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  1. User accountability on US Lawmakers Set Sights On P2P Programs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is what this law tries to ensure. No more users complaining ignorance of what their programs are "making available"... Definitely a boon for *AA organizations....

  2. Re:Ageism on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    "Lascivious cohabitation" - unmarried man and woman living together. Even for one night.... In their minds, it does say that.

  3. Getting taxed on profit on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 1

    would result in "Hollywood accounting" taxation.

  4. Does registering as a political party or lobby on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1
    ... automatically register one as a member of a subversive group as well? Ahh, selective prosecution....

    "Subversive organization" means every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, of this State or of any political subdivision thereof by force or violence or other unlawful means;

    Such as bribery, gerrymandering (oops, that's not unlawful), or vote tampering (that is!)....

  5. fixed that for ya on One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman · · Score: 1

    ...having a + and - pole could...

  6. Problem in applying Drake equation on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    The problem is exactly in the question. . The chance of *finding* love is infinitesimal. The possibility of *making* it OTOH....

  7. Contract Confidentiality through copyright?! on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 1

    Is it even possible for a binding contract to be copyrighted? Is it possible for just one party to proclaim that the other cannot make a copy? Is it possible for one party to thereby prohibit enforcement by the other in court because attempting such requires that numerous copies be made?!

  8. Strippers of category #4 on The Nuking of Duke Nukem · · Score: 1

    I know one. She's real. Very good at identifying which people represent opportunity and from which she wouldn't take much money (and, therefore, shouldn't waste the time). Career Sugar Baby. Dumps the extra $50000s into properties in her home country. Looking to one day marry for a [metric] boatload of money. No aspirations to acting of any kind - she's just gonna retire from this job...

  9. Re:Innovation! on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    If your after HP and torque, the ol adage still holds true. There is no replacement for displacement.

    A fact which my girlfriend heartily appreciates!

  10. Re:Cross section of lightning? on Antimatter In Lightning · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know what the cross section of a lightning bolt looks like?

    I hear Benjamin Franklin does.

  11. Re:Evacuate this universe! on LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird · · Score: 1

    Ahhh.... the Infinite Implausibility Torpedo...

  12. Re:i'm confused on Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules · · Score: 1

    It might be that the photons in question took slightly different paths through the myriad gravity wells there and here, such that the "distance" they traveled was not equal.

  13. Re:That's a bit harsh on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 2, Informative

    Flammable means burnable Inflammable means ignitable For example, magnesium is flammable, but not very inflammable....

  14. The only thing we have to fear... on Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested For al-Qaeda Ties · · Score: 1

    ... is fear itself!

  15. Re:"Technology over politics"... on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 1

    This woman, then, would be second

  16. Knock knock... on Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops · · Score: 1

    ... who's there?

    Orange.

    Orange who?

    Orange ya glad I didn't say banana? :)

  17. Re: Detecting *their* trading system in use? on Goldman Sachs Trading Source Code In the Wild? · · Score: 1

    The idea wouldn't be for someone else to use "their" trading system, though. It would about finding its conjugate-the system which would be able to perfectly game against the GS system, manipulate it, abuse it, take $$ from it, then vanish.

  18. Re:An Ethical Quandry without an easy answer on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 1

    "Her eyes are brown... that never happens". I would not trade that moment for anything in the world.

    The moment when you discovered the improbability of your DNA being the cause?!

  19. Re:Not a Loss on Senator Applauds Pirate Bay Trial, Chides Canada · · Score: 1

    You can't tell me you've never watched a movie, or played a game, or bought a book, or *something* that made you go, afterwards, "fuck, that was a waste of $X. I wish I had that back."

    Mostly, it's not the $X that I wish I had back. It's the time I spent consuming the drivel.

  20. Re:OBlivion on Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go · · Score: 1

    Bring the Keymaker.

  21. Re:A product here? on Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't need a backup to facilitate recovery- just transmission of the fresh data. If my girlfriend's laptop ever disappears, the keylogger I've conveniently installed on it might be enough :)

    The AntiVir and Spybot installations on this machine are configured with exceptions for this exact product, and it will reliably send me keylogs, web histories, and screenshots every 20 minutes (or whenever it finds a connection). But it doesn't capture from the webcam....

  22. Re:Not much of a threat on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1

    First if it was we would already know and not need to be doing the research now, to find out if can be lethal.

    I'm guessing they were more interested in how it killed, rather than whether it would. Sadly, the release didn't contain the sequence diagram for their shutdowns....

  23. Sleeping after kids on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1

    The hardest part of getting sleep with an infant only lasts 4-6 months. Switch off duties with your partner to ensure she gets some sleep too.

    If (s)he's 3 already, your sleep troubles should've been over a long time ago. If they're not, put that kid on a schedule with a bedtime routine. Schedule mealtimes (roughly) too - set his/her circadian rhythm. (S)he'll sleep several hours longer than you, giving you and your mate much needed together time....

    Does he/she have a pet? How does one explain space to a toddler?

  24. Re:The Kremlin Plays Brutal Chess on Russian Police Seize Kasparov · · Score: 1

    China isn't getting things in trade for those exports. They're exporting on loan, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, and they're doing it so they can keep justifying the existing power structures... What they get in return is that they are gravely indebting the US to them. Given the vast amounts of consumer credit card debt in this country, they know they can indebt us rather deeply before we notice.

    They'll cash that in later....
  25. Circumvention on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 1

    What if I trust this software only enough to run it in a Virtual Machine?... and I run it more than once?