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  1. Re:Huh on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    This is For The Children. It will only push their approval ratings up.

  2. Re:Wouldn't be easier... on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    And how are they gonna prove that you knew what users of your access point are doing? Something tells me you're going to end up having to prove that you didn't know.

  3. Heads will fly over this on Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And I do mean literally.

  4. Re:Why are violent games controversial? on Family Group Releases Annual Games Report Card · · Score: 1

    We live in a country whose government considers torture both moral and lawful.

    No they don't. "Enhanced interrogation techniques" are not torture as long as the President says they're not. By law. And the law is just because John McCain said it was a landmark victory against torture. McCain wouldn't sell out on torture, now, would he?

  5. Re:Then 75% of parent's on Family Group Releases Annual Games Report Card · · Score: 1

    The article is useless without the actual survey questions. I would bet the question was not "Are you worried about the games your kids play", but more along the lines of "Do you think there are some games your kids should not play." Makes a world of difference.

  6. Re:Why am I not surprised? on DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages · · Score: 1

    What, you think electrodes to the testicles is a disproportionate punishment for sharing the last name of a terrorist? Why do you hate America?

  7. Re:I wrote this essay over a year ago... on Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    For something to be a fact it has to be true and you have to know that it's true.

    Nope, just being true is enough. Makes no difference to the Universe if anyone knows it.

  8. Re:I wrote this essay over a year ago... on Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as absolute truth

    The absolute truth is out there. The only problem is that no one can know it for what it is. Now if you were talking about absolute morality, then I'd agree with you.

  9. Re:What about personal things on Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you mean "Brillant"?

  10. Re:Putinist Russia on SixApart Sells LiveJournal to Russian Media Company · · Score: 1

    Putin is doing wonders for the economy.

    I would point out who else did great things for his country's economy, but it would invoke Godwin's Law.

  11. Re:You think this is bad on Facebook Beacon Privacy Issues Worse Than Previously Thought? · · Score: 1

    http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/ The good tin-foil hat stuff doesn't happen until the end. Whether it's true or not, the point is the same: anything you do on the internet will be known. The money and political pressure acting against your privacy will win every time.

    "Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?

    You do not have JavaScript enabled. You are lame."

    Good to know.

  12. ccTLD? on The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered · · Score: 1

    From TFA: The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and ccTLD.

    This seems to imply the possibility of a domain named 'whatever.cctld'. They should have just come out and listed the ccTLDs available at the beginning (UK, SU, etc.)

  13. Re:Secondary effects on Carnegie Mellon Gets $14.4M to Build Robo-Tank · · Score: 1

    "We're sick of war. The Warlock's Wheel would end war. Can you imagine an army trying to fight with nothing but sword's and daggers? No hurling of death spells. No prescients spying out the enemy's battle plans. No killer demons beating at unseen protective walls. Man to man, sword against sword, blood and bronze, and no healing spells. Why, no king would ever fight on such terms. We'd give up war forever!"

    - An anti-magic activist in Larry Niven's short story "What Good is a Glass Dagger."

  14. Re:Ensuring the Privacy of Internet Communication on Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community · · Score: 1

    The FSB (successor to the KGB) can record the entire session of encrypted Internet packets, but the FSB will be unable to decipher the communication.

    Until they submit the encrypted packets to the Folding@home network. What, you didn't think it was really about proteins, did you?

  15. Re:Common Sense!? on Oregon AG Seeks to Investigate RIAA Tactics · · Score: 1

    That's right, one of them has a multi-million dollar lobby indirectly controlling the other two.

  16. Re:Technical Problems on Area 51's Lead Designer Admits Project Was 'F'd Up' · · Score: 1

    I never noticed that problem with PCGamer. At the front of the reviews section they remind what the scale really is (50 = Merely OK, 60 = Above Average, 70 = Good, etc). Thing is, "Above Average" really is failing when you consider how many better games are available. It may not be a bad game, but if there are dozens of better games out there in the same genre, few people will get it.

  17. Re:For Serious? on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, did you check with your dad to make sure he wasn't expecting any packages?

  18. Re:Sounds like standard security clearance stuff.. on NASA Requires JPL Scientists To Give Up Right To Privacy · · Score: 1

    Oh, I forgot to add up the number of times I've been thumb-printed to cash checks

    Damn, what kind of checks are you cashing?

  19. Re:$1,000,000 on IBM Sues Company Selling Fake, Flammable Batteries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Think about it. They have a demonstration that the fake batteries can cause harm to hardware, and most likely to wetware as well.

    Not to mention crotch-wear.

  20. Re:Credit where credit is due... on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's that mind control step that seems the biggest leap. Are you saying that a single random mutation (or sequence of mutations on the same individual wasp) just happened to give the wasp the right venom for mind control and the instinct to sting a second time and attempt to lead the beast home for dinner? How do you subdivide that into valid evolutionary steps?

  21. Re:Signal roundtrip times is the tipoff on New Way to ID Invisible Intruders on Wireless LANs · · Score: 1

    Doesn't cost you anything extra except bandwidth you mean. And money if they decide to bittorrent a few songs. And jail time if they decide to visit a few child porn sites.

  22. Re:Signal roundtrip times is the tipoff on New Way to ID Invisible Intruders on Wireless LANs · · Score: 1

    Why the Hell would I want random strangers to reduce my bandwidth? If they want to browse the big evil world wide web, let them pay for their own high speed connection.

  23. Re:would buy then on Activision CEO Hoping For $200 PS3, 360 By '09 · · Score: 1

    Even in a year, $200 will probably be bargain-basement cheap for blue-ray players.

  24. Re:Can Venus be made habitable? on New Results From Venus Express · · Score: 1

    Well, it worked for Killface.

  25. Re:Venus on New Results From Venus Express · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article is about Venus, not Urectum.