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  1. Re:The realm of what shouldn't be... on Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers · · Score: 1

    That just doesn't seem like the original intention of the patent system.

    Oh, but it is. This kind of crap has been going on for a very long time.

  2. Re:Yes, as flexible as a cd on RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the disk is defective. You should take it back. Otherwise just copy it the old fashioned way...to a cassette.

  3. Re:Wake up please. on University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your desire for vengeance will only serve to drive the next guy underground. I certainly would know better than to come forward in a world with an attitude such as yours. You all are so quick with your "lock 'em up" bullcrap.

  4. Re:Why is that even possible? on Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    It's not like you're presented with a "destroy the world" button when you log in!

    Well, maybe not a button

  5. Re:The answer... on What Modern Games Are DRM-Free? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm the first person to voice this (unpopular) view.

    No you're not. It pops up like an annoying ad everytime the subject of DRM or copyright comes up. And it's lame. GNAA is a better read.

    Fuck I hate this site sometimes.

    Click here.

  6. Re:Yet another "War on XXX"... on Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    They are very successful. The defense contractors, law enforcement and prison industries, and the government auction houses that sell their stolen, er, seized goods are making lots of money. What's good for them is good for America. Prohibition is good business, and the business of America is business.

  7. Re:Foreign copyright infringement? on Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, by keeping it "civil" they can make a nice end run around the 4th. Just like RICO. Very astute.

  8. Re:Placebo effect on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 1

    And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. - Mark 5:34

  9. Re:Disgusted on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    What is it like being so worthless?

    You should know.

    Love ya :-)

  10. Re:Disgusted on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    ...dumbass.

    HEY! That word is already taken...by someone far better than you. Go find another corner!

  11. Re:Hello... Evolution? on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    Meh, screw it, lets just shoot at pakastan a few times and see if we can make them do something stupid...

    Okay

  12. Re:FAA biggest joke ever on FAA's Aging Flight-Plan System Having Problems · · Score: 1

    As far as parts costs are concerned, it's important to remember that economies of scale apply here. Narco doesn't sell 20 million navcoms a year. On the other hand(I have five fingers), but seriously, Chrysler used to make the alternators that were installed on Lycoming engines. Precisely the same units used on your average Dodge or Plymouth. But they cost several times more, due to the tag it needed to be used on aircraft. If you think general aviation is bad, buy a boat.

    TSA? Yeah, I seem to remember that :-) They were using the Total Air Temperature probes(a new fancy version of the Outside Air Temp gauge?) as handholds while climbing around the aircraft. It seems they are very important for all these new computers.

    A lot of FAA systems haven't improved much at all. I remember the complaints about the entire ATC system since before the PATCO strike. Some things never change.

  13. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    So you're willing to degrade my working conditions for that purpose also? You want to bring the U.S. down to India's level? Turn it into a third world sweatshop? Well, good show. That's exactly what our corporate overlords want you to do. It would be better that you demand the right to follow the job to India yourself.

  14. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's about achieving a balance of power and who sets the rules. I just happen to believe that the people who perform the work should have more say in their working conditions. Otherwise you will see a return to the 80 hour work week and more child labor in sweatshops. I acquired this attitude through the experience of watching the company make arbitrary rule changes. Because before that, I was very anti union with a very pleasant job. I wanted to make sure it stayed that way. And no, I didn't complain when my job was replaced by a machine. I just learned fix the machine. Now if you guys are going to be on 24 hour call with your beepers and cell phones, you should damn well be paid for it. And no piss tests. Just don't show up all drunk, or whatever.

  15. Re:No problem... on The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further"

  16. Re:California Strikes Again on Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    ... then when will they expect us to comply?

    They don't. They expect you to get arrested, then go pick fruit, or break rocks for 20 cents an hour, because they ran off all the immigrants. Prohibition is big business.

  17. Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    There's always the hosts file.

  18. Wonderful on Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Paging Yakov Smirnoff on Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You have such nice things in the U.S...like warning shots!"

  20. Re:Good choice on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1
  21. Re:This makes me want to send a rude email. on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody?

    The very last thing that this place needs is the ability to delete posts. It would be one of the most detestable things that could happen. On that thought alone you should be told to take a hike. It was a real shame that Slashdot couldn't lawyer up and tell Scientology to do the same thing.

  22. Re:This is not how you stop riots... on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    anarchists breaking windows and throwing bottles?

    Or double agents provoking a riot?

  23. Re:CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    Give Ireland back to the Irish
    Give Lapland back to the Laps
    Give China back to the Chinese
    And Yoko back to the Japs

    the preceeding was performed by the late Paul McCartney

    "I'm dead"

    No intents offended

  24. Re:CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 1

    "'WHISKEY' describes an imitator, produced in America or Ireland."

    I better give up while I'm behind

  25. I am no Terrorist! on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 1

    Of that I know
    The government actually
    Really told me so
    But there are some others
    Who say the rumors are true
    I may have blown up
    A Lego or two
    So now I can't fly
    On your fancy jet liners
    I just have to walk
    To the greasy spoon diners
    And wait for that Greyhound
    To South Carolina.