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  1. Re:BZZT! ANNT! WRONG! on Warfare at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Right, good point because theres so many black holes in Iran and North Korea.

  2. Re:Would an AI be a permanent Juvenile? on AI Sues for Its Life in Mock Trial · · Score: 1

    I submit this article for your perusal: Flesh Eating Robots Want to Eat Your Flesh.

  3. Re:OT: good use for BitTorrent on Red Orchestra, UT2003 Mod, Released · · Score: 1

    Because if they said 'We threw it up on Kazaa' imagine how many fake versions would pop up with viruses in them. BitTorrent is different though.

  4. Re:The brother of your friend died commited a crim on Intuit Apologizes to Turbo Tax Customers · · Score: 1
    You're totally incorrect. I can be pilfering all sorts of shit, that doesn't change ANYTHING. Action was already carried successfully against Best Buy corporation. You would not have to prove that Ricky Coleman killed him on purpose, although his actions and statements verified by witnesses kind of prove that he did. If you negligently kill someone you're still responsible for their death even if they are in the process of committing fraud.

    You know nothing about the united states legal system and your lack of a sense of propriety amazes me. Your attitude reminds me of the Spartanburg county coroner who stated:

    "He would not have had the incident happen if he hadn't been conducting illegal activity inside the store," Burnett said, "It's almost like to me if a man is drunk and runs into a tree and tries to blame the person who planted the tree for causing his injuries." [Spartanburg Herald Journal, July 28, 1995]

    If you want to see some of what that great civil servant said, head over to here.

    Oh and by the way, in this legal system people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Mr. Fischer never was proven guilty because he was strangled to death outside the Best Buy by its employees before he could have a trial or even be arrested.

  5. Re:Best Buy? on Intuit Apologizes to Turbo Tax Customers · · Score: 1

    They also killed a friend of mine's brother.

  6. Re:Ion Propulsion on Ion Engine Propels Probe to Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where-ever it is you live I imagine our glorious country is not far from demonstrating quite plainly where it is we've spent the money that was once sent to NASA for the foolish exploration of space (we already discovered there is no oil there). We may not have space-craft built in the last twenty years but what we do have speaks for itself: GPS guided smart-bombs, and a lot of them!

    Don't worry, citizen, soon we'll liberate you too!

  7. Re:Can't be done. on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    You're incorrect! And not because of what the previous gentlemen mentioned. There can be a truly random number generator -- yourself. I have sentience, I have free will. Therefore here is a random number for you: 8.

  8. Re:SCO is committing seppuku on Is the SCO Lawsuit a Good Thing for Linux? · · Score: 1

    I'm not some japanese historian but isn't seppku considered an honorable way for a loser to end a battle/war/etc?

    To me it seems more like 'SCO is playing russian roullette with 5 chambers loaded and only one chamber empty'.

  9. Re:They always countersue on SCO May Countersue Red Hat, SuSE Joins The Fray · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is.

    while (myCompany.capital() > 1)
    {
    willsue = TRUE;
    }
    willsue = FALSE;

    return myCompany.chaptereleven();

  10. Who would pay USD$40,000 for... on Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some of Scotty's old clothes?? I mean, seriously, we all know that man has some glandular problems! I hope they atleast give it a thorough washing.

  11. Re:(OT) Google.. on MCI Accused of Long-Distance Call Accounting Fraud · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is not necessarily as off-topic as you might think.

    MCI defrauds other websites by pretending its long-distance calls are actually local calls.
    Slashdot defrauds other websites by pretending its someone else.

    Though to be honest, you could (last I checked) put slashdot in there and it would function -- but you could also put in 'ILOVEABIGPENIS' as a partner and it would show the article as well, so maybe that doesn't say anything afterall.

