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  1. Re:The Internet is not Secure. on Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data · · Score: 1

    The point is, secure or not, in Canada it's not legal for companies to collect individuals' personal information.

  2. Re:Article comment puts it best on Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sophomoric and stupid comment.

    Stoddart is fulfilling her role in ensuring companies do not collect personal information from individuals (except under very specific circumstances). Doesn't matter if it's done through side-scan radar, digging through your trash, or WiFi sniffing... it's not legal in Canada.

  3. Parents Must Have Been Happy on Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or should I say Glad?

  4. Still, It's A Great Invention on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 1

    Found next to the body was the Segway, still in the upright position.

  5. CN Tower Has A Glass Floor Section on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 1

    For a junior version, step on the glass floor section of the observation deck of the CN Tower. I imagine they have to clean that glass more often than the windows.

  6. Re:Proudly Canadian on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, sign at edge of city says, "Dildo now entering you!".

  7. Re:Sounds fair on New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Honestly honey, I wasn't looking at porn, I was applying for work at Research In Motion. Seriously, I'd love to get a RIM job..."

  8. Re:Character assasination in progress on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    A new term has been coined: assangination.

  9. Blair? on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 1

    This all started when Tony Blair was elected.

    I guess it's fair. Al Gore invents the internet, Tony Blair invents IPv6. Next: Sarah Palin invents TCP/IP Enhancement Architecture and throws a TEA party.

  10. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    Counterexample: Sports - Sport.

  11. Jackboots A' Clicking on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    This is one dude where I ANAL has nothing to do with lawyers.

  12. My Infant Daughter Predicted This... on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    She said, "Goo goo. Wave bye-bye."

  13. Re:The bible says One on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    "In the beginning there was the word, then came the period."

  14. Re:DMCA? on What To Do About CC License Violations? · · Score: 1

    Boingboing's servers are in Canada, where the DMCA has less impact than the YMCA.

  15. Re:Alternative Summary on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 1

    Man, Google has a lot of catching up to do. Everybody knows you collect $200 every time you pass Go.

  16. What Killer App? on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    The diagram shown at TFA indicates a single PCIe lane (x1) is provided. What PCIe devices would benefit from being wireless?

    • Graphics Card? 1x is hardly the cutting edge in graphics card bandwidth. Modern mainboards often have x16 slots for graphics cards. Decent if you must do *wireless* video, but inferior to say HDMI from a laptop.
    • Wired NIC? Maybe, but 802.11n has similar bandwidth with actual range.
    • USB host controller? Seems kinda silly given the ubiquitous ultracheap wireless mice and keyboards everyone already has.
    • Wireless NIC? Head assplode.
    • small niche items don't seem worth the massive investment to develop the technology
  17. Cathdral For The Bizarre on Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    'We did not get access to kids as they were going through college,'

    That language! Not "college students were not broadly exposed to our products", or "our outreach efforts fell short", bur rather "...get access to kids...". MS has always been a cathedral, but sheesh, now they're even sounding like priests.

  18. Re:Good. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    Does your sarcasm detector have "whoosh" mode? Because I own that copyrighted whoosh sound and demand to be paid.

  19. Finally A Cure! on Stem Cells Curing Burn-Induced Blindness · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally a cure for those of us who applied industrial strength eye bleach after clicking on goatse in 1999.

  20. Re:Gold Farming History on Cory Doctorow On For the Win, Gold Farming, and DRM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gold farming is a lot older than that. All the gold currently in the earth was buried there 6000 years ago by a massive flood. In fact, many of todays biggest-producing gold mines were once trendy "pharm" nightclubs, fully of debauchery and bling (natch), and surprisingly well attended despite the poor weather.

  21. Missing Quote on Gulf of Mexico Gets Wave-Powered Desalination Plant · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Thanks to BP, for the first 3 years of operation, the desalination plant will actually produce Kraft Cajun-Style Salad Dressing."

  22. Indian Justice Motto 2.0 on Outsourcing Unit To Be Set Up In Indian Jail · · Score: 1

    "Not To Be Doing The Crime, If You Can't... Type At Least 50 WPM"

  23. You Already Have The Most Important Asset on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Since you are the type of person to ask this question, it means you have a very valuable asset -- an awareness of how others see you and how that it can affect you. The rest is common sense and experience. Best of luck to you.

  24. What's Next? on Paper Manufacturer Launches "Print More" Campaign · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This page intentionally left black." - sponsored by HP Toner and Ink Division.

  25. Re:He will be missed. One question though. on "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle · · Score: 1

    If he's looking for some advice in this regard, I have a few pointers...