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  1. Re:Vista could eat kittens on Vista Eating Battery Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you'd have losers on Slashdot posting endless non-funny threads about it. Oh wait...

  2. Re:fun facts about Disney copyright on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    A Fun fact is that Mickey and a lot of Disney characters are not Copyright, they are Trademarks, which is like copyright on crack.
    No it's not. You can't just declare anything a trademark and get perpetual protection. An image or phrase can be a trademark. All of Disney's characters are probably trademarks, because if they weren't I could sell T-shirts bearing that character's image and they couldn't do anything about it. In any case, Mickey Mouse as a trademark will not protect "Steamboat Willie" from entering the public domain once Congress stops perpetually extending copyright protection.
  3. Re:*smack*! on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    Too bad no one uses that argument when the USA is criticized for not adhering to agreements it didn't even agree to (like the Kyoto protocol).

  4. Re:Did I miss something? on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe it was his John Stamos that was stuck in the tree.

  5. Re:If you think that is evil on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 1

    How does that wacky American constitution work? The Consitution is an agreement between the (American) government, ironically referred to as "the people", and the general public (which now encompasses anyone on Earth, see citizens vs undocumented immigrants vs foreign nationals).
    Uh... no. Please read the Constitution, especially Amendment 10, which makes specific distinctions between the federal government ("United States"), the state governments ("the states"), and "the people," who are-- not ironically unless your name is Alanis-- the people.
  6. Re:DMCA-think on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 1

    You could have gone to night school instead so that you had a real diploma instead of a GED. Yes, it seems like wasted time but then you can just put "Graduated from XYZ High School, June 1999" instead of the GED.

  7. Security on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 1

    Within the past few weeks, students across Boerne ISD were being called into offices to discuss the use of lockpicks to circumvent the school's door lock system. The problem is that some of these students are being suspended from school for up to 3 months at a time. Shouldn't the school district be liable for their own insecurity?

  8. Re:Are They Hypocritical? on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 3, Informative

    As an amusing note, probably due to the amount of ammunition expended, news programs were claiming that the Clinton weapons ban that expired would have prevented him from killing so many people because of the "high-capacity" magazines. They didn't seem to realize that it's quite easy to carry a satchel full of loaded 10-round (legal during the ban) magazines and exchange them quickly with some practice-- which is what Cho did.

  9. Re:What total garbage this is ... on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only if that person sold the gun illegally.

  10. Re:Laughable on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The modern interpretation of the second amendment is a logical fallacy.
    And so is every point you attempt to make in your post.
  11. What a trollish summary. on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems that if you can blame eBay for a nutjob killing people, then you can blame eBay for scam artists ripping people off. But why stop there? Blame eBay for deaths caused by drunk drivers who bought cars, furries who bought stuffed animals, and trolling Slashdot submitters who bought new computers.

  12. Re:Drag? on New Jersey Turnpike As a Power Source? · · Score: 1

    If the average New Jersey resident had any more autonomy than a shambling zombie, they wouldn't have onerous taxes, corrupt social services, oppressive weapons laws, and thieving misuse of eminent domain.

  13. Re:Funny thing about Jeresey tolls... on New Jersey Turnpike As a Power Source? · · Score: 1

    I grew up in south Jersey, and you still have the same oppressive, corrupt government there. At least the schools used to be okay, although recent reports say that is no longer the case.

  14. Re:Drag? on New Jersey Turnpike As a Power Source? · · Score: 1

    Plumbing below the highway to collect the heat generated by friction would be essentially free energy, but very expensive to implement (and horrible for traffic patterns).

  15. Re:Liar. on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    Who's a liar? If you dare to read from one of those dangerous books, you will be disciplined.

  16. Plan for the future! on Long Block Data Standard Finalized · · Score: 2, Funny

    These kinds of incremental standards are simply not forward-looking! I propose that the data block size be set to a minimum of 2^32 bytes.

  17. Re:There's no way it's 300 million years old on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    We don't have a single copy earlier than that, and so cannot establish that the books of the bible come from any earlier.
    It's funny that you hold this high standard on dating manuscripts, when the rest of the archaeological community doesn't assume that a writing can't significantly predate its earliest extant manuscript. We have many other writings for which the earliest MS appeared a thousand years after the recorded events.

    That is that the bible - the NT - reports countrywide events that go unreported by a whole slew of writers working in that period.
    If anyone wanted to contradict that line from Matthew, they could have. You're arguing that it didn't happen just because we have only one witness. There are many cosmological and meteorological events that could have caused that darkness.
  18. Re:There's no way it's 300 million years old on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    To believe that Jesus both literally turned water into wine and arose from the dead, and that Nicholas has 8 magic reindeer and scoots down chimneys to deliver gifts, is akin to believing that a bunny hops around and hides eggs on Easter morning. They are equitably irrational.
    Believing that matter is composed of tiny particles called quarks, with odd names, and we can't see them, but they're there (and we can't know exactly where at any moment due to the uncertainty principle) sounds just as irrational. The only argument atheists have against the "miracles" in scripture is that miracles are impossible, which is a circular argument. In any case, Jesus wasn't about performing miracles: his purpose was much more important, and the miracles were meant to prove who he was. By the way, I believe in Jesus and quarks (sorry, fat man and hassenpfeffer).
  19. Re:There's no way it's 300 million years old on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    Of course I wouldn't as I believe it is harmless fun. But if my 8-year-old asks me if Jesus really turned water into wine, I'll tell him no.
    How do you know that? Any negative evidence to prove that? Saying it didn't happen because it was a miracle is a circular argument.

    If he asks me if Jesus really died for our sins, I'll tell him no -- but it makes a lot of people feel better to believe so.
    You can't answer that question if you don't even believe that the man existed in the first case.
  20. Re:Investing money in the young Earth on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    Faith can mean believing in something without hard evidence, but it doesn't preclude the knowledge of said evidence. In other words, it doesn't require pigheaded ignorance as the atheist apologists would imply.

  21. Re:Freedom? What freedom? on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1

    Why can the government tell me who or how many people I can marry?
    Indeed... government should have nothing to do with marriage.

    Why can the government tell me what plants I can grow?
    Indeed, as long as it's on land you own.

    Why can the government tell me what substances I can own?
    Indeed. We should be able to keep and bear arms and munitions responsibly.

    Why can the government tell me how (or if) I should dress?
    Well, let's at least keep the naughty bits covered in public places (really, most of us aren't that attractive)!

    Why can the government tell two consenting adults what they can do together, or whether they can charge one another for it?
    Just keep the noise down ...

    Why can the government tell me what countries I can visit?
    I'd rather you don't sell weapons to our enemies, though.
  22. Re:Knee-jerk reaction to Virginia Tech on Student Arrested for Writing Essay · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They don't allow those in school, either.

  23. Re:I don't know anything about databases on Ohio Audit Reveals More Diebold Problems · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't use Exchange, then (see my reply to the GP post).

  24. Re:I don't know anything about databases on Ohio Audit Reveals More Diebold Problems · · Score: 1

    Exchange still uses the Jet engine. Its limit is 1,900 concurrent connections.

  25. Re:mod parent up on Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 · · Score: 1

    Was he well hung? Only his coroner knows for sure!