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  1. Bzzt! Wrong! on Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    Just because someone has gotten out of jail doesn't mean "their debt is paid". There are lots of things that felons are not allowed to do when they get out of jail, often depending on the crime. Many of them aren't allowed to vote or own firearms. If convicted of driving drunk they may be banned from operating a motor vehicle for a period of months to years. They may be barred from certain professions.

  2. How many miles to pay off? on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 4, Informative

    From The Atlantic: GM's Volt Offers Amazing Mileage, But At What Cost?

    I used the Toyota Corolla (regular, non-hybrid vehicle) as my comparison, since it's popular and similar in style. According to Toyota's website, it gets 26 miles per gallon in the city and starts at $15,350.

    ..[various assumptions]..

    if you assume $4 per gallon, then you'd need to drive around 177,000 miles to break even.

  3. In high school I was teached on Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols · · Score: 1

    Not English, obviously...

  4. Worse than children downloading on Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    kitty porn?

  5. The hell with concepts on Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x · · Score: 1

    Fix the damned error messages. Seeing something referring to "std::vector>" when I used "vector" is bad enough. Having it at the end of a 255 character error message? Even worse.

  6. There's an App for that! on Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    yadda yadda yadda.

  7. I guess they'll only be able to look for on LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power · · Score: 1
  8. some of which run Linux, on Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Kindle runs on Linux. Just because a device runs on Linux doesn't mean it's DRM free.

  9. Maybe the Iranian government on Twitter Offline Due To DDoS · · Score: 1
  10. Donkey Kong! Pac Man! on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Space Invaders!

  11. The downside of high capacity batteries. on FOIA Documents Detail iPods Overheating, Catching Fire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    High enough energy density and you go from energy store to high explosive.

  12. Well, this answers the question I asked on Kingston Unveils $1000 USB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    here...

  13. Well what's the bloody point then? on Company Denies Its Robots Feed On the Dead · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it can't eat them after it kills them then why bother? It'll just leave a messy battlefield behind it, won't it?

  14. Robot Ferrets? on Robotic Ferret Used To Fight Smugglers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't they open for Led Zeppelin back in '75?

  15. More From The Atlantic on NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here.

    Four NSA domestic surveillance programs.

    • Terrorist Surveillance Program, which involves the monitoring of telephone calls.
    • "Stellar Wind," e-mail meta-data mining.
    • a program that keeps tabs on all the information that flows through telecom hubs under the control of U.S. companies and within the U.S.
    • Pinwale e-mail exploitation.
  16. One more... on Anonymous Newspaper Commenters Subpoenaed In Tax Case · · Score: 1

    Scott Roeder

  17. And that's one reason I don't use "The Cloud" on AvantGo Shutting Down, Changing Markets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    for data storage.

  18. the opposite of n00b on Beginning Python Visualization · · Score: 1

    1337

  19. a custom version of Windows CE on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which means that anyone who can program for Win 2k/xp/vista/7 can program for the Zune. I've done WinMobile programming and it's easy in C#. Many apps can be easily ported from desktop to Mobile and back, with the main issue being the screen size.

    The tuner (I assume it does regular FM if it does HD) is a big win here.

    I wonder how hard it is to transcode video for it? If it's as easy as for iPhone (using Handbrake, for example)...

  20. The planet will be fine on North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    All the nukes in the world (literally) won't do more than scratch its surface.

  21. Oh come on! on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    That's like saying that guys like to pee on geysers just so they can say they did it!

  22. We won't get fooled again! on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 1

    Oooh! Look! Shiny!

  23. They make 250GB USB sticks? on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Damn. Where do I get those?

  24. Rotate the backups! on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do a backup, drop it in the safe deposit box at the bank, take the other one out. Next quarter, rotate them.

  25. You're making the classic blunder on The "Dangers" of Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, not a land war in Asia. From here:
      The Open Source and CopyLeft people are acting as if common sense prevails in US copyright law, and they are, I am told, dead wrong.