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  1. Re:Security concern on eBay Provides No Privacy For Sellers · · Score: 1

    "Now of course that is illegal (misrepresenting myself as a law enforcement official), but since fraud is already illegal, what difference does throwing another shrimp on the barbie make?"
    Well, i was a criminal justice major, and worked as a sherriff for a few summers, and never once came across anyone impersonating a police officer. I get the feeling its highly frowned upon(read this as getting your ass kicked)

  2. Wow. Rational court decisions. on Court Rejects Intel Electronic Trespass Charge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we hope the trend will continue?

  3. OK, all together now.. on Exercise Your Wrist, Power Your GBA? · · Score: 1

    WHY!! Is emergency game boy power worth the 10 minutes of wrist stress? Get another damned battery.

  4. Has anyone bought this? on Postal Wins Court Case Brought by USPS · · Score: 1

    Is it worth it? I saw it in the store yesterday and was wondering.

  5. Dig a little deeper. on Verizon Drops Opposition To Cell-Number Portability · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a month to month contrat with sprint i got, 4-5 years ago. I believe its still available, but the tend to bury it under all the contract stuff, and you baicaly wind up paying 10 bucks more. ALso, they have commercial/busisness plans that are month to month.

  6. Great, they admitted it. on UK Home Office Admits Public Don't Want ID Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Theyre gonna do it anyways, wanna bet?

  7. Re:Been there, done that on Using Sling Shot Power to Hurl Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    gregory benford tides of light has these as genetically modified trees. Neat series of books. Starts off about now, and continues following the same caharactes for like 50-100,000 years, theyre still around due to time dilation.

  8. "will work for delta vee" on Chinese Manned Space Flight Set For Autumn · · Score: 1

    Anyone know how to say this in chinese? I want a ride up damnit!!

  9. Dosent matter. on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 1

    If i write my opinion of the color of your house on your house in spray paint, it dosent affect you morgage either, but youre not gonna be happy with it

  10. Right to reply? Certanly. on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 2, Funny

    They can write their reply on their check they send me to pay for my monthly web-hosting costs.

  11. Damn. THer goes one of my favorite expression on Smart Bricks to Monitor Buildings of the Future · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess i cant use "Dumb as a half pile of bricks" anymore.

  12. Its more interesting than that on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: 1

    "It really made me realize how related we all are, and silences the idiots who think blacks are closer to the apes, and whites are more advanced, etc."

    I was watching a show on discovery, and they were talking about how there was a massive genttic bottleneck in the huma race about 75,000 years ago, whre the human race was reduced to a couple of thousand individuals world wide. They couldnt figure out why, untill a vulcaologist saw a talk they gave, and he happend to know about the toba explosion in the pacific that happed at the same time. basically, the human race was damn near wiped out by the volcano, to the point that the average chimpanzee family, has more genetic diversity than the whole human race.

  13. Actually on Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions · · Score: 1

    I havent found anything worth downloading for the last couple of years. I stopped buying cds back in, 99? 2000? I dont rememeber, it was whenever they shut down my.mp3.com.

    But there isnt anythig out there ive heard worth downloading form RIAA affiliates.

  14. How bout investagating them in the open first? on FTC Wants Secret Spam Investigation Powers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As near as i can tell, theres very little being done to stop spam from a legal/criminal point. Wht, its not exciting enough unless they can play at being a spy?

  15. Hello orbital skyhook!!! on Texas Scientists Spin Carbon Nanotube Fiber · · Score: 1

    Get me off this crazy planet!!!

    Damnit, this all we need to build one of these. Someone get jumping on the design!!

  16. Why walk out? on Executing a Mass Departmental Exodus in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    IF youre all together on this, then simply work a fair ammount. If NO ONE will work more than 40 hours uncompensated, what are they going to do? Well, try to fire one of you to set an example comes to mind, but if all of you have you resignations printed up and ready to hand in the moment they do that, you can have some fun with them.

  17. Forgetting my chemistry. on Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? · · Score: 1

    Cant remeber if it was chloride or chlorate. Thanks. I fifured it was close enough for government work.

  18. Speaking as the owner of a corporation, rich=good. on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Granted, its a small corporation, (2people) but for ever 1 company out there using underhanded tactics and cutting their own countrys people to the bone, theres 99 of us just trying to make an honest buck.

    ANd how many of you own stock in companies htat do this? Youre just as guilty as they are. You get to vote twice as a stock holder, once with your dollar, and once with your shares. Do it. Show up at a shareholders meeting.

    Let them know that youd be happy only making 3 dollars instead of ten if it kept busisness in america. Oh, you didnt realize this would cost YOU money?

  19. I have leg cramp problmes also. on Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? · · Score: 1

    Found a simple soloution: pottasium chlorate(sp). Mine, and probably yours are most likely cause by a low pottasium level, which seems to hit the big muscles first. I would always wake up with a leg cramp bad enough to hurt for 2 days.
    i started using the salt designed for people with heat peoblems. THis is usually potassium chloride.Ii dont even use salt noramlly, but i sprinkle a bit in my water before running, and add more when i came back, kind of a poor mas gatorade without all the sugar. I haven had leg cramps ever when doing this.

  20. THe real test. on Haystack: A More Compelling View Of Your Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can it organize 3 gigs of random pr0n?

  21. Whew. I was worried about my niece. on Violent Video Game Restriction Struck Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    She keeps playing minesweeper on my computer. Thats pretty violent, i mean with all the dead happy faces and all.

  22. WHo wants to start the pool? on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I say it holds for 6 years before it starts an earthquake that wipes itslef out and kills 10,000 people.

    AS i recall, EVERYONE told them this was a bad idea.

  23. OK, a little nostalgia is fine on Atari 2600 Programming Tutorial · · Score: -1, Troll

    But com on. learning to program for a defucnt obselete game system? Coulnt your time be better spent learing a modern language? Or taking a walk? Finding a cure for cancer?

  24. NOpe. on A Supernova In Red/Blue Plaid, Please · · Score: 1

    Note: IANAC (I am not a cosmologist)
    Big assed star, runns out of hydrogen starts burning helium, gets bigger, runs out of helium, reuns through all the elements up to iron, iron fusion takes energy, dosent give it. Interior of star runs out of energey, heat/light pressure go away, nothing supporting mass against pull.
    Now, if the star is less than 3 times our suns size(i think) it kind bounces in, rebounds out in a supernova and leaves a white dwarf star behind.
    If it is great er than that, it doent rebound, it keeps going into a black hole.

    ALso, black holes may have been formed during the big bang.

    Im pretty sure theyll happen anywhere enough mass gets together. Thats why you should really clean out the garage.

  25. YEah! Anonymous cowards oughta just ...ummmm on Real Launches Music Download Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nevermind.