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  1. Re:It should be about courtesy on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    and if i was google next year i would have a completely blank logo linked to the phrase
    "money hungry copyright bastards" on the correct date.

  2. Re:Communism is a technicality on Google's China Problem · · Score: 1

    and then there is a situation where if i don't eat in a certain way i get cranky so you could put a label on my shirt that says

    "The Surgen General has detirmined that depriving the contents of this shirt Fat caffiene and salt may be hazardous to your health"

  3. Re:From a Services Perspective.. on The Future of IT in America? · · Score: 1

    I would say that the best way to succede is to be that guy that will in fact do a 0dark30-3 hours roll out to fix X Y or Z combined with deep knowledge of a field (ie can you build 95% of the fix card deck the "tech support folks" use from memory?) will get you a good living (you may not have a life but..)

  4. Re:Journalists and 1st Ammendment on Apple Trade Secret Suit Final Arguments Today · · Score: 1

    "is entitled to all protections and responsibilities typically afforded to journalists." reread the bold part One of those is knowing when to keep quiet

  5. Convince "the RiverSide campus" and you are gold on Linux Distributors Work Towards Desktop Standards · · Score: 1

    the day 95% of america is working or living 10 minutes away from a store that they can buy a copy of Linux is the day that a certain person will get to the point of ripping sheetrock from the walls and throwing the chunks (because he already threw all the chairs lamps tables phones ...)

  6. Re:I see more flying chairs... on Linux Distributors Work Towards Desktop Standards · · Score: 1

    gee if on first boot you where given a wizard that had a pair of buttons labeled

    [apply defaults and close} [make it look like windowsXP] at the start and this did things like make the Kong/Natilus window act like a "My Computer" window and build a "control Panel" link you would see conference tables fly

  7. Re:Not clever to desensitise them on TSA Software Bug Creates Airport Bomb Scare · · Score: 1

    Of course all it would take is NutJob having his device inside something else (shaving cream bottle? part of a PDA kit?) What is very suprising is how easy it would be to "fail the airframe" esp if you had a wing seat.

    1 you punch a hole in the fuse (decompress the cabin)
    2 you damage the wing (impair flight or snap the wing off)
    3 bonus round you ignite the wing tanks (extra points is #name is on board)

    and what makes you think that some geek doesn't have his laptop rigged with enough juice to do any of these??????

  8. Re:Discrimination / lower education level on EOE Concerns w/ Electronic-only Job Application? · · Score: 1

    the easy way to survive a military carrer
    1 run past the lower ranks at combat speed
    2 go for jobs that have the most bodies between you and "the enemy"
    (please note step 1 may not work and step 2 may cause issues)
    3 serve well
    4 Profit!!

  9. Re:embedded in this message (not surprisingly) on Working at Microsoft, the Inside Scoop · · Score: 1

    I would challenge any new father (of a daughter) to make sure that she has gymnastics/ballet training and then when she is old enough to understand

    teach her how to CAUSE SERIOUS PAIN !!!!
    even the biggest of bullies will be hurt if he is put down by a girl.

    (dance slipper to the back of knee or solar plexus or index finger to the back of a head is very easy to do but oh so effective)

  10. Re:Oh shit... something is free? FUCK THAT! on U.S. Governments Advised to Use Open Source · · Score: 1

    it depends entirely on context

    1 if you were in space/under water and talking to a guy that has a bottle of atmo
    which cc card would you be using to get one of the bottles???

    2 if you had a situation where a company was blocking access to your own data and wanted money how much would you pay?

  11. Re:offensive on Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing · · Score: 1

    want to have some fun?
    uninstall your current DVD program (or install xp from a known good source (FSVO...))
    install VideoLan Client
    Profit!!

  12. Re:"Lacking" isn't the right term. on Oblivion's Missing Physics Acceleration · · Score: 1

    What's a realistic model for a fireball spell?

    i dont' know but you would have to model for assumed mass and velocity (and power of the ball) so you could have a "level-one standard" fireball acting like a 9 mil up to a
    "level !!! enhanced" fireball acting like a laser

  13. Re:When cars are smarter then their owners on When an Algorithm Takes the Wheel · · Score: 1

    like maybe sure but the problem is she is 6'3" blond, blue eyed and has a wingspan of 8'

  14. Re:A slightly different take... on Cops Walking the MySpace Beat · · Score: 1

    heck at my mall you can fgiure that there is at least a couple police walking about and during Golden Quarter (christmas shoplifting season) there is a whole police substation parked outside (with a dozen or so police walking around)

    Im mean really a climate controlled beat with a almost zero chance of seeing a gun: just what a guy needs to round out his 60 hours a week.

