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  1. Re:I'd be pretty pissed on British ISP Bombards Users With Deleted Emails · · Score: 1

    So if their tests showed it couldn't be done without the (relatively minor) inconvenience of unflagging mails, should they just have shrugged and never changed a thing?

  2. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 2

    WHOOSH!

    The joke is that if during night time there is no ground between your solar panels and the sun they have drifted off into space.

  3. Re:Another "best and brightest" without a clue on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    Because people on the bottom of society aren't allowed a moment's respite from their problems?

    Consider, perhaps, that the console is a gift from a well-meaning friend or family member. Or consider that maybe he's making plenty of money today, buys the console, and gets randomly laid off next month.

  4. Re:...found 800 grand inside on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I was repairing something and found a huge stash of money within, my first thought would not be that my client was a drug dealer.

    My first thought would be something along the lines of, "Holy crap. That is a lot of money. If some is ever missing he'll think I was the one who took it. I don't want any trouble, so I'll tell him to take his money, make sure it's all there, and keep it out of my reach."

  5. Re:What a waste on Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts · · Score: 1

    Is it possible she doesn't turn the game off while doing other things, but just leaves it running in the background? It's not like Freecell is that great a resource hog.

  6. Re:Nope on Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? · · Score: 1

    Your use of extremely literal interpretation of every word in the GPs post based on the experiences of your grandparents - however terrible and traumatic - tells me everything I need to know about both you and Adria Richards.

  7. Re:I've been waiting for this... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    Well, if he's there on his honey moon I'm pretty sure he wants to stay employed to support his newly formed family, but that's just me.

  8. Re:I've been waiting for this... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    What guarantee would he have that he would get his job back and not end up unemployed because his employer only cares about the bottom line?

  9. How do we know? on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    There is enough trouble as it is proving that an IP on a file sharing network is legit and it is the current owner of that IP who is sharing a file. With the resources available to a government agency, how likely is it that an IP would actually point at the source of the attack?

    This is going to lead to the bombing of apartment buildings with tons of collateral damage.

  10. Re:Disappeared? on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 1

    You can't say a population went extinct if their descendants are still alive!

    Dinosaurs and birds spring to mind. Are you saying the dinosaurs aren't extinct because modern birds are very likely to be their descendants?

  11. Re:What do you mean, oldest working? on The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS · · Score: 1

    What if no one has the file anymore? Didn't read the article, but off the top of my head I'd measure something like this by seeing if the possibility of getting the full file (in case no one has a full, but fragments on multiple systems put together would change that) becomes available within a certain time frame, maybe a week.

  12. Re:Left wing bird cage liner on What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, I'll bite.

    The end result of a journalist's work is a product (called a newspaper even if it's only rehashes of things we all know and it's posted digitally).

    What's your job, and what's the end product?

  13. Re:File a police complaint for littering on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 2

    By your logic the Do Not Call list is unconstitutional. Just to be clear, is that the point you're making?

    In fact if the phone books can't have an opt out list, I suppose the popular No Ads Please stickers so prevalent on mailboxes in my country would be illegal in the US as well.

  14. Re:I know why. on Hit the Wrong Button, Drone Goes Boom · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the best reason yet to leave the US.

  15. Re:Problem solved quickly.... on How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works · · Score: 2

    I figure it's as common knowledge to the average American which European countries have borders to which, as the knowledge of which American states touch against each other is to the average European. Some things just aren't necessary knowledge in your daily life.

  16. Re:Problem solved quickly.... on How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works · · Score: 1

    Fun fact for those too lazy to open up a map, Germany and Denmark are neighboring countries.

  17. Re:The obvious question here.... on New Zealand Three-Strikes Law To Be Tested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By being sued for illegal downloads she knows she did not do herself?

  18. Re:At least it will create jobs. on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 1

    Except there comes a point where you might have to choose between the freedom of walking directly onto an airplane and the freedom to stay alive. In the grandparent's post he suggests a stopped attack every DAY. Let's assume these are bombs in departure halls etc., and the daily casualties could easily be counted in the hundreds.

    I am not defending the TSA in any way. I sit here in Europe and wonder if there will ever be a day when I would again dare to consider visiting friends in the US, but the way things are going over there I don't really want to take any chances.

  19. Re:How is this gasping news on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Hey, it's me. I'm leaving the store at the corner of somewhere and otherwhere now, I'll be home in twenty." End call, get in car, drive, get smashed into. You are making a LOT of assumptions about what happened.

  20. Re:No. on Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients? · · Score: 1

    I'm not American, so unless you can recite every law in my country regarding this topic without spending a few hours looking them up I respectfully disagree with your statement that I should have know this stuff in high school.

    My country's school system is different, by the way. We don't specifically have 'high school'.

  21. Re:No. on Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients? · · Score: 1

    Because no one ever uses anything in a way they are not supposed to?

  22. Re:No. on Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients? · · Score: 1

    So according to you the only honest gamble is a coin toss, MAYBE a game of rock, paper, scissors? Everything else is evil and cheating? Just trying to be sure I understand your viewpoint.

  23. Re:That's nearly one hectoyear! on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, I'm sure no problems are caused by this at all.

  24. Re:changes ahead on Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law · · Score: 1

    Predator Agenda.

  25. Re:Welcome to the Vault on Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Would it somehow have been more realistic of the music being played on the RADIO magically changed to reflect what you were doing at any given moment in time?