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  1. Re:Mine goes to 11 on New Energy Efficiency Rules For TVs Sold In California · · Score: 1

    What did you put in the empty sockets?

  2. Re:Mine goes to 11 on New Energy Efficiency Rules For TVs Sold In California · · Score: 1

    I'm reasonably sure fluorescent lights in LCD can't really dim

    You are correct. LCDs actually use the most power when they are on but totally black, as the tube is lit and all the liquid crystal is opaque.

  3. Re:Why is the government even subsidizing this? on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Please don't give the Democratic federal government any ideas.

  4. Re:Market forces = backward compatible on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1

    Your left out compact cassette (obsolete) and DCC (orphaned).

  5. Re:Why is the government even subsidizing this? on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1

    if nobody owns them then nobody has the right to decied on who gets to rule them.

    Unfortunately, someone does; because there are a few laws that are very difficult to break, called the laws of physics. Let me know how you do with that interference thing.

  6. Re:Coherent plan vs. terrorism on Israel, Palestine Wage Web War · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I would venture to say that most Palestinians do not publically agree with Hamas.

    Maybe they should have voted some other group into power, then.

  7. Re:Going rate... on Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Awesome! Then she'll be able to pay off that whistleblower, Judas!

  8. Re:Incompetence By Design on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    We have a concept in Canada called "hate speech", and while you don't call it the same thing in the US, it's also illegal: spreading hateful speech or literature with the intention of causing harm to a group within society.

    The left wants this, but thought crime ("hate speech") is not yet codified in the US.

    Second, free speech, as it exists in the US, is also a protected right throughout most of the former British Empire

    ... but it's not written, as the GP stated.

  9. Re:Incompetence By Design on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just thought I'd mention that, although only slightly less heinous, the copyright protection period is actually 95 years.

  10. Re:flippant American answer on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    Clinton got painted by the radical conservatives as a murdering liberal psyco and that's why the White House facade is now bullet resistant (drive-by shootings) and there are Stinger missles emplaced on the roof (cessna intentionally crashed into the lawn).

    The media planted Stinger missiles on the White House? By the way, the Cessna crash was an accident. I guess the Stingers didn't work.

  11. Re:flippant American answer on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 2

    If what you said held any weight then Bush would have been gunned down years ago.

    That's because the people who hate him the most are also gun-control advocates.

  12. Re:flippant American answer on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    You're the first person I've heard say this on Slashdot-- probably because leftists don't want to admit this would put Reagan in the "good President" category.

  13. Re:Another era gone to technology on Player Piano Roll Production Ceases · · Score: 1

    vinyl records

    Nope, they're still around and sales almost doubled last year.

  14. Re:The real question on UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs · · Score: 1

    More muslims.

  15. Re:Is this....legal? on UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, POINTED kitchen knives. Well, that's much better, isn't it? And physicians are definitely the sort of experts we want making the decisions on kitchen cutlery.

  16. Re:Encouraging innovation on Universities Patenting More Student Ideas · · Score: 1

    I believe patents do nothing to encourage innovation. Actually they stifle innovation because you can't improve on someone else's work.

    For a limited time!

    And in this case, MIT has essentially robbed a student of using their work and knowledge.

    It all comes down to the fallacious notion that someone's idea can be property.

    Blaming patents for the university's robbery is like blaming spoons for Rosie O'Donnell's obesity.

  17. Microsoft crashes Zune on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Freezes. Less reliable than an iPod. Lame.

  18. Re:I think you are missing the point on DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders · · Score: 1

    What's the reasoning behind carrying your papers with you at all times? What is the penalty for not doing so?

  19. Re:I think you are missing the point on DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders · · Score: 1

    Which brilliant philosopher deduced that it's one's "right" to force others to pay for his housing, again?

  20. Re:pong or tetris on Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? · · Score: 1

    You obviously never tried the "Daikatana" edition of Tetris. You can't finish a level without your buddy Superfly. I got 45 "L" pieces in a row and John Romero made me his bitch.

  21. Re:without any humans ever having been involved on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    You're not responding to me, right? Did you make some sort of assumption about my political beliefs?

  22. Congratulations! on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    You now have CS as a top priority. Now, which subject gets shafted? Or do we just keep the kids in school from sunrise to sunset, and cut extracurriculars?

  23. Re:Install Ubuntu with / ro on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that you guys have now proposed almost as many minute reconfigurations to your Linux install as the Windows expert you criticized?

  24. Re:Install Ubuntu with / ro on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    ... or would like to actually use all of his disk space efficiently and maintain performance.

  25. Re:Install Ubuntu on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Sentences are terminated with a period.

    Writing in the passive voice is frowned upon.