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  1. Re:Good deal. on Google Sues Click Inflators · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are living in a capitalist society - it depends on greed to function properly.

  2. Re:Good! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    BTW, Apache has a 'speling' module for you...

  3. Moon on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Well, it could hit the moon and then cause moon to hit the earth in a galactic game of billiards. Anyway, all we need to do is turn the earth so that the asteroid falls into the pacific ocean...

  4. Re:Seems bogus to me on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    They probably use a botnet to do the computations...

  5. Re:Texas state constitution - nothing about net on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    Well, as Catherine, daughter of Constantine said: "I rule beside god.". So, I am a supreme being...

  6. Re:Texas state constitution - nothing about net on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hell, you got to pass a 'Sec 4 RELIGIOUS TEST' to be a Texan?

  7. Re:Going about doing this. on Free/Open-Access Academic Journals Growing · · Score: 1

    There is a free system called Owl, which was originally developed for a Medical Research Council. It should do what you need: http://owl.sourceforge.net/features.php

  8. Re:I did that last week and almost got arrested... on Sousveillance in Seattle - Watching the Watchers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The sad thing is that America IS a police state, but most Americans don't realise the fact. Exactly what current emergency is served by the Patriot Act?

  9. Re:I'd Pay For This In The U.S. on France May Require Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    If you wear your biometric ID card in your breast pocket and a terrorist would stab you with a sharp pointy toothpick, the ID card could significantly blunt the toothpick and make the other end stab said terrorist in the palm of his hand, thereby teaching said terrorist a valuable lesson in Newtonian mechanics, namely that every stupid action has an equally stupid reaction.

  10. What? on Our Ratings, Ourselves · · Score: 1

    What is TV? Anything without hyper links is dead.

  11. Re:Hand-based biometrics and public health on Linux Biometrics Site Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    So, the wash basins do work, but are not cleaned often enough?

  12. Re:Be careful with biometrics! on Linux Biometrics Site Opens Doors · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, what about cold countries. I once walked into the bank and could not sign my name - my hands were too cold. So, they just laughed and carried on without a signature.

  13. Re:N.A.D.D? on Broadband Life and Internet Anxiety Disorder · · Score: 1

    "People want to be deceived; therefore, let them be deceived." Amen, brother...

  14. Re:They are a corporation. Profits"doing no evil" on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    No, its only a few young, inexperienced geeks, who are not making any money at all, that complain about it. Guys who run their own shops obviously know something about economics, but this is sloshdat - most people hanging out here are 20 years old, stony broke and living in their parent's basement...

  15. Re:Minimum wage? on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether company tax on profits, plus tax on dividends is more or less than tax on salary. Not getting any salary, doesn't mean I don't get paid - or that I don't pay tax. What it does mean is that I don't pay any 'payroll' taxes and since that is much higher than corporate tax plus tax on dividends, I save a lot in tax and has more money in hand.

  16. Why $1? Why not $0? on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 1

    This is an honest question - why $1? My salary is zero, nada, zilch. I only pay myself dividends, but this is Canada. Is there a legal reason why these guys use $1? Is the $1 worth all the extra paperwork?

  17. Re:BestBuy cashier broke the law on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    So, did they have a sign that they don't accept $1 coins or $2 bills?

  18. Only in America on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    I Soviet Russia, people don't have any money to be arrested for.

    Pardon, but we have to have at least one lame Soviet Russia joke about this..."

  19. Re:Open Acrobat on PDF Tracking On the Way · · Score: 1

    Time to get a better firewall that doesn't ask stupid questions?

  20. A PDF is a data file on PDF Tracking On the Way · · Score: 1

    so, you can always run a PDF file through a cleanup utility. Stupid idiots...

  21. What? You don't like the XP Teletubbies theme? on New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always find the the easiest way to convince people to use the Plain Jane Windows interface, is not patiently explaining that the new look makes it slow, but simply saying: Shall I fix the Teletubbies Look?

  22. Re:A little comparison: on New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule · · Score: 1

    10 out of 10 for trying Johnny, now go and stand in the corner and put the Dunce Cap on your head... ;-)

  23. Online doc file conversion tool on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: 1

    You can convert your doc files online here: http://www.oooconv.de/engine/OOOconv.php

  24. Re:So what ... on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: 1

    Reverse engineering is specifically allowed under the US DMCA. It is a common fallacy that it isn't, advanced by people who don't like the law, without ever having read it.

  25. Re:legitimate uses on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 2

    Mandrake Linux is distributed via torrents. That is a perfectly legal way to distribute the enormous bandwidth costs of millions of downloads of several CDROMs full of Free data.