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  1. Re:4th Amendment on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 1

    For asking him questions? Why would that be a search?

  2. Re:So what I'm seeing is... on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 1

    What does her phone number have to do with the Secret Service? The fact that she may or may not have a listed phone number does not mean the SS (hehe) is there or not. If the SS doesn't have little white or black vans parked around the UT campus with plain clothed agents blundering around regularly, I'd be highly surprised :p

  3. Re:This isn't everytime. on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were trying to build a profile of the guy so they could better analyze the situation?

  4. Re:Answer= HOME SCHOOLING on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 1

    By-the-numbers being no prayer or teaching of creation? Or maybe the kids are already brainwashed and they don't want it undone by those lowly heathens they'd be going to school with.

  5. Re:Radar by the British you dope on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 4, Informative

    A British physicist predicted it, a British-born American inventor and a German physicist each independently confirmed it, a German inventor used it for a collision detection system for ships in 1904, an Italian demonstrated a low-frequency radar system in 1922, an Englishman and a New Zealander used radar to prove the existance of the ionosphere in 1924 and scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. were the first to use radar to detect aircraft in 1930.

    Not so cut and dry me thinks.

  6. Re:The threat posed by treaties on U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What he means is that the treaty promises that the US will pass laws to enforce its provisions. The question is what happens if the House refuses to pass such laws. I imagine that if the Senate and President somehow *force* laws through that the whole treaty may be effectively struck down by the Supreme Court on grounds that the President and Senate don't have the right to sign away the House's role in lawmaking or the Constitutional rights of citizens.

  7. Re:IBM must be hunting for something more... on IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case · · Score: 1

    If they convince the judge that MS may be directing SCO's frivolous suits (by lining up investors, buying unneeded licenses etc etc) against its competitors, then IBM's hunting expedition is with merit.

  8. Re:This is just not good on Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper · · Score: 1

    Actually, a peace treaty was signed on January 27, 1973 regarding Vietnam. American soldiers left by March 29 and North Vietnam broke the treaty and attacked the already collapsing South Vietnam in 1975. The much spoken of helicopter retreat of US forces was just an evacuation of Vietnamese from the Pittman Apartments. The solders were gone and had not retreating to do.

    The Soviets brought themselves to collapse trying to repair an economy and governmental system destroyed by the arms race. I hardly call that winning the arms race.

  9. Re:View of a Pollworker on California Panel Recommends Dumping Diebold · · Score: 1

    All polls have a margin of error. It's also quite possible that the sample of "voters" in the polls were not as representative of the voting population as the poll takers would've liked us to believe.

  10. Re:That's ridiculous. on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Please allow me to polish your tin foil body suit for you. =)

  11. Re:Weird Output on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does MS's compiler no longer require a return type for main()?

  12. Re:Um..that's how standards are made on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 1

    Odd, MS seems to be making it drawing most of its revenue from software. I assume Apple was too heavily invested in producing its own hardware.

  13. Re:humptf, jobs is getting wrong again :P on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 1

    It takes a backseat in market share. WAY in the back. Almost not worth supporting except for bonus anti-trust points.

  14. Re:So much for SCO's defense on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 1

    If a child has two parents and one is granted custody, they may deny the other visitation rights for any number of reasons. However, they are still legally the mother or father of the child.

  15. Re:Hmm...a question on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1

    Shoplifting and stealing a car is possibly less damaging in a monetary sense than pirating a movie (if it's redistributed). Your point is valid for the other examples, but I think what is called for is a strengthening of the consequences for home invasion, child abuse and spousal abuse rather than weakening of anti-piracy sentences.

  16. Re:DoomIII now ready to ship? on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 1

    The tech demo could have been relatively light on advanced effects. Just like in current games where it might run at 80-90 fps in certain areas, when you move into another area the framerate could plummet due to a more demanding scene.

    The content designers will probably have more to do with the performance of the final game than Carmack if they really pile it on.

  17. Re:DoomIII now ready to ship? on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't surprise me actually. I think Carmack thrives on creating game engines that won't run well on anything but hardware that is going to be released in 2 years after the game ships.

    Of course, id will slap 733MHz, 256MB RAM and 64MB Geforce 3 or better on the back of the box as "recommended system specifications" so they won't lose sales.

  18. Re:Here's what I don't understand on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1

    For one thing, there's no tangible reason for the public to be viewing a recording of this guy's suicide. The news can report such an event without actual footage of the suicide.

    Secondly, the tape should not have been released in the first place. For all the talk of Big Brother watching us, people don't seem to have a problem with Big Brother's recordings being uploaded to the net.

    It is a privacy issue when people who were never meant to see the sole recording of the incident are seeing it.

  19. Re:Starship Troopers *2*!?!?! on Linux Based HD DDR used on Starship Troopers 2 · · Score: 1

    It's going to be a prequel with George Lucas as God. We get to find out what really went down with Adam played by Peter North and Eve played by Jenna Jameson.

  20. Re:When did Asscrack get elected? Or his boss? on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court made a decision to stop the Florida recounts that resulted in the Florida vote going to Bush. Far from being appointed.

  21. Re:Not forbidden? on Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    In order for the President to keep the military on foreign soil more than 90 days, the Congress either has to declare war or approve an extended stay. In the case of Iraq, Congress approved (until elections approached, but it's too late to change their minds now as that would be dishonorable).

  22. Re:I see nothing wrong with it on Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    His arguments are correct to my knowledge of history, which is rather fresh and certainly not dated. He pointed out errors in your post and you respond only by pointing out that he posted anonymously and *claim* his arguments are "dated" without anymore explanation. Facts do not become "dated".

  23. Re:Bush in Iraq on Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    Was that Bill Clinton while he was smart bombing random buildings to get the heat off Monica and himself?

    Oh, never mind.

  24. Re:Bush in Iraq on Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    We can also speculate about the intentions (Saddam's oil, not offending France, Germany, Russia etc) of the nations that did not support us. The knife cuts both ways.

  25. Re:Administration hasn't done anything bad on Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    The gist of the matter is that it's apparently okay to simply blow buildings up at will with "smart" bombs rather than just get the whole matter done with by deposing the tyrant that is causing the problem.