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  1. Re:Superdemocracy is a terrible idea. on Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators · · Score: 1

    "If you enter my property"

    Stop right there, under rule base 203 there is no property.

  2. Re:Bullshit on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    Tens of thousands of WoW characters.

  3. Re:Xbox Losing Money? on Game Studio Flight From Microsoft A Sign of Troubles? · · Score: 1

    Nintendo sells it's consoles at a profit (though admittedly they didn't always).

  4. Re:Why does your cell phone company need your SSN? on Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records · · Score: 1

    Yep, the FCC has auctioned off the public airwaves to them. So, if you want cell service, that is precisely what has going on.

  5. Re:Sooo.... on Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad · · Score: 1

    Too lazy to link, but you are basically correct; only instead of Utah being the only hold up, it was several European nations.

  6. Re:Sooo.... on Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad · · Score: 1

    More like "Google told antimoveon how to chnage their ad so it [wouldn't be shown to people looking for general information about moveon.org, be it good or bad]. They declined."

  7. Re:Sooo.... on Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad · · Score: 1

    So now if you disagree with an organization, you can't even out them by name? The trademark cases were where people were searching for "crest toothpaste" and getting "ultra-brite", not searching for "crest toothpaste" and getting a generic "crest toothpaste sucks" ad.

  8. Re:Another thank you on Rob Malda Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, you should know that you can put a -1 funny modifier in your options. That, combined with sorting by highest score, makes Slashdot comments the best on the net.

  9. Re:"Surprised by Wealth" on Rob Malda Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    We must go at least 12 months, because I'm sure he would have tried to have only had to pay capital gains. If he didn't, the 'paltry' 5.1 million was more like ~3 million after tax, though if he did hold out 12 months, he ended up a little worse off.

  10. Re:determinism finally! on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    wow, he is a god. it really had me fooled for a minute, most youtube vids being as out of sync as they are.

  11. Re:Unwilling to move to GPLv3? on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    err, s/FPLv2/GPLv2

  12. Re:Unwilling to move to GPLv3? on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Since the GPLv2 is the biggest open-source license and is compatible with the FPLv2, that isn't true =)

  13. Re:Not for security use? on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't matter because 'their' su wouldn't have the setuid bit set to root.

  14. Re:Non-issue on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The GPL license is copyrighted (but you can do sort of 'constitutional amendments' and get the same effect).

  15. Re:please... on Internet Blackout in Myanmar Stalls Citizen Report · · Score: 1

    Funny, it's the British that colonized "Burma" in a reign of terror the likes of which could only be seen in modern days as the actions of an Axis of Evil to-wit, non-withstanding.

  16. Re:Not for security use? on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1

    Wrong; that exploit is only available because you chose to set up an insecure system by allowing a user into the wheel group.

  17. Re:To all the Trammies at the bank... on Ultima Online Celebrates 10 Years · · Score: 1

    even better was to have a second friend do a second earthquake: for each person/guard you would get a another guard.. this could continue for quite a while.

  18. Re:real value? on The History of the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    The difference is that fiat currency can be arbitrarily increased by politicians with ease whereas increasing the available gold supply requires more time and effort. Let's assume the gold supply was fixed. Someone who owned 5% of the gold in 1910 *no* work and did *not* lend any of it would would still own %5 of the gold out there today. If gold was the monetary currency, they would basically be rewarded for all of our achievements even though they did nothing on their own, nor did they even lend to the achievers!
  19. Re:What about inside Burma? on How Burmese Dissidents Crack Censorship · · Score: 1

    The only reason we are hearing about Burma and we didn't hear about places like East Timor is that Burma is *full* of natural gas.

  20. Re:So... what is available? on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    There is no reason you can't.

  21. Re:17 cents/kwh and it MIGHT get down to 10? on Future Looks Bright for Large Scale Solar Farms · · Score: 1

    Huh? Before the (second) war, the Iraq sanctions that were starving the Iraqi's were imposed by *us*; it was only the rest of the world that was still basically willing to deal with them, so we didn't 'protect' them from anything, we just realized those sanctions were expensive for *us* as well, and rather than admitting that and dropping them outright, we bombed them away with a new war.

  22. Re:Economic loss due to patents. on 802.11n May Never Happen Due to Patent Concerns · · Score: 1

    What's the difference? What underlying principle says you should be able to own physical objects? There is none. Just because Jane Brat was born to a rich man, she is automatically entitled to essentially anything she desires for the rest of her life?

  23. Re:Not called "Russian OS" on Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School · · Score: 1

    That's GNU/Russian OS, damnit! It's what those commies at the FSF have always dreamed of.

  24. Re:Inapproprate use of force? on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for him? He's likely to get a huge settlement out of this; way beyond his real pain and suffering. Mark my words.

  25. Re:Of course the workers are free to choose... on Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World · · Score: 1

    So you are saying Nike saved them from starving to death. Exactly my point.