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  1. Re:Water? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    It's far more likely to be used along with other evidence, i.e. used to refute a police statement where they denied being in that part of town that day, or if they claim to have been in the bank (but a few tellers down, and hence sprayed), used with video surveillance to show weren't.

  2. Re:Water? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    Yes, but with Nature's Miracle you don't have to. Just leave it there and no one will ever know.

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/49811/january-18-2006/bring--em-back-or-leave--em-dead---teacher-s-edition

  3. Re:Hamburglar on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    It's no different than the Lucky Charms leprechaun or the Trix rabbit.

  4. Re:But why ? on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    Shining an ultraviolet light on someone can be done without a warrant. You can approach every group of teens/thugs in a two mile radius and check them, and then have probable cause for an arrest. Otherwise it's less legal to detain a group of kids walking two block away when there's no proof they were involved at all.

  5. Re:Search? on Disc-Free Netflix Streaming Arrives For the PS3 and Wii · · Score: 1

    ...shitty search of like 20 movies in each of 10 categories. If you want to actually search for something you have to whip out your PC/laptop/netbook/phone/iPad/iPod Touch, find it, add it to your queue, then switch back to the game console to press play. That was apparently inconvenient.

  6. Re:They've already busted that twice now on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    She seems fairly representative of the mainstream of the American right - do people really hate their neighbors so much?

    Wow, strawman much?

  7. Re:Growth rate? on Smart Grid May Also Carry IPv6 Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    And you don't think can do this already?

  8. Re:Fines? on Judge Approves $100 Million Dell Settlement · · Score: 1

    Assuming he keeps all $12 billion of his money in a 1% interest-bearing checking account, $4 million amounts to about two weeks of interest.

    And I assume he earns quite a bit more than 1% on his wealth.

  9. Re:Delay? on UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Police scanners make it possible to get advance notice every day.

  10. Re:Cumbersome on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    Movie 3D glasses merely require polarized lenses; the projector uses horizontal and vertical polarization to achieve the simultaneous images.

    Home 3D TVs most commonly use alternating images for the left and right eye at twice the usual refresh rate. Glasses with active shutters in each eye - synchronized to the television - are required to so each eye only sees have the frames.

    Thus home 3D glasses are bigger and clunkier than movie 3D glasses. You can't compare the two.

  11. Re:20 years? on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    If they'd just hire a herd of monkeys instead, given enough time they could retype all books written and all books not yet written as well.

    Fewer typos and txt spch than interns, too.

  12. Re:What's the legality of the ISP sharing the info on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 3, Informative

    Had you read the Plusnet link in the summary, you'd see, at least for that ISP, ACS:Law requested and received court orders requiring the delivery of customer information. It's not likely that they took different action with Sky Broadband.

    In other (U.S.) words, ACS:Law acquired sensitive information via John Doe discovery, then put that information, unencrypted, on their web site. The people who provided it to ACS:Law under the directive of a court order aren't likely culpable.

  13. Re:110% ?? on UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You get "service above best efforts" by putting "best efforts" inside its own quotations.

    "service above 'best efforts'"

    There. Now it's obvious both terms are marketing speak and don't mean what they literally state.

  14. Re:Wait, wait... let me get this straight... on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you'd like to launder your money and lose a few hundred dollars in the process.

  15. Re:Yet another problem on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    The loot also weighs significantly more. No one is going to be picking one of these up and putting it in the back of their truck, at least without a seriously-large fork lift. (Depending on how much gold they stock in each machine, of course.)

  16. Re:Gotta say, they picked a good one on Microsoft Migrating Live Spaces Users To WordPress · · Score: 1

    I have a very simple blog on blogspot, but I use it instead of HTML because of the built in indexing, time stamps, keywords, search. A customized turn-key solution has more bells and whistles than a made-from-scratch option would, unless I wanted to re-implement some subset of those bells and whistles from scratch.

  17. Re:Talk about censorship on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner are "artists" at heart?

    Did your rant against the current administration get in the way of your common sense? You usually do better than this.

  18. Re:What do assumptions do again? on Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution · · Score: 1

    We allow this now in our zoning code (I'm on the zoning commission and have influenced the rewrite), but now we have to find developers who will "risk" doing this sort of project. They are all scared and want to make yet another cookie-cutter parking-lot-and-pad-site development as its the easiest path to a paycheck.

  19. Re:Disagree on Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution · · Score: 1

    UPS diesels are likely already pretty efficient, and if there's money to be saved upgrading them, they'll do it. Truck replacement has to already be part of the their budget, so this isn't some large optional infrastructure expense.

  20. Re:bullcrap on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 1

    There's a reason my home laser printer is from 1990.

  21. Re:So they can just keep stolen property then? on UK Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act · · Score: 1

    Small claims court is intended for people without lawyers. However, it does require people smart enough to discover the existence of the small claims court.

  22. Re:ZoneAlarm was backdoored, right? on ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users · · Score: 1

    If you're carrying something to smash the window and a saw to cut the wheel, why aren't you already carrying a pry bar, too?

    Why would you even need a pry bar? To get into the car? Already have something to that. To pop the ignition? Already have something for that, and even if you couldn't do this with a saw (but could with a prybar) how would a rounded-on-all-ends Club help?

  23. Re:Great! Move On. Spend More Time w/ Family on Frustrated Reporter Quits After Slow News Day · · Score: 1

    I want the amount of time that a politician needs to contemplate his post-office income to be as small as possible. A term-limited politician is one is looking for a job from the moment they start their last term.

    Were I a paid politician, knowing that I'd likely never be able to return to an engineering career (my skills would be out of date, and who would hire and ex-politician for a developer job knowing they might quit again?), I'd want to stay in that job as long as possible. As long as I can keep getting elected, I work for the people. If eventually my constituents vote me out, I have to find some sort of unsavory PR or lobbyist or university president job to pay the bills.

    I'd support the complete elimination of lame-duck sessions. The night of the election, losers are removed from office and stripped of any lawmaking ability. Once you are looking for a job somewhere else, you shouldn't be able to use your current job to entice a potential employer.

  24. Re:What do assumptions do again? on Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of places that don't have a grocery store, book store, or drug store within walking distance. In our town, I've seen someone get up in front of the planning and zoning commission and complain about the city's attempts to attract retail, because if they wanted to live near commercial things they would have moved somewhere else. I've seen one of our council members say "I like sprawl. I make my living on sprawl." as he had wording about walkable neighborhoods and easy access to nearby conveniences strickened from the comprehensive plan. (He's a home builder.)

    There are a lot of better people in town, and most of us want what you have, but getting businesses in the door to do so aren't easy. I expect your town is pretty old and most of the businesses have long ago amortized their capital costs. The same isn't true if the nearby commercial space is green field and you have to convince a drug store to build from scratch.

  25. Re:Disagree on Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution · · Score: 1

    Without hard numbers in a specific situation it's difficult to say for certain, but I have to imagine that 1,000 trucks (10 boxes each), running a warmed engine, on a route designed to maximize efficiency, in a fleet vehicle that might already use CNG, has to be more efficient than 10,000 cars being cold started and driven three miles to a store and back.

    Now, if those 10,000 cars are stopping off at a store on the way home, as a slight detour, then the incremental energy costs are probably minimal, and I'd agree with you.