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  1. Re:Cry me a river on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 2, Insightful
    2: deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances [syn: {censoring}, {censorship}]

    One could say that their best sellers list is a publication. It's not a publication in the traditional sense since it appears online. But other best seller lists have appeared in magazines and the like as well. As they are deleting items from the list, one could indeed view this as a form of censorship.

  2. Re:You should have logged in. on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 3, Funny
    so you probably don't have my capacity for shame.

    There has got to be some kind of humor found in a guy saying that who goes by Alf's Boner...

  3. Re:The real solution on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    If you buy water from the first company who is selling it cheaper than the other nine companies. How do you only get water from that company if there is only one pipe? What is stoping that company from supplying less water to that pipe, so that you are getting more water from the expensive people?

  4. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    many phones have the ability to limit messages received, plus providers also have many options for adding blocks and such as well.

  5. Re:Up next on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    You can hang up or not answer any call. If I don't want to talk for five minutes, I hang up.

  6. Re:To hire or to jail, that is the question on Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm · · Score: 1

    There is still good in him. I can feel it. Correct, but we need to wait until after he blows up a planet with his giant laser before we'll be able to bring him back to the light side...

  7. Re:newest ideas - LOLWUT? on The Perils of Pointless Innovation In Games · · Score: 1
    Then you can add something extra spicy on top...

    And that spice is the life.

  8. Re:Dead on.... wish I had mod-points... on The Perils of Pointless Innovation In Games · · Score: 4, Funny
    I knew I was doing something wrong...

    My 9 foot long orange rhombus would only teach me how to make paper throwing stars...

  9. Re:Hmm have I seen this before?? on The Perils of Pointless Innovation In Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean they didn't use unicorns to plow fields?

  10. Re:Hmm have I seen this before?? on The Perils of Pointless Innovation In Games · · Score: 3, Funny

    but most of us are still horny nerds, you could have at least posted a link...

  11. Re:Does it matter??? on GameStop Selling Games Played By Employees As New · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, for starters, used games ares sold at a discounted price from new games. So if you are buying a game at the new price, and it's been played before, one would consider that a little dishonest.

  12. Re:Google will own the books? on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 1
    Gotta agree with you. Just like a Shakespeare, I can own the copy that I publish, but it doesn't stop someone else from publishing it also.

    They'll own their own data base, but someone else could do the same thing.

  13. I found a hole in portal on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1
    Agreed. make sure that you get the CYA documentation, then look for another job where you won't be in such a predicament...

    The place where i worked before had two problems like this, the previous guys developed in house software, with no documentation, and no actual install files either. And, we had to deal with unlicensed software. Just write up a paper showing the cost of getting called on the software vs licensing it, then pass it along to the higher ups with a request to buy licenses. I'd also refuse to install anything that they cannot produce a license for. And if they can you, tip off the BSA...

  15. sometimes when I get bored on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1
    I search for PST files and read peoples emails...

    Every now and then, I wind up with something good.

  16. Re:contractor position? on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1
    less of a drive to the new job. Doesn't have to travel, or adversely gets to travel. better perks, doesn't work with a douche bag boss. New job is in a strip club...

    The reasons go on and on here...

  17. Re:contractor position? on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    agreed here on your second part. When you list an employer, the new employer contacts the old and asks if you really did work there, that's about it. If they ask for professional referances, don't list the douche bag boss, get some other names for that...

  18. Roaming is based on the tower that you pick up on How To Rack Up $28,000 In Roaming Without Leaving the US · · Score: 1
    That means that regardless of where you are physically, you can still have roaming charges if the roaming signal is stronger than the local one. This includes that towers that they have on cruise ships, those along the borders, or even for people on older plans that still have roaming in the US can have charges if they near the edge of their coverage.

    Likewise, if you are on the beach or even worse, actually in the water on a boat, you will generally not get a strong signal from a provider on land as most towers are not positioned to send signal over the water. Most customers happen to be on the land, so that is where they want to position for.

    This is why all phones display a roaming indicator, if you show that you are roaming, then you shouldn't be using the phone if you don't want to pay...

  19. Re:My car... on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    actually, the reason that my analogy sucked, is because you pay for the stereo. The browser is free, and you can install multiple browsers, well, I guess you could also install multiple stereos also, but that would just be silly...

  20. Re:ultimately reduces consumer choice on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You mean how IE redirects any traffic to mozilla.org to microsoft.com?
    oh, wait, it doesn't do that...

  21. My car... on Mozilla To Join EU Suit Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    came with a radio installed. I'm going to sue Ford for their monopoly on car stereos.

  22. Well on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 1
    that could lead to some funny performance reviews...

    "Well, Jenkins, it looks like you have done ok on your key performance objectives, however, there is a note from our IT staff regarding discount viagra and russian brides..."

  23. I started with a pirate theme on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1
    But then decided to change to a mythology theme, and changed again to a lovecraftian theme...

    My network may look a little messed up...

  24. So... on BotPrize — A Turing Test For Bots · · Score: 1

    They programmed a bot to scream racial slurs in a twelve year old's voice while complaining about their controller being broken?

  25. The Real Question on White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    Would be why Barack cannot use his blackberry, yet they can use youtube...