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  1. Re:This is bad on Senator Calls For Copy-Protection Tags · · Score: 1

    I disagree.

    This is not a warning label, this is correctly labeling a product. It merely enforces Philip's legal position that these are NOT CD's, they are something else and they may not work in your CD player.

    This is for consumer protection from retailers that do not allow you to return open music, even if it won't work as advertised.

  2. Re:Not free according to NYTimes... on Building A Better Inbox (Updated) · · Score: 1

    And a blind person who has their email read out loud will hear what?

    00001100000
    00000100000
    00000100000
    000011100 00
    00000000000

  3. Re:No relation to d-day on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 4, Informative

    Boop, wrong.

    It doesn't stand for anything. Much like the S in Harry S Truman.

    An explanation according to Joint Chiefs

    D-day. The unnamed day on which a particular operation commences or is to commence

  4. Re:Doesn't he do yoga and eat vegetarian? on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 4, Informative

    His latest movie is Seabiscuit in which he plays a jockey. Riding a horse, even just for a movie with a stuntman doing the real work, is dangerous and painful without years of practice.

  5. Re:Sounds about right to me on Forty Percent of All Email is Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sysadmin for the comp sci department my college set up scripts to change any .vbs file sent as an attachment to, .vbs.ifyouclickonthisanditsreallyavirusIwillholdyo upersonallyresponsiblefordamagetotheschoolscompute rs The IT department for the school, running exchange servers, had to wait for microsoft to issue a patch. While the IT department got pounded with help requests, the comp sci had 0 virus reports. Wonder why...

  6. Re:Evidence of macroevolution on Seven Rules For Spotting Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    Consider the basis of physics theory. I'm not sure I buy that Strong Nuclear Forces are any more specific than a supernatural diety.

    I do, however, find it interesting that any religious sentiment is "Troll" while anti-religious (Not evolutionistic, pure "Christians are morons") sentiment is "Insightful".

  7. Re:Like evolution you mean? on Seven Rules For Spotting Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    Except:

    Books were the accepted way of transmitting data to his peers. Consider the comments about disproving, finding evidence, and other scrutiny. Darwin intended for other 'scientists' to look at it.

    The problem isn't anecdotal evidence, the problem is extrapolation. IE Microevolution DOES exist and is provable, therefore Macroevolution exists.

    He didn't proposed a NEW law of nature, he simply followed survival of the fittest to new levels.

    I think Darwin would fit inside the realm of "acceptable" in terms of deliberate hoaxing. What the article doesn't address, and possibly should, is that some things are entirely outside of the realm of science, evolution being one of them.

    Science just isn't intended to answer every question. One question it doesn't answer is WHY. Science can give you many equally valid explanations of HOW species could have resulted, stemming from different base assumptions, demonstrating which one is accurate is completely outside of the realm of science. Think back to your science fair days, Can it be reproduced? Can it be verified?

    It's just not science. Evolution is religion and superstition just as much as Creationism or Hinduism. It's no more provable than either, at least, until you die.

  8. Re:Potentially more effective strategies on Dismal Failure of Internet Filters In Australia · · Score: 1

    Way to take a lighthearted joke and run toward fucktardedness with it.

  9. Re:Oh c'mon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah a show like that would really blow.





    Damn it, I was never good at puns.

  10. Re:How is Koffi Anon going to get into space? on Traffic Cops for Space · · Score: 1

    Read the article. Much like ocean environmental treaties, the US is the one with the GOOD track record.

  11. Re:Yellow Pages on Interesting Privacy Decision in New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse the data being free with spreading collective information as also free. There is plenty on the books to distinguish between random data being public but that data collected being private.

    More than one researcher has run afoul of the government by collected unclassified information into reports that get classified secret and confiscated.

  12. Re:That's a bit cold... on Interesting Privacy Decision in New Hampshire · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The implication is that spyware is where the information brokers get their information and assemble it. You can't data mine without data.

