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  1. Re:And thus... on UK Police Want An Automotive Tractor Beam · · Score: 1

    Sir everything you mentioned is invalid. I do live in a rural area, but volunteer paramedics stay at the station for their shift, they don't drive to the station and then to you. And if they do, their still not allowed to speed. Also your not allowed to race to the hospital simply because you feel you know the road and it's empty, do you have sirens on your car, are you sure a child or a dear won't jump out in front of you. And your hurry to the hospital could result in another child needing to go there. Even police are not supposed to speed in most cases, unless they have full lights and sirens.

  2. Re:And thus... on UK Police Want An Automotive Tractor Beam · · Score: 0

    I can't think of any situations like this, because there would be nothing to increase your speed to get away from because everything is speed controlled, more importantly, though, control is gay, if I get caught breaking the law then pull me over, but if I don't get caught, they just need to do their job better.

  3. Re:The problem with this super-duper video boards on Tom's 46 Video Card Roundup · · Score: 0

    Sir, no offense, but your first problem is that believing your 8M card is fine. Secondly, I have never had any problems with my Nvidia drivers, oh and Matrox Millenium was an expensive card when it came out seven years ago.

    Get older, get wiser, upgrade

  4. I say steal the music on New Napster Off To A Solid Start · · Score: 1

    It will do everyone more good if musician stop trying to be multimillionaires and just have to go back to being fairly well paid people. I am sorry but J-lo doesn't need a thirty thousand dollar toe ring.

    Fuck the money grubbing musicians, the good musicians will make their money at concerts anyhow.

  5. Re:How about an anti-spam bill? on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    I suppose it is bad to mispell things or have grammatical errors, but quite honestly I type quickly and just try and get my thoughts down, I reserve this commenting for the little free time I have because I believe strongly in the need for communication. In the future I will make an effort to edit my messages more precisely seeing as how it is obviously very very important that I follow a set of grammatical rules that were just made up in the first place.

  6. Re:How about an anti-spam bill? on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    Because you go to Berkley, was I supposed to be impressed by that, bush went to Yale and he is still an idiot, so I am not much impressed by your going to Berkley, and I certainly would never apologise to a hippy going to liberal school. Next thing I know you'll be advocating gun laws.

  7. Re:How about an anti-spam bill? on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    How quickly do you want our government overturning supreme court decisions or passing bills. That's how we got the damn patriot act. I don't think, even in the nature of getting telemarketers of my back, is it a good idea for our governing body to ever make a decision so rashly. They say 50 million americans can't be wrong, to that I wonder what we could easily convince 50 million americans of. Get rid of taxes, ok, well 50 million americans can't be wrong, oh shit, now we have no defense budget, guess we'll have to rely on the hippies and pussies of america to pick up firearms and defend us. anyhow I am just saying that any matter where the supreme court is overturned should never be taken so lightly

  8. Re:Because the two systems are different on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    one the FTC understands less well, how are you making this accusation, do you know the "FTC" are they friends of yours, did the confer to you that they are not intelligent when it comes to tracing internet traffic, you can trace things through a proxy, if these packets go in one side, and they are this size, blah blah blah, and their are packets that come out the other side, at this time and they are this size, then you can draw the conclusion they are the same data, from the same person, and even that proxy that won't answer emails, gets its internet connection from someone that will. we don't control the world, but this is a world economy and a lot of businesses owned in one area also own businesses here, and then you have the ability to squeeze them, but more than likely it wouldn't take any squeezing, because a big ISP that is supplying a T1 or better to someone, isn't going to even blink an eye at giving up information on some proxy or spammer.

  9. Re:Where do they come from? on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yes,of course your right, because I should believe the amazing data you presented us with. Oh wait, no data was presented, you just made a random claim. Considering Japan, germany, and the UK all have fairly large economies I am sure they as well provide spam, you know it's from germany when it involves more men than women.

  10. Re:How about an anti-spam bill? on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    actually it wouldn't be that difficult at all, because although the mail may be coming from other countries, the money trail will lead back to the host company in the US. Just have a list of emails that are not allowed to be spammed, set up a definition for what spam is, and make the fine so absurd, so grievous that the government will only have to go after one or two companies to get the point across. Or just make it that whenever someone breaks the spam rules, their home address and true public IP get listed online. Then thing will just "work" themselves out. lol

  11. Re:fear causes pussies to bitch on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    The only way for this scenario to work is if we made it totally devastating for someone to punch us in the knows, like if you punch me in the nose, I slaughter everyone in your town, and then launch the heads of my victims on catapaults at your house.

