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  1. Re:Same as always on Cameras Help Cops Catch a Killer · · Score: 1

    I have called the police to a domestic. So yes, they do respond to domestic disputes. I'm sure you could call your local police station and ask them.

  2. Re:Brilliant! on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    If you are otherwise heating the house, the added heat of incandescants reduce the heating load of the other heating system.

  3. Re:Great news! on Giant Ice Shelf Snaps · · Score: 1

    Yeah! and then when all the diesel fumes from the tugs increases global warming, well just go tow in a big cube of ice from a comet. And then successively bigger chunks of ice from comets as needed.

  4. Re:Henry Hudson should have waited on Giant Ice Shelf Snaps · · Score: 1

    No, in Normal units, it's about 2 560 000 square rods. The only other normal measurement of length is chains.

  5. Re:Adult oriented content on Piracy Outstripping Legal Video Sales? · · Score: 1

    hahahah, thats totally tits!

  6. Re:right... I'll buy that bridge... on Demo PS3 Units freeze on Purpose · · Score: 1

    if it were to load the whole card at once. I don't tink DVD loads a whole lot faster, but it is 4 times bigger, so it could take 4 minutes to load. Of course the consoles only have about 256Mb of RAM, so it would fill up much faster than this.

  7. Re:next up on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Even though it is Britain, only *some* of the civilians are revolting, and only some of them are truly disgusting.

  8. Re:next up on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    In which case you put on the imperial march, the rocky theme, or duel of the fates. Spice it up a little.

  9. Re:Just remove the 'Open'? on ESR's Desktop Linux 2008 Deadline · · Score: 1

    A) don't post while drunk, it makes you look stupid (not that there is anything wrong with that).
    B) don't post while stupid, it makes you look drunk (not that there is anything wrong with that).

  10. Re:Import... on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    Maybe your too lazy to read or write emails at this point.

  11. Re:hashcash on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think you understand the ratio of work between verifying and creating the collisions. The example given in the FAQ is a requirement of an OC12 to flood a reasonable email server with too many hashes to verify, and 2-3 seconds on cutting edge hardware to generate each hash. So your basically stemming the mail to the rate of a 2400 bps modem across the zombie networks. Sure it doesn't solve the problem, but it makes it that bit more expensive to send spam, locking more spammers out of the game.

  12. Re:Mandate on S Korea & China Mandate Common Chargers, Data Cables · · Score: 1

    Not sure whether your figures are averages for some particular place (where does Anonymous coward live anyway?), but right here in my house it's green power baby! Our quota of power is filled by solar, wind, hydro, and biomass generation. Although I'm planning to put solar panels on here when I can afford it to avoid transmission losses. I was also considering a wind generator, but I'm not sure how the neighbours would like it.

  13. Re:Bizarre. on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    Because you have a fair use right to use a portion of the song for parody, review or critique. So you might have to chop out the relevant part of the recording, and you need the recording to do that.

  14. Re:It sounds like "Thought Police" to me on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    Nah thats bullshit. If I link to every pirated mp3 in the universe, I'm not giving you permission to download them. (they might even be password protected). What I am doing is telling you where it is. This action may or may not be considered illegal, but it cannot be considered giving permission. If this was the case, me telling you where the local whore house is giving you permission to fuck. Or telling you where the local crack house is is giving you permission to do crack. Telling you where the nearest car is is giving you permission to steal it. I'm not giving permission for any of those things, just telling you where shit is at.

  15. Re:The really scary part of this ruling.... on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    For fucks sake, Triplej, a national radio network, has a free mp3 download on their site. They are all legal mp3s. The domain name only says (illegal)mp3s4free.net if your inclined to think that way!!! it could just as well be a public domain recordings archive. Heck when I think of archive.org, I think (free digital entertainment)archive.org, but I don't really think too much about the legality of it.

  16. Re:The really scary part of this ruling.... on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Australia: Britains New Zealand.

  17. Re:The really scary part of this ruling.... on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    The thing is, he didn't think he was failing all five points: 1. He wasn't providing the copyrighted material, only linking to it. (the same as me saying "google for 'britney spears +warez' and you'll get your album") 2. He wasn't providing access, the sites hosting the files were doing that. 3. I'd say this point holds under any interpretation I can think of. Although asking permission to link to a publically available link is unusual. 4. We don't have DMCA in Australia yet. I also don't believe one should be able to be asked to take down a link to an external site. 5. His plausable deniability was that he wasn't hosting any content. I could make a lot of bad analogies, but it all revolves around the thought in my mind, that the ISPs actually hosting the content should have been examined first. AFAIK the places actually hosting the content haven't heard a peep out of this. (I understand of course that the person running the web site may have been putting up the content also). It does worry me though, what if someone points me to a site where there is an .mp3, tells me it's their friends band and says I should link it from my blog to give them exposure. So I do, then I get thrown in jail for linking to copyrighted content..... OF course if I told them that was the case and they believed me, I could just say I'm an underground music promoter, so I link lots of bands to give them exposure....

  18. Re:Takes one to know one on Blue Security Reborn As Social Action Enabler · · Score: 1

    It's also not spam if you are required to hit send once for each message sent. (as opposed to clicking "load email list"->"send" once for >10,000 messages).

  19. Re:can't beat = join on Blue Security Reborn As Social Action Enabler · · Score: 1

    With once crucial difference. Each post/form submission/email alert, requires a user to enter their thoughts, and then select their options for transmission. It just automates the process of sending your comment more than one place. Like a search engine aggregator. This was the one big thing about blue security last time. They gave you a button saying "send SPAM complaint", but each user could only click it once. It just took the time out of writing to all the different spammers, so that a large enough amount of users could.

  20. Re:Besides, there's no need to kill them on BBC Uses Skype Links In Murder Hunt · · Score: 1

    Come now, That was a "Family Guy" reference, not flamebait. Of course the humour in Family guy borders on flamebait on occasion....

  21. Re:Sex workers? on BBC Uses Skype Links In Murder Hunt · · Score: 1

    Interesting since this ended up in a (supposedly) reputable Australian Newspaper (If my memory serves me right). Now, who to trust, snopes, or the newpaper. Although I have noticed a couple of "Direct from reuters news network" style cock ups in the papers.

  22. Re:Black Market on China Readies Royalty-Free DVD Format · · Score: 1

    Of course upon your return you could be fined or thrown in jail. w00t for the free market.

  23. Re:d00d!1! u r soo l33t!!! on A Press Junket To Redmond · · Score: 1

    "I'm sure Vista is wonderful. I'm sure XBox is great, too. A Microsoft person said so." Zing!! He really stuck it to the man there. What about the other couple million people who have spoken with their wallets? As far as vista is concerned, Dell/HP/whoever builds your PC is voting with your wallet, and probably won't sell you a PC without vista in due time.
  24. Re:Uh, huh... on The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide · · Score: 1

    Great here, I didn't get good analog reception, whacked in a digital DVB tuner, and I now get a perfect signal on all but one channel which doesn't broadcast digital in my area. The only time I've seen a picture frozen for an hour was when Channel Seven stuffed up and it got stuck on the one image on analog, but the digital was still fine.

  25. Re:Risk assessment is lowered, politics apart on UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate · · Score: 1

    But do you think it would be a good thing for the humans to become extinct allowing the bacteria to evolve into the more dominant life form?