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  1. Question on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does someone have a list of Senators currenty in favor of the act. They need to be urgently sto^H^H^H replaced.

  2. Re:sooo? on U2 Threatens to Release Album Early on iTunes · · Score: 1

    Having acquired the music, the fan will be less likely to pay for it when it is released legally

    This is a myth that has been posted everywhere by the music industry. There has been absolutely no valid proof that this is true. The people who would not have bought the album still won't buy it.

  3. UIC on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I go to Univ of IL at Chicago. We have 7 Windows labs. In each lab there would be an average of 30 Computers with about 5 of them Macs. There are two Linux labs. One is about 30 computers. The other has 30 or so Red Hats, and another 60 Sun computers. The only people that can use the Linux labs are the CS majors. Everybody else has to use the Windows labs. They use XP, and their configuration sucks. I remember when they had 98 and let you do pretty much what you wanted, but now everything is locked. Ironically some of the CS profs teach us how to get past the protection. Last semester we were taught how to get around their protection to open a dos prompt(I know, pretty basic).

  4. Re:Good on Violent Video Game Law Struck Down · · Score: 0

    You can't obey all laws. 2 Weeks ago I was in somewhat of a car accident. I was heading straight and somebody in an SUV(I was in a 91 Corolla) turned left right in front of me. There was no way I could stop in time, and I hard right of way, so what the SUV had done was illegal(I also had green light). I had two choices hit the SUV, or avoid and destroy my car by going into the forest. If I hit the SUV I would have hooked his rear right and he woulda spun out and been killed, probably would have fell into a ditch on the side of the road. But in that case, even if he died there were witnesses and his insurance would have payed me for the damage to my car. Instead I spared the dumb asses life and barely went around the back of his car. Was able to get the car to not plow into woods, but couldn't stop it from going across median. Destroyed both front wheels, frame of my car destroyed on rear left. Car dead, unless I pay more than the car is worth to fix it. The guy left, no way to get his license number. The cops who took my report called this a 22 catch, or something like that. Now you tell me, I did nothing wrong, and now I'm completely fucked since I work and go to college an hour drive away from home. The law doesn't always work. As someone once told me, he sees the speed limits as suggestions. And BTW, civil engineers set those limits specifically 5mph less than what a sane person should go on those streets.

  5. Re:root/root on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 0

    Not just to toss things up, but to make sure you didn't figure out it was a honeypout.

  6. Re:Yeah... and? on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 0

    What does a person do after they graduate Art collage?

    Serve coffee.

  7. Re:Yeah... and? on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 0

    Computer use suspended first three years of HS. Each time for a different reason. Suggestion: if you ever decide to go to a hacking site and download things, make sure you don't have a 300+ pound lab admin standing right behind you.

  8. Re:People may complain but.. on Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID · · Score: 0

    Seek 1, I would like you to meet my friend Natural Selection.

    BTW, the US government has valued most people in the US to have a worth of one to six million dollars. If this was put up before our congress with a pricetag in the trillions, and only one kid would be saved, it would have no chance.

  9. Re:I bought a shirt.... on Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually you get dramatically more money in return, considering all those girls who won't date you for wearing it.

  10. Re:I have to question this.... on Tubes vs Transistors: An Audible Difference? · · Score: 0

    In some fields time doesn't matter. For example, the American Journal of medicine goes to way before the 1900. I don't remember the date of the first issue, but it may have even been in the 1700. These journals are still used a lot. But any doctor will tell you that if you've been out of med school for 3 years, everything will have changed. Things done in the past are still very important, even in a very fast changing field.

  11. Re:These are trying times on How To Make Friends on the Telephone · · Score: 0

    4)Did you, by chance, get and open the three .JPG images and a Word document? I sent you to make sure they're not pr0n, viruses, or malware from some cretin in China who wants to turn me into a zombie.

  12. Re:Prices, etc... on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 0

    College books are completely insane. $100+ for a 100 page piece of shit paper back book. Written by the instructor 10 minutes before the semester began, so good luck looking for it on Amazon.

  13. When I worked as a porn star on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 0

    My boss payed for my hookers.

  14. Good old gov't on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good thing the information of most of the US population isn't on any handheld devices.

  15. Re:Politics on E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'? · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Diebold Election System.

    Press 1 to vote Bush.
    Press 2 to vote Kerry.
    2

    You seem to have pressed 2.
    Press 1 if this is correct.
    Press 2 if this is wrong.
    1

    Do you mean 1 you want to vote Bush?
    Press 1 if this is wrong.
    Press 2 if this is correct.
    1

    Your vote for George W. Bush has been registered.

  16. Re:I haven't seen the movie ... but on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 1

    This is a question for /*cue hero music*/ Super Freud!!!

  17. Possible on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Audio problem: Throughout the entire movie, when Doc Ock moves around with his tentacles, it's always in very quick movements, with his tentacles pounding into the ground with "boom, boom, boom, boom..." However, whenever someone actually hears Ock coming, (i.e. Harry on the balcony, the woman in the office, or Peter and Mary Jane in the deli) we can hear very long, three to four-second pauses in between the impacts of his extra arms. Submitted by DenizenZERO

    In those cases he was always coming from far away. He probably wouldn't be just walking on those arms for miles and miles. Personally I'd take the bus, but he may have just been jumping. Considering the average human can spend about 5 sec in the air on a single jump, 2-3 seconds might not be that improbable. Using basic physics, if he was in the air for 2 seconds, he jumped to a height of 5 meters. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, this may be possible.

  18. This is offtopic on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A friend of a friend is in the reserve. He is currently stationed in Iraq. He said that it was common knowledge amongst the military, that they are running out of reserves and there may have to be a draft. I don't want to spread rumors, so can someone prove this one way or another?

  19. Re:Well umm on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who do you think you are, Michael Moore?

  20. Re:And meanwhile... on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 0

    To anyone who says this can't happen: FBI loosing weapons and computers.

  21. Re:A little scary on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: 0

    Exactly. just look at how Bush and Kerry are related.

  22. Re:My first thoughts on opening night on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 0

    [SPOILER ALERT - If you want to watch the film you might not want to read on since I'm about to give away a lot of the detail]

    The movie is supposed to be like a documentary, with most of its parts taken from famous videos. It's like saying that the Harry Potter books should have a "Spoiler" warning on the front.

  23. Re:Thanks fot the explanation... on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 0

    And with that .sig your fan list is about to be slashdotted.

  24. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 0

    Thats not a chicken, thats a man.

  25. Re: Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 0

    Do you know the life they had before we attacked them? I didn't know it either until I heard someone on Fox(yeah I know) ask Colin Powell a question about it. Turns out they had basicly free water and electricity, gas was 5c a gallon. Colin said that had to change to stabilize the world economy or some such crap. Before we came there, they did have schools and hospitals.