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  1. Adverse Possession on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    And if you are somewhere you "shouldn't" for 7 years it's called "adverse possession" and you then own the place.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22adverse+possessi on

  2. Acceptable Use Policy on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    I can't find a copy of the Acceptable Use Policy anywhere. It's impossible to determine what laws these students have broken, if any, without it.

  3. Traffic Jam? on The Future of the Car · · Score: 1

    Once the buffer is there, the trailing car will go the same speed as the car in front of it or else the buffer will increase.

  4. Re:I just got one question on The Future of the Car · · Score: 1

    Somebody put jockm and Avery Brooks in a room together and don't let them out until they've got it all sorted, K?

  5. Re:Misleading Title on Scientists Creating Life From Scratch · · Score: 5, Funny

    A group of scientists decided that mankind had advanced far enough that they no longer needed God. So they drew straws, and the loser went to find God. When he found Him, he dithered a bit, made some small talk about the weather, and finally came out with it.
    "OK, look God," he said, "We've mastered space exploration, we can cure any disease, we can talk instantaneously with people around the world, we can clone human beings; basically, we don't need you any more."
    God listened patiently. Finally He spoke.
    "Tell you what," He said. "We'll settle this with a man-making contest. Each of us will make a man, and the first one to finish wins."
    "Sure," said the man, who headed off to consult with his colleagues.
    "Wait a minute," called God.
    The man turned.
    "We're going to do this the real way; the way I did it in the beginning."
    "No problem," responds the man, bending down to grab a handful of clay.
    "No, no, no," says God. "You get your own dirt."

  6. Re:Mischaracterization on Warren Spector on Licensing · · Score: 1

    We were talking about Mattlage, not Bush.

  7. The way I see it. on Free WiFi Trend Continues · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think he means that a person is a "right-wing nutjob" if they think pointing out that "tax funded" and "free" are not exactly the same thing is "insightful" as opposed to something most well informed people aready know. It is a trait of extremists of all walks fo life to think that the reason other people disagree with them is that they lack the "insight" of some bit of trivia or another.

  8. Re:New Record on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With Karma capped at 50 points, who really needs more Karma. Sometimes I get modded down, but my Karma never deviates from Excellent, because I post quality material most of the time, or at least material not bad enough to get modded down :)

  9. Step by step show on Wi-Fi Times Sixteen · · Score: 1

    Cody: You pay me $1000 a month. I live in my van in your driveway, eat your food, and at the end of the month I have $1000.

  10. Re:I love the math they did to come up with this.. on Wi-Fi Times Sixteen · · Score: 1

    I frequently put periods outside quotation marks on purpose, because I think that if the period isn't part of the quote (as in the quote is a complete sentence)it doesn't belong in the quotes. I know it isn't accepted officially but in order for something to be accepted officially, people have to already be using it that way.

  11. Network security is incredibly messed up. on Wi-Fi Times Sixteen · · Score: 1

    Network Security should be achieved by accounts, the entire key of which should be encrypted.

  12. Mezzerow loves company on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22mezzerow+loves+c ompany Not earlier apparently but still pretty early.

  13. When those claims are asserted... on Warren Spector on Licensing · · Score: 1

    there will be full employment. It's not completely clear which scenario will bear out.

  14. Mischaracterization on Warren Spector on Licensing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You make it sound as if he cares if they are liberal or conservative. It makes sense to me that he just doesn't like uninvited people hanging around his property.

  15. "poor" people... on Warren Spector on Licensing · · Score: 1

    most sensible "poor" people buy $30 shoes and don't go in for sports-logo jackets.

  16. Re:New versioning... on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    They have certain milestones for 1.1 and certain milestones for 1.5. They are completing many milestines for 1.5 so that is what the release is going to be.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap-1. 0.html
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.ht ml
    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Home_Page

  17. Re:Quintuple Core! on Intel Plans to Overhaul Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, we didn't know you guys were still around! Now are you the duck eating guy, or the guy without much of an appetite?

  18. Simple to me... on Microsoft's Bold Patent Move · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about this then?

    Marezy doats and dozey dotes an' liddle lamsy divey, a kiddly divey doo wooden shoe!
    owa tagu siam.

    These seem pretty simple to me. Whetehr or not it is simple and easy to read is subject to interpretation and opinion.

  19. Re:Noooooo! on Best Language for Beginner Programmers? · · Score: 1

    The first problem I encountered switching from QB to C++ was that all variables are passed by reference by default in QB, while in C++ all variables are passed by value by defaut and by reference & is rarely used. QB's structures for keeping track of array and string sizes aren't that hard to expose (see Ethan Winer's book), with C++ that doesn't seem to come up. What happens to string pointers when you want to expand a string in C++, array pointers?

  20. Know that already on The Wikification of Games · · Score: 1

    Been fully explored in the .hack series.

  21. Re:Still works in warez windows xp too on Linux Passes the Microsoft WGA Test · · Score: 1

    There's also a 64567 byte zipfile available on p2p that will make just about any nonverified Windows XP appear genuine.

  22. Just ignore the link in the slashdot item on Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The important information is simply the url http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uima/

  23. Funny, I have almost the opposite reaction. on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1

    How do they know their "detectors" are detecting what they think they are detecting. Just because a the screen deflects into a wave pattern doesn't mean a wave hit it.

  24. Not a near certainty. on FCC Reclassifies DSL, Drops Common Carrier Rules · · Score: 1

    In Milan, OH, where I am currently there is cable but not DSL.

  25. Re:Victim's story on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    I have done no such thing. Therefore, it is you who are incapable of logic.