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  1. Principal owes public apology on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 1

    Schools seem hell-bent on denying kids due process... at least in this case they were exposed. Sounds like he's got a big payday coming!

  2. of course D of VA didn't provide data on Uncle Sam Earns C-minus Grade for PC Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    They didn't have any data, since all of it was stolen last year! DOH!

  3. hypocrites R us on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I bet there are 100 kids at his school, whose actual myspace pages are being "bullied", and yet he wants to put all this effort into stopping a fake page about himself. Get a grip, and help the student victims of harassment!

  4. Re:this is all well and nice but on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forget China, I'd like to see the USA start "investing more interest in human rights, democratic ideals, freedom of speech, free press, no censorship, political pluralism, open competition of ideas and on and on and on!"

  5. Re:Simple solution on Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you have to rotate the links around so that each candidate gets "fair exposure"? I thought we had laws like that in the USA also, so that one candidate couldn't use political influence to get all the TV commercial airtime, etc.

  6. RIAA sensing the end? on Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds · · Score: 1

    This seems so desperate... How scared must the recording industry be of losing profit if they are willing to slap schools in such a roundabout way? They must be aware that an election year is coming, and all their bill-passing supporters may be on the way out, so they're trying to sucker-punch us all one last time before they lose all ability to influence govt policy.

  7. Re:nothing you can do about this on Woman's House Robbed After Fake Craigslist Post · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The person who posted the fake ad should be convicted for the theft, and the people who took things should not -- if they give said stuff back."

    I believe that the people who took things are guilty of accepting stolen property, and the person who posted the fake ad is guilty of fraud.

  8. good for car parts, still lousy for complex stuff on The Modern Ease of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Something like a left-side car chassis part that you need based on a flip of a right-side piece, could be easy to copy. Since it's a smooth, uncomplicated, single-material object that has to be symmetrical to the other half of the car. Stuff like on Star Trek, i.e. cooked + prepared food, is still a LONG ways off.

  9. so you can distribute found copyrighted material? on RIAA Attacks Sites Participating in Its Own Campaign · · Score: 1

    So it should be legal to distribute copyrighted material how you see fit, so long as you didn't pay for it? WTF?

  10. Re:So how does this apply to my kind of movies? on The DV Rebel's Guide · · Score: 1

    Unless there are pickup lines in there that work on improving the beauty of the "beautiful girl" you cast, I suspect you'd better get really good at CGI boob effects!

  11. Re:Is absent mindedness something you can "cure" on Hardware Implants Mimic Brain Cells · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Having seen Alzheimer's in my family, I can tell you that anything that might cure that would be worth it for me. It is the most horrible tragedy to see someone lose a lifetime of memories, it is unthinkable until you see it for yourself how devastating it really is.

  12. Re:Advantage? on Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro · · Score: 1

    Tons of 3d/4d rendering software can use these things. We used Cinema4d in my rendering classes and on dual-cpu mac's, it was effectively twice as fast, and the display showed 2 render lines moving at once. It literally can divide the workload between all the chips.

  13. Re:If it has a fixed cost, it has a fixed limit on To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB · · Score: 1

    Why would they think that, when in the terms of the contract (from TFA) it states that the plan has specific limits? If it said in the plan that the usage was unlimited and then they cut you off, then you have a serious case.

  14. If it has a fixed cost, it has a fixed limit on To Verizon, "Unlimited" Means 5 GB · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sure, "unlimited" is misleading, but the fact that the cost per month is fixed should clue everyone in that the amount of bandwidth is also fixed. Could you really expect to stream down the maximum amount of traffic possible 24/7 and pay the same as checking email once per day? If the price reflected a 24/7 maximum throughput data usage, it would probably cost 2-3 times as much, and then even more if everyone was saturating their connection simultaneously 24/7.

  15. 25000 hp sustained is a lot on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    25,000 hp sustained is a ton! I wonder how they keep it from melting. Top fuel drag cars are getting in the neighborhood of 8000 hp now, but the engines start to melt after just a few seconds. The transmission actually welds itself together and has to be "rebuilt" after every 1/4-mile run. However, this train probably doesn't do a 1/4 mile in 4.4 seconds.

  16. Re:Commodore C64 on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    The C64 is in 0th place at the top. Every geek of a certain age has at least a few fond memories of the C64!

  17. do aftermarket mods qualify? on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    When I was at college, the car research students had a modified 96 Chevy Lumina that did 80 mpg. That's a big, safe car, and 80 mpg is way better than what a new Prius can do. You lose some acceleration, but at cruising speed it burns almost no gas whatsoever. Would an aftermarket modification to an existing car like this qualify, or does it have to be a from-scratch car?

  18. Awesome on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    Does it work on blood supplies like what the Red Cross maintains? A lot more people could donate and make a quick buck.

  19. Where do you want to go today? on MS Plans Emergency Update to Fix .ANI Bug · · Score: 4, Funny

    To Windows Update, same as every day!

  20. This doesn't include all cursors... on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that those "free animated george bush cursors" ads that pop-up when I'm surfing around are safe from this, right?

  21. Re:You have *got* to be kidding me. on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 1

    The saying is: "the rich get richer and the poor get children". It implies that society's classes are morally as well as financially disparate, which shows how old an argument this really is!

    Hard work may not yield success, but slacking off DEFINITELY won't yield success. I'll take the chance and continue to work, it's paid off for me so far.

  22. fire the TOP 8% or bottom 8%? on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 1

    Generally, one wants to fire the BOTTOM 8%, not the top performers! I would lay off the bottom 8% and not hire anyone. If you've ever been to circuit city, there's at least 8% of the workforce there that could really just stay home, and it would honestly make shopping there easier (re: family guy parody episode).

  23. and in the spirit of computer security... on Secure Programming Exams Launched · · Score: 4, Funny

    can we expect to see the answer keys posted to about 100 .ru sites in a week?

  24. Re:beats using people on Cisco Develops Mobile Robots for Wireless Nets · · Score: 1

    IIRC, he said he ran out there for the comm's, and then ran back as in "away from the line of fire"!

  25. beats using people on Cisco Develops Mobile Robots for Wireless Nets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My grandfather was in WWII, and he had to run phone lines/communications out onto the battlefield and back... using a robot is way less life-threatening!