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  1. Re:Your freedom stops when you hit my nose on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 1

    And they grabbed the backup server, so it wasn't even the server the person interacted with when posting.

  2. Re:Will there be no wiki truths? on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah, so I can just add a filter rule to add "version=current" and avoid all this nonsense, good.

    The more the regulars on Wikipedia become concerned with "Editorial control" and not "Maintenance/usability", the more "joblike" updating Wikipedia will be and the content will suffer worse from that than it does from childishness or spams.

  3. Re:Unfortunately, activism isn't always good on Social Networking Spurs Activism Against Repression · · Score: 1

    We don't let them make active threats against black people, but we haven't otherwise repressed their rights to free speech. There was a KKK march near where my in-laws live around Halloween. They were granted the permits and everything with no fuss.

    The local news made fun of them, though.

  4. Re:First sensible decision in a decade on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure ISP's wouldn't complain if one of their kids was saved from victimization as a result of their subpoena response.

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    How the hell does an ISP have children?

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    Considering how many people Time-Warner screws over, somebody must have gotten pregnant.

  5. Re:Non-Windows User Here on US-CERT Says Microsoft's Advice On Downadup Worm Bogus · · Score: 1

    You can just hold shift and disable it temporary when you plug something in until the detection is finished.

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    Unless you are running Vista, in which case holding down shift TURNS IT BACK ON!

    I really don't understand why they'd switch the meaning of that action. Fortunately I found it out when inserting a clean USB stick(clean-ish, it had that U3 crap on it).

  6. Re:Adult entertainment? on Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    Seeing as most children figure out how to masturbate on their own, I imagine that, unless they hated each other or were very self-conscious, it wouldn't take them long to go from "we both like fondling our own bits that are located in the same general region" to "Insert tab A into slot B".

    Of course, they might just get stuck at mutual fondling, or possible skip over to 69ing instead.

  7. Re:If it works, it will become part of society. on Edible "Intelligent Pills" · · Score: 1

    Gym class. Keep your heart rate on target, knock back some sugar just as your blood glucose dips, pop some taurine when your lactic acid starts to rise, etc.

    Or, alternately, atheletes. Those guys will try anything that isn't explicitly outlawed, and many will keep going after it is.

  8. Re:A point for MS on Watch the Obama Inauguration With Moonlight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, they just did it because they found out they were part of the 15,000 being laid off.

  9. Re:I wanted to on Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling · · Score: 1

    Only 5 times the cost?

    How much cheaper was the yearly operating costs? 5x install sounds like it could pay off in just 5-10 years.

  10. Crap on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1, Funny

    I knew I should have held on to that rusted out 95 Grand Am a little longer.

    Only got a couple hundred for it, and $100 of it was a new battery and a full tank.

  11. Re:Huh, madness on Anti-Piracy Firm Offering ISPs Money For Outing File-Sharers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got a few customers I wish I could do that to.

    Unfortunately, that is probably a crime. Especially since I'm not an ISP, so I'd have to crack their wireless router.

  12. Re:They forgot Sirius-XM satellite on Technologies To Watch Fail In 2009 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I bought a Focus recently. It came with both Sirius and Sync, which takes just about anything with a USB plug or bluetooth.

    I was rather liking Sirius, as it had several channels of rock, electronic, opera, etc. so I heard lots of new music that I wouldn't hear on the radio.

    Then they merged with XM, dropped most of the channels I listened to, and my free trial ran out.

    About then I realized that for the cost of Sirius I could stick a 500 gig hard drive in the Sync and buy a hundred or two new songs every year.

    I'm also glad I went that way since my wife got me a Crackberry Storm for Xmas and now I can stream music off the internet through my car stereo with my phone, which lets me find some really random new stuff.

  13. Serious error in premise on Do Game Demos Have an Adverse Effect On Sales? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He equals "downloads of demo" with "success". Downloading the demo only indicates enough interest to try something free, not enjoyment and barely intent to purchase.

