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  1. Re:What about selling your vote? on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    Election laws governing what votes can do are goerning by the laws of the various states. Here in Washington state, the law seems clear about buying votes, and vote swapping too.

  2. Re:Nothing incoming on Open Library Goes Online With Public Domain Books · · Score: 1

    Thank Ghu most eyeglasses are made out of plastic these days.

  3. Does it make any difference... on Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... if he's right or wrong if in the end he's bankrupted by legal fees? Inviting financial ruin just to support cheapskates does not sound like a creditable strategy in the world we live in.

  4. poorly marked railroad crossing on Blame Your Mistakes on Technology · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The woman's car got crunched because the rail crossing was so poorly lit and poorly marked that she didn't know she was on train tracks. I do think she's overreacting by swearing of navigation systems, but then I'm sitting at a desk and she nearly got hit by a train. Let some time go by and her head (and others) will clear and that problem with the crossing will be addressed.

  5. Re:TV? Why? on Disney Says, You WILL Watch the Ads · · Score: 1

    DVDs? Ad-free? How long has it been since you've watched a DVD? DVD's with unskippable ads have been out for years. You don't discover the ads until you've already bought the disc.

  6. Re:The "future" on The Internet of Things - What is a Spime? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yah, practical for our future overlords. Run.

  7. no more security through obscurity on Windows Live and Privacy · · Score: 1

    We know where you live and we can see that pitiful lock on your front door. Get serious about security, indeed. :/

  8. big bang? on World's Largest Atom Smasher Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    The article says the collider should be able to duplicate conditions just after the Big Bang. We're only guessing about conditions after the Big Bang and we don't know what caused the event. So how do we know they won't reproduce conditions just before the Big Bang? Oops... At least in Schild's Ladder, civilization had time to run like hell.

  9. the commutivite property of addition... on This Rare Friday the 13th · · Score: 1

    ... is taught in grade-school. Surely you don't expect anyone fascinated by numerology to remember it now... ?

  10. Re:Fastest Travellling News on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I saw the news posted over on Digital Photography Review of all places.

  11. We should be using the GPU hive mind... on New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU · · Score: 1

    ... to figure out how to eradicate those who still believe in war. GPU, thou art God.

  12. Re:how... on Rubik's Cube World Championships · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are given the scrambled cube to study for a time and then are blindfolded. You have to perform all the moves to solve the cube while blindfolded.

  13. Behind schedule on Space Tourism? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    We (the human race) have been sending people into orbit for 44 years. 44 years after the Wright brothers first flight, we were on the verge of commercial jet air travel. The ill-fated de Havilland Comet was introduced in 1949. Commercial air travel for the rich (and foolhardy) on prop planes had been available since 1928.

    So I think we're behind schedule--- we should have been sending rich people up there to die twenty years ago. If things had gone according to schedule Challenger's cargo bay would have been refitted for passengers by then and 30 people could have died that day in 1986.

  14. Re:"We are still in hurricane season," on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 2, Interesting
    what the fuck does it take to get fired in this administration?

    Expressing disagreement with the notion that the solution to all the nation's problems is tax cuts for the wealthy. Ask ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

  15. Re:Built-in power amp? Heh. on A Review of the iPod nano · · Score: 1
    Anyway, don't talk down to Mossberg, it just makes you look clueless.

    Maybe he does. But he could at least mention in his so-called product review whether the nano has EQ or not. If you're going for a run in the city, with traffic growling all around you, you need EQ else you'll likely not hear any bass at all. But looking at Mossberg's paunch the idea of vigorous exercise probably never occurred to him.

  16. Re:I would totally do ... on 20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space · · Score: 1

    Me too. The problem is that you'll be supersonic and spinning like a propeller by time you reach a point where opening your chute will do any good. By then (assuming your arms and legs haven't come out of their sockets and you haven't caught fire) the shock of opening your chute would be fatal.

  17. black sky or zero gee? on 20k Down Can Get You Up Into Space · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think what most people want from a trip to space is to muck about in zero gee. If that's the case they could get much more bang for their buck with this. Just the down payment for Branson's Most Excellent Adventure would buy five of these trips.

  18. Re:Is anyone else thinking super soldiers? on Power Armor For the Elderly · · Score: 1

    30 grand won't get you the mil-spec version. Instead of ordnance the enemy will shower your soldiers with Loctite, turning them into well-armed statues. Or they'll use microwaves to induce currents in your electronics, again turning your soldier into a statue. By the time you harden your systems enough to survive on the battlefield, you might as well build a tank.

  19. Re:Offset backups first, then RAID on Basics of RAID · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Um, and so they should. The automobile is obsol on Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF · · Score: 1

    That hasn't stopped them from peeing in DC's Metro trains. Or maybe it's drunken fratboys. Either way, it only has to happen once. The car will stink forever.

  21. Re:Um, and so they should. The automobile is obsol on Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF · · Score: 1

    Looks great until you realize that bums will pee in all the cars.

  22. There will be consolidation... on Time for a Linux Consolidation? · · Score: 1

    ...when developers get tired of solving the same problems over and over again. RIght now there is plenty of energy out there. The developer need to get bored, tired or both. Until then the competing file layouts, package systems, and GUI desktops will continue to joust for supremacy... that's just the way of things.

  23. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. on Flying the Wiretapped Skies · · Score: 1
    The judge that wants to uphold the constitution and bill of rights? The judge should require substantial evidence that the person is a possible terrorist before signing anything that would violate their rights.

    No such judge is present in the FISA courts. They can prove me wrong by publishing transcripts of FISA hearings. Taking their word for it is not an option.

  24. Re:Um, wait they are Tadpoles. on Sun Announces Its First Laptop · · Score: 1
    Well, I guess that would explain why they buried this new product so deeply in their website. Not a peep about it on the Sun homepage. NBFD, I guess.

    Someone ought to mention to Sun that monitors is spelled with only one 't'.

  25. Re:Suitability on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I think I speak for the rest of slashdot when I say that you are alone.

    Oh, no you don't! That scene at the end with Anakin being roasted alive would have given me nightmares for a month at age 7. If a 7-year old can watch something like that without flinching then maybe TPTB have a point about kids' exposure to violence.