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  1. Re:I for one... on Computer Manages Restaurant Workers · · Score: 1
    If the bar/restaurant doesn't provide a hardcopy, and they don't bring their own, they are bozos.

    Of course, everyone has a big book of cocktail recipes at home.

    A smart individual does not go to work unequipped.

    Smart individuals don't work behind bars, and the day a barman needs to bring recipe books to work in case the computer goes down is the day the world has gone mad.
  2. Re:Nope. on Nokia the Next to Try an iTunes Killer? · · Score: 1

    The ipod won't be killed by a single, similar device, it will be killed by phones that play MP3s.

  3. Re:Demand on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, that simple eh? No wonder these media centres are such a success!

  4. Re:Washtenaw's neighbor, Oalkand County tried this on County-Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The death of dialup isn't just about the speed, it's having to actually dialup, the constant disconnections, the caps on how long you be on, and cutting off the phone. All those things are solved by wireless, even if it's just as slow.

  5. Re:Nanoweapons scare me on Lifeboat Foundation Nanoshield · · Score: 1
    Do you think they could out-perform white blood cells?
    Maybe nanobots wouldn't be so vulnerable to HIV?
  6. Re:MySpace is bad on Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace · · Score: 2, Funny
    It is a corporate website that allows users to violate every standard of web design without having to know a lick of code or even html. The user pages are downright painful to attempt to decipher at times, and there is usually some horrible music playing in the background that is difficult (if not impossible) to stop. The fact that it is used for criminal activity only adds to the collective distaste.

    Other than the background music, you're describing slashdot.
  7. Re:Well, you could start by... on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1

    How would like it, if for instance you had a five year old daughter who was in constant discomfort and couldn't even sleep because some old cunt next door had a mosquito device? I don't think you'd be so sympathetic to anti-social dickheads.

  8. Re:the needs of the many ... but who's that on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1
    So, it's ok to destroy the device 'cause it's pissing you off?
    Yes. If someone installs and operates a device, the whole purpose of which is to cause me annoyance and misery, then I have every right to destroy it. That old cunt has no right to do what he's doing.

    You can't disarm such a situation by escalation of "violence".
    You only have to read the stories of old people battered and hospitalised to realise how wrong your comment really is. Do you think that if he was jumped on the way home from bingo he'd carry on with that device? No, he'd probably move.
  9. Re:Still Disc on Holographic Storage a Reality in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Rotating the spindle would waste even more energy, and be more complicated.

  10. Re:Well, you could start by... on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Just because it's illegal doesn't make it wrong.

    Only by treating others how we WISH to be treated, and not by how they treat us first, is our society going to advance.

    That Jesus crap doesn't work when you're dealing with senile dickheads who go out of their way to make other people's lives a misery.

    Remember that vigilantism is necessary when the police and relevent authorities refuse to do their jobs.
  11. Re:Try this on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Destroying a device put there for the sole purpose of causing people misery is not a wrong.

  12. Re:Well, you could start by... on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah, like getting yourself tossed in jail for vandalizing other people's property! Woo, hoo!
    How can you be tossed in jail when no-one knows who did it?

    Around these parts, if some old fuck pissed everyone off with a mosquito device, he'd just get put in hospital.
  13. Re:I've Had It! on U.S. Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1

    You're living in a dream land, Bush got re-elected because Americans agree with all the shit he gets up to.

  14. Re:Publishers not Developers on Don't Go Down Memory Lane? · · Score: 1
    They are firmly convinced that making a guaranteed mediocre profit is better than taking a risk and possibly hitting the big time with a new, creative, fun idea.


    It's easy to criticise when it's not your millions you're risking.
  15. Re:To bad... on Places Rated, Skeptically · · Score: 1

    Have you ever considered that people actually like living where they currently live, and don't appreciate having to sell up and uproot their family everytime the yuppies move in?

    Or maybe they like the fact that if they grow up there, they can then buy a house there, rather than having to move away from where they grew up because the yuppies have moved in and driven up the prices.

  16. Re:Too much for a console. on Don't Count Sony Out Yet · · Score: 1
    and Microsoft is still stuck in Genesis era.

    No, the Genesis was successful.
  17. Re:I've Had It! on U.S. Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1

    How can you stand up for yourself when the majority of the population actually agree with the government?

  18. Re:So are any of the Brat Pack profitable? on The New Brat Pack of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    It does however, thanks to the team of legal snakes hired to draft its licence agreements, own the rights to everything posted on it. So one day, in theory, they could sift through the dreadful noise that is its video contributions for those few pearls and subsequently sell them.

    Unless of course, it turns out that the people who posted the videos didn't have the right to post them in the first place, meaning youtube gets sued out of existence.
  19. Re:I liked DS9. on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They don't want to make a show that small core will love for years and years and years.

    Star Trek is too expensive to make to only appeal to a small core.

    They want light, cute actors, not developed characters.

    Star Trek has never had developed characters.
  20. Re:Your staff are the jewels... on Nine Ways to Stop Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    Actually most people are scum. Just because the people you know aren't (or appear not to be) scum, doesn't mean anyone else isn't.

  21. Re:Your staff are the jewels... on Nine Ways to Stop Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1
    Hire good people. If you're not sure about a persons integrity, don't hire them!

    How do you judge a person's integrity? The most dishonest people often appear the most honest. In fact I'd estimate that at least 90% of people are scum, so the odds are against you if you want a decent workforce.
  22. Re:Your staff are the jewels... on Nine Ways to Stop Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    How do you pay your employees well without being blown out of the market by your rival who charges the bare minimum they can get away with?

  23. Re:No fat kids on Full Body Dance Dance Revolution · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how long you do it, the lack of resistance and the way you're just moving up and down without having to propel yourself anywhere means the exercise benefits of this game are minimal.

  24. Re:Translate Sign Language on Full Body Dance Dance Revolution · · Score: 1

    Looking at the people who play DDD, I don't think it burns an awful lot of calories. If you want to burn calories you need short, intense exercise, not hours of low-intensity.

  25. Re:Do I think they went to far? on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 1
    When you grow up a bit you might have lived enough to realise that some of the points of view of the DM are shared by a majority of the british population.
    And that's what's wrong with this country today.