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  1. Re:Already exists on Buildings Could Save Energy By Spying On Workers · · Score: 1
    "Err... is it? Why? Do you, like, look at it after wiping to see if you need to do it again?"


    "Err", yes. Normal people wipe until nothing comes off on the paper -- what do you do? Two swipes and figure "yep! that oughtta do it!" without checking?

  2. holy shit, you're retarded on Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs · · Score: 1
    If you don't want to pay the price, don't do the job.


    is the title of the fucking article not "women are fleeing IT jobs?"? that's the fucking point, numbnuts.

  3. Re:Gettng Godwin's law over with (appropriately!) on Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID · · Score: 1

    Get this: Politicians have these things called Political Enemies. Do you not remember a certain Richard Nixon spying on his political enemies? You do not give the government power, because the government will abuse it.

  4. Re:Gettng Godwin's law over with (appropriately!) on Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID · · Score: 0, Troll

    The issue isn't the government knowing I exist, dumbass. The issue is the government being able to track my every fucking move, and my every fucking purchase. -You- have nothing to worry about however, because every time the government checked in on you, they'd find you in the same spot -- with your head up your ass.

  5. Better option. on Best Buy Confirms 'Secret' Version of its Website · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pay online, and do an in-store pickup.

  6. Don't think of the children? on UK Wants To Ban Computer-Generated Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Think of the children! err, wait, no stop thinking of children! Why are you thinking of children, are you some kind of pedo?!?

  7. Un complaint on Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess Review · · Score: 1

    So sometimes you're a wolf, and there's a ledge 5 feet in the air that you'd like to jump to. Sorry Link, you can't jump as a wolf. Unless you're at some pre-defined location, in which Midna will gladly let you jump 30 feet in the friggin air. This inconsistency in the game's logic ruins part of the immersion.

  8. You would've been a great asset in colonial times on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1
    Upon hearing the idea of protesting the government, you could've just told Samuel Adams to "leave...if it's such a horrible place".

    You may or may not be a troll, but you are definitely a dumbass.

  9. Re:Yes/No/Maybe on Was the 2004 Election Stolen? · · Score: 1

    All of the political, governmental, financial, famous and otherwise, and other powerhouse figures in the United States on the anti-Republican/conservative side(s) didn't just stand idly by while not one, but *two* elections were stolen.

    I think you're forgetting this (among many):

    On January 6, 2001, a joint session of Congress met to certify the electoral vote. Twenty members of the House of Representatives, most of them Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus, rose one by one to file objections to the electoral votes of Florida. However, according to an 1877 law, any such objection had to be sponsored by both a representative and a senator, and no senator would co-sponsor these objections. Therefore, Gore, who was presiding in his capacity as President of the Senate, ruled each of these objections out of order.

    People were passionately trying to look into the legality of that election.

  10. Re:Hey on Computer Manages Restaurant Workers · · Score: 1
    I eventually had to threaten the "sandwich artist" by telling him that if he didn't use the tomatos I got at my expense I was going to splat the whole bag on his face. That got me a sandwich.

    Hope you enjoyed the bodily fluids that were undoubtedly spread on your sandwich? What's that, you watched him the whole time? Oh, there's ways around that, I aasure you.
    Any manager with a clue would've denied the request to use your tomatoes; how do they know that you didn't tamper with them, and were now a law-suit waiting to happen. Furthermore, how do you know that the tomatoes you saw "a few hours later" were the same one's that you brought in?

  11. Christ, you're stupid. on MySpace Down Due To Power Surge · · Score: 5, Insightful
    They lose money from lost advertising revenue, but they don't really have anybody to answer to except themselves

    They have to answer to the advertisers. The advertisers are their customers. The teenie-boppers are the product that they sell to the advertisers.

  12. Re:Mohammed eh? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    It's $120 fucking dollars; unless the recipient is under suspicion for smurfing, it's rather pointless to be worried about $120.00 based on a name. Maybe Mohab was trying to take the wife and kids to the movies, but came up $120 short when Mo Jr. (MoJay, to his friends) wanted to munch on some Goobers.

  13. Holy outdated pop culture reference, Batman! on Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction · · Score: 5, Funny

    If too many people get ticked off at Menudo or New Kids on the Block for the incredibly high ticket prices perhaps these groups will find ways to play without having to use Ticketmaster.

