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  1. Re:Patent 1 on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well they have have their inkt and make it as expensive as they want but all everybody else cares about is ink. They really need to lower the price of the ink, maybe even charge a bit more for printers.

  2. Re:a better law would disband the RIAA on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    Well that probably won't happen considering more and more people at the DoJ are former members of the **AA and other big industry execs who support them.

  3. Re:What a coincidence on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    What you didn't know? All content providers have a magic wand they keep locked in an underground vault that they can take out and using the magic words and a flick of the wrists can instantly reveal and remove all infringing content from their website. They just choose not to use it because right now it powers an infinite chocolate fountain in the lobby :D

  4. Re:Typical California on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1

    They have this massive deficit, they just unveiled a super expensive school for 4200 kids. Where do the have the budget for teachers and staff(kitchen workers, gardeners, security, etc) to run a school for 4200 students?

  5. Re:Recycling is Bullshit on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    You don't know much about how the burning of trash works do you, or what it can actually do and provide to the community as a whole. The top half of this article is pretty interesting read. The bottom half is just Americans yammering about how things need to be zero waste or it shouldn't be done at all. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/science/earth/13trash.html

  6. Re:This will not stop best buy from have monster s on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope your response went something like: "I can take two piles of dog shit and slap a sticker for $30 on one and $90 on the other. Just because the other says it costs $90 doesn't make it a better pile of dog shit"

  7. Re:inflaton? on Inflaton, Mother of the Universe · · Score: 1

    Yes, and subprime space can become fairly unstable when you begin to mix bad space fabric with good space fabric during its creation.

  8. Re:Either that on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, thats too easy and simple. We need some long drawn out and complex solution of sorts, with a cool name and light effects of course. Perhaps some type of name changing time machine like the Past-Name Evisceration Machine 9X

  9. Re:I'm at school i am sick on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 5, Funny

    How dare you! How dare you much an accusation that children would fake illness to get out of school!!
    This is an outrage and I will not tolerate such lies sir!

  10. Re:Correlation is not causation on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    Well, look at it another way.
    iPhones cost lots of money
    Spending lots of money leaves little for everything else
    That means Lefty and Righty have to get creative ;)

  11. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    Yah but when I round a bit number and use some exponents it doesn't seem that bad

  12. Re:No death star :( on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    Well screw you and your false science! My science is right and it says that it can be done, so take your "science" and go jump in a black hole

  13. Re:Slashdotted to hell on How Death Rally Got Ported · · Score: 1

    Because it has become that much more epic

  14. Re:ok i'll say it on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    PLEX is used by players to add time to their accounts, 30 days per PLEX. People will do one of two things with PLEX, either buy it with real money and then later sell it in game for ISK, the currency used in EVE, or they will buy PLEX with ISK and then add time to their account so they don't actually spend real money to play. Reguardless of how he got the PLEX it was stupid to have 74 in his ships cargo and then go out into a sector of space where he could be killed by pirates to begin with.

  15. Re:so it does not work with sharks? on Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not yet, but those bastards keep making the technology smaller and smaller and more powerful! One day they will make it small enough to be mounted onto a shark, and at that point someone else will have cloned raptors. The sharks and raptors will grow up together and then the world will end, taken over by raptors riding sharks with laser beams, all because science couldn't stop to think about the consequences!

  16. Re:Made Up Numbers on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 1

    Its kind of like the story about handheld game piracy a month or so ago. Where the people doing the study just assumed Japan = 1/4 of all handheld games and then multiplied the number they got by 4.

  17. Re:LINUX rounds numbers fine on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Interesting, I spend $500 on a laptop about 3 years ago and it hasn't broken and runs great, but I guess as a thinking adult I know how to actual take care of my property.

  18. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    I always liked the sign that says: "Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again"

  19. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not completely solved but you could at least get even by blowing up his house

  20. Re:The great tradeoff on Vonage Makes Free Facebook Phone Call App · · Score: 1

    Well for now its unlimited. I remember when AT&T stopped offering their unlimited plans back in June there was talk of Verizon possibly following suit. Hopefully they don't drop their unlimited plan but you never know.

