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  1. Re:Radio Shack sues for circle-R use on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    You Do Know that a "Correct" Circle R is scaled and then offset to the lower left Hand corner. RadioShack Legal will of course have words with you if you use a non-"registered trade mark" Circle R in your logo.

  2. Re:BluRay on How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser · · Score: 1

    http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/SONAR_Blu_ray_L aser-35-24.html some geeks will say been there done that BURNED THE T-SHIRT

  3. Re:Form of Discrimination? on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    Badda Bum!

    But anyway i could see how this could be a scam

    1 the insurer cuts the company in on premiums collected
    2 the company then drives the workers to the legal limit (high pressure workplace mandatory unpaid overtime constant death march status)
    3 the workers then get massively stressed out and the borderline cases start smoking feeding on snacks not exercise ect
    4 Profit!!!

  4. Re:This would be a good idea if... on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    It would probably be late night TV but i would like to see a DR Gregory House type character figure out how to fix this mess.

    What i may take is every ID card carrying person (that is registered to vote) should be sent a key (maybe some sort of USB keyfob) and then you could use the key to log on to a special website so that you can oh Vote without going to some central place (the key would record what the vote was)

    also i think any election that has less than 40% of voters recorded should not be valid (but i would allow votes to be recorded say 3 days prior to the actual day)

  5. Re:It'll be hard to change minds. on The New Yorker On Spam · · Score: 1

    Terabyte world megabyte minds Its entirely possible that somebody could be in the top 0.0005% of their field but an absolute moron in other areas

    Sherlock Holmes . Gregory House 90% of geeks reading this message all of them have areas where they excel but they would be dangerous in others
    This is Old Media covering a tech problem.

  6. Re:Avoiding The Viral GPL on id and Valve May Be Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    in this case what the problem is is the GPL requires you to do 2 things if you are just doing a pass along distribution

    1 distribute the COMPLETE COPY (with the readmes and credits.txt)
    2 also distribute the source code (for something like dosbox you might need an extra disc cluster)

    its also custom to like maybe oh pay the author something when you are raking in Mega$ because of the code in question (but thats ethics)

  7. Re:If they say so, I believe them on HP to Researchers, 'Our Printers Are Safe' · · Score: 1

    Not possible currently since the amount of memory that would take would be obvious and very visible (don't forget you for quite a few printer need to more or less disassemble the printer to do common maintenance on it (fill paper change toner change drum) ) and im sure we have "here" a few people that got so hacked off at a printer they did smash it (BOFH style percussive maintanence )

    besides the answer is simple use the printer till it drops then smash the thing (bag up the bits for recycling)

  8. Re:Interesting... on Surveillance Camera Network Coming To New York? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there is a quote running about that states "have the most honest man write 12 lines and i will find something in them to hang him for"

    given the laws complexity (approaches and sometimes exceeds a rubiks teseract) everybody sometime does something worth time.

  9. Re:Brilliant on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 4, Funny

    and next year Defcon will mod its civilian signup to close this loophole.

    Note to the Muggles DO NOT TRY TO OUT TRICK A GROUP OF WIZARDS

    this is darwin grade 2 guiness guys F[redacted] Brilliant!!

    Now watch some NBC server will go wheels up "for no reason"

  10. Re:KDE4 != KDE 4.0 on KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    okay given the habit of linux folks to do releases with NN.MM.OOOO* it would figure that KDE 4 is a series not a single product (way too few digits in that number)
    and yes i would expect that KDE 4.45.76fred would have more features than KDE 4.0

    Big Question ADAM when is KDE 4 going to make it into Mandriva 2007.1 backports??

