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  1. As the Church Lady would say... on Microsoft Redefines "Open Standards" · · Score: 1

    How conveeeeeenient.

  2. Re:Pedant Warning! on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I *want* an Automatic ATM Machine and a Personal PIN Number!

  3. Re:1984 on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 4, Funny

    I Am the Cheese is from Eastasia.

    I Am the Cheese has always been from Eastasia.

  4. Re:Extradition Act 2003 on British Hacker Loses Review of Asperger's Defense · · Score: 1

    Granted, McKinnon was foolish to enter the US government computers, although perhaps he should be given a consultant's fee for highlighting such lax security

    So I'll just break into your house, look around for evidence of UFO's and sned you a bill for the "consultant's fee for highlighting such lax security" on your home.

  5. Re:Parking Meter Botnet on Hackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of parking meters!

  6. Yabut on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Emacs isn't a text editor, it's an OS.

  7. No Nigel Powers yet? on The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

  8. Re:\0wned on Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean it's got Moxie?

  9. Re:Perhaps you should reconsider? on EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On · · Score: 1

    I understand your current position, even if I don't agree. However, I think there is something you are overlooking, which is the collateral damage to society brought about by RIAA attempting to stop those "folks who infringe on their copyrights".

    Yes, because the "collateral damage to society" brought about by this is actually relevant compared to the fucking neoconservative right dragging us into wars or the batshit loony left spending my fucking money on idiotic social programs with no actual benefit.

    Actually, yes. It is relevant, and possibly more important than the "fucking neoconservative right draggin us into wars". Congress authorized the war (whether that's an actual declaraion is a matter of debate and possibly semantics).

    The fallout from extended copyright defeats the purpose of copyright as stated in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8): "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" (emphasis mine).

    If the collateral damage actually restricts such "progress", then copyright, as currently provided, and lobbied for by the media companies is in direct violation of the Constitution, and any in Congress who do not act to correct it are in violation of their duties to uphold and defend the Constitution.

  10. Oh come now... We know this can't be true. on Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing · · Score: 5, Funny

    The recording industry has lost [CARL-SAGAN] Billions and BILLIONS [/CARL-SAGAN] due to those Evil Content Pirates(tm)!

  11. Re:FPS from 1980 on Tron Legacy Exposed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not an FPS, but a 3D wireframe: Tempest.

  12. Re:Responsibility to customers on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 1

    Their Kindle. You obviously don't own it.

  13. Me too on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    In my case, it was 1st and 2nd.

    My dad got tranferred to Boston in the middle of my first grade year (spring 1969). When I proudly printed my name for my new teacher, I was informed that they used handwriting.

    When we moved back to SoCal a year later (middle of 2nd grade), the exact reverse happened.

    I blame that whole mess for my illegible cursive.

  14. Snopes on Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission · · Score: 4, Funny

    As always, XKCD has the answer.

  15. Re:All I know... on The Battle Between Purists and Pragmatists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bloody Neutral.

    What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

  16. Re:Hooks under the desk and velcro ties on Cable Management To Defeat Clutter? · · Score: 1

    Cable labels are very helpful: 3com makes label dispensers that help

    I use a P-Touch, and just print "CABLENAME CABLENAME" so that I can see it from either side of the cable when it's wrapped.

  17. Re:but... on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Add in the "10 minute recharge" and you get 356/6 KWh = 59.3KWh

  18. Re:My experience in China on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Is that the new Apple sex toy -- iWood?

  19. Re:Halfway Competent on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Friend had a similar issue.... wound up being a dying CMOS battery.

  20. Re:Proper Old Skool on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    The cost of Project Apollo was $25 Billion.

    Nice try, though.

  21. Obligatory FastCompany on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 1
  22. Re:So who was it ?? on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    Aren't they also a unit of mass?

  23. Re:Encryption plan on Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk · · Score: 1


    If someone wants to spend that kind of money and resources to get you, then it doesn't matter what kind of decryption they have. If they can't ruin you by decrypting your secrets then they can just make something up.

    Ob XKCD

  24. Re:What's Firefox? on Linux Distributions' Tracking of Upstream Projects Examined · · Score: 1

    With Emacs, it ain't hard.

    You do know that they have medicines for that... v1AgrA, C1alis, etc...

  25. Re:WTF?? on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    In other news, XP and Vista aren't Win9x.