  21. Re:I predicted this on Large Zeus Botnet Used For Financial Fraud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Usually people who end up infected with this sort of stuff are the same people who ignore the patches and updates for the operating system, which usually happens to be windows. They almost never download and install the updates because it slows down their web browsing or whatever and to them they just see it as an annoyance. They likely have only the most basic of anti-virus software installed and never actually bother to run it, or they just don't have anything at all. They click on ads left and right because it says "free download" or some other crap and they probably wouldn't know that the advertisement for free wallpapers or whatever could do anything bad to their computers. The people who usually get infected are the same across the board sadly enough, they don't care to take a few basic steps to protect themselves and take the 20 minutes or so to just get some good anti-virus software on their computer and run it once a week or not open and download every advertisement they see and click on every link in every email they get which is probably where most of them get infected from. Now I am sure there are a small percentage who are very tech and security savvy and take good measures to stop infections and whatnot and something may have slipped through, but again that's likely a very small percentage.

  22. Re:Astroporn on The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth · · Score: 1

    Well if it wasn't for mother Earth acting like she was around the sun then this wouldn't have happened.

  23. Re:Question on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    The initial release of material at Chernobyl, according to Wikipedia, was 400 times that of Hiroshima. The Chernobyl disaster affected a much larger area because there was far more radioactive material in one place, a good deal of which was thrown up into the atmosphere. With more material more wind picked it up and spread it a lot farther contaminating a lot more lakes, rivers, etc. Radioactive material from Chernobyl was detected and spread throughout most of Europe to some degree. The atomic bomb was also just the one explosion and it was done. Reactor 4 at Chernobyl has about 40 tons of radioactive dust that has built up inside and there is still a slab of uranium and concrete inside so that's continuing to release radiation, about 95% of the fuel that was in Reactor 4 at the time of the explosion is still there in a lava like pool continuing to release high levels of radiation.. The sarcophagus that was supposed to house and contain the radiation around reactor 4 has not held up over the years potentially leaking more radiation into the environment because that slab of uranium and all the radioactive dust is still there. So the danger of another explosion and more radiation being released still exists at Chernobyl. There is also radioactive waste still inside the cooling ponds of reactors 1 and 3 and forest fires release radiation in trees and grass back into the air again.

    With Hiroshima the city was rebuilt in 1949 and is a very bustling city once again with a population of about 1.3 to 2 million people. Studies of the children of survivors have not shown a significant increase in the number of birth defects over the years. I believe that because the explosion released far less radiation that Chernobyl that it has dissipated much quicker as well, allowing for a much quicker rebuild with far fewer side effects. Nagasaki, where the other atomic bomb was dropped is also inhabited again and was rebuilt around the same time as Hiroshima. The atomic bombs detonated over and destroyed just the area of a city, so a couple miles. Chernobyl didn't physically explode and destroy much of anything, but because the spread of heavily contaminated soot was tens of miles away from the explosion it got into the ecosystem and has done much more damage and still continues to do damage.

    The other thing you need to remember is that its now been over 60 years since Hiroshima, where as its only been 24 years since Chernobyl.

  24. Re:ZDNet Article Author has been Brainwashed on RIM's Encryption 'Too Secure' For Indian Government's Taste · · Score: 1

    There is no clear cut solution to this. On the one hand people want privacy for their communications and they don't want people or the government being able to read what they are sending. On the other hand, the Indian government also has to worry about extremist threats from many groups based inside the country against the government and its people. Intercepted information from known or suspected terrorists could be used to prevent attacks if the government can decrypt it. If the blackberry has an encryption that the government is capable of breaking, then the people won't be happy because they will worry about the government listening in. Then of course if extremists use the blackberry with RIM's encryption to send information and plan and launch an attack and kill tons of innocent people, then the people be pissed about how they government should have been able to prevent this. Its not a right or wrong answer as to how to go about this I doubt there will ever be a solution where both sides can be happy, where the government can protect its people from extremist attacks and the people can have their privacy as well.

  25. Lets see here on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    On the one hand you have a company that is protecting morons like you from malicious attacks and helping to secure your router and connection. Now they could have left this all be fine, but I wonder how would you have enjoyed this little scenario?
    1. Hacker accesses your router remotely or via a malicous website because YOU never changed your password from the default.
    2. Your DNS addresses are changed to use one of their DNS servers
    3. You attempt to go to what you believe is a secure website, perhaps your banks website
    4. The hackers DNS server redirects you to a spoof website that looks just like yours
    5. You enter your information thinking its your banks website, instead you just gave them your bank information

    Verizon just protected you because YOU were too lazy to protect yourself. THEY are looking after YOU, and yet all YOU can do is whine and complain because how dare they access the equipment you are leasing from them.