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  1. Re:Nobody likes looking stupid on Felony Charges For H.S. Hacking · · Score: 1
    "I think the school staff know exactly how inconsequential the security breaches were."

    They used the school's street address as the admin password on all the machines. They know nothing about security. (They probably even had to ask a student how to turn the laptops on.)

  2. Re:I'd be nice to know the laws broken on Felony Charges For H.S. Hacking · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They mave have acted "in excess of given authority" but I don't see where they had the intent to do any of 1 through 5 unless you really, really, reach.

    Sounds like Officer Skavinsky and the Berks County District Attorney's office don't really know what they are doing and don't understand the law in question or computers in general.

  3. Re:bush judges on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1
    "Yes, the consitution says we have the right to deprive anyone of their freedom whenever we want."

    We sure do. Just have to declare them to be an enemy combatant.

  4. Re:Any good Software Quality Assurance jokes? on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 1

    SQA itself isn't the joke?

  5. Re:coax on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 1
    coax: How do you pronounce it?

    Differently from co-ax.

  6. Soylent Brown on Microbes That Produce Miniature Electrical Wires · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Geobacter was discovered by Lovley in 1987 at the muddy bottom of the Potomac River in Washington D.C...."

    So that's where they dump the body everytime they find (and have to quickly remove) an honest politician!

  7. Re:At least Jim Anchower is still there on The Onion in 2056 · · Score: 1

    Apparently being humorous and accurately predicting the future aren't the least bit mutually exclusive. :-(

  8. Re:Mod Parent UP ! on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 1

    And, having already posted, I couldn't use any of my mod points either. :-(

  9. Re: What happened to the batman geek? on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 1
    "Or he could just watch CSI:Gotham..."

    Which Who song does that one use?

  10. Re:Uh, no. . . Sort of. on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 1
    "Don't you follow the celebrity gossip?"

    No need, it follows us. I think the only channels that haven't covered the Tom Cruise saga are PBS and C-SPAN and I'm not sure how long they can hold out.

  11. Re:I wrote about this to CNN on EFF: 48 Hours to Stop the Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1
    I'd like to see someone better able than I to get on C-SPAN's Washington Journal (journal@c-span.org + call-in phone numbers) tomorrow (Tuesday, June 21) morning and explain why consumers shouldn't be burdened with financing the cure for the **AAs' inability to protect their IP.

    Perhaps, despite being on MSNBC, Don Imus would be ornery enough to rant about this if someone knows how to get the word to him.

  12. Re:Asus hunh? on A Look Inside the Labs of Asus · · Score: 1
    Abit did get "bit" especially hard by capacitor disease but they weren't the only ones. About the time that BX chipset Pentium II/III boards were being manufactured there was an epidemic of bad electrolytic caps which, unfortunately, often managed to last until just after warranty expiration.

    Here's a good writeup about it.

    Abit were total dicks about giving me any help to diagnose and fix the problem, though. Don't know if any other company would have been better.

  13. Re:Clint Eastwood! on Firefox Faces Trademark Issues · · Score: 1
    You might want to look for the books "Firefox", "Firefox Down", and "Winterhawk", all by Craig Thomas and all featuring Mitchell Gant as the main character.

    His other books are good, too.

  14. Re:jeez..here we go again on Firefox Faces Trademark Issues · · Score: 1

    Or we could always try to generate good will towards both open source browers and open source operating systems and call it Mozillux.

  15. Re:Where's the outrage? on Apple Making a Spreadsheet? · · Score: 1
    Ok guys. Where are you folks who complained when microsoft sued to protect the generic "windows" word?

    That was objectionable because of possible confusion (try explaining X-windows versus Windows XP to grannie).

    This Sesame Street level name (I can see the logo now, done in "crayon" font) is only going to inspire laughter.

  16. Re:Correct, but your phrasing needs a touch-up. :) on Hackers, Meet Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I always figured that was just the (under) alloted size of the database and trying to enter the rest of them just caused buffer overflows. :-)

  17. Re:Hmm on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 1
    "...it's probably the one that most closely mirrors the comics."

    Which comics? None of the costumes from the cheesy '40s serial to that bad joke of a television show on ABC in the mid '60s through the current day movies are like the ones from the late '50s and the early '60s Batman and Detective Comics.

    I think Bob Kane was still in charge creatively back then. I'd really like to see a movie based on his vision of Batman.

  18. Re:Will there be more episodes? on Sci-Fi Channel Picks Up Firefly · · Score: 1

    You wanted more episodes of Earth 2? As opposed to the use of a time machine to go back and prevent some of them from having ever been made in the first place? :-)

  19. Re:naturally... on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a long boring is what their partners desire. :-)

  20. Re:Why do people feel the need to hide porn? on Making Small Steps Against Censorship · · Score: 1

    So now you're expecting reasonable idiots? :-)

  21. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    I gave up expecting credibility from Slashdot back around October of '98 (right about the same time as the Halloween Papers came out) when they posted a phony story about JWZ being dead.

    He was not amused.

  22. Re:Why do people feel the need to hide porn? on Making Small Steps Against Censorship · · Score: 1

    Well, I never said that they weren't idiots, just that they are in charge.

  23. Re:Why do people feel the need to hide porn? on Making Small Steps Against Censorship · · Score: 1
    " Since when is downloading a piece of work I uploaded to my ISP's web hosting misusing my school's resources?"

    When whoever runs your high school's system decides that it is. That's the way of the world.

  24. Canada Loses North Pole on Canada Loses North Pole · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Canada Loses North Pole"

    Why does everyone always blame Canada?

    Maybe they didn't lose it, maybe it was stolen, maybe it snuck off on it's own, maybe it's just on summer vacation.

  25. Re:Don't Listen To Stann Lee!... on Creating Characters With Stan Lee · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Stan Lee had a publisher named Stann Lee?