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  1. Re:Court orders without how to do it. on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's going to be such a big secret as they're going to give the list to ISPs (I think). As long as they do that, I think it'll be ok. People will notice if they can suddenly no longer get to specific political sites or what-not.

    I'm not saying what they are doing is correct in every way, but I'm not seeing this come from the FBI/CIA/Bush, it's just a State level mandate coming from the State government.

    If this kind of thing starts to take place on a larger level with something a little less offensive than child porn, then I'd say everybody should join in a fight against it. But you have to choose your battles wisely, and trying to overturn a ruling against child pornographers isn't going to get your voice heard in a good light.

  2. Re:Court orders without how to do it. on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 2

    Somebody can/will correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they have a list that they are going to give to ISPs, it's just that they're not publishing it so they don't give the pervs some new sites they might not know about?

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Open Code Has Fewer Bugs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not just that, but anybody will tend to produce a higher quality product when they aren't being badgered to meet deadlines and being dragged into meetings every other day.

  4. Re:Laughing Last on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    No reason to get upset here.

    Just wait a couple months until after he graduates and he's proudly hanging his CS degree above the deep fryer at his "50k" job.

    Normally "k" refers to dollars though, and not dimes.

  5. Re:Most Accurate Portrayal of a Computer Award... on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    guis that take for ever to do something

    And what part of that statement are you saying is fiction?

  6. Re:Great info for today's IT people !! on Abandoned & Little Used Airfields · · Score: 1

    Not in Romulus, NY you can't. The barracks from the old air force base were converted to apartments at $750/month.

  7. Re:Names on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name · · Score: 1

    There's only one other person in the country with my same name (as far as I know). I live in New York and this person lives in Tacoma. Coincidentally, my mom moved from New York to Olympia a couple years ago.

  8. Re:Not in a possition on File-sharing and AOL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So are you assuming that people choose AOL based on rational analysis of cost, quality, support and political agenda?

  9. Thieves on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality · · Score: 1, Funny


    Just remember, you're stealing if you don't read all the comments.

  10. Re:Speaking of upgrades... on Gamers, Upgrade your Systems · · Score: 3, Funny


    Realizing that those are US prices and now you have to pay double in Canadian money: Priceless.

  11. Re:Author wants the past! We'll give him the past! on Why Users Hate IT Products and Developers · · Score: 1

    And what I really, really mean: I'd like the old system before that, but with all the features that the new system has, but in the old system.

    *THUD*
    Here's the Visual Studio installation CDs and the 30 manuals from Microsoft Press.

  12. Re:I generally like free things on Web-based Road Monitoring · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is it that everybody assumes that just because you put something on the Internet that everybody is going to abandon tradition means and jump to the site in droves? This is the same mentality that cause the whole dot-com boom/bust.

  13. Re:Yes, but... on TWIRL: Are 1024-bit RSA Keys Unsafe? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit. If you can factor primes larger than 32 bit then you've completed blown my method of mov eax,edx

  14. Re:Mutants? on Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds more like the judge is trying to justify some strange fetish in a Pete Townsend sort of way.

    "I was just using the naked toys for research on a legal judgement"

  15. Re:ASK slashdot? on A Viable System for Micropayments? · · Score: 2

    Considering that the article is a tutorial on how to setup user based permissions with Apache I would assume he's just asking us to review his code for him.

  16. They can have my old crap on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 2

    Somebody please take my old crap. I don't want to carry it up and down the stairs when I move again. Do you know how heavy they used to make that crap! I'd rather haul oak dressers than that damn HP LaserJet II one more time.

  17. Re:They must be low on money somewhere... on Oregon Considers GPS-based Road Taxes · · Score: 2

    I spent a week in Washington a couple years ago. I wouldn't mind if they automatically issued tickets for every turn somebody makes without using their turn signal. That alone would double their income for the year.

  18. Re:Physc on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    Same here, I remember the rainbow wallpaper in my nursery when I was around 1. That's the only thing I remember from that long ago though. After that, my memories seem to start at about age 4.

  19. Re:Tell me it ain't true! on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland? · · Score: 2

    I'll have to raise my hand on that one. The company I work still develops new applications using DBase IV files with the BDE. It's mainly because we're a small shop of two programmers and we have a lot of experience in it, and our customers are also small companies that don't have an IT staff to handle things like MSSQL or Oracle for a real database. I personally wish we'd make the jump to something else, but I don't get to make those decisions.

  20. Re:What a waste(no pun intended)... on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see a Beavis and Butthead comeback special in the making here.

    Uh, hehe, hehe, put a dead bird in it, hehe, hehe.

    Yeah! Yeah! Cool!

    Hehe, hehe, I'm a scientist.

  21. Re:Reminds me of William Gibson... on Face Transplants On The Way · · Score: 2

    I don't think the money matters to people that really want to do this.

  22. Re:Car Rentals on Real Time Vehicle Tracking Made Easy · · Score: 2

    I think the courts decided that car rental companies could not fine the drivers as the rental companies do not have police or judicial powers. I'm just going on memory here though and could be wrong.

  23. Ugly Rocket on Armadillo Flies... Briefly · · Score: 2

    Is that thing suppose to actually be able to fly? Whats with the base of that thing? There's no fins, just a big skirt.

    It brought back memories of the Junkyard Wars Christmas Tree rocket. It also reminded me of an 8th grade science project in which a fellow classmate built a rocket according to Wylie Coyote specifications with an nose cone that was significantly larger than the fuselage - it went about 20 feet and landed on the roof.

  24. Re:the real reason on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 2

    They mostly already track you in grocery stores. All the major chains I go to have Club Cards that give you little discounts for certain items, but you know the real reason is to track your buying habits.

    I don't think talking peanut butter is there to necessarily track you, but probably to just make you notice it. Sort of like all the stacks of things they put int he middle of the isles to get in your way. It's just so you'll look at it.

  25. Re:yay p2p plus ibm=sweet on Putting P2P To Work · · Score: 1

    Ok already, do you really think they're going to throttle port 80! Geez, grow up.