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  1. Re:I think I have a solution on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 1

    And have a gold plated interior. And a little bit left over for hookers and blow.

    In fact, forget the gold plated interior!

  2. Re:use UTP then on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sorry... UTP is not the answer. The answer is to tell this guy to go fuck himself. I'm not responsible for changing my behavior because some other nutbar has a psychosomatic illness. That's for him and his doctors to deal with. Not me and his lawyers.

  3. Re:So presumably a lawyer took this case on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 1

    They can. It only happens in egregious cases like Jack Thompson unfortunately. The garden-variety ambulance chaser still has a career to look forward to.

  4. Re:Conversely on US District Judge Rules Gene Patents Invalid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The device or a novel process? Yes. But you should not be able to patent the gene which effectively makes your device the only way to detect the disease. That is not what the patent system is for. It is for protecting novel inventions, not for locking up essential, basic knowledge with a toll booth.

  5. Re:.NET is a Marketing Term on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    Didn't realize? All he had to do was take his fingers out of his ears. He was willfully ignorant.

  6. Re:Closed platform on Nintendo Announces 3D Successor of Nintendo DS · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're few and far between, but there are a number of good games out for the Wii that aren't shovelware. No More Heroes is great, I can't wait to play the second one. Okami, even though it was a remake of a PS2 title, plays as if it was made for the Wii. Then there are the Raving Rabbids party games... really, there are a lot of good games for the Wii. Unless you only count "Halo" as a good game, and in that case, good riddance.

  7. Re:Let's not forget on China Criticizes Google's "US Ties" · · Score: 1

    I've got a 15 month old, I just don't buy into the bullshit ;) He's worth everything I've sacrificed by having him, and I wouldn't trade him for the world.

  8. Re:Let's not forget on China Criticizes Google's "US Ties" · · Score: 1

    Lots of people turn stupid when they have kids, thinking that they can protect them best by sheltering them from everything. That's nature. Which is part of why the more things change, the more they stay the same.

  9. Re:It's the unrecognized irony that kills you... on India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile · · Score: 1

    Many popular religions encourage you to kill or otherwise attack and convert those not on your team. Not really conducive to solving the problems you describe.

  10. Re:CDs! How *quaint* on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 1

    With a CD you can turn the loudness up as high as you want when mixing it. With vinyl it'll physically pop the needle out of the groove so it forces the music to be properly mixed. Audiophiles give some stupid reasonings for music sounding better on vinyl because it's "warmer" or whatever, but there is a very real physical reason why vinyl can often sound better than the CD. Some CDs are properly mixed, but there's no guarantee with it like there is with vinyl.

  11. Re:Google rising. What does Viacom stand to gain? on Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads · · Score: 1

    That's the problem. Viacom isn't thinking long-term. They're thinking next quarter bonuses for execs to pad their golden parachutes before jumping ship in 2-3 years for greener pastures.

  12. Re:Smaller AV programs? on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    The software bloat is different than the database growing. The software bloat is all the "shiny" interface crap and such that all the products do that are only marginally related to virus scanning. It's feature creep.

  13. Re:And it's often NOT worth it. on Users Rejecting Security Advice Considered Rational · · Score: 1

    Because his compromised computer's bandwidth usage and infection compromises the security of the rest of the computers on the network as well as affecting their quality of service?

  14. Re:Funny on BioShock 2's First DLC Already On Disc · · Score: 1

    They're also complete and you know that when you get it. Calling it DLC and including it on the disk is straight up lying. Call it an unlock code, call it extra unlockable content, just don't call it downloadable content. It's the duplicity of the thing that has people's hackles up.

  15. Re:All of you are part of the problem on China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave · · Score: 1

    Of course we're hypocrites. It comes from the top. Hell, economists and the reserve bank are regarding an increase in consumer debt as a GOOD thing. THAT'S WHAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS. What. The. Fuck.

  16. Re:Governments are the enemy of its people. on China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obama has supported secrecy in ACTA, supported renewing the PATRIOT act as it is, and given a free pass to the FBI on its abuse of NSL's, as well as failing to follow through on many of his most important promises of things like transparency in the government. He most certainly is an enemy of Americans.

  17. Re:Can't it degrade over time? on MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink · · Score: 1

    According to dictionary.com, line 22 under "verb" for loose:

    22. Chiefly Nautical. to set free from fastening or attachment: to loose a boat from its moorings.
    24. to shoot; discharge; let fly: to loose missiles at the invaders.

  18. Re:X-ray? on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not sure. All x-rays I've seen just show metal as a bright spot, not much relief. And either way, all you have to do is keep the coin in your pocket. I never take my belt, rings or glasses off and have yet to be beeped by the metal detector and I've been flying twice a week lately. A little bit of metal is allowed. Just keep the coin in your pocket and take all other metal off and you'll almost certainly raise no suspicions or alarms.

  19. Re:Open source, steal? on MetaLab Accuses Mozilla of Ripping Off UI Elements In Mockups · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because we sent the OSS marketers along with the telephone sanitizers on the B-ark.

  20. Re:Open source, steal? on MetaLab Accuses Mozilla of Ripping Off UI Elements In Mockups · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's impossible. You can't live in a vacuum, and EVERYTHING is derivative to one degree or another.

  21. Re:Nice, but who has $1000 to pay on a CPU? on Intel's Core i7-980X Six-Core Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    AMD's chips don't change sockets every 2 months. I can upgrade my AMD CPU without having to upgrade my entire machine. You can't compare the cost of the Intel chip directly to the AMD chip without taking the other costs into account as well.

  22. Re:90% of the calories from sugar and fat.. on Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. But the first step is to get "sugar" and "oil" out of the primary ingredient slots ;)

  23. Re:90% of the calories from sugar and fat.. on Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't · · Score: 1

    Who claimed Jif is healthy? The primary ingredient of your Nutella is sugar, and then oil, and then nuts, and ingredients are required to be listed in the order of their proportion in the US (so sugar could be 80% of Nutella and that would still be an accurate ingredient list). You're almost certainly just eating a pile of sugar and oil on celery. If you want healthy, start looking at something that has the nuts as the primary ingredient instead of one of the other ones.

  24. Re:Sub-Optimal on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter what you call it. In the way most people think, gravity pulls down so it's easier to go down than up. Hence, a local saddle. It's just a descriptive term, not a mathematically rigorous investigation.

  25. Re:To be fair... on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    I know this is modded funny, but in Europe "maths" is an abbreviation for "mathematics", where as we here over in the colonies just use "math" as the abbreviation. Both make perfect sense to me, I just habitually use the one I grew up with.