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  1. Re:Nothing new here on Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender Registry · · Score: 1
    Those people are punished for the rest of their lives..
    Good, and I hope in prison they become the bitch of the biggest, blackest, hardass mofo in the block. They deserve to be punished forever. Do you know what being molested/raped actually DOES to a person? It really fucks with their ability to have a strong committed relationship, they go so far as to sabotage good, loving relationships, because of what these piles of shit did to them in the past. And that's just scratching the surface.

    I hope people throw rocks at these guys for the rest of their lives. They deserve no peace, they deserve no rest; their victims certainly won't get that.
  2. Re:Lower prices on Game Piracy Results in Lower Prices? · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing open-source with "hobby". Open-source software doesn't necessarily mean non-commercial. It just means that, as an end-user, you have the right to view the source code.

  3. Double-edged sword. on Track People Using Their Mobile Phones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obviously, this is good if you have a cell phone and are being tried for a crime that you did not commit, it's just a simple matter of proving where you were at XX:XX:XX on XXX the XX of XXXXXXXX. However, if someone steals your phone, then plants it on a perpetrator, then sneakily gives it back, you've got some explaining to do.

  4. Re:Then never complain... on Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's my point. I hate how sarcasm can't really be transmitted electronically... :) I'm not gullible enough to fall for any "leading down the primrose path" they try to set up. If they tax me, I take. I'll download everything available, just to prove a point. Once I have it all, they can stop taxing me.

  5. Re:Then never complain... on Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage · · Score: 1

    You have a valid point, and one that I agree with. I don't know how to fix the problem. I was just addressing the greddy monopolistic bullshit that I know is going to happen (further restrictions on downloading music, while taxing because of "pirates").

  6. Then never complain... on Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when your stuff gets downloaded. If you're gonna tax everyone, then you can't complain when they take what they paid for.

  7. Re:Vote with your $$ on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    Anecdotal evidence is by no means emperical.

  8. Re:No Master/Slave? on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? A word should not offend, it's the context and the spirit of the statement. I call everything a nigger, and I mean EVERYTHING. Hell, I even use it as a unit of measurement (one 80lb. brick = 1 Nigger, try building a 500N brick wall sometime). Doesn't mean I prejudge black people. It's just a word, and it gets a point across effectively.

    Anyhow, if a boss called me a nigger in passing, and he was comfortable enough with me to call me that, that would be pretty cool. Unless it was mean spirited, but then that's a different ballgame all together.

  9. COME ON! on WVG : The New Scalable Vector Graphics · · Score: 1

    Every time I turn around, MS adds its own bullshit to something else. If you want to play MS, fucking WORK WITH THE TEAM THAT INVENTED IT! I'm sure the W3C would be more than happy to hear MS's ideas on what should be included. Why not be part of a wold wide standardization? Haven't years of making shitty products taught you anything?!?

  10. Re:Reduce Power? on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 1

    It's not that they produce a smaller die, they just jam more transistors on to it. Heat dissipation will be the same, heatsinks and fans (or water, or peltier, liquid nitrogen, etc...)

  11. Re:Reduce Power? on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's all sorts of problems when you get that small and fast. EMF interference, gate jumping, electron migration. The thing basically is a small radio transmitter, and starts causing itself problems just by running so fast. They need to really start designing more intelligently, unlike (as a previous poster stated) "ramping it up".

  12. Re:Yeah but... on Mobile Phone for the Blind · · Score: 1

    I did, and I was commenting on how it SOUNDS, not its IMPLEMENTATION.

  13. Yeah but... on Mobile Phone for the Blind · · Score: 1

    ...does it sound like Stephen Hawking? If so, I may have to ask Santa for a new phone for christmas...

  14. Re:TRS-80 Z-80 chip far superior to the Apple 6502 on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 1

    Nintendo paid the company who paid royalties to Zilog. That's the only way Zilog lasted until now, was in court.

  15. Re:TRS-80 Z-80 chip far superior to the Apple 6502 on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 1

    And a Z80 for its sound CPU. I think it used two actually.

  16. Re:TRS-80 Z-80 chip far superior to the Apple 6502 on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    He was probably thinking of a different chip. The Z80, in it's day, was a very good processor, and the Z8000 was just as good. Zilog just suffered from bad marketing. But they still managed to sue their way to the mid to late 90's when companies started using the Z80 again (Texas Instruments calculators and Sega Genesis, just to name two).

  17. Good... on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    It's Darwinism, just in modern day. That fucking piece of shit is gonna stay behind bars for being retarded, hopefully the inmates rape him in half. I can't stand child pornographers, fucking wastes.

  18. Assassination? on RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old · · Score: 1, Troll

    What ever happened to a good ol' shooting? What, does nobody has the conviction to kill a piece of shit any more? If someone tried to sue me for $800,000, they would die, jail term or not.

  19. Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard. on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1

    I've been saying for a while America needs to return to a more isolationist policy. It does us no good to help those who hate us.

  20. Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard. on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1

    I agree with everyhting you say. I was just stating that things need to be changed before something radically bad happens...

  21. Re:Surprised?? on Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    They don't need a warrant to search your car, unless it's an RV (designated by the plates), so why would they need a warrant to evesdrop on you?

  22. Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard. on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1

    You can't leave if you can't pay. I've personally tried it; it's rare to see someone with no money actually succeed in leaving their area, and if they do, it's definitely because of a form of handout. If you have no education and no skills, you won't get far, it should be the governments' job to provide these to the people. FAFSA is nice, but if someone doesn't even have a secondary education, they won't make it past their first midterm, even if they get accepted. Chicago has been doing this project where they are renovating the south side areas, and it's working pretty well. There's still some places you don't want to go, but they are shrinking. It's all because of legislature and infrastructure, not by the people suddenly moving to a better place.

  23. Re:No, it won't. on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Ok, I concede.

    By the time we would bring that material here, the earth would probably be gone anyhow. I guess I tooted the wrong horn. But hey, at least I learned something. ;)

  24. Re:What Americans Deserve on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1

    How about everyone having the right to live and work? That's not at all arbitrary, and solves a big problem in our society.

  25. Re:FACT 1: Your job is not hard. on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1

    And that will end up failing, if not by internal forces (just being a bad economy), then by external ones (domestic labor says it has had enough). Illegal immigration is a good, valid point, they do work for practically nothing. And I have no good counter-argument as to how it will end, aside from predicting there will be a world government someday, and there won't BE any immigration any more. Perhaps the companies that have made it "big" in the United States owe it some allegience? I doubt any of these companies could perform so well in Mexico, for example. Management needs to get off its high horse and realize that the people who make the company work are the people who they pay the least. If they all left, the company would cease to exist.

    A hypothetical situation, what happens when Pedro takes all the jobs? Then what? Do we all starve? No, I think not. I'm pretty sure certain "richer" people would die long before that happened. There's always a balance, it's just we're usually in the middle of finding it so we can't see what the balance is.