    Menudo? New Kids On The Block? Incredibly high ticket prices? Let me be the first to welcome you to the future, young time-traveler! Reagan is dead, we're back at war, and there's 3 new Star Wars movies! Don't be scared by any of this; sit back, relax, and surf your way through our new "cyberspace".

  14. Re:The Article for the Article on The Public's First Look at Wii · · Score: 5, Funny

    hand a dualshock to someone who hasn't played a lot of videogames and ask them to play Halo. It's incredibly awkward. You only think it's ok because you're used to it. I'm not an expert, but the awkwardness you speak of might be due to the individual trying to plug a dualshock into their X-Box.

  15. Re:The Real Problem on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1
    Still, I wonder if it is legal to fire someone just for having looked for alternate employment options

    It's doubtful that an employer would cite this as the actual reason for termination, and instead would use a different, legally-viable excuse.

  16. Re:I never take mine down on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1
    it makes sense to simply never take it down (and always keep it up to date

    ...
    This way if your employer sees it, you can simply explain that your resume is always there

    I don't think management would be stupid enough to fall for the "it's always there" excuse if you're actively keeping it updated.

  17. Re:How I look at it. on Netflix vs. Blockbuster Revisited · · Score: 1

    ^---in addition

  18. How I look at it. on Netflix vs. Blockbuster Revisited · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With Blockbuster, my membership gets me 4 "free" in-store rentals a month for my $17.99 Blockbuster Online membership. So basically, the service is letting me make 4 rentals for $4.50 each (which is about the norm anywhere), and then in additional, I get "unlimited" Blockbuster Online rentals. As Blockbuster figures out how to further utilize their brick-and-mortar stores, I wonder how NetFlix will be able to compete against this?

  19. Type O on Nintendo's 'Wii' Just A Marketing Gimmick? · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant; my brain mis-typed (patents and trademarks are handled by the same US Office). There is not a trademark on "Wii", as my link indicates.

  20. Re:It's really quite fascinating on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but why can't we take a break, relax, and go to a nice dinner

    because our soldiers can't take a break, relax, and go to a nice dinner.
    because the families who have lost husbands, wives, daughters, and sons to the war can't take a break, relax, and go to a nice dinner.
    because the Iraqi people can't take a break, relax, and go to a nice dinner.
    because reality doesn't stop for everyone else while you're safe at home.

  21. No one's pointed out that "Wii" isn't patented on Nintendo's 'Wii' Just A Marketing Gimmick? · · Score: 1

    Look at the teaser, no "TM".

    Do a search at the US Patent Office; no patent on Wii.

    The plot thickens?

  22. Re:eliminate top-level domains ? on Is It Time For .tel? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your input; it has proved invaluable to the topic at hand, as my initial offering was tragically unclear. I have taken it upon myself to look up each word of this post to ensure that it is semantically correct.

  23. Re:eliminate top-level domains ? on Is It Time For .tel? · · Score: 1

    who said anything about 'banning'?

    does the "have any TLD you want" take into account that anyone hoping to protect their copyright now has to register an exponential amount of domains?
    lashdot.org
    ashdot.org
    shdot.org
    hdot.org
    dot.org
    ot.org
    t.org

    get it yet, or are you still walking in bad analogy-land?

  24. Re:eliminate top-level domains ? on Is It Time For .tel? · · Score: 1

    If I want a web site, why can't it be www.boxlight -- or www.boxlight.this.is.cool

    Yes, we should make Phishing that much more easier:
    http://www.p.aypal.com/
    http://www.pa.ypal.com/
    http://www.paypa.lcom/ ...

    anyone?

  25. Re:The new controller on Cutting Through The Next-Gen BS · · Score: 1

    As of yet I have seen no type of game which could not have been made without the new controller...
    Use your imagination.
    You have a controller in your hand, and the game system knows where in space it is. Now expand on that idea:
    You strap a sensor to your body (head, legs, etc); The game system now knows where in space your body is.
    - You can be holding a gun, and the system will be able to detect your every duck, leap, and dodge.
    - You can be holding a controller in each hand, and the system will allow you to box and dodge an opponent with ease.
    - ???
    Use your imagination.