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  1. Re:First spam! on Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal · · Score: 1

    The Constitution exists. His argument is invalid.

    His argument is also egregious, as would any demand for the right to print money.

  2. That used to be quite common. IBM practiced it when they'd sell nobbled DASD (disk, to you young whippersnappers) that could be upgraded for a healthy fee and a tech to remove a pin from the device.

  3. Re:Windows 8 is OK? on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 1

    The Windows 8 GUI reminds me of Windows 3.1. Sometimes I think it's full-circle, then sometimes I think it's full-circle-jerk...

    Unless you have a Universal Program That Does Everything, you'll need to move stuff between windows. I don't see how the native W8 interface facilitates that.

  4. Re:Load of Crap! on Gov't Report Predicts Cyborgs, Rise of China for 2030 · · Score: 2

    We've gotta leave this egg before we run out of food and we die as a chicken.

    (Ok, you may think I'm albumin idiot for using this metaphor, but *somebody* had to raise it.)

  5. Re:statistics on Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer · · Score: 2

    22% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  6. Re:Corporations should be justified on Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes · · Score: 1

    I just don't understand this trust in government in anyone out of their mid teen years.

    "if you can't trust the Governments of the world, who can you trust?"

        -- Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious)

  7. Re:The world is not changed by timid men. on Altered Immune Cells Help Girl Beat Leukemia · · Score: 1

    Yes, ethical testing would include people who are desperate and willing to try it. A frayed rope is better than nothing if you're falling.
    My best friend is in that position, and would certainly jump at the opportunity to aid research by either staying alive himself, or helping someone else in his position down the track.

  8. Re:Oh FFS on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    "You can sew... into a seam of your clothes..."
    Sorry, insufficient caffiene error.

  9. Re:Oh FFS on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    you can sew rather a large number of books in your common Micro SD card. They're tiny - fingernail sized - and there are readers for them that aren't much larger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_sd#microSD

  10. Re:Bounty on snake heads is the solution. on Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt · · Score: 1

    "Tax the rat farms."
        - Vetinari

  11. Re:No, no, no. on Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease · · Score: 1

    Brain surgery is often followed by depression. It's one of the things they guard against post-op.

  12. Re:Come on, you knew this was an MMO on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I stopped playing Everquest when I became aware it was a Sony product. Because of their corporate practices, their support of RIAA and their proclivity toward suing their customers, I would not play it if the game lined my pockets with real gold. Sony taking ownership of any game I play is a switchable offense.

  13. Re:Come on, you knew this was an MMO on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 2

    I'm not entirely sure this is an MBA oriented issue -- NCSoft, though global, is a South Korean company. It would be difficult to accurately infer a cash growth-based motive for dropping it. It could be technical, or artistic reasons, or the big one -- the people capable of growing the game in terms of interesting play, simply weren't there. Perhaps they retired, left the company, or are being vectored off to GuildWars.

  14. Re:The solution for data theft? on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    ...next use stenography to hide encrypted data in. they will notice a difference in each copies checksum ...

    Please, people, it's Steganography, not Stenography. Stenography is a manual transcription process that was practiced in the days of Shorthand.

    (Please show some consideration for the CDO sufferers among us!)

  15. Re:Why would that be the first step? on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... If you can't nuke the moon from Earth, then you can't nuke Earth from the moon.

    Horse manure. Different size gravity wells.

  16. Re:War; War never changes on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 2

    The things they'll sacrifice...

    Yes. Us, basically. We *so* need to get out of this egg before we run out of resources.

  17. Re:CMS on Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Uh, ouch. Sharepoint has its place, and I think this isn't it. Especially since they are mandating open source for budget reasons.

  18. Re:One word on Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? · · Score: 2

    Yes -- VM appliances rock, and they're scalable, at least to the point where you can copy the VM across to a larger machine whenever you want, and boot it up there. They're also easy to recover. Plenty of them on Sourceforge. I used to use Dekki (now Mindtouch I think) for a portable wiki, as a consultant. Great for gathering data and disseminating it to my peers. Proved the appliance theme for me.

  19. Re:The difference a culture makes on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 1

    Sorry, mate, didn't know this was your lawn. I'll leave now.

  20. Re:I'd cry... on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 1

    I thought the Brits drank warm beer because they had Lucas refrigerators?

    ( -- old motorist/motorcyclist)

  21. Re:Blogspam on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 1

    Should work for whiskey though, shouldn't it?

  22. Re:And after that day on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that bubbles in beer led to the invention of the bubble chamber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_chamber

    Hey, if Zombie Nels Bohr showed up in our pub, his money would be no good. I'd buy him a couple, and all my friends too.

  23. Re:The value of beer on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 1

    He invented Rock & Roll, and surfing, too. Pretty amazing guy!

  24. Re:As usual with even-numbered Windows releases... on NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overheard from our infrastructure manager: "Well, we skipped Vista..."

  25. Re:reason and common sense on Canada Creates Cap On Liability For File Sharing Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Being a gamer, I wood elf said it differently.