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  1. Shortly before? on Grandmother Googled Murder Penalties Before Partner's Death · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have to plan out these sorts of things long in advance. And for heaven sakes, don't bookmark the more useful pages, or add "Making it look like an accident" to your youtube favorites.

  2. Re:At least they don't pollute the city directly on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To power the air compressors, you'd need more power plants. Many more, since compressed air isn't efficient. Moreover, the compressors themselves would be dirty, so "free A/C" would be unhealthy.

  3. Newspeak on Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries · · Score: 1

    If you want the truth, you'll just have to put away your toy symbology, and learn a proper character set.

  4. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    I know my cat 5 is losing bits all the time..

    I know what you mean. My server is only 150m from my hub, and the connection is soooo flaky.

  5. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Sigh. This again...

    DenonLink is not ethernet. It's a proprietary protocol that Denon is probably not that eager to discuss without an exchange of monies and Non Disclosure Agreements. That said, it will work over shielded Cat-5. Denon will sell a replacement cable for 13 bucks.

    The corollary to "Digital's digital" is "either it works or it doesn't." Plug in the wrong cable, and it just might not work,

  6. Re:we'll see on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 1

    I could care less about the interests of my state legislature.

  7. Re:we'll see on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 1

    Washington? Perhaps not. However, his successor, John Adams, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law. James Madison, author of several of the federalist papers. attacked this new law as a unconstitutional infringement of free speech and the press.

    Here's how the Massachusetts Legislature attacked James Madison's Virginia Resolution

    This construction of the Constitution, and of the existing law of the land, as well as the act complained of, the legislature of Massachusetts most deliberately and firmly believe, results from a just and full view of the several parts of that Constitution; and they consider that act to be wise and necessary, as an audacious and unprincipled spirit of falsehood and abuse had been too long unremittingly exerted for the purpose of perverting public opinion, and threatened to undermine and destroy the whole fabric of the government.

    Responses to the Virginia Resolution

    I think that qualifies as a genteel way of declaring that at least one of the writers of the federalist papers is a "lying asshat".

  8. Re:Watching TV not Possible on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Wow. ATSC tuners really have improved.

  9. Re:Software? on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    It's a bit fuzzy, and of course, Apple uses subpixel anti-aliasing. The end result can be compared to a TV with a shoddy chroma filter.

  10. Re:Not so fast.. on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    He was Georgian. And so, when we think of "Mikheil Saakashvili", and his campaign of bloodlust against the sovereign puppet state of South Ossetia, we should also think of Stalin's agricultural policies in the Ukraine.

  11. Re:Have they played the mission? on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, MW2 can be played through in six to eight hours. It's pretty meagre, if true. Perhaps IW2 should offer a replacement campaign to make up for their lack of judgement.

  12. Re:100 Million? on 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 · · Score: 1

    The core? The surface? The corona?

  13. Wolfenstein and the "Occult" on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Raiders, Major Eaton claims that

    for the last two years the Nazis have had teams of archeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler's gone nuts on the subject. He's crazy. He's obsessed with the occult. And right now, apparently, there is some kind of German archeological dig going on in the desert outside Cairo.

    But how true is this claim? Is this perception simply a failure to grapple with the fact that Hitler was not insane, he was not possessed by demons, and simply made a cold blooded choice to slaughter millions?

    Wolfenstein encourages the player to think of Nazis as creatures of myth and masters of the dark arts, rather than as ordinary criminals, capable of making ethical decisions and thus fully culpable for their actions.

  14. Re:First result is for Mavs?? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! Look who the first result is for!?!? Mark Cuban's teams website! Shame Shame!!
    http://tinyurl.com/yefvopu

    You don't need a search engine. You need a nameserver.

  15. Re:U.N. and Human Rights... on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 2, Informative

    We have no such tradition of legal fiction.

    Article 1:
    His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.

    Treaty of Paris, 1783

  16. Re:U.N. and One World Government.... on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    And WND is about nurturing paranoia.

  17. Re:U.N. and Human Rights... on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sure. The "true" Chinese government is based in Tapei, and they don't have a UN presence.

  18. Re:What has to happen? on The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing · · Score: 1

    I don't watch much football. Can the quarterback throw as many balls as he wants, in the hope that at least one of his receivers catches it?

  19. Re:What has to happen? on The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing · · Score: 1

    Mary responds, curtly, to your half finished prayer

    "What do you want?"

    The full prayer is [quote]
    "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen"[/quote]

    The attack is called "Hail Mary", because it should take a miracle to break in to a foreign system by "guessing passwords".

  20. Re:What's the point of releasing old TV on Blu Ray on Alternate Star Trek TOS Pilot Found · · Score: 1

    Judge the 1080p screenshots for yourself.

    Personally, I think bluray, as a technology, is a little hyperactive.

    Here's a portion of bluray box copy for No country for Old Men.

    ...Featuring an acclaimed cast led by Tommy Lee Jones, this stunning game of cat and mouse is even grittier in flawless 1080p. Each heart stopping frame delivers maximum punch as 24 bit uncompressed audio and the unbridled strength of Blu ray High Definition take you to edge of your seat and beyond

    Stunning? I wonder if that's a reference to Javier Bardem's weapon of choice.

  21. Re:Pan-galactic Gargle Blaster on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless, it still violates several treaties.

  22. Re:The names alone should be enough for a ban on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    It's not particularly novel. Hurricane and Colt 45 (Lando Calrissian's beer of choice) are both "malt liquors".

  23. Re:This comment surprises me on Psystar Crushed In Court · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look, Daddy! I reformatted your windows partition as ext3!

  24. Re:Get your lawyers ready /. on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I had points, I'd down mod you.

  25. slashdot has been trolled. on FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP · · Score: 5, Informative

    The submitter's name is "typosquatting." The linked article was written by Alias Encore's PR flack , and exists for the sole purpose of selling Alias-Encore's software and services-- namely "helping companies increase highly qualified traffic to their websites through the strategic acquisition of misspelled domain names."