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  1. Re:Learned About this a Long Time Ago on Malware Distribution Through Physical Media a Growing Concern · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always taken that more as a joke since most AV programs make the computer act as if they had a virus, so really what's the difference.

  2. Re:What's really interesting on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    It's not odd. They had already decided to get rid of him, they were just searching for a reason for the already made decision.

  3. Re:question on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    Easy banks will pay for the better machine since it costs them money when it was hacked. Governments, not so much to spend so some things get cut.

  4. Re:in the late 80s on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    I believe the original article refered to "black-hat" SEO operators. Which are the ones that would specificly break into other sites to cross-link and increase the ranking on Google. It's the breaking in and not so much the optimization that is the indicator for future illegality.

  5. Re:Powerful? on Sony BMG Dropping DRM · · Score: 2

    Apple is keeping prices down, even as the record companies other businesses are losing more and more money. The record labels want to raise the price and Apple told them no. The same issue is playing out in video, but Apple isn't as strong there the video content producers have decided to take their ball and go home for now.

  6. Repeat after me on Anti-Game Candidates Do Poorly in Iowa Caucuses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Correlation does not equal causation.

    The results were the cause of many reasons, but video games laws were most definitely not one of them.

  7. Re:Session token on Florida Election Ballots to be Printed On-Demand · · Score: 1

    Apparently to do this securely and more important profitably is harder than one thinks.

  8. Re:ink on Florida Election Ballots to be Printed On-Demand · · Score: 1

    From the second section of the linked article, "The heavy-stock paper ballots themselves represent a major cost addition that comes with optical scanning."

    Florida apparently uses heavy-stock paper for their ballots. Other jurisdictions do not.

  9. Re:ink on Florida Election Ballots to be Printed On-Demand · · Score: 1

    I believe this will cause the improvement of printers in general when they have to procure printers on a large scale that must have ink that is easily changed, cannot jam, and can handle heavy card-stock paper. I look forward to those existing in 20 years to catch up with that idea. It's going to suck until then though.

    According to the article, these are also at the "Early Voting Stations" which tend to be a county court house or such and not for election day which will use pre-printed ballots. It probably won't be as bad since the tech's will hopefully be closer and there will be more than one machine in operation.

  10. Re:abandonment of sovereignty? on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    Nope. Narcotics like heroin are specifically banned in the WTO treaty. Otherwise you'd be correct.

  11. Re:abandonment of sovereignty? on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    Actually you cannot prevent trade on moral grounds. That is why the US lost this case in the WTO. If it's legal in Antigua the US cannot stop US citizens from utilizing and purchasing those services for any reason. Whether is this is a right policy or not is another issue since the US has already joined the WTO and have given them the right to do this.

  12. Re:Dream Office? on How Would You Design Your Dream Office? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's from the second episode of Futurama. Bender walks around complaining about being left out of things and says he'll do it better but with "blackjack and hookers" then says, forget what ever it was he was being left out of and just with the blackjack and hookers.

  13. Re:Neither correlation nor causation on Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax · · Score: 1

    Actually ethanol production and subsidies are helping push the price of corn and sugar up quite nicely since it sucks a lot of excess corn and sugar out of the market. Whether it is good policy to do this is another issue, but it's what the government has done.

  14. Re:Counter attack is required on Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System · · Score: 1

    Most of them use things like IRC or other peer-to-peer systems to communicate so knocking the main controller off the internet would only temporary disable the control of the system. The writers have learned through repeated attempts to do what you suggest to find a way around the issues of being temporary knocked offline.

  15. Re:I'm not seeing the "easy" part there. on Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System · · Score: 1

    In Vista is appears to be outside of the engine finally. I still think it uses IE for connecting to the Windows Update web services, but its now a stand alone program in the OS instead of a program run from a web page. I was quite happy to see that the old Windows Update is now dead.

  16. Re:2009! on Analog Cellular Shutdown To Hit Built-In Devices · · Score: 1

    2009 is the digital TV cutoff date, not the digital phone cut off date which is still 2008.

  17. Re:Atleast pick an original car... on Specs For the New KITT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was actually a Saleen S281E. The rights to the cars we're bought by GM so all the cars had to be GM, no Fords or Volkswagons allowed. Why else would Bumblebee be a Camero instead a Beattle. The only exception was Optimus Prime, which was a Peterbuilt, because GM doesn't make Semi-Tractors.

    My guess is that the rights for the new Knight Rider were bought by Ford so it had to be a current production model car. It's sad, I really like the old Pontiac Trans-Am. It lent a air of 80's cool, like the Trans-Am in Smokey and the Bandit.

  18. Re:Garbagestan on Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does Garbagestan have normalized relations with Petoria yet?

  19. Re:Keep those wishes coming on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Back up XBOX 360 games to Windows PC

    I believe this is refering to the save files stored on the HD and not the actual games.

  20. Re:If Sony's calling it a stalemate... on Sony Calls Current Blu-ray/HD DVD Format War a 'Stalemate · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe the 2:1 ratio existed with Betamax as well, before VHS cleaned it's clock in the consumer market.

  21. Re:Whoa now... on MLB Fans Who Bought DRM Videos Get Hosed · · Score: 1

    That's better than me, all I got was implied oral consent.

  22. Re:Still in beta on Google News Launches Facebook Application · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Orkut is actually quite popular with people overseas taking the place of MySpace and Facebook. It's got a huge Brazillian and Indian userbase. In the US it's way behind it's competetors.

  23. Orkut? on Google News Launches Facebook Application · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will this application be compatable with Orkut? Google's own social networking/Facebook site?

  24. Re:DS on Who Says 2D Gaming is Dead? · · Score: 1

    I think it's more the control setup with the touch screen than the processing power that provides most of the 2D action. That's why so many more "2D" DS games are made vice 3D games.

  25. Re:I need a review! on Pogue and the Bogusness of Advanced Gadget Reviews · · Score: 1

    Huh. I've not had a lick of trouble with it, unlike the Netgear I had before it that would crap out when I tried to open too many web pages at once.