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  1. Re:What? on How Do You Punish a 16-year-old Spammer? · · Score: 1

    The only problem is he was 19 not 16.

  2. Re:Without my laptop on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Your lucky, in our company security policy it states that no device containing confidential data is to be left unattended. I could get into serious trouble if I checked my company laptop in as baggage. (I'm sure there's also a clause in there that says I have to sleep with it if I take it home but then, that's not a big problem.)

  3. Re:Use Nature's Solar Panels on Solar Power Minus the Light · · Score: 1

    Because it's their job.

  4. Re:Wow... on MySpace Down Due To Power Surge · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never had any servers in Redbus in harbour exchange.

  5. Re:The Internet on Hong Kong Using Children to Hunt for Piracy · · Score: 1

    Dammit, and I was hoping that it would raise my kid.

  6. Re:Exactly on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    Yes brilliant idea however they are probably onto this already

    the fee will be $30 a disc.

  7. Re:Oh, I'm sure it's okay on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    So instead he now treats all police officers with contempt and would probably go out of the way to not help them. (although I'm sure in the states you can be arrested and charged if you don't see something that the police say happened).

  8. Re:sigh on NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    I've been arrested twice. Both kindof my fault
    first time failure to appear in court (this was a clerical error in the courts and I was appologised too)
    second time I was guilty as hell I know cop new it and I co-operated fully.
    As far as bad experiences go I've had worse at mcdonalds ordering a cheesburger.
    The officers where friendly (and quite silly)

    I've been pulled over by the police a couple of times whilst driving (and maybe breaking some traffic laws (apprently your supposed to decelerate when going round sharp corneres))
    And the officer has always been nice and friendly (one of them gave me a demo of their in car computer systems with reg plate recognition which linked back to insurance and tax databases then we had a chat about cars)

    So from my experience it seems to be how you treat the officer is how you are treated.

  9. Re:Wastes of time on Is Distributed Computing Being Distributed Badly? · · Score: 1

    Yes they should all go out and plant something, oh, never mind.

  10. Re:That's great news! on Star Wars Galaxies Emulator Test Server Hits Alpha · · Score: 1

    Hey I've still got it installed.
    Oh wait.

  11. Re:Before anyone asks... on Billions Donated to Charity · · Score: 1

    Or the irs hasn't caught up with him yet regarding some irregularities in his filings.

  12. Re:To: Mr. George W. Bush on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1

    This is a sound plan however I suggest that any calculations on this matter are only done by one country we don't want a mix up between feet and meters again do we ?

  13. Re:I'm Sick of Appeals to Fear on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious.
    Have you tried flying recently or left the country ?

  14. Re:Actually... on Pirate Party Comes to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    well as Article 101 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) defines piracy as:

    (a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed

    (i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft.
    (ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State,

    (b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;

    (c) any act inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in sub-paragraph (a) or (b)

    So as you want to support the pirates this makes you a pirate.

    Yar!

  15. Re:Make it hard for them on U.S. Government Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    Don't do anything illegal.
    Then they have to waste their time looking for you doing illegal stuff or just make it up.

  16. Re:Independent music recommendation services? on Music Recommendation Engines Compared · · Score: 1

    Might I recomend Best of David Hasselhoff.

    Hot Shot City is particulary good.

  17. Re:Dem cyberterrerrists on CyberTerrorism - Reality or FUD? · · Score: 1

    It's not fud it's real I have experienced it my self I have seen a car catch fir a fter a few weeks of driving.
    It was a 1973 vw bug and the fuel line wasn't held off the exhaust manifold, couple of weeks later and boom thing catches fire.

  18. Re:My question... on CyberTerrorism - Reality or FUD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So everyone out there that runs mission critical scada systems that are permanently linked to the internet raise your hands.

    yeah thought so.

  19. Re:15 foot high waves of molasses on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 1

    After the disaster officials told people to stick to their roofs.

  20. Re:Basic Consumer Practices???? on 'Destroyed' Hard Drive Found At Flea Market · · Score: 1

    Well if I took my car to best buy to get the valves replaced.

    Yes, yes I would

  21. Re:No surprise here move along on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well I don't know what it's like over in the states but over here (uk) there's a little something the providers don't make a large fuss about and that's the contention ratio
    and in some cases it's really bad (something like 40:1 on a standard home dsl) so if you have a 2 meg adsl so if you only get connection speeds of 100kbs there isn't much the provider will do about it (yes I have seen this happen with a certain large provider over here who would not do anything because it was indeed in range)

    So have a look at the contract you signed for your dsl and see what sort of ratio they try to give you.

    If you have a problem with contention ratio then you may need to pay a bit more for say business broadband which has a lot lower contention ratio.

    btw over here if say you have a 1mb adsl and you pay £20 a month for it and all your traffic goes over transit connections (which isps have to pay per mb for) and you use that 1 mb constantly the isp will loose a lot of cash as they will be paying about £30 a meg for the transit then they still have to pay the cost of the dsl connection as well.

    In conclusion read the contract!

  22. Re:Drop the FUD; Read the Opinion on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 1

    What if you could proove your boss was an asshole ?

  23. Re: Well.... on Pirates Promise Improved Version of DaVinci Code · · Score: 1

    In other news Captain Pugwash has filed a lawsuit against the Shanghai DVD shop saying "people like this are giving pirates a bad name HARRRR"

  24. Re:summary is wrong on Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome? · · Score: 3, Funny

    And doc oc doesn't go crazy.

  25. Re:Top Down Design? on Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite · · Score: 1

    Isn't that how babage designed his mechanical computer each part seperately then when it was all put together it didn't work because there was to much friction.