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  1. Re:Why can't the greedy crooks ever learn.... on Auto Warranty Robocall Scammers Busted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Playing some devils advocate here...

    Do the math on some of those.

    Bomb threat was in 1991, guilty party is now 36. He was 18.

    The indecent was in 2001, again he was 20. One can technically be charged with indecent exposure for mooning someone or forgetting to latch the door on the crapper.

    No specifics on the trespassing either.

    Battery is a bit more severe, but again no details. We don't know if it was a beating or a fight.

    Firearms, likely in relation to the bomb threat but then again it could be as banal as a minor transport violation.

    You do your time and you make amends. I'm not excusing it, but we sentence people to X years for crimes with the understanding that after X years they've done their time. Not life. Wait until you make a mistake, or rather "get framed", and have that follow you around forever.

    Good show reading the article though, some of those are buried down in the last few paragraphs. I only noted the bullet points early in the artcile

  2. As the navigator half of a TSD rally team... on Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel · · Score: 1

    WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!

    Gravel roads are much more fun to run rallies on than tarmac.

  3. Re:elem 112 on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    German team, einhundretzwolfium . Has the added benefit of being worth a shit ton of points in scrabble.

  4. Re:Details on the Turbo mode are in the changelogs on First Beta of Opera 10 Released · · Score: 1

    No I mean the mobile browser. Perhaps that last sentence should have been:

    So it basically does what their mobile browser already does and applies it to the desktop version of the browser.

  5. Details on the Turbo mode are in the changelogs on First Beta of Opera 10 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1000b1/

    "This new Opera feature increases your internet bandwidth speed on slow connections using data and image compression technologies. Opera Turbo uses Opera proxy servers to compress the traffic before it reaches the Opera browser on the clientâ(TM)s computer; see this Opera reference. Opera Turbo can easily be configured to suit your browsing needs:"

    So it basically does what their mobile browser already does for your desktop. Cue tinfoil hatters in 3,2,1...

  6. Re:/. - are you listening? on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    and thats how I found out she had herpes by exploiting the bug where /. cuts off the beginning of posts.

  7. Re:Give control to Canada on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 1

    I'll back that but only if someone opens up the .eh TLD and isn't too stingy about making sure its only used for Western Sahara.

  8. Re:One of the early lessons of GUIs on Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It looks like business as usual to me.

    MS will eventually shift the standard file ops to this new style, but only after they've been using it in their own products long enough to make competitors (OpenOffice?) look behind the times.

  9. Re:Mosaic on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 1

    Telnet's here, boys. What say you now?

    netcat

  10. Re:Solution: Block Slashdot on McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funniest FP I've seen in years! Wish I had mod points.

  11. Re:You just defined smartass on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 3, Funny

    you've stolen their property (like Levis jeans) which is not the case here.

    Well this certainly helps my lawyer defend me. Those rent-a-cops (I call them radios-with-flabby-bottoms) had no right to touch me! I only lift the finest Lee Boot Cut Low-Rise Carpenter Jeans, $10.99 at Kohls if you're a slave to "property rights".

  12. Re:What about suffixes, student+srjc@gmail.com?? on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    I was curious enough that I had to look. It looks like its referenced in RFC3696:

    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696#page-5

  13. What about suffixes, student+srjc@gmail.com?? on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    So they're going to cripple a useful filtering feature too.

    Most of my mail gets filtered by the senders domain, but I'm starting to use the "+string" format to do the "who's sharing my address" thing. Its rather handy.

    As an aside, does anyone know if "suffix" is the right term for that? I skimmed a few RFC's and it didn't jump out at me.

  14. Re:Immense legal liability on Soy-Based Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    The whole idea just seems utterly insane from a legal standpoint.

    Except most people with allergies are reasonable about it as are most people who work with them.

    At my work:
    "Hey Jim want some ice cream and cake my wife brought in for us?"
    "I'll have some cake but no ice cream"
    "Brain freeze?"
    "Nah, I'm lactose intolerant"
    "OK Jim"

    Also:
    "Hey Ed cookies?"
    "Those got nuts"
    "Yea"
    "Thanks but no, allergic."
    "Oh bummer, Ed. I'll remember that next time and have my wife make a sheet without nuts for ya"
    "Cool, apprecate the consideration"

    Furthermore:
    "Janet, I got a coupon for a free Coke want one?"
    "I'm diabetic, how bout a diet?"
    "OK, brb"

    See its that easy. If you have an allergy or a special need and mention it, most folks will help work around it rather than sort out the legal implications.

  15. Re:Perfect for the computer lab on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you old enough to remember when Radio Shack actually sold electronic components?!?!

  16. Re:He'll Be Back on Supreme Court Declines Jack Thompson Appeal · · Score: 1

    Have you ever run for office?

    If you had you'd know that by entering in to politics at all you've already met the requirements for the first two. After a few weeks campaigning you'll want to make the third one happen.

  17. Re:10,000 years on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's six times nine?

    54

  18. Re:Why is this being posted everywhere? on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Either way someone is really turned on about this.

  19. Re:Want to see some really clever bots in action? on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    An AC, talking about personal ads, sexy webcams and borderline credit card fraud posts 3 IM handles on Slashdot and asks if we want to see them in action?

    No thank you. I got into enough trouble randomly clicking on that blacklist that got posted on Wikileaks.

  20. Re:1 Question on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 1

    "Even the English do not use English units any more for anything more important than beer glass sizes. "

    THERE IS *NOTHING* MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SIZE OF A BEER GLASS.NOTHING!

  21. Try to curb any impulses to click... on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just loaded up the wikileaks page and I hope I didn't make a mistake I'm going to regret.

    Some of those links at are perfectly normal, the gambling ones, the wikipedia ones, nothing unusual.

    Some of those links at are icky. Things that the extreme pro-lifers like to use in their pamphlets while I'm eating lunch icky.

    Some of those links are actually very nasty and abhorrent. Worse than goatse.

    Don't go randomly clicking.

    Don't go randomly clicking!!

  22. Windows too infected to install antivirus.... on Symantec Support Gone Rogue? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are scads of free options.

    Try a linux alternative

    Like this.
    Or this.

    Hell even an online scan may work well enough, http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

  23. Re:purell on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only does it save trees but the chemistry involved in making paper is horrible. Even with new process'

    The process for making plastic, circuit boards, and e-paper in the kindle is cleaner how?

  24. Re:Independent journalism?? on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to disagree with your statement but I must say that it leaves the impression that what you mentioned isn't applicable to the main stream journalism.

    I see your point about how the argument was made. Mainstream journalism can and often does hit the same pitfalls. I made my argument as I did because I see this crap from the local free papers all the time 'we're not corporate so we're better' and they aren't and it infurates me. I still pick those papers up because they're free and there are some decent people on staff who are good journalists and they have concert listings.

    I get frustrated by the call for independent this-or-that because its primary argument is that its independent. I see little argument for it based on specific criteria. I suppose thats hard to do for such a broad category. Just as there are good and bad mainstream sources, each independent source must be taken on its own merits.

  25. Independent journalism?? on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So many choices, so much karma to burn.

    Independent journalism.... ...is that the one where some whiny twat thinks that his world view is so right that he manufactures news to support it? ...where news that goes against the journalists view is not treated as contrary evidence, but as a personal attack? ...so like Slashdot where the news content is aggregated from others and then pithy comments are added as independent journalistic seasoning? ...all the lazy, underpaid, journalists combined with the lack of any sort of professional structure and standards? ...without the pesky editorial process checking speeling and grammer mistakes for?