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  1. Re:Sounds like a plan on Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" · · Score: 1

    News today can't be bothered with details or facts. They get in the way of reporting the latest tweets.

  2. Hotels on Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot To Fold Towels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sure there are some hoteliers that will be excited about reducing their staffing for for washing and folding all the towels and sheets they go through. Hospitals likely would love this too, since it wouldn't show up sick and help spread diseases on clean linens.

  3. Re:Know what... on Yale Delays Move To Gmail · · Score: 1

    Not to say anything definitive since I'm just dealing with a very small sample of firsthand data, but I've found older attachments download much slower than newer ones. I'll get 500+ KB/s on new attachments, and maybe 30 KB/s on ones that are a few months old. It wouldn't surprise me if they cache the newest items in a more-local manner, and let you pull from wherever in the cloud had space for them to store the old ones.

  4. Re:Hasn't everyone written a bogus shell at some t on XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface · · Score: 1

    I loved typing next once, then (up arrow) (enter) over and over.

  5. Re:Well then... on YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Be less like Fark's arbitrary bannings?

  6. Re:But what if the do ban laptop batteries? on Laptop Fires On Airplanes · · Score: 1

    A correction for you: We will hear about what the reporters' management expects the most people to want to read/watch.

  7. Re:20-something ? on Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy · · Score: 1

    The Qwik-E-Mart thing was a cross-promo with the movie's release.

  8. Re:can we get this tagged on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 1

    All cell phones don't use proprietary connectors. I've made it a point with my last two phones to get a model with a standardized USB connector for power and sync capabilities, so I can charge from any powered USB port I can find. I can't even count the number of times I've recharged my phone off my laptop while driving or on a train, or even at friend's houses by just making sure a common USB cable.

  9. Re:It's a start on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 3, Funny

    You do realize that /41/ products are jokes, right?

  10. Re:Speaking as a non-car-freak on '09 Malibu Vs. '59 Bel Air Crash Test · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I assumed it had to do with offset collisions being very frequent. Engine to engine crashes are fairly rare, but someone drifting a little over a center line isn't uncommon at all.

  11. Re:Jumps out? on A New Explanation For the Plight of Winter Babies · · Score: 4, Funny

    The moderator was probably born in January, and thus unable to get the question.

  12. Re:'Good' people still go to that 1 toll booth on News Content As a Resource, Not a Final Product · · Score: 1

    For a lot of local TV stations the newscasts are one of their most profitable things to air. Since they already have video, and it's a way to build familiarity with their brand, I can't see it likely a monopoly on news sites is possible. If a pay for site breaks a big story, there will always be free sites who will echo that story.

  13. Re:Makes sense on Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot · · Score: 1

    Great product placement dude, I'll give it a try.

  14. Re:Doubt it... on Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wasn't the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike (which requires other players) pretty freaking awesome? IMO, it kind of sucked to play against bots.

  15. Makes sense on Variety, Social Aspects More Important To Game Success Than Graphics, Plot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In other news fun is more important to a games success than graphics, plot.

  16. Re:It's very entertaining. on New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems you can never fully remove a McAfee program without formatting and restarting. I'd probably just get a new hard drive, install Windows XP and McAfee on it, pass the system through, then swap in my normal drive. But, I am an IT nerd.

  17. Re:It's very entertaining. on New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You make people use McAfee to get online? That would be enough to make me transfer.

  18. Re:Google Groups is just a way to Usenet on Google Groups Used To Control Botnets · · Score: 1

    That makes sense, I also was confused about why they'd say Google Groups instead of Usenet at first. I forgot that Google allows creation of your own groups until I signed in to try figuring out how this could work.

  19. Re:Private Car Cameras on Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've had too many assholes hit my car, so it goes:

    1) Me
    2) Them
    3) Others
    4) Employees of anyone
    5) Profit (?)

  20. Re:The professor Gates case??? on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 1

    I agree, and I'm surprised that discussing that laws can be enforced without being constitutional can be off topic here. Oh well.

    My big concern is more the simplicity with which activities like Jury Duty (or apparently, moderation) can be done without concern for the results of those issues.

  21. Re:Different waste. . . on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 1

    As another benefit, in the next 1000 years we may find ways to use it again, and maybe get the half-life even lower. Nuclear research should be embraced by environmentalists, unfortunately most of them have been raised on the dangers of nukes, and not the reality of them.

  22. Re:Perhaps not an AK47 on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that since it was a freakin' huge gun it's much more dangerous than a much normal-sized gun? In what sense does the size of a gun reflect on the intent of the owner? Your excuse for making a legal act legal because of outward appearances makes me wonder if you're okay with police stopping a black guy since he doesn't look 'right for the neighborhood?' It's the same basic concept, just taken to a politically incorrect extreme.

  23. Re:The professor Gates case??? on Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouting and being a dick in public can be illegal enough to get arrested, if you go too far. You can argue if it's constitutional as a freedom of speech, but in our legal system that's usually left up to the courts to decide. I'm not saying it's right, just saying that you can be arrested with little to no recourse for your time and troubles for doing so.

  24. Re:Uh...howabout on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    Didn't the Segway get the same response?

  25. Re:Hmm, tip line? Vigilante? or just more info? on Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The example in the article is even misleading, since it was a Facebook account that was hacked, who knows if the hackers ever touched the system of the user. He may have just used the same password too many places. I'd assume Facebook isn't using Norton Internet Security, so I'm kind of wondering what cases this will really make a difference in. Most worms/viruses even don't come from the creator's PC, but infected zombies.