  15. favorite background color #800000?? on Cops Walking the MySpace Beat · · Score: 1

    gee folks whodda thunk that the police would use Myspace for this.

    Like a certain book has stated police like BBs because they are crammed full of evidence unhidden clear as day evidence

    (note look at the named html color list for the joke)

  16. Re:Marshmallow peeps nutritional value secret on The History of Easter Candy · · Score: 2, Informative

    um i think you got that a bit backwards its serving size (5 peeps) 42g and sugars
    36g (but it is a close thing

    btw for our unelightened viewers peeps are shaped like chicks (whom go peep when real)
    and are made of this stuff (marshmellow) that is 99% puffed sugar. Diabetic folks could almost go into hyperglicemic shock just looking at them.

  17. Re:Not just plane windshields on High-Tech Electro-Defroster · · Score: 1

    sorry we can only have people and baggage disenbark during flight (hopefully one of the bags is a chute of some type

  18. Re:ad in context on What Do You Think of the 'Hitman' Ad? · · Score: 1

    of course a "real expert" would have csi tearing hair out trying to figure out why the Vic is dead.

    bonus points if you can figure out
    1 from where was she shot*
    2 aproximate caliber/type of bullet

    * yes i know that she most likely moved after the shot.

  19. Re:What a waste of money on Triple Boot on MacBooks Working · · Score: 1

    umm the Linus kernel (aka what you get from kernel.org) has NTFS read ability (write is best done via "capture" i don't know about OSX but im sure they wouldn't forget that one.

  20. Re:Arguable on Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support · · Score: 1

    the difference is very simple to explain

    On one side you have a lab with serveral different breeds of Smilidon faltalis , Raptors and Super Snakes.

    On the other side you have IN THE WILD a few breeds of Smilidon and a couple Raptors.

    Kitty in a cage or Kitty standing next to your desk which to you want.

  21. Re:Biggest productivity-killer around on MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    I know of one company that has in fact added MySpace.com to the blocked domains list (and if you somehow bypass the block and get caught you will be fired).

  22. Re:Private Property rights exist in virtual worlds on Sanitizing Expression In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    in my part of the US (and at the mall i work in+ the other malls owned by the same company) if you hand out anything and are not a renter in the mall
    YOU WILL BE THROWN OUT.[full stop]
    The Mall in question is Private Property with its own rules.
    We also have a few members of the local PD running around if you want to dispute the "your rights V Their Rights" question.
    hint as to which mall: ask yourself Where are Camels(r) born?

  23. i wonder if Homeland defense has done this yet on More Unintended Consequences of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    lets play "connect the dots"
    1 Windows Vista sp3 comes out and encrypts the harddrive to
        1 The magic MS key
        2 some sort of OEM key
        3 the login of the current user (this is limited to the user data directory)
    2 a terrorist group then starts using these laptops to plot #evil_NBC_deed and encrypts all communications
    3 Some member of the Homeland Defense gets one of these laptops and then yanks the hard drive out and starts wishing that the now dead (cyanide pill) terrorist had written his password down somewhere (he didn't)
    4 the hardrive is useless since you would have to bypass (violating the DCMA) three levels of encryption (oh and good luck getting a forensically valid copy of the drive)
    5 Prophit!! (for them)

  24. Winternals fighting dirty or is the Geek Squad EBW on Best Buy 'Geek Squad' Accused of Pirating Software · · Score: 1

    It looks like i see two ways this will work 1 Winternals will be found out to be firing off WMDs since they lost a contract (note to the RiverSide Campus folks do not aproach these goons) 2 the Geek Squad will be found out to be the biggest group of pirates since Blackbeard himself sailed the 7 seas (further note to the RSC folks hows about the name "Answer Team") so anybody want to put odds on which way this will fly??

  25. Re:Private Property rights exist in virtual worlds on Sanitizing Expression In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    This is a small jump away from having a ban on a Monastary Guild. Personally i would think that unless you are by definition a "hostile" guild (ie vampire , Nazi , TSCOG or KKK) it should be allowed (after factoring in PvP regs and such). heck i think i would like to see a set of G/L races in one of these MMORPGs.