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  1. Re:Emedding chips will not stop ID theft on New Identity Theft Technology Fails to Protect · · Score: 1

    Well at least it does reduce the number of people capable of stealing your ID to the people you come in contact with. I mean, it's not like they can do it all the way from nigeria...

  2. Re:Ok all you web designers out there .... on Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott · · Score: 1

    Another fringe benefit is that you can start collecting those unemployment paychecks!

  3. Re:Also, signed statement to Congress on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    Bush simply issued a letter to Congress blandly asserting the completely unsupportable proposition anyway:
    I think the word you were looking for is "blatantly". There's nothing bland about Bush, like it or not.

  4. Re:Sooner or later... on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would be true, except for the explosion of free trade agreements between the US and the rest of the world. Essentially, the agreement states that US law (specifically targeting patent and copyright law I believe) is applicable beyond it's borders, and "I'll pwn you if you don't sign it".

  5. Re:Strange on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Another Barney hater, I see...

  6. Re:Don't Forget MS Office! on Flurry of Security Patches · · Score: 1

    For me it always took me to the windows update site until I went to http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate once.

  7. Re:Which rivalries, commercial or military. on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1

    I agree that the US corporations should race to control commercially the Lagrange points (as we do buying up oil in the mideast); but I think it'd be stupid if we decided to occupy them at great cost to ourselves (as we do to certain countries in the mideast).
    I read that as:
    I agree that the US corporations should race to control commercially the Intellectual Property (as we do by patenting every damn thing); but I think it'd be stupid if we decided to produce something useful at great cost to ourselves....
    Smells of sour grapes to me...

  8. Re:Adware is the worst on Microsoft Denies Claria got Spyware Exception · · Score: 1

    I'll make a prediction here. Things are going to start working funny on that computer - not broken, just not the way they ought to run. And somehow it's going to be your fault. And when the computer goes down again you're still going to have that nagging feeling in your mind that it's something that wasn't cleaned out the last time, regardless of whether or not you really did clean it. The moral of the story is, you shoulda reinstalled after all...

  9. Re:Subliminal Messages? on Study Finds Value in Email Spam · · Score: 1

    Certainly it does nothing for your ability to spell...

  10. Re:Does it have a name? on MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    I vote "Midichlorians"

  11. Re:The Singapore solution on Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Being from Singapore, I'd remind you that being caught speeding (from the cameras or traffic police) and _then_ being caught for illegally altering your speed limiting device would land you in a hell of a lot of hot water. So it does make sense to mount those lights, and it does make sense not to circumvent the measures.

  12. Re:Don't worry -- the data's already been "cleanse on Court Rules GIS Data Can't Be Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    Makes me feel like I'm watching porn...

  13. Re:Am I weird? on Halo 2 World Tourney Finals - Aussie Champ's View · · Score: 1

    Up:Jump
    Dn:Crouch
    Left:Strafe Left
    Right:Strafe Right

    Nearly nobody does it this way but me: the benefit is that I can do all my running around with 1 hand, and use the other hand only when I need to engage something. :/ The setup was modified from the original Quake setup, which had fire and move forward as mouse buttons.

  14. Antivirus for Linux? on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    Looks like they will be hard at work making viruses for Linux... I don't want to buy a product that doesn't get updated at least once every week...

  15. Re:What about the Schlechter Wolf bombs? on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 1

    IIRC during the war the Nazis employed slave labor in their ammunition facilities - not one of the most brilliant ideas in their heads. The end result was alot of duds - bombs and artillery rounds that were poorly manufactured and deliberately sabotaged in some cases. Unable to verify this though, the information came second hand from Allied veterans that were commenting that they seemed to be sending over alot less duds than were coming over to them (One of those Stephen Ambrose books i believe)

  16. Step 1: on The Other Side of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Spawn more narutards
    Step 2: Sell forehead protectors
    Step 3: Profit!!!

  17. Re:Simpler explanation: on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 1

    Also, if Chewbacca is a Wookie from Kashyyk, why does he live on Endor with the Ewoks? Why? WHY? WHY?

  18. Re:mp3 players on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    I'm er, looking at my old Creative Nomad, and yep, it did rely on removable storage. Not that it did much good, that sucker had 16mb onboard and another 16mb add-on Smartmedia (sorry, not compatible with anything bigger). The reality is that the concept died on the 1st gen mp3 players, nobody's bothered to go back and see if it's worth anything now.

  19. Re:What should be done on FTC Recommends ISPs Disconnect Spam Zombies · · Score: 1

    So you want to send them on a cruise with Richard Simmons?

  20. Woohoo on Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted · · Score: 1

    Now it appears it's really possible to slashdot the entire internet...

  21. Re:What the hell? on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1

    We should be slashdotting the page harder. That'll make it stop alright.

  22. Re:40 Gigs of Ring Tones on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 1

    Actually all I want for christmas is a PDA with 40 Gig of space. I can hook up to my Handphone by bluetooth.

  23. Re:Upgrade cost? on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    Microsoft obviously wants you to prioritise your spending on upgrading to XP Pro or Home before you think of getting a better CPU

  24. Re:More! on Self-Replicating Robots · · Score: 1

    I remember reading in the 90s about how the goal was to have solar powered robots that were made only of silicon, replicating and replicating. Then at the end, they'd switch themselves into another mode and just supply power.
    They'd be sent into the desert to turn the entire surface into a giant solar cell.

  25. Re:Generally Speaking on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 1

    Why is this funny? I believe he's absolutely right in what he says. Highlander 2++ were created in the days where nobody had conceived of the idea of a prequel to a movie ("I mean come on, you already know how the story ends...") and really did spoil the experience of watching the original movie.