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  1. Re:It's called "Insurance" on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 0

    insurance only pays the blue book value of the vehicle, look it up, your car is worth a lot less than you think. there's no way I can find a replacement for my car at the current blue book value.

  2. Re:It's not just drugs. Sometimes it's culture, to on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 0

    what class did you take that homework can just be copied? can't be any classe that you write any report or a paragraph? are they multiple choice questions?

  3. Re:You can save a lot on Which Company Is the Largest? · · Score: 0

    Tech companies like Apple don't even disclose their number of employees in China and India anymore.

  4. exclusives on PSN Outage Continues, Console Hack Claimed To Be Responsible · · Score: 0

    PS3 exclusives: Uncharted 3, Resistence 3, LBP 2, Killzone 3, SOCOM 4
    Xbox 360 exclusives: "not having your credit card info stolen"

  5. Re:Consoles are out of date by definition on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 0

    you don't need a high end $1000 PC, I just bought a Radeon 5770 graphics card for $100, DX11 compliant and has 1Gb of RAM! 4 times more than what's on PS3 and 360. you can't even buy a PC with 256MB of RAM anymore. so for $400 today you can build a PC that is significantly faster than current gen consoles, this wasn't true a year ago.

  6. Re:Lies. on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 0

    Html5 is several years away, and always will be

  7. Re:Co... comm... commute? Why not live close to wo on The Newspaper Isn't Dead Yet · · Score: 0

    paper companies grow trees for the purpose of making paper, they are not cutting trees in the wild.

  8. Re:My first gaming experience. on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 0

    it's just nostalgia. which console do people think is the best? NES? SNES? PS1? PS2? it depends on your age.

  9. Re:They took my job on My Job Went To India · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    well, why is it a virtue to buy "Made in America" products? I would rather have my money go to a third world country where people really need it, than have it go to some spoiled Americans that think they deserved to be paid $40 an hour.

  10. Re:Not watching on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    how can you not watch? China is projected to win more gold medals than USA, we are going to witness the new world order change hands.

  11. Re:Can't read.... on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 2, Informative

    So tell me again, what is the "political motivation" of those climatologists who believe in global warming?

    - - - - -

    How about the billions of dollars in "global warming" research grant?

    http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-07-04.html

  12. Re:Not Surprising on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    Any kid in high school can tell you it's just not "cool" to be smart and do well in school, do you blame that on Hollywood, or the religious right?

  13. It's all nostalgia on Final Fantasy IV One Of The Greatest Games · · Score: 1, Informative

    People who grew up playing FF4 think it's the greatest RPG ever, just like people grew up playing FF7 think it's the best (same for FF6, FF10). All are good games, but how can you decide which one is the best ever without regarding to the nostalgia people have? If FF4 is a great time compared to games in its day, but if it's released today, even with updated graphics, will people think it's better than FF10? I doubt it.

  14. Re:Dilema with my Young Kids on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 0

    You are assuming they would want to watch these 6 boring movies.

  15. Re:But in Nevada they get tested on COMDEX Cancelled Again · · Score: 0

    why did you think the OP was referring to hookers AT ALL? I assumed he was just referring to the crazy partying life that goes on there.

  16. Re:With the current state of our economy... on PSP Reception Lukewarm in US? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Tokyo is expensive to live in, but people in their 20s-30s still live with their parents, and there's no stigma as in the states. So I would think the young people have more disposable income there.

  17. Re:There's a good reason on Israeli Army Frowns on D&D · · Score: 0

    Just what is "imaginitive" about playing a game following rules in a rulebook?

  18. Re:Free Market on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 0

    even if you believe this is a "housing bubble", owning still makes more sense than renting, you don't get to "save the difference". My mortgage is 1700 a month, 300 a month for property taxes, 200 for HOA fee. for the mortgage, most of it goes to equity, and the interest part is tax dedutible, so is the property taxes. My calculations show that I'm "throwing away" 1100 a month for my 2 bedroom condo, and in 15 yrs I'll own the place outright. I can easily rent it out for 1500 a month if I need the money, and that is how much it costs to rent a 2 bedroom apartment around here. Don't wait til you're married to buy a place, it always makes sense to own! And the biggest difference between buying vs renting: Ask people that own what it is like coming home to a place you own, rather than renting, most will NEVER go back!

  19. Re:Baseball happens in the real world... on The Physics of Baseball · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure if I agree. Basketball has lots of stats as well. So does football, and tennis has gotten pretty cool with the overlay plots of serves and points won. But basketball is a sport that stats don't mean very much. Is a player averaging 30 pts a game better than a player averaging 25 pts a game? The former might just be in a really bad team and have way more shot attempts. Another example is that a team that leads the league in offensive rebounds is almost always a bad shooting team, which leads to more offensive rebound oppurtunities, and not because the team is actually any good at getting offensive rebounds.

  20. Re:they also lack the ability to on Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo · · Score: 0

    of course you can, I have the exact same model. Press "List", then option "C", choose the name of the series, press enter, and choose "recording options".

  21. Re:Who would have thought! on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "In my personal experience, people that gripe about Perl are the ones that use it least" well duh, people that don't like perl obviously wouldn't use it much.

  22. Re:What a friggen bunch of whiners on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 0

    So why is your salary supporting both of you? tell your wife to get a job, even if she has a 30K job that's more than enough for both of you to live comfortably. I am single and make 75K, live in San Diego as well, I have a 15 year mortage of $1800 a month for my two bedroom condo, I contribute 12% to my 401K, after that I easily save another $500 a month. stop whining and get your finances in check.

  23. New Hampshire poll: Bush 57%, Dean 30% on Disintermediation and Politics · · Score: 0

    it's not even close, Dean is too far to the left to win in a general election. http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/13258.htm

  24. Too much Howard Dean on /. on Disintermediation and Politics · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can't take it anymore, it's not like there's any chance in hell he's gonna win.

  25. california wild fires not a story apparently on Bitter EJB · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a freaking blackout on the east coast was a story here, and the wildfires destroying hundreds of homes in southern california is not? give me a break!