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  1. Re:Goodness! Did sanity just prevail?! on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    They did it with the Voting Act question. The official opinion stated that the law "served its purpose". There was one Constitutional amendment and saying that it had an effect on it is BS. Otherwise, the ruling should be the same. It isn't about it "serving its purpose". It sounds like they were engaging in legislation.

  2. Re:Er, what? on CCTV Hack Takes Casino For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    They only way they can limit their losses is to ask the dealer to slow the game down. The dealer can't think outside of that.

  3. And airplane flights today could last a maximum of a day. That doesn't speak to well for cloned species in 2100.

    * tongue-in-cheek

  4. I think there was a study (and /. posting) that it is theoretically not possible to "Jurassic Park" anything older than Saber Tooth or Mammoth. I think it is because of the genetic half-life. So doing a Saber Tooth probably wouldn't be the next step. More like one of the last steps. But it might be the most profitable...

  5. Re:Obligatory Post. on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Most are baptized really quickly. I was baptized within a week. Today, people are baptized within months.

    News: That doesn't make you Catholic. Confirmation makes you Catholic. Baptism, within the Catholic Church, is about your parents (and god parents) raising you within the Catholic traditions.

  6. Re: 2/3 majority on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Only the Pope is infallible in the execution of the office. So even Pope Francis could have voted wrong.

  7. Re:Obligatory Post. on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    "... unless you are a Catholic" = choice. No one is born Catholic.

  8. Re:Initially a chemist on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Actually, a Masters in Chemistry

  9. Re:Haters Gonna Hate on New Pope Selected · · Score: 3

    In trinity, it is one person, therefore monotheistic. That one person is just represented by multiple entities. They are not in conflict. In Java, I can do the following and create one entity with 3 references. There is still just a singleton:

    Object god = SingletonClass.getInstance();
    Object jesus = god;
    Object holySpirit = god;

  10. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    From what I read, he is fine with others being homosexual. He just doesn't think they should marry or adopt children.

    Not taking sides; just stating that what I read may contradict your view of him

  11. Re:Tired of This Case on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    It was going to say that it was a typical acoustics rant probably expecting everyone and grandmas to know that bullhorns are loud and talking or whispering makes it harder for unintended listeners to hear.

    If you don't know what you are doing, then don't complain when it is done wrong. If I think 100 euro is worth US$100, then I am stupid. I don't need a law to rescind my purchases that I thought I was getting a good deal on. You would only be perpetuating the issue.

    Ignorance is no excuse for the law; and ignorance should be no excuse to create a law

  12. Re:no tapping on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    The analogy is only bad because you didn't make it about a car. Otherwise, it would have been superb!

  13. Re:oh no on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    They were different, but neither should have been punished. We need to return to a society where you, the individual or company, are responsible for hiding your information. Right now, we are making insecure systems because of lazy laws. If this happened in the physical world, houses would be built out of windows and you wouldn't be allowed to look at someone's property, because you might "invade their privacy". The law of the virtual world are crazy!

  14. Re:When you broadcast your personal info unencrypt on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 2

    I am going to get naked and stand in my yard until someone looks at me. Then I am going to sue them for invading my privacy. Profit!

  15. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Ok. Hypothetically, you are on a road that has a speed limit of 55 and a min speed of 40. And the yellow light lasts 0.5 secs. What do you do?

    I know this is an extreme example, but it shows how important the length of the yellow light really is. The point is that you can't safely or legally go slow enough to account for some yellow lights. Now, if I knew a yellow light was 0.5 secs, I would drive 15 mph....but 15 mph is breaking the law and EXTREMELY dangerous.

    Your simple answers don't work.

  16. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    I don't remember that being the case in Germany. However, they did have a nice yellow before a green. It was like I was at a race track.

  17. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    You are a safety hazard by going slower than traffic. And it is proven that you are a safety hazard; I am not making crap up.

  18. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    What if I stop at the line and the car behind me hits me so hard that it pushes me over the white line?

  19. Re:Information != Knowledge on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    No. He admitted that he learned something that day. He was new (young) too.

  20. Re:Good idea on City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most mail needs to go into a "we'll deliver it when most cost effective; max of 14 days". Just build up the mail to a certain area until it gets "full", then deliver it. Some areas would only have deliveries once a week. Others would be every day. You can then have a real "first class" mail that would be delivered more often.

    Basically, introduce a "second class" mail. And price the first class MUCH higher.

  21. Re:Doesn't seem realistic on Moon Mining Race Under Way · · Score: 1

    Not until some genius invents a new propulsion system and hand computes coordinates in his head and gets there in under $1m.

  22. Re:Information != Knowledge on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 2

    I was having heart palpitations and the doctor said it was probably anxiety and prescribed me some pills. I never took one of them because I am not an anxious person. When I started having the issue, I certainly got anxious...thinking I might die with one of these attacks.

    I decided to look it up. I found that there were too many things that cause it. So I decided to treat it like an experiment. One day, I found that I had the issue, both at work, and on my way home from work. I had to pull over on the road, thinking I was having a heart attack. The only thing I could think of was my diet that day had an abnormal amount of Coke Zero.

    So I looked up the ingredients and found aspartame and its purported link to heart palpitations. I stopped drinking Coke Zero cold turkey. I never had the issue come back. I then drank a couple more to see if the issue would come back, and it did. Like clockwork...a couple hours have drinking it, I would start having issues. So I stopped drinking it again and no problems.

    A few months later, I had the issue again. The only thing I was doing different was that I had some gum. I rarely ever chew gum, so I suspected it was the cause...sure enough: aspartame. It happened again several months later: this time fake sugar in brownies brought in by a co-worker.

    While being diagnosed with the pig flu (which sucked at the time, but made me immune to everything for a couple years), I told my doctor that I discovered the cause for the heart palpitations. I told him my whole process of determination and experimentation. He was quite shocked. I knew he didn't believe me at first, but with the stuff mentioned above, it is quite convincing.

    For the record, I have no problem with sucralose.

  23. Re:"Always on" is "Mostly Unusable For Several Wee on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1

    Cloud gaming

  24. Re:Get TeamViewer on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    I didn't go that far, because the port is open for 15 minutes, max, about once a month. It would be like getting a better lock for my door in my garage for those few moments my garage door is open.

  25. Re:Rule #1 on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Flagged Channels For XBMC PVR? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You must not watch sports...which is fine. But your whole strategy blows up for half the population that sees the primary purpose of a TV being for sports.