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  1. Re:Somewhat True on McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet · · Score: 1

    Part of a governments job is law. They even have a branch of government specifically for that. The government also has to look out for its people and that is something lawyers are not usually good at because they don't usually (yes, usually to avoid the hard stereotype) know what its like and be $20, or $50, or hell, hundreds even short every friggin paycheck.

  2. Re:Aftermarket coolers are useless for most users. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    Line resistance increases as heat rises. Its common electrical theory. That's one reason its good to use a large gauge wire and fuse it properly at the panel to decrease line loss over long runs with high power demands.

  3. Re:Aftermarket coolers are useless for most users. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    Reduced power usage caused by cooler chips, not to mention thermal degradation over time (some people keep computers for a long time withtout upgrade) could be a factor..

  4. I have found... on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 5, Funny

    That the most effective (and costly), is sticking my wife on my processor. Her icy cold personality towards my computers has allowed me to reach near 0 Kelvin on many over clocked processor lines.

  5. Re:Options. on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 5, Funny

    I inherited it my current living arrangements.

  6. Re:WHACK-A-MOLE on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 1

    Imagine the uptime of said computer with a beowulf cluster of these attached.

  7. Re:the ultimate? on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 1

    I fear the possibility my servers can think and have feelings. My must think I am the most sex depraved individual person on the face of the planet with a tendency towards violence to undressed women.. Geez!! I hope it doesn't get smart enough to learn how to phone someone for help.

  8. Re:Options. on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't have parents anymore. They had an untimely accident tied to a series of unfortunate events.

  9. Re:Unix guys prefer... on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I could get one pedal for escape and another for ":", I think vi could rival most anything for speed.

  10. Options. on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could I get one of these fashioned as a Colt 45 or other such instrument of death? I gotta tell ya, sometimes just beating the hell out of something doesn't leave you with the cold, hard final satisfaction that you killed something.

  11. movies, intellectual? on Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation · · Score: 1

    move industry?
    movies in general?
    intellectual property? (serious)
    Maybe I'm just of mixed opinion, but is a movie really an intellectual property? Should intellectual property be something that makes me smarter? And shouldn't intellectual property be something freely given away anyway as a way to foster increased intelligence to the masses as a whole?

  12. Re:Just stop at parental controls. on Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I consider myself, as does my wife teachers as well. We don't like homework in excess, but we use school homework as family time with our kids. We sit down, help them with it, explain things they don't fully understand, and put our learned spin on things so they have multiple views to expose them to things having more than one way to be solved. Our kids eat usually home cooked meals with us. Eating out is used for days that have excess stuff (doctors appt's and or such things), and pizza on pay days (twice monthly).

  13. Re:Sad on Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York · · Score: 1

    Your argument has many retorts that all have different views depending on your heritage. The original settlers fought to escape that greed imposed on them by Britain. Then, you could say the greed they had for what they had fought and won brought them into more fights. I also understand that what we fought and won wasn't really ours to take and or keep based on the fact someone (indians/native americans) already inhabited this land. But ALL nations were built around greed and expansionism and any country that didn't do that no longer exist or never had anything worth claiming anyway.

  14. Re:Just stop at parental controls. on Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing!! That is just the solution actually.. Leave the parenting to the parent and make parents responsible. Sadly, most parents want it the other way around anymore.
    Who has time to be bothered by a troublesome kid.
    Sure glad the kids at school, now I can have some peace.
    Isn't there some kind of camp or afterschool activity I can send my kid to
    Why don't you go play over at some one elses house

    Parents don't raise their kids anymore, they expect government to do it, and government in turn wants to put THEIR religious and moral beliefs on our children, and punish the parents who disagree with THEIR views.

  15. Sad on Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I actually at first thought to myself 'Is this for real or an onion piece?', but then it dawned on me that such bad legislation is par for the course. Sure one could say ignorance of the law is no excuse, but come on, ignorance of what someone else may think of as violent or indecent contrary to an already established rating system? I'm in the military, and I value what this country was built upon, but I have serious problems with what it has become and where it is going. The vote of the people doesn't even matter anymore. Content publishers and big money pay wages to the political machine that far outweighs the repercussions of going against popular belief and thinking of the people they are supposed to serve.

  16. Re:So uh... on id Software Working on New Title · · Score: 1

    Glad someone did.. I really should pay more attention to my work than trying to write slashdot comment with the time constraint of my boss not seeing it.

  17. Re:So uh... on id Software Working on New Title · · Score: 1

    I"m sure they would have copyright problems with that...Maybe we should be expecting Nuke Dukem Forever.

  18. Re:Carmack's opinion on id Software Working on New Title · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about that. The lead would have to be a really multi-orgasmic female lead. Could also loosely base the plot of the story off of "La Blue Girl".

  19. Re:Carmack's opinion on id Software Working on New Title · · Score: 2, Funny

    kittens!! A smart evolved bacteria that controls kittens is forcing kittens to take over the world as we know it. Its sole purpose is to eventually have a mutant controlled kitten society...The heroin of the movie must masturbate his way through the story because as you know, "masturbate and kill a kitten".

  20. So uh... on id Software Working on New Title · · Score: 1

    Where is the story here? And when is the next Duke Nukem title due?

  21. Re:Run your system off of CD on A Look at BSD Rootkits · · Score: 1

    I actually have a few systems booting from read only mounted CF cards. Updates are easy as I can create an image, stick it on CF and reboot with it...

  22. Linux is dead.. on A Look at BSD Rootkits · · Score: 0, Troll

    Long live BSD

  23. Re:Outlaws on Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should outlaw idiots so only outlaws would have them...Or is outlaw now a synonym for government?

  24. Re:Sigh on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    I see your point. Its a shame that some people treat children as an object/burden/expense/servant to their needs. Parents really need to realize they need to be a servant to their children. They need to feed them just not food, but companionship, love, respect, and time spent.

  25. Re:Sigh on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    Its a parents role to govern a child's activities. If you are my kid, and I tell you to do something, you had better well do what I told you. Now, as that goes, a parent does have to learn to pick the battles to fight because as we all know, kids will be kids. If they mess up, punish them and teach them the wrong of what they did and try to explain WHY its wrong. And I agree, as long as I am providing, things will be done as I say (notice how that isn't slavery). When you tell a child how things will be and you lay down laws, make the laws sensible, and make the rules a difference between "right and wrong" and not "my way or no way".