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  1. Re:She should be fired for being a bad teacher on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Your mother sounds like an lifetime movie. Some kids suck and thinking that you can get everyone of them to open up and want to learn is ridiculous.

  2. What is the internet verses a network? on Is an Internet Kill Switch Feasible In the US? · · Score: 2

    Where do you draw the line between the a large network and the Internet as a whole?

  3. Re:Cheating on 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat · · Score: 1

    If you are not cheating, you are only cheating yourself.

    If you never get the degree or the grades to get the interview, what does it matter.

  4. It happens on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    My ex-girlfriend got stuck on a road last winter because her GPS took her up a summer only road that was for snowmobiles in the winter. The GPS didn't know the difference. We had to get a buddy's big pickup truck to come crank her our of a snowdrift.

  5. I'm about to find out, upload anyway on UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband · · Score: 1

    I currently have Time Warner Cable's Road Runner cable internet service. I am scheduled to get Verizon Fios 35/35 service next week. While the download speeds are at least comparable within an order of magnitude, the upload speed should go from ~400kb/s to 35mb/s. I don't currently upload much other than torrents and normal web uploads like pictures, but I can envision myself taking advantage of other things on the internet that I normally have not done. I'm think just off the top of my head I think I might try one of these cloud backup services and streaming more video to my iphone from my computer/slingbox.

  6. Re:Time Warner on DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention For ISPs · · Score: 1

    "If any expansion of power is needed it should be the ability to have a request to hold data while a subpoena is processed."

    Just about every ISP already does this when law enforcement sends a preservation letter. Then the ISP will await a subpoena from a ADA or AUSA, a patriot act request, or a search warrant from a judge depending on the type of information requested.

  7. Re:"Stolen" phones on Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    Fucked twice? The guy who had his phone stolen will probably get it back this way. The cops rarely care about you latest facebook posts.

  8. How about this on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    Make lectures optional and have kids pay for their own education.

  9. Sweet on AMD's New Flagship HD 6970 Tested · · Score: 1

    Now I can run farmville at 21,423 fps.

  10. Re:Let's see... on SatPhones — Why Can't They Make It Work? · · Score: 1

    So we are talking about AT&T, right?

  11. For once.. on Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess Iron man is not the answer to the problem.

  12. Re:Fundamental question on Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout · · Score: 1

    Over 100k people throughout the federal and state governments had access to these documents. You can't keep things secret when that many people know about them. I agree that any intelligence agency worth there salt had access to all of these documents a long time ago.

  13. Does anyone still have soundcard? on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think that I have put a sound card in a game rig in the past 5-8 years. Does anyone still use them besides people who have some some special need for them?

  14. Re:My answer ... on eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses · · Score: 1

    That's why, as a former prosecutor, you would have never making it onto my jury.

  15. Re:Something similar but creepier happened to me.. on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 2, Informative

    What makes you think the thief returned it? He probably took the cash and tossed it and some university groundskeeper found it in the bushes and returned it.

  16. Re:Accidents at Camera Intersections go up/down? on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    But do fatalities do down? It is pretty hard to kill someone by rear ending him when he stops short, but not so hard when someone T-bones some dude at 55mph as he speeds up to try to catch the light.

  17. Re:"Presumption of innocence"? on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    When you mail in your ticket, you almost always sign a line saying that you are pleading guilty to the crime/infraction. If you want to fight it you can go to court. No different than when a cop gives you a ticket.

  18. Re:Who is the market? on PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The market is for people that download 4-8GB Bluray rips off of the PirateBay and want to play them on their big screen HDTVs. Most laptops older than 3-4 years that were not top of the line will not have the horsepower to do a 1080p mkv, let alone have an HDMI and optical audio output.

    This might not do everything, but If your main goal is to play Hires movies that you already have on your network, this is not a bad option.

  19. Re:The original fatal flaw of Ultima 6 on Fan-Developed Ultima VI Remake Released · · Score: 1

    I remember that I accidentally broke the whole treasure map plot by finding the treasure cave on accident by just sailing around the world map with my new ship I had just bought. I always wanted to go back an play the game through the correct way after I played U7 and part 2, two of my favorite game of all time, but I never got around to it.

  20. Um, who cares? on Cancer Cells Detected Using $400 Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    We are taking about medical procedures and Cancer. Use the damn $20k camera.

  21. Re:Govenor David Patterson supports the merger?! on Groups Urge FCC To Block NBC-Comcast Merger · · Score: 1

    With his negative approval rating, that may be the only way to keep the merger from happening.

  22. Lines to preorder on iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store · · Score: 1

    I just walked past an AT&T store on Lexington Ave in Manhattan and about 30 people where standing in line outside for what I can only believe was a chance to pre-order his or her iphone 4. PREORDER! People do crazy things for Apple products.

  23. I pirated I am Rich for my iPhone, so I guess I'm responsible for about $1k of this.

  24. Re:This has already been done before... on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 1

    As a former ADA, i can tell you the cell site records are already key evidence in many types of crimes. Cell site records may only show what tower a cell phone is hitting, but just being able to show what neighborhood someone was in might be enough to break an alibi defense or show a pattern.

  25. Re:Alternatives? on XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support · · Score: 1

    While the XBMC still had a better interface, once I started playing more 720 and 1080p videos I bought a Popcorn hour.

    There is a pretty active support base and it is pretty easily to customize it, but the options are still limited compared to what you could do with XBMC. But if your main use of XBMC was to play videos and now you want to play HD, a popcorn hour or similar device does it pretty well for $200.