  11. Re:Story submission now based on subject quality? on Introducing the Slashdot Firehose · · Score: 1

    One idea i think would be good is to link stories that are dupes group them and be able to "mod" the whole group (ie a story about Paris Hilton gets all versions sent into -6 mod hell) and also flag the best version to be put on the front page (ie a coherent writeup with decent links and a neutral phrasing would be better than a mod troll garbled version with no links)

  12. Re:Why do people still print? on Office Printers May Pose Health Risks · · Score: 1

    yes i like to have all of my multiyear mega million dollar contracts signed in BLOOD (try to dispute a guys DNA).

    its US$129 for a basic sig pad

  13. Re:Stupidest lawsuit ever on Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries · · Score: 1

    with that kind of blood in the water AT&T would most likely do something for this customer but support for enterprise stuff not likely (i would think some sort of individual liable corporate discount plan would happen but each of the 100,000 folks would have to buy the phones themselves (maybe get reimbursed later)).

    make the sale yes do the enterprise special stuff no

  14. Re:Having been a TSA screener... on Schneier Talks to the Head of TSA · · Score: 1

    what im afraid of is what if THEY decide to work the system

    1 a package in a suitcase that is triggered by being scanned /opened
    2 a bottle rigged so that as you toss it onto the pile it counts down and then goes off
    3 nasty version biohazard/virus bottle bottle is full of doped growth media
    4 i could go on but im not that twisted

    9/11 is never going to happen again because even if they released the restrictions (go back to "Please Check Your Guns /large knives" ) then that just means if the passengers need to "riot" they are better armed (heck i would have any LEOs onboard packing)

  15. Re:bllizard, wow patcher on Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent · · Score: 3, Informative

    helpful hint for those that get tagged by this FireFox 2.0 has a spelling checker builtin that can be set to check all input fields (and if you are not using FF 2.0 then you are
    1 on an OLD system
    2 using a Mac and have a system level spell checker

  16. Re:another idea on Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick · · Score: 1

    well i could think of 2 things to make it work

    1 size the juice to just burn the ipod
    2 play a special and annoying track (maybe scales in the key of screech) and then tell folks what this track is (as in if you hear this track get rid of the pod!!)

    maybe a few grams of semtex??

  17. Re:another idea on Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick · · Score: 1

    or if you really want to be evil try any of the Chant albums by the Benidictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos

    they are a real live group of Gregorian Monks no instruments and they sing in LATIN

  18. Re:More elements of simulation needed on Richard Garriot Argues Against Stagnant MMOG Design · · Score: 1

    and how about this trick split the super feats into skill/ power requirements and then have folks with low skill (maybe even low max skill) but very high power ratings then you could have setups where a LV100 Fire Wizard needs to have a group of followers just so he can have enough power to do his casting. (hmm maybe even have things where
    he would need say somebody with Ice/Water magic)

  19. Re:Well on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 1

    and anyway isn't there a bit of a "dead zone" just under the tower itself since all the antennas are like up in the air pointing out and not DOWN (not to mention the tower itself creating a partial faraday cage)

    note this does assume the tower is serving an otherwise dead area

  20. Re:What should be legislated... on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    I think that every parent should teach their kids how to act in a tactical manner. The beginning of this is how and when to fight and how to get from point A to point B in a safe manner. (dress the kid so they can move and have 911 on speed dial (a kid not old enough to have a cell should not be walking around alone))

  21. so second wave anyone?? on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    if this is not a scam i would like to get one of these (yeah is a bit light on specs but..)

    Please note anybody that does make the jump and gets actual hardware please post in the dupe when it comes around

  22. Re:quick summary on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    and while we are at it WHAT IN THE ECH EE DOUBLE HOCKEYSTICKS BANG BANG is the 4 column layout on some pages (2 of ads 1 of site links 1 of content)

  23. Re:Didn't we just leave this party? on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 0, Troll

    have you ever looked at the package list for a distro?
    run down the list for the 3 dvds of debian and you will find

    1 multiple language versions
    2 aps and lots of aps
    3 actual documents manuals

    count up what you would need for windows to match this and then get back to me

  24. Re:Good grief on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    i know some slot techs that will be found in about 20 years (when the building they are now hidden in gets torn down).

  25. Re:ATM not hacked ... on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    and why in the heck did they not key the boxes so that they can't be installed in the wrong slot (say 2 divots for $5 and 3 divots for $20)