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  1. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    As someone who doesn't drink, I've always thought of bars as places to pick up single women or be picked up if you are a woman. A woman is there, dressed up, and presenting herself as available for dating. And guys are there to look for dates. Women bring other women for support or protection. Guys come with other guys to give him the courage to approach a woman. I've never considered it a social gathering place.

    That's what I get for not drinking and getting all my information from movies and TV I guess.

    Carl

  2. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    And again I'd like to know how you want to proceed with this. Tell every person we meet "don't rape"? Just tell our friends "don't rape"? How do you propose to enforce zero-tolerance proactively?

    [John]

  3. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 2

    But the police don't prevent rape. They apprehend rapists after the offense. Rape can be pretty traumatic and in some cases is life changing. This needs to be addressed before the Rape happens.

    The proposal doesn't seem to be about arresting the perpetrators but in making sure guys don't act when situations arise (so to speak).

    And of course, arrests after the fact should already be happening.

    [John]

  4. Re:I wish we didn't need something like this on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 1

    Fine suggestion there. What do you propose for policing our own?

    [John]

  5. Re:Anything similar to alert men of the dangers of on New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs · · Score: 2

    Seriously? Never heard of the Duke Lacrosse Team that was falsely accused of rape?

    [John]

  6. Re:progress on Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down · · Score: 1

    57, and yes. :)

    [John]

  7. Re: Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    Crime show cop so take the question with a grain of salt.

    Since you needed the Google tip to get the warrant, if they can't prove it was or wasn't planted, couldn't that kill the chain causing whatever they found on his computer/tablet to be inadmissible?

    [John]

  8. Re:Yes, let's do this. on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 1

    [Les Nessman] oooOOooo, there's an idea.

    [John]

  9. Re:5thed is irrelevant. on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    It's why I whipped up a set of web pages to handle combat of all types. The originals are a hack. I need to update them for 5th.

    [John]

  10. Re:The only good thing on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 1

    Just for me personally, no. I don't drink coffee or alcohol.

    [John]

  11. Re:Ban caffeine! on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess the Mormons were on to something.

    [John]

  12. Re:Minimum wage on AP Computer Science Test Takers Up 8,000; Pass Rate Down 6.8% · · Score: 2

    Citation Please.

    [John]

  13. Re:Stopped using LinkedIn on The Psychology of Phishing · · Score: 1

    Yea, I closed my account with linked in. Far too much noise and very very little signal.

    [John]

  14. Re:Some people are jerks on Sexual Harassment Is Common In Scientific Fieldwork · · Score: 2

    Marion Zimmer Bradley comes to mind.

    [John]

  15. Excellent! on Marvel's New Thor Will Be a Woman · · Score: 1

    More T&A for the male readers and unreal body expectations for the females. Win-win. :)

    [John]

  16. Re:Streisand effect on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 1

    What, no links? Bastard. I hadn't heard of this site until I got to Slashdot. Bookmarked for later review.

    [John]

  17. Re:real vs pretend on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 1

    Bottom line, hell yes the

    Oh man, the insurance goons got him!

    [John]

  18. Re:Problem with proprietary 'free' offerings on Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps · · Score: 1

    Interesting, my 2004 version works on Windows 7 64bit.

    [John]

  19. Re:Problem with proprietary 'free' offerings on Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They taught map reading in school? How to read a compass? When/where was this? I learned it in Boy Scouts.

    Fortunately us Touring motorcycle riders tend to use paper maps. Unfortunately paper maps are difficult to come by. You have to be a member of AAA to get access to decent maps. Otherwise you're stuck with the Rest Area state maps. Not horrible, I've used them occasionally but they are pretty cheaply printed. Opening the map has it tear at the creases.

    [John]

  20. Re:Problem with proprietary 'free' offerings on Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have the 2004 version of Streets and Trips. I use it for mapping my motorcycle rides. Unlike google maps, I can set where I spend the night, start and stop times, how much gas cost, how often to stop, and even set weights for various aspects of my trips so it'll pick the optimum route for what I want to do (for instance, Beartooth Pass).

    And yea, I thought they stopped making it years ago. I'll have to snag the newest version. My 2004 version has worked just fine since I got it.

    [John]

  21. Re:Cost on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    Actually the estimate when I called in the error code was $60 just to show up and google results said $450 for the board. And also mentioned using the 3x5 card instead as a way it might be fixed. It worked so I'm good.

    But I can still fucking bitch about it you anonymous fucking idiot. Because it's still a stupid fucking idea. Sure, let's add a $450 motherboard to the oven so you have to evaluate the cost of replacing a motherboard for $450 or buying a new oven for $650 and throwing this piece of shit into the nearest land fill.

    My girlfriend did this with her refrigerator. The motherboard passed on and the replacement board was in the $350 range plus the $75 for someone to come out and check it out. In checking the 'net, I found the particular model was some cheap rebranded shit that contractors put in new houses. Looks nice and all but generally lasts for 5 to 7 years before taking a dump. She replaced it with a better model at the Sears store and this one went to a landfill somewhere.

    What a fucking waste.

    [John]

  22. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 0

    But it's green, not yellow. It won't be yellow for 4 more seconds.

    As long as I get into the intersection before the countdown gets to 0, I'm still within the law. Heck, most places you're still good as long as the light is yellow when you leave the intersection.

    [John]

  23. Re:Cost on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 2

    No shit. My oven blew something on the "motherboard" that caused it to require a repair of $450. In checking on line, folks recommended just putting a piece of 3x5 between the plastic cover and the board which seems to corrected the problem, for now. But jeeze, it's an oven.

    [John]

  24. Well, that's assuming 'finally' means today. Technically after almost daily blue screens I finally had the money to replace the two AMD video cards with nVidia cards and the blue screen problem went away. That was almost 2 years ago. So 'finally' means after 3 years of dicking with driver updates and sending cards back to DiamondMM for testing. And the blue screen was only on boot. Some times 10 or 15 times in a row. But once it was up, there generally weren't any further problems (the seldom video setting wackiness but that was very seldom).

    [John]

  25. 'brah'? What, are you 20?

    [John]