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  1. Re:Excellent patent! on MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is by no means innovative and unique. This sort of challenge/response system to allow one to continue was implemented in many computer games during the 80s. Typically you would be asked to enter a word from a specific page and line in a manual.

  2. Re:Option Labeling of Non-Sexual Content on ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House · · Score: 1

    Er, the ICRA has been around for ages...

  3. Re:Amusing on Maine Rejects Federally Mandated ID Cards · · Score: 1
  4. Can you think of a better place... on Google Releases 'Testing on the Toilet' · · Score: 1

    ... to work it out?

  5. No shit, Sherlock!!! on At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies · · Score: 1
    63 percent of all downloaders are male, and 37 percent are female

    Bloody hell, I'm glad they included the second figure, otherwise I would have been all at sea!!!
  6. Oh, the Irony! on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 5, Funny

    DJ Drama (whose real name is Tyree Simmons) and Mr. Cannon were each charged with a felony violation of Georgia's Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization law(known as RICO) and held on $100,000 bond.

  7. Re:Price to high on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    Insightful my arse. These things will FLY of the shelves. People who want these sort of devices have a ton of disposable income. Plus a lot of the cost will get written off against tax for many purchasers.

    Just because YOU don't want to pay for it, doesn't mean than many other people don't...

  8. Re:Data? on Zune Sales Continue to Weaken · · Score: 1

    It is entirely irrelevant how this compares the the iPod sales in the first month. The iPod was *creating* the market back then, not moving into a mature and well understood market. A more reasonable comparison would be how well the Zune did versus, say, the 5.5G 30GB iPod.

  9. Re:xkcd on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    It simply means that he already issued a sudo command recently, and is still within the authorisation period. He probably said "sudo show me your tits" or something...

  10. Lithium is NOT volatile on The Next Notebook Battery? Lithium Polymer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lithium is a metal with a melting point of 453.69 F and a boiling point of 1615F. It is a REACTIVE metal (being one of the alkali metals), but it is definitely not volatile.

  11. Re:Finding holes in a MS product.... on Zero Day Exploit Found in Windows Media Player · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who said that?

  12. Re:Now might be a good time to try ... on Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Attack Alert For Word · · Score: 1

    1993 quote from Jim Allchin from current Iowa antitrust trial: "This really isn't that hard. If you're going to kill someone, there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger. There are thousands of documents that show the truth. Microsoft is not just a tough competitor. It's not just an aggressive competitor. It is a competitor who is willing to break the law and commit anticompetitive acts in order to destroy competition."

  13. Article is only partially literate on Windows Vista and XP Head To Head · · Score: 1

    Numerous mis-spelling and grammatical errors. Why should I trust them to assess an OS correctly?

  14. Well, Whoopie Shit!! on Apple Gene for Red Color Found · · Score: 0, Troll

    Me, I'm just glad I don't pay for this bloody nonsense...

  15. Re:Paper voting! on Feds to Recommend Paper Trail for Electronic Votes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because if you did it that way, with the number of questions on a given ballot form it gets very unwieldy. What REALLY needs to happen is the decoupling of trivial local (citywide, countywide) ballots from presidential and congressional ballots. KISS.

    But of corse that won't happen as it simplifies the electoral process, and transfers understanding and clarity back to the electorate: something the Dems and Reps both hate...

  16. Re:I solemnly swear to embrace the Constitution... on Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Too late: it's already being extinguished...

  17. Almost a month old on IBM Sues Amazon For Patent Infringement · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dupe.

  18. Needs saying on Security From A To Z · · Score: 1
    <Comic_Book_Guy>
      Worst...article...ever!
    </Comic_Book_Guy>
  19. Re:Use Javascript on Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I use JavaScript too. Something like:
    <script type="text/javascript">
    <!--
        var foo = '&#109;';
        var trund = '&#97;';
        var bar = '&#105;';
        var droob ='&#108;';
        var quux = '&#116;';
        var bleen = '&#111;';
        var guy = '&#119;&#101;&#98;&#109;&#97;&#115;&#116;&#101;&#1 14;';
        var place = '&#102;&#111;&#111;&#98;&#97;&#114';
        document.write('<a href="');
        document.write(foo+trund+bar+droob+quux+bleen+':') ;
        document.write(guy);
        document.write('&#64;');
        document.write(place);
        document.write('" title="Send email to Webmaster">');
        document.write(guy);
        document.write('&#64;');
        document.write(place);
        document.write('<\/a>');
    // -->
    </script>
    Zero spam on addressed encoded this way so far.
  20. Re:RPG handbook on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 1

    Want to know how much the government want to believe in terrorists EVERYWHERE?

    Read this.

  21. Re:Paper's for the thoughtless and lazy. on Deprecating the Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Power Point does NOT by default enhance your presentation

    No shit: Gettysburg Address

  22. Re:Found a what on the what now? on Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus · · Score: 1

    Bah, old hat! Dedicated fans of Spitting Image will remember the Spitting Image sketch from the 80s in the UK when they had Sir Alistair Burnett do a spot where it was announced that the planet would be called Bumhole (pronounced Byoomhoelay).

  23. Re:Condi Rice has no experience. on Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel · · Score: 1

    #

            "A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship.
            The average age of the world's greatest democratic nations has been 200 years.
            Each has been through the following sequence:
            From bondage to spiritual faith.
            From faith to great courage.
            From courage to liberty.
            From liberty to abundance.
            From abundance to complacency.
            From complacency to selfishness.
            From selfishness to apathy.
            From apathy to dependency.
            And from dependency back again into bondage."
            ~ Lord Thomas MacCauley

  24. Piquepaille:troll or editor alias? on Natural Language Processing for State Security · · Score: 1

    Probably both...

  25. Re:Much ado about nothing? on Continued Opposition To Laptops in Schools · · Score: 1

    by my laptop boots for free..

    Guess you're not running Windows, then...