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  1. Re:Okay... on Closed Source -> Charges Dismissed? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest never taking deep breaths from a lighter right before taking a breathalizer. My friend enjoys blowing fireballs and one night the cops bust into a party where he was doing this trick. Luckly he blowed a .65(well above the point of death), but if he wasnt doing it the entier night he probably would have blown a .1 and gotten a MIP.

  2. Re:No proof there is such a law on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have traveled many times out of SFO without State/National ID however you still need a document attached to your ID to fly.

    The way it works is that in order to fly without your ID you need to flash them a credit card you bought the ticket with and submit to a search. You are SOL if you dont have your CC that you bought the ticket with. Also you have to notify the ticket agent that you have no ID and they usually print another ticket that flags you to be searched.

    While you dont need your ID they need a document that is attached to you period.

  3. Re:The goals are several. Read between the lines. on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 1

    You dont have to register to go to a public college. I havent registered and am currently enrolled in a public college.

  4. Re:Blocking does not tackle the problem on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1
    We need to give these people help and education, not just drive them to other sources for their material.

    If the software can identify the porn/sites to block the stuff, then surely people who look at it could be offered help. Tackle the problem at the source. Remove the kiddie porn and the problem doesn't go away, remove the desire for kiddie porn and you have solved the problem.


    Replace the term kiddie with gay or straight and you realize how impossible your suggestion is. You cant educate and 'help' people when it comes to sexual prefrences. I cant turn someone who gets off on straight porn onto gay porn, gay onto straight or kiddie onto something else.

    How can you educate and help a person who remebers his 16 year old highschool sweetheart and once and a while wants to look at kiddie porn (remeber he wants someone who looks the part of a 16 year old).

    In some instances I agree that education and help will make some diffrence in the consumtion of kiddie porn. An example would be people who were abused in there first relationship and watch kiddie porn as a form of fantasy relating back to their abuser. But overall I dont think any sort of help or education can change someones sexual intrests.

  5. Re:yah right on Always Use Protection · · Score: 1

    By keeping your comp working you can do A and B really easily.

    remeber the old saying on the net... the odds are good but the goods are odd. Doesnt really matter how odd they are if they are just trying to get laid.

    As for B all I can say is BevMo.com sure an adult needs to sign for the package of booze when it gets shipped to the house but most parents do sign for their kids. I was getting my beer fix this way when I broke my leg and couldnt go to my store to get my underage booze fix

  6. Wow just like marketing... on Virtual Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    to come up with a product that has almost all the negative aspects of a girl friend... ( MUST spend money on gifts or she wont talk to you) without any of the great benifits (long conversation about random topics, having someone close by as you drift into sleep, ... kinky sex in the park...). Then again this is probably going to be a cash cow.

  7. Re:Studying on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    wow you memorized all the digits of pi?

  8. Re:Conventions are for the READER, not the author on Is the 80 Columns Limit Dead? · · Score: 1

    ok quick question then which convention is easier to read:

    void function ()
    {
    if
    {
    code code
    }
    else
    {
    cod code
    }
    }

    or

    void function () {
    if {
    code code
    }
    else{
    code code
    }
    }

    And yes this is a problem that I have delt with when coding with other people. I can read the first method really well since you just line up the } however I spit fire at seeing the 2nd method.

  9. I got mine a while ago on Have you Received Your $13 from the RIAA? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spent it on a good lunch. I was laughing throughout the entier meal since I never bought a CD from the RIAA.

  10. Re:typing is absolutely necessary on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    I learned to touch type on an old fashion typewriter. Crabby teacher, long tests, and let me tell you return was by far my fav key.

  11. Re:A Different Approach... on Software for Hardware Demonstrations? · · Score: 1

    Ahh I love the completely useless but impress the hell out of X programs. Usually when I am trouble shooting a computer for a very intrested yet untechno savy person I pop up a few kool looking gui programs [Command.com tree running in a loop, a flash program that displays file depth and size on a graph] while in the corner I have a command prompt running where I do actual work. Lots of oohs and awws and if anyone asks I usually combine a few key words and get a quick nod... monolithic polymorphic virus interpreter and decoupler, Synthetic Ack based Mother board Bios responce program, Digital Din I/O D10 NX1 configuration utility, Cisco topological arg based bus speed IDE checker.

    I know I should educate the user about what I am doing besides putting out fud but anything done in the command promp have no error checking. So giving a user a little bit of knowledge is extreamly dangerous in most cases. Also it slows me down considerably (I have weird habits that produces alot of data that I dont check. cd go one level down, dir/ls, cd another level down. this all done without me looking once at the intermediate dir/ls)

  12. Why isnt there an IE skin? on Getting Your Company to Migrate from IE? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is one thing that allways got to me. Why isnt there a theme that mimics IE's gui perfectly? My parents were resistant to switching to firefox but I pressed them and basicly said it was IE's once removed cousin before they adopted it.

