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  1. Re:A lot less invasive on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    Well then they would be taxing you for non california miles. If I drove do vegas and bought gas in nevada I'd be taxed twice for the miles, once for the odometer and once for the gas tax in nevada.

  2. Re:In other news... on The Cure for Cancer Might be: HIV · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer cancer cures smoking.

  3. Re:The MPAA have access to the Logs on LokiTorrent Shut Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know what server logs he had but he did have account information which includes what users uploaded what torrents. It was part of your profile what you uploaded. I would imagine these are the people who are in for a lawsuit since they were distributing the copyrighted goods.

  4. Re:And the donated money will go... on LokiTorrent Shut Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    d) be used to pay the settlement with the MPAA

  5. Re:Only 25 years? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bush's legal staff just made it up so they didn't have to abide by any law or offer any due process. Basically 'There are all these restrictions of what we can do on us soil and all these restricions on what we can do to prisoners of war, hmm let's house them outside the us and call them something different then we can do whatever the f we want'.

  6. Re:Only 25 years? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Article XIV.

    Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


    Note that this paragraph affords a ANY person not just citizens protection from being deprived life, liberty or property without due process.

  7. Re:Only 25 years? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where in the constitution does it say that the constitution applies to us citizens only?

  8. Re:Only 25 years? on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    A jury? Well he could be declared an illegal combatant and denied all rights, including being charged. Then he could just be held indefinately.

  9. Get out of the left lane slowpoke on Automakers Working on Car-to-Car Ad-Hoc Networks · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it would be great to be able to send messages to other drivers. I'd like some precanned ones like 'Get out of the left lane slowpoke', 'Try a turn signal', 'Off My Ass' just to name a few. I realize that this probably isn't what the article is about (of course I didn't read it) but that's what comes to mind when I think of a car to car network.

  10. Re:Slashdot ruined this for me on Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mmmm near, far, near, far; distance matters not when you use the force.

  11. Re:Frontpage on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 0

    Maybe because there is truth in it. IT wasn't really intended to be funny. Both front page and ms word produce broken html. Unended tags and tags closed in the wrong order. It would look real bad if you couldn't open frontpage or word html in ie. So you could either fix frontpage/word to work with ie or fix ie. If you fix ie to handle the broken html you can trupmet how all those sites work on ie, not letting everyone know that they the reason they don't work on the other browsers is that the html is broken.

  12. Frontpage on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course IE can handle broken html. That's what Microsoft Frontpage produces. They have to be able to handle their own product.

  13. Re:Scary, yet cool. on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't you mean within 7 weeks America will re-elect the anitchrist for president.

  14. Re:Does IBM's actions buy loyalty? on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think they are getting 3 things.
    1) They don't have to pay the billions in damage SCO wants.
    2) Fear. It had previously been common computer world knowledge; "Don't mess with IBM's legal team". SCO is going in the face of the convention. I think IBM is reestablishing that.
    3) Yes, they are getting good will.

  15. Re:Of course on Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some folks at microsoft recommend firefox. Ok slate isn't directly microsoft but it is an msn publication.

  16. Re:Hooray for Iowa on Utah Sees First Spyware Case · · Score: 1

    They were also one of the first states to pass anti-UCITA laws. Iowa despite it's farm image is a technologicaly aware state.

  17. Re:Now this is important research ... on Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice · · Score: 1

    Good beer doesn't need to be cold.

  18. Re:Oi, reminds me... on SCO Caught Copying · · Score: 4, Funny

    No Baystar has Darls toung.

  19. Re:I always got ~55mpg with my Honda Insight 2001 on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    i have a freind with an 02 insight. He gets near 60 lifetime(mix of city and highway every day) on his car. I think the the problem a lot of people are having is their driving style. They want to take off fast and speed to the next light. Agressive driving kills your mileage.

  20. Supreme Court Justice Scalia on 2004 Jefferson Muzzle Awards · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhapse Scalia should be added to the list.

  21. SEC requirement. on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did you ever ask why the policy was instituted. Companies that are governed by the SEC and engage in stock or fund trading are required to have all employee communications monitorable. This way if they suspect someone of giving insider information they have records of the phone calls and emails. Use of personal cell phones make it hard for them to comply with the SEC.

  22. Nazi. on Ask Mike Godwin About Internet Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who do you think you are Hitler? Going around with some Nazi law that supresses free speech whenever someone uses Hitler or Nazi in a conversation.

  23. Re:This demonstrates.. on DARPA Grand Challenge Updates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not so sure letting them compete is such a crime. It's not like they have agreed to a multimillion dollar contract with some company that can't produce. If the designs suck they won't win, no money out of DARPA's pocket.
    However a poorly designed bot can have a desing feature that if developed by the right people would be usefull. This lets DARPA see how some of these potential inovations will perform.

  24. Re:Not 3D, 2.5D stereoscopic on 3D Display, No Glasses Required · · Score: 1

    Well I can't read the article but it can be viewed from any angle and the pictures don't look like stereoscopic pairs. I would think steriscopic pairs would have to be viewed from a particular angle to be effective.

  25. Development vs Engineering on Blackout Cause: Buggy Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The term 'Software Engineering' is bantered about in the software industry. I think little that you could call engineering happens. Software is developed. It doesn't meet the strict standards of testing and reliability of physical products.
    I am a software developer not an engineer, as are most people in the field. Software won't become an engineering science until companies are willing to pay for that process. Given the current trend towards cost cutting I don't see that happening anytime soon.