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  1. Re:fcc is a necessary body on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 1

    " How dare they come down on her even though the rules were clearly spelled out."

    So let em get this straight, government rules on what is allowed on tv isnt censorship? If it were NBC or the superbowl firing her, id be behind it 100%. Fine, whatever. Youre right, she shouldnt be flashing her tit on tv.(Cause it should be illegal to let anyone under the age of 18 anywhere near a tit.) However, i cant find another acceptable word than censhorship for the government telling me what im allowed to watch on tv.

  2. My new policy on helping family/friends on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, youve got spyware and trojans, thats why its so slow. I can set you up using somthing other than IE and Outlook, with a basic firewall for free, or its 50$ to clean it and you can keep using this crap all you want. Your choice. And i can guarentee youll need me to do this every month, if not sooner."

  3. Re:fcc is a necessary body on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Asking for decency during one particular type of broadcast is not the same as supressing free speech or censorship."

    It isnt?
    60 years ago, people ould have been outraged about the decency of a white man dancing with a black woman on a public stage. Who decides whats decent?

    How much of the outcry now was about the fact that it was a white guy and a black woman? None? Wanna bet?

  4. wow. Rough bunch. on NEC Admits To Ripping Off Schools Through E-Rate Program · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "and is now beating restitution out of the victims"

    Most places we beat restitution out of the perpitrators.

  5. mirrors on Things You Can Do With A Giant Fresnel Lens · · Score: 1

    Also, i could be worong, but telecopes with a glass lens also tends to split the light up to a degree like a prism, while the mirrors jsut reflect and concentrate it, so yo get a clearer image.

  6. Answer i got to use one day: on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    We were working on a airelwss network install, which up untill that day had been running fine, and then that morning, nothing. Sitting around, trying ot figure it out, noones got anything. Then one guy says "I know, sunspots" WE all have a good laugh, and then he says, "No, really, theres a solar flare/storm going on today, its fucking radio reception everywhere"

    I dont believe we really got to tell the customer that the network was down due to sunspots. How many times in a BOFH career does that kind of oppourtunity come along?

  7. Re:Before attempting to remove... on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    Why is a basic car safety device(ie airbag) wired through a pice of electronics unnecessary to its basic funciton? I mean, its kind of like wiring my fire alrm through my stereo. DOnt get me wrong, i have no problem with its recording the airbags actions, but i want safety equipment to be as brain dead simple and failsafe as possible.

  8. Works for me and you on New Windows Vulnerability in Help System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But try explaining that to my dad, who cant figure out what program hes sending e-mail from.

  9. Can i get one that does the opposite? on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 4, Funny

    Filters out the boring crap and goes straight for the neekidness and cussing?

  10. Call me silly on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 1

    but i have no wish to strip mine 1/2 the planet to cover the other half with solar cells. Ther are horrendously damaging to the enviornment to make, and DAMN inefficent, i think 23% of the suns energy gets converted to power, and thats at noon in death valley on a clear day. To get enough to supply our power needs youd have to pretty much cover most of the continent in them. ANd the byproducts of the manufacture would probably poiso nwhats left. DOnt gget me wrong, they have their uses, but they arent the answer. Unless we build them in pace and beam the power down, then il lstart working with you.

  11. Flamebait? on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    YEt another mod whos too fucking stupid to know a joke. Yeah, mod my ass down to the radioactve hell of the mantle, but it had to be said.

  12. You evil man!!! on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 5, Funny

    How DARE you suggest that we pollute the pristine magma of the earths core with your unnatural nuclear waste. It would be a crime against nature to bury radioactve material under the earths crust.

    People like you make me sick.

  13. Sedna???? on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1

    I claim the planet ERIS for all discordia!!! I am off now to meet with its ambassador Fnord.

  14. ok. on Nintendo Faces Continuation Of Seizure Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    20 fucking poeple out of the millions that play nintendo?
    You know, it sucks to be them, but .000002% of pople will probably be alergic to everything.

  15. I have exelent memory for danger on The Memory Masters · · Score: 1

    Anything that might get me killed/injured i have near perfect memory about. For instance, i have never forgotten the name of a redhead. Pure survival instinct, i tell ya.

  16. I think this is old tech. on Safer Means Of Disposing Of Mad Cows · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think back in the day when the beef tallow was used in industry more, they used to use this to render out the fat.

  17. Just remember, the national unemployment rates on Current Unemployment Rate in the IT Industry? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    dont show all the people out of work, they only show the people still able to collect unemployment. The news is currently reporting figures of 5-6%, the real figures are probably more like 10%. I used to have a link that talked about this, sorry.

  18. Great!!!!! on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 1

    So, youre gonna track it back to what? Some of us pay cash for our cds. Oh, now you want a picture id to buy a cd? Fuck that. Oh, and if you implement this, whats to stop someone from taking it after i sell it to a used cd store and putting it out over the internet? Or someone pulls it out of the trash? Ohh, so now were not allowed to sell these cds weve "bought" and can be sued if someone finds it in the trash? Fuck it, ill just download it, and send the musician 5$ from fairtunes.

  19. Fake. on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember reading an article on how they made the movie, and the loaders involved a thing plastic shell and a really strong guy inside to make it move. I could be remembering wrong, but which is more likely, that they used a high tech prototype walker that weve never seen or heard of since, or hollywood magic?

  20. Trs-80's on What's the Hardiest Hardware You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    In 8th grade, Michael torino used to spit in the disk drives every time he used them, todd difosid knoced them off the desk once and it still worked, there were M&Ms in the disk drives, and people generally beat teh crap out of them. They refused to die. My hat is off to the desiginers of these systems, they took the worst crap the 8th grade class from hell could throw at them, and kept on going.

  21. Great. on ARIA Threatens To Sue Internet Service Providers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NExt they can sue the phone companies, then the post office, and hell, lets sue the highway department, theyre all used to carry illegal music.

  22. Never mind the electronic stuff. on Can America Trust Electronic Voting? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    After the Florida shennanigans, which one of us trusts the current voting systems anymore?

  23. Paranoid: on Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier · · Score: 1

    someone who has all the facts

  24. Speaking as someone who still uses nicad batteries on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    They seem to work just fine when youve got a modern charger. You cant be tthe radio shack rechargable double aa nicad.

  25. serious question: on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    One of my co-workers claims that very early battries could be recharged just by putting them out in sunlight, or warming them up somehow. I think hes full of crap. Anyone know for sure?