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  1. Re:I'd do it on VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID · · Score: 4, Informative

    IEEE recently published a series of papers on this subject:

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICE AND MATERIALS RELIABILITY, VOL. 5, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2005

    Paper overview (PDF)

  2. Re:Advaned Programming Interface on Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs · · Score: 2, Funny

    >man woman
    No manual entry for woman

  3. Re:Advaned Programming Interface on Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs · · Score: 5, Funny

    From thinkgeek:

    Please note: Adding love.h to your partner object requires a few additional objects be streamed in before some functions are made available:

    #include <love.h>

    Partner significantOther;
    Dinner dinner;
    Flowers flowers;

    significantOther << dinner << flowers;


    Otherwise the call to significantOther.putOut() will throw an UninitializedMember() exception.

  4. Re:Anti-competitive and suppresses free speech... on Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DMCA that declarations of ownership have to be done under penalty of perjury.

  5. Re:Better advice, better judgement on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't somebody who has dealt with him at least spell his name right?

  6. Re:Hm... on Unofficial Win2K Daylight Saving Time Fix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My parents were sold a Chevrolet Cavalier that was bound for Canada.

    How could we tell? The speedometer and odometer were in metric (primary).

    It was also a piece of crap. Too bad New York State didn't enact a Lemon Law until the next year.

  7. Re:invalid analogy on A Case for Non-Net-Neutrality · · Score: 1

    He could be employing the Chewbacca Defense

  8. Re:Different types of Damages on RIAA Admits 70 Cent Price is 'In the Range' · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between actual damages and statutory damages. Actual damages are an attempt to compensate the victim. Statutory damages are an attempt to include punitive damage in statute law.

    They can also be used in cases where the actual economic damages are difficult to compute.

  9. They are... on Three Takers Named for Microsoft's Linux Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dewey, Cheetem, and Howe

  10. Re:Words are Meaningless - Public Utility on Google De-indexes Talk.Origins, Won't Say Why UPDATED · · Score: 1

    I know what the cause of the error is so I tell them.

    Tell who? I don't recall specifically registering with Google to have them crawl my site. Who should Google contact about a website?

  11. Offline... on The Lost Art of the Game Company Newsletter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the board/card/table gaming world, Looney Labs does a pretty good job with their mailing lists. Yes, they keep up on the games that are being released, but since it's practically a small family operation, they have blog entries and such that go out as well.

  12. Re:Differentiate between cars and pedestrians on Tracking Traffic Jams With Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    What about a paralell feeder road that has pedestrians walking along it?

  13. Re:Mudslinging? How? on Political Mudslinging Via YouTube, MySpace · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's what this "ownership society" is all about...

  14. Re:Setting up the Nvidia drivers on Fedora Core 6 Review · · Score: 1

    put FC5 on the gf's laptop without a problem (any points for converting her?)

    Can I get points for coveting her?

  15. Re:Check out Sirius' wrongdoing on Howard Stern Coming To the Net · · Score: 1

    CTRL-F, SIRIUS

    Nothing found.

  16. Re:Shoulda seen this coming... on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That was gotten rid of thanks to the recent cybercrime treaty that the US and a bunch of other nations signed.

  17. Re: The IP Address on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 1

    Plus, when you add in the recently ratified Cybercrime treaty, the signors of the treaty may be bound to enforce the laws of other countries in their own jurisdictions.

  18. Re:Google on First Super Close-Up Pictures of Mars · · Score: 1

    And how long until we catch the martians sunbathing in the nude (SFW) via Google Mars?

  19. Bonus on Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Added bonus, today on senate.gov front page:

    "We the People"
    Celebrating the Constitution


    In reality:
    We the Senate
    Pooping on the Constitution


  20. Re:Correct wording. on Nigeria Widows Lose Their Fortune · · Score: 1

    So often, these scammers link right to the news stories themselves. I just got one with a link to a September 11th widows/widowers organization. It would be nice if the news agencies/sites would put fraud warnings right on the pages involved.

  21. My internet... on CSS: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    The book is one in a series of many so-called Missing Manuals, whose tagline is "The books that should have been in the box,"

    My internet didn't come in a box... it came in a tube!

  22. Re:It's harder than you might at first think on Diebold Flops in Alaska · · Score: 1

    How about Brazil's voting machine system... electronic count, voter veririfed paper trail, randomly selected precints for recount

  23. Re:Hoover? on Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations · · Score: 1

    "Jelly is clear, Jam is not. Conserves have nuts, Preserves have chunks and Marmalades always have peel."

    Good Eats, "Urban Preservation: Part I"

  24. Re:how shortsighted on WSJ on CraigsList and Zen of Classified Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps a Firefox extension is in order...

  25. Where's.... on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 1

    Where's Robin Williams and Robert De Niro when you need a movie made?