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  1. Re:Secure? on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Military Industrial Complex, gotta keep that chuggin' away.

    Somehow I think that overthrowing North Korea would be more like trying to overthrow Scientology. That country is going to need some heavy counseling when it wakes up from it's bad dream.

  2. Re:Secure? on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, we understand the concept. Look what happened to Iraq when we overthrew Saddam. We broke it, we bought it.

  3. Re:its a story because on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    Up to 15 mod points but I got only 5.

  4. Re:Uhhh...what? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    Have you seen what professional people (bankers) have done to my country?

    No I understand and don't like it myself. I try to vote for people that are less draconian but sometimes the choices are not that good. That's why I live on an Indian reservation. The politics are much more local and being a white guy, I know that I'm a second class citizen. Keeps me from being deluded.

  5. Re:Uhhh...what? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    It's more than just a form.

    http://www.burglin.com/defense.php

    More like gather up ALL paperwork from the court, get FBI and state police to sign-off, pay $200, wait at least 6 months and then maybe they will think about it.

    It's nice but I can go to Portland, OR and get about the same cultural atmosphere. Anyway, it seems like most of BC comes down to my area on the weekends.

  6. Re:Uhhh...what? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.burglin.com/defense.php

    Looks like it takes at least six months and lots of digging for paperwork. Oh, and $200CDN.

  7. Re:Uhhh...what? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020819&slug=duicanada19e

    Maybe if we jumped through all the hoops, but we know when we're not welcome.

  8. Re:Uhhh...what? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    My wife can't get into BC because she had a DWI 25 years ago down here in Washington State. She doesn't even drive anymore because of her eyesight. We spent our honeymoon up there and dearly love BC but it's off-limits to us now. The closest we get to BC now is the parking lot of the local outlet mall at Tulalip.

  9. Re:And? on "Dislike" Button Scam Hits Facebook Users · · Score: 1

    Hey! Don't be dissin' bell-bottoms!

  10. Re:Memories on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    Strange you mention. I just /usr/ports/mail/alpine# make install clean yesterday on a FreeBSD box I built. I tell ya, if GMail hadn't come along you'd be hard pressed to have me move away from pine.

  11. Same password on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    I've had the same lame password for slashdot since I've opened the account. I've had no problems. Most of my friends know it. I use that password for MANY other things too. Not the bank account though, that one is never used anywhere else and, besides myself, only my wife knows it.

  12. Re:Not a BSOD on New Jaguar XJ Suffers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 1

    I still think it's a syntax error, or at the least, an out-of-bounds statement.

  13. Found it. on New Jaguar XJ Suffers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 1

    From TFA: ...watching too much Eminem on its integrated DVD player.

    Well, there's your problem.

  14. Re:Fuck Islam! on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 1

    I think he just has a crush on Cat Stevens.

  15. Re:When did it stop trickling down? on Schneier's Revised Taxonomy of Social Data · · Score: 1

    There are some people in my 10th grade health class that I'd *love* to poke.

    Please, please tell me you are not the teacher!

  16. Cannon law on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    I was taught in Roman Catholic High School in 1976 that it was two spaces. Until the Holy See says otherwise, I'm not going to risk my immortal soul by committing sloth and using only one.

  17. Re:Electric cars work if they're small on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 1

    How does the heat work on those VW conversions. IIRC the ICE version didn't heat up very quickly.

  18. Re:Blurry text on A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So THAT'S how it's done! I saw one once with lowercase and never could figure out how they did it.

    So, was it just solder another 2716 (or was it a 2708) on top, pull up the CS line and tag it to a 74LS138 somewhere?

    God, why do I still remember all this stuff?

  19. Re:Lame design! on A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV · · Score: 1

    But I always meant to do something with my copy of the TV Typewriter Cookbook.

    http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/TV_Typewriter.htm

  20. Re:Blurry text on A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV · · Score: 1

    And there was a program to make the c64 do 80 char per line. That made it mostly unreadable unless you had the 1702 video monitor (which had what we would today call S-video.)

    Even at 40 chars/line the SX-64 (color luggable) it was hard to tell the difference between 0, O, 8, 6 & G. So much so that I ended up reworking the font on mine and burning a new EPROM for it.

  21. Re:A decade too late. on Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star · · Score: 1

    I've still got the t-shirt that ORA gave out at LISA '96, signed by Larry, Tom, and Randal when the first camel book came out. I recall they gave out free ice cream that night too.

    But I have to agree, all my perling has been to muck with router and server stuff.

  22. Re:Android needs a sandbox. on Android Data Stealing App Downloaded By Millions · · Score: 1

    Even my Commodore 64 had a modem.

  23. Re:Or maybe we are living in a simulation... on A New Take On the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't tell you but I know it's mine.

  24. Re:Expanding drives on Why SSDs Won't Replace Hard Drives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You sound like me when I got my first 250MB drive. Shit! This will last me forever!

    And it would have if I had kept running DOS.

  25. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    Even though I have you as a foe, that should have been marked Informative.