post about ice.

  18. Re:Water City on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please explain just how some treaty, or any action whatsoever by humans, could have prevented this storm.

    I can't believe people post such ignorant crap.

  19. Re:STEP ZERO: on File System Forensic Analysis · · Score: 1

    My scsi seagates have always had them, and i've seen them on others.

  20. Re:STEP ZERO: on File System Forensic Analysis · · Score: 1

    Uh, most drives have a write-protect jumper on them. There's no reason to spend $500 just for write protection. The first thing you should do, after setting that jumper, is copy it to another drive (or dd it to a file), anyway, unless you're going to send it ata read-long cmds or something.

  21. Re:I wonder... on Researcher Resigns Over New Cisco Router Flaw · · Score: 1

    such as?

  22. Re:Why wait for the movie? on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    it's a mech

  23. Re:That's what I'm wondering also... on Google's Share of Searches Falling? Or Increasing? · · Score: 1

    +1 google isn't nearly as good as it used to be. It's not much better now than altavista used to be (just less duplicates).

  24. Re:This is not exactly a good thing on Sci-Fi on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    Yeah, communism is so much better than being able to decide how hard you want to work, what do want to do, and how to spend the money you earn. It'd be so much better if we just all got the same rations.

  25. Re:Have a taste... on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 1

    Faking an OF tree and modding darwin would not take long.