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  1. Re:So? on TELUS Forcing Customers Off Unlimited Plans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    News flash: You don't have the right to cheap unlimited internet when you live out in the country.

    Maybe not, but Telus should at least be held to it through the end of the contract.

  2. Re:wrong mistake on Wizards of the Coast Declares Gleemax Site a Critical Failure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, I never heard of it until today. Sounds like they did a great job letting people know about it.

  3. Probably... on Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy? · · Score: 1

    After all, the IT security people know what it takes to make things secure, BUT they aren't allowed to make it secure.
    Why? Because that would make it too much of a hassle for the end users, or some bean counter says it'll cost too much.

  4. Hand-wringing at it's finest. on Violent Video Gaming Comes To the Wii · · Score: 1

    Oh no! A game I'd never buy will SPOIL my console!!!!!1

    Attention "decency" advocacy groups: People would listen to you if you actually made some sense.

  5. Re:The IOC cannot allow unofficial use of the VISA on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    That is official use. It's licenced. This line of thinking is a red herring.

  6. Re:Nobody should care about landfillable media on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"

    "For all intensive purposes" - Seriously? What exactly is an "intensive purpose" anyway?

    While you're looking up "intents and purposes" so as not to look like a moron, you might want to check out the definition of "begs the question" because you fucked that up, too.

    Your sig is just one big boat of fail.

    You fell for that troll of a sig.
    I felt like replying for just a moment. Then I realized, it's so bad, it has to be intentional.

  7. Re:more or less true, but . . . on Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist · · Score: 1

    Most states prohibit and regulate "dangerous weapons."

    All explosive weapons in this state are prohibited except specific types used in the normal course of work, demolition, and landscaping. Those that are allowed have heavily regulated uses, and use as a landmine/boobytrap, etc... are prohibited uses.

    Even legal weapons such as firearms are not allowed to be rigged in such a manner as to trigger them automatically or remotely.

    Also prohibited are all types of traps, pits, hidden weapons(spikes, etc.)... Basically anything that could harm someone or prevent their escape is illegal.

    Of course, I don't know if this means a sign would be a problem. :)

  8. Re:In other words on Google Caught On Private Property · · Score: 1

    Google's Streetview is not what I'd call incidental exposure. Their photo of your property IS their product. Without it, they have nothing.

    A property release is required when the property is a dominant subject of a published work. Since each view is substantially a single property, or pair of properties, property owners may actually have a case for removal or compensation.

  9. Re:3 Minutes boot-up time - No more questions on First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive · · Score: 2, Informative

    Blackberries take 3 minutes to boot up too, so it's certainly not a unique issue.

  10. Re:hmmm... on eBay Beats Tiffany In Net Trademark Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would the rightness of a particular decision be related simply to the persons involved?

  11. Re:You don't own your DNA on California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing · · Score: 1

    What's amusing is that they only had two DNA samples, from a 9-month old girl and a 48-year old man...but they submitted them 16 times to four separate sites with different profile information.

    The short of it is: the four sites in question seem to base their results off of your profile questions, not your DNA. In addition, they attempt to cross-sell supplements to you.


    Your DNA is only part of your risk factors for diseases. It will vary over time and change with your behavior and environment as well. I don't doubt they push the other products very hard, but that doesn't mean they didn't test the DNA, or that the DNA results were ignored. Though it would make me wonder if I got wildly different results from two places even with the same profile info.
  12. Doesn't matter what he thinks. on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 1

    The law doesn't allow you to keep your safe harbor if you don't take it down.
    You can put it back up after a counterclaim is made, but I don't expect the proper counterclaim to be filed.

  13. Re:still not buyin it on Penny Arcade Game Sees Record Breaking Numbers · · Score: 1

    Time spent playing per dollar is NOT the best way to measure a game's entertainment value.
    If it were, then RPGs with scrooge-like experience awards forcing hours mindless of grinding would be the way to go.

  14. Password protected PDF! on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Redacted using FBI security techniques will guarantee absolutely nobody will be able to see it.
    Make sure you send the password with the file.

