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  1. Re:Erm... on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather have a stalker that hangs out on Google Earth than standing in the bushes.

  2. Re:Stephenie Meyer is a talentless hack on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 3, Informative

    They made a comedy like that, back in the 90's: My Boyfriend's Back A couple other low-budget ones I can't remember from the 80's, too.

    Can't remember any serious/emo ones, though.

  3. Re:It's still illegal in Illinois on Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording · · Score: 1

    If you are using a cell phone, that recording might not actually be on the device. There are several stream-to-net recorders.

  4. Re:That's a great idea! on Sandisk Debuts World's Smallest SSD Yet · · Score: 1

    It would make a nice replacement for recovery partitions. That would be a fairly low-write and you wouldn't really miss it if your MB died.

  5. Re:That's a great idea! on Sandisk Debuts World's Smallest SSD Yet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering my netbook has 8 gigs of onboard storage, yes it could.

  6. Re:"Intent"? on Feds Won't File Charges In School Laptop-Spy Case · · Score: 1

    That's called "mitigating circumstances" and should be taken into account.

    On the other hand, there is also the term "eggshell skull", referring to the idea that if you hit somebody with weak bones and caused a worse injury than intended, you were trying to injure them and are still guilty, even if you couldn't have known the person was unusually weak.

  7. Re:Be careful buying Guruplugs from Globalscale on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 1

    Oh, and if you plan to install a different distribution, you NEED the jtag adapter to get a console. It doesn't come with the Guruplug, but one is built in to the Sheevaplug.

  8. Be careful buying Guruplugs from Globalscale on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're still working out the bugs and they take months to ship(bill your credit card right away though). They said 2-3 months to go for a hardware fix for the Guruplug+'s overheating problem when using GigE, other than "use them at 10/100".

    Sheevaplugs have gotten better though, the capacitors don't pop anymore, but both of them benefit from removing the 5v power and putting it in it's own box. Which doesn't entirely defeat the point, but it is a little aggravating. Still, unless you like paying now for flaky hardware from a company that has zero customer support and enjoy resoldering your power supply, buy one of the more commercial ones.

    PS, I rather like mine, I'm just lowering your expectations so you might like what you get, if you still buy from Globalscale.

  9. Re:Wait... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    . You'd need someone sober in the car at that point to restart the car, and if someone is sober in the car, the odds are likely that that person will be the driver.

    Or the driver's kid.

  10. Re:This is why... on The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags · · Score: 2, Informative

    I see you've heard of PleaseRobMe.com

  11. Re:It's Black Mold on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 4, Funny

    In this case, I'd say do it the other way around. Tell them the wifi is off and actually turn them off, but put some transmitters sending white noise on the frequencies they were using.

    If their "disease" can tell the difference between white noise and encoded transmissions, put them to work at the Canadian equivalent of the NSA.

  12. Re:FBI Liars on ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order · · Score: 1

    No, because he delivered alcohol.

  13. Re:No Thanks... on Textured Tactile Touchscreens · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a weird radiating electrical buzz feeling up and into my wrist when I slide my finger across it.

    Have you considered your netbook might be badly grounded?

  14. Re:Article is from the UK on Data Disasters More Likely To Strike In Summer · · Score: 1

    In my case, it is all those AC units stressing the grid. Or lightning strikes from 5 minute storms.

    Just this month we've had 3 strikes and 2 power outages(one that only affected us for 9 hours, but rural areas were out for days). Pull lightning-struck equipment, then *bzzt* sag/surge/sag/black not 10 minutes later.

  15. Re:10,000 easy tube jokes on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    "Bridge to Nowhere" ring a bell? He threatened to resign if funds earmarked for the bridge was spent on disaster relief after hurricane Katrina.

    While the bridge would service an airport that gets 200,000 people a year, it would have cost between 200 and 400 million dollars. They could've just moved the airport, it only had 2 runways.

  16. Re:And so he's off to the series of tubes in the s on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    Maybe he'll clog up the tubes and some of the fellow passengers will get bounced.

    Or does TTL work the other way around in these situations?

  17. Re:It's called a Bonzi Scheme on Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us · · Score: 1

    No wonder they'll pay us to punch the monkey, he sold them a lower branch of a fruit default swap.

  18. Re:Sucky part about being a public company on Google Secret Privacy Document Leaked · · Score: 1

    Brin and Page only hold 49% of the voting class shares, but CEO Eric Schmidt holds an additional 12%. They've still got it locked down as along as the 3 agree.

  19. Re:I understand... on Google Secret Privacy Document Leaked · · Score: 4, Informative

    That is one useful thing about this article. I was unaware that Google would actually show you what information you had in their cookie.

    Not only that, they even let you edit it. Mine had some garden stuff in it that I deleted, then I added in some more categories I'd actually be interested in. I wish somebody had done that before.

  20. Re:why the fuck are these people deciding? on Google & Verizon's Real Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    Ever look at the building codes for your state/region?

    Odds are it was written by a corporation with a vested interest in selling copies of it. In some areas, your building codes are copyrighted and can only be purchased, not borrowed or copied, despite being law.

    This is practically nothing in comparison.

  21. Re:...and RIM capitulates. on Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages · · Score: 0, Troll

    And yet, I own a blackberry that keeps popping up Verizon crapware that didn't exist when I bought it.

  22. Re:Privacy on Google Testing an Airborne Camera Drone · · Score: 1

    A US court recently decided that attaching tracking units to vehicles required a warrant, even though tailing didn't. The limits of manpower provided sufficient limits on tailing, while tracking devices are so cheap in comparison to be almost free.

  23. Re:In other news, HP sex Scandal == Push other new on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's one hell of a spin department.

    Some university really should hire them, because if they can prove P!=NP just to cover up a sex scandal, imagine what they could do if they didn't waste time writing press releases.

  24. Re:Oh God on Highly Directional Terahertz Laser Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    So now airport security officers can see my genitals from hundreds of feet away?

    Worse, they'll know who to pull out of line so they can nick the most change during the pat down.

  25. Re:So register on Without Registration, Swedish Law Does Not Protect Wikileaks Sources · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you become a registered publisher in Sweden all your sources anynomity are protected by the law. Your anynomity is however not.

    So you have to register as the editor of two newspapers and have each be the other's source. Then you'll disappear in a puff of recursive logic!

    Hrm, I think I should stay away from zebra crossings for awhile.