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  1. Re:no its not on NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment" · · Score: 1

    Kinda how New Jersey is going to be doing things.

    It won't be in place until 2008, but it will be there.

  2. Re:What? on AO Rating Basically Bans Manhunt 2 From Release · · Score: 1

    Unless they're thinking "IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!"

    Or they're Mark Foley.

  3. Re:Rush Holt on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    One of Rush Holt's constituents is Ed Felten.

  4. Re:Bush plans to veto... on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    Or, your state is doing it anyway. Doesn't hurt that Ed Felten is a professor at a major college in your state.

  5. Re:Zero Evidence on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    50 ID's with all the same picture? Or you're hiring 50 people to go to the polls? Won't somebody get suspicious?

    That's a few too many people to keep quiet for a conspiracy. Why not just get one pollworker, or one corrupt programmer/IT person and influence votes that way?

    It seems like it would be a heck of a lot cheaper and easier.

  6. Re:Regardless of political affiliation... on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    And the means to go and get one?

    New York uses a 6-point verification scheme to get an ID or a drivers license.

    Plus, you have to actually get to the DMV office.

    Let's say you're a Republican county clerk. Let's say as part of your job, you close the sole remaining DMV office in a heavily Democratic-leaning city. The remaining DMV offices are roughly an hour ride away by public transportation.

    See where we're going with this?

    Sure, if you're homeless, fine. You've got time to ride the bus. Full time worker? Hmm... maybe not so much.

  7. Re:Zero Evidence on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    Sure.

    After exhaustive effort, the Department of Justice discovered virtually no polling-place voter fraud, and its efforts to fire the U.S. attorneys in battleground states who did not push the voter-fraud line enough has backfired.

  8. Add compulsory reporting on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is there any evidence to suggest that this increasingly Orwellian society is actually any safer?

    The UK is adding laws requiring compulsory reporting of people who might be criminals.

    It really is falling into order, comrade. This is doubleplusungood.

  9. Re:Pure Sensationlism on iPods and Pacemakers Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a pacemaker recipient, I realized that the last time I was in for a pacemaker checkup, the docter made an adjustment to one of the settings.

    Then it dawned on me that he was programming my heart (More correctly, sripting, or pointy-clicking.)

    But that's one device I'll never be able to program.

    And I'm freaking jealous. /Cyborg since 2006 //Waves the flag that the Robots made

  10. Re:The answer is obvious on iPods and Pacemakers Don't Mix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Digital Rhythm Management?

  11. Re:Ipod only? on iPods and Pacemakers Don't Mix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Jay Thaker, a student at Okemos High School in Michigan, co-authored the the report with a friend of his father, Dr. Krit Jongnarangsin, an assistant professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan.

    High school student & assistant medical professor doing the study. Probably not a lot of money to go around and get lots of devices there. Probably used what they had on hand.

  12. Re:So... on California to Start Review of Voting Machines · · Score: 1
  13. Re:If Dave Barry were here . . . on Andersen Vs. RIAA Counterclaims Challenged · · Score: 1

    "I'll try the death by chocolate...oh, wait, the tort of outrage looks yummy!"

    Oh... you said death first!

    Oh, alright. Give him "tort of outrage"

    Just be glad I'm not Church of England.

  14. Re:But you can surprise them on Student Financial Aid Database Being Misused · · Score: 1
  15. Re:All databases eventually get hacked on Student Financial Aid Database Being Misused · · Score: 1

    It's a great campus, just not a particularly new one.

    Great, if you like brick.

    He's probably talking about all the renovations and new buildings that have gone up on campus.

  16. Cybercrime treaty? on Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media · · Score: 1

    What about the Cybercrime treaty the US signed? Is Russia a signatory to the treaty? Will the US have to enfrce Russia's laws?

  17. Re:But...but.. on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    Won't somebody please think of the children?

    Where's Mark Foley when you need him?

  18. Re:No No! No! on TJX Is Biggest Data Breach Ever · · Score: 1

    Today's lesson: Don't get one of those store credit cards. You shouldn't be in debt to a retailer, ever.

    Most of the time, the "store card" is offered by a bank. CompUSA's credit card program is administered by HSBC, etc...

  19. Re:I'll do it! on So You've Lost a $38 Billion File · · Score: 1

    Halliburton? Didn't we tell you to get off slashdot?

  20. Re:Word games on Victims Fight Back Against DMCA Abuse · · Score: 1

    First you have to prove that the DMCA is being "misused", and wasn't intended for this purpose since day 1

    Okay... Done.

  21. Re:WHOA WTF on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was 81 degrees F in New Jersey yesterday, so hell didn't freeze over.

  22. Re:Source of the cash on CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores · · Score: 1

    Someone finally paid for the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate.

    Microsoft has arranged for their $439,999,600 rebate to be "misdirected".

  23. Re:It's about time... and only the beginning. on CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores · · Score: 1

    The single remaining CompUSA store in New Jersey (Mount Laurel) is in a plaza with a Best Buy, a Circuit City, a OfficeMax, and a Staples store.

    I was kinda shocked when I moved into the area. I needed to replace my monitor, which pretty much died in transit. I looked up the stores in the phone book, and was kinda surprised when they all had addresses on the same street.

    I was even more surprised when I saw how physically close they are to each other.

  24. Re:Zappa on RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team · · Score: 1

    The more and more RIAA acts like $cientology, the more and more people dislike them.

  25. Re:Anyone remember Digital Convergence? on Camera Phones Read Hidden Messages in Print · · Score: 1

    I remember an Intel webcam I purchased came with software for Windows t do basically this.

    The back page of the manual was printed in a strange yellow/orange pattern that the webcam could "read" and send you to a web page.