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  1. Re:the real fraud on Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims · · Score: 3, Informative

    HP would be dead if they hadn't bought Compaq. The only good computers/servers they make are still from the Compaq pedigree.

  2. Re:Legality? on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? · · Score: 2

    The object is owned, the content is licensed.

  3. Re:Dvorak bad on Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? · · Score: 1

    It wasn't designed to be slow, it was designed to reduce the chances of typewriter arms jamming up against one another.

  4. Re:big $$$ for ngk on The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle · · Score: 1

    What is ethanol going to gum up the carburetor with? Ethanol evaporates and leaves nothing behind.

  5. Re:Good move. on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 1

    Using it as a router AND access point upped the processor usage pretty high on those things. Probably causing overheating and locking. It might have been fine in the DSL days of 1 mbit of capacity.

    I replaced mine with a $30 Belkin and it works fine as an access point.

  6. Re:About time on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    I disagree about right on red. It is so much simpler to prohibit it completely, and then put up signs in the rare places where it might make sense. No right on red makes driving (and being a pedestrian) much more simple and clear.

  7. Re:I love the 'privacy' arguments here. on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. You generally have a right to travel, but not a right to be the driver of an automobile on the public roads.

  8. Re:I love the 'privacy' arguments here. on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    The prohibition on self-incrimination only extends to things you do or don't say. It does not extend to things you own.

  9. Re:Exculpatory evidence? on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Could it not be used in the defense's favor as well? For example, to prove you came to a full stop or weren't speeding? You'd need a way to collect and save teh data so it's both available and admissible; but a sword can cut two ways.

    The defense is not given full access to the data ,only to data that has been selected and processed by the government.

    That's true, sort of. That's part of the argument you have in court, and the judge decides whether the extra data is relevant or not. In a car crash, it can very well be relevant and the judge would order the government to produce it. In other situations, it might not be relevant. In the Blagojevich trial, the government had hours and hours of tapes of his wiretaps, and the defense was only allowed access to the stuff the prosecution was using. Why? Because his argument was that there were hours and hours of evidence of him not committing any crimes, so why should the jury only hear the ones where he was committing crimes? But the judge rightly decided that it wasn't relevant. A bunch of calls of him ordering pizza and redeeming frequent flyer miles doesn't change the ones where he broke the law.

  10. Re:So wait now on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    That is neither how the fifth amendment works, nor how it is supposed to work. Evidence is not testimony.

  11. Re:Makes sense to me on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 1

    Stimulants have nothing to do with the endocannabinoid system.

  12. Re:Makes sense to me on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 2

    Be careful with that stuff, the crash if you miss a dose can be brutal.

  13. Re:Makes sense to me on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 1

    Then you don't have the condition those drugs treat. Don't blame the drugs.

  14. Re:Not enough. on Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the republican party platform!

  15. Re:Hmmmm on Mitsubishi Drops Bulky DLP TVs: End of an Era · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there aren't any kids in my house, so the screen was a no-brainer. As for picture quality, I agree. It is a bitch to get calibrated even close to correct, and you can never get it to pixel-perfect, but the tradeoff is that you can't see a lot of the digital noise in a lot of content. It's much more film-like. I have no complaints. I will be disappointed when it finally gives up and I have to drag it out to the curb. I have a feeling getting something good to replace it will be a challenge.

  16. Re:What is wrong with me? on One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators · · Score: 1

    Meth kills.

  17. Re:to be expected on Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion · · Score: 1

    The price would more accurately reflect the cost. People would make different choices.

  18. Re:to be expected on Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion · · Score: 1

    Except that no they don't. They think they do, but tax money almost always flows from the urban areas out to the rural ones. Rural infrastructure costs more per capita.

  19. Re:Hmmmm on Mitsubishi Drops Bulky DLP TVs: End of an Era · · Score: 1

    I have an old Sony CRT rear projector. Off axis viewing was greatly improved by removing the shiny smoked plastic front layer in the diffuser.

    And I think the thing about DLP front projectors is that you can shove a lot more light through them than you can LCD projectors, or the old CRT projectors.

  20. Re:Data Transmission on Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? · · Score: 1

    I was going to say the same thing. Get her a CCNA book from Cisco Press and see how she does.

  21. Re:End fiat currency! End THE FEDERAL RESERVE!!! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    He got smacked down because he didn't have the gold in the vaults like he said he did.

  22. Re:I'm surprised server manufacturers are going wi on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    The reality is that motherboards are more likely to break than CPUs.

  23. Re:No Death Penalty on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 0

    It's pretty simple: when you have the choice between killing and not killing, making the choice to kill is wrong.

  24. Re:And... on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    They make a Wonder Bread style bread that is awesome. It's almost like fairy cake.

  25. Re:GO UNIONS! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    Beefsteak Rye?

    Man, I love that shit. I hope that brand gets bought up by someone.