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  1. Re:Everyone's going to accuse on RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    What work relationship?

    I have no idea who cheeks5965 is, other than a fellow slashdotter, who may or may not be a "fellow".

  2. Re:Law should be like code. Not up for interpretat on NYTimes Sues US Gov't To Know How It Interprets the PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    Except that it will mean something else tomorrow, if they need for it to.

  3. Re:Everyone's going to accuse on RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Maybe they meant the joys of being a woman. : - )

  4. Re:I can confirm this on Behind the Scenes: How Conflict Photographs Come To Be · · Score: 1

    Iwo Jima flag raising or Times Square kiss?

  5. Re:dd on Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS? · · Score: 1

    dd

    Better yet, dd_rescue so that you can use the -v option and see what's going on.

  6. Re:testdisk on Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS? · · Score: 1

    testdisk is an excellent program if you need done what it does.

    It's on the PartedMagic live cd, along with other useful stuff.

    I'm not sure if it's the right program for what the OP wants to do, but then again, I'm not entirely sure exactly what it is that he wants to do.

  7. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Are you really going to blame GE for, essentially, following the rules?

    It think it's more GE, and the others, buying the rules, and the rulemakers, that's stuck in their craw.

  8. Re:PACER on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    Collections of facts can be copywritten, but when you're writing ad copy the last thing you want to do is clutter it up with facts.

  9. Re:This burned me some years ago on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    You put it on the floor beside your computer. Was the computer running at the time?

  10. Re:junk science on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    While the drive was reading and writing?

  11. Re:Trust the Free Market on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    If their television has a CRT, then it works by using a changing magnetic field to move the electron beam around the screen, regardless of whether it's fed by an NTSC or ATSC tuner, and a strong enough nearby magnetic field can interfere with that.

    They weren't looking at the RF, they were looking at their screen. Distortion, to a layperson, can mean a mis-shapen picture on the screen.

  12. Has Netcraft confirmed it yet? on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Well, somebody had to ask.

    Interesting that none of the comments so far mention Woz.

  13. Re:why dont you beat them up ? on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    I said one might argue.

    I never said anything about winning the argument. : - )

  14. Re:What, no Starbucks? on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 1

    And both of those outfits can afford to fight back in court.

    The whole point here is to go after places with enough money to settle out of court to avoid the greater expense of going to court, but not places with enough money to go to court.

  15. Re:Throw them out! on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    Actually that same Constitution very specifically defines treason, and this does not fit that definition.

    You don't get to have a cafeteria constitution, picking and choosing just the parts you like.

  16. Re:Buisness as usual on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    What evidence do you have to back up that claim. If it was not for the US involvement most of the world would be speaking German today. It is the US that the rest of the free world calls on when they get their ass in a sling.

    Soviet Russia lost 20 million people fighting Nazi Germany.

    I think they deserve more than a little of the credit for you and I not growing up as Hitler Youth members.

  17. Re:Constitutional hate speech on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    ...

    (I await the SA with bated breath)

    But what about the SI?

    I'll bet you're not expecting that!

  18. Re:why dont you beat them up ? on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    One might make an argument that the 10th Amendment

    "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

    puts the "right to revolt" into The Constitution.

    The catch, of course, is how to revolt without violating any of the laws that prohibit the kinds of activity and behavior that ordinarily are part of engaging in revolt.

    In reality,of course, the only people with a right to revolt are those whose revolution succeeds.

  19. Re:Welcome to Canada? on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    So, in your first example, is the third word an adjective or a verb?

  20. Re:Not surprised on Spock Gives Up the Con · · Score: 1

    Really, she absolutely nailed the voice.

  21. Re:Not surprised on Spock Gives Up the Con · · Score: 1

    There was a show in the '70s called "Little House On The Prairie" which starred Michael Landon, who played the youngest son on Bonanza back during the time when Star Trek (the original series) was on.

    The show with Walter Brennan, also during the '70s, 'cause in the '60s he was in "The Real McCoys", was "The Guns Of Will Sonnet" ("No brag, son, just facts.").

    Brennan had another show during the '70s called "Tycoon".

    He had a hit record in the '60s called "Old Rivers".

  22. Re:Makes sense actually on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    If you have a decent cable company, then it goes without saying that you have a choice other than Time-Warner.

  23. Re:Looks like an F-4 Phantom, not an F-86 Sabre on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    In the CNN video they show both planes and the other is an F-86.

  24. Re:Catching nutcases was always the goal on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    ...No sane person decides that cold-blooded mass murder (often of people only tangentially related to the source of their anger) is the best way to accomplish their goals...

    Wouldn't that depend on exactly what their goals are?

  25. Re:Sounds like what most people would want on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    ...If you don't like the service the cablecos are providing, or you think it's overpriced, you're free to get service from someone else...

    If you meant free to get a service other than cable from someone else, you should have said that instead.