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  1. Re:Slow down there cowboys... on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    Then what can you do to avoid hate speech laws? Popular speech doesn't need protection. Any serious attempt at freedom of speech MUST protect unpopular speech, or it doesn't protect anything.

  2. My bad on U.S. To Impose Spyware Control Laws · · Score: 1

    That was suppose to say (!windows)

    I guess that's what the preview button is for. Duh.

  3. Re:I wonder which 28 are on my ? on U.S. To Impose Spyware Control Laws · · Score: 1

    Oh wait... NONE!

  4. Re:Re-read TFAs on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally, I'd trust a newspaper over blatant assertions by an activist site any day.

    What exactly makes you think that they're any different?
    The guy is in jail. Don't think for a second that a local paper is going to give him a fair shake. The local reporters need police goodwill to get the scoops from local cops. What the police do is an awfuly big part of local news.

  5. Re:10.2.8 kernel panic? on ... And the Hits Just Keep On Coming · · Score: 1

    I agree. Symantec's stuff is crap. I use NAV because I get it free from the university, and they say that I have to have some form of anti-virus software.

    Free, but maybe not worth it. It's started causing problems so I may look at coughing up some money for something sucks less.

    Virex,you said?

  6. Re:Antivirus software? Why? on ... And the Hits Just Keep On Coming · · Score: 1

    The university requires it.
    I hardly ever use it. Just scans, and I never found anything.

    I actually had auto-protect turned off before updating NAV, but I guess the update turned it back on.

  7. Re:10.2.8 kernel panic? on ... And the Hits Just Keep On Coming · · Score: 5, Informative

    I started getting kernel panics about this time, but I traced the problem to the also-recently-updated Norton Anti-Virus auto-protect. After I disabled that ( using safe boot ) I had no more problems.

  8. Re:Escape from LA? NOOOOOOOOOO! on The 'Perfect Space Storm' Of 1859 · · Score: 1

    Watch Battlefield Earth.
    Then you won't feel so bad about it.

  9. END?? on Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Is this the end of the road for CD copy protection?" The industry is stupid, greedy and desperate. I'm going with 'no'.

  10. Re:load times on Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks · · Score: 1

    Like Windows?

  11. Re:Simply wrong on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    They're probably just running out of names. The Arleigh Burke (DDG-51, a guided missile destroyer) was put to sea while the retired Adm. Burke was still alive. Too many specialized ship types uses up the good names quickly.

  12. Re:Yup, pretty much like I thought on What Math Actually Sounds Like · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there was any justice in the afterlife, the would be listening to boy bands.

  13. Re:One small problem... on Electric Armor · · Score: 1

    High explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds use this, it's called the Monroe (sp?) effect. There are other types of AP weapons however. Sabot rounds are small , fast moving 'darts' composed of hard and dense material (used to be depleted uranium, but they changed). These are better at penetrating heat dispersing laminate armor used on modern tanks, because they are pure kenetic kill and don't rely on heat or explosives.

  14. True! on Using Your Computer to Repel Pests · · Score: 1

    Get your computer to play the BeeGees and you'll repel almost anything