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  1. Many more laws in California 01/01/2011 ... on Online Impersonations Now Illegal In California · · Score: 2, Informative

    fyi - There were actually 725 new laws in California on 01/01/2011 ... and this one posted above is just 1 of them.

  2. Can Somebody Help me Hide Entertainment Section? on The Empire Strikes Back Added To National Film Registry · · Score: 1

    I goto help & preferences -> classic index -> sections ... and i want to hide Entertainment stories from the home page ... but Entertainment is not listed as a section? Thanks

  3. 10x hawking is incorrect ... on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    ... because hawking did not have intellisense. nowadays we only need to type the 1st few characters of a word + it fills in for you so 150wpm is insanely faster than hawking

  4. The BIG question ... on McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    ... why would you give your personal information to McDonalds?

  5. somehow i just don't believe this statement ... on FBI Pushing For 2-Year Retention of Web Traffic Logs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If logs of Web sites visited began to be kept, they would be available only to local, state, and federal police with legal authorization such as a subpoena or search warrant

  6. I learned it ... on Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS In 24 Hours · · Score: 0

    ... in 2 hours, without the book!

  7. here's what i think of their internal proces ... on Library of Congress Explores Ways To Release OS Software · · Score: 1

    ... they should just Bagit

    bag it Slang
    1. To cease discussion of an issue: Finally in disgust I told my debating opponent to bag it.

  8. Yeah, I remember ... on Ruby In Practice · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Rudy, he always practiced real hard, a real die hard ... but I don't recall if he ever got to play in any actual games.

  9. What is a Commercial? on "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress · · Score: 3, Insightful

    dvr

  10. I misread Coral ... on Questionable "Best Effort" Copyright Enforcement · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... as Corel ... and it got me reminiscing about the Penguin that came with the Corel WordPerfect® Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux. Enjoy!

  11. Sometimes there are ... on Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... slashdot story summaries i don't want to delete but still want to keep

  12. I beg to differ ... on US No Longer Leading the World In Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to Hormel

    More than 122 million cans of the SPAM® family of products are sold worldwide each year, 90 million in the U.S. alone.

    Sounds to me like the US is still the leader!

  13. This Failure Outlines Greater Issues ... on Computer Failure Causes Gridlock In MD County · · Score: 1

    ... who cares about nation-wide traffic light outages ... especially in comparison with nation-wide power grid outages. Exactly why it is not always a good thing for the big bad government to control everything at one central point ... I personally think that for items like this, we need it piece meal ... so that we ensure we don't have nation-wide issues that could potentially put us at risk.

  14. By the time you read it ... on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... it's nearly 1 day old

  15. I am almost certain ... on Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... that this $10,000 fine will cripple Oracle's ability to compete in the future

  16. i think the next logical step for NASA ... on NASA Wants Your Ambitious High-Tech Contest Ideas · · Score: 1

    ... is to begin working on teleportation ... enough with the big expensive space shuttles that keep blowing up or falling apart!

  17. read between the lines on NASA Wants Your Ambitious High-Tech Contest Ideas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NASA Wants Your Ambitious High-Tech Contest Ideas

    because they don't have enough time or funding to do the research themselves!

  18. I'll never fully believe it ... on New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... until I visit there myself and get to touch it.

  19. Re:It didn't stop them from smoking on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    You checked out smoking rates in the US lately? Way down from it's peak.

    ... because of schooling? or because of price?

  20. Public Schools Taking a dump ... on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    ... This is why I am hating public schooling more and more these days. They are not teaching your kids math and reading anymore ... they are teaching whatever the lobbyist want them to learn.

  21. Re:I thought that ... on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 1

    true ... i guess that's where i'd keep my disaster recovery servers ... there gotta me some money in the stimulus bill for that, right? :-)

  22. I thought that ... on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 1

    ... Obama would just get rid of the alert system entirely. It was developed by GW Bush, and therefore is just fundamentally wrong. It just creates panic anyways ... it servers no real purpose ... nobody is going to hide in their bunkers or join a local militia if we go to the highest terrorist alert level, are they?

  23. oh the headache ... on IPv6 Adoption Will Grow With Smart Grid Adoption, Hopes Cisco · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... when can we stop talking about IPv6?

  24. Re:Isn't it kinda ironic ... on Google Data Liberation Group Seeks To Unlock Data · · Score: 1

    >>> Does Hotmail let you export everything? Does Yahoo?

    nope. i was not really comparing it to anything tho. i agree it's a good thing, and better late than never. i was just pointing out the irony that they are liberating data from THEMSELF ... it's like building a shed around your lawn mower, then realizing that you forgot to put in doors, so now you have to figure out how to get your lawn mower out!

  25. Re:Isn't it kinda ironic ... on Google Data Liberation Group Seeks To Unlock Data · · Score: 1

    ... but ideally google would have designed their products to cross like that in the first place ... instead of pinning their data into an inescapable hole ... and then having to "liberate their data" after the fact ... right?