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  1. Re:Get busy with eBay on Build a Cheap Media-Reading PC? · · Score: 1

    You forgot all the various flavors of QIC (DC-150, DC-300, DC-600, DC-1000). Tandberg had a fairly nice SCSI DC-1000 back in the day.

  2. Butter FS on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1

    I understand that Bennigans' will be changing all their servers over to Butter FS.

  3. Here's one on Silverlight 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Major League Baseball (mlb.com)

  4. Re:flying sux on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 3, Informative

    Minor nitpick: There are no Constitutionally-protected rights except through amendments, making the parenthetical a bit redundant.

    Bullshit. This is why the Founders were leery of promoting the Bill of Rights, on the grounds someone would argue that "It's not in the Constitution, therefore the people don't have the right".

    This is the purpose behind the Ninth Amendment.

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

  5. Some of us didn't have a choice on Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage · · Score: 1

    When SBC/ATT went to SBC/Yahoo or ATT/Yahoo

    OK, yeah, maybe we did of RoadRunner.

    But the point is that not all Yahoo! users are using the free service.

  6. Re:Schneier bothers me on Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies · · Score: 1

    Too bad for him. The 9/11 guys screwed it up for the "ordinary" political hijackers.

  7. Re:Am I the only one... on New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are.

    If you read Groklaw, you know all about the MoFos (They're Novell's lawyers).

  8. Re:Corruption opportunity on New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suspect that they'll just spec FIPS 140-2 certification for the crypto app.

  9. GET A LIFE!!! on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    But will we see Kirk pick the original combination to the safe?

    Disclaimer: Subject is not intended as an insult, but as a tribute to Shatner's SNL appearance.

  10. Re:Nothing good acting can't fix. on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    [AOL]
    Me too!
    [/AOL]

    Seriously, I had the same reaction to DiCaprio. But his later work, such as the films you've mentioned, brought me around.

  11. Re:Woo hoo! on Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    The movie was OK...

    [we pause while Amazing Quantum Man visualizes]

    Amazing Quantum Man starts crying

    How could they do that to him?

  12. Re:Poor arguments against it on Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    There is also a potential for the crafty sex offender to possibly cause false positives by just registering an address that does not belong to them, thereby drawing in innocent bystanders.

    1. Cui bono? Why would they bother to do this, except just to be a dick?

    $SEX_OFFENDER was put away. He decides to get even with $WITNESS_AT_TRIAL, or even better, $PROSECUTOR.

  13. Re:LOL on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    The second part of my argument is the real kicker, though. McCain, should he be elected, is *NOT* part of the population from which that statistic derives. As mentioned, he will have the best health care of any person on earth. Stuff that is "too expensive" will be free. He will have regular checkups and a private doctor at his beck and call. Unlike the average male population.

  14. Re:This just in on 99.8% of Gamers Don't Care About DRM, Says EA · · Score: 1

    No, everybody doesn't know that. It's been shown that 3.6% of all people don't believe any statistics, regardless.

  15. Re:Barr on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    I'm sick of this logic. To a GOP'er, a vote for Barr is a vote for Obama.

    Obviously both stances cannot be correct, so what is the answer? Simple. A vote for Barr is a vote for Barr.

    To those who claim a third party vote is "wasted"; that logic, carried to its extreme would indicate that anyone who didn't vote for the eventual winner would have "wasted" their vote.

  16. Re:Actually on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    The statistical likelyhood of a man of Mr McCain's age and having his medical history surviving for even FOUR, let alone 8, years is well under 50%.

    Statistics don't apply to single data points. Especially when that single data point isn't part of the main population. If McCain gets elected, he will have access to better health care than any other single person in the world.

  17. Re:Not like it matters much ... on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 3, Insightful

    here isn't a female alive who would sleep with that old fool.

    Allow me to quote Henry Kissinger.

    "Power is the ultimate aphrodesiac".

    Disclaimer: I am not female.

  18. Their problem... on International Spam Ring Shut Down · · Score: 1

    They figured that CAN-SPAM meant that you "can spam" people. And usually, it does.

  19. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    But... my headphones go up to 11!

  20. Re:Mod Parent Troll/Flamebait on Opus the Penguin Retired · · Score: 1

    Come on, Chumley, let's go see Mr. Whoopee!!

  21. Re:Check yourself, on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the guy who has him arrested.

  22. Re:Take the opposite approach. on Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The NYTimes thinks I'm a 98 year old woman in Afghanistan, who makes less than $20K/yr as the CEO of her own company.

  23. Re:Bets....? on Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well · · Score: 1

    Obviously the Evil Terrorists(tm) got their hands on the report and altered it! We need to DO SOMETHING!(tm) Won't anyone think of the children?

  24. Re:PRK on Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS · · Score: 1

    These guys did mine. He's my regular opthamologist, so that was a plus. He also did a lot of the clinical trials, and was a pioneer in the treatment of astigmatism with PRK as well, so double plus.

    Delayed epithelial healing

    Yeah, that's what hurts like hell. They essentially strip off the entire epithelium so that they can shape the outside of the cornea. Essentially, it give you the mother of all corneal erosions.

    The beauty of it is that PRK is essentially the same as PTK, which is the treatment of choice for erosions, so if you're prone to erosions, and you want your vision corrected, you may want to consider PRK.

  25. Re:PRK on Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, I haven't noticed any bad side effect, other than needing reading glasses, and that's due to age.

    I'm 45, and because I was *SO* nearsighted, my near vision was actually pretty decent, but because of my age,
    I now need reading glasses. If I was younger, I suspect I wouldn't need them.

    The myopia canceled out the age-related presbyopia.

    As a side note, I suffered from chronic erosions, and this seems to have cured it as well.