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  1. Re:How does this violate the 4th? on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    A subpoena means you have to show up to a court date or provide the authorities with some information. A warrant means they are after you for sure.

  2. Re:Nice, now why on Verizon Speeds Up FiOS To 150Mbps · · Score: 1

    dedicated

    sunset

  3. Re:Nice, now why on Verizon Speeds Up FiOS To 150Mbps · · Score: 1

    We pay $100 a month for 100meg down an 10 up. It's a fiber connection.

  4. Re:IPAD vs Laptop on An Astronaut's View of Space Station Tech · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they can afford that.

  5. Re:IPAD vs Laptop on An Astronaut's View of Space Station Tech · · Score: 1

    Yeah things get kinda all shook up going up in a rocket in space. NASA has a tester for this. So if you put the iPAD on it and it still works then it's space worthy I guess. I wonder if an iPhone would work?

  6. Re:Requisite on Pluto Might Be Bigger Than Eris · · Score: 1

    Bluto Blutarski was bigger than that.

  7. Re:Daylight Savings Change on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 1

    That's the dumbest explanation I have ever heard of. It looked to me like a 787 with engine trouble.

  8. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    I think it only really became useful was when Adobe came out with their fonts and then Microsoft had TTF's. It would have died if not for that.

  9. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    3.1 was much better.

  10. Re:This explains the political process on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    I didn't think they put close door buttons on there. Never used any of that stuff. Don't you need some kind of control study to know for sure?

  11. Re:First Henge on All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England · · Score: 1

    nyuk nyuk nyuk.

  12. Re:$1000 a PC? on Generic PCs For Corporate Use? · · Score: 1

    I did this for 4 machines we just could get from Dell. 7 years later and it all still works except for some of the displays that are just now going bad. Saved 1/2, but on 1000 machines the answer is NO don't do it. A small business with a few machines is a maybe.

  13. Re:The problem with wifi-only iPad on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 1

    http://www.oldvaloghomes.com/

    I bet it can't load the above page either.

  14. Re:11% for Chrome seems absurdly high on Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50% · · Score: 1

    Some use Opera by choice. Just think about all those Blackberries out there.

  15. Or.... on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    When someone is put on double secret probation.

  16. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    Why not let the police record what you and them say and do to protect both parties? I'm not saying all of the time but you know when they make a traffic stop or an arrest of some sort. Why the defendant can't record what the police says to him seems kinda odd that they would even care if they were doing what was right.

    So let me get this straight, they want to be able to know every move we make but they are trying to hide what they do. Not good.

  17. Squish? on James Cameron Commissions Submarine To Visit Challenger Deep · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid that's what happen to anything transparent.

  18. Re:This is the universal hack. on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    You forgot the 8 channel audio bandwidth.

  19. Re:Weve seen that argument before on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    --Wow. That's some dramatic prose in defense of taking for free what others who paid to produce.--

    The problem with your line of thinking is that someone who is long since dead has works where the money goes to some company forever. Copyright was supposed to protect works for a limited amount until Disney asked the government to help them out since if Disney failed because Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain it would cause the next Great Depression or something.

    I don't have anything against making money and being rich but I'm real tired of them getting special treatment anytime they are not going to make as much money. This doesn't apply to small business owners or the semi-rich.

    Your right about one thing though, I wouldn't spend one penny on Blue Ray. If I can't copy it I'm not going to buy something where one tiny scratch renders it useless AND I can't do what I want with it but apparently people like you feel entitlement. You want to be paid many times for producing one thing that is of no practical use whatsoever. It's just entertainment. Now the US builds nothing useful. All of that is outsourced thanks to people like yourself. That's OK because you are next. Entertainment and banking can and will be outsourced too.

    Now I have not got anything against someone writing a book and making money off of it the rest of their lives but at some point it should go into the public domain.

    If you quit treating all of your customers like thieves you would make more money. WTF is wrong with coping a Disney movie and putting the original up and letting the kid have the copy to destroy in less than a week but to make me keep buying copies is just ridiculous? AND books are a little more substantial. Copy protection doesn't slow up pirates in China but pisses off customers. A business should treat a customer like gold or they sure wont have any.

  20. Re:Weve seen that argument before on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    --At least I for one when I have the chance to vote will vote for a person/party that wants laws to work in the same way I want it to.--

    Now where do you find even one person like that to vote for?

  21. Re:Can it meet safety standards? on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    We'll 3 wheeled vehicles are completely safe driving one if the suspension is designed correctly but if you hit something or something hits you, it is about as safe as a motorcycle that I also refuse to ride on the same road as cars and tractor trailers. It ain't if but when you will get in a wreck according to the odds.

  22. Re:Reaction time on Honda's Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asimo · · Score: 1

    I think with about 6 million dollars all of this should be faster, better, stronger, etc. You should at least be able to run 60mh, have the strength of an elephant, and best of all x-ray vision.

  23. Re:Can it meet safety standards? on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    One fix is carbon fiber but it does currently cost a lot.

  24. Re:Can it meet safety standards? on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    You can do that with 3 wheeled vehicles, but would you want to wreck in that?

  25. Re:Cognitive dissonance on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    It looks like they did that. No the hard part, safety testing.