  12. Re:fear causes pussies to bitch on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    Wo....I hope no one associates this idiots comment with my own. I didn't mean I was pro war. I hate this beligerant war, yes lets put terrorists in prison, yes, maybe even hold responsible the country that houses them, but ummm...what the hell can we prove that Iraq did? Nothing, absolutely nothing, do we send people to prison if we can't prove them guilty, no. If I hit you, yes you can hit me, but can you hit my mother, my brothers, my dad, my congressman, my 3rd grade teacher, my doctor, my old soccer coach. We do not owe our millitary a huge debt, we are waging a war against a country already in ruins, even if a child spits on my shoes I will not beat the shit out of it. This war is for oil, for racism, for hate. Maybe I agree with these things, maybe we are Rome and should be imperialistic, but lets not try to pretend were doing it to free the Iraqi people or any shit like that.

  13. Re:Why Not on Meteor Over Midwest · · Score: 1

    So your completely safe as long as you get in a car accident where the opposing vehicle falls directly on top of you. But come on guys, don't mock the VWs, I mean for those poor MAC users out there, they can only drive VWs or passats. Don't eliminate 50% of their choices.

  14. Re:Why Not on Meteor Over Midwest · · Score: 1

    I thought they compared them to VW bugs because they are both things that we hope will burn up before we see them.

  15. Re:Ouch on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think this bill is probably not so much directed at us, IP geeks, as much as it is directed at people stealing sattelite TV, and people stealing cell phones

  16. fear causes pussies to bitch on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You see all the pussies that can't get over the fact that our towers came down. Are using there fear as an excuse to pass thousands of laws, that don't affect them because there non-technical ninnies, and sadly the rest of America is dumb enough to let this crap happen under the guise of patriotism I bet it was patriotic to kill a jew in Germany during world war II, patriotism isn't always a good thing.

  17. People in the specific states that get the law on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    should all just up and leave, taking there companies with them. These idiot states will suddenly notice huge declines in tax revenue and remove the law. (Wishful Thinking)

  18. Re:Removing mountains? on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 1

    humanitarian??? Ummm...I doubt were going to spend millions on humanitarian issues. War is so much cooler to televise. I hope my friends in iraq bring back some mementos.

  19. Re:Remove mountains? Good start. The real question on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 1

    I don't know, nudity in shades of green doesn't do much for me.

  20. Re:Unproven = untrustworthy on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it gets its data directly from live feeds on satalites, not old pictures, the reason why you see old pictures when you go to the sattelite pictures that can be found online is because that is released technology, at this point we have halos of real time down looking satelites in space. My only problem with this, is that there is bound to be some lag, which in current VR systems, is known to cause sudden, horrible vomiting, because the feelings of Gs your feeling are not changing at the same pace your vision is getting new data.

  21. Re:What would they do if.. on Snooping on VOIP · · Score: 1

    that is the worst example I have ever seen and if our criminals are dumb enough to have traffic directly to a company named as such, then they are dumb. But notoriously they use front companies, like shipping companies to purchase goods. then it's From:diablobynight@slashdot.org To: sales@internationalshipping.ath.cx

  22. Re:The day Linux is more widely used than Windows on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 1

    oh, I thought he was just throwing numbers out his ass, because linux is most certainly not a multi-billion dollar industry. Show me statistics that say so, and I'll "eat crow"

  23. Re:What would they do if.. on Snooping on VOIP · · Score: 1

    How exactly does traffic analysis help them have any idea what I am talking about on my phone. I think encryption is an excellent idea.

  24. Re:Monitoring ? on Snooping on VOIP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I actually think people are this stupid. Do we really believe that more big brother will be a help in stopping terrorist? I am sure that lovely gentleman that the FBI says is the head of what happened on 9/11, was talking on an IP phone to cordinate all of this. Fuck the FBI and the horse they road in on, this is just another way for the voyeuristic freaks to get their grubby little hands into more of our privacy. The 9/11 terrorist, came into our country legally, took flight lessons, worked out, and didn't have jobs for months. Last time I checked, flight lessons are about 100$ per hour of flight time. And according to my calculations, people with very little income can't afford that. Maybe this could have been the FBIs clue as apposed to needing to tap the IP phone systems. I am sure that they'll be at my door in minutes and tomorrow my face will be on the news as "suspected of a plot of terrorism."

  25. The day Linux is more widely used than Windows on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 0

    You talk a big talk, but ummmm...in reality, Linux is still pretty fly by night, and won't stand the test of time.