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  1. Re:too bad on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Read the Wikipedia page. They are not illegal in any state in the union, nor are they illegal federally. A FEW states have a requirement of a license. Are guns illegal because you need a license? Are cars illegal because you need a license?

    Perfectly legal: 42 states
    Need a license: 8 + DC
    Against the law to posses: 0.00000%
    Requirement of showing intent to rob a house to be charged with possesion: 100%

    Therefore: not illegal anywhere.

  2. Re:"beams of electricity"? on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 1

    That would be mixing memes, they are photon torpedos (torpedos of light?)

  3. Re:too bad on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Too bad you fail at reading. Lock picks are legal, period. some states require a license as a locksmith, but not all:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_picking#United_States

    Only a very few states require licenses, and of those, generally they still have to prove intent in order to claim they were for burglary.

  4. Re:Text editing on OSX on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    Thank god, someone who knows how to fix this annoyance. Thank you for the heads up on that.

  5. Re:Text editing on OSX on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    Ok, he was talking about the Home key, which is god awful stupid how it works in Mac. Now I know how to fix this awful behavior. The home key should move to the beginning of the line when you are in a text box, instead it pages be up to the beginning of the web page I am on. This has always bugged me, and made no sense.

  6. Re:Text editing on OSX on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    I believe he was talking about the problem where copy and paste use the wrong modifier key, which changing keyboards doesn't help.

    *typed on a Dell keyboard hooked to a Mac Pro*

  7. Re:Man up and learn emacs? on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    I have to say, the automated headlights are great, they unfortunately don't sense rain yet though :)

  8. Re:Man up and learn emacs? on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    I prefer butterflies.

  9. Re:Who the fuck is Ted Dziuba? on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    Oops, I guess it is more like $80, I didn't think my company spent that much, maybe there was a sale.

  10. Re:Who the fuck is Ted Dziuba? on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    Agreed, came here to say exactly this. Fusion is like $30, what's the big deal here?

  11. Re:Here's a thought... on Twitter's Lawyers Seek To Block WikiLeaks Data Handover · · Score: 1

    Aldrich Ames

    In jail still
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames#Post_sentence

    Robert Hansen

    and in jail still
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen#Imprisonment

    Unless you think they should have gotten the death penalty?

  12. Re:In other words... on Aussie Police Probe Virtual Worlds For Money Trail · · Score: 1

    Don't make me ax you again!

    I hate that one...

  13. Re:They have, kinda on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't be a driver problem, that is a problem of the coders coding against AMD, not Nvidia. The game includes optimizations for AMD. Driver problems are evident when your computer crashes, or when the driver has to be reset in newer OSes.

  14. Re:Hope their drivers have improved on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 1

    If a normal person has to go through that much work to setup a mobo, there is something wrong with the mobo designer. There should be default settings that take effect if the user does not decide to overclock which are perfectly stable.

  15. Re:Hope their drivers have improved on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, but now on Windows 7, instead of a blue screen, you get a fancy little box telling you that the video drivers had to be restarted. AMD cards still cause these problems, even with the newest drivers. I have never had driver issues with Nvidia cards, the only time my video drivers crashed was with a water cooling leak dripping on my video card near the power input section. After washing and drying out the video card for a few days, it functioned perfectly (still).

  16. Re:the only problem with these state of the art ca on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 1

    Have you actually found any that output that much res? Cause the only ones I have seen run at 2560x1600. Apple, Dell, HP, frankly, they even use the same panel from the same manufacturers.

  17. Re:Anysufficiently advanced technology on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, what you said about stability comes across as a shill, as we all have friends who tell us how often the ATI drivers crash. With Windows 7, it is quite clear when it is the video driver crashing as a pleasant box comes up telling you that the video driver crashed and had to be restarted. I run Nvidia, and the only time I ever had the video drivers crash was when my water cooling started leaking on the card, and after drying off the card, it is still going strong.

  18. Re:Anysufficiently advanced technology on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 1

    Hell, AMDs Windows drivers are still horrible. They should include the number of crashes in the benchmark tests. That would definitely show who wins in reality...

  19. Re:Big magnetic truck. on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    PS: Use a ford

    I prefer a Toyota Tacoma

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_OtbXmu9kg

  20. Re:Which Switch? on Inside a Verizon Wireless Superswitch · · Score: 1
  21. Wireless Superswitch? on Inside a Verizon Wireless Superswitch · · Score: 1

    You mean like a MSC?

    This looks like it was written by someone who knows nothing of how cell phones work.

  22. Re:What's this "foreign" crap? on Federal Prosecutors Tempt the Streisand Effect · · Score: 1

    I prefer the woman on top anyways, so all good.

  23. Re:666K addresses on Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    666 is a number that in Hebrew means Ultimate Perversion, in other words, it is the sign of the Devil. Therefore buying 666k addresses relates quite nicely to being evil. Why is it that nerds have to have the joke explained?

  24. Re:Why would any true geek text a donation? on Carriers Delay Paying Japan's Texting Donations · · Score: 1

    How many tablet-optimised apps are there for Android again?

    As many as any other as they don't have to be recoded. I have run into one app that didn't work right. This is just a matter of the Android tablet being a rather new thing, Apple simply had a tablet a year before others. (But MANY years after MS)

    Which app store has a history of having apps that take over your device for nefarious purposes?

    Both.

    Which OS, has reviewers all over the place mentioning lots of crashes?

    I'm not exactly sure what you mean there, both stores have buggy apps, what's new there? Some programmers aren't very good, as anyone can make an app.

    If it's so easy to backup Android, why do people need to buy separate apps like Titanium Backup?

    Its free. for the iPad you are required to have a computer to even set it up, I would say that costs much more.

    Who removes apps for no particular reason?

    http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=apple+app+store+removed

  25. Re:Why would any true geek text a donation? on Carriers Delay Paying Japan's Texting Donations · · Score: 0

    for example, choose an iPad over an Android tablet?

    having a huge selection of app: Android, Check
    avoiding viruses: Android, Check
    [avoiding] stability problems: Android, Check
    a really easy way to back up data for all apps: Android, Check

    What was your point again?