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  1. Re:Like Gil "The Arm" on Researchers Identify Phantom Limb Brain Activity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or like -- The Phantom Limb!

    "He wears a lot of purple for a white guy. ..."

  2. Standard reply... on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: 1

    If you have to ask....

  3. NYCL's Goin' to Disneyworld! on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: 1

    I hear the seder at Cinderella's Royale Table is really something. Finding the youngest at the table can be a real challenge sometime, though.

  4. Back in the olden days.... on Detecting Click Tracks · · Score: 1

    "Recording a band without multitrack is a nightmare (call it direct take)."

    Call it "Live-to-2 track", instead.

    Sheffield Labs used to do it wonderfully.

  5. MSFT Investors take note! on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    8 billion dollars a year in R&D Expenses and THIS is the return on that 'investment'? Patent litigation for floppy disk filesystems?

  6. Registered Mail is your friend. on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    Rather than just handing it to someone who will never properly file it, by using the fine services of the USPS, you can mail your response letter to the HR department, and with a return receipt you can obtain court-friendly evidence of your letter being received.

    You know... Just in case you REALLY wanted to bust stones.

  7. Re:"I didn't read it" on Pirate Bay Day 5 — Prosecution Tries To Sneak In Evidence · · Score: 1

    "Where's my signature?"

  8. Re:Surveillance solves crimes on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in public I expect the PEOPLE around me to see me, sure.

    I don't expect SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS run by government hired employees, to snoop on my movements and my conversations. ( What good is a camera without a microphone?)

    I'd like to see a cost/benefit analysis.

    What's the dollar value of the alleged benefit, and what's the dollar value of the costs?

  9. Re:The real benefit. on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    Well, Congress is throwing around a few hundred billion. I'm sure that's incentive enough if applied wisely.

  10. The real benefit. on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    The real benefit of this is that if we go full steam ahead, we get GEO capable reusable heavy lift out of the project.

    THEN we own the Universe.

  11. Re:Tiny effect on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 1

    Of course, if you transmit a pilot beam FROM the earth TO the satellite, the satellite can use that to focus its transmitter, and ensure it doesn't drift.

    This shit is 70's - 80's level technology. And if Reagan had started, we'd have capacity online now.

  12. Re:Vi has two modes ... on Vim 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    :wq is too verbose. :x ftw

  13. Re:Microsoft, huh? on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    How did you disable and uninstall "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0" ?

    Did it comply with the guidelines for a Firefox addon/plugin, and provide for easy removal?

    And *THAT* is the issue here.

  14. Re:Is it a coke classic move? on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    It's the only way to get over the XP works fine issue, since they're competing against themselves.

  15. Re:This is part of the Baby Industrial Complex on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? · · Score: 1

    Simpsons did it.

    "Bye Bye Nerdie"
    Episode no. 264
    Prod. code CABF11
    Orig. airdate March 11, 2001

  16. Re:Go nuts! on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    New York.

    Hey, you wanna buy these notes, that's the price... Take it or leave it, I ain't got all day... You got a problem with that?

  17. How do you supervise the Sighters? on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems to me that unless there's some sort of "Meta-something" that the 'Sighters' will have unchecked authority.

    That's bad.

  18. Re:Quality versus quantity, perhaps. on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you only go bi semi-annually, are your really bi?

  19. Amarok is a fucking trainwreck. on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    They screwed up what was a pretty useful program with their screwed up 2.0 release/deprecation of the current Production release.

  20. Re:That's the whole point on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    What oversight? It appears to me that the Bush Admin conspired to defraud the United States from providing *exactly* that required oversight.

    You mentioned the fraudulently obtained AUMF. The proceeds of a crime aren't really the best justification for anyone, is it?

    "We've committed fraud -- Trust Us".

  21. Re:Go nuts! on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, perhaps it's best to remain focused.

    Assume the kid had 90 days of class. That's 90 hours.

    90 hours * 20 = 1800$

    Now, given this is America, and people are entitled to profit from their works, double it to $3600, the value of the notes STOLEN.

    That's Grand Theft. Focus on that. The police can get their heads around that.

  22. Re:That's the whole point on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    "And considering FISC affirmed exactly the activity that is occurring at the telecoms as legal and Constitutional, "

    IIRC the FISC needs to approve within 72 hours.

    Now, this apparently started in 2002, so what happened between the beginning of the interception and collection ( you see, given the proven Bad Faith of the past Administration, they no longer get the benefit-of-the-doubt, do they? That's why they shouldn't have lied -- they've surrendered their credibility ) and they supposed approval ( outside of statutory limits ) of the INDIVIDUAL INTERCEPTS...

    My 4th Amendment rights aren't really protected if they're Grepping all my communication, are they?

  23. Re:That's the whole point on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    "In order to determine which traffic can be lawfully collected without a warrant, basic information about the traffic, such as its source and destination, must also be examined. Such examination of traffic -- a "pen register" -- also does not require a warrant."

    The analogy falls apart when all the packets are copied from the optical splitter, and not just the IP headers showing the needed routing information, doesn't it?

  24. Re:I'm not sure Windows 7 is actually something ne on Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a Red Hat SERVICE CONTRACT. But for some reason, your example falls apart...

    Hmm... What is it?

    Oh yeah... Fedora. That and your incorrect assumption that development would cease without the patronage.

  25. Re:I'm not sure Windows 7 is actually something ne on Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's · · Score: 1

    When I upgrade my O/S and software, it doesn't cost anything.

    What's wrong with Microsoft's model, that they have these inefficient expenses?