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  1. Re:Shit on Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "No, but fraud and harassment are."

    As I said before...trouble is, she wasn't convicted of this really. She was convicted of basically breaking the myspace EULA. She wasn't convicted of harassment...

    I feel you, and I hold out hope for the appeal but even if that never comes you can still take some small consolation in knowing the authorities won't be on this like white on rice. What I'm saying is the state needed to punish her, so the state found a way. It was about her, not about using a false name. It's similar to marijuana tax stamp laws currently enacted in a multitude of states. They are going to get you on something if they want to.

  2. Re:Fortune cookie - fitting on Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 · · Score: 1

    well since the lhc will destroy existence by creating a black whole perhaps he is inferring that the singularity inside a black hole will actually take us to another universe or dimension.

  3. Re:Lunatic Japan on Triple-Engine Browser Released As Alpha · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Using the english page to search the plugins reveals...nothing! Nothing at all!

    Then write one.

  4. Re:Data protection act? on Inside Safari 3.2's Anti-Phishing Feature · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but over on this side of the pond distributing personally-identifiable information to a third party without explicit consent is a criminal offence.

    Sorry I'm less than enthusiastic at your privacy laws considering there's a camera on every corner in your country, watching the citizenry.

  5. Re:how about a name or some links smartass? on Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems · · Score: 0, Troll

    utorrent isn't open-source. And I'm not brave enough to use a closed-source client from a company that has signed agreements with the RIAA and MPAA

    I hear ya there brother who knows what kind of schemes they are hatching in that 263kb install file! Such poor reasoning...

  6. Re:$200 - $400 amps have better sound and that is on Home Theatre System Using Laptops · · Score: 1

    $200 - $400 amps have better sound and that is for a full 5.1 or 7.1 system some even come with speakers.

    Yeah true but you can easily sacrifice usability and value by going with the stand alone amp.

  7. Re:Can you really patent food preparation? on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    How about employees that come up with their own style of work flow?

    You must not be familiar with McDonalds, there is no improvising. Just like how you can't buy a fucking plastic pizza cutter from Papa Johns because you threw yours away that one night before going to Papa Murphys for pizza...

  8. Re:Better water purification on Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery · · Score: 1

    Another thing I have in the kit which no discerning survivalist should be without is a pack of water purification tablets.

    Not many survivalists would waste pack space and weight on those tablets. Fire takes care of water purification and so much more. I would save the volume/weight of the tablets to pack wooden matches in a small water proof container affixed securely to my clothing.

  9. Re:Weird on Facebook Wins $873 Million Lawsuit Against Spammer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure FB is loving this because they have got to be strapped for cash without any real business plan.

    What you mean providing a psuedo geocities/flickr/youtube/email service isn't going to make you money?

  10. Wow on Facebook Wins $873 Million Lawsuit Against Spammer · · Score: 1

    According to court documents, he did this in part by fraudulently gaining access to "legitimate" Facebook user accounts, either by phishing to gain login information or acquiring it from third parties.

    "It's unlikely that Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them (though we will certainly collect everything we can)," said Facebook. "But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users."

    Roll over and take it, eh facebook users?

  11. Re:Sea Boundaries on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 2, Funny

    that doesn't mean that Noglorpistan has magically become a country.

    Unfortunately I believe you are correct. But for how much longer will we sit idly by while valiant Noglorpistanese freedom fighters wage war for their own sovereign lands! I say the time has come for western nations to longer turn a blind eye on the plight of the Noglorpistanese people.

  12. Re:How much does it cost? on Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It makes a nice press release. But I like to see a story with a little more meat on the bones.

    Apparently there is a thread going at wickedfire.com talking about how you push your adverts onto places like digg and reddit. Unfortunately I don't feel like registering with the dirt bags to find out if there is a thread on Slashdot... but with more and more posts that seem to be press releases, makes ya wonder.

  13. Re:cant wait on Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    to put some of these into my servers

    ditto, but im waiting for permanent data erasure to become a little more mature. i understand the wear leveling incorporated into SSD can cause current programs to stumble.

  14. in the year 2000 on Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    email? apple is to hip for that. its social networking, far as the eye can see...

  15. happy holidaes on History of the LED — the Movie · · Score: 1

    glad to see more selection in LED holiday lighting this year, the price premium is a bitch tho... but provides such a superior shine. anyways... where am i?

  16. Re:Don't Let This Die on Microsoft Moves To Quash Case, End E-mail Revelations · · Score: 1

    You get the exact same business tactics, just a slightly more stylish computer.

    Last I checked Apple didn't offer any cases in brushed aluminum =(

  17. Re:music? on Holiday Art Executed In Google Documents · · Score: 1

    the music in that youtube video has been very definitely ripped off of some other song I've heard, but I can't seem to put my finger on it. anyone else have an idea?

    I'm not quite sure what you mean by ripped off but the comments section of the video in question mentioned that Google Programmer had created the song.

  18. Re:wtf? on Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    This is like me buying a $1 toy at Dollar Tree, and then bitching when it breaks on the second use or so.

    I picked up an usb led light at dollar tree the other day, I thought to myself... That's 4 quarters! I'll break a 5 for that! It broke the next night, so I'm going to have to back you up on the poor quality of Dollar Tree products.

  19. Re:GH Lawsuit? Please on Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You have committed fraud.

    More power to him. But think of the children! By defrauding someone of their money you are stealing it from them. And stealing really is taking time from another, is that something you can live with? Taking someones time?

  20. Re:Text only, no html on Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System · · Score: 1

    Most likely the fact that it's in secret, proprietary formats and spread across hundreds of PCs instead of being archived by the mail gateway

    Of course, the government is sinister. Even something as benign as e-mail must involve inflated costs, secret programs and sheer ineptness. Get over it, there is this myth of a super competent government out to screw over it's citizens. There is no doubt the government screws us over as it tries to be an expression of our will. But to suggest it maintains nefarious purposes and isn't just a cluster fuck of red tape and retarded bureaucrats is just tiresome.

  21. oblig on After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Once again, who deemed the internet to be appropriate for children?

  22. Re:Yes, but can it beat the turk at chess? on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    Self contained means it has to have a ton of backup, self-repair, and maintance systems.

    Sounds like any other computing effort. Including your desktop, it requires varying degrees of maintenance to remain functional.

    Close enough is good enough. As such, I don't see how duplicating an organic brain is useful.

    Except you fail to account for situations where nature far out processes our current iteration of computational devices. Like those damn CAPTCHAs...

  23. Re:Relevant to my interests on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hopefully you'll work on your writing skills before sending the application away. Few universities admit illiterates.

    You might be surprised...

  24. Re:Windows.... on Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mark my words, it is because of Windows. If Linux or BSD based systems were predominant in the Pentagon, this would not be an issue.

    The world, the U.S.A. is so screwed up. We all know what the problems are, but we can't address them because no one in position of power will discuss them.

    Let me play the troll here... and agree with you, how absurd it would be for our own military to purchase software from one of our premier software companies. A company that provides a consistent tax revenue and employment opportunities. and as others have pointed out, no malicious agents would dare sully the name of the *nix by writing custom software to go after a high profile target like the US military and it's related assets.

  25. Re:$10,000,000, eh? on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Dire Wold - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_Wolf [wikipedia.org]

    Considering the row over current wolf populations I witness between state governments/farms and environmentalists here in the American West, I'd politely suggest you skip that one!