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  1. Re:What? on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    Evidently, not, I don't recall the matrix movies being available for download over a week before release to theatres. Or Nemo, or Gigli

  2. Re:The Solution is Obvious on E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, just because the polls "close" doesn't mean voting stops.. IIRC several people have mentioned a huge rush showing up 5 minutes before the polls "close" SO, if it takes till nov 4, once you sign in, you get to vote.

  3. Re:Voter Cluefulness Test Required on Judge Says Ohio Must Allow Provisional Ballots · · Score: 1

    Change taking advantage to accepting, and I might agree. Only might, but taking advantage has too much baggage. Like the mafia don in chicago, making 45k a month on welfare fraud.

  4. Re:Great! more ads on More on Neuroscience and Marketing · · Score: 1

    For delivery ~December 14.

  5. Re:"newbie" player compared to some of you... on 30 Years Of Dungeons And Dragons · · Score: 1

    A proper DM has at least 2 DM manuals... 1 and 3, 2 and 3, 1 and 3.5, etc. That way you have the freedom to mix, match and make up things as you go along.

  6. Re:Vote! on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1

    If you can afford a house and life savings, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR NOT HAVING INSURANCE

    And if you can't afford a house or life savings, you get the new lungs anyway.

  7. Re:The real hidden swing state on The Hidden Swing State? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obviously, fat, dumb, happy, lazy, ignorant, or just don't care anymore.

  8. Re:Why are Nader voters and his party so cluess? on The Hidden Swing State? · · Score: 1

    Except scarier. I would vote green before Constitution, For the record I voted Badnarik, I am a Christian and a libertarian, were I voting in a swing state I would vote bush, but we need a return to smaller government, and this year that vote is Badnarik.

  9. Re:Hm on Enter the Relativity Challenge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Explain females to ANYONE in 4 minutes, and I'll build you a bridge from san diego, california to Honolulu Hawaii.

  10. Great! more ads on More on Neuroscience and Marketing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now along with Radio guy(who advertises serious stuff) Radio Female( who pushes the sensitivity button) TV baby( who pushes the happy button) we have research into the buy button that allegedly will induce me to buy something before I even see it, sort of like the LotR Trilogy box platinum extended boxed set with gondor I ordered today.

  11. Re:So what. on I Love Bees Coming to an End · · Score: 1

    Exactly, SO let's break this down

    alternate reality game= cryptic puzzle designed to overlap reality
    Radio drama=audio book in 30 second snippets
    Microsoft=Microsoft
    Halo2= Sequel to Halo 1
    Random payphones=identified by GPS co-ordinates derived from the cryptic puzzle

  12. Re:So what. on I Love Bees Coming to an End · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough the wired article explained everything, so while the site may be confusing, the FA is not so, RTFA.

    Disclaimer: I know this is slashdot and Ring TFA is against the rules.

  13. Re:exaust on Jet Engine on a Chip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are aware that the new generation of diesels don't stink, and some produce cleaner output than input. Also, with biodiesel, you can select you smell, from peanut oil based diesel to burger grease based diesel.

  14. Re:Vote! on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1

    You are right, with a universal, government-run health care system,EVERYONE IS LEFT BEHIND

    I'll take our system and you can stop telling us how superiour you are, because you pay too much for too little.

  15. Re:Vote! on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1
    I'll gladly do that when you yankes stop telling us how we should run our country (and other countries in the world, too). Meanwhile, you can carry-on displaying your typical yankee ignorance to the delight of us, enlightened non-yankee slashdot readers.
    Pot, meet kettle

    Seriously, no-one has suggested that the Canadians de-socialize their medicine, You are the one preaching that social medicine is the Holy Grail, and frothing when the suggestion is made, that private/charity medical produces a higher average result.
  16. Re:Vote! on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1

    In most large cities in the US, you can do exactly the same thing. I knew of 3 FREE clinics within 5 minutes of my apartment, one within 30 seconds. Service was slow, but adequate, just like in Canada. Routine appts might take a month, for something like tonsils that someone paying for insurance even an HMO, would get within less than a week.

  17. Re:WIR sind das Volk -- WE are the October surpris on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1

    Fascism has NOTHING to do with corporations and everything to do with autocratic abuse of authority and power.

    Mussolini coined the term which derives from a group of sticks originally used by the Roman emperors to symbolize their power.

  18. EQ2 on MMO Gaming Expansions Released, Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also announced that there will be expansions, as soon as it gets out of beta testing.

  19. P2P VOIP on VoIP Gets a New P2P Routing Protocol (DUNDi) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, Now I can get telemarketers trying to enlarge my bank software in nigeria, and viruses on my VOIP line and in my e-mail

  20. Re:That's orange county. on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you agree, the war wasn't about money or oil?

  21. Re:Virii??? on MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms · · Score: 1

    virii dates back almost 20 years and was coined as psuedo-latin in order to easily distinguish between computer virii and biological viruses, in the plural. It isn't an attempt at sophistication merely clarity. Some use it, some don't, some mock. Had it caught on, it would have simplified the language we use.

  22. Re:I thought we voted Nov 2nd? on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 1

    Actually, the electors vote some time in december IIRC.

  23. Re:The right to vote is a fundamental human right. on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 1

    You are right, and incredibly wrong.

    Having grown up exposed to "street" culture, I feel qualified to say that it appears to be a cultural problem. It is believed that since "the man" is out to get us, the only way to get out, is to "make it big" ie music or sports. Teachers, peers, parents and the NAACP tell us that we can't get into college on our own, we need a leg up, and thusly the only way to get out is entertainment or sports. SO those who can't do either turn either deliberately or incidentally to crime.

    Compare pop cultural references, movies,tv, etc. "Small town" "white" football movies show the team wanting to get out of their small town by playing football, why? because its their shot at affording college and getting a degree.

    Compare "ghetto" "black" football movies. same theme, getting out, why/how? Well football players make the big bucks and if I make it big, I can get out and not come back...

    The problem is, there are only ~5000 athletes nationwide making the big bucks, and another ~500 making it big in entertainment where the number of college graduates "getting out and doing something for themselves" is several orders of magnitude higher.

    Something needs to be done to change the culture, I think "No child left behind" is a START, but we need more. Bill Cosby is doing a good thing, and we need more successfull community leaders to do the same.

  24. Re:The right to vote is a fundamental human right. on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, That is how it works in Florida YOu must apply for return of your voting "rights" that you resigned when you committed a felony, Sort of like a targetted literacy test.

  25. Re:Holy Freaking Crap! on Computer Problems Already Affecting Florida Voters · · Score: 1

    Well, if you design the car to go fast, who cares how it stops... :) I mean just run it till it quits right...