  12. Re:Nostalgia on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, with bullets.

  13. Haven't we heard this all before? on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I seem to recall a while back about the Urban Warrior System and all that nonsense that it was supposed to do and how every soldier would be using it by the new millenium. Frankly I don't expect something like this to be adopted for a long time. It adds another point of failure (`Fuck! My clothes have crashed!') requires maintenance, and replenishable energy of some sort ('Everyone, remember to recharge your helmets before the battle'.) Its redicilous, supposedly all soldiers will be networked and you will know the location of every soldier, and whether he is hurt, etc etc. We can do that now, slightly more laboriously (radios) perhaps but I think it gets the job done pretty well.

    This seems to be just your average pork barrel gee whiz military contracting.

  14. Re:Lesson on Searchking Loses Suit Against Google · · Score: 1, Funny

    I see someone read avian chaos's guide to karma whoring.

  15. Re:Conflict...Hmm on Office Depot: Windows XP Apps Must Be Microsoft-Approved · · Score: 1

    They will only sell Windows XP applications that carry the Deisgned for Windows XP certificate. This doesn't affect applications that are not Windows XP applications. Of course if you were to read the article you would of known that.

  16. Re:Won't even be honored; like $99 TV on Amazon Sells IPAQs for $10 · · Score: 1

    You are only allowed to call foul if a retailer breaks a contract with you. (For example, if you bought a TV for $99 at a store, they gave you the TV and then said 'Woops. Give us more money.' youre in no obligation to pay them.)

    However, with Amazon, the contract isn't established until you pay them and when your product is delivered. As they don't bill you until they ship your product they are under no obligation to take a huge loss here on an honest mistake.

    Plus it says so in their T&C.

  17. Re:doubt if it will make any real difference on U.S. May Reduce Non-Military GPS Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Thats why you have a guy who sits in the driver's seat of the tank and is like 'Woah, we better not drive through that marshland.'

  18. Re:Live� Gaming Hits Europe on EA, Eidos Have No Plans for Xbox Live · · Score: 1

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  19. Wait a second here..... on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Was anyone else wondering why the international space station was hax0ring my sendmail?

    And a hole in sendmail is not exactly ground breaking news, people.

  20. Re:Pay per view? on Examining Microsoft Update · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes it is, Mikeage. You can only read about three pages then it cuts out on you. Please do a little reading before you post... just try it, perhaps?

  21. Re:Not likely on Linux Xbox Project Seeks Microsoft Signature · · Score: 1

    Its funny that if you have the 17 USC that you seem to know dick about it. Namely that 17USC1201f does not exist, however 17 USC 120 (which only has (a) and (b)) applies to rights in architecture (for example the architect does not have the right to prevent the manufacture of pictures, drawings, etc of their works if its visible from publicly. Like the architect of the sears towers could not sue me to stop making a map of the sears tower available for free). There is no way this could possibly apply to an X-Box, even the lawyers you watch on TV wouldn't stretch something that far.

    17 USC 107 is notorious, it protects fair use for educational, research, news, criticism, etc. However, a particular factor in determining if something is infringement or fair use is, exactly quoted: "The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.". Now, I don't know about you but allowing the X-Box to play either pirated games or operating systems would probably have a poor effect on the market of the X-Box.

  22. Re:Virtual Boy on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    Excuse me if I'm unfamiliar with four dimmensional tetris. Is this a game god plays a lot?

  23. The article in question on GPS Jamming for $50 · · Score: 5, Informative
    It has of course been out for a few weeks.

    It is right here

    Love them phrack DNS'.

  24. Re:Mediaforce blows on Hollywood Muscles Aussie ISPs Over Movie Downloading · · Score: 1

    You speak of something like www.sharereactor.com perhaps?

  25. Re:From the article. . . . illegal? on Hollywood Muscles Aussie ISPs Over Movie Downloading · · Score: 2, Informative

    The media companies regularly have robots on the peer to peer networks with fake files and log attempts to download them. The robots also search for various movies/songs/etc and if found they try to download it. They dont actually download it, they just send the request so they can get the IP address, then drop the connection. This is very likely the information that they refer to.