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  1. Re:Oh Noes! on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    Again, if you RTFA, no one is saying the users did not reorient their consoles while in operation. Instead, they are claiming that the users were not adequately warned, even though there is a notice in the manual and a warning sticker on the unit.

  2. Re:Oh Noes! on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    6,000 miles is too seldom, unless you only drive on the highway.

  3. Re:Internet crimes, like rape? on MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids · · Score: 1

    Total, utter garbage. I went to high school in the 1980s-1990s and was taught about contraception. Mine was by no means a liberal school.

  4. Re:Snarky article on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 1

    In PA, the incumbent maintains the infrastructure, but you can choose a different supplier.

  5. Re:Roger MacBride/Tonie Nathan on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 1

    Besides, if I am an Obama supporter in Texas or a McCain supporter in California, why should I vote since my vote doesn't really count. In fact, if I am a McCain supporter in Texas or a Obama supporter in California, why should I vote since those states are going to go for my candidate anyway?

    Please look at the election results for 1980 and 1984.

  6. Re:So all that is left. on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is those residing in the United States at the ratification of the Constitution in 1789.

  7. Re:So all that is left. on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 1

    In addition, just a few days ago the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case brought against Obama regarding his citizenship.

    If the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against a spammer or a crooked RIAA lawyer, I'm sure Slashdot would be UP IN ARMS.

  8. Re:So all that is left. on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 1

    Since him and his father share an identical name, its impossible to know which one they are talking about.

    Age and year of occurrence, maybe?

  9. Re:So.. on Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President · · Score: 0, Troll

    I certainly hope you weren't leaning on Obama's own experience. After all, (and I will be modded down for stating this fact), he hasn't actually completed a term in the last two offices he has held.

  10. Re:Manga can be anything on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: 1

    A lot of Japano-philes don't understand that there is a segregation between the shows shown on afternoon prime-time on public broadcast and the shows that only come out direct to video or are shown on premium cable channels, often late at night. And a lot of the sneering types are just as ignorant, as you yourself demonstrate.

    Sorry, but after seeing Ryoko's face suddenly contort into a bug-eyed version of Pac-Man for the 1,263rd time in Tenchi Muyo, I was pretty much done with manga. Guess I'm ignorant.

  11. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    You believe that the government in the continental US is as degenerate and unaccountable as our military in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay?

    Do you even really know what's going on in Guatanamo Bay?

    Six years ago a radio station had children stomping on and setting fire to Dixie Chicks albums because they were ashamed of the president, unwittingly reenacting one of the funniest scenes from Starship Troopers.

    What does this have to do with the government? At least that radio station was making the decision to host this politically biased event. Should the Obama administration outlaw that, now? It's their version of flag burning, isn't it?

  12. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    That's their problem. Again I ask, were the dissenters rounded up and sent to Gitmo?

  13. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1
    Requoted to kill the anti-truth moderator:

    Here, I thought you were about to tell us how your home was raided by black-suited agents and you were jailed in Gitmo as an "enemy combatant." So you really just chickened out, assuming that you would be persecuted? Perhaps you are not ready for freedom. Do you really think that an Obama presidency will help? He thinks it's okay to tell radio and TV stations what to air. If a station's editorials appear too biased against the left, his regime will invoke the "Fairness Doctrine".

  14. Re:But there's still pedophilia, right? on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: 1

    Any age is OK in Japan, as long as the genitals are blurred out.

  15. Re:Manga can be anything on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: 1

    No, instead they allow all kinds of perversion as long as the genitalia are blurred out.

  16. Re:Manga can be anything on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but tentacle porn and pedophilia is not mainstream in the US. Neither is overblown, formulaic animation.

  17. If you like this... on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: -1, Troll
    If you liked "The Manga Guide to Statistics," you'll love:
    • The Complete Japanese Pervert's Guide to Statistics
    • Statistics for Pedophiles
    • Tentacle Statistics in a Nutshell
  18. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I had published a couple of letters to the editors in the San Jose Mercury News, discussing politics. I was reading foreign media which were hinting that US intelligence on Iraq WMD was bogus. Guess what? I stood very quiet, very silent. Who knows who was listening and how far the goverment was willing to go to silence dissent. If it had been just me, I would have stood up and fought for my rights, but with my family in mind, I decided to cave.

    Here, I thought you were about to tell us how your home was raided by black-suited agents and you were jailed in Gitmo as an "enemy combatant." So you really just chickened out, assuming that you would be persecuted? Perhaps you are not ready for freedom. Do you really think that an Obama presidency will help? He thinks it's okay to tell radio and TV stations what to air. If a station's editorials appear too biased against the left, his regime will invoke the "Fairness Doctrine".

  19. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Because people like you aren't smart?

  20. Re:Bender sez... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't buy it. The greatest cost in every company with more than two employees is payroll.

  21. Re:Who cares? on The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 · · Score: 1

    You forgot about Wookiees on Endor.

  22. Re:Got Dementia? on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    Are you being sarcastic?

  23. Re:Obligatory on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could do better!

  24. Re:What's in a name... on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 1

    Getting 1 Gbps out of Gigabit Ethernet requires that the host bus support it (standard PCI is barely fast enough) and that jumbo frames are used. Most SOHO and even some enterprise implementations fall short in practice.

  25. Re:Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    And how many rods to the hogshead could your car do?