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  1. Re:From the No Duh Dept. on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: 1

    Please give us 3 seconds to safely get out of the left lane. Especially if I was there to pass someone.

    I hate when a huge line of cars starts passing me on the right, because they want to go 80 in a 65 zone, and I only want to do 70.

    All I need is 3 seconds after going around the other car to get right, and all you assholes flashing lights, and cutting in the narrow space behind are not helping clear your lane.

  2. Re:From the No Duh Dept. on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: 1

    I would assume more dangerous, less fatal, but that's just me.

    It's all in how one measures gander i guess.

  3. Re:Flash? Unlocked? on Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor · · Score: 1

    And yet lags behind in features on the MAC platform (GPU acceleration, 64-bit).

  4. Re:Only until on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking the middle end has dropped from $180 to $120, but just gut, no real evidence.

    Well, here is an attempt at real evidence. http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html

  5. Re:Only until on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 1

    Were HD's really only $100 a decade ago?

  6. Re:How About A Little Restraint? on Taking Apart the Energizer Trojan · · Score: 1

    I thought OMG ponies was good.

  7. Re:Somebody violated the first rule of usenet on Newzbin Usenet Indexer Liable For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter the nuances. You are defending a serious charge, not a petty one.

    You can argue those nuances all you want, I pay $.20 / GB to not have that risk (though lightning has been demonstrated to me more likely to strike me).

    While you try to defend that your distribution of 50% of a work to someone is not distribution, I can never distribute and support the network in other ways.

    Also, we all know that you're .rar'ed .torrent is a scam and almost certainly non-infringing (well, you'll give me a password if I visit your website...)

  8. Re:Somebody violated the first rule of usenet on Newzbin Usenet Indexer Liable For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing is, with usenet only the uploaders are really committing a serious infringement (and even then only once).

    The downloaders are pretty much clean (from serious trouble).

    In what we call P2P sharing, the down-loaders are also uploading multiple copies too, causing them to be easy to sue seriously.

    It is much easier to pick on the littlest guys (end users), and P2P let them do that.

  9. Re:Missing something on Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    When else do they get posted?

  10. Re:If you want it to act like a computer hooked to on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.google.com/products?q=asrock%20330&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf

    HDMI out, check
    Linux Support, check
    Low Power, check
    H.264 playback, check

    I don't think one needs to even spend $1,000 any more. perhaps comprimise with the blue tooth, but not drop thousand of $.

  11. Re:May I be the first to say... on Gamers Pay To Play With Girls · · Score: 1

    Really, I thought it was full of guys in relationships trying to get laid (the percentage is huge), and dinner whores.

    This is based on anecdotes from people who have tried it/do it.

  12. Re:You must have an different definition of freedo on Nexuiz Founder Licenses It For Non-GPL Use · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I could write a license that says you can re-license this code however you want.

  13. Re:You must have an different definition of freedo on Nexuiz Founder Licenses It For Non-GPL Use · · Score: 1

    We can argue about degrees of freeness, but the fact that there were debates about the use of drivers (wireless I think), from BSD into Linux, I think it is fair to say there are restrictions implied in BSD too.

    Note, I think it is 100% fair to say that BSD is more free for the recipient than GPL.

  14. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    I can say, DE is $330/week, and we consider it terrible, PA is $480/week.

    I think you're wrong about MA.

  15. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    I buy that the health insurance was good, but really on food stamps?

    $4.74/day does not buy much anything in way of food where I am.

  16. I find this interesting on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Converting all computers to the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has overcome dependency on a single office software suite.

    Does ODF now define formulas for spreadsheets? because my understanding was that this was still ambiguous in the spec, and it is a pretty big problem if it is.

  17. Re:My best guess.... on Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wing Comander needed it on my friends computer (and maybe mine I forget).

    When it started it asked you if your computer was fast or slow. allowing for 4 combinations of turbo and game speed.

    one worked on my computer, another on my friends, and 3 other combinations failed to work for either of us.

  18. Re:Cool, I'll wait for the magazine quality ones. on Color E-Book Displays Coming From E Ink Next Year · · Score: 1

    I want e-ink digital photo frames.

    Hopefully it will not be long until we can get that in magazine quality.

  19. Re:At least one byte on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 1

    Most probably do not run buffer overflows. Most are probably people running the executables stupidly.

    It comes down to teaching your users that random strangers on the Internet don't have their best interests at heart, and yes I imagine that is an impossible task.

  20. Re:Spy Websites?!? on Iran Hacks US Spy Sites · · Score: 1

    But if part of what the CIA tries to do is support activists and destabilize the regime, they would run sites such as that.

    I mean propaganda is generally part of an intelligence effort, so I wouldn't be shocked if it were a CIA site, in the sense that the CIA is trying to support opposition.

  21. Re:Unions aren't the problem on IBM Stops Disclosing US Headcount Data · · Score: 1

    Funnily enough, Stock options were supposed to do this, yet are often blamed for the opposite.

    It is also the type of thing a Unions could be a part of (as well as the shareholders).

  22. Re:Two can play that game... on IBM Stops Disclosing US Headcount Data · · Score: 1

    Considering GP mentioned open standards, not open source.

    And then gave an example that involved 3 closed source solutions (unless Solaris is complete in it's OSS form), I would say your argument is a strawman.

    Even if it is true.

  23. Re:Unions aren't the problem on IBM Stops Disclosing US Headcount Data · · Score: 2, Informative

    There appears to be a compelling argument that industry dogma by PHBs is choking the industry.

    If that is the case, then unions could actually be a key part to restructuring things to every-bodies benefit.

    Not saying it's true, just that it is possible, though you are most likely correct, that with a global economy any change or massive negotiation is likely to lead to just shipping jobs to other countries.

  24. Re:Hiding in plain sight on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    Except that if one wants to move data where they are being explicitly forbidden from doing such the phone is going to be blocked.

    Airport security is not the real problem, it is highly secured (against information removal) areas where you would want to hide an SD card in a coin. Airports security cares very little about information, they are more concerned in a typical courthouse for example than at the airport.

    There are plenty (I'm willing to bet at least a dozen) of areas where a phone may be blocked, and a coin would be allowed.

    Though, this is slashvertisement, as in reality very few people need it, and it is simple a novelty.

  25. Re:real chat client on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    Let's see, I've had 100+ message long SMS threads with someone in a day (using it as IM in Gogole voice, them on a phone).

    If I were to do such to one of my friends over seas, I just spent a decent amount of money. So with them I use gchat.

    Also, in general I SMS for a quick question or message, and IM for a conversation (my first sentence not withstanding). Different mediums for different purposes. You may-as-well ask why does the iPhone have SMS, you can just use IM. Or why does IM exist, just use e-mail.