  13. horrible intuition on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Search Google:

    MSN
    Results 1-15 containing "google"

    all results are google.com however they give google.uk, google.ca, google.fr

    Altivista
    AltaVista found 28,645,050 results
    the results on the first page are varied
    3 are google.com, answers.google.com, news.google.com

  14. Where are they coming up with the numbers? on P2P Bits · · Score: 1

    One article states 23 mil another 40 to 60 mil so my question is where are they coming up with the number s of who is downloading in america.

  15. Re:MTV attention spans on Ghost in the Shell 2 in Theaters Late This Summer · · Score: 1

    Actually I found the original Ghost in the shell movie extreamly boring since it really couldnt decide to be extreamly complex or nude girls with to many guns. (BTW I am an extream fan of the series

    Personally while I found the ideas of the ghost and what comprises a human intresting the movie seemed to only explore it for a tiny bit before catering to the tastes of a more western audiance. At least in my view.

    I would have loved it probably if they dived more into the situation of the AI seeking freedom besides resolving it at the end the way they did.

    Overall since the movie was trying to be two things at once it left me wanting for more and I felt very unsatisfied with it.

    btw thankfully he didnt go to the extream like the evangelion series (see the last movie, i loved it but most people dont) but still he needed more depth to the movie.

  16. Question about banning. on Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned · · Score: 1

    When they say it is banned is it just that it cant be sold in China? or does it also mean if I warez it from a US server and get caught playing it I will be sent to a prison.

  17. Re:A+ for effort D- for implementation on Gish Shows Odd Physics-Based Indie Platforming Flair · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know what you mean when you are in sticky mode but usually it just requires you to press in the direction you are going and press the jump key. After I played the demo I went through the entier thing in sticky mode and on the ceiling. it is fairly easy after about 10 minutes of practice.

  18. I call dibs on the Holy Hand Genade on The Best Linux Distro for a New User? · · Score: 1

    Let the Holy Wars Begin!

  19. Re:Think about it on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    actually I think it is just picking up people with a high likelyhood of commiting a Large crime be it terroism or any other highprofile crime.

    also I was kinda shocked that is was only 120,000 people. Remeber we have a theoreticle pool of 197million (age 15-66) people who could be commiting crimes.

  20. Re:NO! on Can Cell Phones Ignite Gasoline Vapors? · · Score: 1

    not so junk science as you think. I actually watched the episodes since it I find it funny their methode of testing things over how I would do it. Allways sound but has more variables since they want to make it intresting.

    Anyways back to the subject at hand. They had a problem at first exsactly as you discribe. Even with a large spark generator the couldnt ignite the gas. A fireman pointed out that they needed to have the right fuel/air mixture and they subsequently found a way to generate it by misting the gas in the chamber. After blowing the chamber up allot of times to find the optimum mixture they tested static electricity and the cell phone. The spark worked but the cellphone did not.

  21. Re:1x10^6 rounds per minute - inaccurate stats. on Future Weapons of War in the Works · · Score: 1

    Sigh seen the design before... think 2 years ago. the million bullet stat could possibly be correct since instead of firing one long gun they had a 20x20 array of barrels each with 50 or so bullets in each barrel. Remeber all you need is a wire running down the side as a control mechanism so no need for anything extra. Just an array of 20x20 tubes that can hold the bullets.

    the one problem at the time though was that once the gun was done firing. the tubes were useless and you werent able to reload the bullets. Guess they solved that.

  22. Wow took em this long?!? on 802.11 WiFi Denial of Service Exploit Discovered · · Score: 1

    At Defcon X there was a british groupe whos name I cant recall at the moment who was using the same attack. This is pretty old news in my opinion.

    BTW they werent using a palm and a crappy antenna but a laptop and a really good hi-gain antenna. Said they had a 3-mile radius of wifi knockout capibility but they choused to intelligently not display the technique... or at least didnt while I was around.

  23. Re:GPLed pr0n on Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign · · Score: 2, Funny

    sorry 5 beers makes my spelling horrible

  24. GPLed pr0n on Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign · · Score: 1

    I havent checked that site for a long time and I just took a quick look at it. damn cant that guy hire a deceant web designer. while the other guy stole it at least it was asteticly pleasing.

  25. Hmm cant wait... on DARPA Aims to Redo the Internet Protocol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can now recharge all my previous employers consultant rates to upgrade to the new system. Muhuhu!