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  1. Why do you need a coucher? on Economist's Take On Open Source Development · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why wait for a personal voucher, just personally take $100 out of your wallet and give it to the project of your choosing.

    "Voucher" is the new monorail.

  2. wireless support on linux is horrible on Windows and Linux User Interfaces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After a few more days I'm probably going to wipe my linux partition unless I can get my Linksys wireless PCI card working with WPA encryption. Who knew it would take an act of God to configure correctly?

    Fedora Core 4's network configuration gui is worthless. Ndiswrapper hung the machine. And it took me hours and hours to find that I needed some WPA supplicant something.

  3. Youngling? isn't that the name of a Panda? on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it to me.

  4. No actually, what the terrorists wanted was... on DOJ Wants ISPs to Retain All Customer Records · · Score: 1

    ...lots of dead Americans. I thought that was fairly obvious.

  5. why no animals? on 'Haute Cuisine' on Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know they take up space, oxygen, food... but can't those be overcome by just building a place with more space, oxygen, and whatever the animal eats?

    Would it hurt that much to bring a few frozen chicken eggs on the voyage and then raise some chickens on Mars?

  6. PayPal on Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups · · Score: 1

    Meetup.com linked their payment options to PayPal.

  7. I'd expect evite.com to jump in on Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups · · Score: 1

    They basically provide the same "show everyone that RSVP'd for something" service.

  8. One is that all members of a paid off group on Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups · · Score: 1

    Will be able to one-to-one message eachother. This used to be a Meetup+ service ($5 a month). You couldn't even one-to-one message if you were an organizer.

  9. At first I thought it was bad... on Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However, it's only $9 a month for those of us who are already organizers. My group consistently gets 9 people at the meetup and we usually spend in total $100+ on food and drinks. If everyone that showed up just threw in $1 then the dues for that month would be paid off (and even if I didn't get the whole $9, I'd just top it off myself). Not that big a deal as I see it.

    Of course it probably does discourage groups that are not already established from forming or growing...

  10. mod insightful on Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can't all be fake, and I have a good feeling about this one.

  11. freshmen year in college is obsolete on Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete · · Score: 1

    So many of the courses required of freshmen are fundamental things a student should have learned in high school or even well before that. If a student actually needs one of those freshmen courses then they have no business being in college.

  12. human players are allowed to talk to each other on Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050 · · Score: 1

    during play

  13. MLATs on FTC Tries to Can Sex Spam · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://travel.state.gov/law/info/judicial/judicial _690.html

    Criminal Cases Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties: Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties (MLATs) are relatively recent development. They seek to improve the effectiveness of judicial assistance and to regularize and facilitate its procedures. Each country designates a central authority, generally the two Justice Departments, for direct communication. The treaties include the power to summon witnesses, to compel the production of documents and other real evidence, to issue search warrants, and to serve process. Generally, the remedies offered by the treaties are only available to the prosecutors. The defense must usually proceed with the methods of obtaining evidence in criminal matters under the laws of the host country which usually involve letters rogatory. See "Questions" below.

    MLAT Treaties in Force:

    I. The United States has bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLAT) currently in force with: Anguilla*, Antigua/Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands*, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominica, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Grenada, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Korea (South), Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montserrat*, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Romania, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands*, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay.

  14. Why was the George Bush article locked? on Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report · · Score: 1

    Was it really locked because too much opinion was being injected into the article, or because the people that run Wikipedia didn't want to run afoul of McCain-Feingold (regardless of how truthful the entry may have been)?

  15. wouldn't that make data recovery harder? on Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If your open office file is put on a disk and the disk portion with your data on it gets even the slightest bit corropted then doesn't doom any chance of recovering that file? Maybe I just spend too much time recovering files from old floppy disks gone bad that people send me and this isn't much of a problem anymore.

  16. same here on Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    SpamBayes seemed much more on the ball at filtering spam. Maybe I haven't trained Thunderbird enough, but it lets an awful lot through.

  17. ok, flying a piper to Martha's Vineyard at night on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 1

    or playing Ski football

  18. see if you too have the skills to beat the rap! on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 5, Funny

    or drive Mary Jo home... which is less fun.

  19. how about a simulation of on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chappaquiddick on July 18, 1969.

  20. Re:I upgrade after I call Dell tech support on When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to get a replacement for the part (as in not shell out more money). I don't need them asking me 5 different ways of "Is it plugged in?"

  21. I upgrade after I call Dell tech support on When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? · · Score: 3, Funny

    After speaking with... Kevin... and going in circles for an hour, I break down, and just upgrade whatever part it is that broke.

  22. probably by some disgruntled bush supporter on Political Yard Sign Wars Wage as Election Nears · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That got their car keyed by a Kerry punk.

  23. want proof? on Political Yard Sign Wars Wage as Election Nears · · Score: 1

    Try putting a Bush bumper sticker on your car.

  24. bumper stickers on Political Yard Sign Wars Wage as Election Nears · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any of my friends that put a Bush bumper sticker on their car has had the car keyed multiple times.

  25. data of federal officials is already online on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1