  15. Re:Probably for the best.... on Beetle Naturally Builds Photonic Crystals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason elephants and whales endangered due to over-hunting is mainly because it is hard to raise them. Otherwise, we could have done the whole livestock thing with them too.
    Even professionals at zoos have a hard time getting reliable elephant birth rates. Just sustaining them is a challenge.
    Oh, and good luck with raising a blue whale in captivity.

  16. Re:awesome on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're going to give the crypto people a real headache as they try to figure out the concealed meaning in the formatting/wording of your jokes.

    Not only that, wait 'till someone who wants to move up the ladder starts making up bullshit! It's happened in state-run crime labs before.

  17. Re:"Customer Care" Response on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://connect.charter.com/landing/op1.html

    Can I choose to opt out of this enhanced service?
    Yes. As our valued customer, we want you to be in complete control of your online experience. If you wish to opt out of the enhanced service we are offering, you may do so at any time by visiting www.charter.com/onlineprivacy and following our easy to use opt-out feature. To opt out, it is necessary to install a standard opt-out cookie on your computer. If you delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or web browsers, you will need to opt out again.

    Nice! The link mentioned in the Opt-Out section isn't even a link, you have to copy/paste it!
    They've done every little stinking petty thing to make this just a little bit harder for people to opt out of it.

    And, it's a cookie! You use Firefox and opt out, ok(assuming you even keep cookies!). Your roommate/spouse/family uses another browser? Guess what, they have to opt out too. And if you regularly clean out cookies, you need to go back and re-opt out.

    No way to opt out at the subscriber level. Geez.
  18. Re:Watermarks on A Copyright Cop In Every Zune · · Score: 1

    In any case, I doubt this is going to do too much for the Zune's sales, so one hopes that MS is getting something really swank for doing the deal.
    Microsoft: Nooo! The Slashdotters discovered our plan! Someone mod them down before our business partners notice! If we can't make money selling DRM schemes on devices that never sell, how will we make money?
  19. Re:4.0.0.0/9 is #1- something's wrong with that. on Internet Black Holes · · Score: 1

    I also use 4.2.2.2 for testing customer's internet connections. With the exception of one day where something big failed on the west coast, it's always been available.

    If it can't be reached, it's always the customer's computer that's screwed up(firewall, tcp stack, etc...) or they're not actually online.

  20. Re:Dead Issue on $90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lemme guess, you can hear the difference in the sound when using the gold plated optical fiber cables.

  21. Re:Uhhh.... Duhhh..... What???? on Why the RIAA Really Hates Downloads · · Score: 1

    They are farmers, and the musicians are livestock


    Oh, so that's why the artist get screwed...
  22. Re:5 Layers? on Nanotechnology-Powered Wiper-Less Windshield · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Well ours has SIX layers and a FREE bonus layer on the inside to get rid of fingerprints and dog-nose smudges.

  23. Re:pet peeving on Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else getting sick of these "x TO x" stories?


    They must have heard you. This is in the Firehose!
    Headline: Slashdot to Stop Making "Noun 'to' Verb" stories.
  24. Well Duuuh... on 6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously, the ads I click on are 99.9% accidental. I think I've clicked on about five ads I actually WANTED in the last ten years.
    Is it any wonder that the people who are clicking on ads constantly are not the "average joe?" Most people hate commercials and other junk that gets in the way of what they were looking at.

    "Oh, another ad for the same BMW I switched away stations on the radio, muted on TV, and flipped past in the newspaper. I think I'll click on this one because it's in the middle of my news story about Britney Spears' latest breakdown."

    I wonder what correlation there is between this 6% and the people who click on the "V1agr@" spams in their email.

  25. Re:Extra features ? Bah ! on Samsung Sued Over "Defective" Blu-ray Player · · Score: 1

    I understand what you're saying, remember the TV's with picture in picture? I used it once and never again.

    However, what if things like interviews and commentaries started using the picture in picture feature to work? What then?
    (Of course I'm making things up, but I dont' think its too far out of the realm of possibility.)