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  1. Re:Simple Explanation on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    Well, it is always night time somewhere.

  2. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Attacking Criminal Networks On the Internet · · Score: 1

    The goal is to create mistrust and a breakdown in criminal networks you may not even be aware of yet. Create a negative environment in enough places and it will infect other sites, just like having enough bad experiences on EBay will poison your trust of the whole site. If they just go in and arrest people (assuming they can) then the crooks can just say "Well, as long as we hide from the cops we can still trust each other enough to do business."

  3. Re:Sunspot numbers on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    We just came out of a period of extremely active solar events so I'm not surprised that things have gotten quiet.

  4. Re:Let me be the first to say... on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On a side note I find it interesting that people keep track of this sort of thing. Sunspots and such. And I thought some of the databases _I_ parse through all day were boring. Keeping an eye on a 870,000 mile wide ball of fusing hydrogen near us sounds pretty interesting to me.
  5. Simple Explanation on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    Obviously the sun is shutting down to do its regular backup.

  6. Re:no sunspots huh? on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    Shhh, quiet, the sun is trying to sleep

  7. Re:Having grown up on Led Zeppelin Agrees To Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness they lengthened copyright laws AFTER they profited from mooching. Sort of like how Disney raided old American and European fables then demanded protection for their work afterwards.

  8. Re:Heh, n00bs... on Led Zeppelin Agrees To Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    No, true fans have portable turntables they carry around so they can listen to their old LPs. You just have to walk very carefully.

  9. Re:Waiting for... on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    I'm not looking forward to re-ripping 500+ cds.

  10. Re:Waiting for... on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    Do you only keep an image of a clean install or do you update it to reflect new app installs, patches, etc? If you lost the latest registry you'd have to install your apps too. Sounds very interesting though.

  11. Re:The small thing yaou neglected on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    But Joe 6-pack won't be too happy to find out that he needs to transfer his big mp3 library, his games, etc to the new machine. If he can't be bothered to protect his system or surf safely I doubt he'd be up to reinstalling everything or moving gigs of mp3s.

  12. Re:Waiting for... on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    I just want to know how the hell you'd back it up (and industrial grade backup systems are not an option).

  13. Re:Waiting for... on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    I won't be one of those people. There is A LOT of pr0n out there to download.

  14. Re:Where to order? on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    If you are in a situation where there is a chance for hypothermia I'd say you shouldn't be getting yourself intoxicated no matter what.

  15. Re:Where to order? on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    The body loses the ability towards the end to control the body's circulatory system and all of the blood that was being shunted to the core suddenly rushes back to the surface and limbs causing the heat flush. They once found a kid who died near Mount Washington in a storm who had opened up his sleeping bag before he died because of this.

  16. Re:Sorry, not happening (Lobbies) on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    LSD can make the color blue taste sweet and something sour sound like church bells but the "man" banned that too.

  17. Re:Ciguatera is Common knowledge on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    It is only a matter of time before backpacking teenagers test it out for fun. "Dude! This match feels cold! And this ice cube feels hot...dooood..."

  18. Re:Misreading on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 1

    I believe it was Devil's Food cake.

  19. Re:Let me get this straight... on Air Force to Get "Cyber Sidearms" · · Score: 1

    I think it is a Long Sword +5 unless you are a cleric in which case you get a Mace.

  20. Update: Fake? on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    Nothing about it in the Moscow Times crime section. But don't feel bad, there is this story instead: Filmmaker Murdered, Flushed Down Toilet

  21. Re:"Surprised by Wealth" on Rob Malda Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    According to the article he had to hold onto them for at least 6 months after the IPO. I wonder what the price per share was by that point.

  22. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Run! It's a RAID!

  23. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 1

    They had their patent stolen from them by spelling Nazis.

  24. Lost in Translation on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 1

    ...and three lefts make a right, SO THERE!

  25. Re:Does UKUSA expand it? on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 1

    Europe went through an incredibly destructive war with entire cities laid waste (WW2) and yet didn't feel the need to turn into police states. Two buildings get knocked over in the US by a bunch of criminals and we shit our pants and throw our freedom out the window in the name of security.