  13. Re:That's a bit cold... on Interesting Privacy Decision in New Hampshire · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, we saying at least we can prevent this from happening to our little sisters if we can sue the bastards that make it possible.

  14. Re:Can't they stick to aliens? on Command and Conquer Generals Released · · Score: 1

    Try Star Trek

  15. Re:Returning to movies? on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 1

    Big Trouble was excellent, and his latest, Tricky Business was excellent as well.

    If you love his columns, you'll love his novels, just be forewarned that the characters are Adult People, and use Adult Language (like Spanish).

    The plots are good, the subplots are good, and the humor is both subtle and boogeresque. Something for everyone mature enough to be immature.

  16. Re:Who are we? on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, if you respond to this interview while drunk, is there the dangerous possibility your drinks would be tax deductable?

  17. Blogs on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a newspaper columnist, noted author, and booger specialist, is the concept of privacy a major issue for you? Do you have trouble reconciling your desire for privacy with having millions of people intimately familiar with your life (Ie Your articles on your son getting hit by a car almost brought me to tears, in the same way we all felt like we as a nation knew Bill Cosby's son)?

  18. Re:Dear Strongbad on Strong Bad Creators Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find it's BALEETED!

  19. Re:I would love to use this tech. on Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Two responses:

    1) You got damn liberal bleeding heart hippy pussy. I'm sick of your god damn telling others how to building fucking character in their shitty little lives. You telling me I can't tell my kid about the holocaust without having them go out and beat niggers and jewboys so they know what nazi's felt like? You fucking got alot of god damn nerve.

    2) I disagree. I can easily see the reason why I would agree with the message but not the way it was presented. If I choose to expose my home to the message presented in a way I choose, I have that right. They are not choosing what I see, they are giving me a way of choosing what I do not wish to see. Like Point 1, I meant what I said, but put effort into framing it the worst terms possible. You have every right to skim it and say, ok, I understand what he's saying but he's saying like a moron.

  20. Re:Sad? on Six Giant Music Retailers Will Try Online Sales Together · · Score: 5, Informative

    You must be new here.

    The submitter just assumed you've kept up with the recent revelations that sales PER ALBUM increased. The losses are a direct result of the companies releasing less albums.

  21. Re:Interview: The Salem Bitch Trial on Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head · · Score: 1

    And of course the combo: Do you consider yourself a bitch, or an evil bitch?

  22. Re:Edison was a jerk on Slashback: :CueCat, Exercise, Wormage · · Score: 2

    The final straw that led to the Confederacy was Lincon getting elected without so much as a single Southern vote.

    I believe, sir, you'll find the final straw in a Souterner's mind was Lincoln shipping troops and weapons to South Carolina.

  23. Re:Let's get an open source solution for this on Voters News Service: What Went Wrong · · Score: 2

    Alright, but once you get going post it to /. to stress test it.

  24. Re:Windows Clients/hosts? on Has the RIAA Wormed 95% of P2P Networks? · · Score: 2

    evidence in criminal proceedings against those criminals who think it's OK to break the law

    coughcoughbullshitcoughcough

    Please. Evidence? Collected by hacking and compiling a list and transmitting that data illegally.
    Even the RIAA's lawyers aren't stupid enough to think that'd fly.

  25. Dubious Legality on Has the RIAA Wormed 95% of P2P Networks? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An exploit of this nature is of dubious legality

    Dubious? How is there any doubt? Assuming this passes the farmer test (it's not just bullshit in a bag), how can there be doubts it's illegal. At best, it's invasion of privacy. At worst, it's cyber terrorism as defined by the Patriot Act.

    The existance of a P2P client doesn't a criminal make, especially since the example given in the article by the l33t hacker is a perfectly legal file: the public MP3s (written to celebrate each OpenBSD release).

    It's junk, like the quad-browser yesterday.

    The biggest thing to fear is that the RIAA will use this to make up more numbers.