    If he really wanted to predict success, the demos should end with "Press A if you liked this demo, B if you intend to buy the full game, or X if you thought it was crap"

    Then you might have a handle on a game's future success.

  14. Re:Patches are good, not bad! on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When patches are available at a frequency such as daily (as is sometimes the case if you use Ubuntu, patches not only for the OS but for any programs you have installed too), or

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    Your mistaking speed of availibility with frequency of occurance. I like patches to come out as soon as possible. I do not like patches to come out as frequently as possible.

    If a bug is found and the patch is available the next day, that is a good thing.

    If patches come out every day because there are bugs found when somebody just glances at the code, that is a bad thing because the code either had incompetant QA or is so chock full of bugs it took that long to work down the list that QA returned.

  15. Destined to fail on Leaked Star Wars Battlefront III Footage · · Score: 1

    It had Jar-Jar and ewoks in it, and not as cannon fodder.

    Other than that, it did look kinda cool, but looked like a render, not actual gameplay.

  16. Re:*evil laughter* indeed. on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 1

    It's exchanged on IRC, primarily.

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    So then you'd agree they aren't much on the web and thus a web blacklist is useless in the primary function of preventing the exchange of child porn.

  17. Re:That is as expected. on Collateral Damage as UK Censors Internet Archive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is probably an intersection between the album cover incident and the general reason why blacklists are rarely made public.

    If we knew why it was blacklisted, we could(and probably would) find fault with it and then publicly ridicule the blacklist, holding this to be yet another reason why blacklists are made of failure.

    So instead of giving us more ammo, they just nuke the whole thing. Nothing to object to, so we can only shout "there is nothing wrong with this site!" and them to reply "except for the kiddy porn, which we won't help publicize".

  18. Re:dumb sheep on Biometric Passports Agreed To In EU · · Score: 1

    Dumpiest is a word. He probably meant that fashion victims are the most easily swayed by playing on their appearance-related insecurity.

  19. Re:dumb sheep on Biometric Passports Agreed To In EU · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its effectively like being chosen for jury service, where for one month, your vote (instead of career politicians votes), decides how to run the country.

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    Except instead of deciding what happens to someone else, you are deciding what happens to yourself. Most people would vote for their self interest and would have neither weight of public opinion nor the desire to be re-elected to counterbalance their extremes. That might end up worse than politicians, which is pretty hard to do.

    None of us is as dumb as all of us.

  20. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    Second, as a general rule, we Christians believe in we will be resurrected, not reincarnated. Big difference. The Hindus believe in reincarnations, not Christians. Reincarnation indicates that you will be reborn into a new body. That is not the case in Christian resurrection.

    So after Christ comes back, it'll be like Night of the Living Dead?

    Shit, someone should mention that when discussing Pascal's Wager, I'll pick nothing over zombification...

  21. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    Kinda hard to sell suicide bombing and similar sports any other way.

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    Newsflash: Kamikaze's didn't do it for religious reasons.

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    Doesn't "kamikaze" translate to Divine Wind/Spirit Wind?

  22. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The game was locked up in Mark's lockbox, along with a 9mm handgun."

    Wow. I'd say the real thing to note here is "Don't store the stuff you take from your child as a punishment in the same box as your guns, they might get ideas"

  23. Re:Equally Misleading on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 1

    Physical bullying can have an emotional impact, but not nearly as hard or long-lasting as non-physical bullying.

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    Yah, when the internet can break bones, come on back. Until then, I'd rather get hurt with words than smashed into a wall.

    People with chemical imbalances may disagree, of course.

  24. Re:My piracy on Piracy and the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    Ditto, I have about 30 DS games and it was worth it to not have to carry them around.

    I'm not completely clean, though, I have pirated some games that never made it to my country. If you could apply language patches to actual carts, I'd probably buy those too.

  25. Re:I hate it when people venerate/elevate scumbags on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    No, I think we are here to talk about this peice of shit of a human. He profits of creating computer cancer.

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    Much like microsoft?