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  1. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 1

    This still does not add up to the provided bandwidth. Also, I do not know if children should be browsing the Internet unattended but then again we don't want MySpace to go bankrupt.

  2. Re:Argh on Surgical Tools to Include RFID · · Score: 1
    I did not mean to mislead /.ers in my writeup. Apologies.


    I do not think that these will add to the incredible cost of surgery any more than RFID tracking will add to the cost of vegtables or anything else with which it shall be paired.

  3. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 1
    "Hmm, does that mean you can be watching pr0n on TV, downloading it on the computer, all while talking to a phone sex line?"


    Who are you, Rush Limbaugh?

  4. Re:Perfect Marketing on When Doing PR For Anti-Spam Firm... Don't Spam · · Score: 1

    Judging from the link in your sig, I owe you a new lawyer too!

  5. Re:WTF on Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List · · Score: 1

    The facts get pushed around no matter what size news organization you are dealing with. I moonlight for a small independent newspaper in Washington DC and I trust our articles as much as the larger papers, but not always more.

  6. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 1

    But this service bundles digital television and phone service, thus negating those perceived benefits.

  7. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 1

    When everyone is home, my family has 2 desktops, 5 laptops, and one Palm LifeDrive that can connect to the Internet. Still, the only possible uses for this much bandwidth are running large websites and sharing with the neighbors' neighbors. P.S. Your sig is interesting. Social Security is an important issue, but one that I have never before seen mentioned on /.

  8. Re:Perfect Marketing on When Doing PR For Anti-Spam Firm... Don't Spam · · Score: 5, Funny
    "So by that rationale, if I am a personal injury attorney I should start ramming my car into random vehicles?"


    If you are a personal injury lawyer, please drive said car off of a cliff.

  9. Mod parent up on Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags · · Score: 1
    I could not agree with you more. What do these pr0n sites have to gain by using these deceptive practices? If you want it, you'll find it. There is virtually no valid reason to use these tags for adult sites.


    I used to skip those injury films until I became licensed as an EMT. Now I watch them in class!

  10. Re:Step in the right direction on Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags · · Score: 1

    I agree that that was a dumb move to block .XXX but I doubt that typosquatters who intentionally fool people into thinking that they are innocent websites would have switched to the new TLD. After all, that would destroy their business model.

  11. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 1

    You would probably need to install a PCI fiber card in your computer to receive anything remotely near those speeds. More likely you will have to share the connection between several computers running at full capacity all the time in order to begin to max it out.

  12. How many French people read this site? on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could /. actually get /.ed?

  13. Re:Step in the right direction on Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags · · Score: 1
    "But I swear dear, I was looking for Kinky Kelly's website, not Barbie!"


    Actually this reminds me an excuse from The Simpsons:
    Agent: Now, before I give you the check, one more question. This place "Moe's" you left just before the accident. This is a business of some kind?
    Brain: Don't tell him you were at a bar! Gasp! But what else is open at night?
    Homer: It's a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
    Brain: Heh heh heh. I would'a never thought of that.

  14. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just don't see most residential homes needing to play online games while working from the corporate server through a VPN while talking on the VOIP phone while streaming YouTube and Google Video at the same time while running your personal website while backing up all of your data. I do agree that businesses would benefit tremendously from cheapening the "tubes."

  15. Re:WTF on Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List · · Score: 1

    Again, I was really looking for verification from some other source. The way that these things usually become known is through some news agency breaking the story and others fact checking and re-running their own versions. As it turns out this was a local issue apparently limited to one city.

  16. Re:Oh boy. on TiVo to Measure Ad-Skipping · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I for one welcome the scantily clad women.

  17. Good on TiVo to Measure Ad-Skipping · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe they will wait until after dinner to run those anti-diarrhea ads. To be fair there are clever ads out there, it's just that they rarely actually make me more likely to buy something. I've made up my mind about Coke versus Pepsi, and Brittany Spears isn't changing it!

  18. Re:Who's the banker? on In-Game Advertising Comes to Board Games · · Score: 1

    "Hey Andrew, what are you doing on your laptop?"
    "Nothing! But in unrelated news, I would like to buy Park Place."

  19. Re:missing part of the mod: transparent hand on Output Mouse · · Score: 1

    Maybe Art Lebedev is waiting for Vista to release their keyboard.

  20. Re:Babylon 5: The Lost Tales on Babylon 5 Coming Back? · · Score: 1

    Great ideas, but this will likely follow the traditional straight-to-DVD route. There is such a devoted fan base that this prequel (?) will sell.

  21. Re:RIP America on Wiretapping Lawsuit Against AT&T Dismissed · · Score: 1

    How many people affected probably talked about crimes without being prosecuted? This is not a police state. If someone had called his buddy and asked how much heroine cost that week, he would not have been arrested. This program was only designed to stop terrorism, not crime in general. An important distinction.

  22. Re:It will also be punishable... on Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags · · Score: 1

    Not punishable, just a lie.

  23. Step in the right direction on Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that something does need to be done about all of the misleading porn sites out there. I am 20 years old, but I am sick of typosquatters and mislabled keywords leading me to porn sites. I know that this is not enforceable around the world, but overall it is a good thing.

  24. Re:Enron on How Google Manages Click Fraud · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Google isn't evil. I also doubt that most clicks are clickfraud. I do admit to clicking on a banner ad when I find a website that I really like, but only if it interests me on some level.

  25. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! on 2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes · · Score: 1, Funny

    What are the practical uses of a connection this fast? I mean, think about it, can your computer even handle that speed of connection? And how many times can you pirate Meet the Fockers before you are happy with your connection?