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  1. Re:xp does the job well on 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    one must keep updated against the newest vulnerabilities.

    Software doesn't spontaneously develop vulnerabilities; there are no "newest vulnerabilities", unless, of course, you've updated recently and update introduced new ones. Otherwise, there's only "newly discovered vulnerabilities."

  2. Re:xp does the job well on 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mod parent down, -1 redundant.

  3. Re:Theft? on Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here in the US, criminal trespass is a crime, and can result in 6 months to a year in jail. Repeated offenses, or trespass with a weapon doubles that.

    That would be the law in whatever state you're in. Criminal trespass is not a federal crime, so the law on it will vary from state to state. It's probably broadly similar everywhere in the US, though.

  4. Re:Theft? on Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the contrary, societies live and die by their internalized code of ethics. Law cleans up the small minority that refuse to follow that code, and helps tidy up the corner cases where there is dispute as to the correct path, but it cannot revise or create that code of ethics by fiat.

  5. Re:Real world learning from video games? on Norfolk Police Officers To Be Tagged To Improve Response Times · · Score: 1

    Police in the field have been transmitting via radio regularly for decades. If that's not a problem, this won't be.

  6. Re:Strange Database Merge... on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oracle vs. Access

    So, what's next on your fight card? Space Marines vs. Pee-Wee Herman? Guillermo Jones vs. 6-year-old Timmy from down the block?

  7. Re:Text from Google cache on Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction · · Score: 2, Informative

    The corpse of Karel Capek seen sulking nearby.

    Capek coined the word "robot". He did not come up with the admittedly derivative word "robotics". Asimov did that.

  8. Re:All it needs is a giant Slashdotting on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox tells me it doesn't understand URLs. I'd better just stick to HTTPs.

  9. Re:Obligatory Penny Arcade Comic on Pro Video Game Leagues — Another Economic Casualty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, the PA comic this made me think of was this.

  10. Re:Why not? Ascii is everything. on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    You want to know the really scary part? It's not the only one. There's lots of them. It's far and away the best known one, though, and it's a fad a few years past its prime.

  11. Re:Why not? Ascii is everything. on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    You want ascii flash? We can do that. No ponies, though.

  12. Stale joke on Alpine Legend Revolutionizes Music Game Genre · · Score: 0

    It was funnier when the Onion did Sousaphone Hero.

  13. Re:Finally on Scientists Make Artificial Protein Mimic Blood · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe. Some of my Ventrue friends say it has a horrible metallic taste and is undrinkable.

  14. Re:What does the G in GPS stand for on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bullshit summary again. Or maybe bullshit article. Who cares? After a while, you don't bother.

    Bullshit summary. Article just said that researchers used GPS to keep track of where they were while following the chimps around. I'm going to have to see if I can just filter out kdawson's articles.

  15. Re:Sure it would. on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 1

    Promoted pawns are not "redeeming" your captured pieces; it is a transformation into a new piece, as is shown by the fact that you do not in fact have to have lost the piece in question. You can have nine queens on the board, if you promote all your pawns without losing your original queen. Or ten bishops, or so on. The only limitations are that it cannot become a king, and it cannot remain a pawn.

  16. Re:Self-defeat. on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    Even more insane? IPv6 allotments are FREE! I had to pay per year for an IPv4 allotment, but the free stuff? Pfft...we have it, we'll never run out of it within your lifetime, but you can't have it.

    Hmmmm...we can charge for IPv4, but IPv6 we have to give away. Which one will we be more interested in having people get, I wonder...

  17. Re:It will happen on No Business Case For IPv6, Survey Finds · · Score: 1

    Don't get started about the turd that is called NAT, that's a problem posing as a solution.

    Then it's doing an amazing impersonation, as there doesn't seem to be any movement by the people using it to get IPv6 instead.

  18. Re:Original sin on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought original sin was a catholic idea.

    No, it's almost universal in Christianity. A few fringe sects might not believe in it, but it's part of Catholic, Orthodox and mainstream Protestant thought.

  19. Re:Principle on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 1

    You sue for justice to remedy a bad situation.

    And if the remedy is $1, the judge is going to say, "Must not be a very bad situation. Why are you bothering me with this? Get out of my courtroom."

  20. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    I know I have been in the box after a light turned, but the fact is I was bumper to bumper with the car in front of me,

    You know, you're not supposed to enter the intersection when you're not sure you can get across it.

  21. Re:Noooooo! on Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean, "Do not want!"?

  22. Re:Happiness is Mandatory! on Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Has someone on the Aussie's Government been playing Paranoia recently?

    What is your security clearance, citizen?

  23. Re:I think they should skip this name... on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    That's no good as a name. How would you tell it from any of the other channels?

  24. Re:Congratulations! on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    James Joyce can write a fart joke so incomprehensible that you'll never realize it's a fart joke.

  25. Re:So ... worst-case scenario? on Higgs Territory Continues To Shrink · · Score: 1

    Leave that to the creationists and remarket the Boson!

    Put lipstick on it and call it the Boson's Mate!